Hi everyone.
Another session of Vintage Club is coming soon.
And - hooray - it is a rerun of Vintage Club #18 (which suffered some catastrophic technical problems).
Join Richard and explore using triads as a simple step to playing target notes when improvising over a 12-bar blues. This session will be accessible to students from Grade 2 (you need to know pattern 1 of the A minor pentatonic scale) to more advanced players with some improvisation skills. Remember to check out the advance preparation materials. Donāt miss out, join us for some triad fun.
Note - it is currently listed as #19 but check the date and time - Monday 07 October at 7pm UTC +1.
The main focus of the session is using minor triads in a minor blues setting, to give focus and target chord tones when playing and improvising over a 12-bar blues in the key of A minor.
Advance preparation and knowledge summary. You should
be familiar with finding and playing Am, Dm and Em triads on the G, B & E strings between frets 5 and 9. For a deeper dive into triads see the archive resources for Vintage Clubs #9 and #12.
Hello everyone.
The day is fast approaching.
Are you ready for round 2 of Triads in the Blues?
The re-run.
Yup - we go again.
We have dusted down, shaken up and are all fired up for Monday 7th October.
Hi Richard @Richard_close2u . Iām looking forward to your class. Itās my first foray outside the BLIM.
When I checked out the PDF the last image was missing and the text seems to be formatted wrong around the other charts. Does it look correct on your end?
Thank you,
Greg.
Welp the formatting issue was cleared up when I downloaded the document from your post in the Club message board. The problem occurred when I used the link in the welcome email. All better now. A domani.
Hi Richard , I very much enjoyed tonightās triad lesson. Really good stuff.
The only tech issue I had was with latency on your guitar. When you played along to the backing track it was as if you were playing half a beat ahead of the bt. I donāt know why that should be the case, Iād have thought latency would have affected the whole thing and would not therefore be apparent. According to the chat, others did not have an issue so it must be something to do with my set up.
Anyway thanks for a great lesson and Iāll rewatch the recording as presumably everything will be synced up there.
Hi Wolfgang, there was a movie way back in 1993 by that name. Groundhog Day (film) - Wikipedia Because Richard had to do Vintage Club 18 a second-time (tech problems on the first go), it was like the movie, where the main character is a bit of a jerk so he re-lives the same day (Groundhog Day, a sort of US tradition in early February to determine how much longer winter will last). So every morning his alarm goes off and the radio blasts āI Got You Babeā. He has to relive the same day until he becomes a better person. It was pretty funny, at least to Americans!
Aaaggghh ā¦ Iām watching the recording of the session.
There is an inexplicable issue that places my guitar audio a little later than the backing track audio. This is bizarre. They were all sent to Youtube via the Streamyard studio from the exact same source. In my ears everything was in sync. And it is not an audio-video mis-match because my guitar audio does align with my guitar-visual. Mmmhh. More exploring and testing needed.
I may have to record some after-the live-event video of the various parts I was demonstrating and have them available in the Clubs Archive.
And ā¦ silly me ā¦ my inclusion of the audio from the film Groundhog Day (with the Sonny & Cher clip) has given the recording a copyright block, making it unavailable in some countries. I will have to mute those sections to get that lifted. Sorry.
There is one section of me playing a short demonstration improv. and targeting root notes where the offset delay makes some of my ever-so-carefully selected notes taste very sour when they were meant to be sweet and juicy.
Poop!
Hello Richard,
I just wanted to say thank you so much for the Blues Triads lessons yesterday evening. I really enjoyed it. It was ever so well structured and clearly explained and left us, well me certainly, with lots of great stuff to be working on. Iāve been working on triads recently and this came along at the perfect time for me. Targeting the notes in the triad, as you explained, was a real epiphany moment for me. I am a retired (very early retired!) teacher and during the pandemic we had to do online, video lessons. I hated them and I donāt think I was very good at them but you are a natural. Thanks so much. Iāll be back for more. P.S. Boo to the copyright miseries!
It was an audio-video sync issue.
The feed from streamyard to youtube somehow sent my guitar signal and the backing track signal through with a time displacement.
What I played on my guitar sounded, in the youtube view, about quarter to half a bar after the backing.
That has come through on the youtube upload.
Thanks for your kind comments.
I remember the move to online teaching when the pandemic hit.
I think we all floundered for quite some time trying our best to work with it.
All of my work has been online tuition for a few years now and I have amassed several thousands of hours of direct online teaching in that time. (Maths & Guitar)
So glad you repeated this lesson as the first attempt left me thinking this was potentially a great topic, and so it proved to be. Learnt soooo much. Thank you
Greetings from Groundhog