| This lesson, the last
in this series, takes you away from "the box." Hopefully, it will encourage
you think less in terms of fingerings and position and more in terms of
notes (yours words), phrasing (the way you punctuate those words), and
melody (the sentence, or what you really want to say). Remember, music
is all about communication. The melodies you create should be more about
how you feel than what you know. So use these lessons and learn from them,
but keep in mind that they are merely a means to an end.
This Em pentatonic pattern,
or "box", shown below is the basis of the lessons in this series. Learn
it, learn it well, then forget it. Now, why would I say that?
* Explanatory stuff
for any newbies to guitar and music.
Saying a progression is
12 bars long is like saying it is 12 measures long.
Tablature is a way of
notating music for the guitar. The lines represent the strings on a guitar.
In the example shown above, notice that the high E string is represented
by the top line, the B string is represented by the line second from the
top, the G the third, the D the fourth, the A the 5th, and the low E is
signified by the the bottom line. The numbers correspond to the frets of
that string. |
