Bebop Cal Question again…lol

[guitarplayer007]

So my Module 5 just opened yet I;m still working on bebop Cal 1,2 and 3
How do we ever get these patterns to stick in our brains…lol is there an type or workout/exercise we can do? There are so many.
Ken

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[Richie]

You mean how to get the individual fingering patterns down (1,4 and 5) or master the bebop calisthenics? I assume you mean the calisthenics. If you can play them (without having to stop half way, and without hitting wrong notes) at a moderate tempo on the current fingerings used by just looking at the summary page, I would say move on. The important thing is to understand where everything is in each fingering pattern, apply the prescribed approaches to the chord tones, and program your fingers to be able to make those moves!

[guitarplayer007]

I’ve been looking at the exercises and the scale degrees that have the tab on them, I haven’t been using the summary page, maybe that’s my problem?
Thx
Ken

[Richie]

absolutely!

[Miguel Granada]

I am at the same stage as you Ken, but i ve been just using the summary of the calisthenics.I find it much better to internalize the instructions.

cheers
Miguel

[guitarplayer007]

Ok thanks Miguel, going to start using the summary page tonight…Let me ask you, do you actually memorize every pattern or just a few? Also do you know of any good sites to learn chord movement in a Jazz standard?
Or books.
Thx
Ken

[Richie]

Ken,
If you look at the instructions on the summary, you just need to internalize them in your head to play them, and not memorize them. For example, if a particular exercise is “lower chromatic neighboring tone for 3 and 5″ you should be able to take any fingering pattern you’re working on and just descend and ascend using the arpeggio and apply those approaches to the prescribed chord tones. This is what the summary is intended for.

Once you have gone over the entire summary and are comfortable playing it, you can then just sit with your guitar (without the summary) and from the top of your head pick any chord tone or chord tones and spontaneously assign approaches to them and try to play them. For example you might decide to mix them up and try: ” upper neighboring tone for 5 and unprepared chromatic approach from below to the 3″. You’ll come up with some interesting lines. Of course some will sound better than others and sometimes work better either descending or ascending.

[guitarplayer007]

Thanks Richie,
Will start doing that!!
Ken
PS maybe set up Skype lesson next week.

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