Intro to Scales, Part 1

from: Contemporary Flatpicking Guitar with Grant Gordy

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Former David Grisman Quintet guitarist Grant Gordy shows you his modern approach to flatpicking and how he combines a wide array of musical influences to create his unique style. With advice on theory and navigating the fingerboard and how to use that knowledge to create your own solos.

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In this lesson, Grant shows you how to come up with soloing ideas on “Long Journey Home” in a position up the neck from the fifth to the eighth frets using melodic and rhythmic variations and triad inversions.

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Intro to Scales

Intro to Scales, Part 1

Intro to Scales, Part 2

Intro to Scales, Part 1

Grant talks about his relationship to playing scales on the guitar and how they relate to chords. He takes a look at the C major scale and how it connects to the different inversions of the I, IV, and V triads in the key of C up and down the neck. In this video, Grant shows you how to connect the C scale to the C triad inversions.

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