Chords for Understanding The Fretboard - C6 LAP STEEL - Vol. #1

Hi, welcome to lessons with Troy.com. I'm Troy Briney Meyer.
Well in this week's lesson
we're back to the C6 lap steel tuned C E G A C E from your lowest to your highest string and
this lesson is going to be volume number one of my understanding the fretboard series for C6 lap steel and
Specifically in this lesson, we're going to be focusing on movable major scales arpeggios and patterns
So we're going to be focused
Specifically on the major scale for this one and we're going to learn it in position there
And we're also going to learn it stretched out to where we can play it, you know all over the fretboard
so we got a lot to learn three pages of tablature go and print it out and we'll jump on into
Understanding the fretboard volume number one for C6 lap steel _ _ _ _
Okay.
So before we get going into the tablature
I just want to say that throughout this whole lesson.
We're going to be working with the key of F
Now I specifically chose F just because it looks good in my camera angles You know
It's about in the middle of the in the fingerboard here as opposed to C
Which would be way up here and we'd be working a little bit too high F is a good key because it's about in
The center, you know of your fingerboard as far as about up to your twelfth fret that is, you know
You're not going real high with it
But you can take everything that I show you here and move it to whatever key you want
But we'll just focus all these movable scales and patterns and arpeggios in the key of F today
which is based off your fifth fret and
Like I said, you want to move it around just move it and move all the shapes with it as your bar moves to whatever
Fret goes with whatever key you want to be playing in.
Okay, let's go ahead and get going with a tab now
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, so starting to measure 21
This is an exercise that I've been using to learn my first second and third string major scales up and down the
fingerboard and it's called an arpeggio pattern because we're actually taking
This these chords here like that's a D minor chord right on your fifth fret first second and third string
But I'm instead of me playing like that.
I'm just individually just
_ _ plucking those
_ Those notes like that now what this does is this will ingrain in your mind a certain shape
Right when we go fifth fret
_ First second and third string.
It's just a [A] straight line.
But if you notice
_ Right, then we go back and play fifth fret first string.
But then [Bbm] when I go up to my sixth fret first string
_ [Em] seventh fret second string seventh fret [E] third string
You see how one of those notes got moved back so it's not all a straight line on your seventh fret it's
_ _ _ [Em] 677 _ [Eb] so my suggestion to you is use this as a way to start to see the patterns of
your fingerboard _
_ _ _ right to where you can [Em] _ you [Gm] can see that that's _ _ _
[Em] [Eb] 677 so one note is a little bit back from being a straight line
Other times maybe the first and third string will be back
right _ _ _ [F] _
like
As we move on we got eighth fret first string ninth fret second string eighth fret third string and see how that's
_ _ _ _ Two notes are back from your ninth fret or I think of that as more of a triangle shape eight nine eight
So let's go ahead and learn this starting at measure 21
_ [Dm] _ _ _ Okay, we've got fifth fret first string fifth fret second string fifth fret third string
And then we move up to fifth fret first string and I should probably play this just to get this in your mind
So let me play this
Starting measure 21 all the way through the octave there on my 13th fret first string
You _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Ebm] _ [Am] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
see how it forms a nice little little exercise _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ so as you're playing that you [C] start thinking of these shapes and
[Dm] You know the way that I'm doing it is I'm actually tipping my bar up just a little bit
_ _ And I'm as I come down each note _ _ _
I'm actually just using the tip of my bar moving it down _ if you didn't want to do that
_ And you want to do just keep a straight bar on there be a little bit harder, but you'd use pick palm blocking _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And as far as the right hand goes
_ You could try it several different ways
You know maybe do middle finger on your first string index finger on your second string thumb on your third _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ See I'm using palm blocking instead of tipping my bar up for that technique
So that's something that you could you could work on as well
I'd say just kind of you know work on it all if you if you want to really challenge your right hand using different techniques
So let's let's go over that one more time fifth fret first string fifth fret second [D] string fifth fret third string
Go [A] up to your fifth fret first string and move up to the next pattern which would be an E diminished
[Bb] arpeggio sixth fret first [Em] string
seventh fret second string seventh fret third string [Bb] back to sixth fret
_ See that [Gm] pattern six seven seven six _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Bb] _ and then move [G] to your eighth fret first string
ninth fret second [F] string eighth fret third string
Notice the pattern there _
Back [Am] to eighth fret first string and we [Gm] have a straight bar here on our tenth fret for a G minor chord _ _
_ _ _ Move it up to a twelfth fret for that a [Am] minor chord
And _ _ _ _ [Bbm] then I just ended on the [Eb] root note there.
It's very nice little [Dm] exercise
Now _ [E] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ notice the chords written above these and in parentheses
I have what the Roman numeral of that chord in relation [Dm] to the the key signature would be
So you start off with our sixth chord or D minor chord _ _ _ [Am] E diminished our diminished [E] seventh chord and _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ Then F our one chord
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] G minor [Gm] our two chord a _ _ _ _
Minor [Am] our three or three chord and [Eb] _
then I [Bb] just ended on that root note on 13th fret first string _
_ [Fm] _ _ Okay, let's go ahead and move on _
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