In this lesson we will look at time signatures, the moveable B minor chord and we will do some serious connecting of the pentatonic scales.

D major scales in 7th
B minor bar chord in 2nd position
Bm7 arpeggio (moveable)

Odd time signatures and the riff from Pink Floyd's Money
Erotomania
D sweep picking diatonic triads on strings 1 2 3
Voices verse (lesson 18 maybe better)
Voices fingerpick part ?

Scales - D major/B Minor in 7th position

This scale form should look familiar to you. We first learned it as 5th position C in lesson 8

This is the D major scale from Lesson 6 with all of the notes in 7th position.

Review of D major in 2nd and adding extensions

D/Bm in 2nd Ext

D/Bm Pentatonic in 2nd

D major and B minor in 9th position

This is the same form as your 7th position C major scale from lesson 14

Chords - B Minor

In lesson 14 we looked at moving the A major chord a perfect 5th higher to a 7th position E major chord. The minor chords move the same way.

Move the A minor chord up one whole step (including open strings) and you will have a B minor chord. You will have to have your first finger bar across the 2nd fret in order to hear both the 1st and 5th strings.

Arpeggio Fun

In lesson 13 we learned the diatonic triads in the key of D major/B minor. Now let's have a little fun with them. There is a video of this exercise below the fretboards.

We will add one more note to each triad to make for a fun way to practice. So start by ascending the D arpeggio and then slide little finger up to the top note of the Em triad. Then descend and slide index finger from the lowest note of Em to the C# of the F#m chord. You can use the sweep picking motion we learned in lesson 12 with the inversions of a G triad on strings 2 3 4.

Bm7 Arpeggio - 2nd position

Improvising

You can solo over the Pink Floyd riff below and try connecting these 3 scale forms. Don't forget to try and work in your arpeggios from above.

Odd Time Signatures

We learned a bit about time signatures in earlier lessons and from the Rhythm Room but now let us take a look at odd time signatures.

You may have noticed the 7/4 time signature in the Pink Floyd riff from above.

Review: top note tells us how many beats we can have in each measure, the bottom note tells us what kind of note gets the beat or what the value of the whole note is.

So far all the lesson material has been in 3/4 or 4/4 (C)

Because the 4 is in the bottom of the Pink Floyd riff, the quarter note gets the beat or you can think of it as the whole note being worth 4 (which would mean, half note worth 2 and quarter worth 1)

The top number being 7 means we will have 7 beats in each measure.

You will probably notice it has an odd feel to it because of it being an odd time signature.

For a tricky riff that changes time signatures a lot try the video lesson I did for a Dream Theater tune called Erotomania : Check it Out

Lesson 17