Jazz Guitar Scales: One Pattern To Rule Them All
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- Have you been struggling with jazz guitar improvisation and are wondering what the best jazz guitar scales are to use?
In this video I'm going to show you a simple yet easy trick to improvise over the entire fretboard using a clever jazz scales method I call the "Tree System", which will make the fretboard easy to understand, give you a great framework for remembering all those jazzy scales, and save you a lot of time as well.
To get your free PDF which has the jazz scales guitar tabs and diagrams for this lesson, go here: www.fretdojo.com/pdf
Video Sections:
00:00 Introduction
01:19 The problem with CAGED scales (or box patterns) for jazz guitar positions
02:44 Introducing the "Tree" jazz guitar scales system
03:43 Branch 1 of the Tree System for jazz - major scale
06:27 Improvisation example with Branch 1
06:53 Branch 2 of the Tree System
10:07 Benefits of the Tree System
11:01 Guitar modes - creating a Dorian Scale from the Tree system
14:20 Wrap Up
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Stick around to the end of this jazz scale guitar lesson because as a bonus I'm also going to give you some very useful tips on how to derive any jazz guitar scales/modes from this one pattern that I'm going to show you today.
Over to you - what do YOU think of this scale system? Do you think I'm onto something here - or do you disagree with this method? Leave a comment below with your thoughts.
Kind regards, Greg O'Rourke
* To learn how to play jazz guitar for beginners with step-by-step lessons, visit my website www.fretdojo.com 
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To get your free PDF which has the jazz scales guitar tabs and diagrams for this lesson, go here: www.fretdojo.com/pdf
Very excellent I enjoyed how easy your explanation was to see exactly it's difference between those two scales. I was noticing that the bottom three notes were on top and the second three notes in the bottom can the others be transformed like that from the 1scale¿ Sure wish you would have gone into detail on that? Oh forgot can you give us a most common used comping jazz chords details version tho not the shortcut one???
@@alfredromero4784 thanks!! Now, those are big questions...more jazz chord videos are coming out on the channel soon! Stay subscribed for more😉
finally someone who’s not trying to explain theory but showing us HOW TO APPLY IT
Thanks, glad you appreciate it. The theory is important but, as you alluded to, being able to confidently use it to create great music is what really matters!
Finally a teacher that does not confound and confuse the Jazz learning and technique process, bravo !
Thanks for your kind comments Gabriel! Glad you found this useful :)
Been playing acoustic guitar but loved listening to jazz guitarist tricks. You have switch my ideas from 0 to 100. Good tutor. Thanks😁
Hi Greg, I've struggled with understanding scale patterns and have been boxed in with the cage system for years. This explanation makes perfect sense, and I'm practicing it as we speak. Many thanks for creating these videos.
Thank you so much. Glad it was helpful!
I've been looking for a video like this for years! Thanks 👍🏾 Straight to the point!
Glad you found this useful Osi!
This has been a real eye opener. I play basic blues but am now switching to jazz and this has opened the door for me. Thanks!
Hey Greg from an old blues man guitarist venturing into the intricate jazz field I think that if I don't succeed I will still owe you a ton of thanks. You've made more sense of the process easier than I've found anywhere else.
I thank you!
Tom
Hi Thomas I'm really happy to hear you found value in this video - if you are consistent in your effort daily, and have a clear vision of what you want to acheive, you WILL succeed!!
Ok, Greg… you got me. Like Jens Larsen says that you want lessons to support sounding musical as well, otherwise it’s boring. You nailed it! I subscribed. Thank you!!
Brilliant lesson, Greg! If you already know the major scale patterns in each key, then being able to link them adds a whole new dimension, and with a little practice, being able to flatten the third and seventh, which is important in jazz, will come easily--you'll learn to hear the correct intervals in your mind as you play. You're the best on-line teacher I've found. I'm a member of FretDojo Academy, and I recommend it to anyone who really wants to learn to play the guitar.
Thanks very much for your kind comments Jeffrey - yes this is a great system for learning any scale pattern across the fretboard just by changing the intervals in each shape. I appreciate you!
Greg, this the best guide to jazz guitar that I have seen on RUclips. I will be enrolling in your beginner course. I can only imagine how fast I can finally learn. I have been struggling for years with chords, tablature never to reach my target. You make it simple. Thanks
The material sounds so good!
i love this. its fantastic and makes perfect sense.
Love you teaching style and pragmatism for navigating the neck. Extremely helpful and logical! Thank you!
Very happy to hear your kind feedback K J! Thanks so much 🙏
Wonderful. Cant wait to work on this. Excellent, clear, concise, doable. Fabulous tutorial.
Very useful tool for moving around the fretboard with confidence (eventually :)) Thanks Greg; excellent teaching and very clear diagrams to work with.
Thanks for your kind feedback Marion, glad you found this one useful :-)
most comfortable and comprehensive pattern i've seen will work on this for sure.
This is a great way to get started with Jazz soloing. I love the out-of-the-box way of re-conceptualizing scales to give us a three-octave range that connects the dots. The bonus was showing us how to adapt this to the modes. Really great work, Greg!
Thanks for breaking it down to easier to learn patterns
What a relief😅! I loved the first part of the pattern lesson.; it really makes it easy to play the scale and to improvise. I play keyboard and always wanted to see the guitar fretboard as I see the piano keyboard…. And I think I got the point from your lesson. Thank you Greg.
I think that's very useful Greg. Thanks.
Best method I have seen so far to simplify learning the fretboard. And it is so versatile. Thanks Greg 😀
I agree whole heartedly with you on this approach as I only started to understand scales/modes by thinking of them as variations of the major scale. Being self taught I kept this to myself as I thought it was probably ‘wrong’.
The flat 3 flat 7 change you showed at the end is exactly where I am headed now as I love the sound of a minor seventh chord but never sure how to play around it. Many thanks. I am now not alone !!
It makes all the sense in the world. It's the way to play scales !
Best jazz channel ever.Keep it up
Your videos have helped me sooo much. Finally starting to wrap my head around playing jazz. As a long time blues player, your methods are exactly what I needed to help me break into jazz
Thanks so much for your kind feedback Jack - I'm glad that these videos have helped you out!
Excellent lesson, some ideas like these are a mind brusher for Jazz guitarists.
Methinks you have given me the key to open a door to the scale patterns. I know that there are many doors but this is the key to the entrance.
Got this PDF ages ago, printed it but had not practised with the video. Seeing the video again increased my understanding and was able to gel your concept. Thanks again Greg. 🙂
I'm so bogged down & bored with playing 12 bar blues & little else that I decided, on the strength of this lesson, to purchase your Beginner Jazz Guitar Course. Here we go.
Congratulations Warren, you'll get a lot out of that one!
Giddy Greg,
I've searched so many you tube vids and stumbled across you and modes are confusing 7 keys plus 7 modes blah blah but you just opened a door that's easy to play
Thanks much appreciated 🙏
Tremendously Helpful! Thank You so Much
I've been playing for more years than I'd like to admit and have a good grasp of scales but you do have a novel approach that is like another wrench in the toolbox in being fluent playing across the whole fretboard . I admit that I'd been stuck in positions sometimes and this really does help to break out with your observations on the ease of visualizing the basic patterns in different spots .
I think this is Great !
just what I was looking for.
Thanks Jay. Glad you found it helpful!
Absolutely excellent !! ....... I'm going to work on that !!
Excellent!
Brilliant Greg. Something to fall back on any time one gets lost doing true on-the-spot improvisation. All the best Alan
Thanks my good friend Papa Voss! Great to hear from you 👍
Thanks. Incredibly useful!
Thank you for connecting the dots. Liked and Subscribed. Off to binge watch your other videos for some more tasty tips. 👍
New to Jazz guitar, but this really does help to understand. Feels great to break out of boxed patterns and this is the first video I've seen that makes it clear. Well done.
Glad you found this helpful Bobby - I appreciate your kind feedback!
Greg, you're a bloody legend!
Thanks for your kind feedback!
Good job friend, great clarity in your lessons.
I think it's fantastic that you can come up with another method to help us see the different scale shapes and all that's good so I'm going to practice this give it a fair shot I added to my repertoire of skill sets and let muscle memory take over
This is great! Very powerfull concept! I am starting learn this,Thanks a lot!
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Greg, I like this approach. I 've done a similar thing with pentatonic scales over the entire fretboard. I'm a scale lover and use the boxes a lot. for me, in the key of D major, the box starting on F# also represents the phrygian mode by changing the tonal center. In doing so for all the boxes, you have phrygian in all 5 boxes without changing any fingering and so forth with Maj, min, mix and dorian. Knowing scales makes it easy to pick up nice little tips like yours today very easy. Thanks
What a clever way to approach this. I think I am going to find this to be a very valuable technique
Always useful to stress training your ear to recognize these scales I would think.
Great lesson
Lydian and Mixolydian are also easily derived from the Ionian. Thank you.....!
I have been playing guitar for 40 years plus. The information here most valuable . Its gets you away from box shapes that trap so many people. It talks about minor 3rd that is a flat major 3rd and flat 7th when you want to play Dorian. It avoids playing a F major scale that have the same notes at G Dorian by moving back to the first fret. Use the same position starting on the 3rd fret but just Flatten the Major 3rd and major 7th note and you are there. By thinking this way you are improving your theory knowledge and your playing becomes more economical. All the notes you need are there right under your fingers. Forget patterns learn the notes. This is a top drawer lesson. The best information I have seen on the internet in years.
Hey friend thank you for a great lesson pure logic that is often overlooked this has helped me big time
Happy to help!
Anything we can learn is vauable Greg.
14:43 love it get i gonna try it now
A simple way. One could play melodies all day with this method.
Great video, now to some practice
Great concept.
Another great video, Greg. Thanks.
Thanks Garry - glad you liked this one!
You are welcome to the Sunday BBQ dinner cuz this really helped me visualize the fretboard
Great lesson, God bless you Sir. You have opened our hearts and minds to MUSIC
Thank you kindly for listening!
Hey Gregg,. You opened the CAGE(D) for me. You are great. Thanks for the work u r doin in the community.
Thanks that's cool , I like the vibes
Thank you Gregg.
Just right for me thank you
Very clearly presented, and it makes sense. Thanks Greg. Another tool in toolbox. I'll add this to using and connecting individual arpeggios, i.e., progressions, or use melodic embellishment, to create an improvided musical statement,
Yes this is a very useful method and can really help tie everything together that you've learnt across the fretboard. Thanks for watching Jerry!
Great method!!!
Awesome! thank you
Thanks Greg! I’ve just been looking at scales to play. This is very helpful. I’ll use one pattern up and a different pattern back down.
My pleasure Dan! Yes experiment with this system and use it as a springboard for something that works for you 👍
Enjoyed this great job! Suscribed, found out about this clip via one of your emails. Looking forward to seeing more
Clear explanation.
Excellent content always 🎸
Thanks very much for your kind feedback!
I practice linear patterns (to break out of boxes), so they are not new for me, but explicitly thinking about them as connected one octave segments is a helpful concept. Easier to envision and work trough on the fly than treating a linear run as one long pattern - which is what I tend to do. Actually, I kind of think of linear runs as parts of boxes linked together rather than extending & repeating one octave pattern. I definitely see myself re-imagining loads of scales and arpeggios this way to simplify how I think about them. Thanks!
Re--imaging how we approach a lot of things on the fretboard is an ongoing process for all of us. Learning the scales all on one string really helps as well!
Hey Greg, this is a huge eye-opener for me! Your explanations and graphics are so clear and easy to understand. I just subscribed to your RUclips channel and I’m sure I will take one of your courses very soon!
Thank you so much!. Glad it was helpful!
Hi Greg, I’m new to the guitar and jazz guitar especially. Also just discovered your channel. A few weeks ago I was learning the Major scale on the fretboard and saw this pattern, which helped me make sense of the fretboard. I think it was because I was learning piano before I came to the guitar. I like the way you used the pattern to work out the Dorian scale. Makes much more sense. Thanks for sharing this lesson. It is much better to use the fretboard like the piano. 👍👍👍
Really good lesson - clear, concise and elucidating.
Glad it helped!
Great lessons really liked your lesson on chord voiceings
Pretty cool; will also like to see this being practically executed in terms of playing changes.
Another good puzzle piece on the way to fretboard fluency
Thank you sir very helpful
Incredible 🙏🏽👍
I love this method, I would learn this by comparing the 3 major scales with the Major Ionian scale by comparing the mixolydian, Lydian and Ionian scales together then doing the same 3 minor scales the Aeolian, phrigian and Dorian minor comparisons
Yes learning scales and modes in parallel fashion like that really helps you to hear the unique sound of each mode/scale
thank you! It works :)
*Thank you for sharing!👍🛎 wish you success!*
Great ,a simple explanation.👍🎸🎸
Glad you found this easy to follow Martin!
Hell yeah, Greg! Thanks for making this content. I picked up this pattern from Randy Rhoads playing, but never made the connection you could transfer it to all the root notes across the fretboard. Super powerful and makes scales fun again 😃
Thanks for checking out the video Jamison, yes it's a very effective way to organize the fretboard. Glad you found this useful! 🎸🎸🎸
Very nicely done video. I had stumbled over this concept a bit through my own messing around, but somehow hadn't processed the degree to which this could be translated into other scales beyond the major. This showed me the utility of thinking about other modes as simply slight alterations of the same pattern. I guess the next step for me would be thinking about how this approach is then applied when composing/improvising lines over chord progressions.
Thank you for a great lesson that was very very helpful I thank you really on to something
That's brilliant!👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Ok, I memorized the full fretboard scale. I think I like it, tomorrow I’ll learn your 3 jazz chords!
Thank you. Very helpful
Glad that this was helpful to you!
Thanks!
I like it. I don't know why I didn't think of it myself: busy reprogramming the muscle memory now.
Thank you!
I am somewhat new to guitar but have found this way of looking a notes much less confusing plus it makes it easier to understand the intervals.
Awesome John! Great you found this helpful 👍
Dude! You are amazing!
Thanks Ruben! Very kind of you 😅
Very usefull.
Another “box“ to work with and get the fretboard under the finger.
Yes good to have a clear system for the fretboard - glad you found this useful 👍
Thank you!!!
Cool.
I play in prefect 4ths so this repeating pattern system works very well for me.
Thanks for sharing… I will check your website courses. 😎👍
Whether you see it as a box or not, it’s just a way to memorize the entire pattern in chunks. The caged system is just fine for learning the fretboard. As you learn the entire footboard, you can color outside of the lines.
That's exactly right. It's just a way to organize the notes but certainly not the only way!
I have naturally but awkwardly begun to do this. Thank you for making sense of something that actually makes sense...
An excellent lesson!
Not only practical but also a way of exercising your mind and fingers in finding notes around the fretboard, rather than rote learning
I’ll be honest … the whole CAGED system....something I’ve avoided
Whilst I learnt, and use, a sort of CAGED system on my guitar, I was also told that it's one of the easiest things to teach and understand incorrectly.
Frank, my late teacher, said that it was never meant for more than having a sort of mental 'map' of available notes over chord grips.
Once you leave the major scale patterns and start to get to harmonic minor or melodic minor shapes, it kinda gets a little bit of an exercise in cataloguing , rather than a collection of USEABLE scale or chord shapes!
I rarely play scales straight up and down from any of my CAGED grips; they're decorated arpeggios as the song and my ear dictates. The only time I play a straight scale or sequence, I tend to prepare in advance and use finger friendly, economic patterns.
Joe Pass was considered the doyen of CAGED, and certainly taught something similar to it, but he used it to visualise chord shapes for comping or chord melody, not for scales
Books like Bill Edwards’ Fretboard Logic series even claim that the CAGED system is the reason the guitar is tuned as it is...a bit chicken before the egg
Sorry I’m digressing 😀
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