Diatonic Thirds Exercise help

[highway]

I am trying to follow the sample exercise here, and don't follow the hand pattern he is using. It looks like he is staying in one position for every key, but when I transcribe it and play those in one key, I am either jumping around more than he is, or going from high to low notes and it doesn't sound the same.

Can anyone help me tab this or understand where he is playing or transcribe what the pattern looks like?

 

[Malcolm35]

I'm taking him at his word that he is playing diatonic 3rd patterns. Looks like, and sounds like he is playing the same pattern just moving up one more fret for another lick. Later on it sounds like a pentatonic being taken up the fretboard.

I'd send you to General Instruction, Getting started post # 14. How to get started? For some patterns you can use.

The other guys may recognize what he is doing better than I did. And can send you to the actual pattern he is using. I could not get the volume up high enough to hear what he was saying.

 

[dreamadream99]

It looks like he is staying in one position for every key

He is. A one octave major scale can be played in a single position using one finger per fret. All the notes he is using in the exercise are within a single octave, he is just skipping over some notes.

 

[FatStringer52]

 

[highway]

He is. A one octave major scale can be played in a single position using one finger per fret. All the notes he is using in the exercise are within a single octave, he is just skipping over some notes.

So is he playing (for Cmaj): C, E, D, F, E, G, F, A, G, B, A, C, B, D, C, E (in this order)?

I did a little more research, and it said the Diatonic Thirds are playing notes that are two notes apart in the major scale... so for Cmaj (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C), you would go through the list matching C with E, D with F, etc and looping back around to the start once you get to B and C octave. Is that what he is doing, and is he going from C octave and working back up to the root note? I am just asking so that I have an understanding of what is going on.

Thank you!

 

[highway]

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Thanks, is this the same exercise or something different! I am trying to wrap my head around the theory and see that there are other notes being played per note in the Cmaj scale.

Thanks!

 

[FatStringer52]

is this the same exercise or something different!

These are the notes that are being played in the video. Try it and see. It should match up note for note. If there is a discrepancy, let me know and I'll fix it. It was pretty late last night when i did it and I have been known to make mistakes in the past! lol

It's the major scale in diatontic (within the scale) thirds -- alternating ascending and descending. I didn't analyze the entire exercise, but let's take a look at the first two bars . . .

Using the first four notes of the C Major scale: C D E F

1st Bar

C Major - (Ascending) C to E: A Major third interval (1, 3)
D minor - (Descending) F to D: A minor third interval (b3, 1 for D minor) or (4, 2 for scale degree)

2nd Bar

E minor - (Ascending) E to G: A minor third interval (1, b3 for E minor) or (3, 5 for scale degree)
F Major - (Descending) A to F: A Major third interval (3, 1 for F Major) or (6, 4 for scale degree)

The third bar starts with an ascending Major third interval - G to B. And on and on. That's about as far as I went with the analylization, but this should give you a pretty good idea of what is going on with the entire exercise. From there he just modulates the exercise in half step increments to cover all 12 keys. Oh, BTW, the last note on the bass clef should have been notated as a Db and not a C# (just in case your reading the bass clef). But I forgot to go back and change it before I posted.

Hope this helps!

 

[highway]

These are the notes that are being played in the video. Try it and see. It should match up note for note. If there is a discrepancy, let me know and I'll fix it. It was pretty late last night when i did it and I have been known to make mistakes in the past! lol

It's the major scale in diatontic (within the scale) thirds -- alternating ascending and descending. I didn't analyze the entire exercise, but let's take a look at the first two bars . . .

Using the first four notes of the C Major scale: C D E F

1st Bar

C Major - (Ascending) C to E: A Major third interval (1, 3)
D minor - (Descending) F to D: A minor third interval (b3, 1 for D minor) or (4, 2 for scale degree)

2nd Bar

E minor - (Ascending) E to G: A minor third interval (1, b3 for E minor) or (3, 5 for scale degree)
F Major - (Descending) A to F: A Major third interval (3, 1 for F Major) or (6, 4 for scale degree)

The third bar starts with an ascending Major third interval - G to B. And on and on. That's about as far as I went with the analylization, but this should give you a pretty good idea of what is going on with the entire exercise. From there he just modulates the exercise in half step increments to cover all 12 keys. Oh, BTW, the last note on the bass clef should have been notated as a Db and not a C# (just in case your reading the bass clef). But I forgot to go back and change it before I posted.

Hope this helps!

THANK YOU! I am trying to heavily focus on the important things like theory and practice, and less on gear, this is amazing!