Planing Techniques in Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Dustin, and I am going to talk about the planing technique. It is a really simple idea that will help you see the fret board a lot better. And the cool thing about it is that allows you to create some in sounds, and some far out sounds, that you can take as far as you want. So now you have got your scales and modes down really well, up and down the neck, you will start to see little triads forming within whatever scale are you in. This is when planing becomes useful. You can take any of these triads and move throughout the scale using chords, and get some kind of wild sounds. I will just keep it simple and keep it in G major scale for now, and choose a random triad. This happens to be a G major triad, and if I move each of the notes in triad up to the next scale degree in G major, you get a new triad. You do it again, and again, and again, and just move throughout the scale that way gives kind of a cascading sound, you can do things like arpeggio… you skip around, and it is cool, because you can just choose any three notes, I mean, I am still in G major, I was just going to choose these three, you move each note up one scale degree, up and down the neck here is another three, and it gets you so many different triad options for arpeggiating and moving around, it can just open things up quite a bit. So try that and have some fun. "