Developing Your Creativity: 3 Sequences

Developing Your Creativity is a free weekly video guitar lesson series designed for beginner improvisers. Your instructor is Justin Schroder, who has many years of experience teaching guitar players of all skill levels and styles and is also the founder of Listen Hear. Justin will have an online classroom at TrueFire soon, so stay tuned!

Video Lesson

A sequence is simply how we put things in order. In music, there are two common types of sequences; rhythmic, and melodic.

Rhythmic Sequences are just the rhythm we use to play a phrase. For chords, think of your strumming pattern as your rhythmic sequence.

Melodic Sequences are how you play a series of notes. Think about playing A, B, C, D; then B, C, D, E. These two lines would have the same Melodic Sequence; they share a series of seconds. A, C, E, G and C, E, G, B also share the same Melodic Sequence; thirds.

In this lesson, I will show you how to take a scale shape and add sequences to your creative toolbox.

Developing Your Creativity is a free weekly video guitar lesson series designed for beginner improvisers. Your instructor is Justin Schroder, who has many years of experience teaching guitar players of all skill levels and styles and is also the founder of Listen Hear. Justin will have an online classroom at TrueFire soon, so stay tuned!