 Guitar and Excel see major a minor scale fret number seven focusing on the G note Get ready some coffee and relax because getting ready to play guitar Should not be like getting ready to get tarred as in tarred and feathered You know because playing guitar should be fun Whereas to get tarred as in tarred and feathered seems Intentionally designed to be unpleasant Although it does seem like many people actually pay to get tarred these days You know in modern spas claiming it's good for their skin I still think it's some form of self-flagellation Myself, but whatever it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because like a master martial artist Who's had a sharp spear thrust in anger in their direction? It's totally beside the point Because we're doing the fun one here Here we are in Excel if you don't have access to this workbook that's okay You could just follow along but if you do have access it's a great tool to run scenarios with quick recap of the project Thus far noting that you don't have to have watched all prior Presentations to follow along with this presentation, but a general overview of the overall project can be useful Let's go back to the first tab to get that overview We started out thinking about the C major scale. You can also think of related modes First mapping it out in open position, which we are defining as frets Zero through three noting that this E represents the low or heavy string the one closest to the ceiling The funnest way to learn notes in open position is to actually map out the chord Constructions from the scale that we are in in this case C major the first Chord then being the C major chord, which we mapped out in open position Discussed in detail we then went to the F because the F also has a major chord construction the four chord We then went to the five chord then back to the minor chord constructions with the D minor the two chord the three chord The six chord and then to that diminished in the seventh after having done that We have basically mapped out all the notes of the C major scale and related modes in this open position frets zero through three which basically looks like this shape here and Then we wanted to jump to the middle of the guitar and start learning from the middle of the guitar This time not starting by using chord constructions But rather using scale shapes pentatonic and then the major scale shapes So we learned that middle part of the guitar Here and saw how we can connect it to what we learned basically in open position and focus then on The notes in the C major scale and related modes the C the F the G the third and the sixth and then we wanted to move then to the Next position and that's going to be starting on fret number seven So that's where we're at at this point in time We've discussed this position in general and now we're focusing on notes within it this time We're going to be looking at this position starting on fret number seven and focusing in on the G Which is basically the fifth of our C Major scale, so that's going to be our general idea this time. Let's get a quick recap of all the colors here I know this color scheme can be overwhelming what we did is basically we laid down The baseline color which are all the colored ones are going to be some form of Note that's in the C major scale the one through the seventh here So all those are basically legal notes that we can play we laid on top of that these green notes Which are basically the pentatonic? Scale so they're five out of the seven notes But that pentatonic scale is majorly related to either the major scale Or it's related minor scale when we get into the other modes, which kind of is what we're doing here Then it's not as it's a gets a little bit more complicated but that's what those green notes are and then we have the notes of the point of focus which is going to be the G and If we build a chord from that G the one three five intervals of the chord from G are green that's going to be our most important note is the light green and Then the red is going to be our second most important note And then the yellow the fifth is going to be our third most important note so the general idea is we're going to be focusing around those important notes and Then all other notes are basically legal and we've excluded all the white all the white guys All the white guys are out. We can't play them because they're toxic Those ones are the toxic ones and you step in lava if you touch on if you touch those ones So then we're really focused on this yellow box So this box is representing the frets that we're going to be in and then this red box represents the last position that we took a look at now you can name these positions I would call this first one position number one this shape in red I would call it position number one some people will call it a G shape because if I look at the C That we're in the C's major scale you can build you can see how we could build, you know the C shape From from it if we're going to map out a C chord. It's actually a G shape So you can call this a G shaped C major chord which is then constructed around this whole scale We'll talk about that later though when we get into the caged system. I would call this yellow one then position number two or you might call it an E shape position if you want to use that terminology, which we'll talk more about when we get into The caged shape you can see there's overlap between these two positions So if I looked at this first position on the guitar starting on the fifth fret top string You can see these three notes and then here there's an overlap Between these two notes and then up to here So that overlap gives us kind of the flow as we're going from one one shape To the other can help us to to give to bridge that gap between the two of them So that's going to be at the general idea now in the shit So I'm going to pull this one I'm actually going to remove the overlap for now just so we can focus just more on this yellow shape And that's going to be our point of focus so we can see it more clearly now We're going to be focusing in on the yellow represents the notes that are basically in the shape that we're looking at the ones the Threes and the five the major shape There's a couple other ones here here and here, but this is probably the main structure that you would be looking at In in this shape the first one that would kind of come to mind So that's what this is and you can see it's actually got like a C shape Right this looks like the C shape if you had a C in open position So if I put my finger here That would be like a C shape on the guitar this way if I bring that to open position It's a C here so we can call that like a C shaped G major Chord so it's a little bit confusing the terminology will get into the cage system later But that's what the yellow is the red over here represents the the the notes that we can make our our 135 in the other shapes so you can see behind this C shape if I played this one this or this one and then these three you've got like a D shape Kind of construction, which most people see like this. It's still a G cord We're talking about but a D shape and then here from this down to here You've got basically an an E type of shape and then of course you've got your G shape Going back here, so we'll talk about those more Later, but right now we're focusing in on this shape Now the couple ways that we can learn to do this is we can say how can I practice with this? G shape well, we're in the C major Chord again the C major scale I mean and we could play as though we're C is the root and Then just put in a G from time to time to practice hitting that G And so if I practice that just to show you what I mean in open position because it's easier to see there We could say okay if I was playing See I could start with the C Put in something else like an F and then go to my G practice going to my G Which is my point of focus and then back to the C so I can practice playing in the key of C While picking up that G, but if I want to really practice on this G in particular I might try to make it the Tonic the thing that I'm going to be going back to all of the time and the easiest way to do that is to Basically start and stop with the tonic So I'll start that in open position and we'll move that same concept then up to when we have the G up here So we start with a G then to a C And a I'm just playing chords that are that we've seen in this position an E minor, that's an A minor and an E minor And then back to a G now if we do that we're basically playing around the G That means we're basically playing in mixolydian. We'll talk about modes more later more formally But all you're doing all you would do is we're just basically taking that fifth and making it the first and then everything else is the same If we were to convert to the mixolydian But for now, I just want to think I want to think about everything being the same so I can still play in the same areas and Then and just note that I'm going to be playing around the five And making that the tonic that's how I'm going to basically think about it And then again later on we'll get more formally into changing it to a mixolydian Which I think if you learn to play around the five It'll be a lot a lot easier than to think of it as the first and then we can start thinking about the different intervals Which do actually get somewhat, you know complex So that's going to be the general idea now notice I think it's easier to make the G sound like it's the tonic even though it's the fifth Then it was with like the fourth for some reason So the fourth sometimes you have you if you try to play around the fourth sometimes it's hard to get that resolution if you play I think it's easier to make it feel resolved But remember the trick to always try to resolve our one trick is you could say if I'm having trouble making that Feel like the tonic like I'm getting back home It feels like it's resolving is to take the fifth and resolve at home now the fifth is a D here So if I took that the fifth is a D now the D here in our scale is a minor like this And that's not really what we want for the resolution. We want a major D Which resolves back in to the G pretty well So so that's going to be the little trick that you can throw in when you're playing You were you're making the G. We're playing around the fifth. We're basically playing in mixolydian I can kind of switch from that. I can break the rules We're going to step in the lava of one of those white notes But it's going to actually a little bit of flavor as long as as long as it doesn't mess up Not too many of them in there, right then we can So we're going to say so if you're nice, so if you're in a G You're gonna say you can go to a C an A and there's the D minor and then I can switch that to a D major And that might give you a little bit more of a resolution And then and then you can even go a step further than that because we saw that you might take the the Seventh of a D major which would be the the the the It's the dominant seven which is actually going to be the C so that might even give you a little bit more resolution Versus a normal versus like a C versus a minor So that's one little thing so I'm not going to get into the to adding the the the the Dominate seven, but I'm just gonna but I might throw in that C Major to go back to the to the G so you can do that up here in our position We have this basically the C shape Which looks like that. Well, where's the D? Well, we know that there's a D here. There's a D here So that's going to be our basically our G shape D So I can play like this It's a D major or I can play like these three down here Or this just basically Like that or I can pick up That bit down here and then resolve it into my G Like that That's kind of a cheating G or like that That we can play so that's how we can apply that out Okay, so so that means we're we're going to be playing around the G So when I move up to this space then Then our strategies to do that would be that one I can play everything In this position. Remember, I should be able to play all my chords. I have the capacity to play all my chords in This position and so we could go from like a C in this position Or starting with a G and then go to a C and then go to an F and then play everything within this position and like chords or We can practice moving from the prior position, you know into this position Or we can practice going from the open position over here And then finding a line that we can go from here into this position. So those are like some of the strategies That you can, you know practice and get to know the G within this position With that's the general idea Okay, so now first what I'd like to do is just think about Going through this scale in this position. So remember this scale starts basically right here But you don't really want to play the scale shape Like, you know, like just like that because it's going to sound like you're in you're in a B Right starting at the seven as you're major like a Locrian or something and we want to make this the tonic So I'm going to count through it as though I'm starting on the fifth. I'm not going to make it the first That's what we would do if we put it in the mode But I'm going to try to count through it From the fifth and then go back to the fifth, right? So I'm starting here There's my fifth. That's going to be my point of focus Right there And then let's see if we can count through this going five Five six seven eight or one two three four Five So now we're ending Copy Paced Down here boom. So we just went One and then I'm just staying in the shape and then I'm going to hear two three four I'm sorry. I'm started at five five six seven eight or one two three four Five right and we can keep on going up there from there and go five six seven eight or one two and then I'm going to go back two one or eight seven six five And then right so that's going to be the general the general idea Now as we do that we might want to then hit the chord shape that we're focused in on every time we get to the fifth So the major chord shapes that we can see here Is this is basically a c shape that we're working on which I can see like this the easiest way to see the c shape Is actually with with this this and this Because that's how we see that's how we play the c shape in open position That's a c shape g Major chord. So if I played it back here c shape Up here boom now the problem with that shape is you don't you get the first you get the third But then you get another first We're not picking up the fifth not a big not a big deal because the fifth is really not the one that gives it It's flavor as a as a major. It's the third So you can still play it that way and you have to mute this string which isn't really difficult to do So totally fine to play but it doesn't pull in that last Fifth so to pull in that fifth. There's actually a couple variants that that we could do that One is to say well, I'm going to start here with my pinky Which is a little bit more more uncomfortable and then there's the third and then the fifth is back here So this goes boom boom and then there's the fifth and then you've got this extra finger Which you could just put down and pick up another g which isn't required but You might as well if it's there and that's one way you can play it another common way that people play it is just to Forget this pinky right if you don't lay down the pinky You still have what you need or or if you or sometimes you don't just don't have time to put it down Then you could put it down afterwards because if you just play this This and this it's it's the same three notes, but inverted so you still have everything you need for a g major It's just inverted gives you a different sound And then you also have then uh down here Down here, this is like a lot of people think of this as a d shape and it is a d shape if you're leaning back to this note But if you're leaning forward, it's part of the c-shape. You can see it right here So it's it's so it's right there. So again, we'll get in the cage system or in detail later but That so so you can play that little triangle that fits like a A d so we have that and then you can pivot around this this note to get to that or if you go from this shape you can you can Pick this finger up and put it here instead which lays into this shape And then you put this pinky this pinky down to get that full That full shape going that way and then up top We've got this bit which are these three which again inverted so from here So you've got those three that you can play up top. So those are kind of your home base your major home base ones that you can play So the next thing we might want to do is then try to see what we can play kind of around Our g and just try to feel around what is available to me and the g now if I pick this g It's natural for me to put my pointer on it and reach upwards But that's not the direction I'm going. I want I want to lean backwards on it Right, so we could just the most comfortable position here. We might just start off with Basically our our position here And then we can arpeggiate that Basically and then see what kind of notes we can kind of pick around off of that space So for example, I have these notes behind here that I can be picking these up Now sometimes it gets a little bit tricky to use your pinky right there and you might alternate from your pinky To basically your ring when you're picking those notes up And you might be alternating from this full position to like a g shape that looks like this Which is going to be a little bit more comfortable. So you might start off with like a ring finger there for example And then play this c shape, which is kind of the shortened shape That's a little bit easier to finger and then mute this string and then we can reach back I got that a Which is right here. So I could pick up that a underneath as well To do like this So if I'm here, I'm going So now I'm going So we can pick those up We know that of course we have this third right underneath. So sometimes just playing this shape Could be useful So if I just play those two, then I know that I'm reaching up to the root Which is the g right there. So I can see that I can play those two I can Play those two together with a double stop, which is the g and the and the c and then I've got basically this whole All of these notes down here are fair game. So I can bar Anything on this side that I want. So I want to make that the I want to make sure I hit the g and then I can kind of noodle Back to the g to make it the home And I can always go back to that which is basically the the major Root and then I have these two below here Got this little box shape That's going to give me some tension. That's the b and the f Kind of resolves back to here So I can kind of play around Within within that little shape and then if I was to see this g shape down below Then we could say, okay, what can we do with this? I see my shape right here So that's kind of like my ending point and I see I have this nice little box On these ones. So we could say this whole thing Fits into a nice easy Box so I can see that I can always end it right there This bottom part of the box like I have once again the the one and the three So I have that little shape Of course, once I'm on this shape that leads me into reaching back up again That's my pivot point to reach me back up to here to my full d So when I'm going from this d I can use this finger as my pivot to to then reach up to that Or I can basically see that note and switch my fingers To pivot here And reach up that way So those are the ways our general they see it now now then if you're practicing within this shape Then you might try to practice playing all the notes that we've learned thus far within here So we could you know play a g like this Which is a hard one to kind of switch to sometimes so sometimes those easy The easy c shape is easier to play. We saw that we had a c which is basically this is a This is an an e shaped c major That we've built in prior presentations And then we also have the f which is this is an a shaped f major So we've got the the one the four and the five, but we're focusing on the five being The center point so I can say all right. Well, if I'm I could start with the five, which is the g And then we can switch to a c And play that And then to an f which is that a shape And then back to the g Which I'm playing with the shortcut kind of c shape, which is the easy way to play it or Down here and we can switch between those two. I can start here I can play the c which looks like this Kind of like the f that a lot of people play the f. It's still the same shape here And then and then we can go to the a shaped I'm sorry. That was a c and then the a shaped f And then back to the g It's kind of easy to use this this g right here And then switch to because I'm pivoting on this finger the c Which is an e shaped c major and then the a Which is I'm just going to borrow those I'm going to pick up the full thing like that And then back to this shape making it home If you wanted to throw in the d The d major to kind of lead back again because that's the fifth. It's right here And then you can pick up that this note over here, but you don't really have to I'll just pick up the one the three So I can go from Do an e shaped c Do an a shaped f And then just pick up the two notes of the d major Noting that this note is outside of my this is a white note. We're picking up, but that's going to lead into That leads into my Right there, so that's one way we can play it We can play the chords that we've learned in position We can do some picking in between those chords In position As well the other way we can learn it. Maybe maybe we're not as comfortable learning Each of the chord shapes so we might play it in like open position here And then jump up see where I'm going to jump which is going to be to this shape I'm going to think okay. I'm going to play down here my good old g and then see if I can just jump up to That g right here and then noodle around something within it something like that Now you might throw in something other than just the g and then I can go from a g To a c And I could play the c and noodle around up here within the c too, but I'll just kind of noodle around at home I'll go G And then I'm going to jump up and do basically the same kind of thing And then to the c back to the g To the g C And then switch into the d major to resolve Back to the g now. It's also knows that this g right here This is also a g we haven't talked we've talked a little bit about in the past, but it's a pretty comfortable shape Because it's once again that e shaped g So that's another one that easily you can you can move into Pretty pretty nicely when you're when you're going back up and back basically The neck so that's one way we can do it. We can also say, okay Well, what if I play this position which we talked about last time? starting on the fifth which most people see Play an a minor But we don't want to play it in a minor we want to be playing it in the key of g So the key of g in this position you can see is this you have basically this d shape Here right there if I lean it back Then we're picking up that g right there So I have this shape now. I could pick it up and try to do this But that's way too hard for me. My fingers can't do that. I have Not the longest of fingers. So I'm just going to play this boom boom these three And that's kind of like our major shape leaning leaning Back this way you can also have a shape you can see here These two and this one so you could play like this Up top Right and so those are going to be your major shapes. And then when you move back to this shape You've got a nice g right there, which is nice and ready. You can also play it shorthand just basically these three notes So which is nice and easy, but I think it's So that's going to be So that's going to be the idea. So then the question is well if I start on Something like this I'm playing this boom boom Then I can play that and of course walk down to this shape and I can play something like in between So I'm just going to look at my two destination points Which are here and then there And then what can I do like in between I'll noodle around like in between Learning this shape in both spots, right? So I'll be All right. So I'm just playing I'm basically just doing kind of the easiest pivot finger, which is this finger This finger and saying, okay, what's available to me here? Well, I can go obviously And then I'm right there right or I could put some double stops if I'm I want to do something other than just walking I Could see that this Shape works there too and then move up to that shape. I can go from here So now I'm just basically looking at combinations of strings. I'm not really thinking about what they What chords I'm playing I am playing chords if I pick right if I do this And then I take those three. I'm basically playing an a minor Right. I can take those three. I'm playing a major Chord but they're believed with an f mate, right? And then I can move that up to here to the g but I'm not really thinking about the chords this time I'm not thinking about chord constructions. I'm just saying those work. Does it sound good anything that's colored As long as I don't hit those white notes As long as I don't hit those dang white notes So I could do the same thing and then say let's lead it up to this note up top So if I play this down here I can play those three which I I like to do And that gives me that's basically an e minor and then once I have these two I can go up to that which we played last time And I can go up to here, which is another way to play our basically C shape, right? This is the same C shape, but now I'm putting the fifth on top of it adding That uh that d so we don't have to do that. I could just play it up here So now I can go from here And then once I'm in this shape I can convert that into My c shape g like that. I can go back the other way pivoting on On this string. So I'm just trying to find some somewhat creative ways to walk That might include some double stops rather than just Walking So that's going to be that and then we could go we could go all the way back Like we could use this shape, which again is quite common shape And do the same thing if I'm going to use this shape, which is an e shaped g major chord Then I can use maybe like these two fingers And then that that takes me to there And that takes me up And I'm in my position here I can walk back the other way Then like that in that shape and then if we go all the way from this shape This is our g shaped here the one we're probably most common No, and then I'm just going to try to make a line Going from here Up to up to basically here, right? So how can we do that? Well We could we could play our g shape and then I could start like From this finger. Here's my good old pointer finger, which is going to be right there And I could move that up for it. I can say okay. Well that I knew that that That I could move up to like around here and I have like a little a box and here and in the fifth so I can be like And then maybe I play and I pivoted on this to get to this string so I just went Um Double stop double stop I'm playing that little D shape to take me basically to this shape, which I then pivoted in to the c shape And then I can start here Do the same thing I could put I could do that same thing but Do the top bit And then I can convert that to here. So we're just finding ways to kind of walk Walk up and back if I use this finger up top So now I can use maybe This finger and say okay. Well, where's that going to land? That's going to land me like Up top here if I move that forward so it's going to go. Okay And something like that. I'm just trying to find lines going up top if I if I start down here with this finger Then, you know, that's going to take me Where's that going to take me? Well, that takes me into my what? Control Z That's going to take me into, you know, basically my box Here, I know that's always a legit spot to be There's my box there, which I can then put into my c shape Now you can also play this g like this way You know sometimes that's And then you have different fingers That you can move up But that's going to be the the general that's the general idea. So So so so we should be able to play all everything we want in this position We've we've looked at three notes in this section or three chords in this position And then again, we can kind of practice playing around this g by moving it up and so on And by doing that, we will be practicing The the g chord although it's still in the c major scale the notes around it are the c and just to compare that to The if I had a g major So just if I scroll all the way down and if I built this out Uh, but I was in in the key of g Where do I want to go here? Where did I do that down here? And then I'm going to hide All of this stuff So so now if I look at these two You can see that we have in this position The same we can fit the same chord in there Duh Duh Copy paste Right there But it's not exactly the same shape right So this is what I think really confuses people because It's hard to wrap your mind around The fact that I'm playing the same three notes, but all the shapes around it aren't the same So what does that mean? Am I in this mode or am I in a different mode? Which other notes can I play around it and which can't I and so on and so forth? That's why I want to go into it as in depth as we can In one scale and its related modes, but thinking of them as related positions And then once you get that concept down, you could you could do you you'll see which stuff can convert To now then playing in a g major Scale as opposed to basically playing around the fifth of the c which is basically the the mixillidian G mixillidian right so and so and I and I if you if you know the differences between those you can go way I think you can go way further In being able to play different different things. So that's the idea