This is introduction to Sequencing. Sequencing is a way that we take a scale and kind of reorder the notes and play it in such a way that it sounds different than merely ascending or descending the scale.
Here, I will play you -- what I am talking about, we will start out with the A pentatonic box here, the fifth fret, very common scale we are all familiar with. That's what it sounds like ascending. Now, if I do a simple four note sequence, this is what you get and then descending. That's what it sounds like just going straight to the scale but when I add a sequence to it, a four note sequence, it instantly becomes a little bit more interesting and there is a lot more there.
Sequencing is a great skill to have and it's a great thing to apply to scales because it's a great way to practice scales and then kind of get a second nature feel for your scales; it's also a great way to develop finger co-ordination in so far as your starting phrases with fingers other than your first finger and a lot of these phrases will having a start with either a pinky or a third finger.
So, it's always great to just get used to not leaning so much on our first finger as a beginner. And then, Sequencing is also a great thing to add to your phrasing. If you are attempting to ascend the scale or you are starting in a lower part of the scale and you want to come to a higher part of it, it's a great way to travel throughout a scale without it sounding like the obvious ascending straight to the scale.
So, let's learn a simple four note sequence; there is myriad ways of sequencing scales but today we are going to be learning a simple four note sequence with the Pentatonic box. Let's take a look at that now.
Hi, this Alex Lifeson of Rush and today we are going to work on the Spirit of Radio. It starts at the F-sharp, which is the second fret on behind E-string and it's--
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