II Chord. Dorian Mode & A Fresh Look At Minor Pentatonics
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Please ensure if watching this you have viewed the previous introductory theory videos which lead you to here. I am teaching as if you were visiting me say once a week. You cannot expect to understand everything without the building blocks - so if you dont understand - please do watch the other videos as its worth doing I promise!
Ohhhhhhh I am SO SO excited for you to watch this one!!!
Following on from the last lesson where we learnt the I M7 arpegio (chord tones that make up the I M7 chord), today we build the chord tones of the II chord in the key.
This introduces us to the "minor" sound both in terms of chords and scales.
We will lean something very new and exciting about how the scales "personality" changes as we start from the new "root".
We then drop a couple of notes to create our minor pentatonic scale and hey presto we have some exciting developments on our hands!
Please watch and I hope it brings a new and fresh perspective to your chord and lead playing/understanding.
Now I have to tell you there are a couple of little errors in my diagrams but should be obvious to spot! One says "Root of Major scale" when its clearly a diagram of the dorian mode / II chord intervals so it should say "Root of the Dorian scale". . Sorry....:( My brain is frazzled by the time I have done the video editing with phones ringing / live chat etc!! Thats my excuse anyway and I am sticking to it!!!!! Hope you enjoy it as I enjoyed doing it.
Hi Richard. Thanks again for these "lockdown lessons"! After playing guitar for over 40 years and having given up when it comes to musical theory on countless occasions, I could never have imagined I'd find myself looking forward to each new tutorial and realise that the proverbial dots are beginning to join up for me! You have a great way of explaining musical concepts in a fresh way that's fun and easily understandable.
Thank you so much Sir!
You really teach "music"!!! 🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖
amazing Richard to say the least, I learnt the minor pentatonic but always going up the fretboard and always in the same direction, I never realised that you could play the minor pentatonic within the major scale but in the opposite direction to which I've learnt, Another light bulb moment, because I now know the importance of why its good to know how the scale is constructed root m3 5 m7 etc etc. I had to watch the video twice to wrap my head around what you were doing and grasp the concept of it all. MIND BLOWING, keep them coming.
👍 Good friend. I take it for me to playlist learn electric guitar. Thanks friend for sharing. 🙂 💫
I've "discovered" you guys during the lockdown. I'll be paying you a visit as soon as circumstances allow. Stay safe and keep up the tutorials!
Cheers Rich, once again you nailed it!! sooooo informal but, to me it makes so much sense! Yet another massive GOLD NUGGET I have added to my now rapidly growing Arsenal of Guitar Ammunition and, all thanks to you Buddy, please keep it coming, I have only been waiting 40 years for this Jigsaw to start taking shape. AWSOME, I will now hop over to join your club.
I have to say I was actually excited about this one too - this is where it becomes FUN! Thank you. www.patreon.com/richardsguitarshop for the "club"!! Yes - Really excited about that too as it gives you an opportunity to fire me a question that may be holding you back until you have it answered - but also there are just brilliant benefits if you use my business too. THANK YOU.
@@RichardsGuitarshop Thanks Rich, will do, stay safe and enjoy the wknd!
Brilliant, Richard. I can’t wait to go through all of the modes this way. The “teaser” post was made much clearer from this
Richard your videos are amazing! I've been stuck at a pretty basic level for years and your videos had helped progress my playing tenfold! You express concise but relevant information that pretty much all other videos I've seen have missed out on or not explained. Thanks a million!!
Thank you SO much. That’ means a lot to me - thank you 🙏
Fantastic lesson! Really cleared some things up for me! Thank you
Get me excited Rich!!
You've just connected the dots on so many things... *High Five!*
Brilliant lesson as usual Rich learnt so much its things like that no one else teaches mixing major and minor in the same position 👍👍👍👍
Now, that I took my time and watched this video for the 4th time, I (think) it's finalls starting to click (yep, I am a bit slow...). This way of learning (teaching) is really so much better than just to stupidly learn all those scales by heart without having a slightest idea of where they come from and how it's all linked. Once you start to get your head around it, you suddenly see that it's not as complicated as you first thought it was. At least that's what's happening with me. Thanks. Now I think I can move on to your next video (the III chord)..! After 30 years of 'playing with the guitar', I think I might finally get to a point where I will dare to say that I actually do 'play the guitar'. Thank you, Richard!
I thought I knew the pentatonic scale, but thanks to you I will be doing more homework now! Great video.
Please do watch the next few videos ... I think you will find it pretty eye opening lol
Enjoying your lessons dude .Many thanks
I was stuck in the minor pentatonic rut, but this has really opened it up for me, have done this before but with this lesson it just clicked so big thank you.
Great to hear! Thank you so much and please do subscribe as there are more to come!
Thank you
Hi Richard... I keep watching your videos over, but must have missed this one along the way ( Guilty as charged for not watching them in order !! ) I've had a real moment of clarity with this one , when you put the diagram on screen for the basic D minor chord shape , with how the chord is actually constructed and not as you say just black dots . I thought my lord I actually get it now...When I first printed your diagrams out , I thought what's all this about and I now know that I've just been looking at diagrams of black dots forever . I ACTUALLY GET IT HEY... One positive that's come from lockdown is this series of vids Richard...Thanks Again.
YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! AWESOME! The wonderful sounds of pennies dropping!
Hi ya Richard, thanks for another lesson. Been watching for a while now. 👍 When this situation is finished, I'll come down to check your guitar shop out.. 🎸
Brilliant. See you then and glad you are enjoying it.
Great lesson Richard! I think I've just grasped for the first time how the major, minor and pentatonic scale are connected! As to where to go from there... phew... not sure. Maybe one that goes into the practical application by disescting some real world example from a song?
Thanks
Hey Richard, absolutely fantastic tutorial video series you are delivering here I'm just in awe of the way you play, and trying to understand as much as possible of the information you're sharing with us. Tell me though, what guitar is it that you have to your left in this video, discretely lying on your sofa in all of its aqua green beauty ?
I just viewed this vid, don't think I am fully understanding a lot now but will revisit again soon when I have more time. Thanks Richard well done.
I think 6:30AM was a bit too brave for me to be watching this one haha! A couple of bits clicked into place, and it is an absolute belter of a lesson - I just need to solidify the other lessons in my head first I think. Great great stuff Richard, as always! :)
Emily Raw I couldn’t agree more. It’s not a race and take your time. What it takes to say something in 20 minutes could in fact be days and days of practice and getting your head around the details. Don’t forget a minute get despondent and please shout if you need me.
I noticed that the I chord ( A7 ) you produced in the first video was on the fifth fret low E string and the second chord ( Dm7 ) you are starting on the 10 fret low E string. Could it ( Dm7 ) be started on the fifth fret A string?
Putting the the three chords together in a 12 bar blues is going to be rather daunting for me. Having to move quickly to different chords particularly on the last 4 bars... but I'm up for the challenge.
REALLY ENJOYING THE LESSONS AND PARTICULARLY YOUR ENTHUSIASM. CHEERS!
Great stuff Richard. But coming back to this lesson after months of cogitation: I still get confused by 1) the symbols :what is "2/9"? What does the "b" stand for? 2) The tremendous sustain of an electric guitar hinders my understanding of the changes from note to note - everything is 'glissando"; it would be clearer on an acoustic - for me at least. Hope that helps!
Hi.... 1). The intervals go 1 to 8. 8 is an octave above one. When you continue everything from that point is an octave higher. Same note but next register up. So ... 2 = 9. Same note but an octave higher. b=flat. So if you have a 9th and go down one semi tone you get b9. Both of these questions tell me you need to go over my introduction to the major scale theory lessons I created especially so you can understand these concepts. It will help you a lot. Hope that helps!
Got it. Thanks!
Thanks d Dorian sure, ice to hear your breakdown. Now if you may be so kind, can you say what your setup is, is it the guitar giving you that sound? I imagine it's the whole rigg, but it's mainly the Ibenez isn't it?
Does dropping the 2 and 6 notes from this scale make the new scale the 4th position of the pentatonic scale?
Cheers.
Thanks Richard; talk about a lightbulb moment! I now understand why the Pentatonic is called minor and how it sits together with the "major" scales; ( yes I know it was minor before anyone jumps in)your 30 minute lesson took me about an hour to work through though.
Not sure what to suggest next but the CAGED system seems to have eluded my ability to fully grasp the concept.
Chris Packwood thanks so much for the feedback. Oh don’t you worry that will be clear as the sky on a beautiful sunny day soon enough! Definitely on the radar but you may find it comes together naturally as we progress through this work we are doing! Lovely to hear you getting on well!
You are a good teacher Richard no doubt
Hi Richard, in your “II (m7) chord” diagram, down from the new root note at D, you wrote “b7” on the C note. Is that right? Should it be another m7, or does this b somehow mean flat 7? Thanks for clarifying. Mark
Hi there. Ok... strictly speaking when talking scales you talk in flat and sharp for notes that are lowered or raised by half a tone. So the diagram would show the flat symbol. However when talking chord tones we tend to refer to the 3rd and 7th as minor or major which is exactly the same - lowering or raising by half a step. So the c is a minor 7th to D and it’s also a b7 in the scale. Hope that’s clear!
@@RichardsGuitarshop Thanks for the reply, Richard. It does make sense, is it just a matter of preference whether you refer to them as flats or minors? I guess I'm confused because you were referring to a chord, do I expected an "m7," but it makes sense. PS I've been writing out scales by the dozens, trying to use the interval numbers, not the note names. That makes so much more sense to me. I found it interesting that the pattern along each fret ALWAYS spells out "BEADGCF" (really 7362514, which I thought would be hard to memorize, no acronym possible, but then I noticed the differences between each number are: 4-3-4-3-4-3! Easy to remember. How cool is that!) I then took the note positions on the low E string (4,0,5,0,6,0,7,1etc) and transcribed this sequence up each fret at each note. The resulting scales across each string had different intervals than the first string, (I wonder are those the phrygian, lydian, etc? I haven't tested yet...) But by sliding the "lone" 3s and 7s right to meet their 4s and 1s, and "pulling along" any notes from behind so as not to leave two empty intervals in a row (of course not allowed) I had the I scale across each string! Neato! Then I just shifted the B and E string notes both one fret higher and voila! I derived the whole fretboard in C from "7362514" and the major I scale, without just filling in along the strings! Awesome! So, now I see each of my formerly straight lines of notes got skewed, each in a different way, to give seven unique "zig-zag" patterns, all in the order 7362514. Each pattern begins with the last note of the previous one, so every single note of the C scale can be played in one continuous repetition of 7362514. I don't know if I'm stating the obvious, or if it's actually amazing! I hope this excercise has some practical use, at least I'm studying the heck out of the fretboard. This is all new stuff to me, and I'm sure it's common knowledge to a music theorist, but I like feeling that I discovered it, haha! Your videos inspired all my "calculations." Thank you, and keep up the good work!!
Thank you Richard that was a great lesson , for me it confirms a couple of things and brought a lot more in to perspective please carry on the way you are showing and explaining it is spot on for me .
When you started playing the Dorian mode I realised this is the mode Santana uses a lot. I had been trying to work it out but couldn't until you broke it down then it was obvious. Thank you so much. Nice work.
100% awesome!
Lovely guitar Richard! Another enjoyable lesson ...tomorrow’s practice thank you
Very good, Richard, but I don't see how the "first tone of the C major scale produces a major 7th chord". Surely C major 7th comes from the B note rather than the first tone, namely "D".
Also I am baffled by the "second chord tone" in the key (when you're summing up). What is a "chord tone"? I do understand how to "generate scales within the scale", such as the Dorian mode, which it took me about 30 years to get into my head! But, for me at least, a major problem in mastering guitar music is the vocabulary and the various visual aids - standard written music being particularly difficult for me and something that, despite many, many fruitless attempts, I know now that I will never be able to read it before I die.Your enthusiasm is infectious, however, so I shall stick at it. Thanks!
Forget that question, Richard. I know you are VERY busy and I now realise that a "chord tone" is a note that fits in - helps to define indeed - any given chord. Correct?
Couple of questions for you.Richard. The chord progression is in the key of C major. Would it be possible to use major pentatonic scale over all chords in the progression? Or even minor pentatonic over all chords?
Chris Speedy hi! Yes. Consider major and minor pentatonic scales as 5 note versions of whatever major or minor scale you are playing . Does that make sense ?
@@RichardsGuitarshop MMM, not sure. Let me rephrase the question and you can judge whether you answered it. Let's say that you are soloing over a few chords from a major scale. Some of the chords are major chords and some are minor. Is the best approach to use major pentatonic scale throughout? I'm just not sure whether in your tutorials you've been switching between major and minor depending on the chord type underlying your soloing.
@@chrisspeedy3796 Its really not that defined. There will be times when playing a major pentatonic scale works well and others when it wont depending on what chords are being played and what the feel and tonal centre of the song is. I you have been following my theory videos its ALL about the feel, how the chord tones react with the notes being played. So for example, if you are using a major pentatonic scale but the chord you are on is minor and doesnt contain many of the notes in the major pentatonic scale - and that chord is held for a bar or so - then it will sound totally wrong because there is no connection between the chord and the scale tones. This is at the heart of the lessons I am doing - how you listen to the notes, see how they interplay with the chord - and will be the same in the lesson I am doing next which is the IV chord.
@@RichardsGuitarshop Thanks Richard. That clears it up. These concepts are really tough for a beginner to get their head around but I love your straightforward, back to first principles approach. It gives the likes of me a fighting chance of eventually grasping how to be musical and not just blindly following scale patterns!
@@chrisspeedy3796 My first video was the blues one and it was really popular but I realised that it wouldnt be fair to keep doing videos like that unless I give people a chance to understand them. These videos - if watched in series will do that I promise. I am making sure I give the ammo you need as you go along and it will fit together like a big jigsaw. Keep me posted if it doesnt - I need to know! Remember my patreon.com/richardsguitarshop is now open too. It costs £5 a month but it gives you acess to me directly - I saw this comment and will always try to reply but there - its guaranteed and you get extra links, information and benefits from the shop side too!
how do I just suddenly understand this??? unbelievable! thanks once again Richard!!
Oh man that’s brilliant. So fantastic to hear it helped. So chuffed
Another eyeopener, thanks a lot. Keep 'em coming
Ok so this makes a lot of sense but only because if have been banging my head against a brick wall not full understanding what I have been shown. I think everybody and there dog starts with the A minor pentatonic position 1 and progress through all the other shapes. then you find out that if, in the first position, you start at the second note (C) and play all the same notes you now have the C major pentatonic is this correct?
Ian Martin correct yes
Another exceptional tutorial Richard, thanks so much! I’ve started using backup tracks via RUclips however one of these days I’ll go ahead and purchase a looper as you do so often.
Nothing easy about this one Richard but suitably challenging. I’m looking forward to the smug feeling once I’ve cracked it and then work it into every conversation however out of context! Many thanks.
AWESOME!!!! And you wait to we get to the III chord!!!!!!!! HAHAHAH!!!! (Said with evil laughing voice!) But we will have fun - I will give you time to get your head around this one though. Remember I have just set up patreon.com/richardsguitarshop so I can make myself available for direct conversations about videos and support generally. BYE!!
This is another great addition, Richard. One suggestion. Might it be possible for you to include the number of the fret for the root in your diagrams? This might sound rather simplistic but it might help us not get lost along the fretboard.
Sure - but I deliberately DON'T want people to fixate on the specific key - as the rules apply wherever you are. Every single lesson has been from the same scale in C so my logic is you should now know where the C & D are on the bass E string? Do you see what I mean? Everything is relative to the root so I want you to think in that way - rather than following fret numbers? What do you reckon?
That is a good point, Richard. Thanks for clarifying. You are moving us on in our grasp of the scales.@@RichardsGuitarshop
Next time I practice I’ll try to get my head around it thanks Richard
Richard, I enjoy all your lessons and comments and always looking forward to your new videos.
Thanks so much. Really appreciate it.
You re really a good generous teacher because those lessons worth a lot of money. Hhhhh
Great video btw!
Really good lot to take in but I’m on it , was that purple rain chord
Yes! If I EVER learnt a song - it would have to be that one. Prince - A guitar GOD who was so underestimated as a guitar player - a genius! Guitar wasnt even his first instrument!!! Probably wasnt his second either?! lol - Just a musical genius who played most instruments
Richard thanks for another great lesson, very informative. I struggle with making melodic lines over a backing tracking, do you have any suggestions on how to improve on making something sound melodic. That finish on Cort guitar was beautiful. Thanks again. I'm a senior learner by the way, so I hope you able to teach this old dog some new tricks.
Entertaining - thanks.
Finally getting some use out of my looper pedal, that I’ve had for ages, but not really got too grips with before now.
I’ve learned so much from you, Your a natural teacher. Richard. Thank you so much. 🎸🤘
Thanks for the lesson
Great lesson again Richard. I am not sure where on the fretboard to begin. Can I take any position on the 6th string as a root tone and then build from there? I hope you understand my question ok. Anyway, back to the minor pentatonic in D
Hi. All the lessons purely for simplicity and continuity have been in C Major. So the major scale pattern always starts from the 8th fret where the C is on the low E. Today, the scale is from the D as we are starting on the second note of the major scale and ending on the 2nd note an octave higher - that is the new tonal centre - the new "scale" with its own voice as the video is about. So... that would start on the 10th fret which is the D
Wow talk about learning lots. Im going to go back through them all again, this is getting complicated for my 63yo brain. "L"
My 28 year old brain is also struggling with this one too haha. I'll see you in the previous videos for a brain refresher!
vanislandsteve BC don’t be disheartened though. Don’t let anything stop you and I am here if you need me. All the videos piece together and if I have done things correctly which I believe and hope dearly I have... all the answers are there. Just need to find the penny dropping moment for you! It may also be you are over concerned about something you don’t need to be. It’s hard to say without chatting to you directly but please do let me know if I can help. PS big plug... I setup my patreon site up especially so I could help directly with questions on the videos so you could join that if you wish. Sorry to mention it but would be lovely to make sure I am around for you. Hope that all helps and thank you so much for watching
Hi. I’ve tried everyday since this video, to join your club on Patreon. It’s not allowing me to.
Ohhh goodness!? Can you click on my live chat? www.rguitars.co.uk and I will try and help you get it sorted?
Richards Guitars I sent a message yesterday on above link re Patreon
@@BlueSky-yj7ll Hi! I just replied. am SO sorry for the issues you are having but check out my reply and we can try and sort this between us.
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Thanks in advance. 😊🤙
Thomas Szotak Hi 👋. New address is 1 western road, Stratford upon Avon, cv37 OAH . Details are all on my site at rguitars.co.uk . See you then!
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