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Scales and Arpeggios

Instructor: Nick Granville
Topic: Scales
Style: Any Style
Level: Beginner
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    Major Scales Simplified Nick Granville
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    Instructor: Nick Granville Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: In this lesson, I cover a simple way to play the major scale across the whole guitar neck; using 5 main shapes as the basis. There are alternative shapes (which I will explain at a later date), but these shapes provided are the simplest to use and leave no holes in the guitar neck. I've shown them in the key of G, but I'd urge anyone checking this out to pra...

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    Arpeggios - Major, Dominant, and Minor 7th's Nick Granville
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    Instructor: Nick Granville Level: Beginner Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Now we're going to cover the core arpeggios for Major 7th, Minor 7th and Dominant 7th and also 2 octave shapes. Arpeggios spell chord changes, so if you know these you can pretty much play the changes to any tune at a basic level. 

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