I’ve been blowing through videos for 2 weeks looking for someone to simply show me my STARTING point for a lead ride.Your subtracting 3 is what I’ve been searching for. Thank you for Not assuming people know those lil things. Very much appreciated!!! Needless to say, SUBSCRIBED!!!
Im so glad that these videos helped! Its a good feeling to share the stuff that people showed me or i had to figure out by trial and error. Thanks for subcribing! -Sparky
The "subtract 3" thing is just a simple way to explain Relative Minor. Basically, C major and A minor are relative to each other - they contain the same notes. The 6th note of any major scale is the relative major. Going down from the first note on the E string, that ends up being 3 frets down since that's the lower octave of the maj6th interval.
I learned guitar through piano books. As a child I took piano lessons and a lot of my lesson books would show how the guitar chords were fingered. Coupling that with read reading the actual notes led me to my own sort of picking transitions from one chord to another then figuring out double stops by way of a passing chord opened up some things for me as well as figuring out that while say the piano runs a progression at c,b,am,g,f,am,g...on the guitar I might ride that c a bit longer instead of playing that b chord. And play it as c,g,am,c,f,am,g kinda mixing alternate picking and strumming.
Awesome video - thanks for stopping around 8 min and breaking down how you played those big chord shapes on only the b and high e string. I always see people do it and now I get it!
Man just love the substraction method techniques substracting 3 step downward to minor pentatonic and replacing it with Flat major from the major root was very helpful brother 💙 from Nepal.
You are an amazing teacher, you are on to the point, precise and a lot of quality , i have learnt a lot from this video, thank you so much dude. you deserve a lot more audience
Hey Sparky ! Thank you for that lesson. I appreciate your simplicity, honesty and willingness to teach. Your a good teacher. I have now subscibed to your channel. looking forward to more videos from you. Thank you again. Love from Mumbai.
Sparky, May an old keyboard player who doubles on guitar jump in for a minute? The good stuff you share just past 11:00 about A minor being the RELATIVE MINOR of C Major? ..same key signature and all? (some Music Theory nerd VOCABULARY, there :-) Truth is: Not just scalar-type licks, but a WHOLE BUNCHA Blues-y and Minor Rock licks in Am sound Major & Country-fied in C. Not quite 100%...but a lot! Thanks for your time! Great lesson!
*#LightbulbMoment* Never understood how the bending up/down into the lead worked. Never had instruction. Now I know why it does.Thank You! Subscribed. Best Regards and Best Wishes!
What’s that pentatonic scale that everybody’s supposed to know?🙈 Found the beginning of the video very helpful but then struggled to keep up..🙈 maybe my levels not high enough but also it would’ve been helpful to see the notes and scales visualised till end of Video not only in the beginning. Found them really helpful!! You have a great vibe and this kinda made my day :D Hoping I’ll improve, come back to this video and then understand/can follow fully.. xxxx thank you!!!
Great video Sparky! Love the explanation of how to work licks in from chord shapes👌I’m a hands on visual kinda guy, so your walk through helps immensely...for me. More of these types of lessons would be awesome!! Thanks
Your really good and will have many more followers soon I’m sure!! Keep on doing the animated visualisations of chords, scales,notes so beginners can follow (I can’t follow Spurbahnen so quickly)
Yea the mic that I was using wasn't the best. I didn't realize how bad it sounded until I finished recording the video. If anyone can recommend a good lapel mic I would definitely appreciate it.
I was looking for this type of guitar lessons, thanks ♥️ Can somebody tell me what song was played at the beginning of the video and at the end please!? Coz I am from faraway land and I really love to listen to those music please 🙏💕
THANKS for naming the key first thing! so many teachers on the tube just say start with this fret or put your finger here or there.
That's a pretty important thing to mention!
Very true!
Best video I've found yet about how to sound country. Appreciate it.
Awesome! Glad this video helped.
Great way teach it cheers
Thanks for watching!
I’ve been blowing through videos for 2 weeks looking for someone to simply show me my STARTING point for a lead ride.Your subtracting 3 is what I’ve been searching for.
Thank you for Not assuming people know those lil things.
Very much appreciated!!!
Needless to say, SUBSCRIBED!!!
Im so glad that these videos helped! Its a good feeling to share the stuff that people showed me or i had to figure out by trial and error. Thanks for subcribing! -Sparky
The "subtract 3" thing is just a simple way to explain Relative Minor. Basically, C major and A minor are relative to each other - they contain the same notes. The 6th note of any major scale is the relative major. Going down from the first note on the E string, that ends up being 3 frets down since that's the lower octave of the maj6th interval.
I learned guitar through piano books. As a child I took piano lessons and a lot of my lesson books would show how the guitar chords were fingered. Coupling that with read reading the actual notes led me to my own sort of picking transitions from one chord to another then figuring out double stops by way of a passing chord opened up some things for me as well as figuring out that while say the piano runs a progression at c,b,am,g,f,am,g...on the guitar I might ride that c a bit longer instead of playing that b chord. And play it as c,g,am,c,f,am,g kinda mixing alternate picking and strumming.
This is the best video I found to teach me some gaps in my knowledge! I like the way you teach!🎸🎶😎
I'm Korean but i wanna play country music. So it is very useful for me.I appreciate for your teaching.😅
Very cool man. I’ve been playing for 50 years and I learnt something. Great video.
Awesome video - thanks for stopping around 8 min and breaking down how you played those big chord shapes on only the b and high e string. I always see people do it and now I get it!
Awesome! Glad the video helped!
It was great…..that unlocked it.
Oh my gosh! So much info in such a short time! This is gold!!!
Thank you for watching!
Hahaha... been playing guitar (self taught) over 40 years and finally found some tips on country lead guitar. Great and easy to follow along. 👍👍👍
Glad to help! Country licks are so much fun to play
Some great tips.....So that last one, play the relative minor Pentatonic for the particular Major Chord....plus b7.
Thank you for the clarified explanation. I like how well you break down what you are doing.
Thank you for watching.
This lesson is fantastic. I’m loving the country sound and your tips are perfect for the next step in my playing!
The flat 7 is from modal mixture borrowing from the 5th mode mixolydian, this might be helpful to think about for some
Beautiful Ax, great vid Ty 👍🏼
That's "Shelly the Tele" and I love it! Thanks!
Finally i understood the caged system...thanks man..
Oh cool! Yes, its good to know how to actually apply the CAGED system. THanks for watching.
Thank you so much for this lesson
Youre welcome, thanks for watching!
Dude thanks! You did a great job of breaking these concepts down into logical bite sized pieces
Glad this helped! Cheers!
Good lesson dude
Man just love the substraction method techniques substracting 3 step downward to minor pentatonic and replacing it with Flat major from the major root was very helpful brother 💙 from Nepal.
Jared, Glad that helped. Took me a long time to figure out thru trial and error. Cheers!
Well explained...you speak slowly and properly that I can understand you. 👍 I am a german.
Thank you for watching Siggi!
great teaching! less talk. direct to the point. hats off to you👌👍
Thank you so much!
B flat!! Thank u!
Thank you! This was eye opening! Fretboard makes more sense. Even a 44 year old can pick up some tricks!
Glad to help in some way to add to your bag of tricks! Thanks for watching.
This is GREAT really helped me keep going man!!
Im really glad this lesson helped. Keep it up! Dont stop rockin
Thanks for this man!
I'm not a country guy but im getting some country gigs and this is gonna help alot!
Dude you just cleared up a bunch of s*** for me that I kind of already knew. It's all clear to me now thank you thank you! I'm in!
You are an amazing teacher, you are on to the point, precise and a lot of quality , i have learnt a lot from this video, thank you so much dude. you deserve a lot more audience
I appreciate it! Please share and spread the word if you can.
Gorgeous colour on that Tele man. 👌
Oh hell yea it is
Thank you! Shell pink is super cool and like some kind of 50s retro vibe.
Excellent explanation. Thank you for sharing a nice video on guitar.
My pleasure thank you
Thanks Sparky, I am in the process of learning to play . I learned a lot today.
Thank you Jackie! Keep it up
New Sub. Your ability to articulate what your doin and why is what I needed to get unstuck in my ways. TY.
Great thank you Harley
THANKS GREAT
Awesome stuff Sparky! Get you playing from zero to hero in no time 😂😮❤. Thanks so much mucho man for sharing your knowledge man 🎉
Hey Sparky ! Thank you for that lesson. I appreciate your simplicity, honesty and willingness to teach. Your a good teacher. I have now subscibed to your channel. looking forward to more videos from you. Thank you again. Love from Mumbai.
Thank you for subscribing!
You explained it brillant 💯 Thank you so much and best wishes from Ansbach Germany 💖 🎸 Sammy
Fantastic Mr Sparky! Brilliant lesson!
What a great lesson, that has opened a few doors 😊
Cool Man hey Sparky Love your music I get to see you at Katies Bar in Baycliff TX. Cool to see you have lessons on the Tube
Nice lesson
There's nothing like the sound of a Tele twangin.
I might need to get one
Sparky, May an old keyboard player who doubles on guitar jump in for a minute? The good stuff you share just past 11:00 about A minor being the RELATIVE MINOR of C Major? ..same key signature and all? (some Music Theory nerd VOCABULARY, there :-) Truth is: Not just scalar-type licks, but a WHOLE BUNCHA Blues-y and Minor Rock licks in Am sound Major & Country-fied in C. Not quite 100%...but a lot! Thanks for your time! Great lesson!
Great lesson on Country licks
Thank you so much, excellent explanation, very helpful
Glad to help! Thank you
I LOVE this video...this was just what I was looking for
Perfect thanks!
This lesson helped a lot thank you for doing this!
Thanks for watching! Glad to help
Thanks for making this video
My pleasure Russ!
Love the color of your tele!!! I want one like that but relic style. Great lesson I am about to try and create a Country Lead vid too.
Gotta love Shell Pink! Thank you
*#LightbulbMoment* Never understood how the bending up/down into the lead worked. Never had instruction. Now I know why it does.Thank You! Subscribed. Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
perfect thanks!
What’s that pentatonic scale that everybody’s supposed to know?🙈
Found the beginning of the video very helpful but then struggled to keep up..🙈 maybe my levels not high enough but also it would’ve been helpful to see the notes and scales visualised till end of Video not only in the beginning. Found them really helpful!!
You have a great vibe and this kinda made my day :D
Hoping I’ll improve, come back to this video and then understand/can follow fully..
xxxx thank you!!!
great lesson, thank you
Thank you!
Best explanation.. thanks buddy🤗
Thanks for watching!
Can you give some ideas on how to play along with a country backing track?
Awesome job
Thanks Pedro
Fine lesson Sparky!
Nice lesson u have really helped understand one thing here
Outstanding lesson. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
Happy to help! Thank you!
Enjoyed that, especially spanking strings😉
Thank you sir, great help!
Excellent! Thanks 👏🏼👏🏼🎼
OK nice tutorial, I get it to unlock country music stick in a B flat.
Great lesson! Thanks!
Thanks, Sparky.
Thanks for the awesome lesson! Helped me out.
Thank you for watching Brandon!
Gonna try this!
Great video Sparky! Love the explanation of how to work licks in from chord shapes👌I’m a hands on visual kinda guy, so your walk through helps immensely...for me. More of these types of lessons would be awesome!! Thanks
Awesome, thank you! Happy that it helps!!!
awesome video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this lesson, that was awesome..
Thank you!
Great video. Inspiring.
Great Lesson, really helpful!
Great lesson. Thanks very much.
Great lesson - thanks
Great Guitar!! Just what I needed!!!!
Your really good and will have many more followers soon I’m sure!! Keep on doing the animated visualisations of chords, scales,notes so beginners can follow (I can’t follow Spurbahnen so quickly)
Thank you so much, will do!
Great stuff!!
Great video.
You know what that means?
YOU GOT YOURSELF ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER!
Thanks, Very Helpful!
Cool name & good taste in cartoons, dang oh derr!
I finally understood everything now. Great tutorial!
Awesome! Glad you got something out of it. Took me forever to figure this stuff out trial and error.
Thank you so much..
Nice teaching!
Can you go into a little more detail on the plucking at 5:17 part of the lesson?
I heard “lean on me” in that C maj scale for some reason lol
Absolutely, awesome lesson! Keep up the good work.
Will do thank you!
Wonderful lesson. Thanks man. Curious why the mic sounds like it’s on vhs tape when you’re speaking though.
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Yea the mic that I was using wasn't the best. I didn't realize how bad it sounded until I finished recording the video. If anyone can recommend a good lapel mic I would definitely appreciate it.
Great video Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
Good video ,Thanks
where the heck did you get that awesome pink telecaster !
Fullers Guitar in Houston TX! Best guitar shop in the world!
@@sparkysguitarlessons8589 looks like a custom shop the neck
This was soooo helpful! Thank you sir!
Wow this is good
is that shell pink? it looks great!
Good lesson
Very helpful
Good lesson dude! Thank you. 🇨🇦👍🎸😎.
Love your videos. Any chance you could do a lesson for a Turnpike song like maybe Every Girl? Would really appreciate it
Thanks. How do you get your country sound? What pickup, amp, processing if any, etc? Thanks.
Great .. 🎉tq sir
the CAGED system iv never learned but i think i have a idea now thank you ....subtract 3 Hummmm
I was looking for this type of guitar lessons, thanks ♥️
Can somebody tell me what song was played at the beginning of the video and at the end please!? Coz I am from faraway land and I really love to listen to those music please 🙏💕
Hey the song at the beginning is called "8 Days in the Doghouse" from my album In the Dark. You can find it on any streaming music platform. Thanks!
@@sparkysguitarlessons8589 thank you sir 💕