Circle of fifths | Practice No. 2 | Movable Shapes
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This is the 2nd practice video that accompanies Music Theory for Guitar • Lesson 4 • Circle of Fifths
In this exercise, we'll play through all the Major Scales in the same order as Practice No. 1, but we'll only use one shape the entire time, moving the root note of the shape up and down the fingerboard as needed.
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Play-Along Practice Tracks:
Other lessons in this series:
- Homework
- Practice 1 - Open Position Scales
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This lesson is part of my Music Theory For Guitar series.
Comments
Always work some balance in. This sounds like a great, personalized approach. The more you look inward and ask "how do i keep focusing on the things that excite me now while working toward other things that sound exciting" the more you'll start to feel like a musician
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-05-09 16:21:54 +0000 UTCSo, the circle of fifths lesson - that slowed me down. What I noticed about myself is, I have been practising the lessons so much I was neglecting just playing an practising the songs I already sorta knew and liked. I needed to bring some balance back into my practice. I feel better for it. So, now I work on theory and my top four. Later it will be theory and a second top four.
Richard Finlay
2023-05-08 23:42:23 +0000 UTCCould I do the same workout by creating, 6th string to 1st string shape pattern and moving it for all 6th string root notes and then creating another 5th string to 1st string pattern and moving for those respectively ? Would this give me another octave to play over ?
harsh ghesani
2023-01-13 16:33:31 +0000 UTCme too I always fumble in the open string position lol
Donnie Marhefka
2022-08-18 00:57:10 +0000 UTCYeah, it's worth it
Clement Kabiligi
2022-06-29 17:30:13 +0000 UTCI was trying to demonstrate the power of shapes on guitar, so I wanted a bit of contrast between exercise 1 and 2
Scott Paul Johnson
2022-06-29 17:24:24 +0000 UTCat least one common shape. memorizing all the shapes in exercise #1 was a bit tricky for me
Clement Kabiligi
2022-06-29 17:06:52 +0000 UTCWhat kind of music after 160 bpm...
Sev
2022-02-08 16:46:05 +0000 UTCI believe it's attached at the bottom?
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-11-14 20:41:05 +0000 UTCIs there a PDF sheet of the practice of the diagram for the play-along?
Cameron Reeves
2021-11-14 00:17:06 +0000 UTCI love thesiunds between the fiths. New devide by linkin Park's intro uses them and I love the song, its some what nostalgic and this was a good lesson, thank you. :3
Flamecrew9 At roblox
2021-09-09 12:53:55 +0000 UTCLove this lessons man.
Flamecrew9 At roblox
2021-09-09 12:49:37 +0000 UTCOnce i had worked on the #01 major scales lesson, this one was pretty easy to keep up with!
Rafael
2021-08-20 15:35:03 +0000 UTCright i guess it is both depending on the direction.
Magela Crosignani
2021-04-30 16:18:47 +0000 UTCIt's true. Sometimes people call it the circle of fourths for that reason!
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-04-30 16:09:14 +0000 UTCso confusing that if you look at it from C then the one above is the perfect 5th but if you look at from G the one below is the perfect 4th..... brain is exploding.
Magela Crosignani
2021-04-30 12:43:55 +0000 UTCNope! Just those two strings.
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-04-21 01:05:44 +0000 UTCdoes this shape work all around the fret board? Aside from the E and A string?
Nicholas Burbano
2021-04-20 23:52:39 +0000 UTCi have to use gorilla snot.
ken roberts
2021-02-14 16:43:55 +0000 UTCIt’s a weird/gross-looking habit but yes! If you have dry skin on your hands, it makes it a lot easier to grip the pick.
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-02-14 15:35:15 +0000 UTCYou lick you finger before grasping the pick; does it help?
ken roberts
2021-02-14 03:06:49 +0000 UTCHaha. Yeah. I just really wanted to illustrate the power of guitar shapes
Scott Paul Johnson
2020-12-07 01:54:41 +0000 UTCPractice number one is a pain in the a** compared to this 😅
Daniele La Rosa
2020-12-06 15:51:11 +0000 UTC
