I couldnt basically pick up on your instructional lessons for the past 3 months. But I continued to watch and learn, started noticing better playing an just my mind moving faster. Just wanted to say thanks an keep this lead playing ideas and basics coming.
hey guys dont get confused either way you can make any minor pentatonic position into a major one by just changing the root note to the m 3rd of the minor penta to make it a major one!! you can also use the 2nd min penta position(which starts on the m3 anyways this is why it sounds major the formula rearrenges itself internally so the scale degress shift for that mode) this happens because of relatives for the pentatonic modes. minor p is R m3 4 5 m7 while shifting the root on the same formula on the 12 semitones to the m3 we get the major p R 2 M3 5 M6. I WILL MAKE A REPLY TO THIS VID WITH MORE DETAIL please like this comment if youre interested!!!
Learning the scale all the way up and down the fretboard was the biggest thing I’ve ever learned on the guitar. I was able to improvise my own solos on any track I wanted I got hooked on guitar forever
For real. My mind was blown when i discovered that scales just moves up or down depending on the root of the note. It's like a rubick's cube. I thought only geniuses could solve it but once youve figured it out that there's a certain way to do it, all the clouds just clear up and it's certainly doable
Ross! This is the best major-minor pentatonic scale lesson. Showing the differences going up one string is really helping me get it…….finally. I have watched many lessons. The rest of the lesson helps my reluctant brain too. Thanks
a good way to practice, find a backing track that shows the scale on teh screen, and so it tells you when to switch. If you get good at playing along to that, you will be alot better at knowing when and how to switch it up.
Videos like this are the very reason I bought Ross' course a couple of weeks ago. Whereas most instructors will introduce people to the concept of introducing chromatic elements to make pentatonic scales sound more musical, they fail to give any theory as to why or how it works. Another excellent lesson, Ross!
My guitar playing has taken off in a few month of discovering you. The progress is incremental compared to my 10 years worth practicing..I'm relearning and getting better!
Just starting to get to grips with major pentatonic. Probably a silly question, but does each scale start on the relevant root note? Eg 1st position A major E string, fret 5, played with the pinkie, then 1st finger 2nd fret etc etc?
thankyou ross have been playing for years mainly using min pattern was confusing with guitar guys too much theory you have opened a door thank you i will now go play.be back soon
Excellent video, this is a topic that I have been struggling with and now have a better idea of how to transition between the scales using the major 3rd interval. Thanks Ross!
You read my mind from one of your recent videos you did. I was wondering what you were doing exactly to get that jazzier type of modal sound throughout your solos. I'm glad you clarified and solidified what I figured you were doing with it. I'm glad you go into these details and your playing is inspiring as always. Keep it up brotha, yours is one of the only guitar courses I'm really considering buying cuz I've learned and clarified a lot from the short time I've subscribed.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Awesome, well if you decide to go for it then I hope you get some real value from it. Let me know if you have any questions :)
Excellent video sir. Please keep it up. Between your course and your channel there is always something to learn or keep practicing. Thanks for what you do!
???? QUESTION: If you play A minor scale, am I supposed to play a key of C major? Now I know that key of C major equals Key of A minor. ????? If you play a key of A major, I have to play A minor? Or key of C major? ???????? Thanks for your teaching very much. Su
Great lesson. I’ve been diving into theory and this was a great video that provided a neat application on how to use theory for lead guitar play. Thanks !
Only just found your channel. Meant as constructive only, I know I can pause and go back, but the graphics are on the screen a pretty short period of time. So as someone just getting familiar with the subject, I did have to pause the video to see the graphics and playing examples in order to get a better look. Then you have the pause and forward and back RUclips buttons over the image in the actual video. Maybe leave them up a bit longer? This helped me though so thank you!
Hi Ross. Short of purchasing your course, at 7:30 you mention the concept of the "pivot point". I would kindly like to know why the major "3rd" (G# note) is referred to as a pivot point when after sounding this note the riff continues on into the same major pentatonic sound? Where is the "G#" note pivoting to? I thought a "pivot point" was a point where after sounding the "G#" note the melody immediately shifts to the "E" minor pentatonic. Thanks Ross for all the great lessons.
I need to see a contrast between major and minor pentatonic scales going rightward but still starting on E as the root note. I get that minor is 1 b3 4 5 b7 and major is 1 2 3 5 6. it's that index finger, little finger that loses me
So for the major pentatonic, if you're shifting everything up by 3 frets but keeping the pattern exactly the same, does that mean that the Major Pentatonic E is the same as the Minor Pentatonic C#?
Hey Ross, I bought your course a couple of days ago and I can't wait to get started once I'm done with my exams. I wonder, what gear are you using together with that strat in the beginning of the video? That tone is amazing
Jip Smits Hey man, thanks for your support! I'm using a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II. Amp emulation based on a Dumble ODS, with an Overdrive in front + reverb + delay
Tried to create one using the chord progression and a boss looper just doesn't sound as good as yours. Is it a backing track you created yourself.? Thanks again
I have a doubt about blues chord progression and why we can we use just minor pentatonic and it’s fits well. Can u make a video about that? Ex.: Hey Joe from Jimi Hendrix
Ross Campbell sry. I from Brazil and probaly didnt express myself well. What I meant to say is: hey joe has Cmaj, Gmaj, Dmaj, Amaj and Emaj. And it is not a Emaj progression and we can improvise using E minor pentatonic. Beyond that in a A7, D7 and E7 we can use A minor pentatonic.
Just the topic I needed! I know someone had mentioned in a previous video, but it would be great if you made a video about creating harmonies in style of John Frusciante from the Stadium Arcadium era. Would love to see that from you ;D Cheers! Keep the good videos coming and thanks for your hard work and dedication ;D
I don't get it. When you "pivot" would you not then stay in minor? You play 3 notes that are in the major key after the pivot? and can't you use the Minor 3rd as a pivot as well.
any tips on how to memorize this shit? Some kind of patern, spirit animal etc because if im supposed to learn this by pure memory than ill drop whole theory and start playing by ear. :D
I've never gotten this to work. I've tried mixing in minor pentatonic riffs with major riffs over mixolydian progressions and i can never make it work. the major pentatonic riffs sound fine but whenever I try to add minor riffs it sounds dissonant. I usually will only use minor pentatonic when playing over Dorian progressions and will add the flat third and seventh notes for flavor here and there. I do the same thing with major pentatonic over mixolydian, playing mostly only the five pentatonic notes and adding some flat sevenths. but I can never pull off major and minor pentatonic riffs in the same solo. I've heard minor pentatonic technically should work over mixolydian but I can't get it to sound good
Hey! I no longer sell them on Udemy. I have my own website - bulletproofguitarplayer.com - and you can purchase them there or start a subscription plan to access them both plus monthly bonus content based on my RUclips lessons.
I'm a little confused as to the way you're using the term "pivot" point. Normally I hear this in reference to a note that's shared between two tonalities, such as the way E major and minor pentatonic scales share the notes E and B. but G# only exists in the E major pentatonic so it must mean you're describing a different concept?
Fair enough, that makes sense. I didn't really think about it too much and have never heard it used as 'official' theory terminology. Perhaps a 'doorway' between the two scales would be a better metaphor.
Thanks Enrico! It takes a long time to produce TAB/notation. Just slow the video down, watch my hands and try to transcribe it by ear. It's more rewarding that way.
For teaching you are showing the movements on the fret board too quickly. We can’t see where your pivots are and how you link the Maj to Min pentatonics. Please slow down your progression and explain what you are doing as this would be really helpful to us newbies. Thanks and keep up the good vids.
2:20, i don't get it, how is that an E major scale when the first note you're playing is C#?, I thought the name of the scale was denoted by the first note played Someone pls explain
@@gerongrahamgg Thanks I actually understand it very well now, I know that there are 5 different "boxes" of a scale that all connect to each other and that the lowest note isn't always the root note
I couldnt basically pick up on your instructional lessons for the past 3 months. But I continued to watch and learn, started noticing better playing an just my mind moving faster. Just wanted to say thanks an keep this lead playing ideas and basics coming.
I just found this video and i don't get it. Good to know to keep watching.
hey guys dont get confused either way you can make any minor pentatonic position into a major one by just changing the root note to the m 3rd of the minor penta to make it a major one!! you can also use the 2nd min penta position(which starts on the m3 anyways this is why it sounds major the formula rearrenges itself internally so the scale degress shift for that mode) this happens because of relatives for the pentatonic modes. minor p is R m3 4 5 m7 while shifting the root on the same formula on the 12 semitones to the m3 we get the major p R 2 M3 5 M6. I WILL MAKE A REPLY TO THIS VID WITH MORE DETAIL please like this comment if youre interested!!!
Omg, you just helped me with a total confusion I had by explaining using the second position. Thank you!
but minor is 1 3b 4 5 7b, and major 1 2 3 5 6
3b and 3 are not the same isn't it?
"What'n da hell d'ju juss say?" -Rush Hour
Thank you for making it more confusing.
You're easily becoming one of my favourite instructors on RUclips.
Learning the scale all the way up and down the fretboard was the biggest thing I’ve ever learned on the guitar. I was able to improvise my own solos on any track I wanted I got hooked on guitar forever
For real. My mind was blown when i discovered that scales just moves up or down depending on the root of the note.
It's like a rubick's cube. I thought only geniuses could solve it but once youve figured it out that there's a certain way to do it, all the clouds just clear up and it's certainly doable
Ross! This is the best major-minor pentatonic scale lesson. Showing the differences going up one string is really helping me get it…….finally. I have watched many lessons. The rest of the lesson helps my reluctant brain too. Thanks
Mind blown in first 2 minutes. I can't believe it took me this long to realize that positional change. Thanks!
a good way to practice, find a backing track that shows the scale on teh screen, and so it tells you when to switch. If you get good at playing along to that, you will be alot better at knowing when and how to switch it up.
Videos like this are the very reason I bought Ross' course a couple of weeks ago. Whereas most instructors will introduce people to the concept of introducing chromatic elements to make pentatonic scales sound more musical, they fail to give any theory as to why or how it works. Another excellent lesson, Ross!
Mark M Thanks so much Mark :)
Great video! This is like BB. King "style" blues, his unique sound comes from mix the Major and Minor pentatonic
Thanks Jorge!
My guitar playing has taken off in a few month of discovering you. The progress is incremental compared to my 10 years worth practicing..I'm relearning and getting better!
Just starting to get to grips with major pentatonic. Probably a silly question, but does each scale start on the relevant root note? Eg 1st position A major E string, fret 5, played with the pinkie, then 1st finger 2nd fret etc etc?
thankyou ross have been playing for years mainly using min pattern
was confusing with guitar guys too much theory you have opened a door
thank you i will now go play.be back soon
You are such a humble young man and these are very good nuggets...
I bought his course. If you want to master the guitar, so should you. Thanks Ross.
hey Joe, I was wondering how long have you been doing his course? What would you say was your skill level before you started?
Great! mix both scales using the major 3rd...this hint really helps to discover my own licks! Cheers from Brazil!!!
didn’t even know how to use a second scale, ie, never mixed major and minor. on jah, changed the way i play overnight
Excellent video, this is a topic that I have been struggling with and now have a better idea of how to transition between the scales using the major 3rd interval. Thanks Ross!
I AM Z Great :)
You read my mind from one of your recent videos you did. I was wondering what you were doing exactly to get that jazzier type of modal sound throughout your solos. I'm glad you clarified and solidified what I figured you were doing with it. I'm glad you go into these details and your playing is inspiring as always. Keep it up brotha, yours is one of the only guitar courses I'm really considering buying cuz I've learned and clarified a lot from the short time I've subscribed.
I found a diagram that says your E major position 1 is actually position 5 of major pentatonic. Please explain
This is great!
Thank you for posting
I think I’ll buy your course.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Awesome, well if you decide to go for it then I hope you get some real value from it. Let me know if you have any questions :)
STOP !! Before I watch any further, that intro is a lesson in itself 🤓🙏 Back to the lesson.
Best teacher on YT 👍
Tricko Dude, thanks! :)
Great lesson as always. I have been doing this in my playing for years never really knowing the theory behind it. Thanks for the explanation!
Thanks for sharing bro, I can appreciate that. You can explain clearly..
thank you sir....
im always stuck on minor/major scale when playing..
this really help...
Excellent video sir. Please keep it up. Between your course and your channel there is always something to learn or keep practicing. Thanks for what you do!
Thanks!
I'm very thankful for you reminding me that Ross moment
???? QUESTION: If you play A minor scale, am I supposed to play a key of C major?
Now I know that key of C major equals Key of A minor.
????? If you play a key of A major, I have to play A minor? Or key of C major?
????????
Thanks for your teaching very much.
Su
You could also play in A minor when someone plays in A major. But it takes more finesse to sound good.
Great lesson. I’ve been diving into theory and this was a great video that provided a neat application on how to use theory for lead guitar play. Thanks !
Fantastic lesson!
i am so happy i found this video. thanks a lot. great lessons. well explained!
Your channel is gold
Thank you Thomas!
6:55.......that wee improv riff was absolutely brilliant btw. Just saying. Best wishes from Motherwell.
I know this is an old vid, but just wondering if you have a lesson or tab for the lead guitar intro? Thanks for the great tutorial.
Finally a Scotsman doing guitar lesson on YT 👌
Holy Shit man! Thank You for clearing this up for me!
Great video with crystal clear explanation. Great work and of course, great playing.
Can you give a link to your Udemy course? Thanks.
Best teacher on RUclips by a country mile!
Only just found your channel. Meant as constructive only, I know I can pause and go back, but the graphics are on the screen a pretty short period of time. So as someone just getting familiar with the subject, I did have to pause the video to see the graphics and playing examples in order to get a better look. Then you have the pause and forward and back RUclips buttons over the image in the actual video. Maybe leave them up a bit longer? This helped me though so thank you!
Oh my!!! This is the reason I sub to your channel. Ross I can never thank you enough!!! It does make sense to me know 😊😊😊 THANK YOU ❤️
James Reyes Awesome James, thanks for your comment!
Hi Ross. Short of purchasing your course, at 7:30 you mention the concept of the "pivot point". I would kindly like to know why the major "3rd" (G# note) is referred to as a pivot point when after sounding this note the riff continues on into the same major pentatonic sound? Where is the "G#" note pivoting to? I thought a "pivot point" was a point where after sounding the "G#" note the melody immediately shifts to the "E" minor pentatonic. Thanks Ross for all the great lessons.
Sorry, I'm not very intelligent. Does this mean I can play the minor pentatonic scale on the 5th fret and the same pattern on the 12th? Thank you?
Scotty! we need the starboard nacelle's pentatonic plasma probosculator brought back online!!!
Very helpful video - thanks.
best theory teacher on the tube. I fully understand you!! Thanks.
Thanks so much man!
What decides your pivot is the major third? Do you just pull that out of thin air or is there more to it (I’m assuming the latter)?
Fucken legend Ross. Will be enjoying your content today
Ross your lessons are just awesome.. I love the sequence you do on bonamassa.. Do you havd lessons in your paid sure in sequences?
TubeAmp Amp Hey, thank you! Yes, Spicy Licks package 1 (in the EXTRAS section) has a bunch of material on sequences like JB and Eric Johnson.
I need to see a contrast between major and minor pentatonic scales going rightward but still starting on E as the root note. I
get that minor is 1 b3 4 5 b7 and major is 1 2 3 5 6. it's that index finger, little finger that loses me
Youre the best guit tutor! All honors!
So for the major pentatonic, if you're shifting everything up by 3 frets but keeping the pattern exactly the same, does that mean that the Major Pentatonic E is the same as the Minor Pentatonic C#?
Yes !! C# is the relative minor of E. Relative minor = 6th note of the scale.
Hey Ross, I bought your course a couple of days ago and I can't wait to get started once I'm done with my exams. I wonder, what gear are you using together with that strat in the beginning of the video? That tone is amazing
Jip Smits Hey man, thanks for your support! I'm using a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II. Amp emulation based on a Dumble ODS, with an Overdrive in front + reverb + delay
Great lesson Ross! Love your teaching style. Cheers!
Superb lesson nice one
Godamn! You showing me the switch slowly over and over with the pivot helped me get after so long.
Great video Ross! Sounds awesome over the backing track. Is the backing track 6.53 available on your site? Thanks.
Thank you! I'm afraid not. This is quite an old video from way before I had the website.
Tried to create one using the chord progression and a boss looper just doesn't sound as good as yours. Is it a backing track you created yourself.? Thanks again
I have a doubt about blues chord progression and why we can we use just minor pentatonic and it’s fits well. Can u make a video about that? Ex.: Hey Joe from Jimi Hendrix
Gabriel Torres I don't quite understand. Hey Joe isn't a blues progression, could you rephrase your question? :)
Ross Campbell sry. I from Brazil and probaly didnt express myself well. What I meant to say is: hey joe has Cmaj, Gmaj, Dmaj, Amaj and Emaj. And it is not a Emaj progression and we can improvise using E minor pentatonic. Beyond that in a A7, D7 and E7 we can use A minor pentatonic.
Thanks this helped
Awesome vid mate
Just the topic I needed!
I know someone had mentioned in a previous video, but it would be great if you made a video about creating harmonies in style of John Frusciante from the Stadium Arcadium era. Would love to see that from you ;D
Cheers! Keep the good videos coming and thanks for your hard work and dedication ;D
Hey Pavle, I could do a video on harmonies at some point for sure. Thanks!
How is the 9th fret E minor pentatonic when the route note is C?
I don't get it. When you "pivot" would you not then stay in minor? You play 3 notes that are in the major key after the pivot? and can't you use the Minor 3rd as a pivot as well.
Just stumbled upon this. Excellent lesson, thanks
any tips on how to memorize this shit? Some kind of patern, spirit animal etc because if im supposed to learn this by pure memory than ill drop whole theory and start playing by ear. :D
I've never gotten this to work. I've tried mixing in minor pentatonic riffs with major riffs over mixolydian progressions and i can never make it work. the major pentatonic riffs sound fine but whenever I try to add minor riffs it sounds dissonant. I usually will only use minor pentatonic when playing over Dorian progressions and will add the flat third and seventh notes for flavor here and there. I do the same thing with major pentatonic over mixolydian, playing mostly only the five pentatonic notes and adding some flat sevenths. but I can never pull off major and minor pentatonic riffs in the same solo. I've heard minor pentatonic technically should work over mixolydian but I can't get it to sound good
Hi, I haven't found your course on Udemy...
Hey! I no longer sell them on Udemy. I have my own website - bulletproofguitarplayer.com - and you can purchase them there or start a subscription plan to access them both plus monthly bonus content based on my RUclips lessons.
U r lead is so melodious 💓👍👏
Great way of explaing it Thanks
thanks my friend....after playing for almost 50 years i now finally get the theory of where this is derived....
This was really helpful, thanks
It sounds like a myxolydian to me ..are they the same? thanks
Awesome video. Headed to Udemy now.
Gr8 lesson, can you provide this backing track download links, thanks.
Thanks man, this realy help
Such a cool lick at 7:25
Those licks at the end, can it be played on any root note or just on E?
you can adapt it everywhere
great content like always.
cheers from California !!
Figgie Smalls Thank you!
Fresno, Cali too
Kevin Musso cool im in San Bernardino
Figgie Smalls I was born in Berdo! Small world (San Bernardino)
Kevin Musso I was born in Redlands! cheers m8!!
Brilliant video thanks
Why does every other video I have watched tell us the first position is at the opposite end of the neck?
Ross are you noodling at the beginnings?
ROSS CAMPBELL>>>>>>>)))) which guitar solos used the Major Pentatonic licks scale can you make a lesson showing a bunch of examples?
Great video Ross😊👌
Thanks Suzy!
Thank you.
thanks!!!
Thanks
I'm a little confused as to the way you're using the term "pivot" point. Normally I hear this in reference to a note that's shared between two tonalities, such as the way E major and minor pentatonic scales share the notes E and B.
but G# only exists in the E major pentatonic so it must mean you're describing a different concept?
Fair enough, that makes sense. I didn't really think about it too much and have never heard it used as 'official' theory terminology. Perhaps a 'doorway' between the two scales would be a better metaphor.
Thanks a lot i get it
please make a video on "how to mix major and minor pentatonic scale"
Amazing! Cheers from Italy Ross..could you please tab the 2 solos?
Thanks Enrico! It takes a long time to produce TAB/notation. Just slow the video down, watch my hands and try to transcribe it by ear. It's more rewarding that way.
Oh my bro you're inspiring, God
Classy quote...ROSS! ;-) Thank you.
Lenny? Or was it something else? Haha. Thanks man!
good one Ross
i couldn't comprehend >w
No matter how many times someone shows me this I still don’t get it. Anyone know of a really dumbed down tutorial?
Bit late but go check out Fretjam’s “mixing minor and major pentatonic effectively”
Ditto!
you are not alone !
Watch Scott Paul Johnson. I’ve learned more from that dude in one week than I have in years of playing.
Lol...just keep practicing
I'm still confused help me out
What color telecaster is that?
For teaching you are showing the movements on the fret board too quickly. We can’t see where your pivots are and how you link the Maj to Min pentatonics. Please slow down your progression and explain what you are doing as this would be really helpful to us newbies. Thanks and keep up the good vids.
Love your English accent ❤️
2:20, i don't get it, how is that an E major scale when the first note you're playing is C#?, I thought the name of the scale was denoted by the first note played
Someone pls explain
Geodude C# is one notes to the set of notes of the Emaj scale
Aj Viray what about switching from A minor pentatonic to C major pentatonic?
Agreed. Haven't found a single "teacher" to explain that yet.
E major is the root note of the scale. He is playing notes before it because it completes the "pattern"
@@gerongrahamgg Thanks I actually understand it very well now, I know that there are 5 different "boxes" of a scale that all connect to each other and that the lowest note isn't always the root note