Guitar Lesson: Major & Minor Pentatonics in Blues

[mrmontreemtx]

wonderful ...

glad you mention mixing both scales in solo.

been searching for this

[MrFlyingVguitarist]

Thank you Mr. Andrew this was very insightful. I like how, by playing a scale and speaking at the same time, you pretty much said "Yeah you should be practicing them until you can do this". xP

[ShubhamMishra1989]

can you do a vdeo on effects and pedals,,,

[davidtheguitarman]

Great lesson. I want to ask you a question. I can’t exploit the pentatonic boxes as they should, I can only improvise always the same melodic lines and this make my improvisation boring. How can I exploit it better?

[xXSYCADELICXx]

im a newb... how do you write a major and a minor? is for example F#m minor or major?

[DeeDubStyle619]

@xXSYCADELICXx lowercase "m" is minor.

[bluejazzcat]

GREAT LESSONS, ALL OF THEM. COULD YOU PLEASE POST SOMETHING ABOUT CHORDS / SCALES RELATIONSHIP, ESPECIALLY MINOR HARMONIC AND MINOR MELODIC, IN A JAZZ CONTEXT. THANKS A LOT.

[razorslice17]

You're an incredible player and teacher.

[xX0Jota0Xx]

i don't understand when you can use chromatic notes

[nicodemus95]

w/e they sound good

[xX0Jota0Xx]

yeah but it's not like you use them whenever you want

[XDSocks]

Use them as passing notes.

[kyotzo]

xX0Joata0Xx I now that you know the blues progression which is !, IV, V. When playin in the I part of the song, use major sounding scales/modes mixed with minor. Example Dorian, Mixolydian, and a 1,2,b3,3,5,6, scale are good. When in the IV part of the song use minor pentetonic & blues scale. The IV you can use either one. The guy in the vid is showing you major/minor sounding licks but he isn't directing where to place them. Just practice these licks and place them in the progressions I told :)

[hotlinklarry]

@kyotzo

I think Andrew is one of the best teachers on the internet, but you are right, he didn't quite bring it all home, by showing where to place the licks, and the backing track was hard to hear. It's good to see comments that are constructive and helpful.

[kyotzo]

@hotlinklarry Wow, I posted this almost a year ago. Thanks for responding. Atleast someone will respond to my comments and actually make me feel like I have a voice in this big thing called YouTube.

[neeraj1786]

u make blues so easy!! thnks :)

[blackblood123456]

nice video

[Jed9133]

nice one.

[derdude]

andrew you rock!

[stsgabe]

Is this approach fundamentally different than targeting chord tones using arpeggios? Any suggestions about how to combine the scales and arpeggios?

[D0g63rt]

Arpeggios are chords. Chords can be derived from scales. I'm not sure what exactly you're asking?

[stsgabe]

laying the chord shapes over the pentatonic scale is a trick, the chords contain notes not in the pentatonic, some are much better than others but the pentatonic by itself eventually gets boring mixing major and minor and "playing the changes" is a whole other level.

[kyotzo]

It is a little different; he is thinking from a scale of notes to play up and down the fretboard. You are thinking of arpeggios/triads which are just 3 notes. If you want to combine them, think of the notes in the chord. Ex. A7 has A, C, E in it. You can use the blues scale and string bending to highlight or dance around those notes in the A7 chord. Another way you could it is play the arppegio and the note that you end on, use that to start a lick. Hope that this helps.

[stsgabe]

that is a good idea never heard that like that, use the arpeggio to "lead into" a lick, of course in blues I would use the 7th arpeggios too, cool

[gooney0]

Ooh first to watch hot off the press!