Chords for Essential Guitar Scale Sequences

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_ _ Hi, so let's do some scale sequences today.
Now I'm quite [G] excited about these because I've just finished my latest e-book, 40 Scale Sequences.
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Before we get into the examples, let's define what a sequence is. _
A sequence is an ordered pattern which you apply to [Em] the notes of a scale or [G] arpeggio.
And we use sequences as musicians because scales, as we know, tend to [Eb] be up and down,
boring, linear things that you can get sick of rather [N] quickly.
And so by applying sequences, you know, patterns to these scales, _ _ we can become more inspired,
we can create more musical passages of notes, we can be more melodic as well, and these
things are very important to us as lead guitarists.
Now let's get into the first example, linear fours. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ As you may know, an unsequenced C major three note per string scale _ goes bottom to top and
top to bottom in a very plain fashion, just like this. _
[D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ So what we're going to do is we're going to apply a sequence to this C major scale, the
three note per string C major scale.
And the sequence is going to be linear fours.
And the pattern is basically this.
You play up four notes and then you go back one.
And then you just repeat that, you repeat that pattern over and over again, bottom to
top, top to bottom.
Let me show you what I mean. _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So that's the linear fours sequence applied to the three note per string C major scale.
Let's have a look at a pentatonic idea. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So this is an A minor and the sequence [G] is called pentatonic _ fourths.
It's quite skippy, it sounds cool, but it's rather tricky because of the finger rolling
you have to do in [Gb] order to hit adjacent notes.
Let's give it a go nice and slow. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _
[Am] _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Alright, next up we've got a really cool skip diminished idea. _
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ This example shows that you don't [G] have to just apply sequences to [G] scales.
You can also apply sequences to arpeggios.
And so this is what I call the skip thirds diminished.
And we're pretty much going to be _ applying a skip thirds kind of pattern _ to a four note
diminished arpeggio starting here on the D note. _
Let's go through it nice and slow with the tab. _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Ab] _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ Now let's move on to our final example [E] which is in the E Lydian scale. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ Now this one's a real [Gb] beauty.
Chuck this over like an [Abm] E synth kind of drone [F] and it just sounds amazing.
Now what we're doing here is we're sequencing an E Lydian scale _ _
[Ab] by taking an E major 7 chord.
So [E] _ [Ab] root, _ [Abm] third, [Eb] fifth, [G] major 7.
_ And every time we move up to a new, the next note of the E major 7 chord we're building
a triad of root, 7, and fifth.
So it's a little complicated but you'll get the hang [Fm] of it eventually.
And be very careful [G] and make sure that [D] you're following the freeting instructions underneath
the tab or else you can quickly tie your fingers in knots with this one.
Alright, let's play it slowly. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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