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Diatonic Transitions, Week One


This lesson is part of the course Weekly Guitar Workout with Scott Nygaard.
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This series of exercises will help guitarists learn the fingerboard and expand their knowledge of chord and scale theory, with handy tips on picking and fretting techniques that will improve their sound. Includes 100 workouts.
 
 
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FOUR-NOTE ARPEGGIOS 
 
This series of workouts consists of four-note arpeggios based on the harmonized major scale. You'll move through a series of arpeggios starting on each note of the major scale, in this case all in the key of G. So, for example, the first arpeggio starts on G, moves up a third to B, up another third to D, and up another third to F#, creating a Gmaj7 arpeggio in the process. The second arpeggio starts on A, moves up a third to C, up another third to E, and up another third to G, for an Am7 arpeggio. Notice that all the notes are in the key of G, so you'll get the four-note arpeggios that correspond to the harmonized major scale: Gmaj7, Am7, Bm7, Cmaj7, D7, Em7, and F#m7b5. Once you get to the top string, you'll move downward in thirds once again, but this time the arpeggios start on the seventh of the chord formed by the arpeggio. So, for example, the arpeggio starting on G moves down a third to E, down another third to C, and down another third to A, giving you an Am7 arpeggio that begins on the seventh (G) and moves downward to the root (A).
 
 
 
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DIATONIC CHORD TRANSITIONS   
 
DIATONIC CHORD TRANSITIONS   
 
Diatonic Transitions, Week One
Diatonic Transitions, Week One
 
In most of these workouts, we’ve concentrated on working on one tonality at a time: pentatonic, diminished, harmonic minor scales, various kinds of arpeggios, etc. But as you know, most songs have more than one chord and often more than one tonality, and it’s important to know how to get from one chord or tonality to another. In this next series of workouts you’ll be working on transitional phrases that move from chord to chord, starting with major chord transitions. The idea is to be able to find chord tones in the next chord you’re moving to, no matter where you are on the neck. Scott starts by showing you three “cells” for major chords: four-note phrases that begin and end on different chord tones, three of which move upward and three of which move downward (Example 1). Weeks One and Two cover I–IV progressions, which can also be thought of as V–I. Each example combines the cells in different ways. Scott explains his methodology and then plays through Examples 2–5, all of which begin with an upward cell.

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