Jam With Me -ep5: "Dominant Blues!" with David J.

[ThanasiManoli]

Jeff!

[matmatl]

Dave, please do a vidae about fingerstyle (With slap, and others techniques) in acoustic guitar.

[alybritsmom]

Hey Dave, I am glad for you that you get to do G3 with Via and Satriani. It must be awesome I have been reading about you for a while and read how you got started and hooked up with Via. This new thing your doing with Jam with me is awesome. I use to listen to you and you were way technical for me but I am starting to get this stuff. . Thank you and God Bless. I really appreciate your site. And your playing just keeps getting better and better.

[alybritsmom]

This is Troy not alybrits mom by the way. Oh yeh I meant to tell you. Thanks for getting back with me. I did not know how to contact you and I figured it out and you responded. Thanks

[guitarpoetone1]

HeY Dave This Is So Cool I Just Got Your Vids Some How And Check you Out Love The Backing tracks An Info You Explain Keep it up Hope to see some Fusion Blues Your Awsome thanks

[pbskl]

Your jams are too tasty for the likes of me.

[JGCanning]

Great lesson Dave! Sweet chops & backing track. How can I get a hold of the the backing track? Thanks.

[SergeantSkateboard]

ARE YOU JUST GOING TO IGNORE THAT?

[Starsmuse]

For what he's doing that tone is awesome. These are fun little jams you do, i wouldn't mind seeing a couple in a more rock context than blues. Either way, they are killer for practicing.

[pimorules]

I really enjoyed this lesson a lot, probably my favorite SO FAR :) maybe because I actually understood it woooo! thanks Dave!!

[JaykobMatteo]

Really enjoying this series, hope you keep it going!

[lucjesuistonpere]

hole in t-shirt ftw

[MrGaboGuitar]

Very useful Dave, thanks a lot!

[wraplaydod]

fantastic dave

[GuillermoSmyser]

Dave!! The tone was so much better this week!!! But I can hear the potential in your tone. Do you keep your guitar volume down a lot? I see the knobs are all at 12o'clock. So you have a lot of cut and not a lot of treble to begin with. It's ok to have some treble.

[riffoftheweek]

@GuillermoSmyser - I prefer less treble.

[GuillermoSmyser]

@riffoftheweek I can tell. Sorry if it comes off as offensive. Obviously it's my opinion as it is yours. Thanks for the response.

[GuillermoSmyser]

This type of thinking absolutely CHANGES EVERYTHING in terms of how you play and think. I am guilty of not doing it too. But I KNOW HOW IT MUST WORK. It works even for playing over chords that share a scale but works for phrasing because you know what notes to emphasize. Thanks for the wake up Dave!

[mymusicroom1]

what a great blues lesson and jam along.

just great

[Vazoras]

tik tok tik tok ...... MPIIIIP ahahha hilarious!!

thanx for the video dave ! excelent as always!!!!!!!!! :D :D

[scubadaz1973]

Just gave it a quick go, I need to revist my blues playing...

[TSharr626]

OH MY GOSH Z WRECKKKK

[KHGuitarFreak1988]

Nice playing. Oh, and I'm jelly that you have a Z Wreck...

[IkBobNiet]

Can anyone tell me which of the I IV and V (7th) chords are better suited to playing major or minor over? Great video as always Dave!

[Kaaru]

@IkBobNiet

Hey, man. Well, since in this case all the chords are dominant 7th chords and dominant 7th chords have a major 3rd, I guess major. But it depends what you mean, because you couldn't play major SCALES over them. You could think of it as playing mixolydian modes starting from the root of each chord over each respective chord, but I think that the recommendation in the video is to start from A pentatonic/blues scale and then add the chord tones unique to each chord in the progression.

[TheSammyreynolds]

@Kaaru you can't play major scales over a I, IV, V? You need to listen to Clapton more. The master of mixing major and minor tonalities.

[aleksandersucharski]

@TheSammyreynolds major pentatonic is not the same as a major scale. two notes lacking. yeah, Clapton played a lot of major and minor pentatonics over dominant chords. but try to play major scale on a dominant seventh chord and you create one of the worst sounding tensions possible - playing natural seventh on a dominant chord.

after all Wes Montgomery did it. but i doubt you will throw tritone substituted II-V's on a 3 chord blues.

[TheSammyreynolds]

@aleksandersucharski How in hell do you know what I'll throw in there dumbass.

[IkBobNiet]

@Kaaru I don't think you really understood my question. I wasn't necessarily talking about the 7th chord, just any blues progression, but they are mostly 7th chords. I know you can't play major over a minor chord progression, but you can play both major and minor over a major chord progression (you know, à la BB King, Clapton, Hendrix, etc).

I was just wondered, when you are mixing major and minor, which tonality sounds better over which chord (the I, the IV or the V)...

[IkBobNiet]

@Kaaru I was talking about major/minor pentatonic/blues of course, I now realise why you didn't understand me.

[TEMPA01]

Love the way Dave says "Take it..." And I'm like "Hell no! I just put my guitar back in the rack after hearing you play...."

[pasha355]

@TEMPA01 haha! i thought about the same!!

[footcandy]

@TEMPA01 That's exactly how I feel LOL!

[Knukleheada]

wow that tone is gorgeus.

[D3adk3nny13]

how can I make my own riifs I dont get scales what r they for!!

[megajames3000]

@D3adk3nny13 scales are the shapes that you play in a certain key to make riffs. you learn the scales, create different patterns as you learn how to improvise, which is just that and over time you will get you own riffs and solos

[1robjohnson]

Thanks Dave. Awesome video as always

[BadPennyDonnie]

I really like that Dave.I can hear some serious head cutting going on already.

[Fabrimon]

first? nobody cares!