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Plan · Week 1 of 8

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The drill

Shuffle rhythm in A, say the chords aloud. Box 1 A minor pentatonic. Solo 10 min over a backing track at 80 bpm.

You pass when

You never lose your place in the 12 bars while soloing

Ex. 7 · 80 bpm shuffle

Shuffle rhythm, one bar of each chord

Tab
   A7                D7                E7
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G|-----------------|-2-2-4-4-5-5-4-4-|-----------------|
D|-2-2-4-4-5-5-4-4-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----------------|
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----------------|-2-2-4-4-5-5-4-4-|
E|-----------------|-----------------|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|

Swing the eighth notes (long-short, like a triplet with the middle note missing). Palm-mute lightly. Play the full 12 bars: A7 × 4, D7 × 2, A7 × 2, E7, D7, A7, E7. Say each chord name on beat 1.

Ex. 1 · 80 bpm

A minor pentatonic, box 1 (fret 5)

Box 1 · fret 5
eBGDAERb35b7b34b7R45Rb3456789
  • Root
  • Scale

How to read: 7b9 = bend fret 7 up to the pitch of fret 9. r7 = release the bend back to fret 7. ~~ = vibrato. / = slide. Note names are on the right.

Tab
e|---------------------------5-8-|  A  C
B|-----------------------5-8-----|  E  G
G|-----------------5-7-----------|  C  D
D|-------------5-7---------------|  G  A
A|---------5-7-------------------|  D  E
E|-5-8---------------------------|  A  C

Intervals, string by string: R b3 · 4 5 · b7 R · b3 4 · 5 b7 · R b3.

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