How to use the Major Pentatonic in a Blues (and sound good)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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Lesson 2 is live now - a super easy and fun lick that will really help you get 'playing the changes' :) www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/major-pentatonic-study-lick-1-bl-802
looking forward to lick 2 :-) Keep em coming!! I am in the middle of my lead blues experience :-)
Hey, ya BACK Juz! Been a while cobber!
love the sound of that p90 - did you put that in ? cheers
@@TheMichaelseymour or is it a P90 size mini humbucker
@@Havanacuba1985 -Or possibly a P-100?
After 30+ years of playing, I've had one of the biggest eye openers in this - you can't just move your licks down 3 frets and expect them to sound good! Thank you for this, suddenly this all makes perfect sense!
Damn 30+ years and you haden't figured that out yet?
Anyone new to this info owes Justin a HUGE thank you. I spent a lot of time when I was younger trying to figure this crap out. (yes, it was before RUclips) but still....no one teaches this!
Man, I think you’re the best teacher out there on internet land. I keep turning friends and guitar colleagues on to you, and I keep coming back! Thanks, good job!!
Been playing guitar for over 25 years, this lesson was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Great lesson Justin, exactly what I needed..been stuck with minor pents and couldn't work out what to do with the majors for so long, your a star..!!
I love how old u and Marty are now. It was nice growing up with u guys teaching us guitar. One American one British.
These lessons are really inspiring to get me out of the rut + the ones with Lee, because I'm kinda on his level but not improving much throughout the years. Thanks Justin!
Great video. When I learned this years ago the tip I always remembered when soloing using a major pentatonic was to resolve on the root note. Whereas in a minor you have the option of a nice sound resolving on the 5th l, you don’t have that option when it’s major.
After having played guitar on and off for 40+ years this lesson was a revelation and a lot of things are now starting to make sense - thank you so much for this excellent lesson
Glad you like it - just editing the next few lessons in the series and it's shaping up really well I think (hope!).
@@Ana_crusis I also don't want to sound rude, but if you think you can make such an absolute judgement by reading one single line, I'd guess you did not understand some really basic things in music (and life), that lie beyond notes, chords, patterns and concepts.
And, if in your eyes guitar is not something for Steve, what is your point in telling him? Does it make you feel better? Why not just be happy with him?
@@jorn-jorenjorenson5028 yes you are right. I really am awful sometimes. I apologise
@@Ana_crusis Dude, good for you man. Its the internet, sometimes it brings out the bad,
You are hands down the best guitar teacher on you tube.. thanks Justin. Keep up the good work mate.
justin you are an incredible gift to the guitar playing community. i'm going to jump to the website and make a contribution, it's important to give back. no, i'm not a shill poster, but i'm going to encourage everyone who sees this comment and has benefitted from justin's generosity to make a contribution they are comfortable with. giving back is what makes things like these great lessons possible for us all to benefit from.
No-one teaches like Justin.
This is the video that made it all click in my head. A million thanks!
Great video! When u don't have anyone to answer outright questions and you're learning with RUclips, some video's are like light bulb moments so eye opening. This was one for me.
I am using the Minor Pentatonic over Minor Backingtracks all the time. As my wife is learning the piano and is currently only able to play Major, I was trying to do the same yesterday evening and I failed miserably, because I just used the C-Major Scale and it sounded horrible! So your video comes right in time! Thanks a ton!
C-Major Scale and A-Minor Scale have the absolute same shape and tones, just the pronouncing of the root notes will be the difference (C vs. A- done by the player) , so this would both fit to the song on a piano in C Major or in any other chord, but will be boring after some time.
C-Major/AMinor sounding horrible with a piano playing some Major scale stuff is more likely due to different/bad tunings of one or both instruments or simply because you were hitting the wrong notes, missing the right shapes ;)
started learning to play the guitar from your first videos on youtube about 12 years ago and now your here , Come such a long way :D
As for me, you never have to apologize for explaining concepts. Theory is not a four letter word. Thanks for all you do!
Damn... where were you in 1983 when I was playing the minor pentatonic over everything and in 1993 when I descovered the major pentatonic but couldn’t understand why it sounded wrong on the four chord!? Iife changing... suddenly it all makes sense .... Thank you!
Yes, "practical theory" is very welcomed mr Just
The secret is that all theory is practical. It's just a matter of showing how it's practical. That's where the real good stuff is.
@@SynthApprentice yep, I love theory but "practical" next to the t-word makes the lazy-guitarists all drooling
Like the other commentators, I've been playing quite a while and have made some real howlers trying to use the maj pentatonic. Now I understand why!! Excellent vid
THANK YOU Justin! I've been trying to figure this out for a very long time with no success, this was a revelation for me, thanks again!!
Excellent lesson! You show how to play the scale properly, but also how NOT to play the scale and why. I found this very helpful. Very nicely done!
Bravo Justin. Possibly the best guitar tuition video on the net right now imo
Finally a youtuber made me hit his website. Awsome lesson and great points on the basis!
Great concepts and exercises man it's refreshing
I watched and benefited from your basic blues lead course. This one was long overdue, and gratefully welcome.
You just answered so many questions I had! Everyone writes 12 bar blues off as simple or you should know this already. Its been a hard fought journey to get to my goals and this video helped me not have to just trial and error my walkthrough the 12 bars. Cheers Justin! You are the man
Great lesson, finally I understand a little more from music theory. Thank you Justin, you're a great teacher!
Oh Man! I have been waiting for these lessons, amazing job.
Cheers!
this opened my eyes, been working on my lead and this has opened a great deal of options, thanks!
I love the faces you make when you play “the clanker”. The humanity!!! lol. Great lesson as always. Thx!
5 years of learning guitar on my own ->> me after watching this video = MIND BLOWN!
Pretty much the exact same experience for me.
Same here!
Try 30 bloody years of suffering!
@@ratter71 Same
ratter71 better late than never fellas. 1Luv
12:09 - sick Three's Company tease!
Justin, you're a gem mate, I've never understood the relation until now. Thank you so much, for your easy to understand approach, keep up the great work !
Thank you for this. Although I pretty much knew these scales, I didn't know that one was a major and main differences to the minor from a listening standpoint. I usually shut down when people start throwing out "major ninths or flat seventh" or whatever. "I just want to play, not take a music theory class" I usually say. Your video did both, taught me things I didn't think I needed to know, and kept it fun.
Been gettin quite good at minor pent and thought wow why bother with major, it doesnt work. This clears things up alot and very clear way to put it so thanks! My 1st subscription to a guitar lesson on youtube goes to you sir, great video
Ross Stevenson cheers!
I actually loved it when he kept going back to the C# note in the D major shuffle. Maybe taste matters too. Great lesson for beginners though. I wish I had got this during my start days.
Absolutely spot on. A major 7th sounds quite nice over the major chord. In case of dominant 7th, there would be dissonance cause by the major and minor 7ths, and also the root.
Same here, not horrible to me, just a different sound.
I have heard BB King hit this note over the IV Chord. I think when your rhythm section is only play Root, 5th, it really doesn't matter. It would actually imply a nice major 7th.
Clapton used the Major 7th note quite often during the Cream era.
Yea it didn’t sound good in the chord at all but I can kinda see using it sparingly as a passing note definitely don’t resolve on it
You are awesome. Revelation day! Makes so much sense…finally.
For deeper understanding i guess it would be helpful to explain the parallel minor/major scales
The great thing is, you can use exact the same 5 Boxes for all Pentatonic scales and one exact scale has a equivalent in minor when it is major and the other way round: fe example the shown scales in the video -> Aminor is also= CMajor ; AMajor is also= Fsharp minor
to know that and to know the different places of the root notes in each Box enables to find every scale you will relatively quickly A
As explained in the video: Box 1 (shape as seen with AMinor): Minor root note(RN): is on 6th (low E) string lower fret and 4th string higher fret, Major root note: is on 6th string higher fret and on 3rd string lower fret etc
I think that more instructors should just teach the Pentatonic scale as 1 big pattern covering the entire fretboard. If you learn all of the Minor pentatonic scale positions then you already know all of the Major scale positions as well, and it's just a matter of finding the root note for whichever scale you want to play.
I understand that splitting the pentatonic scale into separate 'boxes' might make it less intimidating to learn, but once you see that the 'boxes' all interconnect and form a single pattern covering the entire fretboard, then (IMHO) things start to make a lot more sense.
Good point👍 the moment one has memorized all 5 box patterns that concept of boxes should be given up and seen as one pattern. A thinker will anyway notice, that a single box is always half of the previous and half of the following box and that the end of the last box is exactly the start of the first.
Hence relative minor & relative Major.
I think anything sounds good on that guitar. Fantastic guitar
Your the best guitar teacher.
I started to learn music theory of my own three months back and I fucking understood the entire lesson!!!!!
I'm only at 1:13 and already your video has been so hugely helpful! Never heard this problem explained so succinctly before. Thanks! :)
Cheers great lesson as always.
Awesome lesson Justin.
I love these one on one format lessons. More the better IMHO. Keep them coming. Thanks.
Excellent lesson
you are absalutly right !
“Now it sounds wicked.” I agree.
I am just working on that with my guitar teacher ! Awesome you are once again..Kind regards from France
Surprising that such a critical area of playing like this hasn't been thoroughly covered yet. Once again, Justin to save the day. You're the man and you somehow have such a great sense of what the general guitar player population is missing/needs.
Awesome teacher cheers !
Thank you,I’ve been struggling with concept for years
This guy is such a great teacher, probably a good fella as well. He taught me a lot about guitar since I've stared to learn it, you and Marty are the best so far.
Best regards Justin.
Indeed! Between Justin and Marty, we have everything we need to learn guitar.
this is one of the most useful lessons i've found on youtube thank you justin.
Brilliant, simply explained and incredibly effective. Thanks Justin x
Super super excellent !!!! You are always so clear !!!!
Yeahhhh it was amazing!!!!
Fantastic explanation! Love this lesson. 💜
Great lesson!
As always a great lesson from JustinGuitar.
Great lesson. I think the key is learning the major and minor root notes of each the pentatonic scale shapes, or boxes, one likes to play in.
Thank you Justin!
This was a really great lesson! thank you very much!
Good tips! thanks!
Love your videos Justin. Just saying...
The minor pentatotic is sort of raga: Abheri/Bheemplas ( check out sitar in Bheempilas)
Major pentatonic : Mohanam/Bhoopali
A wealth of these in Indian music. I've not studied music but you having a good foundation in music theory will get it. If anything, music is universal. Things that don't sound right "dont sound right" Its amazing and cross Genres!
Awesome lesson Justin. I wish this was available 25 years ago!
I learned this literally 40 years ago. What I would add is once you find the "A" note in the A major pentatonic, when the chord changes to D, find the relevant note in the D major pentatonic which would be the 7th fret third string (up from the bottom string or little E, the "G" string). Now you can play in two Major Pentatonic scales, the A and D. I would like Justin to demonstrate the L minor chord, but he'd probably be arrested.
I always have great learning experience from your simple practical useful lessons.
It suddenly makes sense! After years of trying! Very well explained, I really like your videos. Keep going!
Awesome lesson . Thanks a tonne Justin :)
You can play the A major pentatonic over D as long as you make sure it isn't a D7. Playing it over a plain D major chord or a Dmaj7 is fine. It may sound a little too "nice" but that depends entirely on taste.
I've finally learned why it always sounded terrible, my god this lesson blew my mind haha
I needed this video so much!!!!
around 1 min, Mind Blown,..for real!! thank you Justin!
Thank you. Just... Thank you
Justin, you're a gift from the God :D
The explanation of the scale switch over the D7. Now I can sleep at night. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
:) sweet dreams of awesome major pentatonic solos!
This dude, is on the money.Exactly.
Thanks buddy. I have played for 10 years and always felt I sucked at soloing. Your right get the theory down, know your scales and this lesson will apply. This reminds me of when I first started playing and didn't know how to strum with rhythm. I eventually got it. You totally unlocked my scales into great solos. 10 years of playing scales is finally paying off, after this lesson.
the best teacher on the internet.
Finally someone has made me realise why I struggle to solo in major pentatonic
he doesn't know what he's talking about? wow, I guess I need to start an instructional video series.
@@ozzyosbourn177 Wtf???
It is used primary in country songs ; or weird rock songs that are not 1,4,5 progressions and you have to really make shit up on the fly
@@WileECoyotey thin lizzy and the eagles -and southern rock are great references
A prime example of it is Blue Sky by Allman brothers .Dickie Betts uses it exclusively for the entire 4 minutes of solo
You really do have a great style of teaching. Nice one.
I just play the demented scale over everything-works for me!
more videos like this justin! thank you
Great lesson, and love the pink modi Strat!
Nice lessons, well explained.
This made a lot of things click for me mate! Thank you very much!!
Great lesson! Exactly what I was struggling with
I liked the major pentatonic, it gave the music a "path less travelled" vibe, if you try to make the notes as musical (contour, vibrato,
phrasing) as you can, you can break new ground.
Miles Davis, Mahavishnu, Coltrane, Zappa, etc. etc......
Big thumbs up, I always wanted to understand how to do this. Thanks.
4:46 "it just ain't right" I spit my coffee out when i saw that part. Summed it all up in one sentence Justin you are the best!
Great stuff Justin Thanks
Great tutorial,,very well explained
This is probably the best explanation of this I've ever heard.
Indeed! Justin is an awesome teacher!
Thanks dude!
Great lesson as always. Absolutely gorgeous guitar!
Thank you!
Well done. Thanks.
amazing video concept
Thanks for the video! I am not sure about A Major pentatonic scale not working over D7 chords. I think you can still play A Major pentatonic (A-B-C#-E-F#) over D7 chords (D-F#-A-C) as there are two common notes! It may not sound as harmonious as D Major pentatonic (over D7 chord). But I guess, as you've implied, blues is what its is because of the tension. Also, that C-C# tension also exists in playing A Minor pentatonic over A7 chord! To mix major / minor sound, I often use the Dorian mode (A Dorian in this case), which seems to work well.