you guys couldnt be conducting online business in a finer manner. The more of this incredibly valuable free info I soak up the more I'm tempted to buy something just because these guys truly deserve it. It's nice to see people out there actually putting out value for the money they ask for....way more value in fact
This is a great lesson! Broken down in easy to understand terms. I just viewed the same lesson same chords by some other dude and he had so much music theory going on that I had to listen to his video like five times before I almost understood it. Looking at this once made it totally clear. Great job. Whenever I played before I was always looking to land on the note of the next chord in the progression to make it sound right but this shows you can land on a number of target notes and it sounds great.
I've been playing for 35 years (and getting paid) and my biggest growth spurt started when I found RUclips guitarist like yourselves willing to share.Guys keep up the great work. Guitar/music is food for the soul
Nice, friendly, easy-to-understand approach. I think you've addressed THE major weakness of many student rock soloists (a problem I had for years): thinking you can fly around in the scale or throw in licks in the key of the song without caring what the chord is at the moment. As you said, it's really hit-or-miss that way. Sometimes I just sit down with a fretboard diagram and draw in all the places where a particular chord can be played on the neck, then develop riffs around that chord in each of those spots on the neck. If you do this, you'll see places where you can re-use ideas. Again, really great approach and ideas. Thanks.
Chase Warner I started doing that when I decided to try to learn chord melody technique in jazz guitar. In that approach, your highest note in the chord is the melody note, and the lower notes are mostly or entirely from the chord at that spot in the song. I would look at somebody's chord melody arrangement of a jazz tune, and think, how in the heck did he come up with that? I got really confused really fast. It was totally mysterious. I used to think solos could only be either (a) totally spontaneous or (b) totally pre-planned. By developing licks around chords at different places on the neck (i.e., doing *some* planning and practice), I realized that I could be spontaneous within a somewhat planned "framework", and it would sound 1000 % better. Almost as if I knew what I was doing. :-) Best of luck, & thanks for the comment.
I like to learn as many easy ways to explain stuff to my students, and this has a couple ideas I will try.. Thanks man!! maybe you can steal some of my ideas too ;)
Great lesson. I'm a sucka for the theory. I want to know How to Do it and Why it works. But Papa......what came first the intervals or the theory? If you think about it.....who the hell invented the major scale. Someone put the scale to paper at some point in time. I wonder if a survey was required? If there was a unanimous vote. Especially when it came to the 7th degree. I wonder if there were fist fights over the 7th or defriending via carrier pigeon social medias. Papa these lessons that you do on the intermediate level allow you to shine. In all honesty I have changed my mind about you tube guitar lesson hierarchy. Papa is Batman and Marty is Robin. Y'all are truly a dynamic duo but Papa calls the shots and owns the bat cave.
This really was one of those epiphany moments for me. It helped me to look at the fret board differently. I now see the notes in the chord context and not just the scale shape. Thanks PS !
Thank you Bro great lesson mi amigo... you just open a new way to practice and learn how to step up to the next level on my playing...Pura vida greeting's and Bless from CostaRica.
OK, first thing is, memorize this in this order: major(I), Dorian(II), Phrygian(III), Lydian(IV), mixolydian(V), natural minor (Aeolian)(VI), Lorian(VII). Those are the 7 common, most used modes. Learn their shapes. And understand this: A song in G major mode, you can use A Dorian, B Phrygian, C Lydian, etc. See? Counting major intervals all along, the next one would be D Mixolydian, then E minor. Ex.2 If songs in A Dorian mode (the II of a G major, then use B Phrygian, C Lydian, etc.
you ever get to where something just clicks well thats what happened the secend time i watched this video and playing around something in the way you put it out there just made me see it , and its just amazing thanks im having a ball with it and burning my tips up lol, i really mean it thanks for this video it is my hail mary!
Thank you Papa Stache. Just a little thing that I learned from taking guitar in college. You can also play the 7th degree of each chord over these chords as well. This is especially useful over the 5 chord because in a 1, 4, 5 progression. The 5 chord is going to a Dominant 7th chord instead of a Major 7th chord. Meaning you will be playing a minor 7th over the root of the 5 chord instead of a Major seventh over the 1 and 4 respectively. A, C#, E, G#. D, F#, A, C#. E, G#, B, D. Try it :).
Hi sir,how do you search/find the guitar tab to a song without using sheet,i mean by ear,am i going to follow it immediately or listen to it first and memorize????
keys follow this pattern, Maj, Min, min, maj, maj, min, dim. so the key of C will include these chords, Cmaj, Dmin, Emin, Fmaj, Gmaj, Amin, Bdim... so you just have to fit your power chords in that formula, one more; the key of G will be Gmaj, Amin, Bmin, Cmaj, Dmaj, Emin, F#dim
Major keys follow that formula, but obviously not minor. On top of that, if you remain within the diatonic scale and make no chromatic alterations, your solo will be a super square, non-hip and whitebread as fuck. Throw in Secondary Dominant/Funtion chords or chord substitutions and if you're going to remain in the same key, at least branch out and run some modal ideas.
The 7th interval of the chord also makes for a good target note! Switching scales with the chords is something you want to do only sometimes. You don't want to do it all the time. Most guitarists play a single scale going outside of it just to hit target notes. Like on a 12 bar blues in A Major you play the Blues scale in A Minor throughout only playing outside of it to hit target notes, usually just on the first measure of a bar.
Diax1324 I've been playing guitar for 35 years and watching RUclips instructional videos for 5 years now. I like this guy a lot, just because he's cool, but the best lessons on RUclips are from fretjam. You'll know the theory I'm talking about in days if you watch fretjam's videos.
Yep ...u lost me after the playing....lol...wish I had the patience to learn the guitar....I just knkw how to play the guitar...I learn by ear ....and others.....and a course RUclips......LOL....
I love your instructional videos. I am not one who does well just grabbing a bunch of books pages and doing what it says as far as learning music. I am self taught. I play guitar in an Americana/southern/country/blues/rock band, and in process forming my own rock/metal/classic and blues band.. I've even been lucky enough so far to be onstage with the 1st band opening for David Allan Coe, plus winning a battle of the bands contest, so I know I'm not a bad player by any means. I like all types of music but my true roots are rock, blues, and metal. Yet I lack at the very thing you are describing here. I was wondering if you could check out a few of my videos, tell me what you think and give me some pointers you think might help? Anyway, keep up the video feeds.., GREAT STUFF---YOU ROCK!
Man, that´s really the best performed lesson I´ve ever seen in the tube, easy to understand without being stupid, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT. Thanks a lot !!!
Greetings from Ecuador, South America. Just wanted to thank you for the ideas, you broke down theory very well and easily for me, and can't wait to try and apply this ideas to my playing. Thank you again. I have notices that you enjoy playing through divided by 13 amps, any recommendations for an amp that I could use for blues, country and southern rock styles?
I'm a bit confused @youcanlearnguitar @papastache102 For example let's put the major pentatonic to the side and use the major scale. So then if I'm going through the 1,4,5 on a A major key song does that mean that I have to apply the major scale for each chord? For example applying A major scale while A major chord is playing and try to land on the targeted notes, D major scale while D major chord is playing and try to land on the targeted notes, E major scale while E major chord is playing and try to land on the targeted notes?
Wow, I see NO negative comments. Circle of fifths is hard to understand but once you get it, it changes your thinking forever. It did mine anyway.. Nice vid btw.
@Damian Piekut I'm no expert or anything. But what i know is this: Theory builds your playing. I started out learning the pentaton scales just for playing. Then i started with paid lessons and just wanted to start having a lot of theory work. Because theory will absolutely help you understand music and improve your soloing skills a hell of a lot! My advice is to start learning theory to fully understand what goes on in a solo and music in general. I don't know if u already do theory though..
I know this question was not to me, but I think the greatest advice I've personally heard was from Steve Vai. He said that you should sing along with your guitar. You sing the phase first, and then try to follow what you just sang with your guitar. Improvise by setting a metronome or a backing track, sing (or whistle) what you wants to play, and then respond with your guitar. At the begining is hard but you will connect your mind with you're fretboard.
Dear mister... thanks a lot... my musician skills are even worser than my english... your lesson teached me to hit some notes OK... :) ... one question ... this works fine for "A shape" chords with the pentatonic scale growing from your third finger position... what about other chords like for example the F? is there a comparable way of finding those notes? Thanks a lot anyway...
Hey Papa. I've got a problem. Probably you're sick of hearing that over and over again but... I'm sick of not being able to create good solo. My problem is that I keep picking random notes as fast as I can, bending here, bending there, being repetitive and boring. And if I even sometimes hear this music in my head and think "it is awesome", I can't play it. I mean - it's like there was an object and you see only general shape so you can't describe it. Please, help me Papa, or I'm dead.
Learn modes. They are sooo much easier than "hitting" notes like this. With modal theory, there's less "thinking" and more freedom. Yes, target notes are useful, even when using modal theory, target notes, IMO are notes to end or start a phrase of a lead. ANd that being said, it usually wil come natrually when understanding modal theory anyway. Which is a lot easier than you think, if you don't understand it already. Respnd and I'll give you a lesson that could change your life!
didja ever notice 'stache is playing a pink guitar, on a purple chair, in front of a purple curtain, through a purple amp? - What does this all mean? It means, he's not really a man. longs for dink you might ask? No not like that, I mean not a man at all, not human, he's an alien in a clever and elaborate skin suit. It's obvious no dude would set this up, and no man can grow a stache that thick and luxurious. It is an Alien being sent to conduct mind control through the vibrations of guitar
As he states - sometimes hearing another musician point things out in simple terms makes things much clearer; I.e. writing down the notes of the key scale, writing down the notes of each progression chord, comparing common notes used in progression chords, then playing root of each (1st pass), 3rd (2nd pass), and 5th (3rd pass). It has all been right there in front of me, but never explained in this way. This should make riff/lead building and improvising in general much easier. THANKS!
Yeah not many people are naturally able to do those things straight away. If everyone gave up the moment it got hard, there'd be far fewer musicians in the world. And virtually no violinists. Using both hands for piano is hard even if you are naturally good at it, but it's like a barrier that stops you progressing, and the second you break through it everything is instantly easier. It's often a simple fix too - if you have the dexterity down just try tapping out the rhythm for both hands. Magic!
maybe its cause i never struggled at all when i first started. anytime i tried to play something, i could just do it no problem, was onto malmsteen after 6 months. but give me a piano? forget it. i can't physically do more than 2 things at once, so drums are impossible as well as singing and playing. absolutely impossible. so i never bothered. its a waste of my time when i could be dedicating to something i know im awesome at. i guess im just lazy. never practiced more than an hour a day really
Awesome! You really helped me to understand the concept better.TY! I will be practicing this as much as possible.I'm wonder tho'. how i will incorporate the blues scale into this idea? I'm gonna fool around with it on my own and see what comes up.lol Thanks again for making it simple.
It might help, for easy reference, if you remember than the root note on any string will be surrounded by the 4th and 5th on the strings on either side of the root, with the slight kink on the B string. So if you forget where you are in any pentatonic pattern, you can use that shortcut as a guide till you come back on track.
Do serious ear training and work your way up to being able to replay sequences of 5-6 different random notes and then you can easily play the ideas you have. People just don't understand that it's most important to know how to listen, even when you're shredding. Don't underestimate ear training and you'll be fine.
Hey brother thanks a shit ton for taking the time to teach us your knowledge!! This was a really different approach then what I have been seeing in other videos and really helped open my eyes. Sometimes it just takes the right person to explain something to you in a way so that you can comprehend how it works or can work Great stuff~ thank you very much.
The chart is informative, but there is no way in the world I am going to remember it in a jam after the singer goes "it seems too high.. can we try it two steps lower?" LOL, but after spending all this time learning scales, the next natural step is to forget about them and start thinking on chords instead. Thanks for this vid. its all coming together now :)
Totally agree. Target notes are for starting or ending a phrase or just to gfive it its modal feel IMO-To sort of give the feel of the particular mode your in. For instance, If in an A dorian mode song, Say an Am/D progression-a cool "target" note is F# (B string).
I am very visually oriented and something I find helpful is knowing (seeing) the various chord inversions all over the neck and findings ways to use those notes when improvising a solo or fill. The most basic and easy to visualize are major and minor triads but use 7ths, maj 7, 9ths etc. I tend to use chromatics, bends, slides and various techniques to incorporate the chord notes into a phrase. you kind of touch on it but could be expanded.
Learn licks! Lots of them (like millions of them!)! Then improvise over backtracks by combining the licks and stuff! After you play a lot you will start putting your things here and there automatically! It will come to you! Just feel it!
always liked how marty broke songs to small pieces & put them back, i learned more songs from that tecnique, i agree w-u on that. you do a pretty good job youreself,thanks for all the small pieces of advice,they have gone a long way to help me as well.
If you change that to A mixolydian you make that G# natural so you can have a minor chord if you want. I like having the Em it sounds like a metal ballad if its a clean tone. Good video for learning a major scale for music theory kind of thing.
Thanx for making the theory more understandable, can you break down the complete solo in the beginning of this video? Including which scale you are in? Really want to learn this solo , a for awesome that is, good excercise to..
Same problem here man. One finds themselves slammin through scales over a given chord structure with no soul. The trick is to slow down and LISTEN and feel that shit! Music has to be emotionally driven.
I give it up to you kind people from guitarjamz. You guys passing on your knowledge of this instrument for the people who have the passion to listen, is just an honor. Thank you. Do you guys have a band?
But what happens when the chords are changing really fast? How do I find those target notes? Take thrash metal for example (just so you know how fast I mean) Great lesson btw! Thanx a lot! |..|,
If nothing else, the trick of using A string power chords to quickly drop into the minor pentatonic position of the major key was a great takeaway. So simple but yet I've never thought of it like that.
We all know the blues scale inside and out. But that gets boring. Bottom line is to kick your playing up a notch you have to know some theory. This is an amazing lesson. Many Thanks for it!
you guys couldnt be conducting online business in a finer manner. The more of this incredibly valuable free info I soak up the more I'm tempted to buy something just because these guys truly deserve it. It's nice to see people out there actually putting out value for the money they ask for....way more value in fact
This is a great lesson! Broken down in easy to understand terms. I just viewed the same lesson same chords by some other dude and he had so much music theory going on that I had to listen to his video like five times before I almost understood it. Looking at this once made it totally clear. Great job. Whenever I played before I was always looking to land on the note of the next chord in the progression to make it sound right but this shows you can land on a number of target notes and it sounds great.
I've been playing for 35 years (and getting paid) and my biggest growth spurt started when I found RUclips guitarist like yourselves willing to share.Guys keep up the great work. Guitar/music is food for the soul
Great stuff. Your lessons are like finding that pot of gold on the other side of the rainbow. The best on the NET!!!
"A" for awesome.! Thanks for taking the time to patiently explain this.
Awesome approach thanks
Love the guitar sound. Are you running straight into the amp? Overdrive? or what?.... Great Honk to the sound Marvelous!!!
nice one. this actually made sense!
I'm Anglo- Irish so who gives a shit what I think, but this guy and Marty are great...
Hi Great Lesson, made me feel comfortable Mw
nice one man!
this is very important
Congrats on the mustache
Sounds legit.
Nice, friendly, easy-to-understand approach. I think you've addressed THE major weakness of many student rock soloists (a problem I had for years): thinking you can fly around in the scale or throw in licks in the key of the song without caring what the chord is at the moment. As you said, it's really hit-or-miss that way. Sometimes I just sit down with a fretboard diagram and draw in all the places where a particular chord can be played on the neck, then develop riffs around that chord in each of those spots on the neck. If you do this, you'll see places where you can re-use ideas. Again, really great approach and ideas. Thanks.
never thought to try that- I think I will be printing fretboard diagrams a little later on today.
Chase Warner I started doing that when I decided to try to learn chord melody technique in jazz guitar. In that approach, your highest note in the chord is the melody note, and the lower notes are mostly or entirely from the chord at that spot in the song. I would look at somebody's chord melody arrangement of a jazz tune, and think, how in the heck did he come up with that? I got really confused really fast. It was totally mysterious.
I used to think solos could only be either (a) totally spontaneous or (b) totally pre-planned. By developing licks around chords at different places on the neck (i.e., doing *some* planning and practice), I realized that I could be spontaneous within a somewhat planned "framework", and it would sound 1000 % better. Almost as if I knew what I was doing. :-)
Best of luck, & thanks for the comment.
Chris Lynch a good idea
Chris Lynch I also do the same as you and it works well.
How do you get the time to make lessons and still sing in Motorhead?
What are you talking about? He's a lot better looking than Lemmy Kilmister
Matthew McConaughey? Seriously?
***** wut
João Ebling What? Is the guitarist in the video Lemmy Kilmister
+Chris Linville Yes, spot on. I think Paul Rudd has the same beard in one film.
I like to learn as many easy ways to explain stuff to my students, and this has a couple ideas I will try.. Thanks man!! maybe you can steal some of my ideas too ;)
Great lesson. I'm a sucka for the theory. I want to know How to Do it and Why it works. But Papa......what came first the intervals or the theory? If you think about it.....who the hell invented the major scale. Someone put the scale to paper at some point in time. I wonder if a survey was required? If there was a unanimous vote. Especially when it came to the 7th degree. I wonder if there were fist fights over the 7th or defriending via carrier pigeon social medias. Papa these lessons that you do on the intermediate level allow you to shine. In all honesty I have changed my mind about you tube guitar lesson hierarchy. Papa is Batman and Marty is Robin. Y'all are truly a dynamic duo but Papa calls the shots and owns the bat cave.
+sticksnstones23 ^you sir have changed my perspective on the schwartz/'stache' ranking system
I just came for the facial hair.
John Williams "came" lol
+fazeel ashraf lmfaaaooo
step 1: targets notes
step 2: females
end result: child support.
Lol
That is the funniest, truest, and saddest comment I have ever read on YT!
WORD!
I'm sterile! This is my only evidence for a god.
hahaha!!!
Earl ? Is That you?
This really was one of those epiphany moments for me. It helped me to look at the fret board differently. I now see the notes in the chord context and not just the scale shape. Thanks PS !
The most inspirational videos I have found yet. Thank you so much again for your efforts man.
Thank you Bro great lesson mi amigo... you just open a new way to practice and learn how to step up to the next level on my playing...Pura vida
greeting's and Bless from CostaRica.
Excellent video brah, I just found out where I'm going to land or start. Thanks brah for being great teacher!from denver 👀👍😎🤟😊keep um coming!peaceeee!
Every video I see you playing a diff guitar. Can I plz have one?
Wait you can switch between keys for chord changes?
This was one of the best lessons I've watched. I never understood why certain notes made up chords till now. Thanks man!
OK, first thing is, memorize this in this order: major(I), Dorian(II), Phrygian(III), Lydian(IV), mixolydian(V), natural minor (Aeolian)(VI), Lorian(VII). Those are the 7 common, most used modes. Learn their shapes. And understand this: A song in G major mode, you can use A Dorian, B Phrygian, C Lydian, etc. See? Counting major intervals all along, the next one would be D Mixolydian, then E minor. Ex.2 If songs in A Dorian mode (the II of a G major, then use B Phrygian, C Lydian, etc.
I still confused😞
For me, one of the simplest yet vastly useful lessons i have found on you-tube to date! Thanks for sharing
Hey papa dope little intro. i was diggin it. i couldnt even get through the lesson because you made me wanna turn a jam track on and plug in
Just what I've been looking for! Thanks!!!!!
you ever get to where something just clicks well thats what happened the secend time i watched this video and playing around something in the way you put it out there just made me see it , and its just amazing thanks im having a ball with it and burning my tips up lol, i really mean it thanks for this video it is my hail mary!
I think you've just unlocked something big for me. Major not minor thanks!
High as fuck, but it works great.
Great eye opening lesson. Now to study the fretboard.
Thank you Papa Stache. Just a little thing that I learned from taking guitar in college. You can also play the 7th degree of each chord over these chords as well. This is especially useful over the 5 chord because in a 1, 4, 5 progression. The 5 chord is going to a Dominant 7th chord instead of a Major 7th chord. Meaning you will be playing a minor 7th over the root of the 5 chord instead of a Major seventh over the 1 and 4 respectively. A, C#, E, G#. D, F#, A, C#. E, G#, B, D. Try it :).
Some nice bluesy soloing in the intro. Very reminiscent of players like Mick Ralphs and David Gilmour.
It was the mock quotes that did for me!
Seriously though, thanks!
Very,very nice job showing target notes with beautiful phrasing! Thanks so much!
Look simple enough , but every note was perfectly placed .
Very Cool
Wow.I gotta say papa you really cleared up some questions that have been plaguing me for some time now. Good,simplified breakdown.Thanks papa.
Hi sir,how do you search/find the guitar tab to a song without using sheet,i mean by ear,am i going to follow it immediately or listen to it first and memorize????
i just made a improv vid been playing 11months trying to get some feedback check it out
keys follow this pattern, Maj, Min, min, maj, maj, min, dim. so the key of C will include these chords, Cmaj, Dmin, Emin, Fmaj, Gmaj, Amin, Bdim... so you just have to fit your power chords in that formula,
one more; the key of G will be Gmaj, Amin, Bmin, Cmaj, Dmaj, Emin, F#dim
That's powerful knowledge!
*****
Called diatonic chords
Major keys follow that formula, but obviously not minor. On top of that, if you remain within the diatonic scale and make no chromatic alterations, your solo will be a super square, non-hip and whitebread as fuck. Throw in Secondary Dominant/Funtion chords or chord substitutions and if you're going to remain in the same key, at least branch out and run some modal ideas.
The 7th interval of the chord also makes for a good target note!
Switching scales with the chords is something you want to do only sometimes. You don't want to do it all the time. Most guitarists play a single scale going outside of it just to hit target notes. Like on a 12 bar blues in A Major you play the Blues scale in A Minor throughout only playing outside of it to hit target notes, usually just on the first measure of a bar.
I have no idea what any of that meant except the keys and I feel stupid.
Diax1324 I've been playing guitar for 35 years and watching RUclips instructional videos for 5 years now. I like this guy a lot, just because he's cool, but the best lessons on RUclips are from fretjam. You'll know the theory I'm talking about in days if you watch fretjam's videos.
shouldn't you be out saving the multi-verse?
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Yep ...u lost me after the playing....lol...wish I had the patience to learn the guitar....I just knkw how to play the guitar...I learn by ear ....and others.....and a course RUclips......LOL....
Thanks man, they are simple but effective ways to improvise that sometimes in our "urge" to fry the fretboard, we forget .
I like how u say "" legit lol haha
This helps I learned this in my jazz class and was clueless the whole time
great lesson man. i love music i think a big part of soloing is feeling
So good something to practice. Thanks I liked it
1:06 "this idea" Are you really Dr. Evil"
So you just play the corresponding pent over the chord, and use the 3 and 5 for resolving to? I think that's what you mean.
I love your instructional videos. I am not one who does well just grabbing a bunch of books pages and doing what it says as far as learning music. I am self taught. I play guitar in an Americana/southern/country/blues/rock band, and in process forming my own rock/metal/classic and blues band.. I've even been lucky enough so far to be onstage with the 1st band opening for David Allan Coe, plus winning a battle of the bands contest, so I know I'm not a bad player by any means. I like all types of music but my true roots are rock, blues, and metal. Yet I lack at the very thing you are describing here. I was wondering if you could check out a few of my videos, tell me what you think and give me some pointers you think might help? Anyway, keep up the video feeds.., GREAT STUFF---YOU ROCK!
Man, that´s really the best performed lesson I´ve ever seen in the tube, easy to understand without being stupid, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT. Thanks a lot !!!
2:06 "formula" One million dollars....
Most backing tracks in A Major have four-note chords like A7-D7-E7.
A7 is made of four notes: A7-C#-E & G. Would the G-note become a target note too?
awesome stuff you cleared me up a lot with this lesson.
Greetings from Ecuador, South America. Just wanted to thank you for the ideas, you broke down theory very well and easily for me, and can't wait to try and apply this ideas to my playing. Thank you again. I have notices that you enjoy playing through divided by 13 amps, any recommendations for an amp that I could use for blues, country and southern rock styles?
Great player, very good teacher ;-)
I'm a bit confused @youcanlearnguitar @papastache102 For example let's put the major pentatonic to the side and use the major scale. So then if I'm going through the 1,4,5 on a A major key song does that mean that I have to apply the major scale for each chord? For example applying A major scale while A major chord is playing and try to land on the targeted notes, D major scale while D major chord is playing and try to land on the targeted notes, E major scale while E major chord is playing and try to land on the targeted notes?
Papa....thanks for all you do...AWSOME TEACHER
Wow, I see NO negative comments.
Circle of fifths is hard to understand but once you get it, it changes your thinking forever. It did mine anyway.. Nice vid btw.
@Damian Piekut I'm no expert or anything. But what i know is this: Theory builds your playing. I started out learning the pentaton scales just for playing. Then i started with paid lessons and just wanted to start having a lot of theory work. Because theory will absolutely help you understand music and improve your soloing skills a hell of a lot! My advice is to start learning theory to fully understand what goes on in a solo and music in general. I don't know if u already do theory though..
I know this question was not to me, but I think the greatest advice I've personally heard was from Steve Vai. He said that you should sing along with your guitar. You sing the phase first, and then try to follow what you just sang with your guitar. Improvise by setting a metronome or a backing track, sing (or whistle) what you wants to play, and then respond with your guitar. At the begining is hard but you will connect your mind with you're fretboard.
Dear mister... thanks a lot... my musician skills are even worser than my english... your lesson teached me to hit some notes OK... :) ... one question ... this works fine for "A shape" chords with the pentatonic scale growing from your third finger position... what about other chords like for example the F? is there a comparable way of finding those notes? Thanks a lot anyway...
Hey Papa. I've got a problem.
Probably you're sick of hearing that over and over again but... I'm sick of not being able to create good solo.
My problem is that I keep picking random notes as fast as I can, bending here, bending there, being repetitive and boring.
And if I even sometimes hear this music in my head and think "it is awesome", I can't play it. I mean - it's like there was an object and you see only general shape so you can't describe it.
Please, help me Papa, or I'm dead.
Learn modes. They are sooo much easier than "hitting" notes like this. With modal theory, there's less "thinking" and more freedom. Yes, target notes are useful, even when using modal theory, target notes, IMO are notes to end or start a phrase of a lead. ANd that being said, it usually wil come natrually when understanding modal theory anyway. Which is a lot easier than you think, if you don't understand it already. Respnd and I'll give you a lesson that could change your life!
didja ever notice 'stache is playing a pink guitar, on a purple chair, in front of a purple curtain, through a purple amp? - What does this all mean?
It means, he's not really a man. longs for dink you might ask?
No not like that, I mean not a man at all, not human, he's an alien in a clever and elaborate
skin suit. It's obvious no dude would set this up, and no man can grow a stache that thick
and luxurious. It is an Alien being sent to conduct mind control through the vibrations of
guitar
As he states - sometimes hearing another musician point things out in simple terms makes things much clearer; I.e. writing down the notes of the key scale, writing down the notes of each progression chord, comparing common notes used in progression chords, then playing root of each (1st pass), 3rd (2nd pass), and 5th (3rd pass). It has all been right there in front of me, but never explained in this way. This should make riff/lead building and improvising in general much easier. THANKS!
Yeah not many people are naturally able to do those things straight away. If everyone gave up the moment it got hard, there'd be far fewer musicians in the world. And virtually no violinists. Using both hands for piano is hard even if you are naturally good at it, but it's like a barrier that stops you progressing, and the second you break through it everything is instantly easier. It's often a simple fix too - if you have the dexterity down just try tapping out the rhythm for both hands. Magic!
maybe its cause i never struggled at all when i first started. anytime i tried to play something, i could just do it no problem, was onto malmsteen after 6 months. but give me a piano? forget it. i can't physically do more than 2 things at once, so drums are impossible as well as singing and playing. absolutely impossible. so i never bothered. its a waste of my time when i could be dedicating to something i know im awesome at. i guess im just lazy. never practiced more than an hour a day really
Great lesson! I appreciate the way you explain things.. By the way, what are the pickups you have in your bridge? Love the sound.
thanks for not "talking over us" like we're stupid! Good explanation. Oh.. and ignore the dude with the I iV V.. yours is better!
Awesome! You really helped me to understand the concept better.TY! I will be practicing this as much as possible.I'm wonder tho'. how i will incorporate the blues scale into this idea? I'm gonna fool around with it on my own and see what comes up.lol Thanks again for making it simple.
It might help, for easy reference, if you remember than the root note on any string will be surrounded by the 4th and 5th on the strings on either side of the root, with the slight kink on the B string. So if you forget where you are in any pentatonic pattern, you can use that shortcut as a guide till you come back on track.
Do serious ear training and work your way up to being able to replay sequences of 5-6 different random notes and then you can easily play the ideas you have. People just don't understand that it's most important to know how to listen, even when you're shredding. Don't underestimate ear training and you'll be fine.
Hey brother thanks a shit ton for taking the time to teach us your knowledge!! This was a really different approach then what I have been seeing in other videos and really helped open my eyes. Sometimes it just takes the right person to explain something to you in a way so that you can comprehend how it works or can work
Great stuff~ thank you very much.
The chart is informative, but there is no way in the world I am going to remember it in a jam after the singer goes "it seems too high.. can we try it two steps lower?" LOL, but after spending all this time learning scales, the next natural step is to forget about them and start thinking on chords instead. Thanks for this vid. its all coming together now :)
Since everyone is chiming in, I would say Papa stache kind of resembles a younger Joe Walsh circa 1978.
WOW THANKS SO MUCH! VERY HELPFUL TRICK FOR FINDING TARGET NOTES IN MAJOR! THANKS!
Totally agree. Target notes are for starting or ending a phrase or just to gfive it its modal feel IMO-To sort of give the feel of the particular mode your in. For instance, If in an A dorian mode song, Say an Am/D progression-a cool "target" note is F# (B string).
Great teaching method very inspiring and personable
Thanks very much for your time
After 20 years of "playing" guitar it's starting to click. Subscribed.
I am very visually oriented and something I find helpful is knowing (seeing) the various chord inversions all over the neck and findings ways to use those notes when improvising a solo or fill. The most basic and easy to visualize are major and minor triads but use 7ths, maj 7, 9ths etc. I tend to use chromatics, bends, slides and various techniques to incorporate the chord notes into a phrase. you kind of touch on it but could be expanded.
Learn licks! Lots of them (like millions of them!)! Then improvise over backtracks by combining the licks and stuff! After you play a lot you will start putting your things here and there automatically! It will come to you! Just feel it!
always liked how marty broke songs to small pieces & put them back, i learned more songs from that tecnique, i agree w-u on that. you do a pretty good job youreself,thanks for all the small pieces of advice,they have gone a long way to help me as well.
If you change that to A mixolydian you make that G# natural so you can have a minor chord if you want. I like having the Em it sounds like a metal ballad if its a clean tone.
Good video for learning a major scale for music theory kind of thing.
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Is it just me or does he totally look like Lemmy's little brother?
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Thanx for making the theory more understandable, can you break down the complete solo in the beginning of this video? Including which scale you are in? Really want to learn this solo , a for awesome that is, good excercise to..
Great stuff... trying to learn to play my own simple solos instead of just copying others... thanks!!
super kool lesson...even a middle aged beginner like myself caught that one,thanks!!!
Same problem here man. One finds themselves slammin through scales over a given chord structure with no soul. The trick is to slow down and LISTEN and feel that shit! Music has to be emotionally driven.
I give it up to you kind people from guitarjamz. You guys passing on your knowledge of this instrument for the people who have the passion to listen, is just an honor.
Thank you. Do you guys have a band?
But what happens when the chords are changing really fast? How do I find those target notes? Take thrash metal for example (just so you know how fast I mean)
Great lesson btw! Thanx a lot! |..|,
If nothing else, the trick of using A string power chords to quickly drop into the minor pentatonic position of the major key was a great takeaway. So simple but yet I've never thought of it like that.
We all know the blues scale inside and out. But that gets boring. Bottom line is to kick your playing up a notch you have to know some theory. This is an amazing lesson. Many Thanks for it!