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Technique Challenge: Day 7 (Patreon)

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2025-01-08 08:18:54
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Today we're going to be playing a simple major scale sequence. This is is a really effective - and musical sounding - picking exercise. For an added challenge try it with other intervals or scale types.

Well done for making it to the end of the first week. See you here tomorrow for week 2!

-Adrian

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The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Day 7

Today, an essential picking exercise - the major scale sequenced in 3rds. Backing track can be found on Patreon (pay what you like): https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar My NEW intermediate-level soloing course: https://courses.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk My latest album: https://zodiactoys.bandcamp.com/releases Please subscribe here for many more YouTube lessons: https://www.youtube.com/c/anyonecanplayguitarcouk Check out my website: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk Social blah: Instagram (occasionally I post here): https://www.instagram.com/acpgtr/

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NB

Thanks Adrian - looking forward to getting this one perfected!

Trevor Helps

Great to find a familiar exercise (gives me more time to practice the others!). Really enjoying this...

Iain G

What's the difference between scale patterns and positions? Adrian calls this position #7, but I've always know it as pattern #1

anyonecanplayguitar

Good question. Position refers to a specific, usually 4 fret, area of the fretboard. The 7th position is where my 1st finger is at the 7th fret. 3rd position you'd have your first finger at the 3rd fret etc. Specific scale patterns can be numbered so usually the CAGED E pattern is pattern 1 etc. So in this exercise I'm playing a pattern 1 major scale in the 7th position. Hope that makes sense.

anyonecanplayguitar

haha yes. There are few old favourite exercises in here as well as some more unusual ones.

Iain G

Thanks Adrian. So, what would the position be if the C Major pattern #1 was starting an octave up, first finger on 19th fret be?

hugh hales-tooke

This is my favorite of your technique lessons. I love this exercise. Perhaps it is because it is the only one that I can do completely intuitively. I wonder why that is. Even the most used scales - minor pentatonic - don't come as easy. Arpeggios and triads seem to make more sense to my brain. I really appreciate your focus on therm in your technique lessons.

Randy A Ratliff

Best breakdown/explanation I've heard on this

Iain G

I'm afraid I am still confused. For example, apart from my question above on the octave above, where else could you begin a C Major scale pattern #1 than on the 7th fret (or 8th for the C root)? I'm obviously missing something here!

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, it is a little confusing. Position is just a way of describing where you are horizontally on the neck, where the first finger is. I think it originated with classical guitar notation or even earlier with lutes etc. The scale pattern/numbers are a related but separate thing. True with C major pattern one you can only play it at the 7th or 19th fret. But you could equally play D major pattern 5 or G major pattern 3 in the 7th position. I'll often just say we're in x position to describe whereabouts you're going to be on the fretboard, then I'll get specific with scale patterns, chord shapes. Hope that helps.

Andrew Hibben

This series is great! Way more affordable than your sold out Tuscany adventure, and if I can't master all these lessons , I wouldn't belong there anyway...thanks Adrain.

Peter Healy

Hi Adrian, Day 7 and a more familiar exercise. During the Day 1 exercise I found my picking doing what you described, missing the alternate pattern, usually doing two up strokes, without realising I've done it. This will really help it become a more natural/relaxed part of my picking, Cheers Pete