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Guitar Lead Tricks - Play Lead Guitar Notes in Two Positions to Change the Mood
Lead Guitar Notes: This is Lesson 4 in the Online Lead Guitar Lessons Series, Lead Guitar Tricks to Set the Mood. In this lesson we're going to see and hear how playing the exact same fingerings / lead guitar notes in two different places on the fretboard fits perfectly in both instances yet sounds COMPLETELY different in terms of mood. We use the recording of the chord riff we made in Lesson Two (and used in Lesson Three) and then vary the scale we use to solo over it and listen to the impact of the changes we made. This lesson should just blow your mind.
Lead Guitar Notes - Position One
You should recognize this guitar note chart from the previous lesson. It is the same A-minor pentatonic scale we taught you in Lesson Three: Guitar Note Charts (Scales). What we ask you to do in this lesson is to play a lead similar to the one you practiced in the previous lesson with the A-minor pentatonic scale. When you've practiced your lead in A-minor pentatonic a few times, memorize the fingering and read on. You will be using the same relative lead guitar notes in the next section.
Guitar Lead Tricks - Changing the Mood
Now what I want you to do in this segment of the Online Lead Guitar Lessons Series is to listen to your chord progression you recorded in Lesson 2 again. This time instead of playing your lead guitar notes in the A minor pentatonic scale... play the exact same relative fingerings you did before... only now play your scale three frets down the neck (toward the nut) in F# (see diagram). New fret position equals new lead guitar notes, with a whole new mood.
Lead Guitar Notes - Position Two
We've added a note in a couple of places (a D on the 2nd and 5th strings) to the F# pentatonic minor scale.
When you play the exact same lead in this position as you did in A-minor it still sounds good but different... brighter... happier maybe? Many times this is the difference between a country sounding song and a metal song. Same lead guitar notes (fingering wise) - just played in a different spot on the fretboard. Welcome to your first lesson in guitar theory lol.
Lead Guitar Notes - Online Lead Guitar Lessons: Lesson Four
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How have you progressed so far? Have you been able to successfully play and record the chord riffs / progressions taught in Lesson Two? How did your lead(s) sound in Lessons Three and Four?
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deepakeapen
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We've put together this lesson series to take the absolute novice guitarist from picking up a guitar to playing and understanding their first lead solos over their own recorded chord riffs and progressions. If you're a more advanced guitarist... skim the earlier lessons and do the recordings to follow along. You'll hear and learn alot from the series.
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