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I speak from experience and have unfortunately spent years stuck in pentatonic boxes until recently. For anyone watching this, I urge you too listen and take all of the above onboard. It is a complete game changer!
I like your style. You're obviously well connected with the instrument - and your lines come off as genuine and heartfelt without missing the mark melodically or rhythmically. Your advice on learning how to become a masterful solo artist makes total sense. And I'm confident many are inspired by it. Great job!
Hi Ross, I got your Melodic Soloing with Triads about2 months ago and I have been learning the major triads as instructed across the 4 sets of strings in C F G F. I’ve just about got them and I’m excited to start playing them in the videos. Next will be minor triads. I’ve set myself a goal of 12 months to complete the course. It’s a great course and thank you very much. I can’t wait to see where I’ll be in 12 months. Cheers mate from Gary in Australia. 😊😊😊
I wish that RUclips was available in the early 90’s, where guys like you could teach my generation 😊. Like you say, a lot of us has learned the guitar in the wrong way, focusing on irrelevant stuff 😅 Thanks Ross for sharing 👍
Great video! When I learned and memorized the five pentatonic shapes, I wanted to know where the other two notes were to complete the scale so I learned those too. I always knew about adding those extra notes in my licks. I have been working to target chord tones and realize from this video that I need to better commit to memory the triads buried in the scale. Greatly appreciate it!
I started this course about 3 weeks ago and love it... there is so much information in it that is like learning the guitar all over again... I hope it will help me become a better lead guitarist thanks
Thank you Ross. I started watching your videos a while ago, and I love your unique teaching style. You really focus on what’s important. I was stuck at an intermediate level for a long time, but your "Bulletproof Guitar Player" course helped me improve. I still have a lot to learn, but I’m now focusing more on triads instead of just shapes and patterns. Thanks also for the free solo course. Please keep making such great videos!
Brilliant! I have tried to convince fellow guitar players and students of this and have been met with rolling eyes. Another concept I try to impart is being able to locate any given interval from any root position. A passport to understanding harmony and unlocking the neck. Great post, great playing, thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for the free course Ross, I signed up for your website for a month a couple years ago and really liked your content but my chops weren’t up to snuff back then; I’ve been putting in the hours though recently and am really looking forward to digging into this course , I love your style and think you’re a great teacher 🙌🏻
Great advice Ross! I think one of the reasons some guitarists don't master the major scale is because, once they learn it and noodle around - up and down, it just doesn't sound sexy. . . until they can learn what you are teaching here.
I have started the course last week and its unvaluable! 👌Priceless info which is really well explained along with tasteful licks to learn to apply it! It is a topic I knew I wanted to explore since I started studying your book Beyond Pentatonic Blues guitar (which I highly recomend to anybody reading this!). Many thanks for the free course and keep up with the amazing work! Cheers.
I never thought of the way you explained the harmonic minor scale. I base everything of of natural minor so it’s the same but knowing how a different perspective works is enlightening. Great video!
Well done & thank you my friend - you have been where so many of us are trying to get to or are already at and it means so much to hear someone articulate and confront the hurdles we are being so fearful of approaching. Cheers to yers!
Great lesson. Really started putting some graft into trying to be more thoughtful in my playing this year. In the past I've been in this limited mindset of looking at a chord sequence and trying to work out what key is it in, then soloing aimlessly in say A minor pentatonic. The big takeaway I've noticed is a shedload of songs are non-diatonic and break the rules many times, many flipping out of the initial key. My mindset now is stop thinking about any key (within reason) and much more about the chords and the chord tones (triads, 6ths, 9ths etc) which go with them. So now I'm thinking what notes can I play on this chord, rather than what notes can I play in this song.
The illustration of how you play the major scale across chord changes and inversions is really helpful. Previously when I thought of key of A, I’d just play the F# minor pentatonic scale up and down the neck without giving too much thought to the underlying chord changes. I know that’s not always wrong but it’s a limited way of thinking and doesn’t always sound right. The hardest thing for me is playing over chord changes and this illustration was very very helpful!
Funnily enuff, my copy of Koala Books' Progressive Scales, Modes and Improvising is all about breaking the Major scale down into its Modal constituents. I've put it to one side for now as I'm concentrating on Ross's Soloing With Triads course for the time being.
I learned the major scale many years ago. I learned it on one position and also the 3 notes per string pattern Ross starts with. One thing I noticed which I still don't completely understand, is this 3 note per string pattern is found in the modes but for different keys. For example, if you look at a diagram of the A Aeolian scale across the fretboard, you'll see the 3 note per string pattern for the C major scale embedded in A Aeolian. So you can play the 3 note per string C major scale as part of A Aeolian. With D Aeolian, you'll see it has the F Major scale 3 note per string pattern. With the A Dorian scale it contains the G major scale 3 note pattern at the 3rd fret. With A Mixolydian, it contains the D Major scale 3 note per string pattern at the 10th fret. So it seems, and I haven't taken the time to plot this all out, that if you knew the major scale all across the fretboard, you would also know all the modes just by moving the pattern the appropriate place on the fretboard.
Fortunately I had a good teacher right from the get go. he did teach me shapes and boxes but also taught me theory behind the shapes and scales so I never really got stuck in certain position or shape kind of mind set. If you guys want to really improvise freely switching between different scales while nailing all the chord tones even to none diatonic or modal chord changes, breaking out of boxes and shapes mind set is crucial and what this guy teaches is legit so listen.
Yes sir. Triads are most important thing to learn on guitar as soon you are able and memorize those chord shapes. Major and pentatonic scale is also very important to understand what is root , 3rd and 5th and 7th. I watch Guthrie Trapps youtube channel and he also talks a lot about triads and so called CAGED system and importance of it. It is true, since i practise this stuff i am learning much faster that before just jamming over backingtracks. 🎸🎶☮
You are right, you need the major scale to understand the minor scale and everything else. But I rarely actually play it, I'm a metalhead so I usually go for a minor or phrygian feel so it's easy to understand why people don't pay much attention to it. When it comes to these things, don't think about the guitar, think about the piano. That's much easier, it's like classical music theory is running on the piano natively. With theory everyone can just construct their own patterns on the guitar neck. 5:24 People who just play by feel use music theory too, they just refuse to use the same terminology as everyone else talking about it.
I truly appreciate all your lessons, I watched them all and I am subscribed to you site. Everything you put out is absolutely amazing and I thank you for it. I do, however, want to point out some things that are in the realm of constructive criticism and I truly hope you'll not get offended by it. I find myself more often than not skipping over the first 4 minutes of your videos. This is, usually, your personal story about struggling. In the beginning this had an incredible effect on me (like look, others are struggling as well) but after a while it's just, well, boring. This might be related to the fact that I do actually watch all your videos. So for new viewers this is still inspiring. Maybe find a balance. I appreciate you and all your work. Amazing lesson. Cheers!
Hey thanks for the feedback and kind words! These days I like to script all of my videos as if they are for a brand new audience watching me for the first time. So I won't be changing anything but I do hear where you're coming from and I appreciate your support 🙏
Great teaching. Thank you. I'd find it easier if the diagram was in the same direction as the fretboard. It seems upside down and is confusing. Maybe that's me? Still, I wish I knew this when I started in 1964 - when the Beatles hit. Precious info.
In case there is any doubt - I don't know this guy at all, but I do know that what he's teaching is exactly what people need to learn. For the "I play what I feel" people: You'll still do that after learning a few things, and your feelings will improve, too. If someone tells you to play G♯m6 or A7♭9♭13, are you going to be able to do it? It is not hard to learn, and you'll understand every kind of chord if you study what this guy is teaching. Also, listen to his playing ... right? He sounds great because he knows what he's doing.
Was expecting click bait content 😂 this is great, thanks Ross. As an adult learning geetar through major scale is painful and slow, but a necessary evil 😢
The only thing I know about playing major is playing minor shapes 3 frets down so the relative minor. Mix them up when you wanna change the tone. I’ve gotta really dig deep and learn the actual major scale and modes
Thanks Ross .. I signed for the course but couldn’t find a way to download the videos.. So if they are not downloadable yet please make them cause it makes offline usage possible and that’s very crucial in some corners of world 😊. Thanks again..
Great lesson... what you describe I think is a symptom of learning guitar by tab and fretboard box patterns. Also trying to learn lead guitar too early i.e. before learning chords and understanding how they are built from the major scale etc. It's so easy to master a few basic pentatonic licks/riffs early on without really understanding any theory, you can see why many players never progress further.
Warning! Changing some notes of the major scale to get to modes is confusing (“raise the 4th to get Lydian”). Learn this AFTER you understood that modes are just the same diatonic scale (e.g. C major) but with a different starting point. Dorian is simply the major scale but annointing the 2nd (dm in C) as the root. In other words, to play Dorian in D, you just noodle C Major over a Dm chord. Likewise, Lydian in F is just noodling C Major over an F chord, and for Myxolydianin G, you noodle - you name it C Major - over a G. This is why A minor is also just a mode of C Major, namely the 6th (called Aeolian). That is, if you keep noodling C Major, you can also play A minor. 1 - C - Ionian - Major (Reference) 2 - d- Dorian - Minor 3 - e - Phrygian - Minor 4 - F - Lydian - Major 5 - G - Myxolydian - Major 6 - A - Aeolian - Minor 7 - B - Locrian - Diminished, only key where the power chord is wrong, use tritone 1 - C … repeat Here you see it with example of C. Since we can just move frets up or down, we can ignore the naming. Next, learn to construct the three Majors 1-4-5, and understand that the exact same pattern, 3 frets down are the 3 Minors on 6-2-3, the pivotal 7th is the diminished. When you know how to play a minor triad, and a major triad, you unlock a great deal. Next, it must click into place that not only are there three minor and major keys each, but also that they are all unique, because their place in the scale is unique! They have fancy names like Ionian, Dorian, Lydian, etc. Notice how there is each time one lonely minor/major key with a 7th diminished neighbor and the opposite type other neighbour. So, in the example the C Major is the only major key with a diminished left neighbour, and a minor neighbour. And vise versa for A minor. And note that the two lonely ones are also the paralell pair that is often misleadingly called “THE” minor key or “THE” major key. So typically, everyone has the misleading conception that when the song starts with e.g. D minor that is “It’s D Minor”. However, it may be any of the three (different!) minor keys. Note that the two other minor/major keys come as neighbour siblings, Dm/Em and F/G. If you get that, with the noodling trick (Dorian in D is just C Major over Dm, in abstract, the 1st scale over the 2nd chord, etc), you can play any mode in any key. Memorise the jeopardy question: e.g. In which key is Aminor the 2nd? Since Dorian is the 2nd mode, and A Minor is second in the key of G Major, you know that you can noodle G Major over A Minor to get a Dorian sound in A. I know this sounds complicated, but it isn’t when you take a few moments to internalise it. When you learn a song, figure out where the lone major is (the “One” Chord). If the song is in major, it often is also that chord. Then you can just noodle that scale straight. If it’s in minor, first locate the fitting lone minor chord (the “Sixth” chord), which is often the best guess. Go 3 frets up, to find the matching “paralell” One Chord, i.e. the matching major scale, and it should fit. Now all of the chords of that song section (disregarding jazz or key changes) should fit. Unless, the song is in a different mode. You can spot this by looking for lonely minor/major pair, for the two siblings, the dimished chord, etc. With the instruction above, you should be able to pattern match where the matching First/One chord is. Rule of thumb: if it isn’t the One Major (“Ionian” , e.g. C Major) it’s often the Five Major (“Myxolydian” or G in the C scale). For minor, the second best guess is the Two, (“Dorian” Dm, in C scale). I know this sounds confusing at first, but the key is to go through this, and have a few lightbulb Ahhh! moments. Once you get that you can noodle a major scale over pretty much any western song, minor, major, dorian, whatever, 99% of the time when you just learn to identify and locate the song’s root and it’s relation to the diatonic scale. Enjoy.
Very tasty and melodic lines in the opening track, Ross!! Your strat tone is killer too! Would you share with us the name of the pickups you have in your strat please? Thank you for posting these videos. Great job!
Ian Bairnson's stuff is still worth checking for melodics. Even though no longer here, he's still the best with the slow stuff, and nobody else has reached his 'epic tone' tone sound so often, that I've heard. Dorian mode is also worth checking, not just for fusion, it's so much in celtic stuff, I call it the celtic minor. Also easy to play on a bagpipe chanter.
@@Ronno4691 I think it was Alan Murphy on that, but listening to some of IB's later stuff, he also covered the more typical Alan Murphy/UK era Holdsworth sounds too. He was on most of Alan Parson's Projects and Freudlandia, but could also cover Larry Carlton type styles. Very versatile and melodic. There's still a lot of clips on the Discography section of his website, but you need a Shockwave/Flash player browser extension, such as Ruffle, to play them. Worth it, though. Some good lines.
Hi Ross. Great video from a fellow Edinburger. Is there any benefit to using the triad way of thinking if you already understand intervals and chord tones inside the major scale patterns?
Hey! I would say yes because learning to find triad inversions within major scale patterns is going to provide you with an efficient visual framework for targeting chord tones. Plus you end up phrasing your licks differently to how you normally would when just thinking in terms of scale patterns.
Big Ross fan, I bought his bulletproof guitar player course, version 1, years ago. Tried gaining access to this freebie but the video explaining the access gives me the busy rotating circle of death. Anybody else have this problem?
Hey! You might want to try using a different browser. Google Chrome should work just fine. But in any case, you will have been sent your login details etc via email anyway.
Learn how to play a song you know really well in 2 or 3 or 4 "different" places on the fretboard and then mix it up some and then start adding in the inversions. Yes, we should halfway KNOW the circle of fifths too. The modal Gregorian church stuff will come a lot easier later on. I still enjoy 4 hour sets, but not without some breaks. If you half-assed know a piano keyboard well enough you can stand back by the pianist and kinda cheat off of'em along with using your charts. My mom was famous for using that trick.
There’s NO way I could learn this from (A maj scale?) The MOST important piece of information ‘FOR ME’ Is what you say at 7:20 you say learn (triads, inversions) from each chord. On this F# min triads, (E maj) triads, (A maj) triads and (D maj) inversions and triads. At least I know this is important, because I know these shapes play on the fretboard. Good lesson
Yeah baby! It's all about them chord tones. Can't master that if you don't know your theory at the molecular level. When you do that then ya know where all dem triads is, and ya free yaself from the tyranny of the box. Practice that major scale naming the notes and their value in first position. Then start on the low E and play all the triad inversions in that box, naming dem notes and values...like 1st, Major 3rd etc. then play that there scale on one string naming all dem notes. Then ya is a getting somewhere sonny boy. Ya baby, rock on good teaching here, listen up lil children!
ROSS, make a lesson about Altered Major Pentatonics boxes and Altered Minor Pentatonics. I think learning the Altered pentatonics is easier than learning the altered scales to play over I7-IV7-V7 in blues
An interesting lesson none the less. If you view music as an ‘Ocean’ of endless possibilities, the solo you played here is just one ‘song’ out of a million possibilities. It’s misleading to suggest that you shouldn’t refer to the Pentatonic scales, they are a fundamental scale structure that is essential if you then want to go further and explore ‘random’ notes.
I'm not trying to imply that you should ignore the pentatonics, I'm advising that you avoid learning 'exotic' scales that have barely any utility for the majority of guitar players (Byzantine, Persian scales etc.).
Ross, I think the blonde look suits you! But, I was thinking if you should dye your 'tach blonde too. But not your eyebrows. Oh, yes! Your guitar playing is rather good, too!😊
I'm not sure, but this approach, while effective, feels a bit dull and predictable. It often just ends up outlining the chords by their root notes, which seems to happen a lot in these examples.
Right. Triads are good to know to throw in a solo once in a while, but it shouldn’t be your bread and butter of soloing. It prevents you from thinking outside the box to spice things up by adding chromaticism and passing notes.
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I speak from experience and have unfortunately spent years stuck in pentatonic boxes until recently. For anyone watching this, I urge you too listen and take all of the above onboard. It is a complete game changer!
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Have you spilt the scale ?
I like your style. You're obviously well connected with the instrument - and your lines come off as genuine and heartfelt without missing the mark melodically or rhythmically. Your advice on learning how to become a masterful solo artist makes total sense. And I'm confident many are inspired by it. Great job!
Thank you!
Hi Ross,
I got your Melodic Soloing with Triads about2 months ago and I have been learning the major triads as instructed across the 4 sets of strings in C F G F.
I’ve just about got them and I’m excited to start playing them in the videos.
Next will be minor triads.
I’ve set myself a goal of 12 months to complete the course.
It’s a great course and thank you very much.
I can’t wait to see where I’ll be in 12 months.
Cheers mate from Gary in Australia.
😊😊😊
@@garywatling430 Happy to hear it's been helping!
I wish that RUclips was available in the early 90’s, where guys like you could teach my generation 😊. Like you say, a lot of us has learned the guitar in the wrong way, focusing on irrelevant stuff 😅
Thanks Ross for sharing 👍
Your opening playing was awesome.
More live gigs please. The opening was beautiful.
Great video! When I learned and memorized the five pentatonic shapes, I wanted to know where the other two notes were to complete the scale so I learned those too. I always knew about adding those extra notes in my licks. I have been working to target chord tones and realize from this video that I need to better commit to memory the triads buried in the scale. Greatly appreciate it!
This is a great way to breakdown and simplify scales, and putting them in context. Opens up everything, thanks.
I started this course about 3 weeks ago and love it... there is so much information in it that is like learning the guitar all over again... I hope it will help me become a better lead guitarist thanks
Thank you!
Thank you Ross. I started watching your videos a while ago, and I love your unique teaching style. You really focus on what’s important. I was stuck at an intermediate level for a long time, but your "Bulletproof Guitar Player" course helped me improve. I still have a lot to learn, but I’m now focusing more on triads instead of just shapes and patterns.
Thanks also for the free solo course. Please keep making such great videos!
Thanks so much!
Brilliant! I have tried to convince fellow guitar players and students of this and have been met with rolling eyes. Another concept I try to impart is being able to locate any given interval from any root position. A passport to understanding harmony and unlocking the neck. Great post, great playing, thanks for sharing.
THis opening is beauty !
This is HUGELY helpful. It’s so hard to understand anything without anchoring to the major scale.
Thanks so much for the free course Ross, I signed up for your website for a month a couple years ago and really liked your content but my chops weren’t up to snuff back then; I’ve been putting in the hours though recently and am really looking forward to digging into this course , I love your style and think you’re a great teacher 🙌🏻
Thanks for the support!
Yes. Everything. Yes. Great job teaching this. 🤘😎🤘
Always love to see new videos from you. You are as talented a player as you are a teacher. Keep up the great work.
Great lesson!! Exactly what I need right now... and needed a long time ago...
Thr Free course is amazing. Thank you
Fabulous as always man. You’re such a talented player and great teacher. Hope Nashville is treating you well and come to NAMM this year 🤘🎸
Thank you!
Great advice Ross! I think one of the reasons some guitarists don't master the major scale is because, once they learn it and noodle around - up and down, it just doesn't sound sexy. . . until they can learn what you are teaching here.
I have started the course last week and its unvaluable! 👌Priceless info which is really well explained along with tasteful licks to learn to apply it! It is a topic I knew I wanted to explore since I started studying your book Beyond Pentatonic Blues guitar (which I highly recomend to anybody reading this!). Many thanks for the free course and keep up with the amazing work! Cheers.
Thanks Josh!
Fantastic explanation thank you
What’s an amazing player. I rarely enjoy intros as much as this one. Great video.
That’s an amazing sounding strat Ross
You mean the Amp and multiple effects sound great?
Thanks! Love this guitar
@@coolmacatrain9434really dude? 😂
I never thought of the way you explained the harmonic minor scale. I base everything of of natural minor so it’s the same but knowing how a different perspective works is enlightening.
Great video!
Ross, you are an excellent instructor. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 😊
This was pretty helpfull. Thanks for it.
Fantastic playing man
Great lesson. Thanks Ross.
Well done & thank you my friend - you have been where so many of us are trying to get to or are already at and it means so much to hear someone articulate and confront the hurdles we are being so fearful of approaching. Cheers to yers!
Thank you!
Great lesson. Really started putting some graft into trying to be more thoughtful in my playing this year. In the past I've been in this limited mindset of looking at a chord sequence and trying to work out what key is it in, then soloing aimlessly in say A minor pentatonic. The big takeaway I've noticed is a shedload of songs are non-diatonic and break the rules many times, many flipping out of the initial key. My mindset now is stop thinking about any key (within reason) and much more about the chords and the chord tones (triads, 6ths, 9ths etc) which go with them. So now I'm thinking what notes can I play on this chord, rather than what notes can I play in this song.
The illustration of how you play the major scale across chord changes and inversions is really helpful. Previously when I thought of key of A, I’d just play the F# minor pentatonic scale up and down the neck without giving too much thought to the underlying chord changes. I know that’s not always wrong but it’s a limited way of thinking and doesn’t always sound right. The hardest thing for me is playing over chord changes and this illustration was very very helpful!
Glad to hear it!
Funnily enuff, my copy of Koala Books' Progressive Scales, Modes and Improvising is all about breaking the Major scale down into its Modal constituents. I've put it to one side for now as I'm concentrating on Ross's Soloing With Triads course for the time being.
I learned the major scale many years ago. I learned it on one position and also the 3 notes per string pattern Ross starts with. One thing I noticed which I still don't completely understand, is this 3 note per string pattern is found in the modes but for different keys. For example, if you look at a diagram of the A Aeolian scale across the fretboard, you'll see the 3 note per string pattern for the C major scale embedded in A Aeolian. So you can play the 3 note per string C major scale as part of A Aeolian. With D Aeolian, you'll see it has the F Major scale 3 note per string pattern. With the A Dorian scale it contains the G major scale 3 note pattern at the 3rd fret. With A Mixolydian, it contains the D Major scale 3 note per string pattern at the 10th fret. So it seems, and I haven't taken the time to plot this all out, that if you knew the major scale all across the fretboard, you would also know all the modes just by moving the pattern the appropriate place on the fretboard.
Of course everything reverts back to it or is compared to it . Exotics only differ 1 or 2 notes or intervals . You are absolutely right .
Fortunately I had a good teacher right from the get go.
he did teach me shapes and boxes but also taught me theory behind the shapes and scales so I never really got stuck in certain position or shape kind of mind set.
If you guys want to really improvise freely switching between different scales while nailing all the chord tones even to none diatonic or modal chord changes, breaking out of boxes and shapes mind set is crucial and what this guy teaches is legit so listen.
You are a great player dude been following you for a while.
@@Graham-gn9dn Thank you 🙏
Well done Ross 👍
you’ve got a unique and very special way of encouraging people to get better at this thing !
Thanks 🙏
John M.
Thanks John
Yes sir. Triads are most important thing to learn on guitar as soon you are able and memorize those chord shapes. Major and pentatonic scale is also very important to understand what is root , 3rd and 5th and 7th. I watch Guthrie Trapps youtube channel and he also talks a lot about triads and so called CAGED system and importance of it. It is true, since i practise this stuff i am learning much faster that before just jamming over backingtracks. 🎸🎶☮
Yeah it’s free just sign up no worries I am glad I did . Thanks man
This is a great video. I hope people get this because he’s 1000% right.
You are right, you need the major scale to understand the minor scale and everything else. But I rarely actually play it, I'm a metalhead so I usually go for a minor or phrygian feel so it's easy to understand why people don't pay much attention to it. When it comes to these things, don't think about the guitar, think about the piano. That's much easier, it's like classical music theory is running on the piano natively. With theory everyone can just construct their own patterns on the guitar neck.
5:24 People who just play by feel use music theory too, they just refuse to use the same terminology as everyone else talking about it.
Preach! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Nice one Ross. Playing melodically is so important, without it, solos become non musical! Nice intro Jam too 🎸
Thanks!
I truly appreciate all your lessons, I watched them all and I am subscribed to you site. Everything you put out is absolutely amazing and I thank you for it. I do, however, want to point out some things that are in the realm of constructive criticism and I truly hope you'll not get offended by it. I find myself more often than not skipping over the first 4 minutes of your videos. This is, usually, your personal story about struggling. In the beginning this had an incredible effect on me (like look, others are struggling as well) but after a while it's just, well, boring. This might be related to the fact that I do actually watch all your videos. So for new viewers this is still inspiring. Maybe find a balance. I appreciate you and all your work. Amazing lesson. Cheers!
Hey thanks for the feedback and kind words! These days I like to script all of my videos as if they are for a brand new audience watching me for the first time. So I won't be changing anything but I do hear where you're coming from and I appreciate your support 🙏
@@RossCampbellGuitarist makes sense. Thanks again for all the quality lessons!
Great idea👍Thank You
Sweet just signed up, gonna give it a go.
I love the major scale its so useful its just so hard to memorize on Guitar compared to other instruments😭
Thanks, great focused lesson for me. 👍
Glad to hear it!
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Thanks for watching!
Great teaching. Thank you. I'd find it easier if the diagram was in the same direction as the fretboard. It seems upside down and is confusing. Maybe that's me? Still, I wish I knew this when I started in 1964 - when the Beatles hit. Precious info.
Spot on. Still learning still making progress. Ta Ross. Fae another expat in another place
In case there is any doubt - I don't know this guy at all, but I do know that what he's teaching is exactly what people need to learn. For the "I play what I feel" people: You'll still do that after learning a few things, and your feelings will improve, too. If someone tells you to play G♯m6 or A7♭9♭13, are you going to be able to do it? It is not hard to learn, and you'll understand every kind of chord if you study what this guy is teaching. Also, listen to his playing ... right? He sounds great because he knows what he's doing.
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Great job!! I have to ask what verb are you using? Pretty lush
Great tones and feel. Thanks for posting.
Nicely explained. 👍
Thank you 🙂
Nice lesson, bud
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Totally agree, brother.
Hope Nashville has been amazing for you. 😉
That strat is s beaut. Lovely playin too
Can u tell us what gigs you are playing out there, Ross? A video on that would be good.
Working on one currently
Sweet intro!
Was expecting click bait content 😂 this is great, thanks Ross. As an adult learning geetar through major scale is painful and slow, but a necessary evil 😢
Thank you!
The only thing I know about playing major is playing minor shapes 3 frets down so the relative minor. Mix them up when you wanna change the tone.
I’ve gotta really dig deep and learn the actual major scale and modes
I've just made a lesson explaining why I think that advice is really not the best approach ie moving the minor shapes three frets down.
Thanks Ross ..
I signed for the course but couldn’t find a way to download the videos..
So if they are not downloadable yet please make them cause it makes offline usage possible and that’s very crucial in some corners of world 😊.
Thanks again..
Hi! All of my courses are stream-only I'm afraid.
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Great lesson... what you describe I think is a symptom of learning guitar by tab and fretboard box patterns. Also trying to learn lead guitar too early i.e. before learning chords and understanding how they are built from the major scale etc. It's so easy to master a few basic pentatonic licks/riffs early on without really understanding any theory, you can see why many players never progress further.
Well said!
Sir ross campbell, thank you very very much for this! I need this lesson so much, and its for free! Mwuah mwuah chup chup! Take care always sir!
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Great lesson! Thanks Ross!
The link for the free course just crashes unable to input namecetc ? .thanks.
Warning! Changing some notes of the major scale to get to modes is confusing (“raise the 4th to get Lydian”).
Learn this AFTER you understood that modes are just the same diatonic scale (e.g. C major) but with a different starting point. Dorian is simply the major scale but annointing the 2nd (dm in C) as the root. In other words, to play Dorian in D, you just noodle C Major over a Dm chord. Likewise, Lydian in F is just noodling C Major over an F chord, and for Myxolydianin G, you noodle - you name it C Major - over a G. This is why A minor is also just a mode of C Major, namely the 6th (called Aeolian). That is, if you keep noodling C Major, you can also play A minor.
1 - C - Ionian - Major (Reference)
2 - d- Dorian - Minor
3 - e - Phrygian - Minor
4 - F - Lydian - Major
5 - G - Myxolydian - Major
6 - A - Aeolian - Minor
7 - B - Locrian - Diminished, only key where the power chord is wrong, use tritone
1 - C … repeat
Here you see it with example of C. Since we can just move frets up or down, we can ignore the naming.
Next, learn to construct the three Majors 1-4-5, and understand that the exact same pattern, 3 frets down are the 3 Minors on 6-2-3, the pivotal 7th is the diminished. When you know how to play a minor triad, and a major triad, you unlock a great deal.
Next, it must click into place that not only are there three minor and major keys each, but also that they are all unique, because their place in the scale is unique! They have fancy names like Ionian, Dorian, Lydian, etc. Notice how there is each time one lonely minor/major key with a 7th diminished neighbor and the opposite type other neighbour. So, in the example the C Major is the only major key with a diminished left neighbour, and a minor neighbour. And vise versa for A minor. And note that the two lonely ones are also the paralell pair that is often misleadingly called “THE” minor key or “THE” major key. So typically, everyone has the misleading conception that when the song starts with e.g. D minor that is “It’s D Minor”. However, it may be any of the three (different!) minor keys. Note that the two other minor/major keys come as neighbour siblings, Dm/Em and F/G. If you get that, with the noodling trick (Dorian in D is just C Major over Dm, in abstract, the 1st scale over the 2nd chord, etc), you can play any mode in any key.
Memorise the jeopardy question: e.g. In which key is Aminor the 2nd? Since Dorian is the 2nd mode, and A Minor is second in the key of G Major, you know that you can noodle G Major over A Minor to get a Dorian sound in A. I know this sounds complicated, but it isn’t when you take a few moments to internalise it.
When you learn a song, figure out where the lone major is (the “One” Chord). If the song is in major, it often is also that chord. Then you can just noodle that scale straight. If it’s in minor, first locate the fitting lone minor chord (the “Sixth” chord), which is often the best guess. Go 3 frets up, to find the matching “paralell” One Chord, i.e. the matching major scale, and it should fit. Now all of the chords of that song section (disregarding jazz or key changes) should fit.
Unless, the song is in a different mode. You can spot this by looking for lonely minor/major pair, for the two siblings, the dimished chord, etc. With the instruction above, you should be able to pattern match where the matching First/One chord is. Rule of thumb: if it isn’t the One Major (“Ionian” , e.g. C Major) it’s often the Five Major (“Myxolydian” or G in the C scale). For minor, the second best guess is the Two, (“Dorian” Dm, in C scale).
I know this sounds confusing at first, but the key is to go through this, and have a few lightbulb Ahhh! moments. Once you get that you can noodle a major scale over pretty much any western song, minor, major, dorian, whatever, 99% of the time when you just learn to identify and locate the song’s root and it’s relation to the diatonic scale. Enjoy.
Very tasty and melodic lines in the opening track, Ross!! Your strat tone is killer too! Would you share with us the name of the pickups you have in your strat please? Thank you for posting these videos. Great job!
Ian Bairnson's stuff is still worth checking for melodics. Even though no longer here, he's still the best with the slow stuff, and nobody else has reached his 'epic tone' tone sound so often, that I've heard. Dorian mode is also worth checking, not just for fusion, it's so much in celtic stuff, I call it the celtic minor. Also easy to play on a bagpipe chanter.
If he was the dude that did the guitar solo on the studio version of Violin then yeah, he's amazing and he was great in Pilot too.
@@Ronno4691 I think it was Alan Murphy on that, but listening to some of IB's later stuff, he also covered the more typical Alan Murphy/UK era Holdsworth sounds too. He was on most of Alan Parson's Projects and Freudlandia, but could also cover Larry Carlton type styles. Very versatile and melodic. There's still a lot of clips on the Discography section of his website, but you need a Shockwave/Flash player browser extension, such as Ruffle, to play them. Worth it, though. Some good lines.
Hi Ross. Great video from a fellow Edinburger.
Is there any benefit to using the triad way of thinking if you already understand intervals and chord tones inside the major scale patterns?
Hey! I would say yes because learning to find triad inversions within major scale patterns is going to provide you with an efficient visual framework for targeting chord tones. Plus you end up phrasing your licks differently to how you normally would when just thinking in terms of scale patterns.
@@RossCampbellGuitarist Gotcha, makes sense. Appreciate the reply 👍
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also a fantastic weekend also Wednesday was my younger brother birthday ❤😊
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Gaun yersel Ross 👍🍄
Hi I’m a total beginner. question, so were you kind of playing triad arpeggios? Thanks.
@jjbridge7877. Ross was playing notes from the underlying chords , but not full arpeggios which use all of the notes from the underlying chord.
What pick ups are in that guitar?
Big Ross fan, I bought his bulletproof guitar player course, version 1, years ago. Tried gaining access to this freebie but the video explaining the access gives me the busy rotating circle of death. Anybody else have this problem?
Hey! You might want to try using a different browser. Google Chrome should work just fine. But in any case, you will have been sent your login details etc via email anyway.
If the song is a Minor Key, shall we still solo using the relative major scale?
Learn how to play a song you know really well in 2 or 3 or 4 "different" places on the fretboard and then mix it up some and then start adding in the inversions. Yes, we should halfway KNOW the circle of fifths too. The modal Gregorian church stuff will come a lot easier later on. I still enjoy 4 hour sets, but not without some breaks. If you half-assed know a piano keyboard well enough you can stand back by the pianist and kinda cheat off of'em along with using your charts. My mom was famous for using that trick.
Ross...you in 'Merica yet...if so, how's it going? Wonderful intro..BTW.
I've been here since April! Will have a new video out soon
Great melodic guitarist. You play like John Mayer
Thank you!
I need to be born again to solo like them.
There’s NO way I could learn this from (A maj scale?) The MOST important piece of information ‘FOR ME’ Is what you say at 7:20 you say learn (triads, inversions) from each chord. On this F# min triads, (E maj) triads, (A maj) triads and (D maj) inversions and triads. At least I know this is important, because I know these shapes play on the fretboard. Good lesson
Yeah baby! It's all about them chord tones. Can't master that if you don't know your theory at the molecular level. When you do that then ya know where all dem triads is, and ya free yaself from the tyranny of the box. Practice that major scale naming the notes and their value in first position. Then start on the low E and play all the triad inversions in that box, naming dem notes and values...like 1st, Major 3rd etc. then play that there scale on one string naming all dem notes. Then ya is a getting somewhere sonny boy. Ya baby, rock on good teaching here, listen up lil children!
Ça sonne ! Par contre, le pickguard couleur mint enlaidi fortement cette belle guitare !
My memory is full. I need more gigabytes :/
I’ve been trying to learn the major scale for years now. I know it in its root position but the other positions just won’t stick in my head
It's always the same pattern 😊 just remember to slide one fret in the B string
Good stuff, Ross. Triads are the sh!t.....you need to know
ROSS, make a lesson about Altered Major Pentatonics boxes and Altered Minor Pentatonics. I think learning the Altered pentatonics is easier than learning the altered scales to play over I7-IV7-V7 in blues
An interesting lesson none the less. If you view music as an ‘Ocean’ of endless possibilities, the solo you played here is just one ‘song’ out of a million possibilities. It’s misleading to suggest that you shouldn’t refer to the Pentatonic scales, they are a fundamental scale structure that is essential if you then want to go further and explore ‘random’ notes.
I'm not trying to imply that you should ignore the pentatonics, I'm advising that you avoid learning 'exotic' scales that have barely any utility for the majority of guitar players (Byzantine, Persian scales etc.).
holy crap - you had a Parker Fly?
It was the cheap version. The 'P44 Pro'. Pretty good guitar!
I found only major scale played in different places on the neck gives me 7 different modes
That all depends entirely on context. Meaning the chord progression you are playing over.
Ross, I think the blonde look suits you! But, I was thinking if you should dye your 'tach blonde too. But not your eyebrows. Oh, yes! Your guitar playing is rather good, too!😊
Major scale has a lot of mileage in it.
Face melting solo
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I'm not sure, but this approach, while effective, feels a bit dull and predictable. It often just ends up outlining the chords by their root notes, which seems to happen a lot in these examples.
Right. Triads are good to know to throw in a solo once in a while, but it shouldn’t be your bread and butter of soloing. It prevents you from thinking outside the box to spice things up by adding chromaticism and passing notes.
Is that a mexican fender?
ehm no... if I well remember he's got a closet classic (custom shop).