Lesson 2: two notes per string
Two notes per string is always played with "changestroke"
We are going to use the pentatonic scale,
because this scale has continuously two notes per string:
Example 2.1:
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E||--8-5---------------------||
B||------8-5-----------------||
G||----------7-5-------------||
D||--------------7-5---------||
A||------------------7-5-----||
E||----------------------8-5-||
There are two basicruns, you have to be able to play.
Example 2.2:
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__A___________A___________A___________A
--8-5---------------------------------------------||
------8-5-----8-5---------------------------------||
----------7-5-----7-5-----7-5---------------------||
----------------------7-5-----7-5-----7-5---------||
----------------------------------7-5-----7-5-----||
----------------------------------------------8-5-||
Now follows a well-known run on the pentatonic scale.
It is a repeating pattern and you have to play it in one position.
The thought behind that one position, is that you can play it faster, because the notes are closer to each other.
Example 2.4:
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Cis Pentatonisch
E||--11-8------8-----------------------------|
B||-------11-8---11-8----11-8------8---------|
G||-------------------10------10-8---10-8----|
D||---------------------------------------10-|
A||------------------------------------------|
E||------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------|------------------------------|
------------------------------------------|------------------------------|
--10-8------8-----------------------------|------------------------------|
-------10-8---10-8----10-8------8---------|------------------------------|
-------------------10------10-8---10-8----|--10-8------8-----------------|
---------------------------------------11-|-------11-8---11-8-6-8--------|
But we are going to play it another way,
If we decide to play this run spread over two positions,
then there are always two notes per string, and that is much more efficient
Example 2.5:
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--11-8------8-6-----------------------|--------------------------------------|
-------11-8-----8-6-11-8------8-6-----|--------------------------------------|
-------------------------10-8-----8-5-|--10-8------8-5-----------------------|
--------------------------------------|-------10-8-----8-5-10-8------8-5-----|
--------------------------------------|-------------------------10-8-----8-6-|
--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
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--10-8------8-6--------------||
-------11-8-----8-6-8--------||
We are going to see this trick again when we are going to treat three notes per string.
So don't stay in one position, but fly all over that fretboard!