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Our lesson today is about gaining some go to and rehearsed sequences and ways of travelling around the fretboard between the different pentatonic patterns. There are some great ideas within on breaking out of the pentatonic box and developing some methods of linking the scale patterns as you are improvising. The benefit of rehearsing these sequences is that you can practise them and woodshed them to be able to deliver them at speeds which will really add some rhythmic fairy dust and exude the ‘wow’ factor.

Timings for the SoundCloud audio version

00:00:34	TrueFire introduction
00:02:16	First improvisation
00:06:29	Review of last episode
00:07:24	Introduction to today’s podcast
00:08:20	Getting away from box shapes and scale patterns
00:08:47	The 12th fret Em Pentatonic and spicing it up
00:11:24	Look at strings in 3 pairs – E and A, D and G, B and E
00:12:28	Mention of Tom Quayle
00:13:41	Limit your lick to two strings then repeat in three octaves
00:14:04	Example of this idea
00:15:43	Full Em scale with 3 notes on E string, then 4 notes on A x3
00:16:26	The Em scale over two strings, repeated
00:17:24	Em pentatonic same idea: [E, G, A / B, >D]
00:18:00	Repeat x4 on these strings: EA, AD, DG, BE
00:19:34	2nd Jam over the track
00:24:01	End of improv
00:24:32	The useful logic of the layout of notes on a piano (vs the guitar)
00:25:09	Use fret markers as guides
00:27:21	Minor pentatonic starting with the root note on the A string
00:30:02	Reminder of the pentatonic, blues, pedestrian and dorian mode
00:31:01	How to travel from position 4 to position 1?
00:31:20	Going through position 5
00:31:41	Linking patterns together
00:31:58	Hammer on two strings and return to the second notes in 5s
00:32:46	Carry the sequences up on the two middle strings
00:34:01	Another suggestion is to use the 3 notes sequence to transfer up through the positions
00:35:39	Slow breakdown of a 3 note sequence moving up the fretboard
00:36:41	You can also connect using the four note pattern sequence
00:37:52	Going down in fours on the top E and B string until you get to position four
00:38:53	You can do this same sequence but in reverse, ascending the fretboard
00:39:42	Why some people might be a bit scared of improvising and the reality of the ‘trick bag’
00:40:55	Aim to have a few things to draw on in whichever key or mode you might need
00:41:19	Phrygian solo ideas
00:42:02	Dan identifying the plateau which may come from getting stuck in the Blues pattern
00:42:20	Extend the time spent going from A to B by sequencing
00:42:43	Sequence across patterns to extend the duration
00:43:22	Be melodic but be able to extend your phrases by using sequences
00:44:30	To develop your own sound develop flairs, styles and ways of negotiating the fretboard
00:44:51	You want to be able to do this with ease and not be worrying when the moment approaches
00:45:49	The wow factor: Joe Bonamassa and developing playing full of sequences and symmetry
00:46:19	How to make things symmetrical: choose notes like the 6th and 9th to help make things more easy to play under the fingers
00:48:17	Get the book by Guthrie Govan: Creative Guitar
00:49:04	Summary: 1) duplicate patterns on pairs of strings and 2) learn sequences to connect patterns
00:50:35	Isolate the sequence to use between melodic playing or different positions

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Gary and Dan