ripock
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I am going to be taking Yorkie into a Luthier because there's something amiss with the 14th fret. That means I will be stuck with my re-entrant Kamaka for a spell. Concomitantly, that means I will be focusing on my re-entrant shapes. Of course, it won't affect any chords. I'll just play the same chords I always do, but they will be a different inversion with that high G.
Fortunately I ran across a Stu Fuchs video talking about the B.B. box. I had of course know of the box--or, rather, I had heard of it but I didn't exactly know what it was. It is just these intervals: I II bIII IV V VI. Arranged on the second and first strings, those intervals are clumped together in a little box. The patterns are immediately recognizable to anyone who plays scales. I cannot be arsed to make a chart right now, but in E here are the frets: On the E string it is frets 12, 14, 15; and on the A string it is frets 12, 14, 16. You could extend the box to the C string and use frets 11 and 13 for the V and VI intervals.
This box works with either major or minor blues since the I II and VI intervals belong to the major pentatonic and the I bIII IV and V belong to the minor.
With this tool it will be easy to improvise and it makes it possible to mix the major and minor pentatonics which sometimes work and sometimes don't. At least it will give me something to work with.
Fortunately I ran across a Stu Fuchs video talking about the B.B. box. I had of course know of the box--or, rather, I had heard of it but I didn't exactly know what it was. It is just these intervals: I II bIII IV V VI. Arranged on the second and first strings, those intervals are clumped together in a little box. The patterns are immediately recognizable to anyone who plays scales. I cannot be arsed to make a chart right now, but in E here are the frets: On the E string it is frets 12, 14, 15; and on the A string it is frets 12, 14, 16. You could extend the box to the C string and use frets 11 and 13 for the V and VI intervals.
This box works with either major or minor blues since the I II and VI intervals belong to the major pentatonic and the I bIII IV and V belong to the minor.
With this tool it will be easy to improvise and it makes it possible to mix the major and minor pentatonics which sometimes work and sometimes don't. At least it will give me something to work with.
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