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George Lynch style solo improvising using the Blues scale, Dorian mode and Harmonic minor

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Uploaded by on Feb 19, 2011

When you are playing in a minor key, you can easily stay in one position and still make it sound cool. This just shows the relation between certain patterns and is not a theory lesson. In this lesson I use the Em blues scale, E dorian mode and the E harmonic minor scale to improvise solos all in the same position.

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  • Thanks. It's cool how you can hear the different notes that these guys use to create tension, yet with this you can stay in one position and work off of all 3 scales no problem. Just mix and match the patterns so to speak.

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  • @theshowmecanuck Sorry, it's not loud...the camera has a built in compressor that is slow to react to my voice. It's tough to get a decent mix without a mixer to seperate the channels.

  • @christianfett You play so loud that I have to turn the lesson down, then I can't hear you talk. How about easy does it on the amp? Appreciate you time to do this but...

  • @christianfett Thanks man! I started with the Pentatonic and the Blues scale just doing this exact exercise. I would record a 1-4-5 progression in either A , E, or G (any good rock key) and then I would start improvising over it to find where I could resolve and end certain licks. Sometimes it is easy to hear and other times you have to push your fingers to time your phrasing. A good song for jamming to is AC/DC's 'She's got the Jack". It works great if you don't have a backing track. Good Luck!

  • clever lesson. never thought of it that way

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