Oh yeah where was this in 1972, OH yeah PIANO books. I can tell ya it was tough learning everything by Ear back then. I can remember learning Til there Was You by the Beatles, a Beautiful Jazzy type solo. Sure was not in a Song Book back then. I got this Bizarre book back then with the Beatles on the cover. It has no TABS, they did not exist back then, written out in regular notation. It turns out it was song Endings, and or Song beginning Bits/intros., and they were not even specific to any Beatles songs. I think one of them was very similar to closing lines in the Song Slow Down, the Larry Williams song the Beatles did. The 1st ROCK/Blues book I know of came out in late 73 called Improvising Rock Guitar with Pat Thrall, it was BOX SYSTEM for guitar and cliches, think chuck berry. Another word not even Found in the Book, which would be a Cliches today RIFF or Riffing, but that was what it was. Today Guitar instruction is ALL over the Place. Look up the BOOK here on RUclips, for the songs on the demo Disk that came with the Book. Quite Historical, we all laughed back then and the Garage/basement band back then plays one of the Demo Songs. LOL.
Oh, so right! Although, learning by wearing out needles and vinyls (I went thru 4 of Kottke's Armadillo albums), was really great ear training. And, all that was good for learning songs but did little for my understanding of theory. Jack is really adept at showing us these morsels.
This is so fundamental and Jack laid it out perfectly. This is the grind you need to learn to play blues or any genre without sounding like you are only doing scale runs. I'm a cheap mf and this is one of the only guitar channels that actually tempts me to buy a course.
I have both of Jack's TrueFire courses and they are excellent. I've been working on his Shades of Blues course for many months now and there is so much incredible information in that one course that I haven't got further than the fourth lesson, mainly because I really want to get the information under my fingers before I move onto another lesson. If you're going to buy one course, I really can't recommend Shades Of Blues enough.
@@stephenowen5229 Hi Stephen, I bought the Shades of Blues Truefire course as well. I found that some of the sections are easier than others. Try "Latin Flavours". It was easier to learn for me. I'm looking for someone to jam with to help implement Jack's techniques. Only problem is i live in Sydney Australia!
I first saw Jack on Brett Papa's channel and it was amazing. I'm learning SO much from Jack's videos. He has an excellent grasp of what is needed to be an amazing teacher. Thank you, Sir Ruch!
Ok... I just need a moment here... You've just superboosted my understanding on how to navigate the fretboard in a clear, concise and understandable way. You sir, are a true master. Thank you so much!😁
Amazing teaching and playing skills ! Thanks a lot for sharing Jack ! :) 0:29 intro solo 7:26 first solo 11:26 second solo 15:06 third solo 17:53 fourth solo 22:03 fifth solo
Jack, I gotta tell you. This is a quality lesson. It's the most moving lesson I've ever watched. Funny though, before now I could never follow your videos but only because they were over my head. So I think I've upgraded a bit enough for this lesson to finally make you among the clearest tutors on RUclips. This lesson moved my mind so much, I feel my playing is just about to pop. Thank you
I've been playing all my life but I never really heard it explained so straight forward and simply. Using the CAGED system just makes it a lot more logical and easier to remember. As usual Jack, very well articulated and demonstrated. Thanks for sharing.
Outstanding piece of work this Jack... thank you. Rest assured that this very comprehensive roadmap you have set out is exactly what helps.... this took me years to "nut out" on my own and enough grief..... so this is very helpful.
Thank you Sir... For the outstanding quality of the content and pedagogy of every lesson, for the perfect blend of elegance and (apparent...) simplicity in your lines... And thank you in the name of all non-British/Americans for your calm, simple and clear diction, which makes that we (at least I...) don't even have concience that the course is given in a foreign langage.
This video should have over a million likes. So important to a guitarist who knows his pentatonic shapes and has no idea how to play through changes with them.
Well Jack what can I say? You are the coolest guitar instructor with no greediness at all and you lay it out just the way it is,so easy to understand, thanks my man!!
Wow, what a great lesson. You are an excellent player and teacher. One thing I would really appreciate it is a lesson ontechnique for playing arpeggios , you are so smooth.
Thank you Jack Ruch. This lesson is so clear and practical... Studying the fret-board on and on, thanks for applying it. Cool, thanks again. Just bought a year on TrueFire. Will look for your lessons there too!
Arpeggios are probably the most important musical construct to learn until it becomes a reflexive instinct. It’s so easy to associate with practice the sound shape correlation. I view them as a hybrid of a pentatonic and triad chord tone playing. I guess because that’s what they are, a linking up of triads in a pentatonic scale grip or subset of a pentatonic scale. Great video 👍👍👍
I love the tone of that guitar. It's so simple but creamy. I want to play my les paul but my Ibanez semi hollow kind of vibrates like an acoustic but still electric. I cant stop playing it. I need a 335 or 345. Love the channel man.
I practice a lot and can play some difficult pieces but playing the changes requires an entirely different thought process. This is a great workout - thanks Jack
Just so super clear- I got immediately how this way of approaching solos applies to any piece. And so calmly delivered- just awesome. Not to mention also that delicious tone on your 335! Thank you thank you THANK YOU from the UK!!!!❤
Hi Jack I got your truefire course it's fantastic I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to play great blues or jazzy blues guitar. I was wondering if you could do a lesson like this on the minor blues with arpeggios and licks in the five positions. Thanks for the excellent content.
dom7 book ending triad chord tones comes at a good time with what Im practicing , thanks for people thinking of how to reduce caged shapes into groupings.. G and E shapes are basically serving the 6 string root note chords and C and A shapes serving the 5 string root note chords , for staying more left or right , and there are 3 unique sweeps possible for your basic major , basic minor triads
Amazing lesson! Jack, this really helps someone like myself who understands the caged system and the 145 approach , but wants to give more nuance and feeling to my playing!
Keep your finger on the screen and listen to Jack at 1,5x the speed, then you will realise how laid back he his, very funny! Jack, your knowledge is impressive and your teaching skills may be even greater! Thank you so much, your content has provided me with endless new goals and long time overdue improvments!
Great lesson Jack! I love that I can learn from someone who can teach the theory as well as how to apply it with great phrasing. Just a quick question, for some arpeggios, such as the D shape, I tend to gravitate on the thin strings of the arpeggio since I find the note positions awkward on the thick strings. Do you think this is ok, or should I still learn the full arpeggio shape? You’re an amazing teacher and I look forward to the Patreon practice sessions!
Very cool! fretboard diagrams would make this infinitely better for us visual learners (pretty much every guitarist) but still this is good just listening and trying to follow fingers. But seriously, start including graphics and your content would be much more accessible.
Kinda similar to what I did to help learn the fretboard. I made major 9th, minor 9th, and dominant 9 arpeggios, and turned them into 2 notes per string shapes that ascend in alphabetical order, sort of like pentatonics.
I play an Epiphone Casino, a very similar instrument with different pickups and wiring to what he's working with here. I just can't get over how good his amp settings are. Whenever he picks even slightly hard, the tone teeters on the edge of break-up. I can get something close to this with a Boss Katana 100W but I would live to know how he gets this to be so responsive.
@@JackRuch Hi Jack! there are already subtitles 😁. These types of videos are very interesting because you can see how you apply the phrases on the arpeggios, that is the most difficult. It would be interesting if you made a video on the same theme, CAGED SYSTEM, but adding the sixth (Doric), another adding the minor seventh (mixolydian) always taking as reference the major scale in the 5 positions and examples of how you apply it. I think these types of video would help a lot of people who only memorize patterns, you would teach them to think how to do it. well, that's an idea. See you on PATREON!
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Wow… to be 17 again and have access to this kind of information. Kids today are so lucky!
I agree!
Oh yeah where was this in 1972, OH yeah PIANO books. I can tell ya it was tough learning everything by Ear back then. I can remember learning Til there Was You by the Beatles, a Beautiful Jazzy type solo. Sure was not in a Song Book back then. I got this Bizarre book back then with the Beatles on the cover. It has no TABS, they did not exist back then, written out in regular notation. It turns out it was song Endings, and or Song beginning Bits/intros., and they were not even specific to any Beatles songs. I think one of them was very similar to closing lines in the Song Slow Down, the Larry Williams song the Beatles did. The 1st ROCK/Blues book I know of came out in late 73 called Improvising Rock Guitar with Pat Thrall, it was BOX SYSTEM for guitar and cliches, think chuck berry. Another word not even Found in the Book, which would be a Cliches today RIFF or Riffing, but that was what it was. Today Guitar instruction is ALL over the Place. Look up the BOOK here on RUclips, for the songs on the demo Disk that came with the Book. Quite Historical, we all laughed back then and the Garage/basement band back then plays one of the Demo Songs. LOL.
Oh, so right! Although, learning by wearing out needles and vinyls (I went thru 4 of Kottke's Armadillo albums), was really great ear training. And, all that was good for learning songs but did little for my understanding of theory. Jack is really adept at showing us these morsels.
Except that now 1) good guitarists are very common, and 2) they all sound alike.
@@joebeamish Jack Ruch does not sound like Gutherie Trapp, and neither sound like JOHN CORDY. But there are alot alike somewhat.
This is so fundamental and Jack laid it out perfectly. This is the grind you need to learn to play blues or any genre without sounding like you are only doing scale runs. I'm a cheap mf and this is one of the only guitar channels that actually tempts me to buy a course.
I have both of Jack's TrueFire courses and they are excellent. I've been working on his Shades of Blues course for many months now and there is so much incredible information in that one course that I haven't got further than the fourth lesson, mainly because I really want to get the information under my fingers before I move onto another lesson. If you're going to buy one course, I really can't recommend Shades Of Blues enough.
@@stephenowen5229 yeah Shades of Blues is a very well done course!
Yessir. What both Steves said.
I'm also a cheap mf! Yay
@@stephenowen5229 Hi Stephen, I bought the Shades of Blues Truefire course as well. I found that some of the sections are easier than others. Try "Latin Flavours". It was easier to learn for me. I'm looking for someone to jam with to help implement Jack's techniques. Only problem is i live in Sydney Australia!
You're like the Bob Ross of RUclips Guitar Masters. You're so calming and engaging. Great lesson. Thanks!
Thank you! That’s definitely what I’m aiming for
Who is Bob Ross ?
@@jimini2419 Artist who used to have painting show on TV. ruclips.net/video/lLWEXRAnQd0/видео.html
@@jimini2419 A painting artist, you can look him up here on RUclips. Follow him and you might paint a mountain landscape.
DUDE I have both of his Tru fire courses and they are 100000% worth it!!!
Jack is outstanding, guitarist & teacher
Thank you!
So wonderfully patient. Every video of Mr Ruch is explained so perfectly you can't get confused in any way.
Thank you!
Hey, taildragger. I like your handle.
Practised this one for about two hours and really felt I was getting somewhere instead of my usual pentatonic stuff. Terrific lesson. Thanks Jack
I first saw Jack on Brett Papa's channel and it was amazing. I'm learning SO much from Jack's videos. He has an excellent grasp of what is needed to be an amazing teacher. Thank you, Sir Ruch!
Hey thanks Bill!
I also say the same video ! What a great network of great players and teachers and most of all , inspirers
Love the lesson! And that 335 is a gorgeous ax as well.
Ok... I just need a moment here... You've just superboosted my understanding on how to navigate the fretboard in a clear, concise and understandable way. You sir, are a true master. Thank you so much!😁
Amazing teaching and playing skills ! Thanks a lot for sharing Jack ! :)
0:29 intro solo
7:26 first solo
11:26 second solo
15:06 third solo
17:53 fourth solo
22:03 fifth solo
Jack, I gotta tell you. This is a quality lesson. It's the most moving lesson I've ever watched. Funny though, before now I could never follow your videos but only because they were over my head. So I think I've upgraded a bit enough for this lesson to finally make you among the clearest tutors on RUclips. This lesson moved my mind so much, I feel my playing is just about to pop.
Thank you
I've been playing all my life but I never really heard it explained so straight forward and simply. Using the CAGED system just makes it a lot more logical and easier to remember. As usual Jack, very well articulated and demonstrated. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Peter!
Simply the best articulated, defined and well spoken blues Guitar lesson I have found to date…
Thank you!!
Jack - your videos just keep getting better!!!!
Dude I can’t thank you enough for your support! You’re the man
I appreciate you Jack. You could’ve easily sold all your lessons for 100s of dollars but you have it up here for free. This is high quality lessons.
Man! I needed this lesson about 15 years ago! TY!
Outstanding piece of work this Jack... thank you. Rest assured that this very comprehensive roadmap you have set out is exactly what helps.... this took me years to "nut out" on my own and enough grief..... so this is very helpful.
Thank you Sir... For the outstanding quality of the content and pedagogy of every lesson, for the perfect blend of elegance and (apparent...) simplicity in your lines... And thank you in the name of all non-British/Americans for your calm, simple and clear diction, which makes that we (at least I...) don't even have concience that the course is given in a foreign langage.
You're very welcome!
Tak!
This video should have over a million likes. So important to a guitarist who knows his pentatonic shapes and has no idea how to play through changes with them.
Most. Chill. Instructor. Ever.
Great stuff!
Very gracious of you to share your expertise and knowledge. Getting a lot of miles out of these lessons. Really appreciate it.
Thanks
Well Jack what can I say? You are the coolest guitar instructor with no greediness at all and you lay it out just the way it is,so easy to understand, thanks my man!!
Wow, what a great lesson. You are an excellent player and teacher. One thing I would really appreciate it is a lesson ontechnique for playing arpeggios , you are so smooth.
Thank you Jack Ruch. This lesson is so clear and practical... Studying the fret-board on and on, thanks for applying it. Cool, thanks again. Just bought a year on TrueFire. Will look for your lessons there too!
Thank you!!
Great to hear!
Arpeggios are probably the most important musical construct to learn until it becomes a reflexive instinct. It’s so easy to associate with practice the sound shape correlation. I view them as a hybrid of a pentatonic and triad chord tone playing. I guess because that’s what they are, a linking up of triads in a pentatonic scale grip or subset of a pentatonic scale. Great video 👍👍👍
Jack, your right hand is so syrupy smooth. Thx for great teaching content.
Great stuff here!
Thank you!
I love the tone of that guitar. It's so simple but creamy. I want to play my les paul but my Ibanez semi hollow kind of vibrates like an acoustic but still electric. I cant stop playing it. I need a 335 or 345. Love the channel man.
Thanks Dan!
I practice a lot and can play some difficult pieces but playing the changes requires an entirely different thought process. This is a great workout - thanks Jack
Well said! Thank you
just drill it the way you drill everything else. eventually it will stick and your instincts will take over.
This is possibly the greatest guitar lesson ever. You are the man! Thank you! 🤘
My pleasure!!
This so cool! Picked up Mel Bay appegio book!!👍🏽
Absolutely amazing teacher. Thank you for taking the time to help us become better guitar players!
This is a tremendous lesson Jack, so clearly explained and feels like it’s the foundation or scaffolding for so much other stuff. Thanks very much!
Not only are you an amazing guitarist but also a great great teacher. And that combination very few master :-)
Thank you!
A brilliant tutorial. I've been playing for about 40 years and this has inspired me to have a serious crack at soloing.
Jack, you are my new guitar hero. What a great lesson! Thank you SO MUCH!
No jokes, this guy is the smoothest player I’ve seen in my short time starting to learn the guitar. And he’s a great teacher
One of the best videos on RUclips. Will be joining the Patreon page. Thank you.
I just want to say one word. Beautiful. Especially your playing style is unbelievable. You showed how best to get out of the pentatonic scale.
Thank you so much
Jack Ruch’s - Smooth Class! In other words.. Jack’s Class of Smooth! Love Your Stuff Jack! Keep Up the Great Work! 👍🎸✌️😎
Thank you!
Outstanding lesson from a great teacher, and I should know - I've followed a few.
Thank you for sharing thousands of hours of practice in minutes! Natural teacher man! Thank you❤🤘🏻💪🏻🔥
Always perfectly played and never a wasted note 👍🎸 best to you and yours Jack, thanks so much for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful tone and playing
Just so super clear- I got immediately how this way of approaching solos applies to any piece. And so calmly delivered- just awesome. Not to mention also that delicious tone on your 335! Thank you thank you THANK YOU from the UK!!!!❤
the biggest change in my point of view, thank you very much!
great examples also so wonderfully explained! !!
Whatta great great teacher you are Jack🙏❤️lucky to have find you here on RUclips thanks for your valuable information and lesson
Cool Jack, your smooth! Love these laid back Blues runs
Also, that's a real nice backing track to emphasise your wonderful technique.
Excellent tutorial thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for showing me how to play and learn these shapes, very interested.
Hi Jack I got your truefire course it's fantastic I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to play great blues or jazzy blues guitar. I was wondering if you could do a lesson like this on the minor blues with arpeggios and licks in the five positions. Thanks for the excellent content.
Hey Anthony, thanks man!! I am definitely going to do a lesson on that
I've been dissecting this and the solos over the past few days this exercise is super helpful for visualization!
Great to hear!!
another excellent lesson, demonstrating the importance of fundamentals...I've got a few weeks of practice now :)
Once again Jack you are so smooth in teaching style👍😁
dom7 book ending triad chord tones comes at a good time with what Im practicing , thanks
for people thinking of how to reduce caged shapes into groupings.. G and E shapes are basically serving the 6 string root note chords and C and A shapes serving the 5 string root note chords , for staying more left or right , and there are 3 unique sweeps possible for your basic major , basic minor triads
Awesome tutorial Jack 🎸🤟🙌
Friggin awesome!!! Love your vibe and your style! Thank you for sharing 🤗
One of the greatest guitar lessons I've seen on youtube. This is top notch instruction. Thanks, sir.
Amazing lesson! Jack, this really helps someone like myself who understands the caged system and the 145 approach , but wants to give more nuance and feeling to my playing!
Awesome! Thanks Doug
@@JackRuch thank you Jack!
That a reissue or actual '59 style 335,.sounds really nice, and great info along with it to keep you hooked
This is great, Jack. Thanks. I agree with everybody that your calm, deliberate approach is really helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks
Keep your finger on the screen and listen to Jack at 1,5x the speed, then you will realise how laid back he his, very funny!
Jack, your knowledge is impressive and your teaching skills may be even greater!
Thank you so much, your content has provided me with endless new goals and long time overdue improvments!
Jack’s really good at explaining things.
What a great lesson! I really need this info. Thank you!
I am a beginner guitar player and this was an epic video for me! Thank you so much for this lesson
Got these down now. Many thanks
Great teacher and player!
Excellent presentation Jack, very clear and oh so useful. Thank you.
Another helpful video! Thanks 😊
So glad!
His chill is paramount.
Mr. Ruch, wow great video
Fantastic Lesson especially for musicians coming back to the guitar 10/10
Glad you liked it
This is a GREAT learning lesson. Thanks for doing this.
Great lesson Jack! Thanks!👍👍👍
THANKS VERY MUCH GEORGES GREATS ADVICES
Great lesson. Very helpful. Can you also explain how the pentatonic scales work in these same positions. Extremely grateful.💯👍🎸
Mind blowing, literally! Awesome lesson.
Glad you liked it!
It is a joy to just watch your fingers simply caress the fretboard
Great lesson Jack! I love that I can learn from someone who can teach the theory as well as how to apply it with great phrasing.
Just a quick question, for some arpeggios, such as the D shape, I tend to gravitate on the thin strings of the arpeggio since I find the note positions awkward on the thick strings. Do you think this is ok, or should I still learn the full arpeggio shape?
You’re an amazing teacher and I look forward to the Patreon practice sessions!
I would recommend learning the full shapes. You can break them up between string sets when you’re coming up with licks.
Great lesson, very much appreciated
Thanks Marvin!
Thanks my man from Ireland 🇮🇪 cheers great lesson have you got a print out of those appreggio shapes thanks take care !! Brian Ireland 🇮🇪
Thank you for all that you share with us. So good!!
It's my pleasure!
@@JackRuch You are a brilliant guitarist and man you videos are so informative.
Another great lesson Jack 🤘
Thanks again!
Señor Rich, maestro de maestros!
Thanks Jack.......well done.
Only been playing for 60 years but some very useful revision here. Thanks!
Nice lesson. Thanks!
This is fantastic !
What a great lesson.
Luv the channel
Thank you!
Thank you very much..excellent
Very cool! fretboard diagrams would make this infinitely better for us visual learners (pretty much every guitarist) but still this is good just listening and trying to follow fingers. But seriously, start including graphics and your content would be much more accessible.
Kinda similar to what I did to help learn the fretboard. I made major 9th, minor 9th, and dominant 9 arpeggios, and turned them into 2 notes per string shapes that ascend in alphabetical order, sort of like pentatonics.
I play an Epiphone Casino, a very similar instrument with different pickups and wiring to what he's working with here. I just can't get over how good his amp settings are. Whenever he picks even slightly hard, the tone teeters on the edge of break-up. I can get something close to this with a Boss Katana 100W but I would live to know how he gets this to be so responsive.
Gold, pure gold.
Hi jack! Thanks for the video. What happened with subtitles? I don't have any options on RUclips.
Oh I don’t know. I didn’t change anything on my end. Sorry man
@@JackRuch thanks for your answer 👍! It will be a RUclips problem... I just have to wait 🤷🏻♂️
@@JackRuch Hi Jack! there are already subtitles 😁.
These types of videos are very interesting because you can see how you apply the phrases on the arpeggios, that is the most difficult. It would be interesting if you made a video on the same theme, CAGED SYSTEM, but adding the sixth (Doric), another adding the minor seventh (mixolydian) always taking as reference the major scale in the 5 positions and examples of how you apply it. I think these types of video would help a lot of people who only memorize patterns, you would teach them to think how to do it.
well, that's an idea.
See you on PATREON!
great lesson! thanks for sharing! I was wondering if it's intentional that we should practice the dominant arpeggios instead of the major arpeggios?
Awesome lesson. I wish you had given away the backing tracks!!
Thanks.
What seemed as some sort of magical talent only a few possessed in my youth seems logical with proper guidance and education.. Thanks!!