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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.

Lesson
1

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

Lesson
2

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

Lesson
3

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.

Lesson
4

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

Lesson
5

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

Lesson
6

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

Lesson
7

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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