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MARK, When you add notes outside of the pentatonic scale its called Hexatonic. There is a big difference between playing Hexatonic scales VS playing with the changes which you should try to find a bunch of guitar solos that use Hexatonic scales to make a video lesson.Hextaonic scale can mean just adding one extra note that is NOT in the minor pentatonic scale or major pentatonic scale. SRV, Clapton etc often use Mixolydian #9 scale or Mixolydian b9 scale which is the Mixo-Blues formula scale which is a NONATonic scale which you should do a video lesson about when SRV, Clapton,etc use the Mixolydian #9 scale & Mixolydian b9 mostly its very the V7 chords with the 5th in the bass which SRV uses in texas flood and others its V7/5th in the bass a texas blues chord. The songs in your video less as just playing with the changes which it might sound to others like its a Hexatonic tonality, it tricks the ears. The main point is which scale degree you're ending the phrase, is it ending on which scale degree the 1,b2,2,3b,3,4,b5,5,6,b6,b7,7 because this will define the key/mode/tonality of the phrase on which ending note you land on. Most Phrases ending notes are 1 root note tonic,b3rd or 3rd or 5th but try ending a phrase other than the 1 tonic, M3 or b3 or 5th which causes the phrasing to have a delay resolution, question marks, commas, punctuations, etc this creates sentences in your lines. TAG-lines are the ending part of the phrase which most 80's metal riffs will repeat the riff but use different Tag-lines for different phrasing.
Yes, that's what this video is about - playing with the changes. IMHO, it's WAY more important than scale nomenclature - if one is interested in playing, that is. (As opposed to talking about scales and theory.) You should do a video on what you're talking about here.
@@MarkZabel I don't have the camera equipment or the editing software I wish I had money to do so maybe one day I will. What I'm saying is more people think when a guitarist is playing with the changes = hexatonic scale because of the added notes that aren't in the minor pentatonic or major pentatonic scale. Its tricking the listener to thinking its hexatonic like the Don Felders Hotel California guitar solo lands on the M7 in the 1st phrase which is unusual to land and end on the M7 which most people are going to think what scale is he using giving that hexatonic tonality. If you listen to metal riffs in the 80's its AAB or AAAB the B is the TAG-line so they often will keep changing altering the B section for phrasing grammar lines. In guitar solos its mostly AOL melodic rock that will also use AAB or AAAB in the guitar solo phrasing its rare for rock guitarist to do this but like Journey guitar solos, Boston Riffs are theme based AAB or AAAB, Metallic Enter Sandman riff is AAAB, GNR November Rain guitar solo is AAB AAAB phrasing. If you look at these guitar solos and riffs as AAB or AAAB phrasing as the formula or skeleton framework to teach in a video lesson for others to learn from.
@MarkZabel when Jimmy Page lands ends on that F note to most people they think it sounds angular, the same when don Felder lands ends on G# note the M7 in hotel California it's sounds "angular". Alice in chains them bones guitar solo has some angular notes. Alice in chains man in the box guitar solo is a master class of phrasing by "dividing" each small phrase into a talking speech but at the end of the day it's sounds tasty. Very well crafted guitar solos of phrasing that the 80s and early 90s guitar solos were melodic like Metallica unforgiven guitar solo bob rock produced a well crafted guitar solo of phrases
Thanks Mark for laying that much magic on the table for us to consume. Basically, the backing track for the lead in Stairway is A... G... F...G... repeat, right? So, he's hitting the F because that's where the John Paul went. It's still diatonic, but if the rhythm section didn't go there, the F sounds horribly out of place. Play in context, right? I"ve been playing forever and have basically missed the whole thing about playing the notes in the chord that's there. Thanks again.
What line from which solo do you mean? There are a couple in "Badge", but they're of the "just mix the major and minor pentatonic" variety. Memorable lines, and instructive for sure.
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MARK, When you add notes outside of the pentatonic scale its called Hexatonic. There is a big difference between playing Hexatonic scales VS playing with the changes which you should try to find a bunch of guitar solos that use Hexatonic scales to make a video lesson.Hextaonic scale can mean just adding one extra note that is NOT in the minor pentatonic scale or major pentatonic scale. SRV, Clapton etc often use Mixolydian #9 scale or Mixolydian b9 scale which is the Mixo-Blues formula scale which is a NONATonic scale which you should do a video lesson about when SRV, Clapton,etc use the Mixolydian #9 scale & Mixolydian b9 mostly its very the V7 chords with the 5th in the bass which SRV uses in texas flood and others its V7/5th in the bass a texas blues chord. The songs in your video less as just playing with the changes which it might sound to others like its a Hexatonic tonality, it tricks the ears. The main point is which scale degree you're ending the phrase, is it ending on which scale degree the 1,b2,2,3b,3,4,b5,5,6,b6,b7,7 because this will define the key/mode/tonality of the phrase on which ending note you land on. Most Phrases ending notes are 1 root note tonic,b3rd or 3rd or 5th but try ending a phrase other than the 1 tonic, M3 or b3 or 5th which causes the phrasing to have a delay resolution, question marks, commas, punctuations, etc this creates sentences in your lines. TAG-lines are the ending part of the phrase which most 80's metal riffs will repeat the riff but use different Tag-lines for different phrasing.
Yes, that's what this video is about - playing with the changes. IMHO, it's WAY more important than scale nomenclature - if one is interested in playing, that is. (As opposed to talking about scales and theory.)
You should do a video on what you're talking about here.
@@MarkZabel I don't have the camera equipment or the editing software I wish I had money to do so maybe one day I will. What I'm saying is more people think when a guitarist is playing with the changes = hexatonic scale because of the added notes that aren't in the minor pentatonic or major pentatonic scale. Its tricking the listener to thinking its hexatonic like the Don Felders Hotel California guitar solo lands on the M7 in the 1st phrase which is unusual to land and end on the M7 which most people are going to think what scale is he using giving that hexatonic tonality. If you listen to metal riffs in the 80's its AAB or AAAB the B is the TAG-line so they often will keep changing altering the B section for phrasing grammar lines. In guitar solos its mostly AOL melodic rock that will also use AAB or AAAB in the guitar solo phrasing its rare for rock guitarist to do this but like Journey guitar solos, Boston Riffs are theme based AAB or AAAB, Metallic Enter Sandman riff is AAAB, GNR November Rain guitar solo is AAB AAAB phrasing. If you look at these guitar solos and riffs as AAB or AAAB phrasing as the formula or skeleton framework to teach in a video lesson for others to learn from.
@MarkZabel when Jimmy Page lands ends on that F note to most people they think it sounds angular, the same when don Felder lands ends on G# note the M7 in hotel California it's sounds "angular". Alice in chains them bones guitar solo has some angular notes. Alice in chains man in the box guitar solo is a master class of phrasing by "dividing" each small phrase into a talking speech but at the end of the day it's sounds tasty. Very well crafted guitar solos of phrasing that the 80s and early 90s guitar solos were melodic like Metallica unforgiven guitar solo bob rock produced a well crafted guitar solo of phrases
@@waynegram8907 Ok. Thanks.
Awesome video have a good weekend mark
Thanks brother. You too!
Thanks Mark for laying that much magic on the table for us to consume. Basically, the backing track for the lead in Stairway is A... G... F...G... repeat, right? So, he's hitting the F because that's where the John Paul went. It's still diatonic, but if the rhythm section didn't go there, the F sounds horribly out of place. Play in context, right? I"ve been playing forever and have basically missed the whole thing about playing the notes in the chord that's there. Thanks again.
Yes, you've got it!
There's your Clapton, too.
What line from which solo do you mean? There are a couple in "Badge", but they're of the "just mix the major and minor pentatonic" variety. Memorable lines, and instructive for sure.
@MarkZabel Nothing specific, but sounded stylized. I don't think he did it as much, but it, to me, was rather Claptonesque.
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If it wasn't for TAB, you'd be playing the major third (B#) over that G# chord!
It's the major 3rd with or without the Tab.
@@MarkZabel And it still sounds good. Thank you for your excellent videos and playing.