Lesson 28

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Lesson 28 TEF's

Notes to Lesson 28

Lesson 28 is a continuation of Mickey's "Scale Runs".  Lesson 27 called those exercises as "Major Scale Runs", and so it follows that Lesson 28 would have "Minor 7th Runs".  As you  may be thinking from your recent experiences with chord substitutions, the line between major and minor is a blurred line.  Sometimes a Major 6 is called a minor 7th and vice versa.  And a minor 7th is the top four notes of a Major 9th chord.  My suggestion is that we needed names for them and that's what Mickey chose. 

Note that on these initial soloing exercises, Mickey doesn't really overload us, as might be argued about previous lessons such as 23.  I take that as a show of how important he feels these are and to spend more time on each individual lesson.  Also, Mickey gives the picking patterns that he started us on in Lesson 24.  I didn't notate that in the TEF's, but don't take that as an indication being superfluous.  Continue, as you decided, what works for your particular style.  I've added a 2nd module with rhythm to give these exercises a more musical feel. 

Exercise 15 is starts with a Bb min7 chord form in first position.  As it is also useful, I actually started this exercise with an A min7 in the open position.  This exercise is for the 1st through 3rd strings.

Exercise 16 gets a bonus E min7 in the open position and then as Mickey wrote.  This exercise is for the 4th through 2nd strings.

Exercise 17 also gets a bonus D min7 in the open position.  Actually this lesson is an adaptation of Exercise 16, also using the 4th through 2nd strings. 

Exercise 18 gets a bonus A min7 before going as Mickey intended.  This exercise is for the 5th through 3rd strings.  It can be combined with Exercise 15 to make a 5th through 1st string exercise, if you're interested.

Bonus Exercise:  It seemed to me that the 6th string was being ignored, so I wrote this bonus exercise to feature practice on the 6th through 4th strings.   It starts with an E min7 which is the lowest four note chord that can be made on a standard tuned guitar.

To break up the monotony of just practicing these exercises, let's not forget to continue building our Standards portfolio we started at Lesson 17.  Please share with us what you create.

Just keep it FUN!