 Guitar and Excel see major a minor scale fret number seven focusing on the a note Get ready and some coffee and remember never give up What do you mean Phil why never give up it because because if you're gonna give to charity You should give down not up. I mean that's kind of the point honestly I don't think I should have to explain this kind like like what are you gonna do You're gonna give all of your money up to like Bill Gates or something So he can continue his maniacal plan to micromanage the world instead of just doing what he's good at making computers for people for crying out loud, but no Making computers for people's not good enough for Bill Gates He has to go out and kill all the cows and make everyone eat bugs that son of a Honestly, yeah, I think he's the one that needs to adopt the diet of the dung beetle I hear it's all the rage and Davos these days 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 And thus far noting that you don't have to have watched all prior Presentations to follow along with this one, but a general overview of the overall project can help to orientate us So let's go to that first tab to get that overview. We've been looking at the C major scale You can also think of the related modes. We started looking at it in open position, which I would define as frets Zero through three noting that this e represents the low or heavy string the one closest to the ceiling We then wanted to learn the scale by constructing the cords in that scale starting with the one cord Mapping it out on our fretboard discussing it in detail We then went to the four cord because it also has a major cord construction Mapped it out discussed it in detail same with the five cord then back to the two cord Which has a minor cord construction then the three cord same the six cord same and then the diminished Seventh cord after having done that if we were to map out all of the cords that we have built We would basically be mapping out the C major scale in open position Or you can also think of it as the related modes, which would look something like this We then wanted to jump to the middle of the guitar fret number five about and Start thinking about that position not in terms of first constructing cords But first thinking about the scales and linking them to the open position that we created with the cord Constructions so we then mapped it out and discussed it in detail in Relation to all of the notes in the C major scale Which you can also think of as related modes and now we're moving up to the next position Which we can call or the position starting on the seventh fret So this is where we're going to be at this point in time We're focused on the seventh fret which is going to be this yellow area quick Recap of all the colors and all the markings here Noting that all the colors in this section on the fretboard are Representing notes in the C major scale and the related modes So those are all basically good notes that we can play that will be in the scale We're now going to be focused on the sixth cord, which is going to be a a minor Construction therefore our primary focus the tonic that we're going to be looking at in general will be the green note or the A and then the third related to that note is the red note So that's our second most important number or note and then the fifth is going to be the yellow So those are our most important colors and then all other colors kind of fit in the scale Noting that the blue notes are the ones that we laid down first That's just the the C D E F G A B all the notes And then we put the green on top of it and the green is the pentatonic scale that fits on top of the major scales And then this Is going to be the chord construction that we created for the chord that we're focused on giving us the one three five of that particular chord and then we have Here this bracket right here this red bracket represents the prior position that we looked at which you might call a Position one or some people would call it a G shaped position because when you look at the related major scale C scale You could see that if I look at that C. It's going to build a C, I mean it'll build a G shape when we make a C chord in this position So you could call this a G shape Position that we're looking at that we then built the major Scale around or we can just call it position number one, which I'll use position one then we go to the position number two That's going to be our focus here Which you can also call the E shape position because if we look at the related major scale then There's the C and we can build from that C a basically E shape and that's our that's going to be the bar chord. So you could call it that If you so choose and then I'm going to move notice. There's some interlap or overlapping between these two shapes That's what I would call our pivot points. That's the ones that we can easily move From one shape to the other. So if I look at this top string, this is what I would call position one on the top string And this is what I would call position two. So we'd slide up To get here. These two notes are basically in the in-between Notes with those two positions noting that I'm going to make this red one down a little bit So we can focus mainly just on this frets zero through ten and then The notes within here these yellow brackets are representing the major Like chord constructions that we would have within here So if that's my a you could see I have the ones the threes and the fives with a yellow around it But not all the one threes and fives you could see these ones don't have a yellow up top because this is like probably the the most common Form that we're going to make in this position, which is basically like a D minor shaped a minor chord That's what these yellow will talk more about that later And then we did the same thing over here. We're basically mapping out the one three fives But we're looking at the ones that are most Common to a particular shape this one being basically like the the e minor shape and then over here We of course have our a minor Shape and that's what basically these are doing this one's mapping out here so we can see like the g Minor shape, which is less common. We'll talk more about that in future presentation. So that's the general overview Now in learning this shape if I'm practicing In this a there's a couple ways that we can do that one we can look at the scale I'm going to map out the scale kind of starting and stopping from This shape and once we get that in our mind, which means we're basically going to be like kind of in a minor Mode here or the aeolian or minor as opposed to the major But I'm still going to kind of focus on it as though we're just playing the six of the C Major as we did with all other modes even though the minor mode is much more common in in Western music, but we'll talk about that Shortly and then we can practice basically playing and focusing on Everything within this position because we should be able to play everything in any particular position So I should be able to play basically we've been building all of the chords basically within side of this position But we still might not be completely comfortable making our switches within this position So if I'm practicing the a here, I might also think I know all my chords in open position So maybe I play my chords in open position and jump up to this position Just so I can practice kind of noodling around in here while playing something that I'm familiar with an open position And then we can also think about playing something in this position Which is actually quite common for for an a minor because you've got this is the a minor kind of shape that most people kind of think of For it and then we can try to say how can I blend from going here and smoothly? Converting from that position over to this position and kind of link them together And then of course we can link all the way from here the open Notes and say how can I come up with a line instead of jumping up here to more smoothly kind of Moving up here now. Just remember also that we're thinking of it as the C The C major is what we built all of our notes from but I want to practice playing in the a minor I'm going to look at that first in open position Noting the ways we've thought about doing this as we can we can play like in the key of C starting and stopping on a C doing F Doing a minor and then to throw in that a minor And then go back to a C. So I'm working in I'm practicing my a minor by putting it in the C major scale But if I want to focus more on the a minor Then I probably want to make it the root and you might say well that I can so so then how can I do that? Well, I can just play around the a minor now That's going to seem more natural to most people than playing around like the F or that we did before possibly because minor is the other major or the other big type of Mode that we that we play we think of everything as being built off of the major scale In Western music, but really they're all kind of related you can build everything off of any other of any other mode They're all modes So so the minor mode is the is the most common mode So you probably think well, why don't we just switch to the minor we could we can make it the one and then we Would have the minor or you can also call it a olin Mode that we would be in but we're gonna stick to the same kind of concept We've been thinking about before so that we can see clearly how it's related to the major scale We're just gonna say I'm gonna play all the same stuff as the major and But I'm gonna be focused on the sixth as my tonic making it the starting and ending point Which should be feeling again easier with the minor because our ears more used to it So I'll just start on the minor To like a C major E minor to a G maybe and then back to a minor So it's not that difficult typically to resolve To the a minor because because of that because our ear naturally says oh, yeah We're going back to the a minor But we still don't have that half step whenever we resolve to a minor in a minor scale like we do on the major So to get that to get a better resolve we could do the same trick We can see what's the fifth of an a well the fifth is like that note It's an e so the e if I looked at my e in the scale. It would be an e minor But if I make it a major Then I'm basically just adding Adding this note that's outside of my scale, but it leads in it's gonna be that G sharp It leads into the a so you can see if I'm playing Leads in to the a so that's a common kind of thing That's really nice to do whenever you're playing in a minor take the fifth and then make it a major when you're going in so if I'm going a G and then I want to close it out I'm gonna go to an e minor which is in the scale make it a major And that gives you a little bit more resolution you can also add make it a Seventh so I could I could go here And let let go of my ring finger adding the dominant seven And that gives you even more of a Resolution just so just a couple things to note that we've been taking a look at when we look at these playing in the other Modes so that's gonna be the general idea there now If we move that up to here the major Form that we're looking at here if I look at this a it's right there. It's gonna be a D-shaped Which is a little bit hard to finger It's not my favorite shape although. I'm liking it more and more lately and so there there's that and then You've got your e which we looked at before So if you were to convert that to into an An If you were gonna convert this minor to a major you'd go to it like an e an a-shaped e major which could then resolve in To your a minor so you might try that basically up in this shape as well All right, so then we're gonna basically Count up the scale so we might want to get the the a-hole in No sound in our mind in this shape So you might say I'm gonna practice this shape, but I'm not gonna practice it by starting on the B Because then it's gonna sound like I'm playing in the B as the center point which would be like Location right I want to make the a the center point so I'm gonna find the a I'm gonna say okay Here's my here's my a it's way down in the middle seems weird playing a scale Starting in the middle But it makes sense because we're gonna try to make it the the home base And so then I'm gonna when I play up the scale. I also want to play the related chord when I get to it So let's think about the chord first So we have then this a so if I look at my one threes and fives I have an a there's my fifth right there So that's the normal fifth pattern and then I have my third down here So you could just play these three notes this a this e and this C And that's kind of the easiest way to do it notice I'm kind of have a bar here like you might say this is a bar And I'm gonna end up playing that f sharp But you don't have to because I'm lightly putting my finger here which means it's gonna just mute that note So this string the a string the B string is not gonna ring out if I play it this way By the way, I'm also muting the e above it And I'm trying not to hit with my pick that this e on top So I'm muting this string and I'm not I'm not picking the top string And then if I lay down my a here, then I get another a so that would be nice I can lay down my pinky right there and pull in Another a So that's gonna be the the normal shape now you can also play this shape Which is quite common say I'm not gonna reach up to that a up top if I'm down in this register I can see these three fingers which I can just convert to that Which is basically The D minor shape it is the D minor shape meaning in open position. That would be our D minor Shape which I'm gonna be moving up here And then convert it to just these three fingers. That's all you really need if you're playing in that higher register So that's the other shape that will be quite common But you also have this shape over here, which can be useful. So here's your a So this one is going from a e c it's inverted the a is on the bottom and then you also have this shape Up here. We have the the c e and the a once again. It's inverted a That's kind of leading into the a minor c shape, which will be basically Leaning forward. So those are the shapes that we can kind of land on So then if I was to count up my notes instead of making that the one Which is what I would do if I convert it to a minor I'm gonna count it up as though I'm still thinking of it as the six of the major But it's still the one that I'm going to be kind of centering around So and we'll talk about the modes more later in a future presentations or section So I'm gonna say that's the six and then seven eight or one And so there's my six I went up to this one here And all I did was say This is six seven eight or one two three four five six And then once I'm on that one then I can play my I'm gonna play just this part of My my a minor shape. I can also convert it to this shape All right, and then I'm gonna see say I'm on this one. So now I'm gonna go from six seven eight Or one Two that takes me up to the D. I'm not gonna keep going out. This way. I'm gonna go back now So I was on the two one two one or eight seven Six, there's the one I'm focused on that shape once again looks like this Or like this from that note And then I'm gonna go back. So now I'm on this a again. I'm gonna go back so we're gonna go from six five four three two one or eight Seven six and there's what I'm focused on the six. So there's the one of the six five There's our D shape. There's our full D shape. So now I'm on this a and There's my full shape and then I can go back from here. So okay, I'm gonna go from six five four three two One or eight Seven that brings me to seven right here And then I could go back one more Six right and there's my a back here that's outside my shape There's my cord on that one. So then I can go six seven eight one I'm sorry six seven eight or one two three four five six and then just to make it different I can go these top ones Or these ones down here So that's a useful little little just to get that in your head the same shape if you start to know this shape Because you played it in C then it's pretty easy to play the shape once you start reorientating yourself to playing around the the a Note which is kind of funny because you're playing you're starting and stopping kind of in the middle of the scale Which takes a little while to orientate yourself around. Alright, so once you have that Then you could practice like in this position with all the shapes that we have done You know thus far because we should be able to play everything Basically within this position will talk more about that in like the cage system and a little bit later as well But just for now we can see that we've seen all of the major shapes in this position So here's like the C. This is a C major which is a which is a You can call this like an an E shaped C major. You can also see it this way We talked about the other major shape which is an F which is here, which is an a shaped So here's the F. Here's your a shaped F major the G Most people would probably move this a shape up because that's the normal bar construction But if you're playing it in position you you would play there's the G You can play this C shaped G Like that so that's the shape that fits in there that C shape that fits in the same Position and then we took a look at the D So we have our D here. So here's our D here. You could go That's a minor So I can call that like a G minor shape D minor and then we had our E Which is gonna be right here, which you can call an a minor shape E So you could kind of noodle around with that so we could say if I'm in here My basically my D shape you could move up to like an A shape to say an F Maybe you move to the E shape and then and then possibly you turn it into a major Which is outside to get the resolve back to the D shaped A Now that will work on those switches more later within this shape because you can't really see all those switches And you might not be as good at you know moving. I'm not as good I'm moving around on in all those shapes as well. We'll play with that later on practice in as well But we might know all the shapes in open position and if I'm just trying to work on this A shape here, then maybe I can noodle around an open position and then jump up here And practice playing up in this position. So to do that Let's let's think about the notes that I have around my a and so if so I'm gonna say what can I reach? Around my a so if I'm just gonna put my finger here. I'm gonna say all right. What do I have around here? I've got You know this box I can clearly see so that's that's nice And I have this nice symmetry with these boxes being kind of opposite I've got the two the colored box here and then the white and then the colors over here Whereas when I look down here, I have the two colored boxes here And then the two color boxes here so you can see like a little symmetry kind of there We also note that the important notes in here is going to be a and then the fifth is going to be important That's going to be this note and then this C is is going to be important so I can alternate between all the notes in the chord I'm in by starting a To the to to the e and then the third so there's a one three one five So I can always do something like that All right, and then I know I have this double stop of the a and the d below it so I can always do something And I got I've got this note. That's all so good. So play all double stops and Then of course, I can always reach down to my full chord this way or reach down this way to kind of close it out So I've got something like that if I was to reach above I'm gonna say okay above here. I've got this box So I kind of messed up there, but I've got above if I was to keep my finger here I can reach that F and I can reach basically this C and then I can convert from this to this To give me my a minor that's basically inverted kind of a heavier sound So so the interesting here thing as well as I have this open a which is kind of nice It's always fun to kind of play that open. So if I hit if I hit Those two now I'm hitting this a and this open string, which is a double a And then I have this this C up top, which is the third So it's kind of interesting to do something like this I'm muting this this E when I'm when I'm Don't have anything down and then I'm putting my finger up here, which is above the mute So then I'm picking up this C and then I can let go and I have I have the double a again So I can do something like I Can also put my curve my finger here so I can go back and forth I could let that E ring out too because it's in it's in our scale and it's also the fifth. So right And then pull up this I can pull up this G on On I'm sorry this this third on this side to the C Playing this full D as well again if I don't mute that E Then I can play that a I can play that a and kind of ring it out So that's kind of fun to play. So I've got those up Tom And again the a's kind of nice because you can always play that a in between open Which lays the foundation So I don't always have to go back to like an a like some like when I play the majors I have to always go back to the root Some at some time to lay down the base to make sure the ear still hears it and in the key that I wanted to be heard in Where it's here. I got that open All right, then down below what do we have down here I've got I also when I when I play This string down here. I also have this note Which is kind of? Interesting in other words when I'm playing when I'm playing my Normal D. I'm grabbing this C down here But I can also grab this G which gives it a little bit more tension because that's the seventh So I can I can let go of the fifth and grab the seventh. So in other words, I Could play it like that You get a little more tension that way notice. I'm not putting my finger on this other a to do that I can let go of that a I can grab basically that G And it gives you a little bit more like I say tension on that one So there's gonna be that general thing now if I if I play with this a on this side Whoops So what do I have over here? Well, I've got I can I might want to play that with my ring finger I know I have this whole box So if I'm saying I'm focused on this a then I have kind of like this whole box I can play with so I can go back and then I can always end with this shape or this shape So if I'm playing down here, I have these three strings Are all colored. I'm not gonna worry about what I'm playing this whole bar So we can kind of noodle around in that area. Alright, so once we have that then we can say, okay I'm gonna jump. I'm gonna be jumping From let's say like to here. So I'm gonna play an open position I might play something in open position, which I'm comfortable with and then see if I can jump here And all the open strings are still good So if I'm jumping back and I like pick a couple strings when I'm jumping back not really a problem Open strings are good Maybe I once I get to this string up here maybe I then play the This C up top and do my little shuffle pattern and I can also do that shuffle pattern back here by the way So I can say, okay, what if I What if I put my finger on this E and I play this open a and Then I switch back and forth between this a and this C. That's what I like That's just fun to do. So now I'm just gonna say I'm gonna do this the cheating a Between those three notes I basically have all the notes in the a minor so I can kind of play that and then say, okay Well, I can jump from here and kind of mirror that Up here So now I'm just I'm just jumping up to this a where I have the third up top So here's the third on this side And and then and then I can reach up to this C and I can ring out this open a And then down here when I'm down here. I can play that C I can also play this G above it and this one behind it is a minor is it is the is the blues note So I can go and I can go into that one and I can also let go. So if I start playing All right, so you can kind of shuffle back and forth. That's kind of a fun a fun thing To do that's a another way you can play it now We can target then this note up top and do the same thing So I could play my a here Okay, I'm gonna jump all the way up to this a where I have where I have this shit so I can say okay And then of course we could play something other than just an a over here Go to my seat and do my standard I'll shuffle within the seat back to the a And then noodle up here on the a back to the C Back to the a Back to the C But we can kind of just go back and forth a little bit and jump there That's one way that we can do it We can also think well What can I do from this middle position and kind of blend up into this position and up into this position, right? So this middle position is what most people probably know most commonly as the a position and a minor because it has Like you start the shape on an a so most people learn it and then a that's where what I learned it in so and This shape you have your Full bar chord, which is the a boom boom boom boom. I can Take that apart and say well I can take my finger from here and put it right here Which is actually a little bit more comfortable possibly and you play these notes the C The e and the a so that's probably the most comfortable position for me or this that feeds into then This a which is our pivot point. And so once I'm here I can slide in to this position And so that's how we can go back and forth between those two. That's probably the most common Way to go back and forth is between this note sliding up to that note somehow So we can and so we can play something if I was to play in this position You know, we can walk up there Just slide up and Then the question and then all we're gonna do is say well, how can I get more creative with that? I'm basically my pointer fingers up here So I'm just gonna say my pointer finger I'm just kind of walking up to there and then I can say okay. Well, I can go Just take a pit stop along the road playing these three and then There's another a that's the other way to play the a double stop maybe double stop slide Something like that. Just trying to get a little just trying to make a little I'm not even thinking about what chords I'm playing I'm just saying what's available to me this whole bar is available to me this whole thing Down to down to this note is available to me. So we can play Going back I can slide on this note is the easiest one And then we could we could play this a down here This is the bottom half of that shape so I could start there and say how can I reach up to that a? so I could start With that shape, which is an a minor You can add that I could then say okay. How can I get up to this a over here? So if I start on this shape, this is the way you can play this a minor like this then I could It's kind of sloppy But that gives me up there, which I can then make that D shape from or this a shape And then I can bring this back and say okay I can bring this back on I Could say what can I do with something with these two fingers, right? So if I have these two fingers that I'm holding down, they don't nicely move up at At the same point, but I could move them all the way up This here right so I can move them up to there and that's gonna actually move me I Work and I put these two fingers. I'm gonna move them up to here See shape and then back to my pivot finger down here, and there's my a And then I don't know we can and then we can go off all the way from the open position and see if I can find a line That goes all the way through so if I'm playing like an open position here Then I'm playing these three notes with my fingers my my finger is on It's gonna be on this note and this I missed let's pull this one down here It's gonna be on this note that C so I could say all right. There's the C right there I can move that finger up into our familiar position Down here that box and then I can walk it up from there. Maybe to this a Right there right so I can say okay Let's say if I'm starting down here That's not right And then I'm like there's my pivot point. I know this box It's always fair game so I can play that and then I can move that up to here Now I'm in kind of most people's most familiar shape And there's my a there into my a here, so if I walk it back I can pivot on this one That box is good It's common that that note right there is by the way is fun to bend typically and then I can that's gonna be your D and Then lead into this shape right here, which is our a minor And then I could slide this Bending that D a minor Then I'm gonna slide back into this shape and slide my finger here back into the C position Noticing noticing that any open notes are good because I'm in the C major scale, so So I'm just taking my finger off the whole time But I did that a little too much But just so you can kind of see that and then and then we can do our shuffle pattern up top and Then I can do what we the same thing follow that a in So I can say let's that's always fun to do so I'm gonna say I'm gonna play my little shuffle pattern and reach up To here and then I'm gonna go move to here and reach up to here and here And then I'm gonna move to here and reach up to here and here And then I'm gonna move to here and reach up to here and here and then I can reverse it, right? So I'm gonna go okay, let's go from our this Then move slide my finger up to here, so now I'm on the F and I'm gonna go what can I reach from there? Whoops not right there. Hold on So then I can reach up from here to the D And then I'm gonna reach up go I'm gonna move this up to the G And then I'm gonna let go ringing out the a and then I'm gonna move it to an a and reach up I could reach up to that That third over here and then reach up to the C up top play that a right so I can do some play that back a Major a minor shape with a G. It's a it's a G minor a we can reach up this way just to make it different That's so those are those are the major ways that we can practice the minor one of these minor chords here So so that is that? Then yeah, that's that and so no so notice when we think about the 6th We don't I don't need to show you the related minor because the 6th is such a common mode That it we play it all the time we think of the major and the minor as the major scales that we kind of play but really obviously them they're both modes of each other and And so we often there's just the major two modes So so we if we were to convert it to a minor all we would do is make it the first And we'd have all the same chord shapes just like we saw with all the other shapes here