Playing “solo”, without accompaniment. Let me show you how to do it!
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Hi folks. I’m often asked for hints and tips on playing completely “solo”, without accompaniment. This is a hugely rewarding way to play, especially if you can reference the chords that would normally be shifting around behind you.
You don’t need Theory as such. And you don’t need to understand all the big words that some music teachers throw around. If your ear tells you that some chords go together nicely (and that some don’t), then bingo, we’re on! Remember, many of our guitar heroes were young dudes who simply had good ears and talent. I do not think Clapton and Hendrix were thinking about modes and harmony concepts.....
I believe it all starts with a general grasp of the cowboy chords, plus knowing where to throw in a diminished and / or an augmented. Then let your ears and creativity lead you. Granted, you still need 10k hours of practice but hey, no one said this was gonna be easy 🤣
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Thanks, Paul... I'll be spending a couple of years with this segment!
Really!
Paul.. your a NUT! love your playing, very relatable. Love your "chords yet to be named". Keep them coming. Play on Paul... play on!
Thank you John! 👍
Mind blowing, funny and at some moments jaw dropping. Holy crap Paul you absolutely killed it. This is a years worth of learning in 35:50 :)
Favorite moment: 20 minutes in, when I’m already nursing two pages of notes you go “I need to start teaching you something” :)
Your comment makes me smile Shie. Well, I’m delighted you’re taking notes 🤣
I have to say out of the thousands of RUclips videos that I have watched, you play with the most feeling and heartfelt playing of all of them. Thank you Paul for taking time to show your hard work and talent.
Thank you so much Jeff 🙏
You greatest teacher, monkey see monkey do, old expression in Southern parts of USA. Made noise all my life (60 years of it anyway) retired now & your method is incredible. Forever indebted to you. You incredible, kind hearted awesome unique blessing. Never met anyone with your unique method. Sooo grateful for your humble demeanor, Inspiring is understatement. Hope you live forever. Kudos, accolades from best of the best hearts to you. Hope you get recognized & build millions of followers. Am spreading your gift to every person I've ever taught. Thanks a million.
Wow, what a lovely comment Samuel, it made my wee Scottish heart swell with pride 🙏
this is a top one. i'm looking over my shoulder everywhere i go with this valuable stuff in my swag bag. cheers paul
Thanks tonyboy 😊
Your way of describing suits me better than anything else online so far. Maybe just needed someone who pauses and talks I'm getting it. Thanks man.
That makes me smile man, appreciate you letting me know. 😊👍
I may have commented on this video before but this is worth more to me than gold. Thank you Sir
Thank you Daniel, it makes me smile to hear that! Cheers to you 🍻
What I love about Playing Guitar and Musicians/Guitarists, I've been playing guitar since 1974 and Ive been able to learn something new every day since I started!
Thank You
Thanks HK Guitar, I totally agree.
I could listen to this guy play all day. Marvelous. Thx for the wonderful
lesson.🤩
My pleasure Ron, thank you! Happy practicing 🎸🤘
agreed! and thank God he can actualyl teach it..this is great stuff
Wow man, that just opened some doors. Thank you...that diminished is beautiful
Thanks Paul 😊
Mickey Baker, I remember that book, I had it in the 1980's and it transformed my chord vocabulary out of recognition, I am coming up to 63 so only a bit younger than Mr Ford (he is way more accomplished as a guitar man of course). The E major with a raised 9 is what Steely Dan call the Mu-Major (root note raised a tone) Nice session Paul.
Thanks Michael. It’s funny you mentioning the Mu-Major..... I heard that term for the first time only a few weeks ago. Every day’s a school day as they say 🤣. Cheers Michael, and maybe I should get me that Mickey Baker book!
A real wealth of information here Paul. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Glad it was helpful Grantbob 👍. Cheers for your comment.
Thanks Paul, love the lesson again, what a colourful palette of music.
Well thank you Stoney Mc 👍. Glad you liked it.
Just one suggestion to learning chord for anyone, break it down to triads, learn major, minor, augmented diminished like paul said, then learn dominant triad, major 7th and minor 7th triads and you are good for a while, then build chord on four strings, that is good for extended chords, then you can learn other drop chords. When you got that use them in real life, use the major scale and see the realtionship between chords, use secondary dominants for more smoother transition to any chord, borrow chords from parralel key and explore, make ii - V movement to any chord, use tritone substitution ... a lot to explore :)
you're in danger of putting a few budding players off if you start talking about "secondary dominants" and "parallel keys" - pauls great thing is getting people playing music without destroying the magic with unnecessary terminology
Harmony is so interesting. Listing to harmony is and knowing how basic harmony works is the key :). Great playing my friend!
Thanks Koen, appreciate you watching 👍
Paul, I could just listen to you talk for hours (I'm sure I have) your videos have already made me a much better player. You're like the cool guitar teacher that I never had, also taught me how to use my katana before I sent it back haha. Keep doing you lad, there's a reason you don't get trolls on your comments and it's because you are a good man and a great, great player of the guitar. Realest guitar channel on RUclips for me and I watch a lot when I should be practicing!
Ah, thanks Andrew, what a lovely comment! My Mum reads these comments too, so I’m sure this one will make her smile 😁👍
Awesome! Thank you for contributing to the guitar music of the world.
Wow, what a lovely comment James! Thank you, that makes my heart swell with pride 👍😀
I started down this path on my own and have found it very rewarding. But Im really pleased to come across a soul who has already taken these steps and is now enriching my experience with his observations thanks Paul. I will be coming back here more than once... :-D
Thank you Paul, delighted you like my wee videos. (And sorry for late reply, work has been crazy busy). 👍
Hi Paul, you are generous, brilliant player ❤ . peace Anton.
Very inspiring. The pleasure of improvising on the guitar to me increases greatly when you see more notes on the fretboard than you can play at once. So many possibilities. That's what I see when I look at you playing.
simply the Best Paul. THANKYOU
Thanks David 👍
Wow what a great lesson. Some really lovely chords here. I love playing around with chord voicings. I've always been blown away by how jazz guys can just fly around the fretboard playing inversions and voicings. Thanks for this one. I might nick a few 😉
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers for watching Steve 👍
Ooh that's huge man ..
Thank you for all what you do..
Thank you man, my pleasure 😁👍
Some great tones, sweet harmony plenty for me to get down. nice one.
Thanks John, delighted you enjoyed my wee video 👍
"I wouldn't want to go playing an A minor pentatonic and ruin all my good work"...
I love this guy!
This guy can play .So good my man
Well thank you man, appreciated 👍
That intro! World class!! 👑🤩👍
Thank you Bosse! Cheers mate 🙏
you don't need a band... the intro just got me stuck there watching you and listening to the magic... wow
Thank you man 🙏
This is exactly what I’ve needed. I played in a restaurant unaccompanied for three years every Friday night and always struggled to feel satisfied with what I was playing. This is a great roadmap and that Tele is special
Thank you FX101, delighted you liked my vid👍. On a different note, just checked out your version of SRV’s Lenny - very nice!
the neck P/U sound paul gets is lovely
These are very fine explanations. What I like even more is listening to an artist, who gives short fragments of his art. A complete piece is long enough to enjoy but too long to understand.
Thank you Martin, delighted you enjoyed the vid 👍
Brilluant Paul, I recognise some parts that I have previously had some success at. I will be looking again at those more slowly this time and follow the saying of repetition is the mother of all learning. Thanks Paul
Thanks Neil. It’s funny, you popped into mind as I played some of that! I remember looking at it with you 😁.
What a wonderful guitar player you are Its how the guitar is and should be played by someone who cant afford lessons it's very off the cuff brilliant
So I'm gonna go now..great vid Paul..many thanks!
Thanks Robert
This is a lesson Ive been waiting from you since I've subscribed. Your style of playing is so inspirational and your attitude properly fits it. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us!
Thank you very much Min, your comment has left a satisfied smile on my face 😁🙏
@@paulstaffordcook8799 As do your videos to many of us, i guarantee. Cheers from Transylvania
I’d assumed Transylvania in Romania.... but I’ve just found out there’s one in the USA too!
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Yes, the Romanian onein my case
All these years I was learning scales and what the last few months watching the likes of Robben Ford, Guthrie Trapp and this fine gentleman is that it’s all about the chords... and what a feast of chords this was. Also learning the arpeggios seems to help with stating the chord before actually hitting one. That eric johnson suggestion as 24:00 ... love it. So much good stuff here. This video is filed in my special folder along with the likes of Robben Ford.
Wow, it makes me smile to think I occupy a place in your special folder alongside my hero, Robben Ford 🤣. Thank you Cynical Viking 👍
Simply fantastic. I've only recently stumbled across your channel and am now binge-watching all your videos. You are my new guitar god Paul. Keep up the great work, and thanks so much for your time. I'm learning so much from you!
Awesome, thank you for that lovely comment man 🙏. Happy jammin’ Paul
Wow, so many gems packed into this one. Thanks mate👌 I always think great solo parts come from a familiarity with cool alternate chord voicings triads and genuine emotion.
Thanks Peter, glad you liked this wee lesson video 👍
Hey Paul, excellent lesson. You've given me plenty to work on for awhile! Using all of these different chords and voicings creates so much more interest that just major and minor chords. It feels like they introduce a bit of a jazz element without all of the theory. Have a great weekend man!
Great to hear David, delighted you like my wee videos. Cheers mate. 👍
Haha, that sounds like a very Scottish thing to say Paul. I do enjoy your wee videos. You have a wonderful guitar voice and style. Very distinctive. Thanks again
Superb lesson! I’ll be working on this for weeks. Thanks so much from New Zealand. 🙏🏼
Thank you Tim! Delighted you liked my vid. And greetings to you in New Zealand from a rather cold Edinburgh, Scotland 👋
15:47 is A9#5 (Is used as an altered V chord, so can replace A7. Works well as a secondary dominant, going to D7 for example.)
Note: It could also be treated as a G7b5, (that would lead nicely to F# m9).
Thanks Thomas 👍
Thanks Paul, your playing is fantastic and your videos are great and very helpful
Cheers Paul. Comments like yours make it very worth my while. 👍
Reminds me of something I was doing by accident, but then looked into it a bit more. It started with basic major triad, then I lowered the bottom note a tone, to get a Dom7 inversion. Then from that triad, I was effectively moving the top note over an 7 semitone range (+/- 3) of alternative triads, but I was actually keeping the top note static and moving the lower 2 notes over that +/- 3 semitone range. It's a good exercise for finger swapping when you pass from + to /-. It also works, to some extent, with other triads, just keep 1 note static and try moving the other 2, keeping their relative fretboard position, through a +/- 3 semitone range. Keep the ones that sound useful and modify the ones which get too discordant.
Great lesson Paul. As always, you are so generous with your ideas and insights.
Thank you Amr 🙏. But when I start releasing videos about diminished chords being “portals” etc., promise you’ll stop me before I go too far and make a fool of myself 🤣
I think you’ve taken that diminished portal and gone to a dimension way beyond our reach 😄
Brilliant. Man I have so much to learn. At this point, I might even be better to start right over at the beginning!
It’s funny, I feel like that sometimes too. I watch Robben Ford and I feel like I’m just beginning 🤣
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Our heroes are constant inspiration, it's true. Keith Scott does that to me - he's Bryan Adams' guitar player. If you really listen to those songs (especially the earlier stuff, but any of them, really) you realize he's a bit of a genius who knows exactly what a song needs, and what he adds is glorious every time. Adams is lucky to have him, and he makes me feel like I'm a wee kid with a plastic guitar playing pretend LOL.
It’s funny you should mention Keith Scott! I’ve literally just finished uploading my latest video where I play the Keith Scott signature Gretsch! It’s even on the thumbnail 🤣. As regards his playing, I totally agree. The guitar outro on Native Son.... sublime🙏
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Yessir, you've got it. As a kid growing up here in Canada in the 80s, I was fortunate to have his playing be a big part of my formative years!
You know Paul I did a lot of theory before. Because of other arts I have to know everything I'm doing and why. But like you said you get rid of 90% of it Confusing part was every style uses a little different and I'm mostly depends on the rhythmic section dictates the style and then scales . the same names but in different places so that part was confusing at start. And there's a point where if you lose your flow and your feel it doesn't matter what you know so you have to realize that. And that's everything to me. But whenever trying to reach for new sounds you always go through that stage as you know But then I also knows they're simplicity how someone who don't know music listens what moves them and what moves me and what I was attracted to. And the correct mix to give it more tension and Dynamics which the more tension I like it so I do pretty much what you do. But my final verdict in music got to be I like chords and all rhythmic stuff and everything follows it. At this point . Awesome Paul great job is always. As always dig deep within that where true style is. Say like an old-timer who had nobody to listen to except his feelings and soul
Great lesson once again Paul, thanks a million for these :-) Funny you should mention Robben Ford's video about that ugly Telecaster. I watched that some months ago and stole from it exactly the same things you seemed to do. I see them as passing chords, or chords that lead into the next chord. It's super to take the notes from those chords and improvise over them on your way to the 4 or 5 chord or back to the 1 chord. And I actually attended a Guitar Clinique with him in Cologne around 2008 and have had that Mickey Baker book since then. Actually it's right next to me here on my desk :-D
These videos where you offer your knowhow are really useful to me. I learn a lot from you. Thanks again! Cheers from Norway, Thor.
Thank you for that lovely comment Thor, it really is a great feeling to read that a player of your caliber feels he can get something from my videos. I dropped you an email to thank you for your thoughtful donation to my channel 👍. Cheers Thor
Beatiful playing Paul. A really pro that don't work like a musician but you are one. Thank for the video. You motivate me playing alone at home 😎
Wow, thanks jagercaster, very satisfying to read a comment like this. Cheers mate 👍
A good trick with Diminished chords is to play any dimished chord which has a note that is a half step away from the next chord. So if you are jumping to a G Major then any diminished chord with an F# can be played.
I like what you’re saying! I’m sitting here on the sofa, without a guitar (with a cat on my lap), and I’m imagining doing what you’re saying.... yes, that’s a useful tip. Thanks man 👍
Love this channel. Trying to get caught up on your older videos too. I've learned so much already and having fun too. Thank you sir 👍🏻
Well thank you Glenn! I’m delighted you like my wee channel. Cheers mate 🎸🤘
That initial run through of the Chords was almost like John mayers ‘I’m gonna find another you’.
Great video again Paul.
Many thanks Steve! I’ll go have a listen to that John Mayer song now, you’ve got me curious.
@@paulstaffordcook8799 that’s what it reminded me of at first listen anyway. Might be way off. I think his chord progression was ‘borrowed’ from somewhere else but the song eludes me.
Yep, he uses augmented chord in the intro of that song :)
Wow, those tones are beautiful.
Glad you like them! Cheers for watching Pseudohobbit👍
Hi Paul, I've been following you for a long time and really enjoy your playing and how you share your magic...I would find it really helpful if you could show chord charts for the progressions.
Many thanks Gary from the UK 🇬🇧
Hi Gary. Cheers mate, I’m delighted you like my wee videos. As regards chord charts…… na, I’d see that as a big chore, that I’d probably make mistakes on 🤣. But I’ll certainly try to shine a light on my chording going forward 👍
Inspiring playing as usual Paul - and a smart new haircut!
Thank you kindly by James! 🤣
Hi Paul, Love your licks @ 20,40 & 20,47...awesome !!
Glad you like them Yorg, cheers for watching 👍
Let's boost this guy up to 20k subs so he never stops you tubing!! Let's goooooo
🤣, thank you MusicIC81, your comment has put a big smile on my face 🙏
Really great stuff! Thanks so much! 🎸Also great TONE!
Thanks Analog Blues 👍
Great lesson 👀
Thanks Gladhand 👍
Absolutely brilliant mate, if you ever decide to give private lessons, I’m in Edinburgh, and I’m not talking about the driving variety 😉👍🏻
Well thank you Robert, glad you liked my wee vid 👍. And yes, once this dam virus buggers off, I might well do the occasional private lesson 😀
Sound meraviglioso
Thank you Valeria 👍
As always, really good. I've been playing for years, there's still more room in the toolbox for more and I'm sure a good revival of the old rusty ones.
Thanks Mark, glad you enjoyed the vid 👍
Great tone and tasty playing ....thnxxx for posting
Glad you liked the vid man, cheers 👍
very nice lesson Paul. Thanks. The chord That leads into D (wich you didn't know the name of , half way youre lesson) is the opening chord of "Hard times" by Eric Clapton. Great song . I thought, i let you know... I realy like you're playing Paul. Mike
Thank you Mike, that’s good to know. Delighted you like my playing 👍
Brilliant Paul, thanks 😳👍.
Thanks John 👍
brilliant stuff, every video I'm learning or understanding a wee bit more, your coming up with some good idea's mate. Again , it'll take a good few watches to let it all soak in and that's no bad thing. Maybe I'm showing my age, but forget the Mayer ref' for me it was Peter Green's, need your love so bad :) many many thanks for your time and effort, as always most appreciated, more please :) stay safe stay sane
Cheers Charlie. Yeah, now you mention it, I can hear that song in those chords. My god, takes me back. We used to play that song in our covers band on every gig we did. Ah, them were the days 🤣
@@paulstaffordcook8799 absolutely, us too , and i still do when I'm playing with myself heheheheh
In your country "A" sounds perilously close to "E" as we say it in mine (the U.S.). Wonderful playing/instruction. Wish I could take it all in and remember it properly.
Thanks Michael, delighted you liked my playing 😁👍. Cheers for watching!
Great stuff as always. As I’ve got older I find I gravitate more from the standard blues form into jazz…..I think you’re doing the same thing. I’ll still pinch your licks though 👍🍷
Brilliant Lesson thank you Paul
My pleasure Michael, thanks mate. 👍
Yet, another great lesson! Always a pleasure hearing you play, Paul! I like that you're focusing on chords because in my opinion, chords are the foundation of music. Quick question, since you started doing these lessons, does it help you understand your playing a little better? I'm gonna start practicing those Harmonized Major 7th runs, for sure! Thanks Paul, stay safe!
Hi Krenar, thanks man. Yeah, I’d say teaching guitar definitely forces you to look at what you’re doing. It’s quite a weird thing for someone like me, because I’ve never really felt the need to understand what I was doing. I’ve never placed importance on theory and I rely heavily on my ears, my creativity and copying others 🤣. As regards those harmonized 7th arpeggios..... here’s a link to a video, where the player demonstrates them a heck of a lot better than me.
ruclips.net/video/ObOn6Sl-QDA/видео.html
That tele. My god.
Thank yoiu Paul, you are always an inspiration :-)
I appreciate that Blackie 😀👍
awesome
Thanks guitarhead
😈👍👍👍🤟 nice job man
Thanks man, cheers for watching 👍
awesome lesson, cheers
Glad you liked it tapilaha 👍. Cheers for watching
Would love to see you and Chris buck jam mate. Awesome thank you.
Maybe one day! Thank you Aymarx
Thanks for this Paul, very informative. I still have the Mickey Baker Blue book (taught me and my mates "jazz" chords and progressions in the 80's), the Green one with more tunes but I can't find my Orange one (lot's more tunes to learn). You can get the Blue one on Amazon. I'll be watching this video a few times I think!
The more I hear about this book, the more I feel drawn to buying it.... Anyway, cheers for watching Paul 👍
this guitar sounds so gooood, woody, balanced
Thanks Pandor, delighted you like my Telecaster 😁👍. Cheers for watching.
@@paulstaffordcook8799 You're welcome, not only i liked your telecaster but i started scrolling your other videos and all your guitars sound good to my ears, you clearly pick them with attention, monsieur a du gout et des moyens pour les satisfaire
You are precious on RUclips ! Thanks 🇫🇷👍🏼🍒
Wow, thank you man! Appreciated
@@paulstaffordcook8799 😉I’m a woman🍒
Ah, my apologies. My only female subscriber 🤣. Well thank you, appreciated 👍
@@paulstaffordcook8799 😉I’m a woman🤫🇫🇷👍🏼🍒
@@paulstaffordcook8799 no problème at all, honored to be the only woman here, and happy I’ve found your amazing channel🇫🇷👍🏼🍒
The F 7 with a 6 on the top is called F13. The intervals of the chord are: 1 3 5 b7 13( the 6 An octave higher than the root)
Thank you Koen 👍. Right, I will call it a 13 going forward. Cheers for letting me know.
One should learn theory and chordal construction ! and the finger board
Really like your approach Paul and think you’re completely right about theory potentially being a rabbit hole. Boring gear question if I may...do you have compensated saddles on your tele?
Thanks Chief Brody 👍. As regards your question, no, the saddles are just the normal 3 uncompensated brass saddles that are true to the 50’s design. I’ve always found them perfectly fine for my style of playing. However my Dad plays less lead but way more chords .... consequently he prefers a movable saddle per string.
I know you love your gibsons paul but that tele is one of your body parts,sounds epic.
It’s funny, I do think that my subscribers would vote the Tele as their favourite on my channel 😀. Well thank you John, I’m grateful to own it 🙏
Four-twenty 😀
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Luv it.....
Thank you Marty 👍
Nice one. You've done some miles on that old tele.
Thanks Barry. Yes, however the battle scarred look is actually down to the team at the Fender custom shop (heavy relic). Cheers for watching 👍
You like relaxed
Feeling the notes, not just hearing them.
Thank you Anthony 👍
Sweet work
Thanks Paul! I’m knackered after all these long videos I’ve been doing 🤣
@@paulstaffordcook8799 It's life that's doing for me. I just ramble, turn the camera on and film some of it then turn the camera off and carry on rambling. Hahaha
That’s funny, I’ve got this image of you in my head now, standing there in your room for hours on end, with your guitar strapped on, just talking to yourself and playing the odd lick or two. The kids outside are like “Why does he just stand there talking to himself?” 🤣. Well it’s all good, so carry on mate.
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Hahahahaha.....Truth to tell there's sofa involved from time to time :-)
The one guitar player in the world i want to be.
Thank you man, 🙏
do u have a pattern?? if not u need to make one I would sign up
Why do so many non classical guitarists refer to the left hand fourth finger as pinky???
Paul what do you think of jeff healey as a guitarist.
Hi Paul. Actually, Jeff Healey has not really popped up on my radar..... I know he’s blind and plays guitar on his lap, and if memory serves me he plays blues in quite a ferocious way.... but that’s all I know. Any suggestions on a track or performance I should listen to as a way in?
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Hi paul yes listen to the entire cd of jeff healeys see the light which come out in 1988.
Listening to the live version of See The Light as we speak (and downloading the whole album). My god, he’s pretty fantastic isn’t he! As I type, he’s making that guitar howl and weep 🙏
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Yeah he really was something paul hes definitley one of my guitar heros its sad he died so young at 41 in 2008 he certainley made an impact he was in the movie roadhouse in 1989 also with patrick swayze i like hes song when the night comes falling from that same year and hes version of roadhouse blues by the doors hes live performances were brilliant.
Robben Ford 👍
Yes. I’m a huge Robben fan 👌
Other things start at 4:20 too 🤫
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Thank you Lee 👍
"Lesson starts at 4:20"
How very true.
Wait, cowboy chords are open chords according to google. I have no idea what you mean by "Cowboy chord-dimished-cowboy chord-diminished-cowboy chord - cowboy chord" up the neck. :D none of those even looked like full chord shapes
Ah, I’ve never actually googled “cowboy chords” before. So apologies. What I meant by cowboy chords is “basic” chords (A, B flat, B, C etc etc) and NOT any fancy stuff like major 7th, 13ths, flattened 5ths, augmented, diminished etc). Hope that helps. 😁
@@paulstaffordcook8799 thanks for answering! Thats what I thought you meant, I think I need to bookmark this and revisit after I learn diminished and augmented patterns.
Although, I do think that even after I learn that - what I still would love for you to talk about a bit more is the licks and lead lines between the chords. This was very heavy on the chord sequences, and yes You can do basicallt whatever inbetween with your lead and then land on the chord notes , and strum that chord, but a video of you sharing your lick library or your ”lead habits” would be very interesting to see :)
Yes, fair point. A catch all video might be useful, maybe entitled “lick library”. However, I’ve covered much of this in previous videos, albeit scattered over the years. The best way to see a players habits and approaches is just to listen and watch them for months / years. After a while you start to recognize little signatures. But as a summary, I basically play in two scales - the minor blues pentatonic (like we all know) and the major scale (doh, rae, me, etc). And to those scales I add things as the mood strikes, like passing notes, diminished runs, augmented runs, the “half step whole step” scale, plus a whole bunch of techniques to spice everything up. On a related note, my next video (coming out over the next few days) might be helpful to you - it’s much more based around “learn these actual licks”. Hope it helps 👍
@@paulstaffordcook8799 thanks, I just screenshotted this answer so I can disect those parts in due time. And there are some great videos that I intend to circle back to when I have the time as well.. I wouldn’t have you change a thing in your videos even if I could.
I dare to say you probably are THE best creator on youtube for learning blues/rock guitar or at the very least I think you are the most inspirational. Theres something about the way you talk to the viewer that makes me want to pick up the guitar and follow along!
Ah, thank you so much Simon 🙏. It’s such a thrill to read comments like that.
Far to much info here to take in from one viewing, so I shall have to bookmark this one. Much obliged Paul.
My pleasure Sid, happy practicing mate 👍
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