Practice to metronomes:
https://craig-hamilton-guitar-lessons.blogspot.com/2020/05/metronomes_9.html
Metronome playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aGo24oKGjE&list=PLnwtC5S5oy6VWZA9MvoyKazilF8d1_VqQ
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Sweep picking means hitting a sting one time, while retaining up or down movements across strings.
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Sweeping is usually thought of a way to gain speed, but it also easier.
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If you don't have a bass player, in soloing it should be thought of as traveling to and from roots.
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This sweep pattern will be a lick in the key of G Ionian. It will start on G and end on G.
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This is the notes of 3rd position.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B (root) | C | D | E | ||
| F# | G | A | B | |||
| D | E | F# | G | |||
| A | B (root) | C | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
| thickest string | B (root) | C | D | |||
The next 4 charts are to be combined into a lick.
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These are the notes of the triads you will be using.
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Start with G at the 8th fret on a down stroke and travel to B on a down stroke.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B | C | D | |||
| G(root) | A | B | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
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Now return to E and sweep the C triad, E to G to C, with a single down stroke.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B | C(root) | D | |||
| G | A | B | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
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Now to D, and sweep the D triad, D to A to F#, with a single upstroke.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B | C | D(root) | |||
| G | A | B | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
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Now on the G triad is too difficult to finger, so stop at a Gmaj dyad.
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A dyad is a two note chord.
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Now to G and hit the dyad, G and B, with a single downstroke.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B | C | D | |||
| G | A | B | ||||
| E | F# | G(root) | ||||
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Once you learn the lick, don't forget to give it some rhythm.
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These chords sound happy even though this is a minor or minor scale.
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These are major triads, as opposed to minor triads.
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The deepest note, B, starts the Phrygian scale, which is mode 3 of the major scale.
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This is my favorite position of the major scale.
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This is the scale in question. The deepest note is B on the fattest string.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B (root) | C | D | E | ||
| F# | G | A | B | |||
| D | E | F# | G | |||
| A | B (root) | C | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
| thickest string | B (root) | C | D | |||
All triads consist of 3 notes that consist of a root, a major 3rd interval, and a 5th interval.
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Major triads take 3 different forms on the highest pitch strings.
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The three forms are the root, 1st inversion, and 2nd inversion.
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This is the shape of root inversion triads on the 3 highest strings.
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The intervals are in order, root, major 3rd, and 5.
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Thus, this is a Gmaj triad. If you are soloing it belongs to an Ionian pattern.
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| 10th fret | 12th fret | |||||
| thinnest string | D (5th) | |||||
| B (maj 3rd) | ||||||
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This is the shape of a 1st inversion triads on the 3 highest strings.
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It's intervals in order are major 3rd, root, and 5.
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The Cmaj triad belongs to the C Lydian scale.
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The Dmaj triad belongs to the D Mixolydian scale, and very importantly has a flatted 7th note.
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The flated 7th is not a part of the Dmaj triad, and it is also hard to use without the orange D root.
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If you feel really inspired, the orange 13th also fits in the mix too if soloing in D Mixolydian.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | C(root) | D(root) | ||||
| G 5th | A 5th | 13th | ||||
| E maj 3rd | F# maj 3rd | |||||
| flated 7th | D root | |||||
| thickest string | B | |||||
This is the shape of a 2nd inversion major triad on the highest strings.
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It's intervals in order are 5th, root and major 3rd.
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The Gmaj triad belongs to the G Ionian scale.
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The sus4 note can be used to add suspense and release. It is not a part of the triad.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | |||||
| thinnest string | B maj 3rd | sus 4 | ||||
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| D 5th | ||||||
| thickest string | B | |||||
The next three patterns show the triads within the 3rd position.
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| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B | C | D | E | ||
| F# | G | A | B | |||
| D | E | F# | G | |||
| A | B | C | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
| thickest string | B | C | D | |||
| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B | C | D | E | ||
| F# | G | A | B | |||
| D | E | F# | G | |||
| A | B | C | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
| thickest string | B | C | D | |||
| 7th fret | 9th fret | 12th fret | ||||
| thinnest string | B | C | D | E | ||
| F# | G | A | B | |||
| D | E | F# | G | |||
| A | B | C | ||||
| E | F# | G | ||||
| thickest string | B | C | D |