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Joseph Corritore
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  • Naples, FL
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What is Your Playing Level?
beginner/intermediate
What is Your Favorite Style?
flamenco

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At 1:14am on December 1, 2009, grant briggs said…
I think Drew Kragg and Dan Kozar have excellent videos if you search out the beginner lessons. That said, I can tell you this. A scale has 7 notes in it. The scale of C:- C,D,E,F,G,A,B,(C). When you play a song in the key of C, those are the notes you will play. The chords are taken from the notes in the scale. The C chord consists of 3 notes, C,E and G. The C chord is the root chord and is always the 1st note in the scale. The 2nd chord, F is always the 4th note in the scale. And G, the 3rd chord is the 5th note in the scale. The notes in the F chord are F, A and C. The notes in the G chord are G,B and D. You see, you have the notes C, E and G,(C chord), F,A and C, ( F chord) and G, B and D ( G chord). Point :- ALL the notes in the chords are the SAME as the notes in the C scale. Therefore wherever you find a chord, regardless of which chord, there is a scale there also.So, to learn to play notes and chords, I play the scale, then the chord, and repeat. Try to make a melody in the scale and infuse the chord or part of the chord in the melody. Jump back and forth from melody to chord and back again.
I use major scales, pentatonic major and pentatonic minor scales. Pentatonic simply means a scale that only uses 5 of the 7 notes in the scale. But they are used more for country and rock, etc. But that is how I learned to improvise. The notes in the scale are ALWAYS integral to the notes of the chords. If you know where the chord changes come you will see how they interact with the melody. In the key of C the only other notes you may find are a B flat, because that is the only note in the F scale that is different from the notes in the C scale. Likewise if you see a F# you know it's there because that is a note in the G scale that differs from those of the C scale.
I don't know how that applies to Flamenco, but even if you play the chords as single notes changing chords as you would in a song, you create melody. Probably too over simplified?
At 11:38am on November 22, 2009, grant briggs said…
Joseph, you asked a great question on Finger Pickers a while back and I read Dan's answer. Did you resolve that issue or is it still a mystery?? Also, generally, how is your picking coming along. Hope you are not getting frustrated. It takes time, but it DOES come together.
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