These videos are so useful, insightful, down to earth, and straight to the point. So many other established RUclips channels are more concerned about the fluff and their number of subscribers, but this channel feels like you are just hanging out with somebody who is extremely talented and kind enough to want to selflessly share things with people who appreciate it. Thank you, Rick.
As a bluegrass mandolin player, who dabbles in jazz and also plays guitar, these videos are really useful. Especially this one, this idea can really turn up the heat on a contemporary bluegrass solo just by using one of these ideas even. Awesome videos!
My friends and I jam in my basement, and have 1 song that's only 2 root notes ( for the most part), and I've been struggling to compliment the song w/ my bass. You read my mind, thanks Rick B.
Great stuff again, Rick! Got some great ideas on expanding my vocabulary and facility, for sure. Really impressive the gift you have for not only internalizing all of this material, but also communicating and teaching.
I accompany yoga classes using guitar, synth drones and a looping pedal. This video has really opened up some FUN improv ideas for me. Thank you for parting the complacency fog a little.
Hey Rick! Thank you so much for your videos. You have a fine ear and you're an admirable pedagogue. Your uploads are helping me refocus on my aspirations in film and video game scores. This is such a valuable resource. Thank you :D
Wow. That is awesome (to a slacker like myself who only occasionally ventures outside of a I IV V world). I could spend 6 months digesting this one. Thanks.
stumbled upon your chris cornell seasons tutorial last Thursday , RIP CC. thanks for that. been playing it on my guild acoustic for days now. had learned a different tuning years back but forgotten it since then, your tutorial was spot on for me and easy to get thru.
The sus4/3 arpeggio immediately made me think of the intro to Michael Jackson's song 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You'. I haven't thought of that song in decades.
One of the best videos so far... Liking this format... Feel like we're downloading your brain... Maybe you'd play some of these structures.against a drum track sometime so we can hear your rhythmic concepts real clearly, too. Amazing channel!
The number of subscribers seems to be growing by 1000 every day or two now. Word is spreading! At the current rate we might come close to 250,000 by Christmas!
Wow...this sounds *_beautiful..._* Also, this is an excellent explanation of a really cool concept I hadn't given much thought. Will definitely be incorporating this method in my own songwriting from now on. Thanks for the great channel!
Thank you for this great inspiration. Please excuse my lack of understanding. There is a E-B sustained sound as a background. But why these apreggios? It’s sounds amazing and i like to apply this concept to different sounds. If anyone can give some information it would be very delighted. All the best for you all
You pick a chord progression you want to play over that sound and then play arpeggios that fit that chord progression. It really does not matter what chord progression you pick as long as you like how it sounds, like Rick played one that was just every chord in E major in alphabetical order.
Always wondered about how to get past "just hitting notes that are in the scale for that chord" (average shredder) to "creating emotive content or telling a story with contrasts, tensions, resolutions" over one chord -- Steve Howe is one of the kings of that. This is how to start. Thanks! (Also hooks right into your other videos on why Claus Ogerman was such a giant!)
Wow man, Rick...your fretboard visualization is off the charts. How do you manage to instantly play an arpeggio of the top of your head like that? Do you use some sort of CAGED, interval, or just plain scalar/arpeggio shapes? It would be nice to know how your brain works in applying all this stuff. Great job!
"The CAGED system derives its name from five basic open chord shapes: C, A, G, E, and D." So, I think the question is are you visualizing chord shapes, or visualizing intervals, or using scales/modes to quickly know where find the notes you want to play?
It's really helpful to watch you actually improvise solos in real time with explanation. I would love to see some videos like this over a jazz backing track. I'm kind struggling to play hip stuff over changes (as opposed to just "groping!")
Very impressive, as usual. I do have a slight doubt about the title. I think this would have been better called 'playing over a drone', since an open perfect fifth isn't really a chord, although it does restrict the improvisor a little more than a pure root drone. Perhaps you could give an example of soloing over a tune with very few changes - a modal tune like 'Little Sunflower', for example - where the improvisor has to play over a more complex chord for extended periods?
Rick how are you coming up with these progressions.. over E 5 .. what is thinking behind your choices? Thank you as always for your time and effort on your channel
Hey Rick, I play your videos for source of new ideas for improv and composition. So I wrote a song a few years ago. The line leaped in octaves. I worked it off and on finally finished it. 'Octave Dance" Now I see thanks to you., I see that this technique has a name. "octave displacement". I will look for the video you promised on more on Octave Displacement .. Thanks
Wow, how very cool... Not something one thinks of every day, and the first thought from someone might be "?? thats gonna be boring..". But how very NOT boring!
Rick - very nice lesson. Question: When you are playing through the C Major Lydian scale over the E5, are you only playing the notes C, E, F# and G? It sounds beautiful, but I can’t seem to get that sound. Are you mixing the order of the notes randomly or just playing the notes ascending and descending. It’s a little too fast for me to figure out exactly what’s going on.
Hi Rick. I enjoyed the video, but am not entirely sure what it is that you're doing. I have some basic understanding of chords and it sounds like you're playing a sustained chord in the background, but then how do you know what to play on top? Are you just taking the notes of the chord and playing them in some pattern on top, like going up on every other note of the chord?
Rick, given the modal backing of E5, why do you not name those arpeggios from the perspective of an E tonic (keynote)? For example, wouldn't a C major triad over E be an Em6 arpeggio?
These videos are so useful, insightful, down to earth, and straight to the point. So many other established RUclips channels are more concerned about the fluff and their number of subscribers, but this channel feels like you are just hanging out with somebody who is extremely talented and kind enough to want to selflessly share things with people who appreciate it. Thank you, Rick.
When you play it on guitar, it sounds so much like Final Fantasy VII Prelude. Awesome.
I WAS THINKING THE SAME GODDAMN THING
Emin9 arpeggio. nailed it.
As a bluegrass mandolin player, who dabbles in jazz and also plays guitar, these videos are really useful. Especially this one, this idea can really turn up the heat on a contemporary bluegrass solo just by using one of these ideas even. Awesome videos!
This is one of the finest music lesson YT Channels out there. Bravo and thanks, Rick! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a find, you bugger, looks like you're assisting me to the next level, jazz waffle to jazz coma, Rock On Bro X
Wow, that C-Lydian maj. over E sounds so good !
BleakAutumnMist Sounds like the beginning of Who wants to live forever from Queen.
Wow... always great ideas! and wow, made me smile with "meet George Jetson." Always high five from Dallas.
I learn so much every time I watch. You rock, professor. Also, the C Lydian is way cooler than the C Maj. Thanks.
My friends and I jam in my basement, and have 1 song that's only 2 root notes ( for the most part), and I've been struggling to compliment the song w/ my bass. You read my mind, thanks Rick B.
Just what i needed, thank you Rick
You are very welcome my bass friend!
Thank you for putting that description. It really helps!
your lessons are re-teaching me how to play guitar. it's really amazing what you do!
Great stuff, Rick! 👍🙏
Great stuff again, Rick! Got some great ideas on expanding my vocabulary and facility, for sure. Really impressive the gift you have for not only internalizing all of this material, but also communicating and teaching.
I accompany yoga classes using guitar, synth drones and a looping pedal. This video has really opened up some FUN improv ideas for me. Thank you for parting the complacency fog a little.
This is SO helpful. I think this is what Nile Rodgers does on 'Savoir Fair', and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out exactly what was going on.
Hey Rick! Thank you so much for your videos. You have a fine ear and you're an admirable pedagogue. Your uploads are helping me refocus on my aspirations in film and video game scores. This is such a valuable resource. Thank you :D
That Lydian Major arpeggio is something I have heard in a number of Mastodon songs. Great sound.
Wow. That is awesome (to a slacker like myself who only occasionally ventures outside of a I IV V world). I could spend 6 months digesting this one. Thanks.
best instructional account on youtube. period!
Don't worry about finding home, you never leave. Beautiful stuff man 👍🏾
This video is GOLD!!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Rick
Love this .......It was very helpful for newbe when you called out the scale while you are playing. Thank you for all you do.
stumbled upon your chris cornell seasons tutorial last Thursday , RIP CC. thanks for that. been playing it on my guild acoustic for days now. had learned a different tuning years back but forgotten it since then, your tutorial was spot on for me and easy to get thru.
Breathtaking virtuosity! 🙏🎸
Playing those arpegios across all 6 strings is not an easy task... Well done!
This channel is pure gold! So much things to learn!
The sus4/3 arpeggio immediately made me think of the intro to Michael Jackson's song 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You'. I haven't thought of that song in decades.
One of the best videos so far... Liking this format... Feel like we're downloading your brain... Maybe you'd play some of these structures.against a drum track sometime so we can hear your rhythmic concepts real clearly, too. Amazing channel!
The number of subscribers seems to be growing by 1000 every day or two now. Word is spreading! At the current rate we might come close to 250,000 by Christmas!
Another very useful video ... As always, my eternal gratitude to you, dear Sir !
"Meet George Jetson." Ha! Good one!
Your videos are super informative, Rick! I will have to watch way more of them. Thanks for making and uploading!
Awesome Rick... just what I was looking for at the moment! Thanks so much.
I can´t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge.....cheers from Portugal!!
Wow...this sounds *_beautiful..._* Also, this is an excellent explanation of a really cool concept I hadn't given much thought.
Will definitely be incorporating this method in my own songwriting from now on.
Thanks for the great channel!
Thank you for this great inspiration.
Please excuse my lack of understanding. There is a E-B sustained sound as a background. But why these apreggios? It’s sounds amazing and i like to apply this concept to different sounds. If anyone can give some information it would be very delighted.
All the best for you all
You pick a chord progression you want to play over that sound and then play arpeggios that fit that chord progression.
It really does not matter what chord progression you pick as long as you like how it sounds, like Rick played one that was just every chord in E major in alphabetical order.
never ceases to amaze. Thanks Rick!
Always wondered about how to get past "just hitting notes that are in the scale for that chord" (average shredder) to "creating emotive content or telling a story with contrasts, tensions, resolutions" over one chord -- Steve Howe is one of the kings of that. This is how to start. Thanks! (Also hooks right into your other videos on why Claus Ogerman was such a giant!)
The story about becoming very drowsy from expired NyQuil in a stuck elevator
Your pattern playing is so on point.. i'll have to look into to get mine sounding smooth like that!
Rick, again you are my motivational hero. Thank you!
Wonderful video. And lovely to see that Danelectro getting some love too.
Thank god we have you on this planet man
This is the way I want to able to play. Love your channel thank you so much!
this is amazing!!!!! thanks a lot for sharing this lesson!!! \m/
Fantastic tutorial. Given me lots of ideas. Great playing too!
Wow man, Rick...your fretboard visualization is off the charts. How do you manage to instantly play an arpeggio of the top of your head like that? Do you use some sort of CAGED, interval, or just plain scalar/arpeggio shapes? It would be nice to know how your brain works in applying all this stuff. Great job!
+Joseph Lara thanks Joseph but i'm not sure what you're asking me? I don't know what caged interval means?
"The CAGED system derives its name from five basic open chord shapes: C, A, G, E, and D."
So, I think the question is are you visualizing chord shapes, or visualizing intervals, or using scales/modes to quickly know where find the notes you want to play?
Picksalot exactly, that's what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.
Joseph Lara he spent hundreds of hours memorizing them.
bass player. 🙂
Some more awesome. This is good tips. Thanks !
It's really helpful to watch you actually improvise solos in real time with explanation. I would love to see some videos like this over a jazz backing track. I'm kind struggling to play hip stuff over changes (as opposed to just "groping!")
Very nice!
Thanks so much for the vid! Really helped me solo over C7 #9 on Brasiliance!
Very impressive, as usual. I do have a slight doubt about the title. I think this would have been better called 'playing over a drone', since an open perfect fifth isn't really a chord, although it does restrict the improvisor a little more than a pure root drone.
Perhaps you could give an example of soloing over a tune with very few changes - a modal tune like 'Little Sunflower', for example - where the improvisor has to play over a more complex chord for extended periods?
simply beautiful.
The first Guitar jam reminded me of Led Zeppelin's In the evening intro buildup.. Awesome video👍👍
Beautiful Rick! Nice job!
nice! - good examples to get one out of the rut of doing their same old riffs
At the rate I'm going, ill be able to play that for my own funeral music.
I get it. I don''t know why this is the first time Ive learned arpeggios this way its gonna take practice but thank you Rick your original.
Love soloing over ANY one chord....
Still today, thank you for your work
This is my favorite video of all time
Nicely done , saving for future reference 👍
Rick how are you coming up with these progressions.. over E 5 .. what is thinking behind your choices? Thank you as always for your time and effort on your channel
Amazing.
Hey Rick, I play your videos for source of new ideas for improv and composition. So I wrote a song a few years ago. The line leaped in octaves. I worked it off and on finally finished it. 'Octave Dance" Now I see thanks to you., I see that this technique has a name. "octave displacement". I will look for the video you promised on more on Octave Displacement .. Thanks
The arpeggios are very like Final Fantasy Prelude. Nice.
great lesson. you're the best!
amazing lesson - very convincing!
this is aaaaawwwwwweeesome love it
You're a wizard Rick.
Fantastic content Rick. I regularly share your work with my music students. d-_-b
Great Lesson, thanks
That G Lydian sound was great
Wow, how very cool... Not something one thinks of every day, and the first thought from someone might be "?? thats gonna be boring..". But how very NOT boring!
I think this is a composition based on E, B and F# pedal points. The melodies (composed) were originated from improvisation.
Great lesson! Thx
What guitar and amp are you using for this? Sounds amazing!
Well...you just gave me an endless amount of homework to do. : ) But man, that stuff sounded great!
Hi Rick you are a fantastic teacher and fantastic musician. Am I wrong or you are Italian ? Cheers from Italy
I enjoy Ricks videos. Don't understand most of what he says in them but I watch anyway. This theory stuff is so far over my head.
This jam reminds me of one of my favorite songs evar - opener from Phantasy Star 2 for Genesis!
Thanks Rick
Reminds me of some Marty Friedman's phrases, thanks a lot!
Beautiful. Still don't get how people could dislike these vids XD
great
0:50 Hey you beginning chord Pink Floyd
amazing knowledge very cooool
excellent!
Rick - very nice lesson. Question: When you are playing through the C Major Lydian scale over the E5, are you only playing the notes C, E, F# and G? It sounds beautiful, but I can’t seem to get that sound. Are you mixing the order of the notes randomly or just playing the notes ascending and descending. It’s a little too fast for me to figure out exactly what’s going on.
thank you for doing it on guitar
beautiful
Hi Rick. I enjoyed the video, but am not entirely sure what it is that you're doing. I have some basic understanding of chords and it sounds like you're playing a sustained chord in the background, but then how do you know what to play on top? Are you just taking the notes of the chord and playing them in some pattern on top, like going up on every other note of the chord?
Very interesting! Is this somewhat similar to Satriani's Axis Theory?
I just discovered your channel and it's quite informative and up-to-date!
can you do an episode on improving rhythm, time etc
Rick, given the modal backing of E5, why do you not name those arpeggios from the perspective of an E tonic (keynote)? For example, wouldn't a C major triad over E be an Em6 arpeggio?
It would change the way he’s phrasing the arpeggios though
Neat concept.
Great!
very cool!
Clear, creative and so generous to share your wealth of knowledge like this... Consider me a disciple :-)
+Joseph Danza excellent!
Sounds like Prelude from a video game called Final Fantasy.
I listened to it. Your right! Haha
THAT'S IT! Thank you!
i love your content