Posts made by kavusha

Hi Emil,

just wanted to give a small suggestion concerning organizing your lessons. I think it would be great to have "latest" filter to zoom in on the newest lessons on your site.

Have a great day.

Kavi

@emilernebro
Thank you Emil!
I've looked it up. It's 44 mm. Good to know!
I've started experimenting with an acoustic guitar which has a 42 mm wide nut. It feels too small for my hands but! .... the problem with the unclean muted sound is gone. Apparently i have to try other sizes too untill i have found the right one.
It is a huge relief for me now!
Thanks again!

Best regards,
Kavi

@emilernebro
Hi Emil,
I use a thumbpick.

I also wanted to ask you about the nut width of your guitars. Have you got a favourite one which to your feeling fits like a glove? And also is there some general rule about what nut width suits fingerstyle method the best?

Best regards,
Kavi

@emilernebro
Thank you Emil.
Best regards,
Kavi.

Hi Emil,

I've got a problem with my palm muting technique. I am not able to produce clean muted sound of the 4th string despite the fact that my hands are pretty big. I have tried different positions but to no avail. The only solution I came up with is to move my hand slightly down when picking the 4th string. But it feels very uncomfortable. Sometimes it drives me crazy. I have started to think that my hand is built differently. I am playing guitar with 50 mm nut width. Might it be that it is too wide for fingerstyle technique? Would you have some suggestion on this?

Thank you in advance!

Kavi.

Hi Emil,
up to now I have counted up these scales that you said you used the most.
Is this list correct?

1. Minor pentatonic
2. Major pentatonic
3. Blues scale
4. Ionian
5. Lydian
6. Myxolidian
7. Aeolian
8. Harmonic Minor
9. Melodic Minor
10. Dorian
11. Half step/whole step diminished
12. Altered or Superlocrian
13. Bebop (circus) scale

Is there any other scales not listed above which you use in your improvising and which you think would be worth studying?

Thank you in advance!

Kavi.

@emilernebro

Thank you very much for the explanation Emil! Now everything falls into place.

Best regards,

Kavi.

P.S. I now see that my post was categorized under IMPROVISATION LEVEL # 2 which is of course not correct. Sorry for that! Probably it should be labelled as Jazz Guitar Forum. So if the forum admins can fix it i would be greatefull.

Hi Emil,
Your voice leading in a ii V I sounds so tasty. Is there some theory behind it? Would you kindly explain how you choose what chord to play?

Best regards,

Kavi

Emil,
thank you for your clarification! I really enjoyed it!
As for me your answer could not be long enough :)
I have been trying to go to both the extremes - either to play everything by ear or by theory. And I failed ha-ha-ha.
But what is slowly slowly coming out of it is the understanding that every one of us finally has to find his /her own way to master those sweet "secret" tones.

Warmest regards,

Kavi.

Thank you Emil for your reply!

I am sorry, of course it was Dm7(b5) and not Dmb7 :).

In this context I would like to ask another question:
when in a chord progression the 5th chord goes to the 1st we can substitute it with a diminished chord with the root on the b2 or on the maj 3rd, right ? Since the diminished chord consist of equal intervals we can choose either one. Is it determined by our fretboard knowledge as well? As for me I like to use the maj3 as the root since it is only a half-step away from the 1st chord which is easier to associate with coming home.
Is my thinking correct?

Thank you Emil!

Kavi.

Hi Emil,

I watched a couple of interviews with Tommy Emmanuel where he said that he can neither read tabs (let alone notes) nor can he play modes. When asked how to improvise he answered something like this "God gave you ears - use your ears!"
So, does Tommy Emmanuel really not know modes and play everything by ear? What is your take on it?
Same is true (to some extent I think) about Martin Taylor. He says he never thinks in terms of the modes but only in terms of the root and the third.

I am very curious what your answer is gonna be,

Thank you again for your great lessons!

Warmest regards,

Kavi

Hi Emil,

in this lesson you say that when soloing over Fm6 we could arpegiate Dmb7. But if the notes of both chords are identical than what is the point in substituting Fm6 with Dmb7? Is it because of the change of the tonal center?

Thank you in advance!

Warm regards,

Kavi.

Hi Emil,

thanks a lot for your answer!

Your "Arranging for fingerstyle guitar" has been a great inspiration to me! And I am definitely going to check out all of your suggestions.
I was talking about may be something basic in arrangement. Like when you hear a tune and try to find out first a reharmonized basic chord structure then a simple reharmonized chord melody all by ear without ever looking into the "official" notation of the song.

Best regards,

Kavi.

P.S. Those series of videos with songs (like "Yesterday") played in severel levels are invaluable for us! We can see the whole prossess of guitar arrangement from inside out. As for me I can not get enough of those :)

Hi Emil,

would you please one day make a lesson on how to reharmonize a song from scratch (without even using a lead sheet) from a simple chord-melody to a sophisticated arrangement with chord substitutions.
Best regards and a big thank you for your wonderfull lessons!

Kavi

@emilernebro
Hi Emil,

just wanted to thank you for your answer!
Have a nice day!

Kavi

Hi Emil,

a couple of days ago i posted here a question. It seems like this question
hasn't got through to you. Hence here it is once again.
I was wondering if you could share your expierence about how you memorized
and studied the modes? Should one look at them as if they were a part of their respective parent scale
(in which case you have to keep in mind only that one scale) or rather should one treat each of them
as a different independent scale and learn them individually one by one.
Thank you so much for your great lessons!

Kavi

Hi Emil.
I've been wondering if you could tell me what is the best way to study and memorize different modes? Should i treat them as a part of their respective parent scale or should i learn each of them as a separate independent scale? Thank you for your excellent lesson! Best regards.
Kavi.