Jake Lizzio
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Post your questions for Monday's Live Lesson!
🕑 Added 2020-04-04 16:28:01 +0000 UTCThis coming Monday (April 6th) I'll be doing a livestream at 5PM CST on YouTube. Please ask your questions here in advance, then I can go through them one at a time live. It should be a fun hangout style lesson. I'll try to prepare some charts + resources in advance if need be, but it will be a more casual style lesson video than the course I posted last week.
Here's an update for my videos-
My Mixolydian video: I went way too far with this one and decided to produce an entire radio-ready single instead of a few riffs. This meant getting other musicians involved, and COVID has made that difficult. Regardless, the demo is done, and now it's just a matter of finalizing the track (one more vocal session, one drum session, mixing, mastering). I'll be hiring a video editor to help me with this one - since it's a single, it'll need a music video, which I will upload separately (but will also be shown in the lesson video). Editing that on top of all the other work is going to be a pain so I'm exporting that out to someone.
This is a lot for a video on Mixolydian, but I honestly think it'll be worth it- this track is one of the most hilariously fun and enjoyable songs I've ever written and I think it'll be very informative to see how it was all constructed!
My next video: Ever wonder about the viiº chord? So do I, and I've made a lengthy exploration of it. It will post on Tuesday the 7th. Filming is done, and a lot of the resources are made for it, but a lot of the editing still needs to be done. For those of you who have been missing my silly intros, you should be pleasantly surprised!
This week: On top of doing a Q+A just for you here, I'm probably going to post a thread somewhere on reddit (maybe /guitarlessons) doing the same thing on Wednesday, where they can post questions and I'll answer them in a live video. I will probably also do the same thing on the YT Community tab, gather questions and schedule a stream for maybe Friday. I'll let you all know as these things develop.
Hope to see you Monday and please post your questions below!
Comments
Arnoud Hoorn
Hi Jake, glad you replied anyway :). What do you mean exactly by focusing on major + minor arpeggios? As in understanding which notes of that chord are being played on which position, or more as in improvising over jam tracks using arpeggiated version of the chords that you're soloing over?
Jake Lizzio
Wolverine gave you some good advice, and I think learning bass is an excellent idea. As a fingerstyle player, the bass concepts can translate DIRECTLY over to the acoustic guitar. It's really fun to arrange a simple melody + bass line on the guitar, then try to fill in chords around it, you're guaranteed to get something pleasant. And yes, knowing your chord tones is essential, and developing bass skills is a great way to become more familiar with where they are on the fretboard. However you could also focus on major + minor arpeggios, connecting them on your guitar, and then eventually learning how to turn them into 7th varieties (maj7, min7, dominant 7, etc).
Arnoud Hoorn
Thanks! I'm glad somebody responded haha. I'm from Holland, so the time zone made me go to sleep before the end of the stream. So I realized this morning that he hadn't refreshed the page to see my question. And yea, I'm also thinking I should get more into the pentatonic, but I feel like the pentatonic is so much more satisfying to get into, that I will totally ditch my diatonic practices. So I'm gonna wait with it a little more haha.
@Arnoud Hoorn, your reasoning makes logical sense to me. when I fiddle on bass I usually just try and land the "root" note of the chord timed with the change. Playing guitar I also have desire to target notes of a chord, but for me it requires planning out the piece. However when improvising I seldom leave my comfort zone, that being pentatonic box of the song key, regardless of the chord change.
Arnoud Hoorn
Hi there, love your work and glad you'll read this. So I'm mostly a chord strumming guitarist with some fingerstyle skils. However I'm noticing that when I'm improvising, I'm finding it difficult to connect my improvising to the chords being played. Mostly because I rely on the patterns I learned instead of knowing which notes I'm playing. Soooo, I've been thinking of learning bass. Also because I'm interested in producing full songs by myself, but mostly because I think it will help me keep track of which notes I'm playing when improvising. With bass you play the "important" notes of the chords, so I think it will be a great way to get a stable basis for when I'm improvising but an octave or so higher. Anyways, I'm still pretty new to all this theory and I would love to know your view on this.
