Minuet in G

Minuet in G, this one has a lot of uh sequence of runs that are also known as patterns. This is in the key of G, uh using the G major scale, which is taught on my website as I've covered before. But uh we're going down in a pattern. 1123451234512345, which is the same sequence of notes but moved down one note of the major scale each time. So we'll talk through that as we get there. The first note is the 2nd string, 3rd finger, 3rd fret. Again, whatever the number is on the tab in this one, that's what finger we're using to um to play, that's what digit we're using on our fretting hand. That first note is here. And then we go up to that note from the open 3rd string up the 1st 5 notes of the G major scale. Do re mi fa sol. It's not strictly do re mi, but it's got that sound to it. It's got that major scale sound which I hope you can hear. Open. Open 13. Coming up. 12. 5, notes 12345 of the major scale. Finishing, open, open. On the open. G-string. Here we are, 34. Open, open. Bar 3, a very similar pattern, but starting this time from the next note up, which is the open finish string, the E note. And then we have 13. Open 23. Open. 13023. Same finger numbers as the fretted notes that we're hitting. Again, finishing that line, open, open. So we've got that pattern there, da da da da da da dun dun dun da da da da dun, the same kind of thing. It's gonna be a different sort of feel when we start to build our speed, but get the notes down first and use the right fingers with the plucking hand. Let's go from the top and do the entire first line. Here we go. 123. Open the string. OK, so we have that run. If you haven't covered that G major scale yet. Highly recommend just walking up and down those notes. But with the correct fingers with the plucking hand. Second line, here's where we have this new pattern, this series of three bars that are the same pattern but moving down a note each time. I'll play the line in total. 345123. 345. You can hear that pattern in the melody. It's not the same pattern with the fingers, it it is gonna be tricky for for some of you to get this down, but it's so useful for learning how melodies work, especially with finger style guitar. Starting with the first frets. On the C note, 31,020. Same pattern in bar 6, starting with the open. 1. 5 That was open. 10202. And then the final pattern, starting from that 2. Open. and probably the little finger or 3rd. It doesn't strictly matter, but I'm playing it with the thumb at this side. Uh 3rd finger and then 1st finger to play the last note at bar 8. That's what we're going for, let's break it down a little bit more. Going from bar 534. Again, 34. Bar 6. Now open. 10. And then finally, uh, bar 7. 20. 4th fret with the thumb. And first finger to finish. Just to really get you guys to understand what I mean by this pattern, if you just play the first note of each of those last four bars from 5, bar 5. So we have the C note that starts bar 5, then the open that starts bar 6. Second fret that starts bar 7, and the open string. That starts by 8. Four descending notes of the G major scale. See. They That's the first note of each bar, and then the notes after that are the same pattern, just again, moved down one note, but of the major scale. So not necessarily down a fret or two frets every time, just down the notes of that scale in in a pattern and, and if you, if you search for, if you literally search my website for pattern, there should be a few. Free free lessons come up where there are more lessons on this pattern idea cos it's so useful for melody writing, improvisation, uh, lead guitar and, and mainly finger style guitar in this sense. So let's go for those last 4 bars one last time and then we'll stitch it all together. From bar 5, the first finger. With the middle finger at this side, remember, one. 102. 6 7. Again from the top, 34. Stitching it together from the top, this is a demo. Work through the tab, work through any bits that are troubling you. Uh, but once you get the idea of this pattern, it becomes a lot easier. And the speed will come, well, I'll give you some speed tips when we've just had a play through now. So let's go for, uh, from the top. Let's get the notes first of all. 34. And that would be a fine speed to work towards, but to really get the speed up with this one, what you're looking for, when you're practising it, after you've learned the notes, and with every uh melody we learn in this course, we're looking for there to be no gaps between each of the notes, particularly those faster runs. So when we go. The first bar of this song, there will be spaces when we learn it. It will sound more like this. That's natural, but when you speed it up, don't let. Don't let it be like that, keep your fingers nice and close. And if that's something you need more help with, I've got some finger style uh finger exercises I should say. Uh they're basically nicknamed spider exercises, this kind of thing. Which are really good. Uh, for that kind of thing. For building your speed with with this. um and again you're looking for the, when you're trying to increase that speed, you're looking for there not to be any gaps. If there are gaps, slow it down and focus on letting there not be any gaps, even if you're playing it. At this kind of speed, it is not. Otherwise when you speed it up. There's there's too many gaps for you to be able to speed it up basically. So one more play through now and really pay attention to those gaps. I'll play it slow but no gaps. Try and play along to me now and compare the sound that you're getting and think about how you can improve not the speed, but reducing the amount of space between the notes. There's no silence in this one, should be consistent sound throughout. 3 4 Keeping those fingers closed. Second line. Ending on an optional G And that's minuet in G. I hope you have a lot of fun with that one. Again, this course is the precursor to my fuller fingerstyle course, which is this one, this was released last year. The melodies worked on here will really help you kick on with this one, but this one we focus on a lot more kind of finger style patterns. A lot of this kind of thing and then putting that together with some of the melodies that we've learned in this one. Happy birthday and. Put them together with uh quite a few of the songs that we've we've learned in this course, quite a few of those melodies. But those principles that we've learned here will improve every aspect of your guitar playing. If you need any more help with the technical aspects of physically playing, those finger exercises or the spider exercises as they're also known, uh, are for free on my website. Anything with the scales that we've looked at here are at levels 5 and 6 of the beginner's course of this one. And I hope you've had a lot of fun in this course. Thank you so much for your support. If you've made it this far in this course, it is has been a privilege to to be your teacher with this. Hope you'll learn more Fingerstyle songs and general songs from my YouTube channel, website, app and some of the premium courses and books I have available. Thank you so much for watching guys, I will see you again. All the best with your fingerstyle guitar playing.