C major scale and...

[Triple-o]

Today was like a giant step forward.The last few weeks, in my evening practice session I’ve been working on sequencing in the key of C (pattern 7) like  BCDC  EDFE etc. I finally memorized that pattern ascending in the 7th position, so tonight I set the metronome to 72 and started with C E then I added the G then combined those sequence pattern notes back and forth with notes in pattern 2,3,4 1 and 5 of A minor pentatonic.I targeted the C chord tones on the neck and  roots and. 3rds from the other major scale. I used the metronome so that I would always start on a beat or hold a note for whole or half beat etc. Well, anyway I could have done this for hours, it sounded good and it really opened my eyes to how to use these scale patterns.One other thing I liked the 7th position low  C and E so much I would come back to those two tones numerous times.A few bends and slides and vibratos and now I am hooked. The one draw back is that I think I found a beginning for a improvisation in the. key of C , but I can’t say that it had a middle or an ending and I haven’t a. clue about what I was saying. Plus I need to figure out “call and response” because without it I think I am just rambling.Well, there’s always tomorrow.

Now  that I am writing this it  dawned on me that I forgot the chord progression, So I was just rambling. ? Tomorrow I will start working on putting it into a 12 bar blues format.Also the 2nd pattern of Am pentatonic scale overlaps the C. Major scale pattern 7. I also had been working on the caged system.so I new the C chords in the 5 caged patterns on the neck.And evan though I didn’t change to the 4 and 5 chords I see how that wouldn’t have effected my note selection much.It would have added two notes.I could have picked more notes by using the blue notes.

Sometimes just rambling on in this forum really helps me think.

Edited October 20, 2018 by Triple-o