May be time to look at the Practical Music Theory Course. The first 2 grades are free and will explain most of your questions.
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Well, this is a Grade 4 lesson. It is assumed that you have studied the lessons in Grades 1-3 already. The answers to your questions are there, and in the free parts of the Practical Music Theory course.
Good Luck with your journey.
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Hey, thanks for your feedback. I’m surprised that i heard from no-one else that they had trouble with this lesson. So the problem, obviously, is me! Yes, i did the two free Music Theory modules about a year ago. Maybe time to review.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve done grades 1 to 3 (very slowly) and the free Music Theory modules. Maybe time for some review. Keep strummin’!
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Have you down loaded the PDF files and read the text under the leason. Some times seeing the chords written out and having the scale pattern to look at makes it easier to grasp.
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Oh yes, i have the scale patterns printed and refer to them as necessary in practise and have read the lesson, completely, more times than i prefer to remember.
As an example of my head-scratching: i can work out that the 2nd degree of Cmaj scale comprises notes D, F and A. But how does one look at those notes and recognise that they form a Dm chord? I just dont see it.
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It depends on the intervals. D to F is a minor third; F to A is a major third. A major third on top of a minor third, regardless of the root note, results in a minor triad. Since the root note here is D, the reference is the D major scale in which F is the bIII degree.
(Minor third on top of major third = major triad; minor third on top of another minor third = diminished triad; major third on top of another major third = augmented triad)
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To add to what Jozsef has said if you look at the D major scale and find these notes you will see the note F isn’t there but the note F# is the 3rd of the scale. If you flatten the 3rd to F as in the C major scale this makes the note D F A a minor chord.
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Justin notes in this lesson:
Does that mean that the BT provided can be played for practice with both G and C major scales? What chords are being played in the BT because I can’t tell?
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@Stuartw
There are two tracks, one for each of the G and C keys.
G is in this lesson …
C is in Grade 2 Module 10 …
Thanks. I had forgotten about the C Major download in that lesson!
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14 posts were split to a new topic: Re: scale practice … Why when you get to 120bpm cut back to 60 and do two notes. Isn’t that the same as 120bpm?
7 posts were split to a new topic: Optional exercise when improvising in G with a backing track
So alo0ng with this lesson I have been learning the patterns for G and C scales up the neck. I was just wondering if there was a way to easily remember the patterns? A trick or formula or it is it all wrote memory??
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@Muffknuckle
More important than learning multiple patterns is learning to play, understand, hear and make something musical with pattern 1.
Justin has a great lesson covering this.
Are you experienced at playing melodies and even improvising with pattern 1?
Thanks Richard. I am playing along with the backing tracks for that lesson. Doing Ok. A little rough in places at times. My leads always come out sounding a bit blues :_( . I just wanted to expand the scales to the next pattern for what reason I dont know.
Thanks forthe help and reply.
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