Hi,

This is just one of the many ways of improving your playing skills using BB, plus it is fun. This is mainly aimed at learning how to play lead lines over a piece of music for people just learning.

1. Find a real track you like and load the demo song. Better if it is not too fast.
2. Put it in the key of C. It will just be less trouble to think about.
3. Listen to the whole song.
4. High lite and loop the first two to four bars so they play over and over.
( lets assume a chord progression of |C|A minor|F|G| for example)
5. Go from the most simple to the more complex.. just play the root note of each chord on the first beat of each measure first. Then the root and the octave.
6. It is critically important that you play in time no matter how simple or complex. Turn on the metronome if it helps.
7. Start a line on the root note of the chord and end where it sounds good to you.
8. Go find out why it sounded good. For example did you end on a note in the C scale? Was the ending note one of the notes in the chord?
9. Play some really bad sounding notes and figure what and where they are and why they sound bad. If you can not figure it out ask some here.

So...what does this teach you?

Where the root note of a chord is on the guitar. Learning the fret board,
Where the octave note is in relation to the root.
Do this for very long and you will start to see patterns on the neck.
Without much understanding of music theory what notes sound good together.
The importance of landing on certain notes when the next chord arrives.
How to play lead lines over a chord progression.
The fact that it is less important what notes you play if you start and end on the correct notes.

Other things you should have hanging on your wall and it does not matter if you currently understand this or not...you will sooner or later.
Major and minor scale charts.
Circle of Fifths chart
Chord charts for guitar
Photo of your favorite band or guitar player

All this is much less trouble to do than to explain. lol

Cheers,

Billy

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