Understanding Metal Guitar... The Minor Scale (and why it's important)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- If you've been interested in understanding a little bit of guitar theory and particularly how it applies to metal guitar, then this is a great video for you.
Here we'll dive into the very important minor scale. We'll learn to play it in a few positions on the fretboard and listen for the mood and sound quality of the scale.
With just a few simple concepts you can start to write some really cool riffs.
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Dude, this is the best channel ive found in a while. In a sea of popular RUclipsrs, this really stuck out for my interest in Metal guitar
Thank you so much! That really means a lot!
Why do you like it much you think?
This is great content! I've been playing guitar for couple of years and i feel like i want to learn writing some own riffs. This kind of stuff is perfect for me.
So glad to hear!!
Cool video. I also agree 💯 with what you said at the end about focussing on just one scale idea. When i first started 10 years, i thought i needed to learn every single bit of theory there was. I actually neglected the fun of the instrument! But once i stripped it all back and just worked on my pentatonic minor, i started noticing improvements. Learning small chunks inside out is better than learning loads of things a tiny bit i think.
Absolutely! It can feel really daunting trying to learn everything. Totally agree, getting really proficient at small chunks seems to help make more progress and like you said the fun is really the most important part!
that's a stunning series, so helpful mate! There really aren't many metal theory guitar lessons. Thanks a million and please keep the videos coming!
Thank you for the kind words! So glad you find it helpful. Definitely more coming!
Love the octave concept. Was one of the first things I started to do when writing my own riffs.
Forgot about the 4, 5 and 7 on the A string
Could have also mentioned going horizontal with the scale diatonically
Love your videos man. Exactly what I've been trying to find
Thank you! So glad it to hear it!
Great video, hope to see similar in the future!
Thank you! More videos coming! \m/
You've got another new subscriber here! Longtime player who's returning to the fold after a long hiatus. Looking forward to more lessons!
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I really enjoyed this lesson thank you. Only recommendation I have is get a mic.
Glad you liked it! I am using a mic but I didn't have it plugged in correctly for this one 🤦🏻
Great advice, really simplified and to the point. Amazing!!!
@@armaang96 thank you!
Very useful! I hope to see more content like this ;)
Thanks! More to come!
Loving these videos! keep making them!
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I had that exact same guitar in 7 string form
Much thanks! So helpful to a practiced confuser!
Glad to hear!!
Great video! Very understandable and concise. Nice Background as well. You got a new subscriber. Looking forward to your next vids!
@@badham6866 thank you so much!!
I’m a drummer and was always interested in learning the guitar (I play bass as well) so my guitarist from my church gifted me the exact guitar your holding in your hands in this video. 7 string variant. Definitely blessed and will be learning from your videos! Thank you, sir!
That's so awesome! Glad it's helpful. I love my Reaper and am thinking about getting the 7 string as well. Is yours the same color with the Floyd Rose?
Hey really great videos! I don't have my guitars anymore but am hoping to get some gear again soon....it's been almost 5 years since I lost all my gear...
Thanks man! Hopefully you can get back into it soon!
Ty
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Nice one, I would recommend to use a standard E tuned guitar, since this kind of content is aimed mostly at beginners I guess :)
love the videos man, could you do one explaining how to use the minor scale in an "economy of motion" practice riff? I love your explanations, and watched some good vids describing and showing was to practice economy of motion but im really interested in how youd show it off. Either way, great stuff man! def gonna have me checking back for more theory and practice ideas!
@@n4meless755 definitely! Appreciate the kind words!
Nice one. Something I finally understand
Awesome, glad it helped! 🤘🏻
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Great video man!
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Other great Job man 🔝
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good video bro 🙏
Thank you!
Can I apply all these skills in standard tuning? I play mostly 80's Hair Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal and Thrash Metal style guitar.
@@metal1mark73 absolutely! You can just move that same shape up to the 6th string (low E string) and it’s still the minor scale. If you keep it on the 5th fret of the E string it’s A minor. And you can move that shape around to change the key 🤘🏻
Good stuff! I've been learning the minor scale and its different modes. I hae the first 5 down sofar. But I'm not really sure how to use them together well. A lot of riffs and solos dont stay in 1 modes location, it will be several put together. so im not sure when to switch strings or positions when I can hit the same not in different places. Could be a good future video idea? Also, I want to get into using the different modes as the base, like Phrygian and Lydian. Nik Nocturnal had a cool video on the different mode sounds, and the Lydian one sounds so amazing. But I cant figture out how to actually get that sound.
I'll definitely have more videos on those concepts coming! And Nik's video is great! I'll definitely be doing a video on the Lydian mode, it's one of my favorites! 🤘
Whats up with rec loop in the background?
I use a boss gt 1. CAN you please run me through your tone presets
Awesome! Yes! I plan on doing a video and going over tone settings \m/
TLDR; theory doesn’t “box you in” you just haven’t practice it until you don’t really need to think about it.
Just a little info as far as how it’s worked out for me: practice all the positions of the minor scale and learn to play all of the positions as one giant position. Once you get so familiar with it and the triads within it eventually you won’t think much about it. From there you will intintionally break the rules playing wrong notes and chords where it sounds great. This is the point where you become proficient and theory is headed properly as a way to analyze and break something down you already wrote.
For example: I will commonly start in a minor scale and move between Hungarian minor and harmonic minor in my accents. I will also borrow chords from different key signatures like Bmin instead of Bdim. I’m not thinking about what key I’m borrowing from I’m just playing something that sounds good and then I can understand it after with the theory.
The reason people feel boxed in by theory is because they don’t practice it until it’s more subconscious.
@@SilentAsianRoach really like this! 🤘🏻