11/24/2023 0 Comments Blues shredding![]() ![]() ![]() Even though you're playing the same six notes every time, you tend to change your phrasing pretty radically when you go from one shape to another. Go back and forth between these two shapes to get the hang of it. Then play a 3-notes-per-string pattern starting on that same note: Here’s an amazing exercise that will help you develop this skill in no time: Take each of the notes that you would play with your first finger and play both a traditional two string shape and a three notes per string shape:īegin on the low E-string and play two strings of “normal” blues scale shape: So that where ever you are in those traditional blues shapes, you can launch into a three note per string shape. The point is not only to learn these patterns, but to learn to start playing anyone of these patterns from any note in the regular blues scale shapes. There are six 2-string 3-notes-per-string patterns that look like this: So no matter where you are in the scale you can go from playing in your regular shape to playing a two string, three note per string pattern. To truly master this you need to learn to dive into a 3-notes-per-string pattern from any note in the traditional blues scale patterns. You wont believe what learning this will do to your sense of freedom when you play. (You can find all 6 of these patterns under the “Resources” section on this website)Įxpand your regular blues scale shapes nowĪn here's the idea: Instead of seeing these shapes as three similar patterns laid out in three octaves, you can use them to expand your regular blues shapes and create some pretty impressive licks, very fast. Your number one blues scale pattern looks like this when you lay it out as a 3-notes-per-string scale pattern: Today's idea offers you even more freedom, the freedom to use these patterns where ever you are on the fretboard. These patterns allow you to use all the sequences and licks that you know from the Major / Minor realm, because you have the same amount of notes per string - And you'll be able to play incredibly fast blues runs much easier. The 3 notes per string blues scale patterns involves weird stretches and unusual fingerings but it's well worth the effort mastering them. It's about the song and the feeling blues solos have some breathable space in between.Did you try out Paul Gilbert 3-notes-per-string Blues scale patterns? Then perhaps you’ve also found them difficult to use when playing solos. The blues is not about technical showmanship, as most of the old (and new) blues musicians were not musically trained and they learned how to play just by imitating others. So what if you got a shredder and put him in a blues situation? Again, the skills are top notch, but musically, I call it wanking, because all I hear is a barrage of notes flying at me with that distorted humbucking destruction. I was flexible, and had more fun because I was playing what I felt, and not what someone else told me to play. ![]() I've been in situations where I've played with great classically trained musicians but they were playing off of sheet music while I was winging it. It's not just about skill, but also about the message. To me, I can care less if people play better than I do (of course it doesn't hurt to be an all round musician) but I play what I like and feel. Unfortunately to many, it seems that if you don't have such skills, it means you suck as a musician. We've all been in that situation where in a jam session someone will be the 'guitar master' and will shred the guitar so hard that it looks like it will explode and will leave everyone in awe. Shred guitar is not only used to to effect in certain musical genres like metal, but, in my opinion, to also show off in front of people. It takes quite a lot of skill and technique to play shred guitar (playing rapidly with quick successive notes and sweeps, scales and arpeggios) I certainly don't have this ability.
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