Dont scare yourself away...its really very simple if you know a couple of pentatonic shapes. Go watch the 'stitch method' video for a simpler breakdown.
@@jimmrockford9407 especially if you learn your minor and major arpeggios. Hell add in some dominant arpeggios while you’re at it. It’s almost easier to learn Dorian rather than your basic minor shapes, just so your not stuck trying to add the notes later.
Can you imagine if back in the day, Jimmy Page just randomly gave lessons to the entire planet!? As if this mans music wasn’t enough of a gift, he takes the time to teach us. I truly benefit from his vids. Thanks John
Very few star musicians take the time to teach people how it's done. It's very cool of John to do this for people. There's no money in for him; it's just a courtesy to musicians.
@@hawaiirealmedia5610 Agree! That’s what makes him a truly great musician. His passion for sharing his craft. I am a chef by trade and teach people all the time. For nothing. Anyone who wants advice can call me anytime and I’ll tell them how to make something
“Think of C as the equator”. Genius way to look at it. This guy is the real deal. I teach at Berklee. He sat in to one of my classes a few years ago and blew the kids ( and me) off the planet!
ALL HAIL JON FINN! Your book "Advanced Modern Rock Improvisation" is (in my humble opinion) one the most creative perspectives on the pentatonic scale. It changed my playing and I teach it to my students. Many thanks!
@Ron G exactly. They shred. That’s it. Musically if you look at the progression it isn’t really that impressive. Hence why John Mayer have had more hits than what for instance Eric Johnson had.
This guy could smash pans together while falling down a flight of stairs and still make better music than most. Btw, the 2 downvotes are from two guys in Fender's Custom Shop.
LMFAO. I think the CS builders have no dog in this 'fight'. More likely the corporate Fender Bigwigs..and who knows? John is an amazing player / musician but maybe he's total prick behind the scenes. Seen that MANY times with celebs...MERE CONJECTURE AND WHAT IF on my part: in all likelihood Mayer is a sweet prince of a man.
How generous is John Mayer to give his time like this! Platinum hearted advice and golden nuggets of mastery. Brilliant. As Eric Clapton said, "John has no idea just how good he really is."
Wouldn't have understood what JM's talking about last year... but love the point I'm at when the dots all start to connect up & down the neck. Just mind-expanding & satisfying to begin to really understand how it all works together. Almost like walking through a jungle thinking you'd never see the light of day & finally stepping into an open field of sunshine. Ahhhhh - makes it all worthwhile. What a great explanation by JM. Next thing is to work on the muscle memory to be able to use it well. Most peoples fingers don't naturally work together like that. (thats where the real work comes in).
Amazing John , I’ve been a fan for the longest time thank you so much for the lesson . Keep it up and your my idol when it comes to guitar playing. Keepsafe always
It's uber cool and classy he does these insightful tutorials. Thanks for being a down-to-earth person who wants to genuinely help others with your talent.
Hey John, this was really eye opening. I kind of mentally see these shapes in my head when I'm playing but I never connected them together in such a way. Thank you very much for this insight. Your a gem brother.
Thank you mate...... super HUMBLE of you investing your personal time synergize positive vibrations with melodic lessons!!! Cheers (much MUCH APPRECIATED mate)
Wow! Speaking as a new player, I have such an appropriation for a guy of your stature and accomplishment to share your knowledge freely to help others enjoy music and advance. Thanks man!
I play blues Bass & haven't played w/the blues band I was in since March 2020. What you showed us in your video is MUSIC to my ears! Very cool lesson, John Mayer. Thank you SO much for your expert instruction!
Yes, mix minor and major in the same position, but do it in a different position than just the first position or E shape. I enjoyed listening to his playing. I just don't listen too much to what he's saying.. But that's how we learn fundamentally, watch and listen to the demonstration....
Learnt more is this 7 minutes than all them bedroom merchants on you tube cheers John you were great at MEN arena in Manchester UK couple of years back great show🤘
This proves to me John Mayer cares more about the art of guitar and people being able to learn than just benefiting on it. Blues is an art and people like him keep it alive
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. It's a trip kinda getting guitar lessons from you. I've developed my own thing on guitar, but you're someone who I feel I can incorporate ideas your putting forth that opens up what I do even more. Which is exactly what I would want, if I'd ever taken lessons. So thanks.
John you just tripled my guitar skills in 7:30 thanks. I could already good player but I’m dyslexic never put it together like that. I can’t read notes tab or watch unless backwards just patterns in my head . You freakin rock. Thanks
Holy cow! Sure its been said a million time here but THANKS!!! How decent of you to teach on this free platform. I just started playing again after 45 years. In my day, we had to turn vinyl and lift the stylus and reset to try to hear what Jimmy Page (or anyone else) was playing. Hey kids, listen up and LEARN TO PLAY!
One way I sometimes think about it, when outside the VIII position Cm pentatonic, is looking at the other side of the coin: Eb major pentatonic in V position. I always struggle having the root note on the little finger and this has helped me a lot on visualizing the fretboard. My guitar teacher, a great one at that, always tells me and his other students to study the different scale shapes both in minor and major, for any given position (e.g. ascending major, descending minor etc).
OK, I'm onto it. Great advice for all of us guitar lovers. I'll be running those minor and major pents up and down the neck, all mixed and stirred well.
Man, I just realized I know nothing about blues! Thank you John for a brilhant lesson, even if I did not get it I really appreciate your efforts and time!! Blessed is our God Who gave you such a talent!! Cheers from Brazil!
Buy a book called Blues You Can Use. Bought it over 20 years ago. It teaches all of this stuff. It’s easy to understand. You all can do it, too. Get a book. Practice.
After you learn the pentatonic positions… Then learn all your five 7th chords. M7 min7 Dominant 7 1/2 diminished 7 Diminished 7 A7 - ami7 - A7 - ami7b5 - adim7 Then learn your chord progressions in a major song which you’ve already all done… And then do it in a minor key.… You’ll discover that the II chord is always a half diminished seventh chord preceding the V chord. Ear training :-)
@@RojazzBG In the key of C, the II and V chords are Dmin7 and G7. d - f - a - c. .... g - b - d - f Please always use Roman numerals to describe music chords. It is well established and understood in jazz and rock and even country. Of course there are variations in how to spell major and minor chords, by using capital, or lower case letters for minor and diminished chord spellings. So in a major key the II, III, and IV chords are always minor seven chords with or without the seventh. Minor keys are a little bit more mysterious because of the half diminished II chord... The VII chord in a C Major key is half diminished chord, like bmi7-5. Practice this sound in different keys, is excellent ear training. I hope this helps answer your question, and thanks. PS Improvising Jazz, by Jerry Coker, is a compact bible of jazz voicing and progressions that is a priceless reference that and jazz instrumentalists are aware of since 1964. In 110 pages ... worth more than a 2 year music degree. IMHO My father as a student at Yale music school was teaching Paul Hindemith counterpoint and Harmony classes. He graduated in three years with a piano masters. I was turning pages for him when I was eight years old in 1963 and have been playing Oboe since 1965, and Guitar since 1975. My dad had thousands of song books. Fake books. Most of those fake books were just the chords and the melody. That’s all we need to get started, once learning how to spell the chords before us :-).
Thanks so much for sharing this John, awesome. Totally describes where I’m at after 40 years of playing this beautiful puzzle that’s the guitar. Can’t Waite to move forward with this approach. Thanks!
It all about the underlying chord i.e if you play under a dom7 chord, you can use both minor or major together because it has a major 3rd and and minor 7 in the chord. if you combine both these scale under say A7 only notes that technically don't fit is Bb G# and F.
JM: "Everyone thinks about pentatonic..." *unbelievable level of riffing never heard before in my life* me: "ya that's exactly what I was just thinking..."
appreciate u a lot, brotha. godspeed to u and urs this thanksgiving and holiday season. hope we cross paths and do some phatty pickin, some bright morning... ps random rec: maddox brothers & rose. discovered them recently--blown away by the raw but explosive and infectious energy
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This is how your grandma feels when you "teach" her computers.
Lol F off. I was just thinking how great this video was, so informational. Then looked at my guitar and it was all gone.
Dont scare yourself away...its really very simple if you know a couple of pentatonic shapes.
Go watch the 'stitch method' video for a simpler breakdown.
Hilarious... "Input Blank Stare Here"
@@jimmrockford9407 especially if you learn your minor and major arpeggios. Hell add in some dominant arpeggios while you’re at it. It’s almost easier to learn Dorian rather than your basic minor shapes, just so your not stuck trying to add the notes later.
@@MagicMan11130 You don't need to learn Dorian, you could just learn the major scale
Can you imagine if back in the day, Jimmy Page just randomly gave lessons to the entire planet!? As if this mans music wasn’t enough of a gift, he takes the time to teach us. I truly benefit from his vids. Thanks John
Or Jimi Hendrix giving free lessons
I agree, we owe it to the technology, internet, RUclips and all
Very few star musicians take the time to teach people how it's done. It's very cool of John to do this for people. There's no money in for him; it's just a courtesy to musicians.
@@hawaiirealmedia5610 Agree! That’s what makes him a truly great musician. His passion for sharing his craft. I am a chef by trade and teach people all the time. For nothing. Anyone who wants advice can call me anytime and I’ll tell them how to make something
@@mattelder9147 Right?! Omg
“Think of C as the equator”. Genius way to look at it. This guy is the real deal. I teach at Berklee. He sat in to one of my classes a few years ago and blew the kids ( and me) off the planet!
ALL HAIL JON FINN! Your book "Advanced Modern Rock Improvisation" is (in my humble opinion) one the most creative perspectives on the pentatonic scale. It changed my playing and I teach it to my students. Many thanks!
@@02Tango Thanks so much for the kudos man! That book is still out there even though I wrote it so many years ago! That's truly amazing! All the best!
@Ron G exactly. They shred. That’s it. Musically if you look at the progression it isn’t really that impressive. Hence why John Mayer have had more hits than what for instance Eric Johnson had.
@Ron G shred is too overated and its so boring with no soul on it
@Ron G Then why are you here while no one is watching all of those shredders besides you?
He makes just a minor pentatonic sound incredible. Tone is in the fingers. I wish I had half his musical knowledge and ability.
This guy could smash pans together while falling down a flight of stairs and still make better music than most. Btw, the 2 downvotes are from two guys in Fender's Custom Shop.
*Squire's Custom Shop FTFY ;-)
Lmao
LMFAO. I think the CS builders have no dog in this 'fight'. More likely the corporate Fender Bigwigs..and who knows? John is an amazing player / musician but maybe he's total prick behind the scenes. Seen that MANY times with celebs...MERE CONJECTURE AND WHAT IF on my part: in all likelihood Mayer is a sweet prince of a man.
He had a good Mamma.... LOL!
😂 😂 🤣 that's great
How generous is John Mayer to give his time like this! Platinum hearted advice and golden nuggets of mastery. Brilliant.
As Eric Clapton said, "John has no idea just how good he really is."
hahah.. john knows.. he's just being humble. =)
This guitar teacher can be famous someday.
LOL! He is famous already he even has more than 8 albums released.
@@john6114 Cmon man
@@MrKnowit712 lmao the disappointment
🙄 di ko alam kung sarcastic to o hindi eh. 🤣😅
@@MrKnowit712 I just replied sarcastically as well, that's double sarcasm for you , gotcha
Wouldn't have understood what JM's talking about last year... but love the point I'm at when the dots all start to connect up & down the neck. Just mind-expanding & satisfying to begin to really understand how it all works together. Almost like walking through a jungle thinking you'd never see the light of day & finally stepping into an open field of sunshine. Ahhhhh - makes it all worthwhile. What a great explanation by JM. Next thing is to work on the muscle memory to be able to use it well. Most peoples fingers don't naturally work together like that. (thats where the real work comes in).
@John Mayor HAHAHAHAHA WTF
Keep at it friend.
@@vicrattlehead8665 nah that’s the real John “MAYOR” lmao
Hellll yea dude I’m in the same place, things are finally starting to make sense
I am not sure I followed- is he saying that you fret the individual notes instead of 'barring' them with your forefinger?
It's great listening to John Mayer. This never happened 40 years ago with big artists like this. Thanks John!
I gotta say how awesome it is of John to put his theory out there. A bit like a magician explaining their tricks.
Eddie Van Halen put it like this in an early interview , “if you’ve got rhythm you clan play anything”…👍🏻✌🏻
What a blessing to have this on the interwebs. Thanks, John!
Stick with it, John. You'll get good some day. 😄
Amazing John , I’ve been a fan for the longest time thank you so much for the lesson . Keep it up and your my idol when it comes to guitar playing. Keepsafe always
Broooooo, this has unlocked so much more for me. Love that ‘equator’ system. I’m so grateful
Awsome - Thank You John for taking the time on this. Love JR london
It's uber cool and classy he does these insightful tutorials. Thanks for being a down-to-earth person who wants to genuinely help others with your talent.
It’s pretty great of you to make these videos for us. I’ve always wanted to Jam with my guitar idols and this is pretty close to it.
This above/below idea is very powerful. It's opening up new ways of fretboard movement for me. Thanks for sharing!
It is beyond words the appreciation for sharing your thoughts and ideas on playing. Makes music just a little more intimate and enjoyable.
Thank you for taking the time to post this man. Sincerely.
Gives you a different shape to work with for the same notes, allowing a different pull-off / hammer-on sequence. Nicely put John.
This video finally made it all click and has completely improved my guitar AND bass playing. Eternally grateful to JM🙏
I have to let my head wrap around all of this. Thank you.
I really appreciate you sharing this with us!
Hey John, this was really eye opening. I kind of mentally see these shapes in my head when I'm playing but I never connected them together in such a way. Thank you very much for this insight. Your a gem brother.
Thank you mate...... super HUMBLE of you investing your personal time synergize positive vibrations with melodic lessons!!!
Cheers (much MUCH APPRECIATED mate)
What a GREAT video John. Phrasing is THAT important
John thank you for the lesson. Great way to think about the pentatonic positions. Very helpful!
I love how the format is like “here’s a cool concept that pretty different. Let me show you mkk so that’s different from this mmmmk?”
Wow! Speaking as a new player, I have such an appropriation for a guy of your stature and accomplishment to share your knowledge freely to help others enjoy music and advance. Thanks man!
I play blues Bass & haven't played w/the blues band I was in since March 2020. What you showed us in your video is MUSIC to my ears! Very cool lesson, John Mayer. Thank you SO much for your expert instruction!
Wow amazing. What a gentleman to share this thoughts. Also the symmetrical thinking is great to see
This is fantastic stuff! Thank you sir!
I’ve been working on this exact thing, and this example really helped put it in perspective. Thank you!
Mr Mayer, you've forgotten more than i'll ever know!! Thanks for the lesson!!
In other words...learn your 5 pentatonic shapes
Lol 💯
I’m glad he wasn’t my teacher
I actually didn't mean to sound salty.
Nothing but respect for the guy
Exactly what I was thinking lol. But the phrasing and licks he has on the less common shapes is what makes this great
Yes, mix minor and major in the same position, but do it in a different position than just the first position or E shape. I enjoyed listening to his playing. I just don't listen too much to what he's saying.. But that's how we learn fundamentally, watch and listen to the demonstration....
Learnt more is this 7 minutes than all them bedroom merchants on you tube cheers John you were great at MEN arena in Manchester UK couple of years back great show🤘
Thanks for putting this on here. Super helpful!
This proves to me John Mayer cares more about the art of guitar and people being able to learn than just benefiting on it.
Blues is an art and people like him keep it alive
Thankyou john... Fan here from the Philippines...
God bless you!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. It's a trip kinda getting guitar lessons from you. I've developed my own thing on guitar, but you're someone who I feel I can incorporate ideas your putting forth that opens up what I do even more. Which is exactly what I would want, if I'd ever taken lessons. So thanks.
You share your gift with all of us when you don't have to. That says something good about your character. Thank you.
John Mayer, and everyone he works with are the best!
Thank you.
Been wondering where I first saw this lesson! Something I really want to try, thanks for uploading!
This was incredibly helpful man, thanks!
🤯 sometimes you overlook the "simple" things because you've just fallen into the groove of what you always play. Awesome video.
What, A guitar god is giving free lessons on the Tube! Amazing!!!! Just found John's channel from under my rock.
Thank you for making the prices of TS10s shoot through the roof!
Thank god for the JHS Bonsai
And the Marshall blues breaker pedal. Those were less the $60 not that long ago...
A delicious dish made out a couple of simple, amazing ingredients. Awesome!
The best guitar lessons you’ve never had!.
Thank you, John
Thanks so much John
Yeah, nice lessons! And it's free 😊 and oh, that tone, that reverb! 🎸👌
Thanks for your time John. I really appreciate it./Steve
John… thanks for the lesson, I am an intermediate guitar player focused on this concept right now!!!
"That's not a capo". That is the takeaway! Great tips JM.
Many many thanks for sharing with us these thoughts
Brilliant thank you 🙏 John
Thanks john! is really interesting to move shapes and create other voices while soloing.
Thanks letting us into your head John! I like how you been doin this some lately nice tension
Really fascinating how different people learn the same sort of things. Whatever method it takes to make it all click is totally cool. 👍🏻
John you just tripled my guitar skills in 7:30 thanks. I could already good player but I’m dyslexic never put it together like that. I can’t read notes tab or watch unless backwards just patterns in my head . You freakin rock. Thanks
Holy cow! Sure its been said a million time here but THANKS!!! How decent of you to teach on this free platform. I just started playing again after 45 years. In my day, we had to turn vinyl and lift the stylus and reset to try to hear what Jimmy Page (or anyone else) was playing. Hey kids, listen up and LEARN TO PLAY!
Free guitar lessons from John Mayer to help us cope with the lockdowns and the insanity we are experiencing....priceless.
One way I sometimes think about it, when outside the VIII position Cm pentatonic, is looking at the other side of the coin: Eb major pentatonic in V position. I always struggle having the root note on the little finger and this has helped me a lot on visualizing the fretboard. My guitar teacher, a great one at that, always tells me and his other students to study the different scale shapes both in minor and major, for any given position (e.g. ascending major, descending minor etc).
Amazing! Favourite this right now...!
awesome, thanks John
This dude blows my mind …the skills are incredible.
I remember when my guitar teacher showed me this years ago. great stuff
Thanks man! Good stuff !
This makes me very happy.
OK, I'm onto it. Great advice for all of us guitar lovers. I'll be running those minor and major pents up and down the neck, all mixed and stirred well.
Man, I just realized I know nothing about blues! Thank you John for a brilhant lesson, even if I did not get it I really appreciate your efforts and time!! Blessed is our God Who gave you such a talent!! Cheers from Brazil!
Buy a book called Blues You Can Use. Bought it over 20 years ago. It teaches all of this stuff. It’s easy to understand. You all can do it, too. Get a book. Practice.
Hey, got any other recommendations?
@@moulipal3468 yeah. don't cornhole your wife after a big meal
Love that book
@@ruechel i think he meant about
guita-nevermind..
@@ruechel my favorite read
Really dig your new sound, especially last train home
Thank you John! You and Eric clapton are my favorite
“That’s not a capo”, brilliant! I always tend to get stuck above “the capo”, or sometimes down to the 4th position.
Amp sounds great too! Great lesson!
Wild times we live in to have a great musician offer free help
Thanks for sharing!
Simply the best
One of the best
this is probs the best guitar soloing lesson ever. he shows how going below ground is the key
God bless you man
Always a Hoot John Boy......
I wish someone had told me this when I was 15.... lol. Great lesson!
Awesome!!
Maybe if I watch this 1000 more times I’ll be able to grasp this.
After you learn the pentatonic positions… Then learn all your five 7th chords.
M7
min7
Dominant 7
1/2 diminished 7
Diminished 7
A7 - ami7 - A7 - ami7b5 - adim7
Then learn your chord progressions in a major song which you’ve already all done… And then do it in a minor key.… You’ll discover that the II chord is always a half diminished seventh chord preceding the V chord.
Ear training :-)
What's the 2-5 in major? 🧐
@@RojazzBG
In the key of C, the II and V chords are
Dmin7 and G7.
d - f - a - c. ....
g - b - d - f
Please always use Roman numerals to describe music chords. It is well established and understood in jazz and rock and even country. Of course there are variations in how to spell major and minor chords, by using capital, or lower case letters for minor and diminished chord spellings.
So in a major key the II, III, and IV chords are always minor seven chords with or without the seventh.
Minor keys are a little bit more mysterious because of the half diminished II chord...
The VII chord in a C Major key is half diminished chord, like bmi7-5.
Practice this sound in different keys, is excellent ear training.
I hope this helps answer your question, and thanks.
PS Improvising Jazz, by Jerry Coker, is a compact bible of jazz voicing and progressions that is a priceless reference that and jazz instrumentalists are aware of since 1964. In 110 pages ... worth more than a 2 year music degree. IMHO
My father as a student at Yale music school was teaching Paul Hindemith counterpoint and Harmony classes. He graduated in three years with a piano masters. I was turning pages for him when I was eight years old in 1963 and have been playing Oboe since 1965, and Guitar since 1975. My dad had thousands of song books. Fake books. Most of those fake books were just the chords and the melody. That’s all we need to get started, once learning how to spell the chords before us :-).
@@nomorebushz homie lol... didn't wanna give it away 😄 was I supposed to go "what is the quality of the ii-V in major?" haha
jazz
I have no idea what you're talking about
Damn you are so damn good. Thanks for the lesson
Thanks so much for sharing this John, awesome. Totally describes where I’m at after 40 years of playing this beautiful puzzle that’s the guitar. Can’t Waite to move forward with this approach. Thanks!
The brain of John Mayer... I'm here for it
It all about the underlying chord i.e if you play under a dom7 chord, you can use both minor or major together because it has a major 3rd and and minor 7 in the chord. if you combine both these scale under say A7 only notes that technically don't fit is Bb G# and F.
I'm not sure why this way of looking at the fretboard never clicked with me before, but since this video I have found it indispensable.
JM: "Everyone thinks about pentatonic..."
*unbelievable level of riffing never heard before in my life*
me: "ya that's exactly what I was just thinking..."
Best thing I learned is even the great Mayer has grounding noise issues with his home rig
appreciate u a lot, brotha. godspeed to u and urs this thanksgiving and holiday season. hope we cross paths and do some phatty pickin, some bright morning...
ps random rec: maddox brothers & rose. discovered them recently--blown away by the raw but explosive and infectious energy
pentatonic is Swiss army of the scale