Guitar shapes and intervals - minor 3rd shapes using all 4 fingers

In this exercise, we practice listening to the minor 3rd interval, and exploring the different shapes we can use to get the minor 3rd sound.

The minor 3rd sound is 3 half-steps above the root note sound.

These exercises are meant to build muscle memory for for all fingers equally, so that later on your fingers will just naturally cooperate to get the sounds you want to hear in your ears.

In these exercises, we train each finger individually, and as part of a team of fingers, so that the fingers can operate naturally in all possible scenarios

There are two brute-force approaches to getting thru these exercises on your own.

1) list and name the 12 half-step intervals in an octave, then practice every possible way of fingering each of those intervals

2) start with any note as a nominal root note. Practice every possible two-fingering shape with that root, and then figure out the proper name for each of those interval sounds

Between these two approaches, you should be able to practice all possible two-finger shapes, and all possible intervals.

Its not enough just to blow thru these exercises, do the bare minimum, and move on.

A better approach would be to make time and space for yourself.

Don’t say, im going to learn the proper names of 12 sounds today...

Say, im going to learn the proper sound of ONE interval today

You could start with any interval.

The perfect 5th is an excellent interval to start with, which is 7 half-steps,

and its power chord shape is the foundation and reference anchor point for many other shapes and chords

But wherever you start with these interval shapes, be sure to move around and practice all other intervals and shapes

This particular minor 3rd transition shape would be played on the middle two strings [DG] as part of the 5th position A minor pentatonic/blues scale and is also transposable