FREE 2 HOUR GUITAR MASTERCLASS: CAGED Solos, Riffs & Chords

in this master class you're going to learn how the cage chord system can show you every chord and also every arpeggio not the same thing not only will you learn how to practice them all up and down the guitar neck you're going to learn how they fit into music from bass to rhythm to solos riffs chord enhancements everything take your time it's a long class it is free thank you so much for being here let's begin all right welcome back to a very special episode of stitch method guitar before we even begin make sure you hit that subscribe button and the bell notification so you can get notified of any more master classes that come out i'm pretty sure you're going to enjoy this one i want to talk to you really quickly before we begin about why i'm doing a really long free master class on youtube really quickly uh 10 15 years ago i was a very frustrated guitar player i used to go to a lot of concerts and wonder how all these professionals did it and just one day out of the blue i kind of had a grand epiphany about how it all worked and i wanted to share it with as many people as possible i started stitch method and it has been such an amazing journey trying to help people educate themselves on on the guitar and i really want to pay it forward i know what it's like to be a frustrated guitar player and i know the kind of like you know opinion you have of yourself if you're frustrated if you can't figure it out and you feel like you know what's wrong you know how do i how come i can't figure this out and i want you to feel good about yourself on this instrument and hopefully make your day better and so i want to give you as much information as possible in a very simple package and so my goal is to try and make you see a lot of things uh that maybe you haven't seen before maybe put together a lot of things you've seen and put them together in in the most simple manner possible and so i want to keep on talking to you for a second i i don't personally believe in a linear guitar system if there were a linear guitar system we'd all have it and we'd be learning from it but the problem is is once you have a question it's out the window if you're doing a subscription-based thing where it's like a lesson plan it's it's really hard uh if you have a question and it kind of stumps you from learning and so i'm kind of a big picture kind of teacher where i try to give people pieces of the puzzle and they can kind of fill in the pieces as they get more and more knowledge and so i just want to share this idea with you of how to see excuse me how to see the guitar neck in in a new simple way and so this whole master class is really about seeing this big picture and yes yes there are some complex things you have to think about in music and it's just like anything else like a car or house or a human being the more you zoom in on something the more complex it gets you know we get in our car and turn the key and the car starts but you know if you were to really look under the hood and stare at this thing it is quite complex the human body is such a complex piece of machinery and you know but we interact with other people and we just see their hair color and their eyes and their speech and their friendliness we don't really get into their dna and the reason i want to bring it up is because this master class is going to provide for you a bigger picture where you can handle all the information where it's comfortable and i do have to kind of get in and zoom in a little bit but it should be worth it all right in this master class we're going to learn why arpeggios are important where they all are and when and how to use them that's the most biggest miss is you know the information i'm providing right now is not proprietary it's out there there's a matrix on the guitar it exists i just want to show it to you in a clear pattern i believe in and show you like when and how this stuff works it is divided into two sections and you probably saw by thumbnail you know we have this playbook this kind of like football mentality and i'm kind of gonna kind of stick with it a little bit you know you need to train and train and train and you gotta do all the small maneuvers the the knee-high runs and the tires um you know every sort of calisthenic and exercise so that when you get into the game everything becomes natural this is no different the two sections are we're going to be learning all the arpeggios why they work how to see them and we're also going to practice your arpeggios which is a huge miss it me you everyone the practice time of everything i think is where all of us benefit and so i'm going to show you how to practice this stuff on your own and then we're going to get into the second section which is running the plays we're going to look at all these different plays that you would come across in music and where the arpeggio mindset and the cage system will come into play and so the whole idea is first section is learning everything you need to know about you know what they are where they are and how to practice the second section is going to be um putting them into use running the plays now i will say this there is a free um sorry caged primer playlist on my channel which is kind of like the prerequisite it should be linked right up here and also linked below and everything here is time stamped so if there's a subject you kind of already know or you want to like look at really quickly you can look at them in the description below and also i believe the scroll bar will be marked so i want to thank you so much for at least clicking on and seeing what this master class was about i really hope you enjoy the journey and let us begin chord tones are the heart and soul of music whatever you believe i'm telling right now chord tones are what makes music when you're listening to music there's many levels that are happening if you think of it from the bottom to the top the bottom section is your rhythm and then you have your rhythm section which colors the the drummer and those colors are you know belong to the bass player maybe a rhythm guitarist keyboard player and they are giving you the chord tones it is what the lead instrument sits on and so we need to study chord tones we need to be able to see them on our guitar neck we need to just crush them when we're soloing and improvising we want to have them be second nature and so we are going to start by learning three out of three each of each cage chord system what i mean by that well we're going to learn first the c shapes c major c minor and c seventh then we're gonna do a major a minor a7 g major g minor g7 and so on all right the c-shaped arpeggio now if you've seen the cage primer playlist video number one goes over the major chord shapes this is our c shape right now i'm playing it with a bar on the fifth fret and my pinky is on the eighth fret what's very important to know is where the root notes are the notes are where your pinky is and where your middle finger is these notes are actually the same notes this is an f and this is an f so because these guys are f's this is an f major chord if i needed a g chord i would just kind of find a g which is here on the 10th fret and here on the eighth fret i have a g chord now the root notes are on the a string and b string and you want to know how to navigate to find this so you can see by the graphic you know if you can find the note on the b string or if you can find it on the a string you put the appropriate finger on for instance if i need an a chord here's my a and here's an a here automatically these are the same note there is an a chord so being able to find whatever arpeggio you want is something you want to practice and you want to know again the graphic should help and i just want to say that the graphic has like a sharps and b flats those are known as enharmonic notes they're both the same so just in case you're looking you know f sharp and g flat are the same chord but just in case somebody calls it g flat you know how to find it and so for instance if i need an e flat chord here's an e flat on the b string and then here's excuse me here's an e flat on the uh a string all right enough about that the c shape chord first thing i want to do is practice the chord arpeggio well what do i mean by that or the physical chord arpeggio it's really interesting stuff all right so if you check this out the physical core that you can play is this here some of you might not be able to put that pinky down and it is totally fine as long as you can see it and you want to practice playing just those notes this we're going to refer to as the physical chord arpeggios [Music] [Applause] all right [Music] you can see it's 8 7 5 6 five all right and so you wanna get used to that you wanna move it around also just play the physical chord tones if i move my pinky to the tenth fret this is a g and so i have a g major arpeggio [Music] we're going to learn about these intervals in a couple seconds but you want to be able to play the sequence this is a d now just to explain these are the physical chord tones but we're going to have what we call extended chord tones which are arpeggios or notes of the chord in this area that our hand can't play they still exist and there are viable notes for improvisation uh but we can't play them and so a new chart is going to come up and it's going to show you the real pattern that exists of all the notes or all of the arpeggios of chord tones which we'll talk about in a couple seconds and it looks like this now we're going to move a little bit slowly on our first chord all right we are but this is a c shaped chord and we play the c shape physical chord tones and we played the c shape all chord tones now this is where we have to zoom in for a second and it might get a little complex but you want to end up zooming out we just want to see why these shapes exist these chord shapes are built upon what we call triads which are a one three and five of a major scale and any one three and five combination produces a major triad and here when you're playing this this is just a series of ones threes and fives and if you look at the diagram you can see it's one three five one three now if you want to see why or why this works i'm going to show you very briefly you can fast forward this i don't want to make your head spin but i want to show you something when you have a root note the three is always next door one foot back one three all right if you look here here's a one here's the three now one three five this is not the best example to use but whenever you have a one the five is always on the thicker string right next door but because this b g string split which sucks sorry it just does you have to pull this one back so if this is one this is a five and so and i'll explain some more stuff but you can see it here here is my root and here one like one string over always is your five one five so we have five one three one five really five one three five one three you know trying to speak and teach and play at the same time can be a little confusing and so this is a three here you have the same note here this is the three so the whole arpeggio three five one three five one three and then is the five up here this is the extension and you wanna you now let's zoom back out we know that these are all ones threes and fives and i'm being completely honest all right we have a lot to do and we're gonna go nice and slow we're gonna study every arpeggio so you can practice it um i don't focus so much on which note or which interval is the interval i want when i'm soloing i trust in the shape now i'm not saying ignore it you want to learn it but i don't want you to think like oh my gosh i have to learn all the ones threes and fives right now that's not what it's about you want to learn that these shapes come from the fact that these are all ones threes and fives and it all depends on where we start our root note so this was our c major arpeggio chord the chord arpeggio the physical chord arpeggio and all or the extended arpeggio so you want to study this one and you'll sit in front of a tv and do that now with that being said we're going to move right to a c minor shape chord an interesting fact about all c chords or all c shape bar chords is that the root notes are always on the a and the b string so i was just playing an f major chord and now if you look at the chart i'm going to play an f minor chord okay now this is a brutal shape a lot of people can't stretch their pinky up and that is fine as long as you can see these arpeggios you are fine so you can play if you look it's sorry eight six five six that's the physical c minor shape chord tone [Music] all right so if i want f minor chord i find an f on the a string i can play those physical chord tone arpeggios now i'm going to show you the extended now this one is a little brutal it's really cool i'm going to start on the root note here graphic should be popping up and you can follow along and so we have the root the minor third five one minor third here and then five awesome this whole thing sorry all right and now take a look at that fourth fret you can always play the fourth fret down here and go four eight eight it's brutal four eight eight six five six four eight now again this is the minor chord shape if i need a g minor well i can find um a g on the uh a string and here's the same c uh c minor shape chord here's the chord the physical chord tone arpeggio right here's the extended all right you can sit and practice going forward [Music] all right and backwards and i'm going to show you how to practice these things i just want oh sorry i should keep on going and maybe come back to the root note all right and i'll do one more the minor here is an a minor chord all right full arpeggio and then strum and so you want to move that chord around practice again i'm going to show you how to really practice this stuff just want to introduce you all the arpeggio shapes now the third c-shape that you want to study is the c7 chord shape and the c7 arpeggio and this is where we split a little bit and hopefully you're doing okay again you can fast forward through all this stuff but if you want to learn the stuff take your time just take your time all right so a c7 chord looks like this i'm going to play off the f okay sorry c7 chord shape and it looks and feels like a c7 down here and the root note is where your ring finger is on the a string and where your first finger is on the b string and this is an f7 very simple now the chord shapes themselves i think are easier to memorize than the actual arpeggio the arpeggio when you get into seventh chords which have four notes all of a sudden that dotted map starts to light up and and it's like oh do i have to memorize that and the answer is actually no if you just know your major arpeggio you got this let me show you okay so here's an f7 chord look at that root note if you play a regular c shape f chord and you go through its regular major arpeggio and you know what makes a seventh chord is a major chord with a flat seventh and we'll talk about that a flat seventh is just two frets down from a one so if you know where your root notes are which are the ones you you can derive your seventh quarter arpeggio in real time and as you practice this all of a sudden your fingers are gonna know your seventh quarter arpeggio so let me show you what i mean well let's do the full arpeggio it's gonna be five eight and then we're gonna go right to here this is the root note but i just told you there's a flat seven two frets down so we have [Music] and then that this is the one three five one and it's like oh wait two frets down do we do that do we go no what you want to do is realize when you run into these scenarios and the seventh chords and the flat sevens out of place just find your five and add three frets there it is there same note all right so we have again you know you want to do this in real time take your time here's your seventh chord arpeggio and all the stuff we're going to use in solos and riffs and rhythm guitar all the stuff and so check us out here we go we got the three the five the flat seven the one the three the five the flat seven the one three the five oh sorry really [Music] all right and so i've i always found it fun that when you're trying to find the seventh chord arpeggio that instead of trying to memorize the dot just go to the major and find where that flat seven fits in which is always two frets behind the one all right so this completes our c-shaped chords that we need to know the c major the c minor shape and the c7 shape all of them movable all of them you can sit here here's an a7 here's an f sharp sorry an e minor chord excuse me here's a d major chord all of them were some sort of c shape sit and practice those and get those under your fingertips if you don't have them already and again this is a master class that will always be here on youtube so feel free to take your time this ain't going anywhere just you know see where you left off and come back tomorrow all right now we're going to move to the a shape chords all right we just did the c shape chords and now we're going to learn three a-shaped arpeggios the a major the a minor and the a7 all of this is really worthwhile so let's just start with an a shape chord again this stuff is the knowledge you need to know that's located it's a prerequisite on a cage primer playlist but let's start here this is an a shaped chord it's root note is where your first finger is on the a string and where your ring finger is on the g string so if you can find any note on this a string you can play an a shaped chord and so the root note is here this right here is the fifth one five here's the octave the one the major third is here one five one three there's that triad but we have it built into our cage chord and so the physical chord tone you wanna practice is very simple it's just and like that i mean it doesn't get any easier seven nine nine nine nine nine nine seven all right so now let's talk about the extended arpeggios the a shape and the e shape and the d shape that we're gonna do have a little bit of a like a an exception to the rule and you want to practice these and the more you do the better you're going to get so let's take a look here well the full arpeggio in this case when you're practicing you're going to have an ascending shape and a descending shape so let's talk about the ascending shape first all right look at this graphic you're gonna go five then the root and then four frets up the major third okay from so you're on seven and you go to eleven so so on the uh i said five as in the interval so you have the fifth the root then you have the major third and then five five sorry five five one major third five so here's that ascending shape descending is a little bit different but i'm going to do it one more time really now backwards check this out three five one five and down here three one five [Music] so ascending descending now you can watch the fingers i'm using all right and so you can see now you don't have to always play the ascending when you're ascending and the descending when you're descending you want to know both options that little movable major third is going to make you be able to kind of hit it if you're flowing in a solo and all of a sudden you say oh here i you know it's right here cool instead of you know being like oh i have to backtrack a little the more you practice this the more it's just going to pop out of your playing let's keep going we're going to go to the a minor shape chord now all right so the a minor shape chord is right here it's root notes again are on the a and on the g string this would be a c minor this would be a d minor this would be an e minor chord but it's the a minor shape so the physical arpeggio [Music] the uh intervals one five one flat three one minor chords have a flat three should have mentioned that in the c shape but one five one flat three one and so this is the physical chord shape play it forward and backwards now let's look at the entire extended arpeggio you have your five your one your minor third now you have your five your one your minor third and your five very simple [Music] forward and backwards these are going to come in handy when we're writing our riffs when we're soloing when we're creating you'll see it all so knowing these things and getting them underneath your fingertips is really important so practice moving the chord around if you're new to this channel i screw up in every video so just every video i don't know why just do right so you want to move that around find the root notes say the chord name to yourself and find the extended arpeggio our last chord is our a7 chord it looks like this it's barring here this is an a7 shape chord it's on the e so this is an e7 chord this could be a d7 chord this would be a c7 what they all have in common is that i'm playing them with the a7 shape chord and so here we have the intervals 1 5 flat 7 um 3 and 5. and if you want to find the chord arpeggios from this again you don't have to like get that mental map down you just want to see the major arpeggios and do that little mathematics where you know okay a seventh chord is a major chord with a flat seven okay so if we can find uh the major arpeggio add that flat seven we're fine and so we start with the five here here's that major arpeggio [Music] right and if we look we start on the interval five okay well here's the one here's the root note i don't want to come out of position and like i said in the c shape um the seventh is always three frets up from the five so i anytime you have a root note here boom there's a five right on the thicker string right next door if this is a one this is a five which means three frets up there's your flat seven okay so we have five flat seven one major third five well here's a one here well guess what there's a flat seven here then one three five five flat seven one major third five flat seven one five sorry major third don't listen to third five and you want to practice that backwards there's that descending third [Music] you know playing like that that seventh is hard let's see a little bit easier like that but nonetheless you can see these arpeggios so ascending i guess would be [Music] descending yeah and doing it real time and seeing it again you know right now you're probably oh my gosh but you want to sit and practice this the more you do it's going to pop out you're playing and so we did the c shape we did the a shape we're going to do the same for the g shape the e shapes and the d shapes these are all of the ingredients the calisthenics the drills the stuff you need to know in order to get to the playbook and again if you know the stuff go right to the time timestamp that interests you don't skip ahead if you're bored because i always tell my students you can't get bored if you can't do it if you can do it great right you can get bored if you can do it but if you can't do it keep working at it see you on the g side all right the g shaped chords that you need to know g major g minor and g seven let's get to it the g shape if you've seen it hopefully have uh has when you're playing the cage system has two sides a thin side and a thick side only because playing the whole thing like this is brutal i've seen a couple of guitar players play this live and it blew my mind that they had dexterity and speed to do this but you can divide it up into a thick arpeggio or a thick cord or thin side and so we're going to study the arpeggios the physical arpeggios now when we do that really we get a lot of the arpeggios of the actual chord and so if you look at the chart here the thick side looks like this and then the thin side looks like this or i forgot to mention that the root notes of this chord shape are on the e string and on the g string and i'm on the 10th fret here of my pinky which makes this a d chord sorry i should have mentioned that in the beginning and so the arpeggio or these two notes are in there that's actually the physical and extended chord tones [Music] like that all right and so easy to practice that's a really easy arpeggio to master and so you want to sit that's a d chord this is a c chord here's a c this is an a chord and come backwards right and just practice those all over the guitar neck saying to yourself the names of the chords as you go let's get to a little bit of a harder one the g minor shape now the g minor shape chord is really interesting again has two sides a thick and a thin and you know if you know that um the difference between a major chord and a minor chord is just that minor third you can kind of see what's happening it's still kind of a weird arpeggio but nonetheless let's take that d major let's make it a d minor and here is the the fixed side which is 10 8 7 7 and then thin side keep your finger on that d string and you bar the pinky tenth right so it's 7 10 10 10 or this all right the full arpeggio is really it's not that hard right so it's one flat three five one flat three 5 1. it's still pretty comfortable there's your minor arpeggio again some of these are going to be your favorites some of them you're never going to touch until they you know they really like cure themselves but nonetheless being able to play these here's an e minor this is the root note here all right here's an a minor and you just want to kind of move them around and get it and so you know do the major do the minor the major one is like really easy and once you get the minor down which is that that's the hardest minor we've done so far i think it's just there but nonetheless you want to know it and after that we're going to get to the seventh chord shape so here's the seventh chord shape the seventh chord shape for g7 is actually a really easy shape to kind of see and play but the arpeggio itself you know you gotta you have to derive it from that major arpeggio so if i'm playing a d chord g uh shape all i got to do is just take this pinky and move the note one for uh two frets down and this is actually considered a g7 shaped chord in the cage chord system its root note is imaginary here on the e string still all g chord uh g shape chords have the written on the e string where that pinky would be but here we're playing like you know the roots not on top it's it's here on the g string so you have this is your g7 shape and so if i want an e7 well you can imagine the g shape put that pinky on the e and then do this or you can see your e note on the g string if i want an a7 you can play an a major uh chord right and then just play the seven shape so let's find that arpeggio together remember use the major arpeggio wherever you see a one just flat the seven if the flat seven pulls you out of position no the 5 is right next door just add 3 frets to the 5. again this stuff is complex i get it it's complex but it's going to get much easier these are the ingredients we're going to zoom out the more you know these arpeggios the better your playing is going to get so let's keep going all right so let's take a look at that seventh quarter arpeggio all right so we start off with a one right here we're playing a d chord all right so now we're gonna play d7 arpeggio well here's a one okay well two frets back there's that flat seven so we have flat seven one here's your three your five you're one you don't want to pull it back so i guess there's my flat seven [Music] oh really okay then one three five flat seven one and so it this is like mental entertainment to see if you can do it and just realize that the major arpeggio is always going to be there and that that flat 7 is always going to be two frets behind the one or three frets up from the five if you need it so that we use your g shape major g shape minor and g shape sorry a g shape seventh chord and you want to move that stuff around you just want to sit you want to turn on the tv maybe watch that 70s show i've been watching it lately and just sit and practice your c your a and your g arpeggios because here comes the e arpeggio all right the e shaped arpeggio this one like i said when we're doing the a shape has a little bit of a doozy side to it so we're gonna get right down to it here's the e shaped chord all right and let's go over its intervals it's one five one three five one these are the physical chord tones and you want to play them thin too thick thick to thin and now we're going to put on those extended chord tones now again that's what make sure the extended chord tones as i call them are just the ones you can't physically play now just like the other one we're going to have an ascending form and a descending form all right so we have a root note and the ascending form you're going to go from 8 to 12. four frets up that's the one major third then you have your five one major third five one major third and so really we're just kind of adding the 12th fret of each of these and so this is the c chord this is the c major arpeggio full now the descending one i find this a lot when i'm playing guitar or learning lots of lines so you really want to know the descending and where that major third is and i'll show you in a second especially hendrix and blues players use this trick and so for this one you're gonna put your middle finger on the root and you're gonna have one three five and you can switch if you want to ring finger one three five one three you do that or if you want to grab it with your ring finger like this one three five one three five one three you can do that too that's actually more comfortable for me really i just use my pinky [Music] alright there's the major and so you want to practice this you know here's an a chord all right ascending sorry and descending [Music] just know these all these chord tones are viable for so many reasons and so get that major shape down move it around oh i you know i forgot to mention all the root notes you know sometimes you don't trust me so the uh the root note for this chord is on the e string and the d string and the high e string and so if you know the notes on the e string you know here's a d chord here's an a chord here's a g chord here's a c chord here's c sharp so if i want a c sharp arpeggio you just run it know that everything you played as a piece of that chord all right let's get on to the minor the e minor shape chord we're going back to that c chord lift your middle finger there is your minor and that's one flat three and five and so let's just take it the uh look at the physical chord tones one five one flat three five one flat three no i lied to you sorry that was the extended one five one flat three five one [Music] let's take a look at the extended the cat's out of the bag here it is one flat three okay three frets up one flat three five one flat three five one flat three there it is all right and so you can move that around you can play an a minor chord e minor shape get the full arpeggio the key to the full arpeggios is always seeing the physical chord tones inside of it just adding the extra notes and there it is and you can do this everywhere so sit and practice this just name a chord play it we're going to get to the e7 shape chord the e7 shape chord uh it looks like this here's your major right and then you pick up your ring finger there's two ways to play it you can play like this and if you want to use the pinky you can put it on the 11th fret of the b string this is movable you know this is a a7 there's an a7 so we have two voicings inside of this chord and so we're gonna use the major arpeggio of one three five one three five one three we're just gonna find those flat sevens and let's do it all right so we start on the one here so i'm not even gonna pull back i'm just gonna say here's my one here's my flat here's my one here's my major third five well here's my one that's the flat seven i want all right one three five now as a flat here's the one here on the high e string two foot's down we don't want to do that five there's my flat seven three frets [Music] up or if you do the uh the other version one three five flat seven one three five flat seven one three you can always rewind this and look at the fingers i'm using whatever is comfortable for you to survive is important and so that was a c7 arpeggio and i'm not going to lie to you um i see this arpeggio a lot in in a lot of guitar players fingers and so you know here's a g here's a g7 g7 arpeggio [Music] oh really i should have done the ascending but you know trying to teach everything and so practice those move those around now this isn't the practice session again this is just me showing you these arpeggios um we have let's see one more shape to do and then we're going to get into how do we practice these things okay all right so on to the d shape all right we made it to our last chord section okay the d shaped chords three of them d major d minor and d7 let's just do it i hate the d chord shapes i'm sorry i don't like to use the word hate a lot it's i don't hate them actually um it's just they are the most uncomfortable for me when i'm in the heat of the moment i can do it when i'm practicing them i'm like all right and so so here we go the d-shaped chord let's do this let's get on the seventh fret this is an a chord it's root notes are on the d string d string and the b string and so what do you want this is a free class all right so the d the d string and the b string have the root note this is an a and so to navigate on the stuff [Music] on the d string you want to know those notes all right and so we make our chord shape here now on my first cage chord video in the cage primer playlist i talked about how i played a modified shape like this the real chord shape looks like this it's in the chart all right a lot of my favorite guitar players do this i'm just a lazy guy so i do this guy here but nonetheless let's look at the physical chord tones of the real chord shape that's a one five one three if i played the chord correctly like this one five one three all right so this is the physical chord shape and you wanna move this stuff around you know here is a b chord again i play it like this here is an f chord a g chord and you want to be able to move these chords around and see them uh as best as possible and so the physical chord tones are easy the extended chord tones all right there is a doozy on this one as well so let's just talk about the root note we're gonna start from here there's my one excuse me there's a major third behind it so we can try putting our middle finger on the one and trying that is really weird if you put your first finger here you can find that major third just like the e shape and a shape four frets up and then you can play the five the one the major third now that might be a stretch for somebody so you can also do that descending shape sorry major third then from here five three so from thickest to thin it's third interval sorry like the three the interval five one three five one three backwards three one five three one five and three oh there we go and so practicing that one is a doozy uh when i'm soloing and i have to like get through the d shape i can do it because you're you're again your eyes are seeing it and when you're playing a scale or something you can kind of hit those notes better but framing it out you want to know it take some time you can do it let's go right to the d minor shape the d minor shape chord again root notes on the d and b string looks like this this if this was an a major this is an a minor chord very simple all right and so you want to uh let's look at those physical chord tones one five one flat three just the chord tones that we play one five one flat three all right and the full chord tones if you look really really cool starts on the flat three here same fret where your your middle finger was so it's flat three five one flat three five one flat three really comfortable actually all right and so that's the minor and that was an a minor chord you can do the same thing here let's see you go up here this is a d minor chord in the twelfth fret you have flat three five one flat three five one three flat three is that right let's say flat three five one flat three five one flat three okay so that's the d minor arpeggio move that thing around say the chord name to yourself and really you know practice those things and see them again you're gonna have your favorites you're going to release favorites do you need to know them all right now absolutely not this class is here forever so you can always come back and just practice the ones you like the last chord i'm going to talk about before we move on is going to be the d7 shape chord now if i played an a chord like this the d7 shape is like this it's uh the front wise is seven nine eight nine interval wise it's one five flat seven and three love this voicing i really do let's use the major arpeggio and let's just put in the flat sevens so we have here's my three okay here's my five well here's my one okay i'm not going back so five and three frets up is my flat seven so we have three five flat seven one major third five well there's a one here okay flat seven's here one three it's brutal but there it is really the last note now i'm going to tell you right now this one is hard z shape is hard d shape is hard and i don't see a lot of it in improvisation because it's just so brutal but practicing this is gonna let you know okay i have one threes and fives for major one flat three and five for minor and my seventh chord is just a major chord with a flat seven and so you want to take your time in this section the introduction to all the chords you need the ingredients section and you don't have to have them all down you can pick two or three and you can totally totally survive this master class but you want to practice this stuff what comes next is how to practice now speaking about how to practice i have to mention this you made it this far my patreon account is very different i believe from a lot of patreon accounts out there i release the information on youtube and then i on patreon release practice sessions and bonus lessons and this masterclass is no different if you want a printable version of all the graphics that you see on the on the screen right now plus a bonus 20 to 30 practice lessons on how to sync this stuff in from what we're doing now into the playbook and how to perform it check out my patreon account the tier is called bonus sessions and practice sessions and it's only 15 and if you want to support the channel or if you're really intrigued go check it out and do yourself a favor or me a favor however you want to think about it but it's really really good i promise all right with that being said when i crack my guitar we are going to learn how to practice these arpeggios believe it or not we are still in the first section of this master class and in my opinion this is the most important section how to practice your arpeggios so they sink in to your brain your fingertips you feel comfortable with them so that when you do get to the plays you can just do them i want to explain to you again i gave a quick speech about 45 minutes ago right that music is stacked from the bottom to the top you have the drummer and then you have the rhythm section and everything you just learned is always going to be in whatever song you are doing every song has a chord progression no matter what even if all the music stops and there's just a melody there's a chord progression that flows through the time of that so when you learn how to not only play but keep track of and think of the chords in real time you're going to be an excellent excellent guitar player so this practice or these practice sessions are designed to show you how to think so that you can retain them how to look how to recall and they should be quite effective so the first thing we're going to do is you know i again i hope that you saw my cage primer playlist we're already deep into this master class but i show you how the cage system connects right a c shape no matter what connects to an a shape and an a shape no matter what connects to a g shape and the g shape no matter what connects to an e shape and so on to a d shape and so those arpeggios connect as well and now before we get to that i've taught several online group lessons and this one is this this part here is one of my favorite because you can see everybody's you know go okay hmm i got to do that and yes you got to do it too the first thing you want to practice is actually just taking your major chord shapes or your minor chord shapes or your seventh chord shapes and what you want to do is say okay i'm going to play a c chord and what you're going to try and do is play the first shape mentally see the second shape jump over it and land on the third shape now you're on the g shape what comes next is your e shape see it with your eyes and then jump over and go to your d shape and you also want to make sure that when you come down for the first time on each chord that you touch the chord perfectly every time like you come down you don't have to slide into it or you don't you know you don't miss it you want to go okay c shape and you want to say okay that connects here okay there's my g shape right there's my e shape i can see it and it connects here to my d shape and you want to be able to go backwards from e shape over sorry from the d shape over that e shape to the g shape from the g shape over the a shape to the c shape some of you right now are either going okay this is cool and some of you might be going whoa and i'm telling you you know this is a free master class right this thing ain't going anywhere this is yours to enjoy pause this video and try to do this make sure you can do it being able to visualize something while you're playing something else that's the key that's the key to being a really good guitar player and so seeing the c shape or sorry playing the a shape seeing that uh playing that c shape and seeing the a shape and being able to jump over it and get to the g shape and playing the g shape and looking at that e shape and jumping over is huge this is how you start to separate two worlds of music the chords that are happening and eventually your scale work you're always going to have an eye on those chords and this exercise is going to help you and if you start having to start on an a shape of something like here is a c sorry a c chord a shape well what comes next the g shape okay i'm going to jump over that land on the e shape what comes next the d shape i'm going to jump over that land on the c shape and you want to practice this with every type of chord say you're playing an e minor chord c minor shape all right jump over the a minor shape go to the g minor shape jump over the e minor shape go to the d minor shape let's even get up here without looking there it is yeah i wasn't looking all right and you want to be able to go back and forth with your seventh chords everything so what we're going to do right now is we're going to practice together just like i mentioned earlier if you want bonus practice sessions to sync this in a printable version of all the graphics on the screen and bonus plays that are based on all the information check out my patreon page all right so let's do this exercise together the first thing we're going to do we're going to pick a chord and i'm going to pick a b chord all right and we're going to play a a shape b chord right here all right now what i'm going to do is i'm going to spot with my eyes you're going to spot with your eyes and what we're going to do on the count of three don't move we're going to go one two three and we're going to try and land on the next shape together now what what will that be let's walk through it the b chord that is an a shape there it is right there all right now we're gonna don't move you stay there you play this with me and uh on the count of three now yeah we're gonna go one two three we're gonna jump to the next shape but let's walk through it the a shape connects to the g shape right about here you want to see it okay and there it is and now we're going to jump over the g shape and land right on that e shape on the seventh fret and so we're going to go it's going to be on let's see it's me one two three and um then we're going to plant the chords so after three so one two three chord here we go one two three chord did you get to the seventh fret e shape all right after this okay e shape connects to d shape and we're gonna see it and then we're gonna try and see the c shape that we gotta go to and we're gonna do it on three one two three chord i meant after three sorry all right so you have one two three chord one two three chord let's see if we can go backwards let's get to this c shape b chord on the 11th fret let's see if we go backwards okay one two ready go one two three one two three and this is how you want to practice this first all right and so you can pause this and you can try doing it with just major shapes minor shapes and even seven shapes we're talking full chords right now just all the the voicings and once you get used to the exercise i want you to come back and we're gonna do the same exact thing with arpeggios so really pause this video try it out right i believe in you i want you to hopefully by now some new information is clicking and you're going okay this is cool this is a new way of seeing everything and leave a comment below let me know how we're doing and uh let's keep going okay so stop here pause and let's try it again when you come back with arpeggios all right we're gonna do the same exact thing but now with our arpeggios and so what we're gonna try doing here is full chord shape arpeggios not the just the physical but the full so we're going to do let's start on a d chord which c shape down here now again some people might you know they have trouble with that pinky i get it trust me so if you can see it that's great but we're going to start on the lowest possible note and we're going to go like this now we can't do this together because every arpeggio has different amount of notes so the beats that you spend on it aren't going to be the same but you want to try going with me okay we're going to go [Music] now backwards let's climb back up to the root note and if you want you can strum the chord skip over that a shape go right to the g shape don't do it yet but let's start on that thick root note the thick one down here like this all right and let's just go all the way up all the way down [Music] there it is let's skip over that e shape and oh we got to get to the d shape all right and so there it is all right so i can see where the d shape connects all right and i'm going to start on the lowest physical no the lowest extended chord tone which is going to be the 14th fret here i go let's climb back up to the root note and you want to do the same exact thing for your miners you want to do the same exact thing for your sevens let's do a minor we'll do a seventh as well it's hard trust me i know but practicing this stuff and i can't i can't stress to you you know even though i talk fast and even though this video is you know it's going to be i don't know an hour and a half two hours i don't know the length of it just yet you know you are in no rush this is this is your own time right we're not really doing anything right now except playing guitar having fun so pause and really work on this stuff because i know you can do it all right so let's let's try a minor one all right so we're going to try uh a c minor chord a minor shape if you want to let's plan our moves first the a minor shape okay connect c a g to the g minor shape we're going to jump over that and go right to the e minor shape right here and then we're going to jump over the d minor shape and go right to the c minor shape here all right so we have the a minor shape on the third fret the e minor shape on the eighth fret and then we have the c minor shape around the uh i say 15th fret 13th fret area all right so let's see the full arpeggios okay so if you practice these arpeggios uh you should be good to go if you need to press them use that time of the scroll bar use the timestamps to go back and practice these arpeggios they're there for you here we go we're going to start from all of them okay so i'm going to do the a minor shape here go back up to the root note just so you can hear that resolve now we're going to jump to the e minor arpeggio the e minor shape this is still a c minor chord and then sorry little glitch there we're going to jump to the c minor shaped c minor chord all right and then we're going to find that arpeggio now it's it's i like to start this one believe it or not on the root note here that whole like extended one we have to come down here um me personally i like it better it's going and then going here and back up so you have c minor arpeggios in the a minor shape c minor arpeggios there it is and the e minor shape c minor arpeggios really in the c minor shape and you want to practice naming a chord finding and navigating okay this these practice sessions i can't stress enough go go nice and slow get them all right this is this is about me and you it's about you actually it's just about me helping you it's about you you can do this i want you to feel good i want you to wake up tomorrow and be like i did it all right so last one we'll do seventh chords let's do something interesting let's do um actually no i'm not gonna make it too hard let's do an a7 here all right this is the a7 chord it's the g7 shape all right into the root notes here we jump over the e shape and we're gonna go right to the d7 shape on that seventh fret find it with the root notes okay this there's a lot going on here lots going on all right and then after you do the d7 shape we're gonna skip over the c7 shape and go right to the a7 shape not bad okay and then we got audio here and then we got here there's a lot of jumping right there all right so do one more time second fret and the root notes here so it's a huge jump you skip over there go here and you skip over that a7 oh sorry the c7 shaped right there and go to your a7 and so let's look at those arpeggios all right so we're gonna do uh okay flat seven five sorry flat seven one three five flat seven one three five flat seven one i'm saying them out loud because i'm tracking them in real time i can really like when it comes to seven chord arpeggios i can really just say okay it's the major but put the flat seven in so really flat seven one three five five flat seven one three five flat seven one great and now we're gonna move to the d7 shape all right so here is the three five flat seven one three five flat seven one three three one flat seven five major third one flat seven five major third i'm telling you like in real life when i'm playing i can see this really good but trying to like slow it down and explain it man it really chokes me up and then we're gonna jump over um the d7 shape to the a7 shape and then we're gonna do this the major arpeggio and that flat seven here's uh the five flat seven one major third five flat seven one major third five flat seven this exercise of jumping shapes and playing the arpeggios up and down can be done with major minor and sevens and you want to sit and just watch tv and do this and get this into your brain and again you know um if you want to take screenshots if you want to write them out if you want to grab the printable version that is up to you but memorizing them on your own terms is what you want to do we have a couple more practice sessions to do before we get to the actual plays and and run the plays and show you how to use these when to use these right now we're still the in the ingredient phase like iron chef here's your ingredients we've got to make a dish that's coming in part two couple more practice sessions to come now this practice session is going to be a litmus test to see how well you can own your practice sessions we went over all of our arpeggios that we need for this class the major the minor in the seventh they are there they're sitting there on the screen waiting for you to really acknowledge them and practice them now a great way to practice them to get them into your fingers into your mind and also as we progress through the play playbook learn how to not choke not kind of like be like oh my god i only practice this in one direction you know what happens if you come in on this up here when all of a sudden you only practice it from the thick to a thin so what you want to do is you want to practice from thick to thin and thin to thick but a very certain way now if my student barry is watching he's going to laugh at this because we designed this this lesson together and it really helps and so what you want to do is take any arpeggio let's just take the e major arpeggio shape and we had the one three the five the one three five one if you want to do the three up here you can and now instead of just practicing it [Music] there's a deadliness in that what you want to do is create an overlapping arpeggio and we're going to discuss the thick side first i'll show you what i mean the thick arpeggio is going to go from e to g and so we take that e major arpeggio whether you play it like this like or like this you stop on the g string and so you practice and then backwards [Music] and once you get the thick side down [Music] you then move to your thin side now a thin side would look like this you take it from the e string to the d string okay so both of these arpeggio runs have a d and g string overlapping in them you'll have the thin side and the thick side and you want to practice forward backwards backwards and forward and you want to divide them up mentally and you want to be able to put them together again they cross over here the reason being again is when we use these for solos or riffs or anything if you're improvising and kind of in the flow and the next thing you know you're you come in the middle you know a lot of people all of a sudden go oh my god i'm in the middle of the arpeggio where do i go and you want to practice being able to flow back or forward so you're going to take all of your arpeggios that you know all right any of them let's just take um i don't know a c minor arpeggio right uh no no no that's a hard one we'll take an a minor arpeggio a minor shape right so here is on the fifth fret a minor shape so the a minor shape arpeggio looks like this it's the five the one flat three five one flat three one five sorry five right there don't listen to me so it's five one flat three five one flat three five and you have your thick side that goes to the g string and then you have your thin side that goes from the e to the d string and you want to practice all of your arpeggios like that so go through your favorite arpeggios go through your least favorite arpeggios and see if you can become better friends with thick to thin and thin to thick with the overlap it will come in handy as we progress very short practice session but here instead of me saying okay let's do this this and this look at the arpeggios that you either screenshot or in the binder however you want to do it and and and really try this and again this all takes time but you're becoming an arpeggio master i'll see you in a couple seconds bye this one is big this is the secret as well you know i said you know being able to see things and navigate as you're playing is a big is a big secret to the professionals another one is the power that i think all of us guitar players want to have when we're improvising which is how do you bring all of the music and the notes to you and that's what this practice session is about we're going to learn how to stay in one place and find everything we need with the arpeggios all right and so we're going to study a very simple chord progression of e sorry of a and d and e really simple keep this really simple you can come up with whatever chord progressions you want and i'll mention again on my patreon page we're going to do all of these practice sessions with different ingredients and so you can practice with me if you feel like you're getting a lot out of it you want to like learn a little bit more or actually not learn more you're learning everything here just practice with me and get it all right so a d and e now what i just did right now i'll tell you when i'm teaching this stuff in private lessons what i just did is a big no-no i started on the fifth fret with my a chord started on my fifth fret with my d chord and i came up to the seventh fret with my e chord we don't want to do that when we're improvising we want to try and keep all of our arpeggios and chord tones within the same like four to four to five fret area so if you find yourself trying to do this exercise and coming out of position no no we need we have that e-shaped a chord here our a shaped d chord here and it's like okay we went to an a shape but no what what connects on the other side of an a oh the c shape all right you should know that somewhat by now okay you need to be able to bring the chords to you no matter where you are now before we go any further i'll show you let me show you another one okay we're going to stay here but you want to be able to do this now it might take you a half hour the first time you know how you you you try to do this again you know all those graphics i showed you what strings each uh chord shape has a root note on it might take you some time to think about it and figure it out but once you can do it that whole mental processing power really starts to back off and you can do it for instance if i want to play an a d and e up here i have an a chord in the d shape excuse me right here then a d chord having the g shape and then the um excuse me e chord my a and you want to be able to bring everything to you you really don't want to move so here we have the a the d and the e and what you want to do is you want to play the chords maybe four to eight beats per chord let's do eight beats like one two three four five six seven eight next chord one two three four five six seven eight next chord one two three four five six seven eight and back to the root now if you can't play the pinky on that c shape it's okay play what you can now after you do that what you want to try and do is keep that beat and just keep on playing through all of those arpeggios like this like [Music] ah just turn the turn the master class off we're done no you want to be able to do that okay and uh just what i'm teaching man okay so so you want to be able to keep the beat and go through all the arpeggios and you can try that pause this and just try a d and e we're going to do one more all right just one more and then i'll show you the the possibilities are endless absolutely endless so pause this video and really try to do that try to go you know one two three oh i forgot to mention one thing one thing start on the root note of the chord when you're doing this start on the root so you can hear you can see you can hear those down beats and those chords sticking together that you're chasing them correctly start on the root notes wherever you are and you can go up or down left or right alright and so now um ooh i'm going to um show you uh how to do this with um excuse me let me show you how to do this with a different chord progression and one that has a minor one that has a major and a seventh so we're going to start this progression we're gonna play an a minor here in the fifth fret and we're going to go to a g chord now we've got to find a g chord around that fifth fret so let me show you there are many ways to do it some of you might be able to jump right there but some of you might say well i know there's a g chord here okay what that's on the third fret what shape connects to it oh the d shape here so i have an a minor i have my g chord and then we're gonna go for a d7 many ways to find it you can say well how do i find a d around the fifth fret some of you might know hey there's a d on the fifth fret of the a string and then say to yourself okay well what kind of uh what kind of chord has a root on the a string you'll see it's an a7 shape and you can play it here you might be able to connect it from a d7 shape to a c7 shape to an a7 shape whatever it is here it is right here and so we're going to do all three chords are right here on the fifth fret and we're going to go over those arpeggios one more time all right they're gonna be right here and so the a minor arpeggio is gonna be now we're just gonna talk frets wise fret five eight seven seven five five five eight that's the e minor shaped arpeggio we're using an e minor chord there it is all right and then we have our d shaped chord for our g we'll get our d shaped arpeggio [Music] or whichever one you want and the a uh sorry the d7 chord which is the a7 shape and you will have the one sorry the five the flat seven the one major third five flat seven one major third five flat seven huge huge arpeggio all right and so what you wanna do is you wanna kind of play the chords first maybe you know really give it a long time maybe eight beats each something like this like one two three four five six seven eight one two three four five six seven eight then one two three four five six seven eight and now what you wanna do is do the same type of rhythm but play the arpeggios you definitely again wanna come in on that root note so check you're going to go like one [Music] now i hit one wrong note in there i always try my pick i hit one wrong note but i just kept going you should just keep going there so do one more time i'll show you have the e minor shape chord for the a so any arpeggios to the d-shaped arpeggio [Music] to the a7 shaped arpeggio back to the e minor shaped [Music] and so then you want to practice like this and bring all of your chords to you super important before i go i'm going to show you one more thing with this a minor g and d7 chord progression we're going to solo we're going to bring our arpeggios to uh to us just like we did but now we're going to solo solo the first time around with just the thick side arpeggios and the second time around with the thin side arpeggios really interesting stuff as you practice this again practicing this stuff is key and you just want to do that more and more and more so it becomes second nature so check this out here's the thick stuff [Music] now the thin side [Music] so okay so there was both them thick side and thin side and you want to sit and try this stuff out with all different chord progressions really hit it hard all right and so bringing the chords to you is another you know real tactic real play that we're going to bring to us when we start running our plays and so practice practice practice i think what comes next is our playbook all right so remember remember no rush get this stuff this video will always be here see you soon bye all right we made it we made it to our very first play in the playbook the way this is going to work very simply i'm going to bring that pyramid back up all right um we are going to start where the music of the guitar starts in the rhythm section all right that is the base of the pyramid and you heard me speaking all throughout this workshop uh sorry throughout this master class that you want to always have an eye on those chords and so we're going to prove to ourselves how to keep an eye on those chords and create some melody with our first play the uh one chord bass line all right so let's say you hear this all the time in jam band music and vamps when all of a sudden uh the band kind of comes low and everything kind of stops and maybe the the singer saying something being able to just play a little bass line out of arpeggios is huge and so we're going to take an a minor chord okay e minor shape [Music] and uh pretend the band is just playing this or you're in a groove right now and you're just going and everybody's just doing that well remember if you're playing an a minor chord the a minor arpeggios are going to sound great why because they are of the same exact ingredients it's just breaking a piece of that kitkat bar and so what you want to see here is if you're playing this chord shape you want to see the arpeggios that we have practiced for the past hour right and here they are here's that one the flat three the five the one the flat three at this point in time you really don't have to like think about those intervals except the roots right now because you want to come in on a root but let's just say you're doing this right and next thing you know they kind of look at you and go okay like [Music] people people are looking and go oh that was tasty and they're gonna go i i know i know so you see this all of the time creating bass lines from your one chord vamp like a one chord groove so let's just take a look at one more chord let's say we're vamping on a g major chord all right load up the major arpeggio for that shape whatever shape you're in okay and so we have our e shaped arpeggio one three five one three we just need our thick end for this type of stuff and see if you can come up with a good groove and really just sit and play those notes until the rhythm locks [Music] and you're going to hear these kind of little grooves everywhere in music so the one chord baseline groove is something that you really want to focus on now i will tell you this okay i picked two chords where the root notes are uh on the e string because i knew we were going for a bass line so we'll do one more okay this wasn't planned i just want to show you say you you are playing um let's oh an f chord all right so let me show you this a d shaped f chord would be the third fret like this three five six you know if you're gonna do it if you got monster hands you can do this guy here but say we're playing f chord the d shaped f chord and now you need to come up with a bass line well you gotta look at that arpeggio here's your uh three five one major third so we have that thick side so [Music] it works again and so these arpeggios should be familiar to you if not if you skip forward if this is your first time like i want i'm going right to this time stamp go learn those arpeggio shapes so you can get your bass lines in there so you just want to pick one chord whether it's a minor chord whether it's a seventh chord whether it is a major chord and you want to play some bass lines as a matter of fact i keep on saying you know let's do one more and i'll show you this so if i took a b7 chord right here a b7 [Music] just like this if i look at my arpeggio i have one three five flat seven one or one three five flat seven one and so well there's an extra note in there but i'm just showing this i threw in this extra note that's that's from a scale but you can see that one three five flat seven uh for any grateful dead fans are gonna understand where the baseline comes from so you can pick any one of these chords and come up with one chord baseline vamps all right that's your first playbook and and hopefully you're enjoying this we're gonna go to our second play but really sit and practice whatever you can think of remember if you want to learn you know if you want to practice different chords and different scenarios uh come check out the patreon page because uh it is quite awesome and all the stuff is going to be uh i don't know about 20 or 30 extra bonus uh plays not bonus plays but bonus practice sessions based on these plays see you in a second bye-bye play number two very similar to play number one but now we have a double groove a double chord groove all right where now we have a chord progression that's two chords going back and forth and whether you have like two guitar players let's just say uh for uh i know example i use the a minor and g a lot i like it so let's just save an a minor and a g [Music] so look at those shapes you have e minor shape to the e major shape [Music] let's say you want to bring a little baseline action okay so what you're going to do here is because you're in baseline ville you really want you you want to follow that root note okay i know that i taught a lesson on practicing by keeping everything in the same place and we'll get there but this you really want to kind of change that bass note so your e minor shaped arpeggio to your e major or whichever one is is easier for you and so now if you have this [Music] now [Music] and what i was doing there was the same theme one flat three five one flat three one then one three five one three one one three five so creating the symmetrical symmetrical groove on two chords [Music] sorry mix and match like i was just doing it's always going to sound good and so you want to practice you want to practice your second play of creating a chord progression okay with two chords moving back and forth i'll do one more and you can practice with me as a matter of fact as a matter of fact what i'm talking about how about for about a minute right now i just play those chords a minor and g no no no because i already said it for you no no because you're gonna you're gonna not cheap but you're gonna have this like already like preconceived notion so let me come up with a different baseline how about we do um b to a b majored a major and so i'm gonna play for a minute and i want you to come up with your own bass line i want you to look at the chord shape you're playing create an arpeggio off the thick side and create that baseline here we go you do it [Music] so [Music] so [Music] all right hopefully you did well hopefully you found those arpeggio shapes and you kind of grooved on your bass line so this is play number two if i were you i would get a looper get some chords going and create your bass lines all right again we're moving up the rhythm pyramid or the music pyramid we're starting with a lot of rhythm stuff we will get into soloing that'll be in our later plays but stick with this work on these arpeggios and i'll see you real soon bye-bye this is our third play the two chord progression with an arpeggio ending okay and so what we're going to do is uh we're going to take a d-shaped chord and we're going to have it again you can do this with anything but i just want to throw on a d-shaped arpeggio and you're going to practice your d uh shape g chord up on the fifth fret bar pinky on the eighth fret to an f two frets down so if you have a chord progression that's like this like g g g g f i hear all the time where the first chord is played as the chord [Music] then just a spank on that chord and then an arpeggio [Music] all right and so you want to come up with the two chord progression of any chord shapes i'll do a couple more and you want to play your first chord with a good rhythm whatever rhythm you want and then the second chord you're just going to hit once and then play some piece of the arpeggio [Music] all right and so you want to practice that i'll do one more let's just do a minors all minor let's do um d minor to c minor why not here [Music] all right that was the e minor shape chord using the e minor uh shaped arpeggios all right let's do one more let's do seven chords why not do seven chords all right let's try um let's make it we'll make it easy you can pick your seven chord shapes but i'll do the e7 shape chords because again this is a master class but i don't want to be like oh you know maybe even practice all the crazy arpeggios so the easiest one would be the seventh the e7 shape so let's just say i have like b7 to a7 which is a groovy just kind of did but with seven chords so let's just say we have b7 [Music] a7 [Music] alright so one spank on that a chord and then a riff [Music] all right you can see again i hear these in grooves and you're writing songs we're in the rhythm section great exercise to practice use your your c uh seven shape your a7 shape your g7 shape use them all practice practice practice we're on to play number four all right in this play we're going to make our chords disappear and use 100 pure arpeggios say you have a chord progression you come up with and you want to make it a little more interesting you can use all of your cajun arpeggios in whatever sequence you want now i'm going to show you actually a very well-known jam band song intro just three chords of it and how it was composed now i'm going to show you the chord progression is g minor c f and there's more to it or it's just me g minor c and f that we're going to talk about all right well this special guitar player took a g minor didn't play it here okay didn't play it here but thought of the arpeggios here in the c minor shaped arpeggio for the c chord they saw the e shaped arpeggio and for the f chord they saw the a shaped arpeggio and now this goes back to the practice sessions where you're learning how to bring your chords to you instead of playing g minor c and f he was playing g minor here c and f let's take a look at that first chord shape the c minor shape again you don't have to play this pinky but you want to see it coming off the root note the arpeggio from thick to thin looks like this now next chord is c and coming backwards from thin uh to thick on the e shape is so we have one two three four five six one two three four five six and the next chord is f right here the a shape and he plays the a shaped arpeggio all right so he has this uh it's exactly what we practice you know the first time i heard this i just wanted to say is i i thought it was guitar magic i couldn't understand how a person could write [Music] it made no sense and then all of a sudden when i learned these are just c minor shaped arpeggios e shaped arpeggios oh sorry and then a shaped arpeggios blew my mind right so your now your play that you got to run is come up with a two three four chord progression and make the chords completely disappear and you want to try and sew your arpeggios together now what do i mean by that that is going to be in our next playbook so try to write something and our next play is going to be kind of like the part two but you need to have this first so write a chord progression whatever it is and write something with a full quarter arpeggio sequence that makes the chords disappear and uh hopefully in our next lesson i'll show you how to make it a little bit tighter alright see you soon all right i just mentioned in our previous play that we need to um learn how to uh bring our arpeggios closer together and what i mean by that is very very simple um this is you know you hear this definition a lot you hear what's called voice leading oh and i like to call it proximity playing but let me show you something what i want to say is that all these arpeggios span the six six strings they're everywhere and they you have about five i know three or four fret distance and so if i wrote a song that was a to d what i would do is you want to write your a line like let's see uh let's see here we [Music] there it go so say i did this [Music] well when i go to the d you don't want to jump to the d you want to find the closest d arpeggio to where you are and so when you play a d chord here you can say okay i'm ending on the sixth fret of the g let me run that arpeggio oh look the seventh fret of the g is so close and now you want to start your uh song or your arpeggio from the next closest arpeggio next chord so if i do [Music] to a d [Music] right you can hear how the two chords swung into each other really nicely because you played one note your ended one note on the a and then by proximity a half step away you brought in your next arpeggio now let's you know i can keep on going but you want to practice there's two chords and so i'll do it again for you two totally different chords i don't know if i went too fast i'm going to show you that again just in case it went a little too fast i'm starting to get excited you know you have your e shaped chord for the a [Music] and my riff was and then for the d my whole d arpeggio from the a shaped cord [Music] and i ended my uh first arpeggio here i looked by proximity to what the closest arpeggio was for going into my d it was right here sorry [Music] and you kind of sew them together let's just do a totally different one so you can see it happen let's do um b minor a major [Music] so the first thing i'm going to do is find a b a b minor and i can pick an a major here but if i'm playing by proximity you might want to bring an a minor to you here b minor and so this was the a minor connects the d minor shape right here ah here's my d minor a minor shape uh sorry a minor chord d minor shape and so i have this guy this guy all right so i'm going to practice my arpeggios and so that was my d minor shaped arpeggio so now let's see if i can write something [Music] and then actually well oh yeah okay so the d minor is here and there it is so [Music] so you can see i picked a note that was close by on the chord shift and so you want to practice doing that you want to write a two chord progression any two chords heck steal it from a song that you know and see if you can write an arpeggiated sequence bring the chords to you these plays are going to get harder and harder as we get you know from the rhythm section into the mid rhythm section into the lead but you want to practice this so you get really really good at you know a knowing your plays and b seeing those arpeggios so i'll stop talking see you on the next play all right we made it we made it to the soloing section remember that pyramid we have the drums and percussion you have the base you have the rhythm section and everything all these little plays that we did are kind of in that bass and rhythm section area now we're on top we're in lead position and hopefully practicing it from the ground up is going to keep your eyes on those chord tones on the movement so that when we start to put our arpeggios in the solo we know like when to to put them in and how to put them in and that's what this play is all about highlighting your chords so really quickly uh we want to write a very simple chord progression which i'll do right now i'll get it on my looper and then we're gonna try to solo over it so let me show you the chord progression a minor [Music] c [Music] g let's give a listen [Music] good all right and so now when it comes to soloing this is a caged playbook for the arpeggios and so soloing is a whole other thing believe it or not and using your scales and which scale options is up to you as guitar player if you know which skeletons option options you have i'll link some videos below my entire channel is riddled with these ideas this masterclass is about throwing the arpeggios in of the chords that are happening and so that you can really make those moments shine independent of what scale you're using with that being said we are going to use just an a minor pentatonic on top of this now if you want to use another type of scale an a sorry an a minor scale which would be an aeolian that's fine but the a minor pentatonic is what i'm going to use and we're going to stick with the form 1 pentatonic so it's going to look like this it's going to be 5 8 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 8 5 8. very very simple and we want to uh use this and and we want to combine the chord tone so what's our first step our first step is learning to bring the chords to you and so we are in this fifth fret area we need to find all of those chords and arpeggios within the fifth fret the first chord is an a minor well most of you will know you have your a right here and that goes with the e minor shape chord and that goes with the e minor shaped [Music] arpeggio the second chord was a c and on the fifth fret area a g shaped chord barred on the c thin or thick will give you a c and the full arpeggios of the g shape would be this [Music] now just in case you skip forward to this section and you're going whoa whoa what is this go back to the beginning it really it's going to be very very easy for you to do just get all those arpeggio shapes down and then come back here let's keep going we need a g chord so where is there a g chord around the fifth fret you can do it two ways you can try and connect your g shape to your e shape to your d shape or you can say well you know what um there's a g where oh the fifth fret of the d string if you know that and then okay what's on the d string that's a d shaped chord and so we have our g uh g chord here and we have that g major arpeggio our last chord is an f chord finding an f chord uh around the fifth fret area i happen to know it is our c shape barred on our fifth fret okay we can connect the e shape to the d shape and to the c shape if you know how you know hey there's an f i'm at sixth fret okay that's going to be my c shape or the b string however you want to do it but if this takes you a half hour so be it if it takes you 30 seconds so be it if you keep on doing this you're gonna get faster and faster and faster and faster i've been doing this for a while so i know how to do it but you want to take your time in assessing those chords so i'm going to play that backing track with all the chords here first just the chords a minor c g f all right and now what you want to do is you want to highlight one chord at a time and then use the pentatonic to solo what do i mean okay well the first chord is your a minor so the first thing you're going to do is only play your a minor arpeggios [Music] you don't have to come in on the thick you can come in on the thin you can come in the middle but once the a minor passes then you want to use the pentatonic now i am going to click on a little bit of distortion here and i'm going to show you what it sounds like okay so pay attention because it moves quickly but on the a and oh by the way i'm going to play this backing track and shout the chords out with you in a couple minutes so you can experience this on your own with me and so you know pay attention here we go so uh listen for the a minor and so i'm gonna start like this like [Music] that was it i just went up the arpeggio and now the rest is going to be a [Music] pentatonic all right now it comes around again and when the a minor starts now i am going to just uh solo the pentatonic on the a minor but now i'm going to focus on the c chord so the a minor comes a second time around i'm going to play the a minor pentatonic the c chord comes i'm going to focus [Music] on those arpeggios and then when the g and the f chord come i'm going to just uh solo with the pentatonic so check this out a minor pentatonic c then the g just pentatonic [Music] all right so we're going to do it like this and i'm going to show you again i'm going to do the a minor arpeggios then all pentatonic then i'm going to do the um the c major excuse me arpeggios and all pentatonic i'll do the g and i'll do the f but here we go just want to show you that one more time a minor arpeggios [Music] start to get an a minor but now with pentatonic c arpeggios pentatonic now next chord a minor c g the g chords right here i'm going to use those uh d shaped arpeggios [Music] on top of the g chord this time the a minor and the c get the pentatonic g chord gets the chord tones [Music] a minor c here's that g [Music] okay you can hear really sounds great and you get to pick which chord tone you want to highlight now the last one is the f chord all right so the f chord sorry should i play it here is the c shape you want to practice that arpeggio [Music] now you're going to solo completely with the pentatonic and you're going to highlight those f chord tones as they come around let's see [Music] here we go [Music] [Music] okay you can hear that you're now picking them out and so i'm going to play this backing track with you you can pause here if you want to write it out again you know i know i mentioned this my patreon um bonus lesson bonus sessions and practice sorry bonus sessions and practice lessons uh something like that we'll um have the printable playbook for you even though all the graphics are here but if you want to organize you can kind of look at those arpeggios and you can really try and and follow along but i will uh now play that uh chord progression for you and you are going to do exactly that choose the chord to highlight here we go one two ready a minor here we go a minor c g a minor c g f c g f a minor c [Music] g all right hopefully you were able to follow along you don't have to put in all the arpeggios i showed you you can just get a little cluster of them just so you can start working on it but being able to solo with whatever scale you choose in this case the a minor pentatonic would work you know if you are soloing on different songs and you have a scale of choice now you want to start putting in those arpeggios you can do the exact same thing you want to pick a scale position and then you want to start to bring the chords to you and choose which chord tones you like to highlight and as you practice and play you will be able to say okay when i play the song i want to highlight this chord our first play in soloville why well we're playing a scale and we're mentally keeping track of our chords we understand from all the practice i mean we're probably i don't know an hour an hour and a half into the master class we're just diving into how to use it because all those ingredients all those practice sessions lead up to you following with your eyes the chords and your fingers playing the frets and the arpeggios all right we're going to have another play thank you so much for being here hope you're enjoying it and i'll see you in our next play bye-bye all right our next play highlighting with motifs you might have seen in the previous play that when a chord came i kind of did something like this and that is a motif a repeating pattern and we're going to use our arpeggio shapes to um insert these motif runs on a chord now this really works best when we have a chord that kind of like sits for a couple seconds or we have a double chord and i'll explain that in a second but what we're going to develop is we're going to take any arpeggio you want and we're going to do this pattern of triplets or groups of three i like to think in one two three for some reason when it comes to this so i'm gonna you know turn the bingo uh turner in my head i'm going to reach i'm going to pull out an arpeggio shape and for some reason i'm seeing the d minor arpeggio but come on that's brutal so we're going to throw that out and we're going to reach back in and i'm going to say okay let's use the a minor chord shape right now all right we're going to talk about seventh chord soon and we should do this with the seventh chord maybe after this but the a minor chord shape have it right here all right so if we play the a minor chord shape on the fifth fret here this is a d minor chord and so i'm gonna look at that arpeggio and i can see it fully [Music] and what i want to do is start on the root note and i'm going to go through the arpeggios in order in groups of three one two three and then i'm going to start on the second note i was just on and that becomes my one two three really one two three one two three that's what it should have sounded like and so i have one two three and then start here on the two but now becomes the one one two three now this was my second note in that run one two three this was my second note in that round one two three so you get these one two three one two three one two three one two three and so this is a d minor chord so let's say we have a chord progression that goes uh let's see c d minor like that okay so c one two three four d d d [Music] let me uh let me get that on a loop really quickly so you can hear it okay so here we can use let's just say we can use a c major arpeggio and that should work fine let's see uh c sorry c major pentatonic and that would be uh if i'm using the form one be the fifth fret right here again the scale choice is a lot there's a lot of n-stitch method and if you're interested you can watch a ton of videos uh but here we're just going to be using pentatonix because this is an arpeggio master class and so that was a c major to a d minor i assume it's in the key of c so we use a c major pentatonic for it all right so what i'm going to do is i'm going to use my c major pentatonic and on the c i'm going to hit the c major you know pentatonic when the d comes or d minor comes i'm still going to solo on that c major pentatonic but when the timing is right i'm really going to try and hop into those arpeggios let's see if we can nail this let's see [Music] there was okay sorry just kind of zoning out there and so when you get that motif in you can decide to you know keep with motif or go back into your parent scale but motif runs those patterns you find everywhere especially on songs that have like a double chord let's do it one more time just to show you and what i mean by that double chord is uh let's just i i want to keep it easy i know this is probably the 10th time i mentioned this but all the information here all the graphics is all you need to know if you want to practice even more sync this stuff in if you're intrigued check out the patreon page you will not be disappointed i'll have more chord progressions to practice let's just take this you know because we're live on youtube right now not live but we're you know this is a youtube class we'll make it easy and we'll go uh d g a to g and we're gonna double the time on the g so we have one two one two one two three four so you can see when you have chord progressions that have this like double chord at the end you're going to hear these motif runs so let me get that on the loop um while i record this loop if you listen to guns and roses this is their trick you're going to hear they they usually play a chord twice and slash before he gets into another part of the solo it's it's awesome and so i'll get this d a and g down okay turn it into some distortion all right so what i'm going to do is i'm going to play uh the d major pentatonic here seventh fret and what's interesting is the first time around i'm going to play the g arpeggio or the motif down here on that e shape [Music] and then the second time around i'm going to do what we did from our previous play and find my g where my scale is and try to run a motif off of that there's my c-shape you'll hear something like this so let's see if i can get both in there [Music] now there you can see i went backwards and i just kind of kept on doing the same thing so those motifs are based on patterns triplets all right and so you want to try this out you can take this chord progression make a loop any sort of doubled cord you can always get those motifs and they really help you kind of develop this like language back into your solo and so practice this this play you hear a lot of especially in music that is written but if you're improvising and you can spot it you can always throw this in a shorter play but nonetheless something that you really want to practice let's get to our next play all right our next play involves highlighting seventh chords now shameless plug here if you haven't seen my free blues primer playlist on youtube that leads to my two blues master classes that will show you how dependent the blues are on seventh chords and how to learn how to kind of solo the blues here we are talking about you know if you're writing a jam or playing in a jam and has a seventh chord in it how to kind of highlight that and so uh let me show you uh this whole um youtube class i'm teaching right now you know i'm focused a lot on the d g and a this will be no different i don't know why it's my three favorite chords say you have a jam that has d and g and then a7 and you want to improvise over that well the the seventh chord has this really cool tension in it all right and i don't get too heavy um but that flat seven of the seventh chord and the major third of it rub together and produce what's called a tritone and there's this like you know a1 steak sauce as i say in a seventh chord you can hear it and and so we want to uh really emphasize that so the best thing you can do well there's two things you can do of course you can play the flat seven which is the special note uh or really highlight it go between the one the flat seven i'll show you and also dance between the one the three and the flat seven so knowing your intervals here is kind of important so let's say let me erase this loop really quickly and let's say i have this loop of d g a seven we'll do it twice [Music] okay so i have a loop and now i'm going to use uh the d major pentatonic right form one that's it you know we're studying how arpeggios work and so pentatonix it is and so 7 10 7 9 7 9 7 9 7 10 7 10. all right and so uh let's solo with the d major pentatonic and now when the a7 comes i'm going to solo i'm gonna i'm going to find that a7 where i am and that a7 is the d7 shape chord all right here it is and what's really cool i i'll show you is you want to know that arpeggio we discussed this at the very beginning of the class uh let's see you have okay sorry you have the three the five the flat seven the one the major third the five the flat seven the one and the three and you wanna really punch the threes and the ones and sorry the threes and the ones and the flat sevens as best you can so i'll turn on a little bit of distortion and you want to kind of really you know emphasize those notes [Music] blue okay so that one that one i was i thought there was a next bar coming and so you want to practice you know really hitting the flat seven the major third we'll do it one more time together uh and and knowing your arpeggios is really going to help out so how about i pick uh sorry knowing your intervals and really getting the flat seven and the three how about i pick a totally different key and so and and a totally different seventh chord shape let's see how about we do the key of b all right we're going to do b to e f sharp seven [Music] twice all right b e f sharp seven all right so let's find a b major pentatonic uh form one i happen to know it's on the fourth and seventh fret how do i know that well i need a form one pentatonic so i need my g shape chord i can again this is on the blues primer sorry the caged primer playlist and so here's my g shaped chord root notes on the b here's my form one pentatonic all right in song or solo when the f sharp seven comes i need to find the f sharp seven oh look at that it's the same shape it's the same shape as the d7 shape well actually so yeah i'll do it [Music] why not practice it you have let's see the three the five the flat seven the one the major third the five the one the three and the flat seven here and i'm just gonna you know do it in different keys the same shape it's a wonderful shape and so watch out for it check it out looper malfunction here we go uh so i'm gonna turn the distortion on and we are going to play the b major pentatonic over the b and the e when the f sharp seven comes gonna hit some f sharp seven chord tone edge here we go [Music] so okay you can hear it all right so practice this stuff highlighting your seventh chords with seven chord arpeggios but specifically that flat seven a major third coming home to the one is always going to kick the audience right and they're behind i hope you enjoyed this play and we'll move on to our next all right in this play we're going to learn about long arpeggio connectors now if you haven't seen my sultans of swing video number two again it's in the cage primer playlist it's there where i talk about mark knopfler doing these fills based off the a major arpeggio you know these long arpeggios you can put them in any place we usually hear them in music when the vocals end but if you're improvising or if you write a song and you have a vocal ends and you have some time left to the chord you can throw these in i'm going to let you discover them i'm actually in real time right in front of you going to discover two of them to practice and so you need to have this kind of mindset that you know you've made it this far i don't know how far i don't know how much time we're into masterclass but you made it this far and so you know sit for a second breathe again you heard me say this once already nobody gets on stage and does something they haven't done before so you really want to practice this now so that when it comes time to do it you can do it and so let's just say let's just say i'm in a song and all of a sudden a d chord comes and i end my vocal well i want to create a really nice long arpeggio so what i'm going to do is i'm going to see all of my d chords first my my ds here connects to the c shape it connects to the a shape connects to the g shape connects the e shape back to the d shape and so i really want to practice and look at those arpeggios as i have and i'm going to start right here on the d now i swear i'm i'm going to figure this out in real time and so i know that i like to kind of come down this arpeggio now right there those first three moves i'm going to try and move sorry first three notes i'm going to try and move um down to my next shape which is the g shape okay that's the you know all right and i like that slide now i'm in the g shape all right i'm in this note here and what's crazy about this is when you play like this your fingers are going to be out of position then otherwise than what you practiced and so you know here all of a sudden like to finish my arpeggio i have to do this my first finger i like this so far now i can choose to go to my g chord arpeggio here but i want to keep moving and so what comes before g well my a shape and let's look at the a shape arpeggio so i'm sorry and so i'm sorry oh it's right there or i'm gonna go for this guy so i'm gonna have [Music] all right sorry i love it and i need a d chord oh right here i'm on the c shape and then so i know my c shape arpeggio i mean that's nasty that's just nasty so if also i'm on d like [Music] you know you can run these giant arpeggio loops they take practice but that's how you want to put together and again the more you practice this stuff like sorry not like that you know you can run through them and see them and they start to connect better [Music] it's great all right so let's just say i pick a g minor chord i don't know why i'm going to do that okay so g minor chord okay so a g minor chord let's look at all the shapes of the g minor you have a g e minor shape here connects the d minor shape here it takes the c minor shape here connects the a minor shape here and back to a g minor shape here i'm going to start on the a minor shape i'm going to like that all right so let's see the a minor shape i know i can go i like those three notes so far uh that connects the c minor shape back here so i'm ending on the g string the known the g string is here all right or i'm going to use my first finger because that slide to me is going to put me on position and then here's that there's that c minor okay i don't want to go here i want to go backwards so what connects to the uh um the uh c minor shape here is my d minor oh good perfect on the string i'm on so so far i have the a minor arpeggio a minor shape down to c minor shape briefly down to the uh or in the d minor shape let's see perfect and there was that d minor arpeggio shape d minor shaped arpeggio down to the root note let's see awesome and so you can connect again that was that was live that was that was real so if i had a song that was like f g minor you know [Music] you can run that arpeggio beautiful stuff you can do this with seventh chords you can do with major come up with your own like one chord stall and try to start here and get down here all right or that was a i mean it's a fast play but nonetheless you know gluing a whole entire chord one chord with a moving arpeggio or a long arpeggio it's really beautiful mark naflar said does it a lot on his songs so you can listen to that and with that being said we'll get on to our next play all right this play is about triads now if you watch stitch method uh you know i have this uh problem of teaching the word triad because it's so zoomed in like i said the beginning of this uh this master class when you zoom in it's like oh my gosh like there's so much going on but triads are in fact the dna and the building blocks of chords but we're going to use our cage chord system to find these triads and i want to talk about the one thing that my pet peeve about triads the way i see them is that when you're focusing purely on the triads for soloing which you should never ever do there's always a place of a scale and then chord tones in my opinion but when you throw in just chord tones or just triads you kind of rip yourself out of improvisation and you get this robotic type playing now but there is a place that i hear that a lot which is in a lot of my favorite guitar players when they're building their solo up to a peak and getting it back to a scale you'll hear these like triad runs that are built off the cage system uh up into a new note or the ending usually it's at an ending of a solo or to a peak of a solo so i have this chord progression i want you to hear it e minor d e minor d now i'm going to play a series of triads over this using the cage chord system i'll show you how [Music] so i just want to show you how i did it these kind of triads take place in the b and e string and so i'm going to turn my distortion off so you need to find the chords um up high on the neck and here is your e minor chord and here is the b and g string arpeggio piece so these little notes pull off on the pull off the two notes on the high e string and then pluck down on the e string [Applause] that's my e minor arpeggio now i want to move forward so i got to find a d chord well there's a d shaped d chord here and there's also a c shaped c chord here and i can see my c shaped arpeggio and there's my one there's my three there's my five you're going to put your middle finger on that b string and you're gonna pull off on the high e string pluck down on the b string all right we need another e minor okay so we gotta go forward well there's an e here i can see my c minor shape but here's that c minor arpeggio there's that one flat three and five so i have the e minor shape uh e minor chord the c shape d chord this this c minor shaped e chord e minor chord and then i need my d chord and that's going to be here with on on the 17th fret my a shape and here is the note that's on the b string here's the next one and on the graph i mean you can this one you can't do down here but you can reach up to the five up here right and so there it is so you have this like oh sorry you can the root note here this is the five this is the major third that's the five this is the one and so you have this and you can figure it out but here's my e minor shaped arpeggio here's my c shaped arpeggio for the d chord here's my uh c minor shaped arpeggio for the e minor chord and here is my a shaped arpeggio for the d chord now when you're doing that you better be going somewhere because if you just do that in the middle of your solo it's going to have no context it really moves you usually hear it like then into the ending and so you know you you gotta you can practice that but you want to throw them towards the ends of your solo so these little triads they do come from the cage chord shapes anything uh until you know on the b and e string you can see it if i if i played here like a d chord well here's my they're in the arpeggio shapes right they're always going to be there and so the triads you can put in uh but you got to be going somewhere you got to practice them they really rip you out right out of like improv video and they kind of just put in like a line that's like okay unless you're going somewhere and so you want to practice uh you know putting in if you want to make this backing track make an e minor slow it down to a d and just sit with those those guys right there [Music] let's see those cage chord shapes that's important all right i really hope you enjoyed this master class you

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Length: 126min 39sec (7599 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 08 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/NewTubeReview]

Ian is one of the best teachers on the internet. This one might be a little heavy for beginners, but I highly recommend his channel.

No, he didn't ask me to post this. I just know he's good.

[u/donotmatthews]

I've been looking for this exact thing. I've only recently stumbled on your youtube channel and I live it!

[u/Covid-2100]

Thank you for your generosity and helpfulness. I am looking forward to jumping into this

Edit: So much blues. Followed!

[u/RicFlairsTits]

Saving this for tomorrow cause I am sleeeeepy goodnight in bed!

[u/ct314]

It's like an early holiday gift! Thank so much, Ian!! Along with most of us, time is a pretty crazy with present shopping and end of year work projects, but I'm super stoked to know I've got a killer 2 hour master class waiting for me over the holiday break!

[u/OZ_Flow]

Instantly hooked after the introduction. I can’t wait to go through the rest!

[u/TheOldSheriff]

Damn dude this is great. Getting outta here with that pentatonic shit, where we’re going we only need 3 notes!!! Love it.

Edit: flat 7s are cool too.

[u/LHMark]

Su Bscribed and saved. Gonna be spending the weekend with this one, going nice and slow. Thanks for doing this!

[u/Nalyda]

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