You've got the best instructional vids on RUclips. I play all this stuff already I have a good ear but have never fully understood why and you provide that for me. And understanding the theory now let's me apply all these techniques in better ways and give me a better music vocabulary. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
I haven't really played around much with Major Pentatonic but this video really inspired me to pick it up. Normally I'm a Maj (all 7 tones) guy but dropping those 2 tones really changes up the character of the scale more than I thought it would. And thanks again for promoting breaking those rules around 3/4/all notes per string.
Great series Levi, I’m so glad I found your channel. Easily one of the best guitar channels on RUclips. It’s insane how you don’t have more followers. Thanks a ton for all the great content and see ya on Patreon very soon!
Hi Levi, I just got your 2 country books (for beginners and soloing techniques) sure I'll get the licks one but I've got already much ro do with these 2 ones (I hit the wall with banjo rolls for example, there are stuffs like cascade phrases that make me crazy and frustrated also). The books are well made and the beginner makes sense even for an intermediate player like me (I'll comment in more details in amazon as you deserve that), very good job, much appreciated. I've started following your youtube channel when I was looking forward not to sound and play scales and fill the blanks like "why the hell is the blues scale minor if all the chords are major or dominant 7" or "why 1 4 5 blues sounds minor and starting 1 5 4 like soul tunes sound major" anyway you've been of great help you do it right and elegant. My pattern vision of this one is the BBKing box I'm still working on finding intervals across the neck and using CAGED helped me but still in pattern mode. I think my main inspiration right now is Josh Smith looking forward to add jazzy sounds to the blues (I love and play) and diving into country I got into by Blackberry Smoke and derivated to Danny Gatton (because of Josh Smith also) Albert Lee downto Chet Atkins. Anyway THANKS for your help during this long journey. Cheers from a random french guy living in Chile.
Thank you SO much for the support mate! Yeah, there's a lot in there to work on, you'll be busy for a while, but it's obviously content I stand by. If you have a minute, leaving a review on Amazon is a BIG help! And thank you for commenting and watching. If you need any help with it (or anything else!) remember that I'm always here :)
I love the Ricky Gervais accent. "It doesn't ma'errr"... "you'll play it be'errr". It's like you're not allowed to use "t"s for some words ;) Great lesson by the way!!
Another GREAT lesson and explanation ! ( and Superb Sound ) ... I also call it 'Flavour' as im Self Taught, but i like mixing the Minor + Major Pentatonic ... Im not technically schooled, but i can hear when to add the 'Major Pentatonic' likewise 'Minor Pentatonic' and i can hear when to mix the 'Flavours' I urge any fellow Guitarists to learn the 'MAJOR Pentatonic' as it gives a Blues or Shuffle a more added 'Flavour' as opposed to just playing 'Pentatonic' the whole solo.... It made a MASSIVE difference to my playing when i finally got proficient at mixing them both ( Altho the temptation to land on the Minor Pentatonic notes is still with me, but i fight it, ha ha !!
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Good video and instruction. I'm pretty much a triads and chord tones "visualiser" these days, but thinking in parallel is much more musical than derivative. I mean, music from Bach to contemporary jazz has loads of parallel subs going on, no reason our solos can't have them, too. Something you mentioned was that b7 is a minor sound, but that's not how I hear it myself. I think it's the 7 that is very dissonant and why the maj penta avoids it. Sure, you can use it for chords, but for solos it's pretty hard to not make it just a passing note. To my ears the b7 is an ambiguous note as far as maj/min goes and one of the reasons that we can use this parallel theory so easily.
It's funny how it's the first video of yours that I've watched considering how many guitar videos I watch on RUclips 😆.....Funny that. Anyway good lesson mate, I've been trying to expand my knowledge of the dreaded music theory lately and this video is great timing because I've been having a go at learning almost exactly what this video talks about for the last couple of days. It's true that all of the great guitar soloists got great by concentrating most of their attention making riffs & licks, etc around that minor/major 3rd and the 7th/flat 7th. I'd say that those notes are the most important for the guitarist who wants to play blues & rock oriented music. 1 last thing, that's a very nice sounding bridge pickup on that Tele, I couldn't see for sure but it looked like 1 of those hot rails to me and that surprised me because I expected them to have a more humbucker type of sound, but no, it sounds like a Tele bridge pickup to me. 👍
Jammy Git your eyes deceive you it’s the neck pickup - I have the control plate flipped. It’s a joe barden Danny Gatton pickup. They’re great, sound like tele pickups, but without the hum.
That's funny because I didn't see the control plate, I judged it on sound, I thought it sounded like a Tele bridge. It sounds much brighter than most Tele neck pickups I've heard, maybe that's why I thought it was the bridge, combined with it being a hot rail which I've never heard before.... I dunno, I'll get my coat 🙄🤪😆
Great lesson Levi :-) I already own one of your books purchased its almost a year - Country Guitar for Beginners . Very beautiful book. One question Levi , what is your rhythmic thought process when you play beautiful licks with so ease like in this video ? While playing those licks - Do you count in your mind as 1 + , 2+ , 3+, 4+ etc , or its just a muscle memory of licks ? I wonder how great musicians like you play guitar licks so instantly and sounds so rhythmic. Curious to know the rhythmic thought process behind playing those licks :-) .. Many thanks in advance :-)
Nice explanation..i'v learned it long ago from Michael Schenker video - VHS ☺ ''simple play minor scale over minor chord, major over major, you don't play major over minor'' ☺, great player one of my heroes...Now you explain it far better. Personally after learning some theory x years ago after some time i'v stooped to think about it during playing, (i hope that is normal ☺)... anyhow for last 10+years i simply fallow one simple rule ''if it sounds good it is good'' ..Theory is important and imho players should learn at lest some basics, for sure it will help them a lot, moreover with a teacher like you who explain things well - learning process is frustration free aka easy. cheers.
Thank you. This was a really good lesson. Besides breaking the scale down to a smaller fragment, how would you practice this idea? Do you spend a few minutes going from root to each interval to "hear" that sound, then experiment for a bit playing smaller fragments? I am at that point where I know this is the next step for me, but I am not always sure how best to practice this idea, and improve vs just learning scales.
Levi Great Lesson Sir!! I was one of those players that always learned Scales rather than chords across the neck. Chord tones and incorporating scales is the way to go, so I'm working on that. Love it! makes more sense now Thanks for the lessons you're awesome!
I know some of the greats like Freddie King and the like do one of the two over the I, swap to the opposite over the IV, and then come back on the V. Is there any rules on that subject? Any common way of doing it?
There's lots that can be said there, and if you think about the intervals in relation to the chord you're on... you'll find the answers. So if you're playing min pent over the I chord you've got R b3 4 5 b7 yeah? well when that IV chord lands, what WAS the b3 of the I is now the b7 of the IV. Look at maj pent - the 6 of the I chord is cool, but you don't want to rest on it... but on the IV chord? That's the 3rd - it's the best note! So to me, it's more about having a sense of hierarchy of which notes work best on which chords. But yes, if you played maj pent on the I, and then min pent on the IV and V it would be a real simple way of creating the illusion of playing over changes. That make sense?
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As always - please let me know in the comments if you have any questions - I'm happy to help!
You've got the best instructional vids on RUclips. I play all this stuff already I have a good ear but have never fully understood why and you provide that for me. And understanding the theory now let's me apply all these techniques in better ways and give me a better music vocabulary. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
This is by far the most beneficial lesson I’ve ever seen!
Certainly one of the best lessons online, understanding intervals is everything! Great job explaining this
Thank you sooo much Levi, I am that guy who views the parallel method and this will definitely help me lots. I love the channel. Thank you
I haven't really played around much with Major Pentatonic but this video really inspired me to pick it up. Normally I'm a Maj (all 7 tones) guy but dropping those 2 tones really changes up the character of the scale more than I thought it would.
And thanks again for promoting breaking those rules around 3/4/all notes per string.
Great series Levi, I’m so glad I found your channel. Easily one of the best guitar channels on RUclips. It’s insane how you don’t have more followers. Thanks a ton for all the great content and see ya on Patreon very soon!
You’re too kind mate! Keep spreading the word, we’ll get there! :)
Creates a good call and response between the two pentatonics
just helped me realize a long persistent problem thank you for this lesson! keep it up!
Awesome lesson!
I just found this channel at the right time!. thank you for your content !
S E N D A L U N A R you’re very welcome dude
Really great lesson, cheers Levy!
Hi Levi, I just got your 2 country books (for beginners and soloing techniques) sure I'll get the licks one but I've got already much ro do with these 2 ones (I hit the wall with banjo rolls for example, there are stuffs like cascade phrases that make me crazy and frustrated also). The books are well made and the beginner makes sense even for an intermediate player like me (I'll comment in more details in amazon as you deserve that), very good job, much appreciated. I've started following your youtube channel when I was looking forward not to sound and play scales and fill the blanks like "why the hell is the blues scale minor if all the chords are major or dominant 7" or "why 1 4 5 blues sounds minor and starting 1 5 4 like soul tunes sound major" anyway you've been of great help you do it right and elegant.
My pattern vision of this one is the BBKing box I'm still working on finding intervals across the neck and using CAGED helped me but still in pattern mode. I think my main inspiration right now is Josh Smith looking forward to add jazzy sounds to the blues (I love and play) and diving into country I got into by Blackberry Smoke and derivated to Danny Gatton (because of Josh Smith also) Albert Lee downto Chet Atkins.
Anyway THANKS for your help during this long journey. Cheers from a random french guy living in Chile.
Thank you SO much for the support mate! Yeah, there's a lot in there to work on, you'll be busy for a while, but it's obviously content I stand by. If you have a minute, leaving a review on Amazon is a BIG help!
And thank you for commenting and watching. If you need any help with it (or anything else!) remember that I'm always here :)
Loved this lesson, been doing the pattern thing for ages. Much appreciated!! 👍
I love the Ricky Gervais accent. "It doesn't ma'errr"... "you'll play it be'errr". It's like you're not allowed to use "t"s for some words ;) Great lesson by the way!!
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Cool lesson mate.
Another GREAT lesson and explanation ! ( and Superb Sound ) ... I also call it 'Flavour' as im Self Taught, but i like mixing the Minor + Major Pentatonic ... Im not technically schooled, but i can hear when to add the 'Major Pentatonic' likewise 'Minor Pentatonic' and i can hear when to mix the 'Flavours' I urge any fellow Guitarists to learn the 'MAJOR Pentatonic' as it gives a Blues or Shuffle a more added 'Flavour' as opposed to just playing 'Pentatonic' the whole solo.... It made a MASSIVE difference to my playing when i finally got proficient at mixing them both ( Altho the temptation to land on the Minor Pentatonic notes is still with me, but i fight it, ha ha !!
Good video and instruction. I'm pretty much a triads and chord tones "visualiser" these days, but thinking in parallel is much more musical than derivative. I mean, music from Bach to contemporary jazz has loads of parallel subs going on, no reason our solos can't have them, too.
Something you mentioned was that b7 is a minor sound, but that's not how I hear it myself. I think it's the 7 that is very dissonant and why the maj penta avoids it. Sure, you can use it for chords, but for solos it's pretty hard to not make it just a passing note. To my ears the b7 is an ambiguous note as far as maj/min goes and one of the reasons that we can use this parallel theory so easily.
It's funny how it's the first video of yours that I've watched considering how many guitar videos I watch on RUclips 😆.....Funny that.
Anyway good lesson mate, I've been trying to expand my knowledge of the dreaded music theory lately and this video is great timing because I've been having a go at learning almost exactly what this video talks about for the last couple of days.
It's true that all of the great guitar soloists got great by concentrating most of their attention making riffs & licks, etc around that minor/major 3rd and the 7th/flat 7th.
I'd say that those notes are the most important for the guitarist who wants to play blues & rock oriented music.
1 last thing, that's a very nice sounding bridge pickup on that Tele, I couldn't see for sure but it looked like 1 of those hot rails to me and that surprised me because I expected them to have a more humbucker type of sound, but no, it sounds like a Tele bridge pickup to me. 👍
Jammy Git your eyes deceive you it’s the neck pickup - I have the control plate flipped. It’s a joe barden Danny Gatton pickup. They’re great, sound like tele pickups, but without the hum.
That's funny because I didn't see the control plate, I judged it on sound, I thought it sounded like a Tele bridge. It sounds much brighter than most Tele neck pickups I've heard, maybe that's why I thought it was the bridge, combined with it being a hot rail which I've never heard before.... I dunno, I'll get my coat 🙄🤪😆
Great lesson Levi :-) I already own one of your books purchased its almost a year - Country Guitar for Beginners . Very beautiful book. One question Levi , what is your rhythmic thought process when you play beautiful licks with so ease like in this video ? While playing those licks - Do you count in your mind as 1 + , 2+ , 3+, 4+ etc , or its just a muscle memory of licks ? I wonder how great musicians like you play guitar licks so instantly and sounds so rhythmic. Curious to know the rhythmic thought process behind playing those licks :-) .. Many thanks in advance :-)
Nice explanation..i'v learned it long ago from Michael Schenker video - VHS ☺ ''simple play minor scale over minor chord, major over major, you don't play major over minor'' ☺, great player one of my heroes...Now you explain it far better. Personally after learning some theory x years ago after some time i'v stooped to think about it during playing, (i hope that is normal ☺)... anyhow for last 10+years i simply fallow one simple rule ''if it sounds good it is good'' ..Theory is important and imho players should learn at lest some basics, for sure it will help them a lot, moreover with a teacher like you who explain things well - learning process is frustration free aka easy. cheers.
Plugging the books is not “cheesy”. Thank you.
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I remember seeing that compund major/minor pentatonic "scale" in a book back when I started out playing. Confused me for a good while.
Thank you. This was a really good lesson. Besides breaking the scale down to a smaller fragment, how would you practice this idea? Do you spend a few minutes going from root to each interval to "hear" that sound, then experiment for a bit playing smaller fragments? I am at that point where I know this is the next step for me, but I am not always sure how best to practice this idea, and improve vs just learning scales.
Learn vocabulary, not scales
Hi do your books cover this if so which one, I believe Angus Young does this a lot
Levi Great Lesson Sir!! I was one of those players that always learned Scales rather than chords across the neck. Chord tones and incorporating scales is the way to go, so I'm working on that. Love it! makes more sense now Thanks for the lessons you're awesome!
I know some of the greats like Freddie King and the like do one of the two over the I, swap to the opposite over the IV, and then come back on the V. Is there any rules on that subject? Any common way of doing it?
There's lots that can be said there, and if you think about the intervals in relation to the chord you're on... you'll find the answers.
So if you're playing min pent over the I chord you've got R b3 4 5 b7 yeah? well when that IV chord lands, what WAS the b3 of the I is now the b7 of the IV.
Look at maj pent - the 6 of the I chord is cool, but you don't want to rest on it... but on the IV chord? That's the 3rd - it's the best note!
So to me, it's more about having a sense of hierarchy of which notes work best on which chords.
But yes, if you played maj pent on the I, and then min pent on the IV and V it would be a real simple way of creating the illusion of playing over changes.
That make sense?
I commented earlier about your killer tone. Comment is gone now. Are tone compliments off limits?
Hahaha it may have been marked for review as suspected spam 😂