Brad Carlton is back with another Guitar Lab intensive and this one will
completely and unalterably change the way you see, hear and play riffs,
licks and lines of any kind. In fact, his Riff Generator approach for single
line construction may very well be your Helen Keller moment on guitar and we
don't make that reference lightly or without extreme respect.
In the same way Brad "cracked" the CAGED and EDGAD chord system for we
students of the six-string, he likewise unravels the creative formula for
single line construction in an entirely illuminating and profoundly
accessible way.
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You will learn how to think, feel and see the entire fretboard in scale
degrees. Yup, scale degrees. And once you've got those under your belt --
and that will come very easily -- he'll equip you with a series of formulas
for ideation and motivic development. Right and left-brained finger stuff
that pull you out of the proverbial rut so fast and so far that your head
will spin with new musical ideas.
In
the first section of the course Carlton shows you how to see and work with a
minor pentatonic scale in terms of scale degrees and its intervals along the
string axis. The first five lessons present slur exercises to develop your
speed, articulation and endurance. Lessons six through ten focus on
targeting tones; a fundamental skill leading to mastery over the tonal
gravity of your melodies. The last two lessons get you started building
riffs by utilizing formulas as the framework for your melodies.
"This concept of viewing riffs and melodies following a scale degree formula
approach has many advantages. You'll learn to hear melodic lines and know
where they are on the fingerboard no matter what key you're in. This first
section of the course is the foundation upon which we will build more
advanced melodies in different harmonic environments in the subsequent
sections."
In
the second section of Riff Generator, you'll explore a variety of formulas
drawn from the blues composite scale. These formulas constitute the standard
frameworks for lines that can be applied over dominant and blues-based
harmonies. You'll work with the blues composite scale, which can be viewed
as the sum of the major pentatonic scale and the blues scale. In this
section, you'll learn how to "hear" the full range of tonal colors and learn
where to find these sounds all over the fingerboard.
In the final and third section of Riff Generator, you'll continue adding
more formulas to your kit and focus on the principle of pitch direction,
which allows for variations within a given formula. Each formula will be
diagrammed over the entire fingerboard thus allowing various layouts for
those specific notes and degrees. Get a grip on this section's examples and
series of formulas and you're well on your way to mastering how to apply
pitch direction, layout and phrasing to generate an endless range of fresh,
melodic and innovative single note lines.
Moves & Formulas Covered in Riff
Generator:
• Targeting Root
• Targeting 5th
• Targeting b7
• Targeting b3
• Targeting 4th
• b7 1 Move & Formula
• b3 1 Move & Formula
• b3 2 1 Move & Formula
• 1 2 b3 3 Move & Formula
• 3 4 #4 5 Move & Formula
• 6 5 Move & Formula
• b7 6 5 Move & Formula
• b5 4 b3 Move & Formula
• b3 3 5 6 1 Move & Formula
• b3 3 1 Move & Formula
• b3 3 b7 Move & Formula
• b3 3 5 Move & Formula
• b3 3 6 Move & Formula
• 1 b3 3 4 #4 5 Move & Formula
• 1 b3 3 5 6 b7 Move & Formula
• 1 6 b7 Move & Formula
• 4 b3 3 1 Move & Formula
• 5 1 Move & Formula
• 4 1 Move & Formula
• b7 b3 1 Move & Formula
• b3 b7 1 Move & Formula
• b7 5 1 Move & Formula
• 5 b7 1 Move & Formula
• 5 b3 1 Move & Formula
• b3 5 1 Move & Formula
• 4 b3 1 Move & Formula
• b3 4 1 Move & Formula
• 4 5 1 Move & Formula
• 5 4 1 Move & Formula
• Targeting Minor Chord Tones
• Targeting Major Chord Tones
True-to-form with most Brad Carlton courses, there's enough grey matter and
solid guidance in Riff Generator to draw from for the rest of your guitar
playing days, yet it will take less than five minutes to absorb enough to
put these principles to good work in your own solos and improvisations. Open
your eyes and get to work!
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In
the second section of Riff Generator, you'll explore a variety of formulas
drawn from the blues composite scale. These formulas constitute the standard
frameworks for lines that can be applied over dominant and blues-based
harmonies. You'll work with the blues composite scale, which can be viewed
as the sum of the major pentatonic scale and the blues scale. In this
section, you'll learn how to "hear" the full range of tonal colors and learn
where to find these sounds all over the fingerboard.
