At a very young age, forced to learn how to play the piano. When I quit I taught myself to play guitar. I knew scales. The pentatonic scale didn't sound right to me... so I learned chords from a Joe Pass chord book, and always played rhythm. With this free easy lesson Joscho showed me how to improvise my own solos... priceless! Thnx so much Maestro!
Joscho, interesting that you recommend two fingers Ala Django. Yet, also noted that you can easily play with all fingers too! Love the simple, no nonsense approach to improv. Great stuff.
Vous parlez couramment deux langues, moi une seule le français..et je ne joue pas de la guitare, mais j'adore vous voir et vous écouter jouer.Votre talent est reconnu et salué par tous avec juste raison. Et là j'ai remarqué vos belles mains aux ongles soignés 👍 Bonne continuation dans votre art, vous nous faites du bien Joscho 🙏❤️✨
Thanks, Joscho!! I'm a piano player and have always based my Blues, Jazz, Country, and R&B solos on the major and minor pentatonic scales. It's so easy to get stale using them all the time. I think you're saying I can still use those but also explore the techniques you provide in this video. Many thanks again!!
Hey Joscho! Love your playing! I just got a Dupont VRB petit bouche and was wondering if you could do a video on things like what is a good string action/guitar setup and what kinds of strings/picks, etc... are typically used for this style. Keep up the great playing!
Good stuff and a simple FUN concept. Good for hacks like me and good players. And once you start trying this, you can hear it, and then do it without thinking.
The principle is simple: You play the kind of melody you, yourself, like to hear. Great improvisors cultivate the ability to create beautiful melody in their minds; and THEN they convert it into hand movements on the fretboard. Folks who get stuck on pentatonic scales are the ones that let their finger habits (rather than their musical minds) dictate the melodies they play. So you practice: First think of a melody (or steal ones you like from recordings); _then_ figure out how to play it. This translation gets faster & faster, the more you do it.
No thanks! I happen to enjoy soloing in the 1st, 2nd, and 5th positions of the minor pentatonic scale. I also love positions 1, 2, and 3 when working in major pentatonic. Your music and your videos remind me of walking through a glass art exhibit. While it is beautiful, I can't touch or connect with any of it. I feel out of place and uncomfortable around it and want to get away from it. And that guitar is much the same.
At a very young age, forced to learn how to play the piano. When I quit I taught myself to play guitar. I knew scales. The pentatonic scale didn't sound right to me... so I learned chords from a Joe Pass chord book, and always played rhythm. With this free easy lesson Joscho showed me how to improvise my own solos... priceless! Thnx so much Maestro!
Eine tolle Lektion in 5 Minuten! Pures Gold! Danke!
Joscho, interesting that you recommend two fingers Ala Django. Yet, also noted that you can easily play with all fingers too! Love the simple, no nonsense approach to improv. Great stuff.
Joscho is so incredible I feel I improve at playing just by watching him!
@genesises He is among the very best of the very best guitar players on planet earth 🌍🌎
Vous parlez couramment deux langues, moi une seule le français..et je ne joue pas de la guitare, mais j'adore vous voir et vous écouter jouer.Votre talent est reconnu et salué par tous avec juste raison. Et là j'ai remarqué vos belles mains aux ongles soignés 👍 Bonne continuation dans votre art, vous nous faites du bien Joscho 🙏❤️✨
You’re always a sure inspiration, Mr Stephan! Enjoy your day 🇸🇪
Fantastic lesson....you enlightened my playing with this......please do more🙏
You are a true artist on the guitar.....thank you !
Thanks, Joscho!! I'm a piano player and have always based my Blues, Jazz, Country, and R&B solos on the major and minor pentatonic scales. It's so easy to get stale using them all the time. I think you're saying I can still use those but also explore the techniques you provide in this video. Many thanks again!!
I've always known these concepts, but in your hands they become really musical!
Mr. Joscho, you are are a great teacher! Cheers!
Many thanks!
Brilliantly simple! Thank you.
Ha! It seems so easy when Joscho is talking about it that if I played the guitar I’d surely use it 😁
Good stuff! Joscho already a legend!! Great job
Dziekuje, Spasiba, Dankeschön Joscho ❤
Chromatisms damn, so easy, yet never thought about it. Thanks for the lesson!
Great ideas - well taught!
Hey Joscho! Love your playing! I just got a Dupont VRB petit bouche and was wondering if you could do a video on things like what is a good string action/guitar setup and what kinds of strings/picks, etc... are typically used for this style. Keep up the great playing!
Thanks! I am looking forward of doing something like this soon!
Very practical !
Good stuff and a simple FUN concept. Good for hacks like me and good players. And once you start trying this, you can hear it, and then do it without thinking.
Great little lesson...I don't use a pick so I'll never get the attack but Flamenco thumb is close 👍🙂
Joscho you are great helps~~~!!!!!! tnx a lot for your lessons!!!!
Vielen Dank Stefan.
Bravo.! Ti aspettiamo ancora nuovamente a Roma.
A method of escaping pentatonic prison and hammer-on hell
may the algorithm bless thee
Great tips
topnotch lesson Joscho.
tattooing this to inside of eyelids
🙏❤️ thank you
Top Danke❤
Bello/Magnifico.🙏✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️👑
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The principle is simple: You play the kind of melody you, yourself, like to hear. Great improvisors cultivate the ability to create beautiful melody in their minds; and THEN they convert it into hand movements on the fretboard. Folks who get stuck on pentatonic scales are the ones that let their finger habits (rather than their musical minds) dictate the melodies they play. So you practice: First think of a melody (or steal ones you like from recordings); _then_ figure out how to play it. This translation gets faster & faster, the more you do it.
Who are you looking at in those shots where you’re not looking at the camera? Angele Merkel? A cigarette girl? A life-sized photo of Tommy Emmanuel?
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Do not ever use the pentatonic scale unless you are Antonin Dvorak.
The pentatonic scale is the cause of more boring solos than any other part of guitar technique.
No thanks!
I happen to enjoy soloing in the 1st, 2nd, and 5th positions of the minor pentatonic scale.
I also love positions 1, 2, and 3 when working in major pentatonic.
Your music and your videos remind me of walking through a glass art exhibit. While it is beautiful, I can't touch or connect with any of it. I feel out of place and uncomfortable around it and want to get away from it.
And that guitar is much the same.
LMAO all your playing is full of pentatonics and repetitive
I think you laughed your brain out, cause you sound like an idiot