Using Minor & Major Pentatonic Together Effectively
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2024
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Learn how to combine the minor and major pentatonic scales effectively and play smoothly between the two scales.
Sometimes, one scale is all you need to create the perfect guitar solo. But by marrying major and minor pentatonic, your vocabulary doubles and you can "say" a lot more.
Usually, mixing major and minor scales creates too much dissonance, but in this lesson, I show you how the two scales can really complement each other, as long as you know how to move between them.
I'm sure that, if you haven't already been combining these two scales in your licks, you will after going through the lesson.
You see, minor pentatonic gives us those bluesy b3 and b7 intervals.
Whereas major pentatonic gives us the sweeter 2, 3 and 6 intervals.
If you're unsure what these numbers mean, don't worry! They simply refer to the position of a note in the scale. I'll show you these in the diagrams in the lesson so you know exactly where to put your fingers to get the note you want.
When you combine these major/minor tones, you can express yourself more freely than if you were restricted to one scale. You have more notes to choose from, which can be more difficult at first, but the more you play around with the "merged scale" the more you'll get to know what works.
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I tried to learn this mixing thing for days with hundreds of leading you tube channels, but no one teaches like you guys do. very clear and theoretical and practical. coolest thing is no any fancy backgrounds, fancy guitars and fancy teachers....just the subject. really appreciate your work here. nicley illustrate, even without showing a guitar. remarkable teaching ability. please accept my humble gratitude.
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100000% agree.....after 12 hrs of rewatch making some senses to me finally....talk about masterclass :D
Your missing only one thing. The actual practice and time it takes to have your brain put all of the information together. Shit is a trip man 😆
You're by far the best guitar teacher online. You don't just give a few examples of whatever it is, you shine light on HOW and WHY it works. And your theory breakdown is so concise and well structured. I can't believe you haven't got more subscribers. Thank you for all the amazing lessons.
This is by far the best major/minor pentatonic guitar lesson on RUclips!! Thanks!
Hey man,
I really want to take a moment to sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart for these amazing lessons.
Very, very rarely does one come across such a concise, clear lesson with such useful examples-- visually, aurally, etc.
I don't know who you are, but I want you to know just how useful and appreciated these have been, and I really hope to see some more.
Thank you so much.
Not one word too much ... not one missing ... through all the lessons! One of the must know pages for every guitar player. No matter of what league you think you are playing in! Cheers
I've learned the note and scales already, but it's the meaning that you add that makes this so good. The idea that some notes are bluesy, so are sweet, what creates tension.... that's what i was missing. Thank you so much for this. IT IS EXCELLENT!
The fact that you added phrasing, makes this lesson gold! Thanks so much!
Great explanation! I think no one else has explained this interchange so simply on RUclips. Although a bit confusing initially, it really pays to understand these concepts for becoming a complete musician. Thank you for your immense effort in putting this video together!
Thanks Mike. I bought a book ca 1980 titled"the Heavy Guitar Bible" that talked about this concept of mixing minor and major pentatonic. It had the mixed scales mapped all over the fret board but never mentioned your point of never losing track of the chord tones of the particular chord being played at the time. That's ultra important in making the solo jive with the progression. Great pithy lesson. Thanks for making those notes light up as you play them. I'll be coming back to this lesson lots.
WOW! This is basically everything I spent the past couple years and 400+ youtube videos trying to learn! Thank you!!
Just recently got more comfortable with the Dom7 arpeggios and targeting changes over a 1-4-5. I had started to explore this, but found myself hitting a lot of notes that clash. This is perfectly timed!
Fretjam has the best guitar videos ever!!! Tks
THE BEST BLUES LESSON EVER! Especially for people already playing the blues harp like me.
Superb outstanding lesson! target notes, intervals involved, backing chord, all integrated, I finally find an excellent teacher and lesson that dissect the point to the bone, so clearly. This depth of integration of concept plus graphs is unmatched. As a beginner I was stuck until this gem EXPLAINS what is going on. Thank you so so much, I wish you 1M subscribers! You deserve it. Greetings from Argentina, cheers.
THANK YOU... This is such a well laid out lesson. I'm actually starting to get this. My translation to the fretboard, and actually using this in a song is still behind my "understanding"... but thanks to lessons like this, at least I have a shot at getting there!!!
Absolutely incredible lesson and masterful instruction. Thank you for helping me take my playing to a totally new level.
This is exactly the information I was looking for!
Thanks for getting back to me on that, Another little bit of knowledge gained...So a Major penta will always be the same as the sixth note in the scale which is a Minor penta,,,Thanks, Great stuff Cheers
Great job. Love the way you explain using numbers as it relates to the scales or chords because it is the way i look at the fretboard and makes the lesson easy to understand. I have been trying to add Maj pentatonic to Min pentatonic for a while, and with the concepts you have presented it will just be a matter of playing with it for a while. THANK YOU so very much!
Great lesson ..you make some important lesson understandable for ordinary guitarist.
Wow! This can be one the best lessons on pentatonic soloing! Great!
Such FANTASTIC lessons. The best on the Internet!!
Great! Finally I`m starting to understand how to combine major n minor scales!
wow! instant upgrade in my playing style after seeing this in detail. Thank you!
thank you! the clearest explanation I've ever run across!
One of the most informative music theory channels on RUclips!
Very succinctly informative. Highly useful. Excellent.
Many thanks for this wonderful lesson. This is fantastically helpful; just what I have been looking for, and it has taken quite a while to find this. And very clearly explained. Many thanks.
Fabulous tutorial, explains WHY. Thank you very much
WOW!! Thank you SO much for this!! This is exactly what I was looking for. This will keep me busy for months now... Love it, great lesson!!
Thanks so much!! It's an epic lesson for me (I thought I'd learn blues so I could better solo over chord changes & I thought it would be easy but the rabbit hole keeps getting deeper & I'm loving it!)
I feel like found Dimond in the deep blue sea.
Thank you so much.
That honestly made my day. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this. It explains so much in such a straightforward way. Cheers
Great lessons. Love the lesson about playing Blues thru the changes. I am trying to learn jazz guitar and that lesson helps a lot. Thanks a lot. Cheers from Brazil. CB
This is awesome man, better then most of tutorials. Quick theory information direct to the brain, thanks!!
Wow, that's pretty cool - never looked at like that before. Basically what you have there is a Dorian 'Scale' but with an added third (representing the Major), and the flatted third (representing minor) already being present.
When I play a blues scale I always slide chromatically up and down at certain points anyway, this just makes it official!
I've also noticed the Mixolydian 'Scale' in there as well. It's a mixture of both. Which makes sense as the Dorian represents the minor intervals, and the Mixolydian represents the Major intervals.
You do some great lessons. I only look at the shapes you put in the vids, I haven't watched one through all the way yet. You seem to have a knack for visualising shapes though, and that's really what scales/modes are all about.
On the subject of Mixolydian, I've just uploaded a blues lesson covering just that. As you demonstrate well, there are different ways to look at how these scales merge. All good for helping the brain internalise it.
You're a musical genius.
I'm really looking forward to sitting down and actually watching the vids when I get a bit of time. I can only learn more.
Thank you.
What well explained and well thought out lesson videos.
This is stuff i wished i'd learned years ago that passed me by as being made to sound as difficult and complicated as possible.
These videos actually make me feel like i'm about to understand some soloing ability, and they're not too long in length as to frazzle your mind and you can come back to individual lessons as and when. These are probably the best videos i've seen for where i am in my musical ability.
I might have to subscribe to this channel.
You marry minor and major pentatonic and it gives birth to sweet harmony to my playing.... Thanks!
Every time I say to myself let me go and find someone who explains it in a way that's easier to understand I always seem to come back to your channel. Lol
Thanks!! Great video and very easy to follow and understand.
Whenever someone starts using NUMBERS to talk about music my brain explodes! I learned by reading and memorizing classical pieces, with NO knowledge of the theory behind them. When I took my first lesson from a jazz guitarist I left in tears - it was as if this instrument that had been an extension of my physical being since age 6 had suddenly morphed into an alien creature, speaking in a completely foreign tongue. This is taking me right back into that room in Winnipeg with a brilliant guitarist, Tim Cummings - a beloved friend who scared the crap out of me!!!
Exactly my story. Classical since 5, read music scores, even played in a stage pit with the written music. Got to college, tried out for dance band, failed miserably. I think it was "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer. I didn't know fancy chords or any number system. I'm in my 50's and love to go to blues jam. These lessons are awesome. I'm am just now into music theory, and I've played on stages in Texas, like Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. I've always played by ear and been a great mediocre player.
Thanks Alex that means a lot. Yes there is more on the way and I'm always open to requests.
Very useful for all, Many thanks
Thank you! It is a great blues guitar lesson
Excellent video on this topic. Thanks a lot!
Not sure I'm quite here yet, but the diagrams are super useful!
excellent lesson, yes the best I have seen on this topic ! thanks a lot.
Great lesson. just what I was after and some.
Very very very instructive!! Thank you so much!!
very good teaching, very helpful and complete.
Excellent. Right to the target. Thank you
been a week and about 60% understanding level...someone said here that it is 1 years lesson in 12 mins...could not agree more :D :D
Your lessons are excellent!
Why is there 91 thumbs down negative . If you slightly understand music theory this would make sense , and you would learn from this VERY well explained lesson . So if you dont understand , go to a lesser skilled lesson then come back to this when you have come a bit more advanced , its unfair to give a thumbs down just because you dont understand it your self. Sorry little rant over.
Thank you that means a lot, especially with such an old lesson. I admit I could do this better today. I'll probably redo it at some point. Don't worry about the thumbs down. It's not for everyone and I accept that.
the best guitar videos！super love it！
Excellent lesson!
this is like someone deciphered the heaven on earth....absolutely the BEST explanation
Yeh a lot of books and sites give you the roadmap but don't show you any destinations. Now I'm not saying all players need these destinations. Many amazing guitarists learn through trial and error (with the aid of a sharp ear) where to phrase in a pattern for a given chord. I would always encourage a bit of trial n error - to occasionally venture "off the beaten path" (ala Jeff Beck).
Think of those chord tones as safe retreats when you need time to get your bearings and plan your next move.
Effectively what you have there is a G Mixolydian scale shape combined with a G Dorian scale shape, one representing the Major elements and the other representing the minor elements, respectively.
That is what you get when you combine a G minor pentatonic scale and a G Major pentatonic scale.
I never knew that. Cool!
That's like 4 scales in one man!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you for posting this, I have learned a lot.
luv your lessons mate !
sweet...more stuff to learn, grow and expand.
This is very helpful. Thanks
very good lesson.
very good lesson
Thanks man, very useful !
Fantastic lesson mike
While I was soloing last week I was thinking to myself how do I move from minor pentagon to major penta as using all the notes doesn't sound right '
Fantastic lesson! This stuff will keep me busy for a looooong time :)
Very very useful, thank you a lot.
Super as always
wow this is great!! thanks so much.
So this SUPER SCALE will sound great over Dominant 7th chords (G7) due to the Mixolydian influence, and also great over minor 7th (Gm7) chords, due to the Dorian influence - apart from your general Major and minor chords.
Dorian is particularly great for minor 7th chords as there are no avoid notes.
You may still need to avoid the odd note here and there though if you are going to throw that all together will all those chords! But still... It's a whole new way of looking at guitar.
This may be the only scale you ever need kids. This is a SUPER SCALE!
Flipping brilliant
muy bien explicado muchas gracias !ya me suscribí!
Tight. I love it.
For a player at my level this is a really fantastic lesson.
Mixing major and minor pentatonic scales over dominant 7th chord progressions.
Is it appropriate to say that blues and rock and roll are based on dom7 chords?
Is that flatted 7th the magic note that opens the door for the flatted 3rd (and 5th)?
Yes, blues and rock are pretty much dominant 7th based chords. Not all, but many. I would say yes about your last question.
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You should do another video for A minor and A major since most people are told to learn A pentatonic first
Thanx! a very good lesson i like your channel!
You are great, thanks!!
FINALLY SOMEONE DID THIS
Damn! Thats what I call a video.
this is platinum!
Excelente, Muchas gracias ¡
Thanks
great outro music...hendrixy!
fantastic
BB King,Buddy Guy,T-Bone Walker and all other great blues players use it everywhere in their solos.
theory blags my head, wish I could understand it
simply- if you add the blues note of b5. The only note outside of this combined scale is a b2. let hell to pay and go for it, your chances of not emphasizing that 1 wrong note is pretty good.
Sweet outro tune
Hi Mike thanks for the great lesson!
I started to practice your lesson by trying to blend Cmin and Cmaj pentatonic together on the 8th fret overlaying pentatonic box pattern 1 with pentatonic box pattern 2 and the realized that - with exception of one note ( major 3d ) , I am getting the box pattern 3 of the major scale Eb! Since the note of resolution is C, it seems that this exactly corresponds to C-Dorian. So blending major and minor pentatonics seems, with exception of one missing note (major third), identical to playing the Dorian mode. Is that true?
It seems to work for me on the guitar as well and makes it mentally easier to blend the scales. Would you agree?
All the best and happy new Year!
Great course well done love the writer that ripped some idiot spewing off about a guy that said he has been playing for 30 years. Time and life gets in the way and the time I had in my youth life kids and family get in the way. I have always said if I had RUclips back in the 70s how much better I would have been and how much better our covers would have been. You couldn’t find out about alternate tunings etc unless some dude showed you. Anyways loving the journey enjoy.
6:00 that works, but not for the reason you say it does. the flat third is the blue note of major pentatonic. That is why it works.
Respect!!
i ve been play guitar since 1994 and years ago i said to myself:, if i learn Major scales and minor pentatonic i would be a great with a guitar furthermore i said if i build speed i will become a god of the guitar. i was totally wrong ! a lot people here are too, when i discover that i just need to learned CAGED lmfao i almost killed myself , but this is true no need learn any of that ,even Mr. Fretjam will agree with me, learn scale and will end up play scale that all. you just need to learn CAGED
I'm glad CAGED works for you. It is a good method but for many only using CAGED will cause some limitations further down the road. I think it's a good place to begin with connecting chord shapes and scale patterns though.
fretjam what method do you recommend learning after caged?
Yes. CAGED was awesome for me. But to previous point don't want to box yourself in and only learn that way
And what you will end up playing just same chord over the neck?Whats your point? CAGED is great to know the chord tones and to target them when you run over the scale you can use the scale as a fundament but you build the building with chord tones and with making little cute arpeggios out of chords thats What Marty friedman does!
I say combine a scale with Caged system and always know where chords of backing tracl ie all over the neck so scales+caged!
contemplating change
Can this be applied to our normal major 5th chords or does it work for only dominant blues chords