Lesson 41

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Lesson 41 TEF's

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Back in Lesson 38, Riff Runs, I'm sure that you had in the back of your minds, "I'll bet we're going to have to transpose these runs to all the orchestras keys!"   And if you did, then Lesson 41 is where your premonition comes to life.... well, sort of!  I've done all that for you so now it's up to you to practice them in all the keys.

As we discovered, the riff runs were divided into two positions.  The prime key is G so with G notes on the 1st string, 3rd fret and 2nd string, 8th fret define our positions.  With the tonic on the first string, we'll place our 1st finger on it.  This allows us to easily find the G riffs between the 3rd and 6th frets.  Back in Lesson 38, we arbitrarily started calling this the Group E riffs because they occur on the high E string.

The Group B riffs give us a 2nd position for the key of G, but this time we'll place our 2nd finger on the G note on the 2nd string, 8th fret.  That means our 1st finger will find notes on the 7th fret and our natural reach will be between the 7th and 10th frets.

This lesson has a total of 84 TEF's, the largest amount of TEF's in any lesson until now.  Just getting familiar with all of these TEF's will consume most of your week.  In fact, Mickey says that he wants us to dedicate two whole months to Lessons 38, 39, 40, 41, and next week's 42.  I'm going to continue to release a lesson a week, but I would suggest you go at your own pace.  There are no bonus TEF's and I'll sure understand if you don't get to work on your standards portfolio.

In Lesson 38, I gave you some different ways to approach those riffs, such as our "Riff Blues", and putting all the riffs in a single TEF.  We can do those, too with these transposed riffs.  Perhaps you aren't interested in all of the Riff Blues, but I'll bet that a few are interesting to you.  You may want to transpose them to all the keys, or as many keys as the riffs allow.  For those of us that have been transposing since Mickey's first lessons, then this shouldn't be much of a job.

Oh yeah, we can also transpose this riffs to the guitar friendly keys of  A, D, and E.

Just keep it FUN!