Chords for Rock Guitar Aeolian Scale Lesson

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_ _ _ _ _ Greetings my monkey [Ab] followers, it's Chappers back here for another [Eb] guitar adventure and
the art of learning _ stuff on the guitar.
_ _ Inspired [Cm] today by a guy called [F] Ben who came down from
up north _ [E] _
_ for a lesson on [Db] some modal theory stuff.
He was a nice guy and we [Abm] were looking
at some long scales and I kind of thought, you know what, it would be good for us to
teach _ _ a long scale that I hadn't taught [E]
him to some of you because you might like this.
[Abm] Think of it as a transport network of [F] wind _ through the other scales that you may and
should know.
_ And the scale we're going to do is this, it's a three octave, it's a variety
of three octave minor of which there [Abm] are many _ and [Fm] it looks like this. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] Now _ _ [B] this _ is, without
getting [F] into too much theory because theory is boar, wait for it, [Ab] ing.
You could [G] use this
scale to [Abm] play any mode and any key, any time you [G] fancy _
[Abm] and that's for another day.
Right
for now, _ we're going to say that the first note we're playing is the [Db] rooty tooty toot,
in this case C.
[Eb] _
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ So I'm saying E is my [Db] root, I'm starting on [G] the E.
So for the sake of
this video I'm going to say and state now that we're playing this _ as it's a minor scale,
like an [Db] Aeolian scale.
So for example we would be on the sixth degree of a major _ harmonised
scale of chords.
_ _ [F] Maybe an E, so for [Ebm] example.
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So [A] this is a really good scale, it's nice
and [Ab]
symmetrical, it covers a lot of ground and there are some interesting tricks you
can do with that in.
And _ anyway, that's enough of my yabbering, here is a close up clean
toned _ introduction of the scale.
So we'll [Eb] commence with our first fingers on the twelfth
fret [G] and we're just going to play this little pattern, [Abm] it goes one, _ _ _ [F] and then it goes second
finger, third finger.
So you get 12, 14, 15.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ This exact [Db] same pattern [Abm] reoccurs on the A
string. _
_ _ _ That's nice and easy, yeah? _
_ _ _ [Bm] We're then going to slide up a tone with the [Db] third
finger _ _ _ _ [Eb] and do exactly the same pattern again over the other [N] two octaves.
So we've got first
finger here on this, _ where are we, [Eb] 14.
_ _ _ _ _ And then again, [Abm] G string.
_ _ _ And slide a tone [Ab] again. _ _ _ _ _
[G] Bring your first finger down, don't forget there's the [Eb] changing in the tuning because
of the B to G string thing.
So we're going to be now, we're going to be now on the seventeenth
fret B string. _ _ _ _ _
Again on the E string, _ _ _ _ up a tone [Ab] with a slide, and then bend it to [Eb] reach
the next octave. _
_ _ _ So you get this. _ _
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I'm [Eb] sure that's going to peak on my camera mic but
I don't really care.
Awesome little scale, _ nice and symmetrical, it's begging [G] for some _ _
pattern type action [Abm] and I like to do a pattern of six.
And what I do sometimes is if I get
a tricky [F] part, I just [G] miss it out.
So what you [Eb] can do is you can go one, two, three,
four, five, six.
Do that again with the volume up.
[Ab] _ _ [Abm] _ Like that.
And then you get the slide
but just forget that part, go to the next shape.
_ _ Forget the shape, forget the slide,
jump to the next shape.
_ _ So you get these three sections of those two little shapes [F] which I like
to call reverse minor for a reason I'm keeping to myself.
So you get, _ _ like that. _ _ _ _ _ _
Good isn't it?
You can even go, and start there.
_ And start there. _
[Abm] Start here.
_ _ _ _ _ Like that.
And it would sound something
[Eb] like engage overdrive and delay.
This, _ in a monkey style.
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Which [Abm] is _ riftastic man. _ _
[B] Ooh, I accidentally
activated my [Gb] sustaining act there. _
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That's one of the most fun things ever to do in the universe
that I've found.
_ _ So enjoy that [F] scale. _
Feel free to place it in different keys,
modes, whatever you [Ab] will and have.
_ And enjoy three octave minor [Db] pattern scaling. _
_ _ [Abm] Take it easy.
Ciao, bisaud.
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