Scale Practice actually goes way beyond having to work on exercises. Taking phrases or licks and moving them around is a great way to expand your abilities on your instrument.
On the guitar moving to another key is maybe not as difficult as staying in the same key and moving around the neck, and you need to be able to do this if you want to be able to freely transpose songs.
In this video I will go over this exercise and demonstrate what the thinking is and what gain from working on it.
The PDF is available in the Patreon Facebook Group.
Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:07 The best scale exercise to explore positions!
0:35 Expanding your vocabulary
1:02 Jazz demands lots of keys and positions for our licks
1:25 Guitar transposition? Just move your hand!
1:52 The Jazz Lick!
2:10 The Jazz Lick through all 7(or is it 10) positions?
2:55 How to move the lick around.
3:04 The first chunk
4:02 Different possible types of chunks
4:14 moving around the next part
5:00 Choice of technique
5:19 Applying different types of picking and legato for phrasing
5:38 Phrasing above technique!
5:54 What you learn from doing this guitar exercise
6:57 How it makes you test your technique and evaluate your options
7:26 Do you have good exercises for checking out different positions? Let me know in the comments!
8:17 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page!