Blues Lead Guitar: The Dorian Approach (2/2) How to play #18of20 (Guitar Lesson BL-028) How to play

In this guitar lesson you will learn more about the Dorian Approach. This is part 2 of Lesson 18 in the series.

Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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[Avinashl]

justin i think ur going to be responsible 4 a whole generation of quality players that have learned how to play from ur free lessons. thanks.

[dsgx05]

so if any of us make it big we know who to mention

[Frentakis]

@DrShpilev

"Now we keep adding and adding notes ..."

No! Exactly TWO notes are added compared to the pentatonic: The six and the nine. Of course you'll find those two several times on your fretboard. And Justin shows us how to use them in the context of the wll known 5 positions of the pentatonic scale. I find it extremly usefull.

[GazzaLanzarote]

It seems to me like there are a few scale stages here, pentatonic ( knowing the difference between major & minor ), blues, dorian style blues and then following the chords. It's being comfortable with all of the above so you can swap and choose which notes you use over the backing chord. The holy grail it seems is being able to 'hear' the note and then being able to play it, thinking musically rather than in scales, chords or licks. Confused.com, lol:) I hope that helps...

[hostilidadpura]

very good help!!! thanks :D

[DrShpilev]

@DrShpilev

But I guess the difference is that these extra notes are like salt on your dinner. You add them into your play sometimes just to flavor it up, but you donät use them as much as the notes from the original pentatonic scale.

Am I correct on this?

[DrShpilev]

It's getting rather confusing now. It seems like we keep on adding new notes to the scale that we can use - where before I though those where invalid notes.

I thought a scale is the notes that sound good with its defined key. Now we keep adding and adding notes until there are more notes we can use than there are "wrong" ones, lol.

Almost seems like it would be more efficient to just say what notes I CAN'T use instead the ones I can.

[rixills]

@AllanHP

depends on the chord your sitting on, the next chord, and what your trying to convey emotionaly.

[AllanHP]

You almost ALWAYS rest on the root note, is there another always good note to let ring? in my experience, the 5th is a good one, but i'm not experienced enough, i mean, i have jammed a lot, but i guess there are a lot more blues progressions than i'm used to!

[marcusmarkmus]

oh, somebody already answered! =S sorry, i didnt see, it was lower down the page, i just checked the top!

[marcusmarkmus]

I'll do my best:

scale is a series of notes that sounds good in a certain key.

A mode is the same as a scale, but the root note is different. example: you can play G major(like justin) but if you think of it as A, its a mode of the A-scale, even though it has the same notes as a Gmajor scale!=P

an arpeggio is the notes that is in a chord, but it means not strumming them at once, but plucking them one by one =)

[theRockGuitarGuy]

I love these lessons, Justin. Thanks so much for posting all of these!