The Secret Scale of Melodic Rock Solos
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In this live stream we explore a hybrid scale that is used to create melodic solos.
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Great, now everyone knows. Dude, the first rule of secret scales is...We don’t talk about secret scales!
The first rule of Fight Club........
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Think you can make a more advanced tutorial for the 7 string in different tunings?
I down tune my G to F# and my high E to D, but sometimes I leave the E alone. I also use the normal tuning with the low B tuned to A or low E and low B down tuned to A# and D#. Sometimes I try to exaggerate the lower notes my down tuning them by about 5 notes.
You’re a great musician. Have you ever written original music?
I bought your book 5 minutes ago and 5 minutes in i jumped out my chair and found exactly what I was looking for the last 6 hours. WELL WORTH IT. IF UR ON THE FENCE BUY IT NOWWWWWW!!
@@onlyonecannoli3952 Sad. Lol.
@@onlyonecannoli3952 Shut up. Lol.
What were you looking for if I may ask?
Pentatonic with the added 2. Hey Rick, you're my hero.
YOU are a hero yourself dude. Love the mashups and your skill is off the chart.
Dont wanna be the...but... added 9...yeah.
I don't play guitar as.much these days, mostly bass. 2a and 9s are what I seem to use most for fills.
Doesn't the minor pentatonic already have the 2?
@@BrunoNeureiter 1,3,4,5,7 are notes of pentatonic aren't they?
I'm a composer/lyricist in Queensland, Australia and I'm becoming semi-addicted to your videos, particularly on subjects I know nothing about or genres I have never really been interested in (like the Miles Davis one you did recently). I suppose I started watching your vids about a year ago and they are usually thought provoking, entertaining and particularly informative. Kudos to you and as always I look forward to what you put up next.
Me too!! Amazing content.
I am also a Queenslander. Lifelong guitar hack, never to become an accomplished musician but lover of music theory and how it lays out on the guitar fretboard. Rick is the only person I have found on the net with such a depth of knowledge that can express it in interesting ways with semantic links to music history.
@@age-hall well said. He is pretty amazing. His story is incredible as well. How failure has been the catalyst to bring him to the place where he is today. His career path, the changes he was forced to endure and how that parlayed into the huge inspiration and teacher that he is today. What a great personality as well. I love his work.
i was a Qlder but now live overseas. I wish I'd seen these videos 40 yrs ago
Sitting here in Western Australia and loving the content Rick puts out.
I’ve been here for hours. I know nothing about guitars, have no musical inclination, can’t understand what he’s talking about, but I love the music.
That is so cool and says a lot about his channel
Should buy a guitar so u can be like the rest of us who dont understand what he's talking bout...
Me too...haha
Hey Mr. Beato, I was wondering if you could do She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult for your next “What makes this song great”. It would be much appreciated, but if not understandable. Have a great day.
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I don't understand any of this, but I've watched lots of RB and am often mesmerized. Thank you.
Step 1. Play a chord
Step 2. Diddle around with the notes in the chord
Step 3. Remember that we aren't as good as Rick 😭
@@ralelunar thanks for the belly laugh and snot bubbles! You Rule
Hahaha!! That’s me!! I understand 10% of what’s he’s saying, but it’s so interesting!!
@@doughoughton5952 It’s definitely not nonsense. If you want to develop a vocabulary that you can spontaneously use to play and improvise in the moment, then you need the basic fundamental knowledge to do that.
@@doughoughton5952 fretting over nonsense is the ironic point. Do you wake up every day just to pee on your Cheerios? Rick just cuts heads in the best video. You go pshaw. Loser.
Been watching you for a while now, Rick. I Understand about 1/4 of what you say for the most part. Started taking lessons to learn theory recently. Found out he uses the Beato book for reference 90% of the time...
I can now at least keep up with what you're talking about and I'm freaking excited haha! Thanks for all that you do for the music community!
I've actually been thinking about taking some lessons to learn theory. I've been playing for 32 years, and I've realized that the main reason I've never been as good as I feel like I could be is because I never bothered learning any theory. And any time I've tried to pick up a book and learn it on my own, I become bored and frustrated in about five minutes. So has it helped you out a lot or what ?
@@winstonsmith993 its only been a few sessions so far and I've already made a Lot of progress. If you have the money, I'd say give it a shot. To me, it's definitely worth it.
@@sirstashalot7441 thanks.
Well Rick! You finally did it! I’ll add you to my wife’s list of people I’m not allowed to listen to on RUclips (when she’s looking 🙄🤣) because you made me spend money! Just bought the books. You’re the man!
Oh, and I bought the ear training course. My wife would like your email address... 🤣🤣🤣 thanks Rick! You rock bro!!
You won’t regret it. Your wife may... but you will get lost in it. It is fully in depth.... 🤯
Rick you need to critique this young female artist named Grace Vanderwaal. I'm 57, I saw this young kid, she was 12 on AGT blow everyone away because at 12 she wrote and performed all four songs to win the competition in 2016. What blew me away about her was how good the songs were that she wrote at 12. Since then I've only been more impressed by this kid who's now 17. I believe she might be the best singer/songwriter I've ever heard. I need to see a professional breakdown her writing and analyze how this young kid was able to achieve this ability to write such quality and unique songs at 12. I need someone to either confirm my belief or explain why I'm wrong about this young kid who I compare to Joni Mitchell as far as writing goes. Her voice is actually better than Joni's voice in that Joni's voice can get tiring to listen too. Grace has a voice as unique but it's smooth and never tiring. Is she a prodigy, I need to know, could you delve into her music,I think you might be impressed
Carlos Santana !!!!!! Beautifully weaves these scales into amazing sounding pieces of audio art. Just 1 of soooo many
I love Rush, because they could deliver their studio music to the concert. But I was amazed Led Zeppelin, because Jimmy could improvise.
That scale around the 20:00 mark is like pentatonic with a drop of mixolydian. I'm sure I've heard Neal Schon use this too. I look at these more in terms of the mode rather than a separate scale, adding elements of things like lydian and mixolydian around pentatonics, depending on what I'm playing. If you learn the sound and feel of the modes first, and where they sound, this help you discover new combinations and break out of the blues and major pentatonic patterns.
Agreed. I thought exactly the same thing-- it sounded absolutely mixolydian.
Great advice.
I always associate this pentatonic scale with the Beatles.
Yes you are exactly right theses guys are way over thinking it and that is not how GIT taught it.
It seems to be the notes that make up the main theme of On the Silent Wings of Freedom by Yes.
the 1-3-4-5-b7 ya here in the live intro to Bonamasa's Mountain Time
Great to see you at Nelson's channel. Let us all know if you visit Brazil some day!
For me ,your every video it's good listening lesson for my bad English
Then you should check out DEADBUG .
@@avgmaster1 ok but we're i find this deadbug
@@emilianoconti8263 here on RUclips. He has a true crime channel.
Yup ,Rick speaks very clear, and kinda a Dad style, I understand 97%he says
@@geronimodiaz2310 i understand around 80%, and for this i ask to rick if possible talking to little little little slow
Thank-you, Rick, for not using that over-processed seemingly perfect overdriven tone-less sustaining-forever guitar sound that way too many RUclips rock guitarists and guitar teachers employ. I think you know that sound I’m referring to...
Ah yes the tone of literally every single Kemper user
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Hi Rick, I'm such a fan of yours and I wish that I could chat with you even for 5 minutes and get some advice from you as a new 60 year old guitar newbie. Just bought my first guitar last week and playing as much as possible. Bought a Gretsch G2627T, in Georgia Green. Looking at a LTD Deluxe now. Want to learn this stuff as bad as anyone. Anyhow, just thought I'd share. Be well brother and I'll be purchasing your books soon.
1 2 3b 4 5 7b....dodecatonic nextime, you cant go wrong(or right) with 12 tones.
Isn't he also just adding some of the dorian to the pentatonic scale?
The Tacobellian scale smells...
Sounds like Vinnie Moore use”s that a lot .. it’s in a lot of his playing.
He does.
I think I've heard hexatonic scale in every late 80s & early 90s action drama movie background theme... Road House comes to mind :)
This has been one of the things I always like to know before I have to play a solo, whether flat 6 or the 6 fits into the harmony or not. Don't have a good enough ear yet for knowing before I hear it haha
Although a very good example of a hexatonic scale, a hexatonic scale could be any two triads combined to form a scale, just so long as they don't contain the same notes. I have to admit that I really like this example though. Thanks for the lesson.
This is another goldmine. Thank you so much for posting this.
I picked up on that the other day... hexatonic. Very pleasing to the ear.
Great content as always!
Oh man. I was like, what do you wanna bet it’s hexatonic? I remember learning about that scale when learning an Eric Johnson song. So good.
Why are all the songs I record straight out of my head exactly always in some weird minor scale? Or something.. need to learn them. Its never the regular G,Em,D,C sorta thing.. is that a usual thing for people?
Also, when soloing, try thinking of what you want to say to someone, or the world, and say it with the notes, as you would with your lips, its very therapeutic.. and surprisingly melodic every time.
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Vito Bratta from White Lion has some awesome melodic solos.
A shame Vitto doesn’t even play guitar at all anymore. Eddie Trunk interviewed him here on u tube and Vitto hasn’t touched a guitar in many many years. Sad
Beato is the Bach of RUclips.
A great teacher and masterful player/composer
In the early 90’s I played rhythm guitar (poorly) in a band. Lead guitarist was sick one night and this amazing player filled in for him. He was so good and I was in awe just watching him play trying not to ruin anything. At the end of the night I asked him “When you play, do you see notes or tones on the fretboard?” He thought about it for a minute and said “Tones”. I thought that was interesting because my brain always focused on the theory and “technical” side of things and just fretted where I was “supposed to”. Still do to this day and really feel like I’m missing something.
Play with emotion And this will improve. The theory can make you a robot 😂
@@Unsanemetalhead saying theory makes you like a robot is the equivalent of saying, you don't need to know how to read to be an author. Theory is a guide and most professional musicians know a and use it.
@@JJDon5150 I don't think it's entirely wrong to extend that analogy and say that obsessing too much over grammar and syntax can limit your thinking and distract you from focusing on your narrative as an author.
This the reason people get locked in the box you have freedom of the guitar all of the guitar makes sound so why not play it. I like freedom lol. Don’t be scared just play !!!!!!😎
@@bakarenibsheut12 That analogy falls apart when you consider that literally every other instrument besides the guitar requires you to learn music theory in order to play it. Consider an upright bass or saxophone for instance. There are no frets on those instruments, so you have to know how to form a scale or mode in order to play with others.
Just learned this recently, what a revelation. Avoid the 4th in the major scale, avoid the 6th in the minor scale, and you've got your hexatonic scales...follow these rules and your noodling will suddenly become a lot less cringe-worthy.
You've done wonders for my appreciation of all music. To hear you separate brad delp and vocals from Kansas, woah. BTW the best show here in the Phoenix area I ever saw was the Alan Parsons project with Kansas opening in 1995.
Should call that minor hexatonic an “aeorian “ scale since it is non-committal between aeolian and Dorian... you just omit the sixth.
Is it more useful thinking of it as pentatonic with an added second or as aeolian/Dorian with an omitted sixth?
Precisely my thoughts.
12:40 or so he addresses this
Mr Rick...please get The Book Encyclopedia of Punk by Brian Cogan and Penelope Spheeris...and delve into post punk too...Do some vids into those Genres...ya might think me. Thanks for your time.
The Pentatonic with the Major 7th(23:17) sounds a lot like Nels Cline in his solo Jazz playing....it has a ‘World’ beat sound to it...you called it Middle Eastern....I think whenever I’m sick of listening to ‘straight-up’ Western music....I gravitate to The Nels Cline 4 albums.....as I get older I need to hear something different once in a while.
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mentioned Scriabin "Prometheus" hexatonic scale. I love Scriabin, thank you for that info.
Hey Rick. I have a question. Years ago I was noodling on my acoustic, and started playing around by lifting one my fingers off the fretboard. Maybe a C chord, open, kind of "campfire" style chords (That's all I knew). I didn't know the name of the chords I was playing, such as, I played a D chord but instead of playing the second string, B, on the 3rd fret, I played the first 3 strings on the second fret. I liked the sound, so I kept playing around. No knowledge of music theory, just a basic knowledge of chords, and came up with a simple tune that I still play to this day. I experimented, not knowing the chord names I was playing, not knowing any "theory", but just went by what sounded good to me. Back to my question, the greats, Hendrix, Frampton, Allman Bros. etc. etc. etc. Do you think it was their "ear" that led them to play around and come up with "stuff" that sounded good to them? Or, did music theory and experience lead them? Or, a combination of both? How important do you think their ability to "hear" what sounded good to them was to their creative foundation? How important is "noodling"?
Hey Rick I've got an idea for what makes this song great Post toasty by Tommy bolin apparently he played that song upside down left-handed in the live version I see on RUclips All the pictures of him are playing right-handed The other thing that's incredible is how much the base leads and he plays in the background I think this song is just as good as Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird really better actually just more obscure
Another great video Rick. As someone that has watched a lot of your videos but hasn’t scoured over every minute of your online content, I’m curious as to why you seem to overlook Tom Verlaine/Television/Marquee Moon in your analysis of great guitar solos, albums, or songwriting. I was sure THIS video might finally give them some love, but no. Seems like your viewers are missing out if you keep your analysis of Television hidden from them as they were influential and groundbreaking.
Your cherry picking has reached peak flavour, Rick.
If you really want to impress, cherry pick Vivaldi.
Oh, and leave that old man rotary+reverb+echo on *very* low.
Make a video on how to read and practice Rhythm. and how to be completely rhythmically free while improvising.
If you mention Gilmour - it would be great to see your video taking apart his first solo in "Comfortably Numb" - it's so melodic, tense and perfect and the chord sequence in the background is not obvious at all. It's simple major chords obviously but to improvise or write a melody over it is somehow difficult. How on earth did he come up with that...
At 27:58 Not only can you slow the video down to pick up the lick, it's also lot's of fun listening to people talk...they sound drunk... (LOL) - But seriously, it's a great tool that I wish we had back in the day. Thanks Rick.
Hey Rick, have you produced the book as a Paperback? PDF books don't work for me and printing 700 pages on a home printer will cost a couple hundred bucks
OMG I've just realized that, for YEARS, I'd been saying "hexatonic" while actually meaning "wholetone" (which is made of 6 notes as well).
Darn.
Rick! What's your take on future of heavy metal music? In the past it was difficult to get into the "business" but once you did you were likely to sell your records in big quantities. There was money and fame incentive to devote yourself to becoming a musician. However now it's difficult to sell music. Without selling music musicians probably don't have access to the best people in the industry, to the best music engineers & producers, etc. Concerts are not as they used to be - except for a few old bands but once these last dinosaurs retire, then who is there to fill the void? Music is created from their hearts, but also in the long term it is a business that need to profitable. But without selling records it's difficult. Do you think the best music to exist ever was already created and that's all we as listeners have? Maybe you can create a movie on that?
Slowly, just by watching your videos, stuff is kinda sticking. Although I have no idea how to utilize it. Thanks for all the learnin’s!
I think of the 1, 3, 4, 5, b7 scale as Mixolydian pentatonic. Probably no rational basis for that other than the b7 but that's where my mind goes.
Melody by Resonance. I'm bored with conventional playing now I know we have to all share the same chords with variation. Playing as you did over a note, you had moments of resonance. I guess in amp talk that's saturation. So I ping a string over a fret and search the board for resonance to it and try to build a melody around it until it fades. Yet the people who may listen would only think "cool trick". My right hand is a faultless metronome, my left still searches for originality. I mean a block of wood, vibrating metal and some amplification is the same tool we all employ, so it is the mind's interpretation that sets things apart.
Rick check out" producer Sylvia Massey demonstrates snare in nuclear cooling tower" YT
Rick, can you expound further in a video on the theory posited by a producer guest you had on some weeks ago about how country music essentially become new home of rock music. That’s a cool idea that needs further explanation, no?
"....that's basically.....with an added second or ninth, right? " I have no idea but come back all the time watching this stuff.
The pentatonic You play at 22:41 is the scale of the Carnatic Raga Gambhiranata. For the Southern Indian player it is derived from the Raga Mayamalavagowla, which is a major scale with a flat second and a flat 6th. Omit these and You have the Gambhiranata. And it does sound Indian to me, even when You play it like you do. Quite astounding, which effects one can achieve by leaving out notes. Thanks for this video, Rick!
Do you know how many 7 note scales there is? I tried to count them, and i came to 123.,. so, 17x7 scales (119 scales+ 4, I missing something, dont know why...) (and then i never have to minor ters after eachother, ore 2 minor seconds
Wo, how do I miss stuff after decades. Modes I mess with. But messing with this. Just I don't know, starts pointing you new ways..... nice. I never thought added raised 4th? Not sure why. And then like that raised 6th (I think) little lick.
Doesn't Robben Ford do something similar by substituting the major 6 for the flat 7 in the minor pentatonic scale?
Please tell me what camera you guys use? Definitely looks like a Full frame by the perspective. My guess it’s a Canon or a Sony
Hey Rick, what do you think of Vai's most recent post Knappsack? Isn't just kind of unfathomably ridiculously great.
Rick, you do NOT want people slowing down your videos! Sounds like alcohol was involved ;-)
1:15 ,what patern of the Major Pentatonic does Rick use here guys? i thought ,since the root is D it should be Pattern two (of the Minor Pent), thx a lot!!!
5:53 chord sounds great, what is that called? thats not the regular Gmajor chords but it sounds cool.
Edit: nvm i found it Gsus2.
This really is staying with me more easily on guitar now without the same amount of piano to guitar brain conversion taking me as much time as it was. 🥳
What does Rick use to create his chord tones he plays over? TIA
Not 100% sure, but I “think” it may be the Electro Harmonix Freeze pedal.
He usually has a MIDI board, but this is a EHX Freeze pedal. 100%
Y'all are overthinking this. I've seen many instructors do the same, they play one chord into a looper and then play over it.
@@WallyPeterson Absolutely, but that’s not what he’s doing here. I have both a looper and a Freeze. The looper plays back whatever you play... a strummed chord comes back as a strummed chord with a beginning a middle and an end. The Freeze plays back the sound of the chord tails AFTER the strum and holds it indefinitely at that volume until you disengage it. You cannot do that with a looper.
@@thruxtonvalrico67 yes, you can. I do it all the time. You strum the chord, THEN hit the looper, then end the loop quickly. All you get is a sustained chord.
Jut having the guitar in your hands and jamming over TV ads and incidental music ... yup:)
Can you do a video about scales over chords. I know you play a A minor pentatonic over an A chord or Am. But, you can play over other chords.
Great stuff.loved the Frampton video, what pedal are you using to play over ,some kind of looper
I’ll be honest I haven’t learnt a solo for years. I improvise over all types of songs as practice. I did recently learn the solo from “Something” for a video I have coming out soon. I also tend to improvise almost all of my solos. Sometimes I have a rough structure but the majority is improvised.
Quite the argument of semantics a ???...there are no avoid notes but play the notes that sound good....well ??? if that be the case maybe i should avoid certain notes then that dont sound good
Ok... copy. Lose the 4th. Totally helps clean things up! Right on Rick!
Never knew you could slow down youtube... Watch at half speed... Funniest thing ever!
Holy crap.
Play this video half speed if ya wanna see Rick really drunk.
Listening to the dialogue at half speed on the RUclips speed control is kinda hilarious, like a slomo scene from Fear and Loathing.
i am trying to understand music theory. can anyone help with this question? the song Rapture by Blondie, the vocal melody always sound so cool to me, so im thinking it must not be just a straight major or minor notes that she is singing... the song is in e minor, but she sings a g sharp note. would that make it some kind of mode? also she starts singing with a B note, which is the 5th of e. does that help make the melody sound "haunting", like it does? if not, what is it about the vocal melody over the chords the bass and guitar play that make it sound "haunting".... any thoughts would be appreciated
Any News On Your Signature Gibson Guitar Rick???
Rick, if Gibson produces your signature guitar, will they be able to get it into stores with our their supply chain issues?
I noticed Pat Simmons solo in "Another Park, Another Sunday" mixes use of the pentatonic and diatonic scales. Thanks for the affirmation!
Rick needs to go over the Guitar Solo on the long version of Funkadelics Knee Deep (15:29 min).
The solo is from 7:05 to 9:50.
Finally came off my tight wallet and picked up the RB Bundle!
Hello, Rick, please tell me what the pedal you useto freeze the chord sound?)
Would love a dimebag solo breakdown
True hexatonic scales are a Renaissance/solfege born idea and is really complicated.
Damn I want that pedal whatever it is...Sounds epic!
Most of us remember out teachers as Mr.?? not hey Steve hows it going
Wow man this was super insightful! This one you went down the rabbit hole deep!
I just realized that Annie Lennox used those scales.
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OK, there's a new one on me: "safe" notes. I love that move you did at 21:17.
Nice guitar 🎸 Rick. Thanks for the food
hexatonic scale is the sound of the Allman Bros.
Could you review the top chats again?
We always call other 5 note scales - non-traditional pentatonic
Hey that’s how I’ve been cheating for years
I have the 3rd version of your book, how do I upgrade to 4
Rick, how about a Shawn Lane segment?
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Is this the India intro to bonamassa's Mountain Time?
It would be fun to see you do a video from Norman's.
I know this as the irish scale, avoiding the 6.