DON'T MISS THESE SOLO EXERCISES | Exploring Chord Progressions Solo App | DAVID BEEBEE

hello guys welcome back to the solo youtube channel david beebe here to take you through another free video lesson showing you how to get the most out of solo the fretboard visualization and changes playing trainer app that i designed in my good friend tom quayle every week on the channel tom and i produce free lessons showing you how to get the most out of the app little tips and tricks and behind the scenes things on how the app works so if you're interested in this do click the like button subscribe to the channel and the bell icon to be notified of when we post new videos solos are available to download now on the ios app store it's available for iphones ipads and apple macs with the m1 chip and you can also get it for android devices on the google play store and all the links are in the description down below so in today's video we're going to explore some of the chord progressions that come within the changes playing trainer section of the app and in particular the ones that we label as exercises that fall under e within the alphabetical list and hopefully this video will also address some of the frequently asked questions we get in regards to the types of cool progressions and exercises that we offer within solo so let's dive right into it okay so first of all we're going to launch solo going to the changes plane trainer section then we're going to dig into the chord changes list scrolling down to e you'll find what tom and i label as the exercises and these are chord progressions or single chords that we utilize within solo to practice some very common things so we have things labeled as single chord exercises we have basic chord progressions and then we have standard chord progressions and a few others as well that we might dig into and the first thing that we're going to look at are these single chord exercises so a fairly common question we've been asked is how do we practice triads basic triad chords without the sevenths or any other big extensions on if you dig into the chord progressions list and the songs list within solo you'll find many of the things you're being asked to play are chord symbols that are maybe quite scary to you and you just want to work on your basic triads well you can do that in fact it just requires a little bit of investigation so with these single chord exercises if you were to take say the first one here this major seven chords in all 12 keys and select that then you can utilize this in order to practice the basic major triad now a major seventh chord will have in it a major chord with a major seventh on top as its interval extension so if i was to go into now the level and just select root third and fifth even though the chord symbol itself is giving us a and major seventh chords it's a bigger extended four note chord this particular level is only going to be asking us for the one the three and the five so anything i now do with this level in terms of manipulating its intervals with the workout options is still only going to apply to the one the three and the five so if i was to start this workout it's going to ask me for the one three and the five relating to the chord that is displayed on the screen even though it's saying a major seven chord doesn't matter the one three and five are still applicable and this is you then practicing the basic major triad so let's do that okay so you can see on the screen it's got that chord symbol the a triangle seven the triangle is a shorthand way for saying major so we have an a major seven chord but the intervals it's asking us for is the one the three and the five the basic triad of that chord so i'd have the one the three and the five it's now moved on to d major seven so now i'm going to be practicing this d triad so i've got the one three and the five and so on and so on it's going to go around all those uh major chords major seven chords through all 12 keys and it's just going to be asking you for the one three and the five of the basic triad so coming out you could then apply any of the workout options to that and get a good workout manipulating you and thinking your way through the various ways of finding the one three and the five of the basic triad against this major seven chord now of course you could do this with any of the other basic single chord exercises so if we go back into the list we can see that we've got -7 chords so that's where you would then have the minor triad and then you can see i mean if i scroll down a little bit further you'll find a minor seven flat five chord okay so the minor seven flat five chord so that would have a uh diminished triads if you wanted to work on your diminished triad you'd have the one the flat three and the flat five so some of this requires a little bit of knowledge about what are the triads within these kind of chords of these four note chords this is kind of basic information that you can find very easily and readily online it's not this is not rocket science for this but you may have missed this when exploring the exercises or the chord changes within solo if you can apply any of the levels of any of the basic uh interval functions of the triad to any of the chord progressions or these particularly these single chord exercises in the exercises list so another fairly common request or question that we've received is can i practice the blues with solo can i do a simple blues progression and utilize the solar method and exercises the answer to this is a yes but with a small caveat in that well tom and i designed solo initially primarily for ourselves so i was thinking of a lot of more perhaps intermediate to advanced chord progressions where there's a lot of complex and frequent movement and in the most basic form of a blues you really don't have all that much movement that often in the most basic form you have four full bars of the one chord before moving to the four chord in bar five so when we got this request for the more basic blues progression we put it in but with one small addition and that's what's called the quick four change so that's where you change to chord four in bar two of blues so i'll just play this for you so you know what it's going to sound like in a regular blues i'll do this in a um so in regular blues you'd have four bars of the one chord four bars of the one chord [Music] before moving to the four chord now a quick four blues is one of the most straightforward variations you can do and in additions you can add into a basic blues progression and that is to add the four chord in bar two before going back to the one chord in bar three so that would sound like this [Music] this gives us a little bit more movement and it's foreshadowing the movement ultimate movement to the iv chord in bar five and this is the progression that we have within solo under exercise which one is it um exercise 27 basic blues progression in with the brackets there the quick four so if we select that and then we could stick say let's choose the level just go and one three five seven this is then going to put the one three the five and the seven the appropriate interval functions across this basic progression now you're going to notice after the first chord it's going to go straight to the four and then back to the one again oh let's do it in a for consistency okay so that's the one chord the a7 it's asking for the one three five and flat seven [Music] immediately move to the four chord [Music] then back to the one and that would be then the four chord in bar five so this leads us nicely to something i should mention about the benefits of practicing the blues with solo in this way so if we go into the level and we were to select the chord scale it's not going to give us the blues scale to play through the whole progression obviously we're assuming that many of you guys that are utilizing the app you may already know the blues scale or the pentatonic minor and be able to play that and improvise with that across the progression but when we're using solo and we want to practice in the blues with solo i think it's more useful and beneficial to try and be highlighting some of the chord tones of the chords as they pass by that's something that's really um appropriate for the genre and it also is a adds an element of sophistication and difference and contrast to just playing your you know minor pentatonic or blues scale so that's how we can we can use solo to focus on these chord tones that are going to highlight the the harmony of the underlying chord progression but you don't really have to work on the full chord scale you can just as i said earlier in the in the previous um tip is to go into the level and select these basic chord tones so you really want to practice working on your blues progressions with these um [Music] lower levels here so the two chord tones the root and third third and seventh would be great to do and then especially these three and four chord tones then what you'll find is as you get good at being able to find and target and highlight these chord tones within each of the chords of the progression you'll be able to mix and match your minor pentatonic or your blues scale that you kind of apply over the whole of the blues form and then as each of these chords changes you'll be able to land on say the third or the fifth or the flat seven of um the appropriate intervals of any given chord so another useful exercise based chord progression and another one that we've received requests for was to have the diatonic seventh chords um of a single key so to go through say in c major [Music] just the basic diatonic four notes diatonic seventh chords of a key and this is quite a cool exercise actually i hadn't thought about it until we'd had the request but it's quite nice to do for getting the sound of a key and finding and visualizing these intervals still in their intervallic function against the root note so if we go into chord changes and find this exercise so uh yeah so major key diatonic seventh chords and then i will do it as the one three five seven that's kind of a favorite uh level for tom and mine um and then i'll randomize these and show you what this one's like so it's asking for c major seven so it's the one chord and then it's asking for the interval of the seventh so we've got seven five one three moved on to chord two the next diatonic uh seventh chord in the key so we've got flat seven one five flat three and the five of the e minor seven flat three one flat seven moves on to chord four [Music] [Music] and then finally called seven [Music] a more basic straightforward approach would be to just have them going forward in order uh and then you can practice your diatonic arpeggios really within within the key so um the one three five seven so [Music] notice just because they're going forward in order doesn't mean i have to play them that way and i should use the limitation exercises to sort of jump around the actual octave that i'm in so then i've got the chord three [Music] do [Music] so as you can see here we've got a whole host of these different exercises these basic chord progressions uh you can see we've got like major key diatonic progressions like one six four five uh one four five these kind of progressions that you'll find in a lot of pop music and more um less kind of harmonically uh intense songs and and mute styles of music and you can totally take the solo approach the solo method for visualization and apply them to these progressions just got to dig in and explore these this exercise list really and so the key message here is to explore the exercises if you're finding like a lot of the songs are either too complex or you're not familiar with them you can still get tons of use out of solo from these these exercises within the the chord changes section lots of basic and simple chord progressions very common chord progressions and for all styles of music really is you'll find a ton of these within this exercises list what i wanted to do in today's video was just show you some of those basic ones and some of the um the exercises you can use to get your foot on the first rung of the ladder for working with things like the blues and working with more jazz type progressions that are included within the songs list of solo okay then guys that just about wraps up this week's video lesson hopefully you've enjoyed it and you found it useful and also it may have addressed some of those questions you've got about the types of exercises and chord progressions that are on offer within solo tom and i effectively designed solo in the first place for ourselves so some of the stuff may be a little bit more intermediate to advanced but if you scratch beneath the surface and dig into some of these exercises you'll find quite a lot of basic simple chord progressions and exercises on offer to really help you get started with your changes playing journey so if you've enjoyed the video do hit the like button subscribe to the channel and hit the bell icon to be notified of when we post new content if you're interested in more of this stuff solo's available for ios devices iphones ipads apple silicon macs you can download it now in the ios app store it's also available for android devices in the google play store and all the links are down in the description below until next time guys happy practicing bye

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Published: Mon Oct 11 2021