Seeing Arpeggios / Triads / Chord Tones : Practice For Better Guitar Solos

[Music] all right welcome back to another episode of stitch method we're going to be talking about how to effectively practiced arpeggios which I like calling core tones and we'll get that out in a couple seconds but I want to mention two things number one my student Mike brought this to me several weeks ago a lesson idea and we've worked on it and I thought it was really really valuable so I want to present it to all the stich method fans out there number two before we get going as you probably know I have a workshop coming up really soon and I just want to mention one of my sponsors Ernie Ball don't roll your eyes I am Telling You Ernie balls fantastic they are such a giving company and they give a lot to this workshop and the reason they do is because they really know that their their stuff is really good and and it works for the working musician and you know once they get out there they know people don't like it so I just want to say if you were in the market for any sort of guitar accessories that Ernie Ball makes check out Ernie Ball first their cables I know are exceptional tuners picks picks right they're great so I just want to say thank you Ernie Ball and enough of that commercial I know but it's true Thank You Ernie ball go check them out all right now how do we practice core tones / arpeggios well let me tell you my beef first of the word arpeggio and this might help you understand the lesson now arpeggios triads core tones pretty much all the same thing say they're all saying the same thing but I think that core tone hits the heaviest and I want to explain this on arpeggio piece of a chord triads how chords are built chord tones pieces of a chord and so when I think about these terms I think about triad and arpeggio kind of like if you go to a grocery store and you buy a carrot or you buy some chicken or steak or you take a box of crackers off the shelf you you know what you're getting all right and in my mind that's the word arpeggio triad but chord tone is kind of like the farmers they're attached to the process in which this stuff was made the farmer who grew the carrots who grew the livestock or you know yabuta livestock or grew the flour to make the crackers they are more attached to the product when when they go to the store and they actually pick up a carrot or a box or a piece of chicken or whatever they kind of like can chuckle because they know the exact that the entire process from you know point 0 to the final product and so a core tone in my mind tethers a a musician much much better to the music that's happening at the moment because you're realizing in a quart tone you are playing a piece of the chord that is happening and that is how we need to practice this effectively if you're practicing arpeggios or triads just as exercises and you're not attaching to the music at hand you're not you know really feeling the moment or paying attention to the moment then it's harder to make music and this is all about making music so we're gonna use the word chord tones as much as possible I'm not dismissing the word arpeggio not dismissing the word triad it's just I favor the word core tone a lot more so with that being said I don't know how many minutes in we are let's get down to it we're gonna practice playing music with chord tones and arpeggio so that you can see them better that's a big question I get a lot how do I see my chord tones how do I see them better when I'm sewing well to do that you got practice effectively into practice effectively effectively you just have to focus purely on your chord tones so how we're going to do that well we're gonna focus on a 12 bar blues a major 12 bar blues just with e a and B right now now this is gonna sound a little bit foki bluesy funky rocky you know if your fish fan kinda like opossum if you're like Jerry Garcia kind of like their happy blue stuff and country-ish so let me give you a quick little demo of just now is it gonna sound amazing no we'll work on getting it to sound as best as possible let me give you a quick demo of what we're going for this is just our Peggy [Music] okay now that's not been resolved but you hear very quickly how attached I was to the moment again I use the term KitKat you know like if there's an E chord being played there's an E chord then you can break off the pieces of the E chord and feed them to the audience and that's what you're going to be doing now we're gonna be breaking out a little bit of this but we want to practice efficiently alright so the first chord in my in my blues is an E major so let's find that a major we're gonna you probably saw everything working around the 9th fret area alright so there's a cheek shaped G shaped Cage chord right here for the E chord 9th fret bar 12th fret with a pinkie or you can bar the 12th fret on the pinkie well I don't put the pinkie on the B string as well so you can have the Single Double you also have the thicker end 12 11 9 9 9 so any which one that you like it's fine but let's dive in further what is the core tone arpeggio try it I got it the building blocks of this chord are all there and you want to play this more like a scale when you do a chord you can play 12 I just fit 12 11 9 9 9 12 12 these are your core tones so pause this video and see if you can see that 12 11 9 9 9 12 12 those are the arpeggio core tones that I can find in this moment tethered right in this moment right there so I'm going to play that back and track I'm just gonna play these arpeggios [Music] okay now doesn't the sound amazing just yet but you can hear that you're on your way okay so that those are Ecore tones now we're gonna go to our a chord tones really quickly again pause this video if you need to and and write this stuff out no pressure alright we're gonna expand the ideas but let's get the map going my a chord is my C shaped chord right not 9th fret right here okay C shaped caged chord I'll link some caged chord videos below in case you haven't seen it this is my 12th fret of the a 11th fret D 9th fret G 10th fret of a B and 9th fret of the high e I think I said that right and there's a bonus arpeggio let me show you so you know 12 11 9 10 9 and then 12 there's a bonus chord tone I keep mine sing arpeggio so you want to practice like that you don't practice this nope okay we're trying to incorporate our notes into our solo so you got to treat it more like scales of your fingers look at the fingers I'm using and try do it pinky ring index middle index pinky all right now we're really quickly you're gonna watch for that I'm just going to show you my B chord the lasso this chord lasso it and just drag it up two frets and there it is that's my B quartum I'm gonna use okay it's fourteen thirteen eleven twelve eleven fourteen same exact motion for the a as it is the beat okay so now I'm gonna just just use your pedo as part of practicing effectively is to actually practice what you want to do and you want to practice putting chord tones in so you're just gonna practice just your chord tones here we go how to get them being ahead of your nut be right there sorry all right this is sound amazing no it sounds kind of choppy and all stuff but you can hear that we're bonding with music so now focusing on just your core tones like that the twelve bar blues all you got to do is type in on YouTube to practice emajor twelve bar blues and you'll find the track and you sit and you can just do this you should know twelve bar blues by now if you don't go watch my channel somewhere that's all over the place alright and so the idea here is you're just focusing on your chord tones but there's more that you can do now to start saying something I might mention this a little bit earlier but sliding into your chord tones sliding in from one fret or two frets it doesn't matter you're not looking for this you're looking for these ghost slides that come on net word that just end into your note all right and so let's see what it sounds like when I can pick after I sure you've really understood where these poor tones are you can try to start sliding in now sliding in on different notes is really cool quite effective so my favorite guitar players do it let's see if we can just add a little bit of flare it with some slide [Music] [Music] okay a little bit of flare there now I'm forcing it for the moment for you for YouTube but you want to sit and practice this stuff there's no new birth okay and so sliding in now we were just soloing with chord tones to help you focus on getting to chord tones that's the whole mission of the of this video now one thing that you want to try doing is is this now we're dropping a little bit of theory on you is maybe knowing your intervals what intervals are you playing okay well take a look at this ecord you have a one three five one three five one the first thing you want to try doing is finding your freeze this is cool stuff okay one three eleventh fret of the a point three ninth fret of the B well if that's a three then coming back one fret is a flat three and you're still using your chord tones but you can always find your three and slide in to a major third and that's why how do you kind of slide first okay so one thing one do is play some core tones and then slide into the major thirds but we have a twelve bar blues to do so let's try on the A's okay here's my one here's my three one three so that means my minor thirds here one three five one three that's a three one four it back alright same thing for the B chord one three minor third there's my other third alright so I know this is moving fast but again you have a rewind button and you can slow it on the video all right and a pause button so here we go listen for those I'm targeting the major thirds I know those are chord tones but I'm gonna like back and load it and kind of get into that note with a little bit of minor third miss here we go welcome back not gonna lie to you I hit the a chord when I started and it sounded terrible so I should hit the e chord one starts here we go starting on the e so sliding you're targeting your thirds just let you know okay this is still chord tone series you're targeting your thirds and you're just coming in from one foot back another dance that you can do is your flat five five dance if you know where your fives are alright one three five five five if you know where your other five is one three five Oh flat five one strap behind it if you know your a chord you know where your fives are one three five one three five there it is there same thing that B chord one three five 135 now I know I'm moving fast but you want to just take a half hour and do the core tones then anyone tried taking some time to do some slides then you want to introduce the major third just in the e chord and understand how it works they can get to the a and get to the B but I don't have a one half hour lesson okay so here we go I'm gonna try and blend and slide in some some fives and flat fives like from the flat five threes from the flat three and the ones and there's a root notes but I'm using I'm targeting just chord tones that's the thing how do you incorporate more chord tones when you into your playing you focus on them you look at them you use them for navigation here we go okay nice a lot more color now what did we just learn I don't know I'm kidding we learned that if you focus on the chord tones you're pedos okay that you can play them at the moment of the chord and be tethered to it you were you were conscious of the chord that's playing you're also trying to emphasize the chord tones that the audience is hearing from either your organ player or a bass player or your other guitar player you're you're emphasizing them as your lead guitar player then we are again sliding into your core tones very very you know effective just to break up the monotony of use your ears and dance around always gonna work you got trusty ears then start sliding with major thirds as practice so sorry sliding with the minor third to the major third as a practice now once you nail that down start sliding in from the five into the five from the flat five now all this has been chord tone centric and you can hear that it's developing the sound that you probably want to get in order to feel colorful and attached to the music now one thing I will say is that is the exercise I would give you to focus on the core tones but if I was really playing this I would be loading up with my teenager pentatonic this the last thing I want you to do now now we've broken out of chord tones you you focus so much on chord tones you have this major pentatonic on this 9th fret 9 12 911 911 911 9 12 9 12 let the conspiracy theorists start commenting alright there it is there and the idea here is you can use this now to kind of like run around but you still want to focus on your core tones and when you get to the 5 chord and you get to the 4 chord you still kind of just want to break away on those chord tones but for the e you can use your E major pentatonic as a thread to get your pages instead of being just now you can kind of dance there with your pentatonic so my last final performance for the night will be just me playing my emajor pentatonic focusing on those Ecore tones when the e is happening and when the a and when the B happened I'm just going to break out and do my core tone or ped yo soloing with those two chords here we go let's see how we do [Music] okay now you hear it one last thing I don't know how long this video is one less thing you know on that on the c-shaped cords if you look you have you have this but there's a little dc8 cord and sliding in and then sliding again or for the B chord so I'm sliding on the g string and the B note coming back sliding again then hitting the denote let's see if I can do one last performance and fade out practice your core tones by practicing your core tones that's a little like pour too far that's little point in this lesson to practice your chord tones and see them you've got to practice them and that's it hopefully we found a way that makes it enjoyable for you maybe you're getting sound that you like if not I do apologize but try this in this order go slow watch it you can do it I promise and I'm gonna fade out with this all but look for on the A's like that [Music] kind of stuff here we go [Music] [Music]

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Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 05 2019