Lesson - Half Diminished / Min7b5 Discussion

[ashasha3]

My goal as a guitar player is to be able to come back to this video at some point and understand what you are talking about. I don't think that feeling stupid is supposed to be inspirational, but I'm motivated to make it happen.

[Abovedarim214]

Thanks for the lesson man!! It really opened my mind for possible ideas that I had not thought of before..Excellent!

[JavierB1988]

Hold on, this Bb7 with a sharp 11 is the same F melodic minor starting from its 4th degree (Bb) oh wow, you're giving the same pattern of notes a different name according to where you are starting from.

[dienonbeliever]

this is realy cool AWSOME LESSON! i learned my melodic scale a year ago but cuoldn't realy aply it to anything..i just got into playing half diminished chords so now maybe some fun!

[William102582]

That's A LOT of ideas!!! thanks!

[traviscruseguitar]

Good lesson man! Nice to see a lesson showing what cats are actually playing. Going to melodic minor a m3 above is my go to approach but its also fun to think of a m7b5 as a dominant in first inversion and then start playing various melodic minor scales to hit all of the alterations of the dominant. When it's all played over the m7b5 it starts to sound really hip.  I'd love to hear what some of your other approaches are.

[johnnyjolijt]

ZEN

[JazzLinesForGuitar]

nice one

[bsrobinson]

Way over my head, but SO inspiring. Maybe in 5 years I'll come back and understand!? I hope!!

[GregGirardin]

Great lesson, nice guitar!

I've been thinking about a PRS Hollowbody for a bit, but they're just so expensive.

[SIRONEDRAGON]

cool

[Ericejazz]

THanks Jack. Great ideas.

--Eric E.

[knotknot]

Great lesson; Thank you!!!

[bigtophalloween]

Thanks for the lesson, Jack! How do you like that PRS?

[gtrs4ever]

GREAT Stuff!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[alreadywoundpie]

Thanks so much for these lessons! They're awesome, I've already started practicing some of the methods you talk about (I'll have to pick up a copy of your book one of these days :-)). My one complaint is that it's pretty hard to hear the backing tracks in these videos--is that on purpose, to make us hear the chords outlined the melodic lines? I'm just used to hearing backing tracks that stand out a lot more in the mix. Thanks again for the lessons!

[pastorjoshbraun]

These lessons lately have rocked!

[pb3ch]

I got a lot out of this lesson. Thank you.