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Morris - Posted - 02/23/2010: 17:30:49
Any body have any good resources for practicing sequences? For example, I heard Daryl Anger workshp is a good start but I cant find the lessons.
Please give me any suggestions. I only heard seconds of the scale on youtube.com and find the style most interesting.
Leon Grizzard - Posted - 02/23/2010: 17:54:29
Maybe I don't understand the question, but taking say, the G major pentatonic scale (G A B D E g), you start on a note and play a pattern such as, descending, g E D B E D B A D B A G B A G E, etc. It gives the an endless scale effect. Same with a minor pentatonics and the entire major or minor scale. You can use 3, or 4 or 5 or however many notes you want. You can play every other note instead, or any other pattern you can come up with, but the first type I mentioned is probably the most common. In the Rock guitar world, Eric Johnson's A Via Musicum intro is great example.
ghopper - Posted - 02/23/2010: 19:52:22
g E D B E D B A D B A G B A G E...page 22, Hokum: Theory and Scales by Leon Grizzard.
I knew I'd seen that pattern somewhere... About a year ago, I was looking for sort of a "fiddle etude" book and your book was recommended. I picked up a copy and still use it often as part of my practice routine. It's been very helpful. Nice work Leon.
Regards,
ghopper
RobBob - Posted - 02/24/2010: 09:41:02
Hokum: Theory and Scales by Leon Grizzard is a great book to help you grow as a fiddler and a general musician. Get it!
musicsam - Posted - 03/04/2010: 09:16:18
fiddlehangout.com/myhangout/bl...ogid=2743
This is a link to chart I made with all possible pentatonic scale patterns.
The chart is slightly confusing.
it's oriented around which finger and string you want the tonic note of the scale to fall on. That's the rows and columns.
But inside each cell the numbers refer to which degree of the scale that finger spot is.
the x's are the 4 and 7. Do not play those notes when playing the pentatonic scale. I included the x's in their place for reference, in case you want to play the whole scale.
I really is an information packed chart, if you take the time to understand it properly.
petehay - Posted - 03/23/2010: 09:21:20
I get a "Page does not exist" error on the above link
brya31 - Posted - 03/27/2010: 08:48:23
musicsam your link is a bad link : (
unclebob - Posted - 09/14/2010: 14:58:26
I have Grizzard's Hokum book too. I also have one called "The Fiddler's Friend" by Randy Miller that I bought at the Portland (Oregon) Old Time Gathering. This book has 40 exercises specific to fiddling that improve bowing and fingering. The publisher is Fiddlecase Books. Randy's email is jrmiller@sover.net. It was inepensive and I use it daily.
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