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Module III

Continue to deepen your knowledge of music, improve your ear, and grow your collection of techniques in this module.

Use this simple scale to jump quickly and easily into improvising ! LP4The Pentatonic Scale

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Learning to spell chords will take you to a whole new level in your playing. Practice chord construction a lot, so that you can get fast at it! (For worksheets that will help you accomplish this, see A Guitar Player’s Guide to Music Theory.) Th22Chord Construction

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Knowing how chords progress in a song is valuable, but you’ll also want to be able to recognize the progressions by ear. Bring this awareness to everything you play! ET19Chord Qualities, Progr.

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This is an easy technique to learn, but a very effective one. Practice it until you can put your own feeling into your accompaniment playing.
T12 Fingerstyle: Bass-Grab

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Learn the three forms of the minor scale—how to construct them and how to play them. Th21Minor Scales

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Learn the circle of 5ths and then use it to deepen your knowledge of the fretboard and of Scale Pattern #1 and Scale Pattern #2.
Th4The Circle of Fifths LP32 Scales Around the Circle

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Once you’ve really saturated the first two scale patterns, you’re ready learn the third one. LP28 Scale Pattern #3

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