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  • Finally, a nice easy and jazzy sounding way to improvise, add a few chromatic notes and it makes me want to run in circles, thank you very much for the lesson

  • love the laught at "want to learn jazz in a simple way"

  • Love your tone dude.. and you have this smooth groove in your playing

  • @TheDilligan many thanks man ! :)

  • tab is not found

  • this is a very good lesson. maybe the best jazz lesson i found but the link for the tabs doesnt work and so i don't know the scales.....

  • @Musicman1413 scales are Pentatonic, first you can learn all 5 patterns from Pentatonic and then try to apply those with the lesson instruction method, have a good one ! sorry about the TAB i guess it’s still on my old website link, will check it out

  • Nice bro

  • great lesson!, but i little nervous, don't be nervous ! thx for your great lesson

  • I'm trying to figure out which chord you are playing after Amaj7. Actually you play two chords I think.

  • oh geez he is hard to understand but he is passing on good knowledge

  • Hey, Folks, slightly off-topic, sorry, but what guitar is this?

  • Great lesson! thanks so much Ponch!

    I have been playing blues for a while and been wanting to learn jazz, and this lesson just made the start of the transition very easy.

    Thank you!

  • @ryanc177 hello Ryanc, glad to hear it my friend ! have fun playing ! :D

  • Great video, I learned alot.

    Thanks.

  • hey ponch, its a great lesson!

    beside the pentatonic, we can use chromatic scale or passing note, right? yang aku bingung itu penempatannya di mana ya supaya 'pas'. trims mas!

  • @Kajaena exactly my friend ! :D if you want to use passing note, you can play it on the 'up' beat instead of 'down' beat, it will give a great taste to your playing. have fun !

  • So can i play a B minor pentatonic sharp#6 scale over A major7,Bm7 and E dominite7 without concentrating on the chord changes? Please correct me if im wrong using that scale?..I don't like to think about it if im playing lead, trying to follow the chord changes that are coming up next..lol..I don't know jazz theory, But i heard the formula is different for notes that make up a jazz chord? Not like regular chords made from, Root note, 3rd and 5th..I feel like a jackass comments on music theory''

  • @dannyhood66

    If you're trying to do basic solos, Please don't start with jazz, jazz is for advances players only and I really don't advise using the pentatonic scales for jazz, you should use arpeggios and modes. And the minor pentatonic doesn't have a '#6' the minor pentatonic has 1 b3 4 5 b7 and doesn't need to be alterd, The first chord is Amajor7 so try the relative minor of F# minor pentatonic to start out, they add arpeggios over each chord individually. you really should start more basic

  • @Dazzerx I was thinking about the notes and looking at the scale from a B minor concept making the 6th note from the B minor sharp, which is the same thing as playing a flat 7th in the B minor pentatonic scale? Which is an A flat note. If i was playing in F# minor pentatonic scale along with the chords B minor 7th, E dominate 7th, and A major 7th there would be an E flat note in the F minor pentatonic scale? I asked a fairly simple question and your reply to me was unprofessional stupid shit..

  • @dannyhood66 Sorry i tried to fucking help you jesus fucking christ, I wasn't even insulting you, why the need to act like a total jack ass? If you want simple, solo over a god damn pop I-VI-V progression, The Key of this is A MAJOR, F# Minor is the RELATIVE of A Major, There for you are playing in a KEY in ONE scale shape over a group of chords instead of individually emphasising the chord tones of each chord.

  • @dannyhood66 look at the chord progression in the Information ( II - V - I ) Bminor7 - E7 - Amajor7

    It's a standard Jazz progression, The I chord is A Major7, therefor the key is A Major, I know you mean in a B minor concept so you could use that scale over the Bminor7 chord if you wanted to (Better a Minor 7 Arpeggio) Also the 6th note of the B minor sharp? There is no sixth note, The minor pentatonic has only 5 notes, and the sixth isn't in the the scale so you couldn't possibly add it.

  • @dannyhood66 And I should add there is no Eb is F# minor pentatonic, the notes are F# - A - B - C# - E.

    the notes in Amajor7 are : A - C# - E - G#

    the notes in Bminor7 are: B - D - F# - A

    the notes in E7 are  : E - G# - B - Eb

    It's all in key except G# and D, what can we do? we can add the G# into the F# minor pentatonic, as G# is the 2nd note in F# minor (natural minor) so we have 6 notes, we just have the D left, D happens to be the Flat 6th in F# Minor.

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  • @Dazzerx the minor pentatonic already has a 7b, you don't need to alter the shape, Lets looks at A C major scale and A C minor pentatonic.

    C Major: C D E F G A B C

    C Minor: C D# F G A# C

    you can see that the Major third (E) is now flat and is a minor third in the minor pent (D#) F G are still the same and the B from the C major has been flattened to get an A#.

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  • @Dazzerx So your saying there is no G# or Ab notes in a B minor pentotonic scale? If the G# or Ab is not in that scale then what scale is it of B minor that uses those G# Ab notes? Is it because of the E dominate 7 and A major 7th chords the reason for G# note that works good over the chord progresion well..Your first reply to me sounded cocky like you assumed i was a beginner could not play,''

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  • @Dazzerx Sorry i never replied to this before I like what your saying except how in the hell is it that G# or Ab, not the same note, the same note no matter how you slice it it comes up either G# or Ab

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  • hi ponch...that's a gorgeous guitar ur playing...what is it?  great playing too btw.

    thanks.

  • @sumoblues Ponch is playing a '95 or '96 Ibanez "Talman" TC620, the only model of that series with soapbar pickups. I have the same guitar in a "raspberry metallic" color. I believe his is the Black Pearl finish. Since it looks like a cross between a tele and a Jazzmaster, I call mine a jazzcaster.

  • I have been up and down youtube, trying to understand what you just tought me in a few minutes.

    Thank you!

  • @MiniDaab hello minidab, I have teach music since 13 years ago, many brilliant students come and go, and it's always great to know some of my knowledge can help them. Just like every journey start with a single step, as well as music, we start with a single note then develop it into sonata or any form of music. I wish you all the best and don't forget to have fun with your music :)

  • friends, thank you so much for the comments and appreciations ..I really mean it, glad everybody enjoy the lesson, have fun ! :D

  • You explained this better than anyone during my 19 years as a musician. Well done.

  • @BoardgameBaker thanks a lot my friend. all the best ! :)

  • Flashbang at 5:13

  • 4:12 holy shit man you are good at guitar !!!!!

  • finally a jazz lesson that a nob in jazz understand

  • thank you great lesson, are the shapes for pentatonic shapes 1, 2, 3?

  • @dealer205 there are 5 shapes of Pentatonic, get familiar to those fingering is a vital part. have fun my friend!

  • I will get deeper into the pentatonic on the next lessons, thanks for the comments and support everyone !

  • man you really kick ass!

  • The tab that you linked to this does not correspond to what you play - could you help out on that?

  • Hi and thank you for your time. I am having a hard time following your chord progression on the video. I looked up the attached tab which does not correspond to what you are playing. I really like the two chords that you play in A - got any other tabs that do work?

  • Can you explane me the difference between major and minor pentatonic? Someone told me that if I play (for example) a Aminor7 chord and instead of playing on it a Aminor pentatonic I play the same scale two frets above I am playing the Amajor pentatonic...if that's true can you tell me it is that? Ciao

  • Major pentatonic derived from Major Scale it self, the formula is 123 5 6, and the Minor Pentatonic actually is the relative Minor Scale from Major Scale, here's the formula 1 3b 4 5 7b. so try those scale in every tonic and try to identify by their sound. have fun ! :D

  • @Ponch

    ok thank! but why the minor pentatonic played one fret above is the major one?

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  • @danlovesnan minor has flat third major natural third so in A for minor C for major C#...sounds good to lead from C to C# in a blues leading tones are cool

  • @danlovesnan no, that's not true. if u play the same scale pattern 3 frets down i. e. starting on f# note, that's the A major pentatonic.

  • @danlovesnan The difference is simply that the major is a sweet/melodic sounding scale a favorite in country & southern rock music (Allman Bros., Marshall tucker used it alot) as opposed to the more rockin/bluesy sound of the minor (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page). They use exact scale patterns but start at different places due to the root issue The Major Pentatonic sounds best over Major chords while the Minor sounds best over Minor & Dominant chords....

  • @danlovesnan: the difference between major and minor pentatonic is not in the notes, because they are the same. It's the starting point. for instance: e minor pent. have the same notes as g major, a minor as c major etc.. If u play or improvise, think in phrases. as if u have something to say.

  • @danlovesnan For every pentatonic pattern you have a minor pentatonic and a major pentatonic. The difference is the notes you "stop" at. If you want to play an A minor pentatonic scale, you would play ACDEG and you would try to "rest" or mark the notes of the main chord you're interested in, in this case ACE and maybe G. This pattern is also the pentatonic of Cmajor so if you wanted to play it major you'd rest on CEG and use the A and D notes as "bridge" notes to get to the others. Thats it.

  • thanks for all the comments, much appreciated :)

  • @Ponch

  • Good work!! thanks :)

  • keep up the good work< Ponch. Nice stuff, good to see people sharing their knowledge. Hope to do similar myself soon, once I get time

  • hmmm nice I do actually use this all the time but never actually break it into steps..thx i got it now..

  • legato is very nice in jazz.......

  • This video helped something click inside my head! If I'm not mistaken, whatever the CHORD currently is (during a song) that's the pentatonic SCALE in which to improvise. Correct?

  • thanks my friend!

  • gusto ko 2 sir taga saan ka? paturo naman

  • you are a great guitarist! good groove, The way you speak...seems that your mother tongue es español no?

  • respect dude

  • Try Bm on Bm AND on E9

    And resovle to C# minor penta instead of Amajor penta ;)

  • great lesson, but would be nice to know the improv you were playing with those scales??? that surely is the important part? great lesson anyways.thanx.

  • mostly it's just chromatic ideas inside the pentatonic shapes, just try to play it with more melodically and free yourself, thanks

  • thanks everyone,. sorry been busy teaching at university now, glad you all like this humble approach. please stay tune !

  • yeeaaahhh me2.. thanx eh

  • :o going to favorite you and look at this later

    In the middle of learning some stuff and stumbled across this

    Great lesson

  • well said! ;)

  • nice hand vibrato

  • thank you for a good lesson.

  • thanks for all the comments, hope u enjoy, jazz it up!

  • Damn dude, that was great!

  • "We know this, oh we know this!" Oh i know : P Awesome lesson, looks like i need to check out the pentatonic positions. There was one really funky blues riff you played, good stuff. Rock on.

  • interesting lesson I enjoyed it. in life u learn to gain from all experiences and this is one of those times. thank you

  • One of worthless comments I have ever run into.

  • xD  haha

  • so funny

  • @yanotunes garbage comments always get another garbage comment

  • lol

  • There is no such thing as a Jazz pentatonic.

  • sick video and guitar? what is it?

  • i believe it is an Ibanez Talman guitar.

  • Great lesson man..

    keep up the good work..!!!

  • nice lesson dude, i like the way you treat each chord as a separate event, but if i have to nit pick at your lesson i would say to all the learners out there, try not just to learn the shapes, try to learn the notes in each scale, compare them to the complementary chrods and you will see similarities and learn much more tahn just chord and scale shapes.

    keep the lessons coming!!

  • hi can u tell me a book where i can study jazz improvvisation?thanks

  • om masih kurang ngerti nih ada versi bahasa indonesianya ga?

  • damn! nice job

  • hey ur good man!keep on posting more videos on improvisation.like youtr stuff

  • I want to say it...you GOOD...

  • its cool. youre actually teaching, but also show off alittle.

    and thanks for giving me the lust of playing jazz again. i kinda lost it abit to the blues :)

  • 5 stars!

  • Very nice cool!!!!!!!!!

  • Thanks for rekindling my interest in Jazz guitar. I was away for a while because Jazz

    is the hardest and bring in the least money.

  • Thanks for the lesson! I have troubles improvising with jazz which is a problem because I'm in jazz band at school and a lot of the songs I have a solo and those songs are jazz (of course) so I always have troubles with what I should do espicially since im used to doing just your blues hot licks, I mean it sounds good but it doesnt sound jazzy which is why I am saying thanks for the lesson I will now use it for further playing

  • Your english is fine. I can easily understand what your saying. Obviously you have an accent but so does everybody.

  • Good playing ponch, I like your explanation here.

  • thanks bros! till later keep playing yer guitar :)

  • Good explanation and demonstration!

  • Cool, a nice large explanation about them.. very great nice to get a start of it see if i like it, cheers ;)

  • thanks man that was helpful.

  • Chill bro.

  • I watched the video over and over, great lesson BTW but I still cannot figure out how to combine scales to get that jazzy sound.

  • hello mon ami, thanks a lot for the time and comment, it takes time to develop the sense of jazz sound and there's no secret behind it, It's something about the rhythm, the chords formula and the way jazz players express their own melody and ideas..it's something personal.. so no worry about trying to sound to jazzy..if you love jazz then it will come to you, just keep doing it and you'll get there. at least take this small ideas as a point to start develop your jazz playing. thanks :)

  • i have exactly the same question. but look at your answer. you are indeed a very matured jazz player. hats off to you, sir, for such a great lesson. thank you for sharing !

  • Very nice.

  • thank

  • you're welcome :)

  • fuckin' awsome!

    rock on!

  • thanks man :)

  • very good intruction u have der my friend..

  • You're welcome Monseratejimmer :)

  • WHy I should not? It's just another approach to improvise using Pentatonic scales, not based on Modes. Surely I do know how to use diatonic modes like you've mentioned, only in this lesson I just want to share my different side of improvise using Major and Minor Pentatonic.

  • You can play Minor pentatonic over major chords and dominant chords. It gives a bluesy sound.

  • great lesson! but can you refresh the link for the tabs. it´s dead in the moment. thanx;)

  • hi Nico, yeah I forgot to change the domain link, it;s up now. thanks

  • great thanks,finally i got a clearer idea,when to play each scale,its about the timing,i'm learnin the pentathonic scale,but i was so confused on when to really play what?????thanks again.

  • awesome man! have fun :)

  • I could finally introduce myself to this style, big thanks to you abang Ponch :)

    ditunggu lagi bagi2 ilmunya XD

  • Hi milonyik, you're welcome :)

  • That was incredibly helpful. finally someone who can explain jazz without getting bogged down in theory. Thank you.

  • tokenfrenchman, you make my day bro, glad you like it.

  • hey dude...nice one....dah brp lama di oklahoma? btw, klo loe ngelesin, gue mau donk. Tp gua d LA seh...LOL

  • mayan lama di OK, thanks man

  • great stuff dude amazing lesson it totally helped !!!

  • thanks my friend :)

  • great work man..waiting for the next lesson..thanks a lot!

  • hi mahfouz666, thanks man !

  • Those fast licks sound great, can you show us in another video what you're doing or parts of it, slowly? it flies by so fast. thanks

  • Omg, Thankyou!

  • awesome, thanks Dan !

  • This video has been amazingly helpful.

  • great to hear it :) !

  • Thanks for the lesson....You're helping a lot of us,and I for one appreciate it greatly.

  • oh man.. YOU're welcome, I do my best, thanks a bunch my friend.

  • Question: So you can play any note from those 3 scales and it will sound good? or do you play some notes in one scale, then switch to another scale and play some notes there?

  • I think it depends on our creativity to create interesting melodic line, you can add some blue notes on your phrasing while play those pentatonic scale. best luck

  • thanks again man...ur great...til next lesson...godbless you

  • will do my friend, wait for my next lesson on jazz line ideas

  • That was really good playing at the end

  • thanks man !

  • Thanks everyone, i'm glad you guys like it, much appreciated

  • Great stuff Ponch, just wondering what your thinking behind adding the extra note to your pentatonic scales is. Any thoughts?

  • hello bewaremyguitar, i think it's naturally came from my blues side of guitar playing, and sometimes I also considered it as passing note or chromatic ideas to connect between melodic lines. and also another cool thing about those chromatic is at some rate you can get those altered notes that hidden under the chords harmony structured. hope it helps :)

  • nice shit dude!

  • trims bro, learned a lot

  • very informative. many thanks

  • pak pak,,

    bahas arpegio dunk,,

    sama share lick2 nya ya,,

  • OVERCOMING the language barrier! Smokin'

    player.

  • it's a joke!

  • I love jokes, but In here I am pretty serious about my approach, no kidding at all :)

  • you are a good teacher! :)

  • thank you, I really like your playing too !

  • ponch..youre a gud teacher..keep it up...share that good talent you have..godbless you man..peace...

  • You're welcome my friend :)

  • nice approach to theory.. Cool , simple but important!

  • thanks bro georgekolovos

  • Good lesson, explained well.

  • Thank you Noiseathon

  • man ure awesome. R u from jakarta too? Me too!!!! Nice to meet ya! :D

  • yeah, Jakarta :) nice to meet you too dkchickenlittle

  • very very good man

  • Thanks bro The Noga

  • I have such a hard time trying to remember timing. I seriously have ADD and dyslexia and makes it so difficult. I will try recording something like this, but Ill get lost lol. You sound totally Awesome! Thanks for the video and theory etc.

  • hi Smokybrick, thanks for the time and comment!