I never realized it all scaled off of the major scale and the way you explained it it makes it so simple it blows my mind instead of trying to learn all of the scales
This is the most simple and easiest explanation of scale construction i have ever seen.The numbered Major scale overlaid with the new altered notes makes it so easy to see/understand.Great job.
I have been playing guitar for a few months now sometimes 4+ hours a day and practically everything that I can play/have learned is from Marty. You are a true legend for teaching him
I've been playing guitar for 14 years, and this is the best execution of this concept I've ever seen. This is incredible, truly. Thank you, Marty and Chris.
Not only teaching amazing tricks to unlock the world of scales, but also a mind reader. I was just thinking what a mind blowing revelation this lesson was and the very words come out of Chris’ mouth. Mind blown x2! Thank you Marty and thank you Chris. 🙏🏼
I learnt something today !! I’ve never focussed on Major Scales much after that basic first position. Never really understood why it was the “foundation” .. now I get it!
Once again mindblown, these explanations are so good to grasp and easy to follow , it s like whole concept not just some example. Very grateful for this thx Marty & Chris
Chris, many thanks to you!! I'm about a year into learning about " theory" and your videos& style of teaching have made it so much easier to grasp. Thank you.✌🎸
Thanks Marty for having such a great teacher of guitar (Chris) on your channel doing a wonderful job as a teacher making learning music and guitar so simple to understand. Great job Chris for this and other lessons that you have thought.
My favourite saying "Its not Rocket science" AND just spotted the C# on the ninth fret AND the F# above it. Enabling Chris to play over five frets instead of four... You know after five years I think it's time to find a guitar teacher. Nah wheres the fun in that and then I won't be able to say I'm self taught, well apart from Marty and Chris and Andy and Ellen and Justin and James and all the other awesome contributors to this wonderful community we call you tube. Thank you so much one and all xx
I'm still very new to guitar. I've learned the little I know from your channel and have just watched this, I'm very grateful you brought Chris on to teach this lesson. I agree with some of the comments below and will just cycle through this, your chords videos for months to come!
Great lesson! Much better way to learn modes instead of their parent major scales. I think this better connects one to the chords and harmony i.e. flatting the 3rd or raising the 4th etc.. Thank you!
Marty and Chris, GREAT simplistic lesson for teaching the modes. I had a teacher who spent so much time and made it so complex I feel like I paid for a wing on his house. That was many years ago, Chris just did the same thing in about 10 minutes! Just one question, shouldn't the tonal center change for any given scale and not always end on the root?
@@curiousguitarist I like to think of modes like this...(anybody correct me if I'm wrong because I'm no expert) each mode has a number associated with it, for example Dorian=2, so since D is the 2nd note in the c major scale, D Dorian is the same as the c major scale. Aeolian=6, so since A is the 6th of c major, A aeolian = c major.
Love it. Big Gilmour fan so I love to hang in Dorian just like Frampton and Chris blew my mind again with the method behind the madness. Thanks for handing us the keys to the kingdom Chris. Forever grateful. Marty, Buy the man a beer for me 😉
Hey Marty! Been watching for quite some time now, and I endlessly appreciate what you do for all of us! A recommendation, if I may? I noticed you have done a few Cage the Elephant songs, but I think you should checkout their Unpeeled version of "Right Before My Eyes". It's a really beautiful acoustic version that would translate well into a tutorial! Plus I've been wanting to learn it too.
@@curiousguitarist The way you convey these concepts is so understandable. It really is giving us the keys to the kingdom. Please keep sharing. Big thanks from New Zealand. You’re global man!
this is a great lesson on modes, i did learn the 5 major scales on the neck, but now I am boxed in, I am looking to learn the neck of the guitar, playing any where on the neck. Do you have a video that teaches how you move around on the neck easily?
Wow! So strange to have a lightbulb moment. I’ve played self taught guitar by ear for many many years. Now to be fair I studied piano and theory in school and aced it …but never made the connection to the fret board. I think it was the form of the major scale using three notes per string in the first octave. I never played my scales in this straight forward way. How is this possible? I would play my 1st and 2nd on my E string starting at the 5th fret and then my 3rd ,4th and 5th on my A string and so on on my D string. I never counted my intervals or notes. I just played where it was comfortable. Suddenly all the theory i learned on piano in music school was crystal clear from just playing in this straight ahead form. Wow! What?? It’s just like the wow when I realized the relationship between theory and application the first time early on in my music education. It’s the same for math and sciences when you first learn by repetition or rote and one day the lights come on. Thanks Chris for surprising me on this wonderful day. Where is the lesson you taught on chord structure? I missed that and who knows maybe there’s another 💡 moment waiting for me there. All my best. Dave
it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out the the numbers in the circle on the diagram @2:05 are the number of the FINGER. I knew they were not the note numbers, but I was drawing a blank. not sure if that was "over thinking" or an absence of thinking 😀
Excelent. Thank you... . But I missed, 3 things..1.- doing all scales, starting on any key, in any place of the neck. ..I guess you have to learn 3 major scales patterns, multiplied by 3 ( no touching the 2nd; touching the 2nd, touching the second and first strings since the intervals between 3rd and second string is major 3rd instead of fourths).,. So all together 9 major scales patterns and then you can start in any key of the fretboard and apply the formula. 2.- I also missed a chart with all the most important scales formulas. 3.- How to connect scales all over the fret. Thank you again,
So if you wanted to come up with a backing track, could you play an A major chord progression under A Lydian, for example? Or is there an A Lydian specific chord progression that you use to play under A Lydian?
Once again Chris is out here just casually blowing minds. Also seems like a super cool dude.
Couldn't agree more!
I can attest to the fact that is is a super cool guy!
Saving this to my playlist and practicing every day!!! This seriously is my lightbulb moment!! A million thanks
Precisely what I thought
I never realized it all scaled off of the major scale and the way you explained it it makes it so simple it blows my mind instead of trying to learn all of the scales
This is the most simple and easiest explanation of scale construction i have ever seen.The numbered Major scale overlaid with the new altered notes makes it so easy to see/understand.Great job.
Only been tooling around on the geetar for 40 odd years, and finally scales are demystifyied. Thanks bro!
You bet Steve!
I have been playing guitar for a few months now sometimes 4+ hours a day and practically everything that I can play/have learned is from Marty. You are a true legend for teaching him
I've been playing guitar for 14 years, and this is the best execution of this concept I've ever seen. This is incredible, truly. Thank you, Marty and Chris.
Not only teaching amazing tricks to unlock the world of scales, but also a mind reader. I was just thinking what a mind blowing revelation this lesson was and the very words come out of Chris’ mouth. Mind blown x2! Thank you Marty and thank you Chris. 🙏🏼
You bet, Neil!
Chris ads so much knowledge n wisdom to the channel. Love it. Gotta give thanks to Marty for allowing this to happen too. Huge respect to you guys.
Glad you enjoy it!
I learnt something today !! I’ve never focussed on Major Scales much after that basic first position. Never really understood why it was the “foundation” .. now I get it!
I’m a 50yo beginner and this is the first video that has made sense regarding scales. Thankyou so much. 👍
You are so welcome! Glad you enjoyed this one.
Once again mindblown, these explanations are so good to grasp and easy to follow , it s like whole concept not just some example. Very grateful for this thx Marty & Chris
You bet, Milan!
Dude! Thank you so much!
Right between the eyes, again! You cleared the air on chord construction and now scales ....clear as day!
Thank you Marty!
Crazy that I used to think scales were going to take the rest of my life to learn, so this is so cool. Marty, Chris, you guys rock.
I learned this from Tom Quayle about 7-8 months ago and in that time my playing as gotten better then the last few YEARS. This is THAT powerful.
Now I know why Marty is such a great guitar player! Thank you to both of you! On to time and effort!
Having Chris and Marty on the channel feels like Johnny Laurence and John Kreese teaching Cobra Kai
even better, laurence and laruso :)
This was a perfect example of how to instruct a lesson . Awsome Marty , thanks Chris . You made it very simple to understand.
Lmao
This might be the most helpful guitar video I ever watched, thank you so much!
You're SO welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Chris, many thanks to you!! I'm about a year into learning about " theory" and your videos& style of teaching have made it so much easier to grasp. Thank you.✌🎸
Great to hear!
first of all, I want to say thanks a lot to both of you for such a great lesson you have for us.sir. I really enjoyed your lesson.
You are most welcome
Thanks Marty for having such a great teacher of guitar (Chris) on your channel doing a wonderful job as a teacher making learning music and guitar so simple to understand. Great job Chris for this and other lessons that you have thought.
Thank you kindly!
Marty, you are a lucky guy to have had such a great teacher :) and thanks, Chris, for another concise gem of a lesson!
Thank YOU!!!!
My favourite saying "Its not Rocket science" AND just spotted the C# on the ninth fret AND the F# above it. Enabling Chris to play over five frets instead of four... You know after five years I think it's time to find a guitar teacher. Nah wheres the fun in that and then I won't be able to say I'm self taught, well apart from Marty and Chris and Andy and Ellen and Justin and James and all the other awesome contributors to this wonderful community we call you tube. Thank you so much one and all xx
And the ‘time and effort’ thing is SO important. In all areas of lives, it’s the only way to get better.
I'm still very new to guitar. I've learned the little I know from your channel and have just watched this, I'm very grateful you brought Chris on to teach this lesson. I agree with some of the comments below and will just cycle through this, your chords videos for months to come!
Hey Chris, thanks for the lesson on how to learn any scale instantly. Very informative!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this Marty this year I’m going to try and make some songs this is just what I needed.
Have fun!
This has is the best lesson I've ever seen on scales & modes sure beats trying to memorize a pattern!
Is anyone else sick of simply guitar ads when we have Marty
Right!
and fender play etc. etc.
Simple explanation on how to learn and alter a scale, definitely will review this as I am just a beginner at the moment
What a wonderful teacher, very skilled
Thank you!
Dang, he blows my mind every time. Thanks Marty and Chris!
I just wish he had rached into that box and grabbed the one scale that he talked about in the beginning - Dorian. Great video and concept.
When do you use these scales, like when do i decide to use mixolydian instead of the major or minor scale, i video on that would be good
Thanks so much!
Thanks again for having me on the channel, Marty!
Great lesson! Much better way to learn modes instead of their parent major scales. I think this better connects one to the chords and harmony i.e. flatting the 3rd or raising the 4th etc.. Thank you!
Spent years frustrating myself over scales! This is the first lesson that was truly simply explained and made sense!!! Thank you
Thank you so much. This helped a lot. I was so confused on how to learn a scale without having to look at tabs.
Very interesting and informative
Glad it was helpful!
Chris I have always enjoyed how you explain things - as a fellow teacher (history teacher), bravo!
BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL!! LESSON!!! I LOVE THIS GUY, MARTY I NEED MOOOOOOREEEE!!! I FEED OFF OF THESE VIDEOSS!!!!!!
Thanks Chris 🤘
Thank you
Utterly brilliant. Thank you
Now I know why Marty is so good(besides his work and talent).
Excellent!
Thanks again Chris. Yet again another mystery demystified.
Happy to help, Vic!
omg its unreal that this is a free video. Thank you so much!
Brilliant lesson and cool guy. Same to Marty. Hes a Super cool guy too
Pretty new to guitar, but this is very helpful. Thank you Chris and Marty :)
Time to practise!
Very interesting. I see one reason Marty is so good is he clearly had an awesome teacher.
Great video lesson
That is absolutely mind blowing! Cheers mate 🤯🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
FANTASTIC Video - Thanks!!!
Please more stuff, about improvising with the scales, on how to use the scales :P... Great easy to understand top video!
Chris, thank you! You explain things so clearly.
Unreal, great vids Chris, thanks Marty
Marty and Chris, GREAT simplistic lesson for teaching the modes. I had a teacher who spent so much time and made it so complex I feel like I paid for a wing on his house. That was many years ago, Chris just did the same thing in about 10 minutes! Just one question, shouldn't the tonal center change for any given scale and not always end on the root?
Well, you can see modes that way, but you can also see them as stand alone scales with their own formulas. I think that method is way easier.
@@curiousguitarist I like to think of modes like this...(anybody correct me if I'm wrong because I'm no expert) each mode has a number associated with it, for example Dorian=2, so since D is the 2nd note in the c major scale, D Dorian is the same as the c major scale. Aeolian=6, so since A is the 6th of c major, A aeolian = c major.
Love it. Big Gilmour fan so I love to hang in Dorian just like Frampton and Chris blew my mind again with the method behind the madness. Thanks for handing us the keys to the kingdom Chris. Forever grateful.
Marty, Buy the man a beer for me 😉
You had me at Marty's teacher. The lesson was 🤔... 💡...🤘...👏.
I was taught the minor pentatonic scale, back in the 80’s as the blues scale.
Chris, thanks so much man.
Thanks Chris. I love your lessons
Glad you like them!
@@MartyMusic obviously yours too Marty. 😉
Chris thats brilliant ... and Marty its fantastic having Chris on your channel... Once again mind blown 😉
Glad you enjoyed it
Hey Marty! Been watching for quite some time now, and I endlessly appreciate what you do for all of us! A recommendation, if I may? I noticed you have done a few Cage the Elephant songs, but I think you should checkout their Unpeeled version of "Right Before My Eyes". It's a really beautiful acoustic version that would translate well into a tutorial! Plus I've been wanting to learn it too.
Marty has the only thumbnails on RUclips who aren't a lie lol.
Mahalo Chris!!!!! You make it so easy!!! THe best!
Happy to help!
Chris: so you see what im saying
Me: yes of course mixolydian is a flat *explodes
Excellent! Thanks
Can you do a video on buying a Gibson les Paul from scratch on setting up and dialing in the 4 knobs to get the unique tone
marty is lucky to have you as a teacher
Marty’s music is awesome! However, Chris is the Bob Ross of the guitar world! Happy lil cords over here.
Much love and respect to you both! 👊🏼🤘🏼🤙🏼
No wonder Mart is as good as he is!!!
That is terrific! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
Again, another perfect lesson making something others make so difficult look so easy
Bring him back great teacher holy hell
This is so great. As a beginner, I can do the major scale. Where can I get the formulas for the other scales?
Start with the ones I showed here, then go searching for more!
@@curiousguitarist The way you convey these concepts is so understandable. It really is giving us the keys to the kingdom. Please keep sharing. Big thanks from New Zealand. You’re global man!
@@DrewNZ happy to be going it Drew! Thanks for the views and comments
The guy seemed to be patient with me through the computer. That IS a talent.
this is a great lesson on modes, i did learn the 5 major scales on the neck, but now I am boxed in, I am looking to learn the neck of the guitar, playing any where on the neck. Do you have a video that teaches how you move around on the neck easily?
try this one: ruclips.net/video/hgluAV46Rx4/видео.html
Hope it helps!
What the hell? this is the best way this have ever been explained!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Chris Voice is crazy
Finally we can see the master who teached the legend
Wow! So strange to have a lightbulb moment. I’ve played self taught guitar by ear for many many years. Now to be fair I studied piano and theory in school and aced it …but never made the connection to the fret board. I think it was the form of the major scale using three notes per string in the first octave. I never played my scales in this straight forward way. How is this possible? I would play my 1st and 2nd on my E string starting at the 5th fret and then my 3rd ,4th and 5th on my A string and so on on my D string. I never counted my intervals or notes. I just played where it was comfortable. Suddenly all the theory i learned on piano in music school was crystal clear from just playing in this straight ahead form. Wow! What??
It’s just like the wow when I realized the relationship between theory and application the first time early on in my music education. It’s the same for math and sciences when you first learn by repetition or rote and one day the lights come on.
Thanks Chris for surprising me on this wonderful day. Where is the lesson you taught on chord structure? I missed that and who knows maybe there’s another 💡 moment waiting for me there.
All my best.
Dave
Can you please make a tutorial on degenerated by Regan youth, I want to play it for my guitar class
WOW! Light bulb Moment. THANK YOU
Cool lesson
Yep, mind was blown. I’m a guy that’s been playing for 10 years and still knows nothing. This opened my eyes
it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out the the numbers in the circle on the diagram @2:05 are the number of the FINGER.
I knew they were not the note numbers, but I was drawing a blank.
not sure if that was "over thinking" or an absence of thinking 😀
Hey I eat and enjoy all of your new videos. I would just like to request a lesson on sweet child o’ mine.
Excelent. Thank you... . But I missed, 3 things..1.- doing all scales, starting on any key, in any place of the neck. ..I guess you have to learn 3 major scales patterns, multiplied by 3 ( no touching the 2nd; touching the 2nd, touching the second and first strings since the intervals between 3rd and second string is major 3rd instead of fourths).,. So all together 9 major scales patterns and then you can start in any key of the fretboard and apply the formula. 2.- I also missed a chart with all the most important scales formulas. 3.- How to connect scales all over the fret. Thank you again,
Question is, if Chris is Marty's guitar teacher, then who is Chris's teacher?
And yet again, a gemstone of a video
Amazing
I been playing about 2 years and I don't have a clue where scales fit into making songs?
This is really great...is there a collection of formulas out there in the interwebs someone could go to for a quick reference?
So if you wanted to come up with a backing track, could you play an A major chord progression under A Lydian, for example? Or is there an A Lydian specific chord progression that you use to play under A Lydian?
💡 !!!!
I've never even heard of the Any scale
I AM FINALLY HERE EARLY!!!!!!
Thank alot for the info. Just wondering where do you find the formulas for each scale ?
I love Les Pauls in red.