I wish my grandmother were alive to hear you solo over your own changes like this. She would just love it. Thanks for setting up a nice nostalgic moment for me my friend.
Very aptly titled lesson, Corey. 99% of YT lessons focus on major/minor pentatonic and blues scale patterns and random licks but those are just tools. This gem is pure gold that clearly explains how to use those tools to actually build something !!! Thanks, man, this was very much appreciated.
The longer I play the more i appreciate just how important the blues scales are ----- to everything else. I really enjoyed how you melded the the three positions together ----------- and showed how important those notes are & how well they work with those chords. Thank you.
Thanks Corey for the great lesson! The best thing you do for us novices is to play your lessons with clean tones, it helps eliminate any confusion we might hear with distorted overtones. Super helpful!!
You rule Cory, been playing for many years and have tried many teachers and can say without question nobody can teach the blues like you. I FINALLY can play a decent rendition of a Texas shuffle! Signing up for Working class guitar has led me to be obsessed with being a better player-I would recommend it to anybody who wants to up their game.
Yet another awesome lesson, I learned so much from you, Corey, and that’s why I’m a member of your Working class Guitar! If you haven’t taken any of Corey’s courses or joined, the price is unbelievably reasonable and you will learn a ton! Doug from Denver .
@@coreycongilio the thanks goes to you Corey. You are helping me so much in my understanding of the Guitar and my playing. One of these days I’ll make it to Nashville to meet you and see one of your shows live!
What a great Blues Scale lesson Corey. So well explained and layed out in such a friendly manner. The teacher gets an A+ here. I could just see B.B. King saying `Hey, wait a minute kid. You`re giving away all my secrets now`, and saying something funny at the end. lol All the best bro. Cheers!
Corey, I saw you on a Rhett Shull video about three weeks ago and have watched (and subscribed) at least two dozen of your awesome tutorials since then. You are a natural and gifted teacher. Working now on mixing my major and minor pentatonics as well as my triads thanks to your showing me the way! Awesome.
I love your work Corey. Something I like to do is play a quick diminished run built off of the 3rd of the V chord, when the V chord is being played. It pulls it outside for a minute and then I bring it back by resolving to the key center.
Tons of tasty licks and notes, it's a joy seeing you make the most with the available vocabulary and catalogue there is - and every time so and in pretty much every genre. Really great!
great lesson!! i’ve never seen a lesson discussing playing a min blues scale on the 5th when it comes up. brilliant! i’ve taken both your playing blues by yourself and 7th arpeggios course and they’re both amazing. i was just playing the 7th (or usually 9th) arpeggio over the 5th but will try bringing in the min blues scale as you discuss in this lesson. thanks again!!
Great lesson, really well explained. A lot of people skip over this and it's probably the best way to hear the changes. edit, I wrote the comment at 13 mins in, just before you said exactly this.
Over a dominant chord, you can play any note as long as you phrase emphasizing the chord tones. If you combine the scales that contain a dominant chord such as mixolydian, lydian dom, phyrgian dom, Dim 1/2 whole, etc, it's pretty much a chromatic scale.
Question and Request - I'd love an explanation or video about why what you call the Major Pentatonic Blues scale doesn’t sound that bluesy in the hands of Jerry Garcia and many country players. Maybe including Dickie Betts. They often use a 2 b3 4 chromatic runs. Great video. Thanks.
I discovered a few years ago when playing a jazz blues in F that the Dm blues scsle seemed to work really well. So that was a bit of a light bulb moment. But unappreciate the way you have suggested using some different scales over the other chords.
That was sort of my argument about the so-called blues scale. It`s not technically the pentatonic 5-note scale but a 6-note scale. Anyway, it`s all good what ever you want to call it, just add that flat 5 in there from time to time and you`re good. lol
Thanks Corey, great lesson! Interesting you said not to "chase the 4 chord", but play minor instead. Would you ever play the 4 (so F major or F minor) then, or just skip this always?
Holly crap this was an eye opening class for me! I needed this my solos have been the major and minor blues scales but I always felt my 5th was missing something I hear in blues playing and you showed me play the minor blues scale over the fifth with the fifth as the root for some flavor there! It works! Question I’ve heard that playing in key of E blues to use the f sharp and play the pentatonic there for the b chord? Is that an option? I can’t seem to think it sounds as good as the minor pentatonic over the b when playing blues in E when playing the fifth b. So like can I play f sharp pentatonic over the b chord in e as well? Or no?
I can't answer your question. But I know Jerry Garcia uses the flat third in the Major pentatonic and many country players do. I also know that when you play the Dead's version of Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad it's easy to end up in Ramblin Man. Love to know why.
Corey, I have really enjoyed your courses on TrueFire, but it looks like your Working Class Guitar courses have some additional and new content. What are some of the differences between the TrueFire and the Working Class Guitar courses?
Oh thx! There’s LOTS to tell so drop me an email at support@workingclassguitar.com We’ve built quite the community and I look forward to telling you about it!
Cory, I must know what your T-Shirt says! I’m thinking from what little I could see it says, Mary Ford is a badass”. Right of wrong? I know she was married to and show biz partnered with Les Paul for a while.
What does your t-shirt say? Mary Ford _as A _______? I know she had hits like How High The Moon & others with Les Paul.... it's killin' me lol Well taught lesson BTW :0)
I wish my grandmother were alive to hear you solo over your own changes like this. She would just love it. Thanks for setting up a nice nostalgic moment for me my friend.
Thx for that, man! Hope all is well with you
Great lesson as always Corey.
Very aptly titled lesson, Corey. 99% of YT lessons focus on major/minor pentatonic and blues scale patterns and random licks but those are just tools. This gem is pure gold that clearly explains how to use those tools to actually build something !!! Thanks, man, this was very much appreciated.
The longer I play the more i appreciate just how important the blues scales are ----- to everything else. I really enjoyed how you melded the the three positions together ----------- and showed how important those notes are & how well they work with those chords. Thank you.
Thanks Corey for the great lesson! The best thing you do for us novices is to play your lessons with clean tones, it helps eliminate any confusion we might hear with distorted overtones. Super helpful!!
You rule Cory, been playing for many years and have tried many teachers and can say without question nobody can teach the blues like you. I FINALLY can play a decent rendition of a Texas shuffle! Signing up for Working class guitar has led me to be obsessed with being a better player-I would recommend it to anybody who wants to up their game.
That’s so great to hear! Glad to have you at WCG!
Yet another awesome lesson, I learned so much from you, Corey, and that’s why I’m a member of your Working class Guitar! If you haven’t taken any of Corey’s courses or joined, the price is unbelievably reasonable and you will learn a ton!
Doug from Denver .
Thx Doug! Love having you as a VIP and spreading the word!
@@coreycongilio the thanks goes to you Corey. You are helping me so much in my understanding of the Guitar and my playing. One of these days I’ll make it to Nashville to meet you and see one of your shows live!
Thanks Corey! Quality content as always! Don’t ever assume ‘we’ “already know that”… ‘we’ don’t. 🤣
”Working Class Guitar" is where I have learn the most and I thank you 🙏 for being such a good guitar teacher Corey 😊
Thx so much for that! Glad to have you at WCG!
This is why you are the master Corey! You want us to learn but you also want us to have fun doing it. Thank you!
Love everything you do mate!
Thx so much!
What a great Blues Scale lesson Corey. So well explained and layed out in such a friendly manner. The teacher gets an A+ here. I could just see B.B. King saying `Hey, wait a minute kid. You`re giving away all my secrets now`, and saying something funny at the end. lol All the best bro. Cheers!
Another great lesson, Corey. Hope all is great in your world. Cheers!
Amazing how Corey has the ability to give so much on this 15 minutes lessons. Fantastic work 👏
great lesson Corey! your phrasing and rhythm is on point!
You are spot on with this one Corey. There are so many great bluesy licks in the major blues scale.
W0W! This is a good one! Thank you Mr Congilio.
Corey, I saw you on a Rhett Shull video about three weeks ago and have watched (and subscribed) at least two dozen of your awesome tutorials since then. You are a natural and gifted teacher. Working now on mixing my major and minor pentatonics as well as my triads thanks to your showing me the way! Awesome.
Hey thx so much!
I love your work Corey. Something I like to do is play a quick diminished run built off of the 3rd of the V chord, when the V chord is being played. It pulls it outside for a minute and then I bring it back by resolving to the key center.
Tons of tasty licks and notes, it's a joy seeing you make the most with the available vocabulary and catalogue there is - and every time so and in pretty much every genre. Really great!
Greetings and well wishes from Queensland Australia, you rock Corey ,thanks for the great lesson always a pleasure
My pleasure!
Gonna have to to try this.
Currently in Corey's Truefire Blues course. Really good stuff. Corey's is one of the best presenters IMHO.
Great playing and phrasing in this one!
Really nice lesson!
Well organized and informative. Thanks!👍
Thanks man that was one of the more useful Blues lessons I've seen :) You explain well
such a fantastic player AND teacher.
Really good lesson. Grazie mille!
great lesson!! i’ve never seen a lesson discussing playing a min blues scale on the 5th when it comes up. brilliant!
i’ve taken both your playing blues by yourself and 7th arpeggios course and they’re both amazing. i was just playing the 7th (or usually 9th) arpeggio over the 5th but will try bringing in the min blues scale as you discuss in this lesson. thanks again!!
Mahalo for the awesome lesson!
I definitely did not know that, Corey. So, thank you.
Thanks Corey!
Great lesson - beautifully done.
Great lesson, really well explained. A lot of people skip over this and it's probably the best way to hear the changes.
edit, I wrote the comment at 13 mins in, just before you said exactly this.
The best Blues teacher am telling you
Great lesson!
This lesson is awesome....but your tone is GREAT! the perfect hollow body/electric sound.
Amazing teacher ! 👍👍
Rock on Corey, thanks for another great lesson! If your t-shirt says what I think it says, that's awesome man! 😀 Mary Ford was legit awesome.
Thanks!
Over a dominant chord, you can play any note as long as you phrase emphasizing the chord tones. If you combine the scales that contain a dominant chord such as mixolydian, lydian dom, phyrgian dom, Dim 1/2 whole, etc, it's pretty much a chromatic scale.
Good stuff, thanks!
Good lesson Corey!
Preach, brother!
Question and Request - I'd love an explanation or video about why what you call the Major Pentatonic Blues scale doesn’t sound that bluesy in the hands of Jerry Garcia and many country players. Maybe including Dickie Betts. They often use a 2 b3 4 chromatic runs. Great video. Thanks.
I discovered a few years ago when playing a jazz blues in F that the Dm blues scsle seemed to work really well. So that was a bit of a light bulb moment. But unappreciate the way you have suggested using some different scales over the other chords.
YEAH!!
Thank You
V tasty playing sir! And yeah, good point... I was aware of this - but dont use it as much as I should... Thanx!
The good ole Hexatonic is also got your built in diminished arpeggio. Corey learnt me that.
That was sort of my argument about the so-called blues scale. It`s not technically the pentatonic 5-note scale but a 6-note scale. Anyway, it`s all good what ever you want to call it, just add that flat 5 in there from time to time and you`re good. lol
Nice!
I have no profound statements to make, just wanna say thank you for a great lesson!
Thanks Corey, great lesson! Interesting you said not to "chase the 4 chord", but play minor instead. Would you ever play the 4 (so F major or F minor) then, or just skip this always?
Holly crap this was an eye opening class for me! I needed this my solos have been the major and minor blues scales but I always felt my 5th was missing something I hear in blues playing and you showed me play the minor blues scale over the fifth with the fifth as the root for some flavor there! It works! Question I’ve heard that playing in key of E blues to use the f sharp and play the pentatonic there for the b chord? Is that an option? I can’t seem to think it sounds as good as the minor pentatonic over the b when playing blues in E when playing the fifth b. So like can I play f sharp pentatonic over the b chord in e as well? Or no?
Great lesson Corey thanks for your time and expertise!
Wishing you could take a few seconds to show the chords you’re playing over.🙏🙏🙏
Thanx corey good man sharing your talent for every one to benefit from god bless
Is the flat 3rd in the major blues the same as the gospel or hexatonic major scale that Dickey Betts used a lot ?
I can't answer your question. But I know Jerry Garcia uses the flat third in the Major pentatonic and many country players do. I also know that when you play the Dead's version of Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad it's easy to end up in Ramblin Man. Love to know why.
Corey, I have really enjoyed your courses on TrueFire, but it looks like your Working Class Guitar courses have some additional and new content. What are some of the differences between the TrueFire and the Working Class Guitar courses?
Oh thx! There’s LOTS to tell so drop me an email at support@workingclassguitar.com We’ve built quite the community and I look forward to telling you about it!
Little question: in G7 (V) chord part... Why G minor Blues scale instead of G Mayor Blues scale??
(sorry my english)
Does anyone know how he gets that tone? Is it replicable on a Spark Go?
So Cmin and Amaj over 1. Cmin over 4. Gm over 5?
The minor blues scale is rock n roll period but I’m in
Cory, I must know what your T-Shirt says!
I’m thinking from what little I could see it says, Mary Ford is a badass”. Right of wrong?
I know she was married to and show biz partnered with Les Paul for a while.
Correct!
What does your t-shirt say? Mary Ford _as A _______? I know she had hits like How High The Moon & others with Les Paul.... it's killin' me lol Well taught lesson BTW :0)
Thank you . . Edit: 1 hour later - oh my GOD!
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Coppers?
Tritone.
something amiss around 3:08
Well?
Hot take, blues is the emotion and technique.. notes are downstream !
Not the coppers. You mean the Fuzz. Haha. So now you have to play the fifth and flat fifth with a fuzz pedal. 😂
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