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                        <title>RE: Becoming &quot;scalar&quot;</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/becoming-scalar/#post-80519</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[great, thanks a million folks!jj]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[great, thanks a million folks!<br><br>jj]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/">Guitar Players Discussion</category>                        <dc:creator>geetar66</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Becoming &quot;scalar&quot;</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/becoming-scalar/#post-80494</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[... and think rhythm. I&#039;m not sure why everybody forgets this, but music is notes, which at their most fundamental (sans timbre and ADSR) are pitch and duration. Just as all notes don&#039;t have...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[... <I>and think rhythm</I>. I'm not sure why everybody forgets this, but music is notes, which at their most fundamental (sans timbre and ADSR) are pitch and duration. Just as all notes don't have to be the same pitch, they do not have to be the same duration. So get some variation in rhythm (including attack and volume) in there and you will find even a simple ascending or descending scale can sound much less scalar and much more interesting.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/">Guitar Players Discussion</category>                        <dc:creator>gnease</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Becoming &quot;scalar&quot;</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/becoming-scalar/#post-80464</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Rather than thinking scales, think chords. By that I mean keep track of the &#039;chord of the moment&#039; by seeing it in all positions at once. It&#039;s not an easy task, but once you can do that, you&#039;...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Rather than thinking scales, think chords. By that I mean keep track of the 'chord of the moment' by seeing it in all positions at once. It's not an easy task, but once you can do that, you'll be looking at all the strongest melody notes. Once you start thinking melody rather than scales, and you track the chords as they come and go, you'll find a whole new world of playing opening up, one that is perpetually 'context sensitive'.<br><br><a href="http://www.thatllteachyou.com/chordtones/">http://www.thatllteachyou.com/chordtones/</a> is a lesson I put together demonstrating what I mean.<br><br>Kirk]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/">Guitar Players Discussion</category>                        <dc:creator>planetalk</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Becoming &quot;scalar&quot;</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/becoming-scalar/#post-80234</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Thanks cat!I&#039;ll give it a try!JJ :)]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks cat!<br><br>I'll give it a try!<br><br>JJ :)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/">Guitar Players Discussion</category>                        <dc:creator>geetar66</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Becoming &quot;scalar&quot;</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/becoming-scalar/#post-80230</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Sure!  Try and play melodies within a key, using your scales solely as reference points, or play multiple inversions of the same scale, so you&#039;re absorbing the sound, and not so much the fin...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure!  Try and play melodies within a key, using your scales solely as reference points, or play multiple inversions of the same scale, so you're absorbing the sound, and not so much the fingering.<br><br><a href="http://www.activeguitar.com">http://www.activeguitar.com</a> has fingerings for the inversions.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/">Guitar Players Discussion</category>                        <dc:creator>undercat</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Becoming &quot;scalar&quot;</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/becoming-scalar/#post-5631</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, i was wondering if someone could give me some advice on scales...my teacher has given me (over the past year) scale work and basically it&#039;s major, minor and pentatonic...I go o...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone, i was wondering if someone could give me some advice on scales...my teacher has given me (over the past year) scale work and basically it's major, minor and pentatonic...I go over them and am getting quicker and now he has moved me off them a little for fear of me thinking "too scalar". Is there anyone out there with some practice hints that they use to expand their mind (and fingers) and not get locked into the scale itself?<br><br>I hope I'm making sense...<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Julius]]></content:encoded>
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