The Blues Scale (Minor Pentatonic) and the Major Pentatonic Scales on the Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Be sure to visit www.activemelo... to download the tablature and MP3 Jam track for this lesson.
This lesson gives a brief overview of the major and minor pentatonic scales on the guitar, which are (in my opinion) the only 2 scales you really need to know well. You can play just about anything with these 2 scales (in fact, they're the only scales I know!). I give some examples using each scale and explain how the major pentatonic scale is the happier sounding scale, versus the minor pentatonic scale which is more sad (also referred to as the blues scale). Be sure to download the tablature and MP3 jam track for this lesson to practice these!
This is like the only video I’ve seen so far where the guitarist is taking his time to teach and isn’t throwing crazy pentatonic guitar solos at me at full speed
Absolutely one of the best guitar lesson I've ever had and I had them hundreds with different teachers and videos and lots of them there is all too much show off by teacher how good is he or she.
Appreciated his humble teaching.
Cheers for the Video clip! Apologies for chiming in, I would love your thoughts. Have you tried - Rozardner Inspiring Chord Reality (search on google)? It is a smashing one of a kind product for how to play guitar scales minus the headache. Ive heard some super things about it and my buddy at last got cool results with it.
Kudos for the video content! Apologies for butting in, I am interested in your opinion. Have you tried - Rozardner Inspiring Chord Reality (do a google search)? It is a smashing exclusive guide for how to play guitar scales minus the normal expense. Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my buddy after a lifetime of fighting got great results with it.
Well, you need to look around more then- because these types of videos are a dime a dozen, they're all over RUclips.
Your presentation and honesty ..."those are the only scales I learned" is awesome. In two short videos, I have learned more from you than from years of noodling.
You just gave me an "aha' moment with the 3 frets down thing - awesome!!!
I agree ive bern confuser intk.thinking i have to.memorize all these other scales
Finally, a guitar teacher with humility! "These are the only two scales I know." Wow! I''m signing up!
this is exactly why I am not signing up. To say its the only 2 I use would not worry me but the only 2 I know? I want a teacher who knows a bit more than that.
@@mattwoodrow577 It's clearly a joke, he has lessons on using modes and whatnot
@@mattwoodrow577 It went completely over your head...
@@SixStringSlinger1 no it didn’t. I’m not stupid. You clearly stated it’s the only 2 scales I know. If that’s a joke it’s a stupid joke.
@@mattwoodrow577 uh yes it did. You're a very ignorant person. For instance, I didn't say anything, but yet you just said "You clearly stated"... I think you're referring to Brian, the one who runs the channel. And yes he was DEFINITELY joking because he's the one who taught me the other modes, so quit being an ignorant fool. You sound silly
Hello, this is Tony from London. Today I was watching my son Jez's new guitar teacher teaching him the blue scale and encouraging him to improvise while his teacher played few chords to go with it. It was great to watch my son enjoying it. I have book marked this video for him. You have explained it so beautifully. Thank you very much for doing this video.
Thanks Tony! I hope it's helpful to Jez :) - cool name btw.
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Tony Sebastian hows he doing
Active Melody your a legend btw
Very nice. I know all that stuff. I've been playing for 49 years. I especially liked when you said that you can do all you want to do in those two scales (which are actually the same, just applied to a different key). I've been listening to more jazz, to expand my understanding of applying notes to progressions. I'm not that great, but I can fool a lot of people. Your video is great for people who don't yet understand the concept you are presenting. Anyone who's trying to step up a level should benefit from this video. Bravo!
Lol...right with ya. I started playing in 1966 and you just never know where you will learn something new. In all those years I have been a rock and roller and am now looking to mellow, these lessons are great. About a year ago I bought a semi-hollow body and love it....I've gone from Jimi Hendrix to Chet Akins, from Janis Joplin to Karen Carpenter and couldn't be happier.
totally agree, Im someone who just finished learning chords, i was stuck on understanding scales, etc, this tutorial was amazing help, now i feel like im soloing stuff, I feel like a rockstar!!
Hands down the best instructional vid I've seen for anything pertaining to playing guitar. You actually show in a straight forward manner how to actually USE one of the pentatonic positions to play the blues. Awesome and thank you.
I learned more in this video that I have in months
Damn, you must suck at learning.
Jesus te ama e quer te salvar.
You aint lyin!
Me too. It seems like I go thru periods and then have a little break thru that spurs me on.
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“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” - B. B. King
I learned to play this pattern a few years ago, but I never knew the major part... Wow, that was cool... Opens a whole bunch of new doors. You rock my friend. Like you, this is pretty much the only scale I know perfectly, and it has been doing all I need for my current ability. It's simple, it flows easily, and can be used on all kind of backing tracks.
Ive been playing guitar for 11 years and havent learned any scales or anything. You explain it beautifully. thank you!
So clear and easy to understand! Far better than a book. Thanks.
like many of us here, I really leaned what I haven't been able to do in many years. I have an electric guitar, a ukulele, and a bass guitar. most of the time I only play the bass guitar and very little, but the other two just hang on my wall. this video got me excited and I'm bringing my electric guitar out of retirement. Thank you very much for giving me motivation. Great explanation and video!!
I'm so glad I've signed up because I've learnt more in 3 months than I have in 3years.Great stuff Brian.
Just put a blues backtrack in E minor and started jamming on it, i feel like i am a real guitar player for the first time! Thanks man!
Thank you so much for this video! This is the most straight-forward easy-to-understand motivating blues lesson video I've ever found so far!
You are the best teacher ever for me, i ve been watching so many lessons but they never share there's a major scale three frets down the minor.. the most useful lessons i ever get! THANK YOU SO MUCH Brother 💕
I feel like I just learned something that I've been waiting for since I was 14 years old, and didn't know how/what to ask for! This seems almost too easy for some reason, to just slide down the neck and use the same scale in a different position. Why haven't I heard this at some point over the last 18 years? I feel like this little piece of information is going to take me to an incredibly exciting new place. Thanks man!
Real good explanation of minor and major pentanonic scales and you get right to the point in your demo of these scales and how they can be played up and down the next etc Some guitar teachers take way too long in explaining what there going to demonstrate and they lose me, l wacthed your video from start to finish. Great lesson
Thanks Much
For someone like me who can just about play a few chords, this is very informative and something I’m going to play with, thanks 👍
Brian, you are a real treasure. You give us all this information and free tuition which comes from the goodness of your heart. I am grateful and God bless you my friend 🙏
That's a good lesson, really.
The whole video is absolutely understandable and inspiring. I like it.
Been playing for a few months now. This is one of the best tutorials I've seen.
This was a fucking great tutorial. Suddenly shit makes so much more sense
EmeraldAgnostic Really I learned something.
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Active fookin' Melody!
hahaha you made my day
EmeraldAgnostic it certainly opens up a lot. Great place to start. I'd recommend starting guitar learning this concept.
You're an amazing guitar tutor. I've been learning and improving a lot thanks to your so simple and straightforward tips. TKS so much from Brazil.
this is a great video for beginners. but once your ready to step up to the next level, learn the pentatonic minor/major scale (this scale) in all five positions, this will get you "out of the box" as some of us call it. what tends to happen is we become comfortable with this box and as time goes by we are limited to this one small area. learn the same scale in all 5 positions and you will soon fly up and down the neck with more variety and flavors to choose from. think of it as a cook with a recipe. you can only eat the same spaghetti sauce for so long before it becomes bland/old. well spice that thing up a bit by adding different ingredients/ different positions. it takes practice and it takes time but after one month, practicing 1 hour a day you will see the benefits and reap the rewards of breaking "out of the box". after you have accomplished this to a comfortable level, move on to 3 notes per string/major scale, diatonic, mixolydian, and so on. strive for greatness no matter what skill level you are.
chuck jones in all keys of course bro. A great way to keep your licks fresh is playing in every different key ad much as possible.
Here's several tips for blues jam tracks:
Use done for you tracks templates.
Practise with a few people and ask for their opinions.
(I read about these and more from Makale jam plan website )
Aditya Shakya - Boy, you must really like the "Makale jam plan" because you're all over these guitar lesson videos "casually" mentioning it in all the comment sections... LoL!
I was going to reply to this yesterday and I thought the same exact thing. This sounds like, what I like to call "Politely spamming".
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Gold,This is just gold. I remember when I figured this out many moons ago and could play along with records,yes,many,many moons ago.Great lesson!
All I can say is this is awesome video I ever came up with.God bless you and may you help many many more young guitarist
I have been trying to learn to improvise lead guitar for years without ever getting anywhere.........then I subscribed to active melody and a year later I could improvise..........i would recommend this online course to anyone who wants to learn improv .............by the way just to let people know because people can be suspicious I don't know this man he's American based in American and I'm Irish based in Ireland
He is a real man, I've seen him in person!
@@JetMags I never said he wasn't real I said I didn't personally know him that I live in Ireland and he lives in America
Great lesson Brian in which it really has opened up a lot of avenues for me to take my blues playing a little bit further!! Your lessons are always informative, interesting and useful. Thx for your free time but I am a member of your site anyway.
This is the best of the best minor and major pentatonic scale lesson for me understand and knowing how to use key of E minor and E major or D minor and D major and etc.. I appreciate you and thank you very much for teaching us this helpful lesson!
just got a new Marshall amp and ready to play !
LOL- You just helped me build a 3 note per string pentatonic run I can shred- thank you. See- you never know what you might learn watching one of these videos. I've been playing for many years and I already knew these scales and many more but- I just like to watch these videos because like I said- you pick up all kinds of little tricks and stuff outside of the intended scope of the video. Not only did you help me bump into that run I also picked up a few of your licks- like BB said- If you hear something you like there's nothing wrong with taking a little back home for yourself. You play nice clean blues man- well done. It reminds me of BB's style in fact. If you're ever around Memphis and feel like gigging message me- I'll put you to work for a night.
I've played on and off for 15 years and never practiced outside of learning songs. This lesson helped majorly!
2:12 just leaving this here so I can practice
2 weeks later....you got it whooped yet?
Anybody have the backing track
This video is probably the most important video for my guitar abilities started on this about a year and a half ago. I use all kinds of backing tracks with the minor and major pentatonic scales every day. A great way to breakthrough!
Hi, I can't thank you enough for this great lesson. I've been struggling for many years with the switching between minor and major scales!! BTW, does the '3-fret down' technique to switch to a major pentatonic work for all the keys or just E? If not, can you please do a video just on 'finding the major pentatonic scales for every minor key'? That would be super helpful. Thanks again! Love your channel.
Suraj: yes it applies to any and all keys 3 frets away gives you the relative major or minor depending on which note you are using as the root note.
I know some people have found fault but thought you explained it all perfectly. It was straight forward and uncomplicated. Well done and thank you. Going to try it out now.
This was a productive lesson, thank you for that. :)
Thanks for Explaining this where Any Guitarists Can learn to Craft their Very Own Solo instead of having to learn and practice someone else's music You made my day here So Simply Awesome Great Guitar Teacher
What I would like for you to record is a minor progression so I can practice
You can just record yourself strumming and then play over it
this is amazing _ I've been playing rhythm guitar for years and years with men in bands and never understood how easy it was to do these scales! Thankyou so much
Now THAT was the BEST (most helpful) guitar video I have ever watched! Well done and Thank you! Bob
Thats exactly how i learnt it, altho i learnt it in the fifht fret, and i use my pinky in the extreme notes, heard someone once say that not using the pinky is like reducing your warfare power by 1/4 of total capacity, lol
I totally agree with you. I try to do the same and use my pinky as much as i can but here's my question ; when you do a bend on the extreme notes, do you still use your pinky or your ring finger? I try to use the pinky when i practice through the scales but when i play for fun i use my ring finger on the extreme notes so its easier to bend but i dont know if im doing the right thing?
***** YO ME TOO LMFAO.
Alex Land When I need to bend pinky notes I put my ring finger behind the pinky to use the strength of both fingers. That way you get the speed of using the pinky but the strength of the other fingers.
Unreal how my understanding and self- learning has improved drastically with just this one lesson. " WOW " UNBELIEVABLE!!!
My link works better then my thumb now. I forced my self to learn the pinky early on
I literally just went to a pawn shop and picked up a squier stratocaster, and an amp and I just learned my first scale. Great teacher!!
I want to thank you for all these excellent lessons. I subscribed to your channel and have learned so much that I am just amazed. Your lessons are always clear and easy to follow. I like how you offer nuances and variations that make playing the guitar challenging but absolutely fun. I am currently a novice, but am excited about what I can learn and how far I can go personally with the guitar. Best RUclips channel I have found, and well worth the cost. Thanks again! Please, keep up the good work. While I cant take lessons personally with you, this is a great substitute.
great lesson, but there is one thing i don't get. The blues scale are in e minor and e major pentatonic. These both work over a chord progression in E major right? Now why are the chords in the chord progression E major, D major and A major? because that's a chord progression (V-IV-I) in A major and not in E major as i would expect?
Honestly I did guitar lesson and this video thought me more than they did in 3 years great vid 👍
Hi my name is Walter from Scotland just learning guitar at age of 67 should have done it years ago problem i have were can i purchase some backing music whilst learning my pentatonic scales anyone any ideas .
+walter howat Walter, that's what ActiveMelody.com is for. You can get the backing track for this video and for all the others that are on the site. This one is from 5 years ago but I add new lessons each week and have hundreds of backing tracks.
Get a Ditto "looper"
This guy is 69 now :)
@@krijnv123 I am 65 years, norwegian, and I've been playing the blues scale for years. Suddenly I looked at this video, and now I can play the major pentatonic as well. Great ! You are never to old to learn if you really want to be a guitarplayer. Rock on folks.
Yee ha.
Buy a looper and make your own...
Beginner here. Only have a month of experience. I really enjoyed the instruction. Helped me out big time. Cheers.
Do I recognize some older Beatles' riffs in the major? And some Dead in the minor? Are you using a single pick, or fingerpicks and thumbpicks?
Well, if I can observe, all great blues and rock guitarists use only these two scales... And sometimes they try to pretend that they know million different scales. But in fact... this is pentatonic and pentatonic all the time, again and again. That's good, that's enough and more to play blues and rock! And your great, friend, keep running!
Great vid, but you need to add another note to the scales to get the "blues scale. Flattened 5th for minor and flattened 3rd for major.
Best guitar lesson I have seen yet. This was incredibly helpful. These are instant tools that make sense and are easy to remember.
Man, you just made my day...I just picked up the guitar since I put it down 15 years ago and this made soooo much sense. I had some instruction back then but was going thru a rough patch and laid the guitar down and now just picked it up again...many thanks for this instructional video ;-))
This was a good explanation. It's the same thing I tell newbies. Play the scale to the right of the key note for blues/rock... to the left for country.
So, when playing these scales, you can play any note, right? You don't have to go in order?
Mike Williams boob
yeah if you are improvising any note in the scale will sound good with the others regardless the order.
Thank you so much for making the E major and minor easier to understand.
Love the blues.
Super lesson. Best explanation of pentotonic scales to date.
That's one of the clearest explanations of those scales I've seen.
You're playing the e minor pent atomic not the blues pentatonic scale. Get it right so people don't get confused.
Cheech Chong I noticed thgat as well. Difference being no flat 5th which would give it that distinctive "blues" sound.
Yup it was the minor pentatonic, Ain't a blues scale without the blue note.
schmeng01 yes NOT the same thing...what a muppet
You get it right its pentatonic NOT pentatomic lol pot, kettle etc
Cheech Chong. Ive been playing blues for 50 years and have never heard of the "pentatomc " blues scale
Sober up on the pot and listen to whats being said you just might be able to understand the lession is about using the minor pentatonic and the major pentatonic scales in the blues and not the blues
scale so quit trying to confuse or discourage beginers with your amature oppion of the "Pentatonic blues scale.
Brains a good teacher hes not prefect like you think you are but he's made no mistake here.
Cheech sober up get some help in drug rehab and pay Brains site a visit where he teaches the Blues scales and maybe someday you can respectfully teach us all the Pentatomic scale.
Lol. Amatures.
0:05 the tone and the backing track.... just wonderful, i want the tone
25 years later I finally get it. Thanks a bunch.
F'n Brilliant.....thank you !.... The genius in this is in the simplicity and the clarity of the demonstration....should be a lesson to all youtube teachers....best I've seen yet !!!!!
Great lesson and you solved a major portion of my fret board mystery. Thanks much.
Brian is very talented and an excellent teacher.
10 minutes ago I was a beginner, now I'm a professional blues guitarist...
LOL
This was the best guitar video ive ever come across
Thank you for breaking it down in an easy to understand way, this was so helpful when I first started soloing :)
Bro, your video is the first time I've seen this simple explanation of moving from minor to major pent in the same key.. or maybe I just didn't get it before. I think I just discovered God for the 2nd time!
Think of the noodly part of Link Wray's "Rumble", a song you've probably heard a million times. Congratulations. You've officially memorized the blues scale.
I've been wondering why I have been learning these scales until now. Great lesson
Best video ive seen on this! By far....
So clear. Simple. THANK YOU!
Thank you so much for keeping this very basic I have been trying to learn both of these scales and you made it look so easy, please keep your lessons basic so I can catch up. Again thank you
I learned something GOOD today Brother.. thank you man!
I just started watching this and the first thing I hear is that the minor pentatonic scale and the blues scale are the same thing... second thing I hear is Robert Johnson screaming "you forgot the blue note in the blues scale!?!"
then i see all these comments saying what a great teacher he is, so i'm scratching my head but i'm hitting the subscribe button anyway... lol
I've been playing for 2 years, and know major and minor pentatonic scales, and major and minor scales, and the minor blues pentatonic (which is different from the minor pentatonic because you have an added blues note.. ) so 6 notes instead of 5. also. I know them in all positions up and down the neck. You NEED to know them up and down the neck, in all 5 positions., Then you can play all up and down the neck with some sexy blues or rock, or anything. jumping from fret 4 to fret 12 or 17 or 20... ect, gets you better at speed and transitions. Scales have helped my speed and movement on the neck a lot., So I suggest that everybody learn ALL scales, and practice them. Get fast at them. you'll be surprised.
This is the perfect lesson for me! I was searching this explanation for ages. Thanks!
Thank you for taking the time to up load this video. I learnt so much from watching it.
This was awesome. Very Helpful! Thank you!
This is 2018, and I found this really great. Thanks man. You made it all clear
You just gave me the key to unlock at door I've been banging on for a while.
wow i just clicked......guna be a late night now
Thank you very much for taking the time to post this and teach the typical I don't have time for lessons guy this basic theory. It's a real eye opener. Thanks again.
thank you for this video. i stopped playing guitar for like 13 yrs. i've been playing guitar since grade 8. now i'm 39 and i'm starting all over again. i hope i can afford to buy an electric guitar..
Wow ! I'm a self taught guitarist never learned any scales or anything until today ! Thanks for the vid ! Hopefully this helps me become better !
Another fantastic lesson Brian, thank you so much for what you do ,love it
Easiest explanation ever. THANKS MATE !,
holy shit sickles I just learned how to play lead I'm playing guitar for 45 years just could never figure it out great video thanks man
These scales sounds beautiful thanks a lot. This helps a lot.👌🏻
Funny as I learnt the 5 diff positions in the blues scale all over the neck , but never knew much about the major scale .very good tuition .And yes when I learnt the first say A scale 5th fret. I soon got bored stuck in the box and had to learn the D and E Blues scale to get me outta the box .Thanks for lesson as I now have to start trying to fit in the Major scale .Arghhhhh
Outstanding Teaching Aid Brother!!!!! I can really understand what you are doing!!!! Thank you Sooooo very much!!!
Thank you, Brian. Love your teaching method, very impressed with it. God bless you, you the man.
Thank you I’ve played guitar for years, didn’t realize it was so easy.
Dude best video I've seen on the minor and major pentatonic scale I like how you focus the camera on the fret board coming from a guy who isn't in the Eddie Van Halen league
I’m just blown away! Thank you.
Excellent lesson....didn't know about the shifting down from the minor to the major...breakthrough lesson for me. Thanks
Great video. All explained very well for understanding. Great guitar and tone. After may years of playing I finally want to learn some scales and understand them. This video is fantastic for where Im at.
This is the most informative lesson l've seen. Thank you so much for explaining so clearly.
This is a sweet lesson. If this is the level of instruction then I'm going to become a patreon
this video has been and is my most important school ever