Marc Seal Tutorial 6 (1 of 4) - Blues Pentatonic Scale

[Dustinalker]

what did you do to your guitar? no bueno

[Stardogbluz]

This dude is a kick ass player, check out his sweep picking lesson

[0uhr15]

This lesson is very clearly and useful. Thank you Marc I like how you explain and I like the crunchy sound.

Got a question:

At 5:10min you play the riff faster than before. Did you pic every note or do you use hammer ons to get this fast riff so clear?

Thanks a lot.

[FckinGuy]

hey man, ive been playing blues for a while and i gotta say, it's good to know there are ppl teachin this stuff in a very simple, yet accurate way. im a fan. keep up the good work!

[ColtonSaylor713]

the cool thing about playing the blues is that you dont need to plan what you want to play, just know where you wanna play, and just let it go and play what you feel

[Brittny1987]

show what you are doing and say it slower.. Yes I know you can stop and play again.. But I can barely see what's going on to follow....Outside of that.. Good information.

[bonzelite]

excellent lesson; very clear and useful

[sluggheads]

Great lesson! Thanks!

[drummingguitarist06]

Yeah I agree. The tone's by far NOT awful, but for an ES335, it's not the right one. This sounds like it should be on an LP. That's just me. But I do think it should be "bluesier", not full of distortion.

[edgemad]

That was the worst sound i've heard from a real Gibson ES335! When the blues is playd with that cheap guitarsound I feel sorry for the ones who don't know the blues yet... Sorry Marc, it's really bad!

[ItsElectric2008]

I love Marc Seal, he was gutiar teacher (on the internet) with his old series that was free.

[scrumpymanjack]

Great lesson god awful tone. I can't believe such a good musician puts up with such lousy tone.

[toz71]

that's the strangest tone i ever heard from a 335....good playin though :)

[fhoward49]

You play very well. Just play your guitar and stop playing those silly sound effects pedals. That's not what the guitar sounds like. GAWD your tone is anoying.

[krnkid1213]

when you improvise using this scale, does it matter what notes youre playing as long as its in the scale? do you have to follow the order of the notes or can you just play random notes that are in that scale?

[DeadFossil]

I'm not sure what you mean - but I think you're asking as long as you're in the scale, you're safe? Yes, basically, and it's probably the safest way to play if you don't know the song too well of you can't hear yourself on stage, but there ARE preferred notes within the scale and 'accents' outside of scale. Or you can have a mix between scales.

[bonzelite]

right, it doesn't matter. as long as you're in the scale, but as another said, there are sweeter notes to accent than others.

[evgenykravchenko]

great lesson, what people don't tell you when they play the blues is that they do pull offs and hammer ons

[nogodaberki]

Good lesson man! Good Maestro! Thanks!

[stringbini]

thanks i'll check it out and get back to you.

appreciate the response and help.

[stringbini]

i think mark didn't finish the progression from the gminor so i was assumimng that he went to the cminor than a d7. that being the case do you play like you said gminor pentatonic or Bflat major pent throughout the progression or when it comes to the 4 and 5 chord what do you play?

thanks for responding.

also if you know did mark come up with the chorus to the norah jones tunes he showed on one of the pic's of the day ,he played her song in Bb

[DeadFossil]

Ok check this page out * I can't post a link here cuz of YouTube, but search "Major Minor Scale Chord" under google, it should be the first one which says free online piano lessons.

What you're asking requires some music theory knowledge. Whenever you're playing a chord, it's essentially made up in 1-3-5 pattern. It's really hard to describe and show you on youtube, so I suggest you search it on internet and read about it.

[DeadFossil]

The page I gave you lists out which chord to be played under which key, but it doesn't tell you how these came about. So research.

And I don't know if Mark came up with the chorus to the Norah Jones tunes.. I don't even watch these =/ Sry.

[stringbini]

cool man

do you mean the 4 chord is a cminor and the 5 is a ddominate of sorts

also what do you start with scale wise (or play on the changes?

thanks man

[DeadFossil]

I think what you meant was 4th fret? First of all, the pattern he teaches you is all minor scale in there. So if he starts at the 5th fret (which is A) it becomes A minor pentatonic. 4th would be G#/Aflat minor scale. 3rd fret would be G minor scale.

[DeadFossil]

Now for major scales, you have to know some theory, but basically, hmmm.. when you're playing the A minor pentatonic, start from the 2nd position (so the 8th fret) and play the pentatonic from there. Now it becomes C major.

[DeadFossil]

I'm not too clear what you mean in your question. Can you clarify? =)