Chords for Nita Strauss Guitar Lesson - Improvisation in A Major

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Hi everyone, I'm Nita Strauss, and today what we're going to cover is a sort of very basic
beginning approach to improvisation.
We're going to do it in the [A] key of A major, classic.
So here we go.
So let's take a [F#] look at the first eight notes in the A major scale.
There are two
basic ways to play this.
Here's the first one.
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I think [B] that's the one that most people learn
first.
I know I did.
And it's kind of a basic one.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ The other way is the three note per string
approach, [B] which I personally think is a lot more effective.
I know it's definitely utilized a lot
more in more of a shred setting.
So here's that one.
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_ _ _ _ [G] I [F#] think it's definitely important to know
both and be familiar [C#] with both so you have all the weapons at your disposal that you can.
So
once you've gotten comfortable with playing the major scale, the next thing you [F#] want to do is
either go online and download a backing track.
There's tons of them available to get for free, or
find a favorite song if you want one that you know the key of, and start playing that major scale over
that song or over that backing track.
And what that's going to do is it's going to kind of put
the notes in context for you.
So anybody [Am] can sit at home and _ [N] just_
for days and days and days.
And
that's important to you too.
You've got to do both.
But it's important to hear the notes in context in
order to start [D#] improvising and seeing a bigger picture.
So even [A] if it's something as simple as
this.
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[F#] _ Even if it's something simple just like that, one note over and over again, it's still going to help
you put it in context.
So give that a try.
Once you've got that down, then the really fun part
can start.
And the really fun [D#] part is changing up the order that you play the notes in basically.
[F#] I'll give you a couple examples to get [D] started.
Here's one that I use all the time.
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] You can
experiment with the picking pattern too.
You can pick each note, _ _ _ [A] _
do some [D] legato.
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Have fun [A] with it.
There's a ton of stuff you can do.
Here's another example and this one is using three notes per string.
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_ _ [D] _ _ [F#] So there you go.
Use those as a
jumping-off point.
Have a great time with it and I will see you next time right here on allaccess.com.
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