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All right, guys, let's play a little game. This is a daily exercise you can perform for fretboard recall and fluency. It's going to be fun at the same time. I call it the swear jar because it's well the swear jar is actually because there are two. So we will pick one string at random, one guitar string, and we will pick a key at random as well.
And what we will do is look at the major, minor and dominant seven arpeggio from that same string. You'll see have my little finger patterns. And in order to orient myself. So without further ado, let's check the jars and see how it goes. So let's pick a key first. This is bound to be interesting because this is live okay.
The key is b b natural. All right. So let's just put a b in our ears. Good. And it's an open B string. This one over here or B-flat b B major seven. Perfect. Now let's pick the second jar to find what string I'm going to play on. So now I've six little papers in my jar and my swear jar.
Let's pick this one string six. Perfect. So what do we do. We start with the B major chord and we will first identify the root. What I want to do systematically through the entire swear jar process is to find the root, the third seventh of the chord. So essentially I want to do. But I want to do this on major, minor and dominant.
But I want to keep to the same string. It's a fun little navigating exercise if you want. I don't have it plugged in, but you could do a looper pedal or no real pro backing to improvise on those. So let's start. The root is here. Easy. Where is the seventh mark? Why do you start with the seventh? Seventh?
Right here. This is a way I love to. Instead of climbing up to a note that's like a 7 or 6, I climb down easier. Seven is here and back to one. Where is the, the third? the, cool.
One three. Where's the 5135511353171. So I recommend while you do that, you could do it for like 2 or 3 minutes a day. And it's going to prevent you from looking at like, oh, I have to find all my keys over all the strings in all positions. So I have to to look at all the chromatic. So no, no, no, let's just pick one context and one string and orient yourself around and go, all right, that's the B right.
And that's the what's the name of that note again. Oh it's an A sharp. Okay. Be the a-sharp to be seven one. Okay. And then D-Sharp is the the third of B. Okay. Cool. And what's the fifth. It's an F sharp. Okay. 5 to 1 F sharp to be. So name not only the scale degrees but at the same time you name the note names.
Now let's transition to one that's one notch different which is the B7 dominant. So instead of major seven.
Display a flat seven right. So B is going down to A for your flat seven. And the third and the fifth stay the same. Why you see why we went that way. Right. So 13531715A lot seven one or the D sharp f d sharp b a natural f a natural b right. One last one. Let's do B minor.
So there's a reason there's a method to the madness. So notice how we started with the major. And when. Now we went to the dominant. We did the flat seven which is here right. Which is right behind the tonic. And now if I do keep the flat seven and go flat three one flat 353171, I get the B minor seven seven perfect flat F sharp which is a fifth flat 711.
Flat seven is a tonic, is the B minor, three is a d the natural B flat a, b natural, the f sharp right. So again you go one, three five, seven for a major. Then you do the the b am I reverse I don't know if the camera is this, this or that way. my bad guys. So we'll find out.
Anyways, the flat seven is to get the dominant and then the flat three. And the flat seven is to get the minor and the tonic. The major is just plain one through five, seven. Perfect. So I recommend you do that on a daily basis, maybe for 2 or 3 minutes. Set yourself a timer. You don't even need a metronome, but just to pick another key and if I were to convince you right now, maybe if you stick with me, I'm going to pick a key and a string for you, and I'm going to simply give it to you as an assignment.
So when the video ends, you can just start to do it. Do you do you know what's going to cost you a subscription subscribe button or like or both, or share maybe a share on social media? Oh my god, Marcus. So awesome. I love this guitar. That kind of stuff. That helps. That always helps.
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Okay, let's pick a key.
I know, let's pick a string. String four. So your D string your D string. So this guy here, let's see if you get a weird key with sharps and flats. Let's just find out and we pick the CD. Oh that's pretty disappointing, but still. So I'll set you up with that one D. Three five.
The dominant.
To minor.
Man I'm hesitating. I should do this exercise way, way more. So on that note that said go and work on your D next and subscribe for a lot of different videos. And also by the way, there's a video about scale degrees that I publish, which means now we're doing this on one string. But what if we have a positional system?
Say we did D major? I would do my D major here and my D major here. And how do I recognize oh this is a ninth. This is the third. This is the fifth. I have a two way navigation system for the fretboard that's super easy to comprehend. About 5 to 8 minutes in the video. And it's been having rave reviews.
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