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deathfret
January 30th, 2001, 04:20 PM
i've learnt various different scales and have been playing them over chords but what i want to know is can you jump from one scale pattern to another, is that what you are supposed to do to make the solos more interesting. By jumping to another pattern i mean like C major scale to another C major scale at a different position
StoneDragon
January 30th, 2001, 10:56 PM
Yes... definitely. Use the whole fingerboard.
ghodaddyyo
January 31st, 2001, 09:01 AM
Yeah, all the great guitar players are all over the neck. A lot of people get stuck in the rut of playing in one position(especialy that blues box that everyone knows), even myself, until I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn Live at the El Mocambo. After seeing that, I forced myself to learn scales in different positions, and actively pursued trying to connect the positions during a solo.
MrSamson
January 31st, 2001, 05:53 PM
you know what...this reminds me of an exercise that i do...

first of all...loop a jam track...something without a solo that you can jam over...I like to do this via computer...

and...solo over this jam track in a particular "box"...force yourself to explore everything that box has to offer...then...do the same thing with the above box...then

do it again utilizing both of the boxes...

they key, for me and learning these modes...is to really become supersaturated with one position...then the other...seperately...and then both together..

I find that I start to sound incredibly dull...and the same...

BUT...for me...by sticking in that one spot...it forces you to come up with something new...

I have found it great for working with the modes...

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StoneDragon
January 31st, 2001, 08:12 PM
That is exactly how I did it.... only I didn't have a computer so I used a clunky Casiotone Keyboard that had a hold function that would sustain a chord for days.
MrSamson
February 1st, 2001, 06:55 AM
11111111111111 CHORD!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow..you really were into saturation.

that makes my technique look like spoiled variety!!

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Computers have definitely changed the game for learning to play I would think.....