Warm ups 2 - Green Scales & Diatonic
Channel: lessonsbycob
Date: 12/12/2012

Warm ups for every instrument!

Green scales (a marimba exercise I believe) are a great tool for building speed to the met. And hearing modes off of each root. Just one octave. Expanding the exercise to two octaves can be done but, I find it unnecessary since it's just a warm up and the goals of the exercise are met in a single octave.

Diatonic scales are also fantastic. Now you get to hear each mode in key! For this one, play as many octaves as you can.  You should be playing it as precise as possible (don't take my example here! I got laaazzzyyy) and focus on hearing each note in key.  

Some good ideas for each exercise are to name the notes as you play them, to practice learning the fretboard, theory, and just generally understanding your instrument better. Additionally, practice the triads and seventh arpeggios after each scale. You'll realize that many modes have relations in those which make it easy to switch between them.  

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