The power of chord tones - Double Stops

Here is the second 'Power Of Chord Tones' video I put together back in 2006. In this one, I work over the same backing track but I go looking for double stops rather than single notes. So ... instant harmony lines that are always right! 

Hopefully, you can see that being able to look down and see the fretboard as an array of chord tones rather than dense scale patterns that hold way too much information, is far more useful. When you see chord tones, you see the context of that moment. A scale pattern displays the notes that apply to the whole piece of music (so long as it stays in the one key). At any given moment in a tune, only some of those scale notes are appropriate, not all. The best way to sound like an amateur is to wind up resolving a musical phrase on one of those 'inappropriate' notes. Ugh.

I call the array of chord tones the 'superchord'. It's the chord that is in play, but stretched the length of the fretboard. That's what I'm seeing and I can access it anywhere on the fretboard at any time while that chord is in play and always be right, never have to wonder if one of those 'ugh' notes is going to ruin my part.

I'm sure you know by now that my PlaneTalk Course teaches a simple way to achieve this mindset and this way of viewing the fretboard. It comes highly recommended by those who have joined up.