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  • I was skeptical, but this was really good.

  • @freejrs I think he meant 4 notes by 2 frets per string, and there being 2 strings

  • fucking impressive!

  • Dont need a lot of notes, just good phrasing.

  • Nice solo but only 4 notes??? No. In that solo you used the Root.......Flat 7th.......Minor 3rd.....Major 3rd........Perfect 4th...........Perfect 5th and Flattened 5th.

    That's 7 notes you played. Not 4. ;-)

    It's a bit misleading to tell people you are only using 4 notes when you are infact using a combination of Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales and the Blues Scale!!!!!

    Maybe you meant that you are playing just around that 4 note box shape but you are clearly playing more than 4 notes. :-)

  • @freejrs On the money there!

    Bends to Maj 3rd, b5, Perfect 5th!

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  • @mindlesspup - at least it's not as bad as my Tyler :0

  • A W E S O M E !

  • Thanks everyone and bluesguitarunleashed for this video. It really opened up my eyes to what I can do with just a few notes. I appreciate it.

  • Excellent in that you're showing playing with feeling and emotion means more than anything. I studied music in college and learned to play blues using only 5 notes on a piano. Same principle you're using here.

  • @cracks21229 Well the best way I can answer your question is... maybe. The bass line is what's really defining the key signature in this song. There's a lot of chromatic notes in the bass. By chromatic I mean notes played one fret after the other, which can mask notes that normally wouldn't be in a key signature. In terms of just the key of D, the answer is no. For the D major scale in place of a C (which in this case is in the 8th fret,) there's a C# (on the 9th fret). Hope this helps!

  • excelent dude! You're showing that you don't need to play lots of notes, a good guitarist, and at the end a good musician, must be original and must do what he feels... that's what it's all about..

  • He can make music out of nothing.

  • would these notes be good to improv around with?

  • @chewymcbaca - absolutely. I taught the same thing to my son on his bass and he's now soloing in the middle school jazz band with it. You can do it on any instrument and it almost always works... even outside of blues (thought it will probably always sound bluesy.)

  • Very creative and imaginative. A good reminder that the player doesn't have to fill the air with a plethora of notes to make a statement.

  • well there are only five on the pentatonic scale...

  • That was inspiring. Thank you!

  • I dig it

  • dude deserves a refund on his guitar. 2 frets and 2 strings!

  • This is a cool video with the exception that G & C are not in the key of A major, which is what I assumed he meant. Nor could they be considered blues notes because there's no type of dissonance when he lands on them. A minor scale is probably what he meant, it just through me off a bit. Nice chops sir, simple but fantastic!

  • @ClosThe6stringer I no nothing about individual notes, but isn't this in the key of D?

  • @cracks21229 These notes are part of A minor pentatonic, so that's probably why he said it's in A.

  • @cracks21229 - it's an A blues. I'm not sure where you get D unless you're looking at just the key signature. But blues doesn't really work that way.

  • @cracks21229 - it's an A blues. I'm not sure where you get D unless you're looking at just the key signature. But blues doesn't really work that way.

  • @cracks21229 - it's an A blues. I'm not sure where you get D unless you're looking at just the key signature. But blues doesn't really work that way.

  • @bluesguitarunleashed Thanks. I don't get scales very well...obviously.

  • This is based on:

    It's not what you say, it's how you say it!

  • Wow, Thank you for posting that! I'm getting a lot out of it already. :)

  • Haha @mashupmaster9 and at 2:16 he still smells it hahaha

  • nice

  • On the 8th fret on the high E string you bent a half tone up, so thats 6 notes if you include your bend on the 10th fret high E string.

  • @Fretslayed If you're talking about the microtonal bend, then I would say that it doesn't count as a "note" because it's between C and C#. If you meant the full step bend, then he's already fretting that D, because it's the one he's bending up to E from. Either way, I wouldn't say that it is six notes because he isn't really hitting that flat fifth.

  • @srvgravesdime It's not microtonal, He hits the C#, that's why it has that major feeling to it when he bends, because the C# is the major 3rd in the key of A. Not to mention the four frets he play on are the notes A, G, C, and D. He bends the D to an E, the perfect fifth of the key of A. He technically plays six notes. That's not the point of the video though. A guitar beginner will get confused between technicalities like this, so the video is good for what it is, explaining it simply.

  • @MrWhirt My bad. I said flat fifth when I meant major fourth. And yeah, he does bend up to C# once, so my bad. But he does a lot of microtonal bends too though.

  • Several notes were actually played via the bend. I think it should not be titled "four notes" but maybe "four frets" or something. bending a "D" note makes an "E" note, etc...

  • i will try this tomorrow mornig, thanks guy .

  • i can play more then 4 notes in my solo

  • You just ripped that "easy" solo like a BOSS. I had no clue I could do that in the 2nd position of the a minor pent. Thank you for this insight!

  • You just ripped that "easy" solo like a BOSS.

  • hey that was good!

  • I didn't know you could play 4 notes on a Suhr.

  • Excellent video.

    When I was young I played the B-flat Clarinet from the 4th grade through High School. 98% of the time I was 1st Chair in class.

    I discovered it wasn't how fast I could play but the secret to great music is in the [timbre]: the quality of a musical tone that distinguishes voices and instruments.

    By using this theory I went on to receive a college scholarship & went on to complete my Masters in Music.

    It ALL in the tone ;) If it doesn't sound good it's NOT good music.

  • @WulfBand | FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT!!!!!!!!! THIS IS WHY MOST SINGING VOICES ARE SHIT!!!!!!!!!

  • Nicely done,

  • @obxlax1 i couldnt stop laughing about this. i thought about this all day at school and kept cracking up

  • Good lesson for beginners who want to start improvising. Forget scales -- learn a few moveable patterns (and their roots) & you can hang at any blues jam.

  • looks like micheal mcdonald

  • nyc 1 

  • Nice videos dude. Check our blues backing tracks, we'd love to hear you solo over them. RJ.

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  • @r0ckdup You're right that the title isn't quite accurate, but neither is "four fret". He only uses two frets, eighth and tenth. That's it. Two frets times two strings = four notes, plus a bend giving a total of five, which is exactly what he says at the beginning of the lesson.

  • @r0ckdup Yeah but everbody understands what it means.

  • Thank you for spending the time to produce this video :-)

  • Thought this was going to be lame but this guy's a great player and makes the most of those notes.

  • Where is evas comment. Shoot. I wanted to rip him. Nice solo. Awesome for beginners but I am "sure" you know. Thanks. More!!!!!!!!! Do a 5 and then a 3. Milk it bro!!!!

  • well some like to work,and maybe you could use a little better outlook,i thimk its a great video,but it is five notes and sliding to the twelvth fret instead of the bend would put you right in the great position to work down into another group of short great licks,but it is very well done,give us more

  • What is this AXE?

    Thanks for advice.....

  • @mrmontreemtx It's an Suhr

  • I clicked on this vid so I could get a good laugh out of the "4 Note Solo". Who'd a thunk it possible.......but it IS!! I'm a believer! Well done, sir.

  • @obxlax1 mahhahaha

    

  • Thank you, that is so cool.

  • lol everyone try alternating between 7 and 8 a lot. its hilarious.

  • That is a cool technique to experiment with. Think I'll try it out and maybe expand on it. ;)*

  • keep pressing 6 XD

  • @obxlax1 lol. i happened to be looking right after i read that. awesome! this guys a phoney.

  • great videos man. thanks for helping out us youtubers :P

  • Nah dude it's a Shur. Similar style though. Great lesson though.

  • is that an eric johnson fender?

  • 10x !!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Holy crap, dude you're a cool teacher. Now I got more skills on my guitar. Thanks

  • "We got this guy, Not Sure, and he's gonna teach us a four note guitar solo!"

  • @ADDNYU715 I love that movie!

  • @BTBHSOHBOY So do I, I quote it all the time. I can't watch this video without thinking, "I never seen no plants grow out of no toilet!"

  • tabs are wak... fell the music

  • @rascusmonkey Learn how to spell before expressing your opinion, buddy.

  • @Kevohgotskills get a haircut homie

  • Great lesson! Thank you.

  • LUKE WILSON?

  • This is a lesson. Beginner, intermediate, advanced, WHATEVER! I have this guy's lesson DVD series and I really enjoy how the Blues is broke down so simply, and then built on. This is the first chance I've had to comment , but....

    Thanks, Griff!

  • love it

  • That's cool... thanks!

  • Where the heck are the tabs?!I could barely keep up!

  • thanks for a cool, simple exercise

  • I don't know what all the gripe is about cause people wanna pick apart this guys video. If you wanna be so smart, reply with a blues guitar lesson video!? Maybe? Anyways, I like this bluesguys example. It gives me a whole hell of a lot of licks at that extended position, instead of just bending pull off hammer on to the root. I appreciate the lesson. After all, it is just that... a lesson. Peace, rockstar armchair blues quarterbacks.

  • very cool.

  • The trick is all the bends and vibratos. He's clearly playing pentatonic, which we probably all knew the scale. If you watch his strings bend, you can see the artistry. You have to be a very accomplished blues player to take this 4-note set of licks and make a good sounding solo out of it. A lot of blues playing looks very 1-2-3, but rythm, bends, and vibratos make it sound sweet.

  • great video. just think of think of this as the starting block. You can add some much stuff and sound great with this basic major pentatonic scale.

  • awesome

  • i hate u cuz ur so good lol jk i think u helped me thanks

  • @obxlax1 lol.

    

  • For fuck's fake fellas, he says at the very beginning "It's 5 notes if you count the half note bend"

  • dude that was sicks, thanks

    

  • Nice instructional.....check out Tralian Blues Inside The Sun....

  • Yay for generic blues...

  • EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS STUFF WE DID

    WHEN WE FIRST LEARNED PENT. SCALE! SMH

  • while the blues scale only has 2 more notes...

  • You said you are pulling your D note a half step. Your pulling it a full step.

  • Thumbs up if the song "No Rain" by Blind Melon immediately popped into your head when he hit that first note.

  • i love the vibrational sound of blues you gave off, i have a beautiful guitar i can't play well (yet) and i love that you can make so much off of just two cords :]]]

  • Now I've seen! It's not the scales. I studied them and played them until I shook the awkwardness out of them. But that doesn't count until you learn PHRASING!!!!!!! And then you don't need so many notes!

  • thanks for the video. i count 4 notes. no E was played. you have to over look kids wanting attention. this is also used in an A minor scale. so eva isn't as impressive as she'd like to be. & if anybody that knew anything about guitars watched this..... they'd have 1 main comment to make. that's a very nice guitar. & thanks for not having blaring distortion to cover up your mistakes like most do on here. anybody can make noise. then you have people that can play.

  • Very nice !

  • @BLOOPETYHOO lol

  • hmmmm what are you supposed to have your tones set too O:....haha

  • dude I really dig that. You should check out some of my stuff sometime man.

  • WOW that guy has a really big left hand

  • Hi, I just started my very own Guitar Tutorial, please check it out :)

    I'll be able to answer everyone's questions :D

  • Sounds good.

  • wat the hells wrong with u people lol

  • If you press 5 over and over it sounds like he's saying "sucking c0ck"

  • @snipeface123xyz No it doesn't... it sounds like hes saying "Ick... something away from this" or if you press it fast it sounds like "Ick, ick, ick, ick"

  • is it just me,or are his strings really bendy

  • Why am I thinking that he watched BB King before he did this?

  • yes i have that guitar

  • very cool!

  • @Eva413 You forgot to mention his C# at 1:49.

  • Why do people bitch over something that is free. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Thank you from those of us who appreciate anything free that gives us something to work on.

  • @Vincecbarnes0736i strongly agree with tha:D 

  • @Vincecbarnes0736

    I strongly agree with you on that.

  • @Vincecbarnes0736 i agree with you vince ! good stuff man for free. 4 notes sound like alot of notes !

  • wow great job

  • Press 8 over and over for repeated slow-mo orgasm

  • hold 5 for fun :D

  • thank you for pointing out how basic blues is :P just kidding. nice video.

  • everyone is ata diff level some people may really think this is cool i have been playing since the mi 60,s and im allways looking at stuff some i use and some i dont

  • My ear keeps waiting for him to go higher/lower. It makes me sad. Still, nice lesson.

  • I DIG IT DUDE

  • This is an excellent instruction video. One of the best things you can do is listen and collect as many "phrases", change them up and connect them to come up with your own as this guy shows. You should also learn some blues since rock comes from the blues. Curtis Mitchell's song "Play'n Rock'n Roll" has a 2 minute guitar solo with a lot of melodic phrases connected. Check it out and you'll see he uses this same technique.

  • THANKS MAN! This kinda got me over a hurdle!

  • More accurately, this should be called the "4 fret solo", since he does indeed bend up to E from the D note (top string, 10th fret).

  • @hypermegasphere was just gonna say that xD

  • sweeeeeeeeet

    

  • Cool!

    

  • Something I can use to practice my bends and hammerpulls..

  • that sound sick man! but the title is deceiving. If you're using bends and stuff thats more that 4 notes. And also if you use 4 notes then that more that half of the notes available in the key (4/7) hence its not that impressive

  • @Sivaks9 it is impressive to new players. I am sure he has more advanced material. He seems like a pretty cool teacher and a nice guy for sharing.

  • you can play four notes but you gotta "feel the blues" to solo it

  • holy shite, john frusciante built a whole off of that pattern in the zephyr song

  • so it seems like in his repeating 3-note patterns he does not use alternative picking...

  • crybabys and nittpickers 4, 5 or 6 "notes". makes no matter. .its a lot of epic awesomeness packed into that 4 'finger position' pattern. this rocks! gives me allot of ideas already. i can add this simple pattern to the top of a pattern i play in the key of A @ the 5th fret position and expand my territory. this little gem will serve to take me towards the next level of understanding the organization of the fretboard! thank you good sir for an excellent post !!! thanks for sharing!!!

  • I dont care if its 4 or 6 notes, if he uses 4 different fingerpositions, then im fine with it.

  • ummmm that was 6 notes. Not four ;) I heard an E and a C# in there too. Great stuff man

  • @Bflatest you're right, that's 6 f*cking notes.......and by the way, you heard the right notes ;)

  • ummm a question i think mines not tuned properly but y e doent sound anything like that....how can i fix this?

  • @rune111500 its all in the amp man, Im havin the same problem and Im perfectly tuned.

  • stupid!!!! i couldnt even see ur frigen fingers!

  • You used alot more than 4 notes with all that bending. But its still a really good concept

  • blow yer nose

    

  • The start sounded like BB King, who actually doesn't jump about the neck at all really :)

  • Nice..

    

  • link to tabs people?

  • too bad i cant do triplets worth a shit

  • thts talent only using 4 notes to solo

    simplicity @ its finest

  • thts talent only using 4 notes to solo

    simplicity @ its finest

  • That was sick.

  • 1:59 priceless looks like he has to take a dump hah

    thumbs up if you agree?

  • Now that's cool........nice B.B.King Style/ stevie.

  • Brill.

    But where he's playing it's called the B Box named after the legend B B King

  • Good lesson, but quit with the sex-face looking into the camera. Creepin me out.

  • Including two step bends kind of eliminates your "four note" concept. but it's still a good lesson.

  • wow...amazing!!!

  • if only the world could function with that much efficiency...

  • very nicely done... 

  • sounds good, the backing track is ass though

  • that was 5 notes... he plays E a shit load along with the A, G, C, D which is a C Major Pentatonic scale.

  • @Eva413 He said 4 note pattern, not 4 notes.

  • @yiannilol It's called 4 note solo.And a 4 note pattern would consist of 4 notes not 6. But i was wrong he plays a C# too @ 1:50 so 6 notes. But hey we're human, it's okay we all make mistakes, we aren't robots,. and that's the nature of our beauty. Still what really matter here is his beautiful phrasing, creative intelligence, and pure sound. Keep up the good playing man.

  • @Eva413

    ...A minor pentatonic.

  • @Eva413

    While it's the same notes, it's really A minor pentatonic, because he's playing over a backing track in A...with the major third in there once...

    But yeah. Pentatonic.

  • @Eva413 look at the tab bro