Getting Started With Lead Fills

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: This tutorial is for you acoustic strummers who are looking to expand on some lead abilities for the purpose of complimenting your progressions. I frequently am asked to address this topic so I figured I'd scratch the surface of implementing "fills" between chords by analyzing a few (very basic) major scale positions. For each fill, we'll analyze the exact ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: FILL 2: Fill 2 involves what we like to call the "major pentatonic scale". It's the rock/blues guitarists go-to scale as it omits a couple of the notes that wil get you in trouble if not applied correctly. This fill is very "boxy", in the sense that we'll be only playing a maximum of two notes-per-string. I'll play through the G major pentatonic first, and ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: FILL 3: Very country-esque in nature, this fill occupies a very "comfortable" area of the fretboard. The "second octave major scale". The major scale will look very familiar as it's simply shifted down two strings and up two frets from fill 1. The catch is, however, that this lick will require us to play more than one note at a time. Incorporating a quick h...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: Fill 4: The final fill is based around the same note sequence as the previous fill, except the rhythm is not quite as disjointed. Let's blow through the major scale with some straight eighth notes which incorporate pull-offs, slides as well as picking. That's it for this tutorial! In the future, we'll take a stab at some different keys and tons more fun li...

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