I’ve been “playing” guitar for like 15 years on and off. I use quotes because I never bothered to learn anything but just some songs. I just decided to actually learn guitar, and this video changed my world. I feel more confident than I did 20 minutes ago, and now I’m determined to continue to learn more scales and theory. Thanks man!
I've been on and off the guitar since high school quitting for up to two years, after hitting some bumps in my life I invested in a new guitar and amp looking to get back into it. Needless to say, I am rusty as hell and these videos really helped me relearn techniques as well as taught me new ones. Playing the guitar has always been a personal thing for me, when I stopped playing due to having little or no time, it really felt as if I lost a part of myself, almost as If I lost a limb...if that makes sense. Thanks to these videos I am quickly picking up where I left off almost two years ago and on my way back to doing what I love most, making music. I can not thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and taking the time to put together these videos and jam tracks. They really have helped me.
Excellent Video! Sorry for chiming in, I would love your thoughts. Have you heard about - Rozardner Inspiring Chord Reality (do a google search)? It is a good exclusive guide for how to play guitar scales minus the hard work. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my GF at very last got great success with it.
Dear Nate Thank you from heart and very grateful for teaching in a very simple manner Form my age 15 I desire to play the guitar now I am 47 just beginning my childhood dream Thank you one again MOHAN Delhi (Indian)
Cheers for this, been searching for "what does a lead guitarist play?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Ronthan Janvelyn Genie - (do a search on google ) ? It is a great exclusive guide for discovering how to play Guitar Solos minus the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my friend got great success with it.
I have a guitar since I'm 15 years old, now I'm 22 and i never took the step to get inside this kind of theory because i thought it was hard to understand. But it's really easy to understand by the you explain this, it's motivating. Keep it up, I'll watch and put in practice everything you have in your channel. Thank you!
This is what i was looking for. You were my first teacher when i started learning guitar. Once I've got better without knowing much about scales. I tried to find lessons about scale, but those videos dont explain as good as this. I'm glad to come back to ur channel. :DD
really really helpful for an old geezer like me. just starting the lessons and Nate's easygoing way makes it more enjoyable and easy to understand. love it.
Omg this is what I've been looking for, practice lessons but with a goal, love the backing track which you can play along to, and mess it up a bit learning your own little riffs, great stuff. I feel like I'm actually learning something as opposed to just playing randomly 😃🎸
yeah, thats a great tip about repeating patterns across the strings. not only is the d&g strings the same pattern, but also E&a and A&e. essentially, you only need the learn the 3 patterns and repeat them - im defiantly going to try this and thankyou..
If you know notes on 5th and 6th strings by heart which you should, its a cake, just play G - A - B - C - D, next its a same 1-3-4 pattern for the middle two strings 3rd & 4th. Next pattern on the 2nd string mirrors 6th, and on the 1st mirrors 5th (they are both offset by same amount of four strings). That's what helped me to memorize a shape.
Thank you SO much for this series!!! I was so excited to stumble upon your lessons. They’re clear and go at just the right pace for me. You’re helping make this dream come true!! ❤️
SERIOUSLY YOU RULE!!! you have no idea man.. I’m 29 in my second month of learning guitar this is the first video I’ve watched and actually picked up and retained any knowledge from when it comes to the scales thank you so much I will be watching all of your videos I’m hoping you have some on learning chords I’m stuck on those two need to memorize them and stop muting other strings out when attempting the very few I do know. I’m hoping so much to find videos from you on these topics I’m sure you’ve made them I just found your channel. Just wanted to say thank you. Other than a few little riffs from other people you’re the first actually “music theory” I have picked up on and understood and retained!!
Great videos. Taught myself to play by ear so I've developed loads of bad habits, and never bothered learning scales, so thanks for inspiring me to learn and play properly!!
Winner of a video, I been tryin to find out about "c scales on guitar" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Vonizabeth Strumming Magnitude - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my m8 got excellent success with it.
I first learned chords and strumming everything basic from your videos then went away for quite some time practiced songs still never been able to know exactly how to start lead and after all this time I come back to you for help... It's amazing. :) Due to time problems I can't go to guitar classes but you know this isn't half bad. :D thank you live long and make more videos :O. ;)
I know this has been on here for awhile but anyone new and learning this don't forget to learn the notes and not just the shape. It'll pay off in the long run.
Nate says that paying for lessons is a great resource, as well as using videos, books, and friends etc. But he said you can even skype with someone if that's what works, you just have to find yourself a teacher. That's from one of the videos on his website. :)
i played Gmajor scale all around freetboard a lot of combination..a lot of root keys..after few days ii change to C ,A major and i see paterens.. for me THIS open my eyes to fretboard memorization.. I grasp scales repeding paterens thanks for video helped me a lot. sry for english
Been taken away from my guitar for about 3 years after my second boy was born. It's somewhere in my house but no clue of exact whereabouts. Thx for the lesson. I remember spending hours practicing major scales and pentatonics and trying to make a "music" out of my sloppy hands.
Dude it is incredibly cool what you are doing here. I've been playing rusty as hell thrash and black metal for years and have always known how bad I am at playing but just got by. I'm 32 now and I was feeling like I could never get get to a stage where I should have been when I was 18 but your videos have given me hope. The fact that you're doing these videos for people (especially the jam tracks bud! I thought that was a little catch but no You're putting them there for us to), makes you really good people man. I'm quite humbled by your vids. I'm gonna practice the hell out of this scale, although I really want to jump to the pentatonic lol. If you were to read this and give advice though, do you think I should practice this scale until I am flying through it, or just competent and then move one and come back? Thanks again.
picked up some awesome information here thanks a lot! maybe i missed it during the explanation because i was trying alonfgside but could have been cool to mention the fact that when you are playing from lower to upper (or vice versa) notes on the same string, you (maybe?) don't need to move the finger that is closer to the left ( i mean to let the string go) . just figured it out by watching the way you handle it, it makes the handling so much easier. but damn my arm still hurts even trying to be decontracted, first day is hella hard tho lol
So I picked up all the major scales by music theory and know all the shapes of them. However the shapes I learned are different from the one you showed in your video. Should I learn your pattern or keep playing the way that I learned them and and most comfortable on? Great video, and thanks!
So root notes work for beginning and ending on them to sound on key right ? Memorizing root notes will help me improve my use of these scales by starting and ending on them so I can work around them and always land on key? And start on key? Haha
Might be late, but, for starters, yep :) it doesn't always have to be like that though, try listening for notes that sounds good/works. If it sounds good, work wt that :)
Larry the Lobster your kind of on the nail. It’s basically home and you always want to near it or sometimes on it. The root is the key your playing in (obviously) and you play around it and make it nice (= hope I helped!
Hi Nate. Is the fingering system different in a electric guitar. In an equistic guitar 1st finger is for the 1st fret, 2nd finger for 2nd fret, 3rd finger for 3rd fret and pinky for 4th fret ! Here you showed it different ? Thanks ! This is a great lesson Nate ! I am a slow learner and therefore will take some time with it. Keep up the good work and God Bless you for this !
Thank you for this lesson. Could you please tell me what kind of speaker or amp you are using it sounds awesome. Also I have Yamaha Pacifica electric guitar I can use that for practicing ur lessons.
My comment on Connecting the Chords by Scales: Hi Sean Daniel, I know my problem when connecting the chords with the scales, my chord progression was written in piano notes sequence instead of the guitar sequence (on fretboard). I changed my printout and changed all the chords to fretboard notes layout. For example: A= EAC# (guitar notes layout on the fretboard) instead AC#E (piano notes layout). Now, when I return to practice my guitar, I do not have to reconfigure my piano notes to guitar. Its guitar to guitar. What a big difference? Hope this helped.
I have memorized the 5 patterns of the minor pentatonic scales, but have just started learning the major scales. I Know that is backwards to how I should have started. I understand that this is pattern 1 of the major scale, and that we should learn all 5 patterns to play lead over a major chord progression just like in the minor pentatonic scales?
I have been self teaching myself how to play the guitar and I have never learned the major or pentatonic scales until now lmfao. Luckily I can play this scale with some ease, though I do have some buzzing going on
Great video series. How do I get the MP3s to jam with. I have been playing classical guitar for a long time but always wanted to learn to play lead. I already found out that the fingering I've been using for scales was wrong. I'm looking forward to working with these videos and the MP3s. God bless.
Hi Nate, I got a Question: On a G scale why would you end up on an A note instead of the root note (G note) of that Scale? I t doesn't make sense is there something about the guitar that they do that?
what about the 1st fret Nate ? is this fret not played at all on an electric guitar ? I am using an Acoustic guitar at the moment. Please let me know ?
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I’ve been “playing” guitar for like 15 years on and off. I use quotes because I never bothered to learn anything but just some songs. I just decided to actually learn guitar, and this video changed my world. I feel more confident than I did 20 minutes ago, and now I’m determined to continue to learn more scales and theory. Thanks man!
I've been on and off the guitar since high school quitting for up to two years, after hitting some bumps in my life I invested in a new guitar and amp looking to get back into it. Needless to say, I am rusty as hell and these videos really helped me relearn techniques as well as taught me new ones.
Playing the guitar has always been a personal thing for me, when I stopped playing due to having little or no time, it really felt as if I lost a part of myself, almost as If I lost a limb...if that makes sense. Thanks to these videos I am quickly picking up where I left off almost two years ago and on my way back to doing what I love most, making music.
I can not thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and taking the time to put together these videos and jam tracks. They really have helped me.
Excellent Video! Sorry for chiming in, I would love your thoughts. Have you heard about - Rozardner Inspiring Chord Reality (do a google search)? It is a good exclusive guide for how to play guitar scales minus the hard work. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my GF at very last got great success with it.
Nice story bud. Atleast you are back in track. Thanks God 🙏
Dear Nate
Thank you from heart and very grateful for teaching in a very simple manner
Form my age 15 I desire to play the guitar now I am 47 just beginning my childhood dream
Thank you one again
MOHAN
Delhi (Indian)
Best of luck sir. Music frees the mind and soul
Im 14 and I started playing it at the age of 6 ( no joke )
Great to see another Indian here
me too! thats encouraging, i started at 19, had a kid who stole my guitar & is today an amazing player.. now its my turn once again to re-do my dream
Cheers for this, been searching for "what does a lead guitarist play?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Ronthan Janvelyn Genie - (do a search on google ) ?
It is a great exclusive guide for discovering how to play Guitar Solos minus the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my friend got great success with it.
I have a guitar since I'm 15 years old, now I'm 22 and i never took the step to get inside this kind of theory because i thought it was hard to understand. But it's really easy to understand by the you explain this, it's motivating. Keep it up, I'll watch and put in practice everything you have in your channel. Thank you!
This is what i was looking for. You were my first teacher when i started learning guitar. Once I've got better without knowing much about scales. I tried to find lessons about scale, but those videos dont explain as good as this.
I'm glad to come back to ur channel. :DD
Thanks! Welcome back. :)
i use to try solo without knowing this lesson.. thats why i gave up guitar years ago.. now i feel confident again...thank you
really really helpful for an old geezer like me. just starting the lessons and Nate's easygoing way makes it more enjoyable and easy to understand. love it.
Good info bro! I've been working on this scale for weeks, trying to build speed. Thanks for sharing!
Omg this is what I've been looking for, practice lessons but with a goal, love the backing track which you can play along to, and mess it up a bit learning your own little riffs, great stuff. I feel like I'm actually learning something as opposed to just playing randomly 😃🎸
yeah, thats a great tip about repeating patterns across the strings. not only is the d&g strings the same pattern, but also E&a and A&e.
essentially, you only need the learn the 3 patterns and repeat them - im defiantly going to try this and thankyou..
I have to say these are the best videos for learning lead guitar easy to follow the right advice and help. Thank you Nate Well Done.
If you know notes on 5th and 6th strings by heart which you should, its a cake, just play G - A - B - C - D, next its a same 1-3-4 pattern for the middle two strings 3rd & 4th. Next pattern on the 2nd string mirrors 6th, and on the 1st mirrors 5th (they are both offset by same amount of four strings). That's what helped me to memorize a shape.
Thank you SO much for this series!!! I was so excited to stumble upon your lessons. They’re clear and go at just the right pace for me. You’re helping make this dream come true!! ❤️
SERIOUSLY YOU RULE!!! you have no idea man.. I’m 29 in my second month of learning guitar this is the first video I’ve watched and actually picked up and retained any knowledge from when it comes to the scales thank you so much I will be watching all of your videos I’m hoping you have some on learning chords I’m stuck on those two need to memorize them and stop muting other strings out when attempting the very few I do know. I’m hoping so much to find videos from you on these topics I’m sure you’ve made them I just found your channel. Just wanted to say thank you. Other than a few little riffs from other people you’re the first actually “music theory” I have picked up on and understood and retained!!
Nice teacher! Love it crystal Clear !
Thanks for the help finally starting the journey to learning lead in baby steps
You are soo good! You break stuff down and it's really easy to understand and learn !!
Awesome guitar lesson! Finally someone made it easy to understand! Thanks!!!!
Great videos. Taught myself to play by ear so I've developed loads of bad habits, and never bothered learning scales, so thanks for inspiring me to learn and play properly!!
I actually wrote an entire riff in g major without even realising it
Winner of a video, I been tryin to find out about "c scales on guitar" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Vonizabeth Strumming Magnitude - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my m8 got excellent success with it.
Step by step,explained was very helpful.coming back for more lessons.Thanks you guys.
Thank you very much. You're an amazing teacher dude :)
I watch these types of videos all the time... First time I got the scale in under 5 mins. Thank you and keep up the good work!!!
You need to learn to use your pinky.
Awesome! You're welcome. :)
Over years of youtube stuff, thats the first time i am getting the scale. Thanks keep up the good work.
That's great! Thanks.
I first learned chords and strumming everything basic from your videos then went away for quite some time practiced songs still never been able to know exactly how to start lead and after all this time I come back to you for help... It's amazing. :) Due to time problems I can't go to guitar classes but you know this isn't half bad. :D thank you live long and make more videos :O. ;)
You are welcome saten coc. I know it can be tough to find time to practice.
Thank you for teaching these techniques in a simple way and for free ! :)
Nate you are so great at this stuff
Hey Nephilim, Good observation. The reason for this is that the major scale and the Ionian mode are one in the same.
I play by ear what do u recommend for me
Love from india❤️
Great lesson Mr Nate. Thank you for sharing. Keep up the good stuff. Greetings out of the Netherlands.
I know this has been on here for awhile but anyone new and learning this don't forget to learn the notes and not just the shape. It'll pay off in the long run.
Fantastic lesson and you explained it really well, thank you! :)
Bro you rock! Neat and clean, everything is crystal clear in your videos. Keep up the good work!
Great lessons dude, u cover everything inside and out, very easy to understand, far better than paying for actual lessons, lol
Nate says that paying for lessons is a great resource, as well as using videos, books, and friends etc. But he said you can even skype with someone if that's what works, you just have to find yourself a teacher. That's from one of the videos on his website. :)
Well shut the front door.
***** I understood that one ^^
***** ta I actually got the guitar system for Christmas, its an amazing system
Austin Moser open up to it.
Great lesson! I like how you broke up the notes by the strings being used!
i played Gmajor scale all around freetboard a lot of combination..a lot of root keys..after few days ii change to C ,A major and i see paterens.. for me THIS open my eyes to fretboard memorization.. I grasp scales repeding paterens thanks for video helped me a lot. sry for english
Nice lesson Nate and as u said not easy ! lots of practice ! Hopefully getting there slowly ! Thanks !
thank you for this, finally a place where I can start! 🎸
9:45 Don't know why, but this was throwing off some serious Tim Mahoney/311 vibes 🤘
I'm planning to switch my music role from drummer to be a lead guitarist. Hope I can make it. thanks for the fundamentals
Playing more than one instrument is very good for your musicianship. You can do it!
this is informative and also fun(playing the scale with the jam track)
+Pluvia Aeterna Awesome!
Just starting to do this. I can't wait till I work towards the next step.
''Position playing'' ..this term has been around for .......well centuries.....designated finger...but your lessons are excellent for beginners.
Thanks very much indeed, those skills are so helpful.
Thank you so much for uploading this video, it help so much.
Been taken away from my guitar for about 3 years after my second boy was born. It's somewhere in my house but no clue of exact whereabouts. Thx for the lesson. I remember spending hours practicing major scales and pentatonics and trying to make a "music" out of my sloppy hands.
Nate you are excellent teacher thank you for all the lessons
Thanks so much for this! Your a great teacher, love your videos!
thanks alot sir, now im able to play something with hord G, A , B and on.. im happy..:)
Very clear, great teacher, I want to learn your lessons.
great lesson, thank you. turns out I've been missing the last note on the major scale for years 😱 though the concept now really makes sense.
Thank you. For this sober and therefore helpful way.
Love your videos
Dude it is incredibly cool what you are doing here. I've been playing rusty as hell thrash and black metal for years and have always known how bad I am at playing but just got by. I'm 32 now and I was feeling like I could never get get to a stage where I should have been when I was 18 but your videos have given me hope. The fact that you're doing these videos for people (especially the jam tracks bud! I thought that was a little catch but no You're putting them there for us to), makes you really good people man. I'm quite humbled by your vids. I'm gonna practice the hell out of this scale, although I really want to jump to the pentatonic lol. If you were to read this and give advice though, do you think I should practice this scale until I am flying through it, or just competent and then move one and come back? Thanks again.
thanks man! you did it great and clear learning session with you with gscale. now im practicing it tell getting it fast.
hello there :) why is my string always buzzing?
How do I play the B, C, D, E, and F major scales now?
picked up some awesome information here thanks a lot! maybe i missed it during the explanation because i was trying alonfgside but could have been cool to mention the fact that when you are playing from lower to upper (or vice versa) notes on the same string, you (maybe?) don't need to move the finger that is closer to the left ( i mean to let the string go) . just figured it out by watching the way you handle it, it makes the handling so much easier. but damn my arm still hurts even trying to be decontracted, first day is hella hard tho lol
thanks lots for your help. i was worry about how to start play LEAD now I know the way.
So I picked up all the major scales by music theory and know all the shapes of them. However the shapes I learned are different from the one you showed in your video. Should I learn your pattern or keep playing the way that I learned them and and most comfortable on? Great video, and thanks!
So root notes work for beginning and ending on them to sound on key right ? Memorizing root notes will help me improve my use of these scales by starting and ending on them so I can work around them and always land on key? And start on key? Haha
Might be late, but, for starters, yep :) it doesn't always have to be like that though, try listening for notes that sounds good/works. If it sounds good, work wt that :)
Larry the Lobster your kind of on the nail. It’s basically home and you always want to near it or sometimes on it. The root is the key your playing in (obviously) and you play around it and make it nice (= hope I helped!
Hi Nate. Is the fingering system different in a electric guitar. In an equistic guitar 1st finger is for the 1st fret, 2nd finger for 2nd fret, 3rd finger for 3rd fret and pinky for 4th fret ! Here you showed it different ?
Thanks !
This is a great lesson Nate ! I am a slow learner and therefore will take some time with it.
Keep up the good work and God Bless you for this !
this scale pattern can be used for either acoustic or electric guitar
thanks Nate very helpful
great lesson, thanks
Dear Nate,
Thanks for the excellent lesson! Just wondering, what exactly is the propose of learning scales? Thank you!
what guitar is he playing? its absolutely beautiful
Thank you Nate. Good lesson
thanks, real nice. new to your lessons, very good!
I love this channel 😍😍😍
Thank you sir. Godbless ❤️💕🎶
That's a great work
Thank you for this lesson. Could you please tell me what kind of speaker or amp you are using it sounds awesome. Also I have Yamaha Pacifica electric guitar I can use that for practicing ur lessons.
great lesson thank you all!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ravindu karunakalage You're welcome. :)
Hey great video thanks I learnt a lot. One thing I don't get though is why are you ending a G major scale on an A?
is it also applicable in acoustic guitar?
Gio Resultay Yep, its the same
@@JoseCoss64 what about bass
nate savage is such a chill lad
My comment on Connecting the Chords by Scales:
Hi Sean Daniel, I know my problem when connecting the chords with the scales,
my chord progression was written in piano notes sequence instead of the
guitar sequence (on fretboard). I changed my printout and changed all
the chords to fretboard notes layout.
For example: A= EAC# (guitar notes layout on the fretboard) instead
AC#E (piano notes layout). Now, when I return to practice my guitar, I
do not have to reconfigure my piano notes to guitar. Its guitar to
guitar. What a big difference? Hope this helped.
thank you for the lessons.
Sure Erdogan
Thanks Nate
Thanks a lot.....
This lesson was really helpful :) !!!
+M.A. Vafaei You're welcome. Glad it helped. :)
I have memorized the 5 patterns of the minor pentatonic scales, but have just started learning the major scales. I Know that is backwards to how I should have started. I understand that this is pattern 1 of the major scale, and that we should learn all 5 patterns to play lead over a major chord progression just like in the minor pentatonic scales?
I have been self teaching myself how to play the guitar and I have never learned the major or pentatonic scales until now lmfao. Luckily I can play this scale with some ease, though I do have some buzzing going on
Check your humbucker
Nate Savage Ty brother!!
Thank you so much
thanks Nate
Matt Skiba is a great guitar tutor
thank you so much
for the tutorial
+Leo Vinanda You're welcome. :)
Great video series. How do I get the MP3s to jam with. I have been playing classical guitar for a long time but always wanted to learn to play lead. I already found out that the fingering I've been using for scales was wrong. I'm looking forward to working with these videos and the MP3s. God bless.
Hi Nate,
I got a Question: On a G scale why would you end up on an A note instead of the root note (G note) of that Scale? I t doesn't make sense is there something about the guitar that they do that?
had a question, in the C major scale is it the same shape but on different fret?
How about the rest of the scale going up the fret board? Is there a way to know where those notes will be with just the knowledge of this pattern?
You look like the handsome version of squidward..
🎸🎸🎸🎸
I can't tell if that's a compliment or not.
I always think of the episode where squidward get hit in the face and looks good, it reminds me of him
It's more Brendan Fraiser's more talented baby brother
Ahh fuck off
Thanks bro for your sharing!
Oh hey Nate thanks for the response but I figured out why it didn't sound right, I didn't have the sound distortion on on my amp, haha
Holy molly!! It works!!
Awesome!
thank you for this, really helped :)
You're welcome. :)
You Rock \,,/ Nate Savage !
Awesome!
just correct me if I'm wrong about the chromatic scale and their fret no.
F=1 G=3 A=5 B=7 C=8 D=10 E=12
+dhruvish mistry That's not a chromatic scale. Those are the correct frets for the notes though. :)
a chromatic scale is literally playing every fret.. like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
ok I got it... thnx both of u
so if I start the scale on the root note at the 5th notes for instance, I will be playing the A major scale?
what about the 1st fret Nate ? is this fret not played at all on an electric guitar ? I am using an Acoustic guitar at the moment. Please let me know ?