This guy can play ! Ok what he is saying is " learn your major scale modes" If your playing an A7 .. Play A mixolydian ...Key Of D Major, E Dorian .. F# Phrygian .. G Lydian ... A Mixolyian .. B Aeolian .. Here is where it changes , when you go to the IV chord the key changes . D7 is now in the key of G major , if you play A dorian licks over D7 you are playing D mixolydian ? Basically an A dorian is just an A min pentatonic with 2 extra notes B and F#.. All you need to learn is #1 the 7 shapes of the major modes and #2 learn what key you need to be in . Mixolydian is the 5th mode of the major scale E mixolydian = Key of A Major A - B - C# - D - E - F# - Ab - A. Best thing to do is make a loop of A7 and jam over it learning the scale and it's different positions on the neck . Then move to the IV D7 and do the same thing and when you get comfortable make a loop of 4 bars of A7 going to 2 bars of D7 and loop it. I hope this helps somebody , learning is FUN.... I hope i did not confuse you i'm trying to help anybody in a rut .. Have fun guys ..
this has been my approach for the I and IV but I always struggle with doing this for the V because it just sounds like moving up the scale from the IV by two frets and doesn't that fresh.
FloydKnip i get what you're saying . Ok so don't move up to D Mixolydian in 10th position , try playing a lick in the 5th position over the D7 . What you are playing is A Dorian because D MIXOLYDIAN IS THE 5TH SCALE IN G MAJOR AND A DORIAN IS THE SECOND SCALE IN G MAJOR . Or just think of it as A minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes . record a loop of D7 and try it . Or try playing an E Aeolian , again think of this scale as a E minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes .
You could just slide up the two frets, like you said, if you stayed in minor scales for the entire progression. For instance, A minor pentatonic, D minor pent. and then slide two frets up for your E minor pent. However, that gets old, as you stated. What Daniel is saying is Major on the I and V chords and a minor on the IV. If you are minor on the IV and Major on the V then even if you move two frets up the notes and their intervals will be different and should give you contrast. Since you are not on that V chord very long sometimes I stay in fifth position and play E Major pentatonic. Start it with your pinky on the E. Obviously I can't roam the fretboard as freely as Mr. Schofield.
Lets try this . Play an A7 chord and loop it . Now i want you to play 10th fret all 6 strings D major scale or { IONIAN MODE } Keep playing the A7 looped and do not stop it . Move up to the 12th fret and play E dorian mode , then F# Phrygian 14th fret or 2nd fret next play G Lydian 3rd fret , A Mixolydian 5th fret . B Aeolian 7th fret . Learn the patterns slowly and you will get this . I chose the A7 chord for blues sound but not to confuse you --- you could do this with any chords in D Major like E minor would work over D MAJOR MODES, or B minor, G major7TH and so on . I hope i'm not making this more confusing for you but soon a light bulb will go off in your head and you will figure this out .
I love that in the start of the video, his noodling was so clean and had direction. You could hear the chord changes clearly and even hum the I IV V bassline along with him. Solid.
Matt has a constant natural flow and build up in his solos, and never seems just to show off. I love his musical attitude, that reminds me a bit of the one of Robben Ford.
Whouuuw, one of the best Guitarist together with Chris Duarte, Charlie Hunter and Josh Smith right now. And this great SVL sound, with this great Curt Mangan strings! Thanks a lot for it.
I agree with these comments, I have really gotten into Matt's playing and albums. Bought 5 studio albums in a month and absolutely love them! Great melody, tone and he doesn't rely on 'tricks' and gimmicks - just great playing.
oh boy, great lesson! what an honest guy, shows all his chops and tries to tell exactly what he's doing. saw him live two years ago it was simply amazing!
Thank-you Matt, for playing in Victoria, b.c. @ ships point in the inner harbor. Such a shame that the harbor authority wouldn't let you play past 10pm. Really enjoy your' phrasing ♫♪♫♫ ♪♫
Well i am very glad to see and hear that my first line of thinking,dealing with the possible set of key changes,not always keeping the 1s blues scale flowing entirely. thanks.
Matt was talking about BB King's importance to electric guitar on another video where the comment section was closed but what I wanted to say is the album that really woke me up to how cool a player he truly was is "Blues Is King". Lot's of really tastey and hip playing all over that album.
Nice melodic blues styling. Retro example of the suspended sound Matt uses at end of clip (5:14 >) can be found on studio version of "All I Want to Be is By Your Side" by Peter Frampton.
----and then give your Strat, your Two Rock and your VERY heavy gauge strings to me. After that, you buy the album I recorded with the stuff you gave me.
What he does is , he uses arpeggios a lot. So in every chord you have, break it down to a basic 1-3-5-7( of the chord you're playing over) and play those notes on the chords. that's a good starting point:)
Worship guitarists won't get it. A real player rips with a little bed of reverb. No delays. No mods. Pure tone. And if you can hear closely, 90% comes from his hands. Matt is a Killer. So clean, always has a motif. 🎸🔥🔨
Interesting part of the blues is to play dims over the V7s occasionally...or tri tone subs in their place . Plus doing harm. min. turn around from bar 8 to 9....just to add a bit of tension and variety from min. pents 🙂🙂
George Christiansen as a jazz sax/flute and piano player this is just par for the course. we have to study each chord and modulate as we go or find alternate voicings for chord sequences just to keep things interesting
I think it's strange that people say he sounds just like Robben Ford. His vibrato is completely different and the tonalities he plays are very different from Robben(for the blues anyway). Robben tends to play all that altered stuff right before a V-1 and more Chromaticism in general. Also, I think that Matt's tone trumps everybody's. Just sayin'.
Matts the player I wish I got into much earlier for multiple reasons… he explains why tone is important without going nuts with it! he plays the changes and doesn’t depend on tricks. Made me realise I was always a strat guy in denial he got me out of that lol what a chap!
When it changes to the IV, it seems it comes natural to play tones that harmonize with it. I find scales useful to get inspiration for new sounds, although those also come natural given the music you like, but when you have a feeling for what sounds you like, then I see no use of thinking of a scale or how the tone is called.
This is a fine bit of instruction for those who may be inclined to intellectualize the blues. There is always the option of thinking less, feeling more, and playing what you hear. Theory is useful; taste is elusive.
I think his blues is coming more out of the swinging blues style, originated by Lester Young, and finding its way into the guitar by way of Charlie Christian.
I think adding some intelligence to the blues really helps set a guitarist apart, and I don't mean really advanced jazz theory, just this little bit that he's doing here is so much more interesting to the ear than your typical bar guitarist that just goes up and down the minor pentatonic all night. I can't stand to listen to that anymore.
There is always a percentage of humanity who leave a dislike, good on ya dickheads, they have to express their envy, basic bad faith, general bad humor, it is simply part of the wall paper of humanity. Great playing!
my approach is similar. over A7: Amin pent., Amaj Pent., Amixo then D7: Dmaj Pent., Dmixo, Amin pent. E7: Emaj Pent., Emixo, Amin pent. Then also pepper it with some half-whole Diminished and maybe altered dom scale.
Cool. I'm not a great guitarist, but I do consider myself as a competent musician. I'm not going to give up just because I know I'll never be anywhere near as good as Matt. In fact, he's just inspired me to do even more dedicated practice (without recommended any), rather than noodling. Some of the best comedians seem fluent and fresh in their 'ad-lib' and so natural, but they analyse for hours how to make things work. Feeling that I may become stale has stopped me "studying" things, but d'you what.... I just might start. Anyway, I'm also encouraged because l've been going down this "changing key with the chords" since forever, but only because I thought it was easier. There's a great masterclass from Robin Ford in the save series. Worth a watch too. I might just post this note into another video in case it helps. I mean you never know if these comments get read or not do you really.
SRV had it…..now Matt have it. Iam a great fan of him and his tastefully guitar playing! Did “Don’t know what i’d do” with my former bluesband….as an opening song….(sorry Matt😮)
i don't get it with this scales if im playing blues in A for example I start with the minor pentatonic like he says but when the d comes I don't know what to play should i play the d major pentatonic? i dont know how to connect them, the only way i do it is using some old scool licks i learned but i wanna be able to know what the hell is happening any advice?
He's saying that he plays distinctly over each chord, so it's not just one scale. For the I chord it is A mixolydian, IV is D mixolydian, and V is E mixolydian. But you can still use the A blues scale as a skeleton for all of this, while mixing in parts of the other scales when those chords come around, according to your liking.
It's all relative. Most dudes are just taught to play the blues scale of the I through the whole progression. Compared to that, this is rocket science.
He's got the perfect blend between blues and jazz, that elegant touch makes him an absolutely true master of the blues! Thanks Matt!
I am learning! Love Matt Schofield playing approach.
Me too. You're also a master Tomo!
TomoFujitaMusic ..you should listen to Robben Ford ..you will love him as well
You seriously think he does'nt know Robben ford?
krimi I don't think he knows who Tomo Fujita is ;)
Absolutly true!!
This guy can play ! Ok what he is saying is " learn your major scale modes" If your playing an A7 .. Play A mixolydian ...Key Of D Major, E Dorian .. F# Phrygian .. G Lydian ... A Mixolyian .. B Aeolian .. Here is where it changes , when you go to the IV chord the key changes . D7 is now in the key of G major , if you play A dorian licks over D7 you are playing D mixolydian ? Basically an A dorian is just an A min pentatonic with 2 extra notes B and F#.. All you need to learn is #1 the 7 shapes of the major modes and #2 learn what key you need to be in . Mixolydian is the 5th mode of the major scale E mixolydian = Key of A Major A - B - C# - D - E - F# - Ab - A. Best thing to do is make a loop of A7 and jam over it learning the scale and it's different positions on the neck . Then move to the IV D7 and do the same thing and when you get comfortable make a loop of 4 bars of A7 going to 2 bars of D7 and loop it. I hope this helps somebody , learning is FUN.... I hope i did not confuse you i'm trying to help anybody in a rut .. Have fun guys ..
this has been my approach for the I and IV but I always struggle with doing this for the V because it just sounds like moving up the scale from the IV by two frets and doesn't that fresh.
FloydKnip i get what you're saying . Ok so don't move up to D Mixolydian in 10th position , try playing a lick in the 5th position over the D7 . What you are playing is A Dorian because D MIXOLYDIAN IS THE 5TH SCALE IN G MAJOR AND A DORIAN IS THE SECOND SCALE IN G MAJOR . Or just think of it as A minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes . record a loop of D7 and try it . Or try playing an E Aeolian , again think of this scale as a E minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes .
You could just slide up the two frets, like you said, if you stayed in minor scales for the entire progression. For instance, A minor pentatonic, D minor pent. and then slide two frets up for your E minor pent. However, that gets old, as you stated. What Daniel is saying is Major on the I and V chords and a minor on the IV. If you are minor on the IV and Major on the V then even if you move two frets up the notes and their intervals will be different and should give you contrast. Since you are not on that V chord very long sometimes I stay in fifth position and play E Major pentatonic. Start it with your pinky on the E. Obviously I can't roam the fretboard as freely as Mr. Schofield.
Lets try this . Play an A7 chord and loop it . Now i want you to play 10th fret all 6 strings D major scale or { IONIAN MODE } Keep playing the A7 looped and do not stop it . Move up to the 12th fret and play E dorian mode , then F# Phrygian 14th fret or 2nd fret next play G Lydian 3rd fret , A Mixolydian 5th fret . B Aeolian 7th fret . Learn the patterns slowly and you will get this . I chose the A7 chord for blues sound but not to confuse you --- you could do this with any chords in D Major like E minor would work over D MAJOR MODES, or B minor, G major7TH and so on . I hope i'm not making this more confusing for you but soon a light bulb will go off in your head and you will figure this out .
bookmarking this video just for this discussion :-)
matt schofield and josh smith... keeping the blues alive in a refreshing way :)
refreshing to hear a player not playing a bazillion notes per second but actually focusing on succinct phrases that mean something musically.
@Slack I like your comment, you nail it. Am soo tired of speed wizzards with no idea in it, love indeed less tones and more 'blues content'...
Took a master class with Matt about a year or two ago, what a nice and humble guy
I love that in the start of the video, his noodling was so clean and had direction. You could hear the chord changes clearly and even hum the I IV V bassline along with him. Solid.
Matt has a constant natural flow and build up in his solos, and never seems just to show off. I love his musical attitude, that reminds me a bit of the one of Robben Ford.
I'd love to have this dude teach me. Love his technique beautifully arranged phrasing. Clean & lovely tone. Melodic bliss 👍🏻
Awesome sound! Awesome guitar player! One of the most favorite!
Hey Matthew glad we got to see you in Buckingham blues bar. Fantastic.
Awesome, I caught him at the Montreal Jazz Fest a couple of months back. Great technique and awesome sound.
Very cool, great player and advise. Thanks for sharing.
Half of my kingdom for a tone like that!!! Holy A!!!
Matt Schofield is a big favourite of mine, I wish he'd come home to the Manchester area a bit more often.
i went to the same school as him and we jammed green onions in the drama department room, it was a great day
Whouuuw, one of the best Guitarist together with Chris Duarte, Charlie Hunter and Josh Smith right now.
And this great SVL sound, with this great Curt Mangan strings!
Thanks a lot for it.
Excellent performance and great sound cheers
I agree with these comments, I have really gotten into Matt's playing and albums. Bought 5 studio albums in a month and absolutely love them! Great melody, tone and he doesn't rely on 'tricks' and gimmicks - just great playing.
great guitar tone and great music ! thx for sharing
Really nice guitar playing, very melodic and smooth.
I love that jazz class mixed in with the emotion of the blues.
oh boy, great lesson! what an honest guy, shows all his chops and tries to tell exactly what he's doing. saw him live two years ago it was simply amazing!
Thank-you Matt, for playing in Victoria, b.c. @ ships point in the inner harbor. Such a shame that the harbor authority wouldn't let you play past 10pm. Really enjoy your' phrasing ♫♪♫♫ ♪♫
What a charming man, great player too!
The sound is just perfect!
No heavy distortion, just pure vibe and talent :)
Well i am very glad to see and hear that my first line of thinking,dealing with the possible set of key changes,not always keeping the 1s blues scale flowing entirely.
thanks.
Matt has such a tasted sound, that's what I really like of him, then his albums, but just his hands on the guitar makes enjoying so much!
+MrToniRoll Totally agree with you! Enjoy!
+dzsuba1 thanks for sharing
Love his phrasing ! Superb Tone and phrasing in deed !
Matt was talking about BB King's importance to electric guitar on another video where the comment section was closed but what I wanted to say is the album that really woke me up to how cool a player he truly was is "Blues Is King". Lot's of really tastey and hip playing all over that album.
The thing that can easily be missed here is his humbleness
im diggin the tone and licks
Very nice playing for sure!!!!
Something about his demeanor makes me smile. Almost at least. Always nice to hear the thoughprocess behind ones approach to playing.
Thirds gives another flavour!!
Lovely playing...
Nice melodic blues styling. Retro example of the suspended sound Matt uses at end of clip (5:14 >) can be found on studio version of "All I Want to Be is By Your Side" by Peter Frampton.
I need this tone. Wow.
Plug your strat into a Two Rock
....and put on some VERY heavy gauge strings!
----and then give your Strat, your Two Rock and your VERY heavy gauge strings to me.
After that, you buy the album I recorded with the stuff you gave me.
he only plays 11-54s, heavier than I'd use in standard but a far cry from SRV's 13 gauge
You need his tone ??……. First thing to do is go to a certain crossroad late at night……………….
Great Matt!!
Met him in a little store in Ct. maybe 10 of us sitting around in a workshop. Nicest guy and a monster player.
That was gorgeous !
Thanks !
Great approach!
Love that sound!
Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.
Great lesson and great tone man. Sounds just like those rarely early blues gigs recorded with strat
this tone is unreal
Guy King, Chris Cain, Jack Pearson...to name but a few.
A real humble cat who plays masterfully with a wonderful, rich tone. Great stuff!
yeah man...great tone.
Excellent approach. Much more interesting to play off the changes instead of remaining stagnant in one key.
this is fantastic, thanks.
Lovley strat sound matts got a nice touch m
this just gives me hope as a guitarist.
Alright !
What he does is , he uses arpeggios a lot. So in every chord you have, break it down to a basic 1-3-5-7( of the chord you're playing over) and play those notes on the chords. that's a good starting point:)
It's all about the major thirds - true statement. Appreciate the video! #blues
Very nice 😀
Thanks, great riffs !
Nice playing Matt!
Darn i really love this
this man and Derek trucks are head and shoulders the best players of the last 20 years or so.
Worship guitarists won't get it. A real player rips with a little bed of reverb. No delays. No mods. Pure tone. And if you can hear closely, 90% comes from his hands. Matt is a Killer. So clean, always has a motif. 🎸🔥🔨
this vid makes me want to get a strat again!
+Guitar Nut Matt Schofield is the man who made me restart playing the guitar after 12 years of even not touching it. Great player and a very good man!
Interesting part of the blues is to play dims over the V7s occasionally...or tri tone subs in their place .
Plus doing harm. min. turn around from bar 8 to 9....just to add a bit of tension and variety from min. pents 🙂🙂
He plays like a jazzer. The chord of the moment rules and key is just about function.
George Christiansen as a jazz sax/flute and piano player this is just par for the course. we have to study each chord and modulate as we go or find alternate voicings for chord sequences just to keep things interesting
Yes, well put I reckon, I prefer to call it 'following the chords', listening to the piece and bring out the right feel and notes, respect the song.
Thank you the brain can be dangerous when people over think they failed play the damn thing lol rock on
well said..seen him,lotta soul/ R-n- b stuff live
Great tone too!
Damn, what a tone
Very nice..
I think it's strange that people say he sounds just like Robben Ford.
His vibrato is completely different and the tonalities he plays are very
different from Robben(for the blues anyway). Robben tends to play all that altered
stuff right before a V-1 and more Chromaticism in general. Also, I think that Matt's tone trumps everybody's. Just sayin'.
CJ Christopher true I agree
Yes !
CJ Christopher don’t like finger style tone, it’s just weird
must know listen him... great matt
Matts the player I wish I got into much earlier for multiple reasons… he explains why tone is important without going nuts with it! he plays the changes and doesn’t depend on tricks. Made me realise I was always a strat guy in denial he got me out of that lol what a chap!
Thanks for sharing
+Ryosuke Otsuki Your welcome!
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When it changes to the IV, it seems it comes natural to play tones that harmonize with it. I find scales useful to get inspiration for new sounds, although those also come natural given the music you like, but when you have a feeling for what sounds you like, then I see no use of thinking of a scale or how the tone is called.
This is a fine bit of instruction for those who may be inclined to intellectualize the blues.
There is always the option of thinking less, feeling more, and playing what you hear.
Theory is useful; taste is elusive.
I think his blues is coming more out of the swinging blues style, originated by Lester Young, and finding its way into the guitar by way of Charlie Christian.
If Danny Gatton had played a Strat, too.
Cheers.
Always good to learn how to play around chords instead of just scales though! Whether you play less or more.
I think adding some intelligence to the blues really helps set a guitarist apart, and I don't mean really advanced jazz theory, just this little bit that he's doing here is so much more interesting to the ear than your typical bar guitarist that just goes up and down the minor pentatonic all night. I can't stand to listen to that anymore.
wow such good tips
There is always a percentage of humanity who leave a dislike, good on ya dickheads, they have to express their envy, basic bad faith, general bad humor, it is simply part of the wall paper of humanity. Great playing!
my approach is similar. over A7: Amin pent., Amaj Pent., Amixo then D7: Dmaj Pent., Dmixo, Amin pent. E7: Emaj Pent., Emixo, Amin pent. Then also pepper it with some half-whole Diminished and maybe altered dom scale.
Good channel!!!moore blues !!!
So, so good.
Great😀
Guitarist magazine issue 371, Summer 2013
sheesh this guy had great feel and greater tone!!!!!
Cool. I'm not a great guitarist, but I do consider myself as a competent musician. I'm not going to give up just because I know I'll never be anywhere near as good as Matt. In fact, he's just inspired me to do even more dedicated practice (without recommended any), rather than noodling.
Some of the best comedians seem fluent and fresh in their 'ad-lib' and so natural, but they analyse for hours how to make things work.
Feeling that I may become stale has stopped me "studying" things, but d'you what.... I just might start.
Anyway, I'm also encouraged because l've been going down this "changing key with the chords" since forever, but only because I thought it was easier.
There's a great masterclass from Robin Ford in the save series. Worth a watch too.
I might just post this note into another video in case it helps. I mean you never know if these comments get read or not do you really.
I'm a guitarist and a trumpet player, so it's natural I should find myself in the sophisticated section of music *greasy smile*
SRV had it…..now Matt have it. Iam a great fan of him and his tastefully guitar playing! Did “Don’t know what i’d do” with my former bluesband….as an opening song….(sorry Matt😮)
Matt is such a good fucking player
does anyone have a link to the article that went along with this that has the examples?
Thank you , Helpful vid !
i don't get it with this scales if im playing blues in A for example I start with the minor pentatonic like he says but when the d comes I don't know what to play should i play the d major pentatonic? i dont know how to connect them, the only way i do it is using some old scool licks i learned but i wanna be able to know what the hell is happening any advice?
i mean wow to the lesson.....but can we appreciate that tone for a moment!!!!!!!!
Very nice
Is there tab for this anywhere?
This guy is a great guitar player. Check out his TrueFire vids. Amazing touch and tone!
Quienes habrán sido los giles, que dieron dislike! Seguro no entendieron un carajo..
Un crack Matt, de los mejores de la actualidad.
I just got a Strat, and I feel after I play that my Les Paul feels easy to play.
The frets are further apart on a Strat than on a Les Paul. I wish I had a Les Paul.
If I would have a bedroom like that, i wolud never go out
So, so good! Does anyone know what Guitar that is?
Cristian Mueller It's an SVL Reserve. Made by Simon Law in the UK. Go to svlguitars.com
Hi, anyone knows what scale is he playing at the EXAMPLE 1?
He's saying that he plays distinctly over each chord, so it's not just one scale. For the I chord it is A mixolydian, IV is D mixolydian, and V is E mixolydian. But you can still use the A blues scale as a skeleton for all of this, while mixing in parts of the other scales when those chords come around, according to your liking.
Thank you
Very great. Vaughan Style?
Do you know where I can get the transcription of this lesson?
Long live the I-IV-V
And the 2 5 1 of 4
which jaco pastorius tune does he quote around 3:05?
Birdland, by Weather Report :)
The sophisticated stuff will probably appear in part two, perhaps?
Looking forward to part Two!
lol
It's all relative.
Most dudes are just taught to play the blues scale of the I through the whole progression.
Compared to that, this is rocket science.
Go to Pat Martino...
What are you getting at, Fleximanic?