YourGuitarSage I've been playing on and off for the past 20 years and I'd like to get better but I don't know where to start your opinion would be nice
I wish you would start off directly giving us the 2 scales that you wanted to cover in this video. Show them without flying through. Then go into all the information you have. You give great information tho.
I’ve been playing along to songs for years and developed a lot of technical skill and gotten fast on the fingerboard but this has opened up a whole new world to me
thks man that was really helpful, after just playing barre chords for the past 12 months, im delving into scales n pents, light bulb moment with this vid....cheers
Thank you so much for that, I have been playing for 2 years now and just decided to learn the different kinds of scales. I've been searching around on youtube and got some basics but some things just weren't clear enough, your lesson made me realize lots of things and it appears easier than I thought. Thank you very much again!
great stuff! a bit thick on the theory for my level...but ill get there. example, I know what makes a major chord a minor, lower the third a half step - i have no idea what makes any scale major or minor. the third not in that scale is a half step lower? no clue. really good stuff again. you are helping build confidence in themselves, speed, knowledge and technique will come, but its hard to get any if you think you suck...
I really appreciate your videos! You break the musical theory concepts down very nicely and explain the uses of the techniques and concepts to make the lessons more applicable. Extremely helpful!
HI Erich. I'm no pro at playing lead. Been a bass player in my younger days. Only been playing around with lead for about 4 years now. My daughter bought me an electric guitar 4 years ago. The scale you just demo'd.......I have been practicing it for a while now and never knew it had a name, and all this time I thought I was just making it up as I went along because it sounded right. I'm retired and just playing for the hang or the fun of it with some backing tracks I download. Thanks for this video, I really appreciate your time and effort to teach others. You taught me a lot today. Regards from Johannesburg South Africa.
Scales are very important when you play guitar!I say that cause one day i wanna be profesional guitar player, all players needs support and support i see in you.3 years ago when i saw your first video,i start learning guitar and play just for fun,but now truth is that through all 3 years i become better player and i keep grow.You are part of my growin and my internet life.I play since 2015 with all your videos and i enjoy once again tnx.I also think that you are still grow and i wish you merry Christhmas and happy New Year.
I’m working with on Fiddle tunes with students with this scale like Billy in the low ground and The Eight of January. The closed major cage scale, the first in many, every other mode and scale I use derives from this initial scale, very important to know if you want to advance and learn the neck.
thanks again Erick, I knew both scales,~BUT**** I did not know a few things you pointed out regarding how to put the g-maj. to use another addition to the "pocket" of info. stay well till next time, Jay.
Erich, good course. However, it would have been a little easier to follow with your whiteboard showing the scale notes along with the guitar. Just a suggestion.
Thanks Eric, that was very helpful to me to try to understand major scales & penatonic scales, now onto practicing these scales, the more I practice the better I'll be, you know the little train who can!!!!🎸🤠👍💯
YourGuitarSage Well, thats it. I pronounce you officialy my new guitar teacher for the weeks ahead. Thanks for your work and dedication, your teaching style suits me perfectly. Keep up that way!
there are 8 notes in a major scale , and when you get to 8 you repeat the scale going up in octaves. so the 2nd note of the major scale is the 9th. the 9 th is an octave higher than the 2nd. i'm just starting guitar but this makes a lot more sense on piano.
+yourguitarsage I think you are just sick of teaching kids lol.....adult kids included. Glad you found a more expansive way to get what you know out there.....kudos
Agreed.... The Hendrix stuff didn't sound poopy. I've been an acoustic guitarist for 50+ years. It sounds great. The reason I'm watching your lessons is that I"m teaching some friends guitar. I've taught myself guitar for years, so so much of this is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, to me. But teaching some friends, it's not obvious to them.... You're a great teacher. Thanks for posting these. (Oh, I will be referring people to your site).
Erich- thanks for your videos. I’m half way thru one of your books as well and really enjoying it. I like how you switch to the paired relative scale. Here’s my question, when you did that switch wouldn’t you start the scale on your pinky? I don’t know if modes apply to pentatonic scales otherwise wouldn’t you be doing the scale in a different mode. Hopefully the question isn’t too confusing. Thanks.
Jay, some of what you say here sounds like you're on the right page. Yes, you do play the scale differently. Here on RUclips search, "your guitar sage pentatonic" for more details.
Sir! Thank you again for these great lessons! My question would be...where can I can find the video where you explain the various modes..how to play them on the guitar..is it on your website...you got two websites and there is a ton of good material there..but I don't know where to find it!?! THX again:)
Awesome video. I have a probably ignorant question. In some countries’ music theory Do Re Mi Fa … is C, D, E F etc. but I’ve seen several Americans saying it’s G,A,B etc i.e. the G major instead of the C major. Any idea why?
Hey Eric, I purchased your course on udemy last week and have been working through it, but in the last lecture I watched(introduction to metronome) you talk about knowing scales yet there are no videos before that on how to learn the scales. Are the scales part of another course? I only started playing a few weeks ago and everyone says the scales are the best thing to practice.
well I am an idiot... I knew this about guitar cause I started old enough to be able to rationalize. however you reminded me that however how good you are at sth there is not fast learning for anything new thank you
Hey erich, Im learning the c major scale and I noticed there are fret board diagrams with a few discrepancies between them. I learned the one where the first 4 shapes are spread across 4 frets and the fifth shape is spread across 5 frets. Are these the correct shapes?
I’ve been playing for a long time using tabs !! Wanted to lear scale , fretboard , chords !! I’ve never been confused!! I don’t understand anything 😂😂😂
+yourguitarsage Uuuuuugh minor keys, im glad I took music theory last year in school while they had it at lest I know what you are saying but minor keys were the bane of that class! I have not committed the time yet to checking out your website yet. As a quick question I am lost on where to go on. Since August I have been teaching myself guitar and it has been going well. I can play a simple version of Canon in D and More than Words by Extreme. I know all my major chords and minors. I know A couple of 7's which I like to barr (I dont really care much for voicing as long as I get the chord like I'll use Am barred for trickey ones that I can't play open.) I know this one jazzy chord I dont know its name but in open its (6-1) e-a-e-g#-c#-e which I just move around based on scale degree for some simple jazzy sounds. My big question is where to progress to in my learning. Also I see you wrote a book about mastering the guitar and where that was available and what your course is like/ how much does it cost.
Whenever I practice anything whether it be chords or scales and be mindful of playing on my fingertips as taught I noticed that my pinkie won't go straight down but tends to roll outwards. Is this normal and something I just need to keep practicing at or is this just how some players play? Even when I physically try to correct it, it still fights me and stays rolled out so that instead of being hitting the string straight on my pinkie hits the string on its side.
Definitely a wonderful Wow! You made it very easy for me to understand about the major and the pentatonic scales. Thank you sir! BTW, I am a guitar player by hobby.
A minor scale is just the major scale for that same root note (ex: A major to A minor) where the third, sixth and seventh notes are lowered by a half-step, also called a semi tone. So if A Major is: A B C# D E F# G# A and then so on, then A minor would be: A B C D E F G A.
hey erich, ive been playing for some years now by myself and watching some of your videos, im having trouble using my pinky and ring finger in independent ways, is there an exercise for training them separetely? every time im using my pinky while improvising the ring finger gets in the way. ps: sorry my english sucks haha
I'm confused... another youtuber taught the pentatonic as open e, 3,5,6,7 on the first string then 5,7 on second and 5,7,9 on third. Then 7,9 on fourth. Then 8,10,12 on fifth and finally 10,12 on the sixth (high e)... I May have said the string names opposite.... as high e is first and low e is sixth? 😅
YourGuitarSage it really sounds good, every note tone and interval seem to ring out but not like a piano as my Tinker does,,,, I like both but your D28 is the very best
Is it possible to learn how to play guitar simply by watching guitar videos, in other words, free lessons? I recognize the idea that a teacher can spot flaws in playing and attempt to correct them, but don't "flaws" become an asset OR a style of playing? So...what are the advantages to having a "live" teacher?
For me, the hard part is not understanding the theory, but rather knowing where on the neck the G notes or the A notes og E notes etc are :| cant really find anywhere online that explains and shows it in a good way either.. sigh
Thank you for watching this video gang! Hope you found it helpful and if you did share your feedback below. e :)
YourGuitarSage I've been playing on and off for the past 20 years and I'd like to get better but I don't know where to start your opinion would be nice
YourG
uitarSage
You're a really good teacher. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and talent. 😊
I wish you would start off directly giving us the 2 scales that you wanted to cover in this video. Show them without flying through. Then go into all the information you have. You give great information tho.
Uhh... I thought he did?
I’ve been playing along to songs for years and developed a lot of technical skill and gotten fast on the fingerboard but this has opened up a whole new world to me
Thank you 🙏
That relative major and minor key stuff really makes it universal man
And gives more freedom to change the scale almost with same form
I've known both of these scales for years, (the only two I do know) but you just turned a light on , in my brain. Thank you!
+Jay Garrett So cool to hear that Jay. Stay in touch and let me know how you are doing!
damn man..just came across this channel..i must say..I've been playing for 7 years..this video was just as equal to my ,7 years.. thanks sir
Learning an easy way to figure out how to make a 7 chord a 9 chord here was worth watching this vidoe in itself!
+downhill240
Thank you downhill! e:)
thks man that was really helpful, after just playing barre chords for the past 12 months, im delving into scales n pents, light bulb moment with this vid....cheers
Thank you so much for that, I have been playing for 2 years now and just decided to learn the different kinds of scales. I've been searching around on youtube and got some basics but some things just weren't clear enough, your lesson made me realize lots of things and it appears easier than I thought. Thank you very much again!
Mind=Blown. Especially the 9`s and 7`s in a chord. All of that circulates around a major scale
great stuff! a bit thick on the theory for my level...but ill get there.
example, I know what makes a major chord a minor, lower the third a half step - i have no idea what makes any scale major or minor.
the third not in that scale is a half step lower? no clue.
really good stuff again. you are helping build confidence in themselves, speed, knowledge and technique will come, but its hard to get any if you think you suck...
+F. Flintstone Thank you F. Flintstone! e:)
I really appreciate your videos! You break the musical theory concepts down very nicely and explain the uses of the techniques and concepts to make the lessons more applicable. Extremely helpful!
Thank you 🙏
I dont know wtf I'm doing 😩
HI Erich. I'm no pro at playing lead. Been a bass player in my younger days. Only been playing around with lead for about 4 years now. My daughter bought me an electric guitar 4 years ago. The scale you just demo'd.......I have been practicing it for a while now and never knew it had a name, and all this time I thought I was just making it up as I went along because it sounded right. I'm retired and just playing for the hang or the fun of it with some backing tracks I download. Thanks for this video, I really appreciate your time and effort to teach others. You taught me a lot today. Regards from Johannesburg South Africa.
+Edmund Verwey Thank you so much Edmund. I appreciate you taking the time to comment! e:)
Just amazing
You're just an example of a pure guitarist...
Such a helpfull video...
THanks!
Thanks Eric, You just cleared up something that was very cloudy to me
+Peter Kershes
Good to hear that! e:)
Wow. EXTREMELY helpful video, and I've watched a lot. nice job!
thank you Dave!
Scales are very important when you play guitar!I say that cause one day i wanna be profesional guitar player, all players needs support and support i see in you.3 years ago when i saw your first video,i start learning guitar and play just for fun,but now truth is that through all 3 years i become better player and i keep grow.You are part of my growin and my internet life.I play since 2015 with all your videos and i enjoy once again tnx.I also think that you are still grow and i wish you merry Christhmas and happy New Year.
Yes, your method and attitude is really refreshing and works well with my brain
Thanks Mallory :)
Your explanation of major and relative minor for pentatonic scale is fantastic. Something that always confused me. Thanks for the help.
I’m working with on Fiddle tunes with students with this scale like Billy in the low ground and The Eight of January. The closed major cage scale, the first in many, every other mode and scale I use derives from this initial scale, very important to know if you want to advance and learn the neck.
Nice!
Erich you are the best online guitar teacher. Love all of your free stuff!!! Your videos are the best!!!!!! Thanks for all you do
cleared my doubt regarding A-major pentatonic
Nice! Thanks Martin.
I never got that far. You're a better man than I.
great tips.. i am now better thanks to you... so stoked...! thankyou
Ive been checking a heap of scale stuff...this has been the best!
Wahoo! Thanks my friend!
thanks again Erick, I knew both scales,~BUT**** I did not know a few things you pointed out regarding how to put the g-maj. to use another addition to the "pocket" of info. stay well till next time, Jay.
Erich, good course. However, it would have been a little easier to follow with your whiteboard showing the scale notes along with the guitar. Just a suggestion.
Now Wade, you know I have video for that in the course :)
Or just talk less. You're sucking all of the oxygen off the earth. Now the plants have died. I hate you.
Yeah Wade, this is explained in his coarses!!!
I genuinely like this guy what a awesome guy I'm subscribing
Cool beans Tom beans.👍 Thank you so much my friend.
It just clicked in my head man. Sir! Thank you Sir! :)!!!
Most welcome!
Thanks a lot. You've made my life easier telling that F#m pentatonic = A major pentatonic.
Thanks Eric, that was very helpful to me to try to understand major scales & penatonic scales, now onto practicing these scales, the more I practice the better I'll be, you know the little train who can!!!!🎸🤠👍💯
🤘🤘
thanks for this video. I found it very helpful!
I like what you are doing here, thank's for sharing and I'll be around to see your old and upcoming videos @YourGuitarSage
+Javier Ahumada Thank you Javier! Stay in touch and let me know what you think. e:)
Life now makes sense. Thanks Guitar Sage!!
You are the best guitar teacher on you tube
That is the sweetest Mallory! Thank you so much.
I have that exact guitar with the same wear pattern xD
It sounds amazing!
Thanks for the vid
Thanks for the vedio... Now i know the diff between majar and minor..
Thanks this video is very helpful
Oh...my...god...helpful. Thanks, this demystified some of the stuff that I ought to know. many thanks.
+Court Marr
You are so welcome Court Mar! e:)
1:18 is actually sol la si do re mi fa# sol (for any beginner that got confused)
Excellent course and video. Tks!
Kind words! Thank you so much my friend.
YourGuitarSage Well, thats it. I pronounce you officialy my new guitar teacher for the weeks ahead. Thanks for your work and dedication, your teaching style suits me perfectly. Keep up that way!
You sure are a good teacher eric. Thank you.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
This was excellent. You're a great teacher, glad I subscribed.
Thank you!
" and basically a 9 is a 2.." Well that makes perfect sense cheers for that 👍
there are 8 notes in a major scale , and when you get to 8 you repeat the scale going up in octaves. so the 2nd note of the major scale is the 9th. the 9 th is an octave higher than the 2nd. i'm just starting guitar but this makes a lot more sense on piano.
Thank you very much for this awesome video!! I just clicked on the importance of scales :)
awesome, thank you
You're so welcome Richard:-)
My guitar teach called the E7#9 chord the dance chord lol. I agree
This guy looks and sounds like he could be Ted Mosby's older brother.
Ben Affleck; Ted Mosby's big bro XD
Ryan Reynolds long lost brother.
Gongasoso like Ryan Reynolds, Ben affleck and Dane cook all in one person.
Gongasoso and Ricky Martin too
Or Paul Rudd.
I think you like cats wayyy more than the rest of us here on youtube lol
Yeah, have you taken a poll?
+yourguitarsage I think you are just sick of teaching kids lol.....adult kids included. Glad you found a more expansive way to get what you know out there.....kudos
+Michael C ;). Thanks Michael.
Late reply but im pretty sure he was referencing the really old youtube with the cat video fase
what beautiful guitar!!
You're such an amazing help! And that Hendrix chord didn't sound poopy at all. Thank you so much. :D
Thanks Sky!
Agreed.... The Hendrix stuff didn't sound poopy. I've been an acoustic guitarist for 50+ years. It sounds great.
The reason I'm watching your lessons is that I"m teaching some friends guitar. I've taught myself guitar for years, so so much of this is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, to me. But teaching some friends, it's not obvious to them.... You're a great teacher. Thanks for posting these. (Oh, I will be referring people to your site).
Cool tie dude
can you please keep a tutorial on cycling trivialities by José Gonzalez...
I will put it on the list my friend.
Great lesson, thank you!
+Jonas G Hedberg
You are so welcome Jonas! e:)
couldn't find the "do re mi fa sol la si do" practice thing you mentioned in your video .. you said it was in your blog 1:24
Erich- thanks for your videos. I’m half way thru one of your books as well and really enjoying it.
I like how you switch to the paired relative scale. Here’s my question, when you did that switch wouldn’t you start the scale on your pinky? I don’t know if modes apply to pentatonic scales otherwise wouldn’t you be doing the scale in a different mode. Hopefully the question isn’t too confusing. Thanks.
Jay, some of what you say here sounds like you're on the right page. Yes, you do play the scale differently. Here on RUclips search, "your guitar sage pentatonic" for more details.
I used to think your channel name was your guitars age... hahahahaha i feel so stupid
+Eileentjuh123
You are not the only one :) So don't feel stupid. e:)
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Lmao
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Sir! Thank you again for these great lessons! My question would be...where can I can find the video where you explain the various modes..how to play them on the guitar..is it on your website...you got two websites and there is a ton of good material there..but I don't know where to find it!?! THX again:)
Awesome video. I have a probably ignorant question. In some countries’ music theory Do Re Mi Fa … is C, D, E F etc. but I’ve seen several Americans saying it’s G,A,B etc i.e. the G major instead of the C major. Any idea why?
It’s the next most popular scale, but that same sequence applies to every scale.👍
@@yourguitarsage thanks
this is the best!!!!!!
Thanks Boss! A great refresher.
+Justin Juknelis
Thanks! e:)
Hey Eric, I purchased your course on udemy last week and have been working through it, but in the last lecture I watched(introduction to metronome) you talk about knowing scales yet there are no videos before that on how to learn the scales. Are the scales part of another course? I only started playing a few weeks ago and everyone says the scales are the best thing to practice.
well I am an idiot... I knew this about guitar cause I started old enough to be able to rationalize. however you reminded me that however how good you are at sth there is not fast learning for anything new thank you
cheers
🙌
Mkay
Erich, you just save my life kkkkkk, say hello to Brasil! tks
+Heitor Americano Godoy De Freitas Ramos Obrigadp Heitor! e:)
Ty :)
Hey Erich, can you make a video of how to play "White Blank Page" or "The Cave" by Mumford & Sons?
+Thomas Roche It will go on "The List" ! e:)
Very straight forward presentation. One of the best I have found for ages.
series of takamine? thanks!
fred board details plz with graf
how do I make anything bellow third fret a major scale. (g for example0
great man!
Dude, your Richard Dreyfus impersonation is right on the money.
Hey erich, Im learning the c major scale and I noticed there are fret board diagrams with a few discrepancies between them. I learned the one where the first 4 shapes are spread across 4 frets and the fifth shape is spread across 5 frets. Are these the correct shapes?
Probably so. How do they sound? Many ways to play a scale.
Erich is easy to understand and goes slowly which is great for beginners I'm signed up with this dude
Thank you Bob👍
Thanks for the info.! ;-)
+arbaaz attar You are welcome Arbaaz! e:)
Good!!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
wow the box startled me lol
Love your videos! Learning a ton! Skipping all the funny kitty videos for yours lol.
Good stuff
I just realised who you remind me so much of. Ryan Reynolds 😂
I’ve been playing for a long time using tabs !! Wanted to lear scale , fretboard , chords !! I’ve never been confused!! I don’t understand anything 😂😂😂
Hurry up man! I gotta get back to the funny cats! LOL Just pickin'. Get it? Hoo Hoo! I'm too much.
Great video. Thanks!
😜🙏
Wish You had spent more time talking about the 9-sharp (9# ?). Thank You anyway.
I need lessons as all this theory confuses the hell out of me.".........
+Tom Shinji
They are all free. I have over 1000 vids. Let me know how you are doing. e:)
+yourguitarsage Uuuuuugh minor keys, im glad I took music theory last year in school while they had it at lest I know what you are saying but minor keys were the bane of that class! I have not committed the time yet to checking out your website yet. As a quick question I am lost on where to go on. Since August I have been teaching myself guitar and it has been going well. I can play a simple version of Canon in D and More than Words by Extreme. I know all my major chords and minors. I know A couple of 7's which I like to barr (I dont really care much for voicing as long as I get the chord like I'll use Am barred for trickey ones that I can't play open.) I know this one jazzy chord I dont know its name but in open its (6-1) e-a-e-g#-c#-e which I just move around based on scale degree for some simple jazzy sounds. My big question is where to progress to in my learning. Also I see you wrote a book about mastering the guitar and where that was available and what your course is like/ how much does it cost.
Whenever I practice anything whether it be chords or scales and be mindful of playing on my fingertips as taught I noticed that my pinkie won't go straight down but tends to roll outwards. Is this normal and something I just need to keep practicing at or is this just how some players play? Even when I physically try to correct it, it still fights me and stays rolled out so that instead of being hitting the string straight on my pinkie hits the string on its side.
Wow!
Good wow? Or wow, you suck bad? ;)
Definitely a wonderful Wow! You made it very easy for me to understand about the major and the pentatonic scales. Thank you sir! BTW, I am a guitar player by hobby.
+gingerbread123456 Thanks Gingerbread! e
When you say "Minor scale" are you just lowering the third? The Mi?
A minor scale is just the major scale for that same root note (ex: A major to A minor) where the third, sixth and seventh notes are lowered by a half-step, also called a semi tone. So if A Major is: A B C# D E F# G# A and then so on, then A minor would be: A B C D E F G A.
+Robert Schenck The reason I was confused is because there are multiple minor scales. the one you just explained is the Natural Minor.
Please put a pickguard on that Taylor!
Pentatonic!
hey erich, ive been playing for some years now by myself and watching some of your videos, im having trouble using my pinky and ring finger in independent ways, is there an exercise for training them separetely? every time im using my pinky while improvising the ring finger gets in the way. ps: sorry my english sucks haha
+yourguitarsage whoops that links to yourguutarSTAGE
+Cruz Three Sorry! www.yourguitarsage.com
I'm confused... another youtuber taught the pentatonic as open e, 3,5,6,7 on the first string then 5,7 on second and 5,7,9 on third. Then 7,9 on fourth. Then 8,10,12 on fifth and finally 10,12 on the sixth (high e)... I May have said the string names opposite.... as high e is first and low e is sixth? 😅
We could be in different keys
Just a tip, use a guitar with fret markers for the viewers
Fret markers will make you go blind...
I have feet markers and I have litterly never used them.
I'm curious, is that because one relies on them too much?
That guitar sounds way better than the jumbo,,, it could just be new strings but I don't think so.
Is that a Takamine?
Thanks Jay! Yes it is. It might be new strings, because next to the jumbo body in my studio, there is no comparison.
YourGuitarSage it really sounds good, every note tone and interval seem to ring out but not like a piano as my Tinker does,,,, I like both but your D28 is the very best
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Is it possible to learn how to play guitar simply by watching guitar videos, in other words, free lessons? I recognize the idea that a teacher can spot flaws in playing and attempt to correct them, but don't "flaws" become an asset OR a style of playing? So...what are the advantages to having a "live" teacher?
Awesomeness!
+WORRO01
Thank you John. How's it going? e:)
+yourguitarsage going good bro, thanks! Hope all is well your way!
+WORRO01 Thank you John...I just keep rockin e:)
Always good hearing from you!!!
For me, the hard part is not understanding the theory, but rather knowing where on the neck the G notes or the A notes og E notes etc are :| cant really find anywhere online that explains and shows it in a good way either.. sigh
+Are Tobias Olsen Hi Are Tibias, Have you checked out my books? e:)
Nah but after watching the video and read a forum post it made alot of sense!
+Are Tobias Olsen yeay! I have that video for free here: www.yourguitarsage.com/free-ugs-membership it's probably the 3rd or 4th in.
Thanks and where are you located?
You are so welcome my friend. I am located in Nashville Tennessee.
is anyone using 432hz tuning ? i will not use anything else....