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(ML013) Learn how to add fill licks to a 2 chord jam (A and F# Minor). I’ll show you the scales used so that you can improvise in this style. This lesson also comes with a bonus video explaining what a “Relative Minor” chord is.
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This is some more of just what I’m looking for Brian! I may try to add a few more chords and see if I can come up with another song!
I find it better also getting into the F# major by using the open high e string in the first riff. Gives you more time to set up of the F#maj.
Someone asked if this was your “day job”! How can it not be . This must be a night and day job. Where do you find the time to: create, film, record, write tablature, provide PDF, create slow versions, maintain excellent website, blog, etc?????? Well done . Thanks
Another fantastic bite size lesson, you truly are such a blessing to the guitar world, thanks again Brian.
Great lesson Brian on how to sound great using just two chords and improvising……well done, thank you
Enjoyed this lesson a great deal. I put it in a loop and created some new leads.
Great lesson Brian – love Active Melody and all the great lessons, Becoming a member was one of the best things I’ve done to forward my playing. Super impressed with the quality of the lessons, tabs and the sound slice tech you use. Keep them coming
As one of your more mature students! ( 72yrs ) my guitar playing has reached a standard I would never have thought possible. Since joining your site some years ago I
have learnt so much . From being a boring strummer I can now play “up and down the neck”with so many interesting “fill ins”which sound really good. Fingerpicking
style blues lessons have been especially interesting and , with practice, I have nailed a number of picking patterns.
Thanks for your great lessons and congrats. on your 200th one.
Look forward to them every week Cheers Trevor.
is that a cello in the background?
Nah – upright bass 🙂
Brian I love these micro lessons. Especially this one I am really starting to understand the guitar. Thank you my friend.
What is the 2nd position F#m you show at the end of the extended lesson? What open chord is that based on? It looks like a C or F but neither make sense to me.
Aaron, I was playing lots of chords at the end of the extended video. I don’t know what you’re referring to?
At 7:36
It’s an F#minor
5th fret 1st string
6th fret 3rd string
7th fret 2nd and 4th string
inspiring!
Great lesson for improvisation.Firstly I identified all the A majors and F# minor chords I knew on the fretboard which is a good takeoff point for finding riffs in different positions. and the notes that work with each chord. To create a break or chorus I used D6 triad or D with E6 and E because they work well with A major. So can I use chords that work with F# minor as well like B and C#? I guess I should see if these work in a progression with A and F#minor.
Am I right in saying that one note (G#) over the F#m chord in the 4th bar is not in the F# minor pentatonic scale
It is the 2nd of the F# minor scale
(or the 7th of the A Major scale)