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Love your videos. As a guitarist, your instruction makes the transition to a bassist much easier. K.I.S.S - Keep it simple stupid. The foundation of success. Thank you.
Hi Im a super beginner, Im finding your lessons to be super comfortable. I like how you take your time in showing the fingers to frat, showing over and over again. I can get comfortable with your lessons, please keep the slow paste for super beginners.. Much Respect
The vanilla cadences.....but they become much more with syncopatio, see page 5 compund 5/4 cadence with a prepared dissonance. Acoustic sustain is perhaps a bit weak to demonstate, but it's an overlooked glory for electric guitar: derekremes.com/wp-content/uploads/compendium_english.pdf
Absolutely. I don't do a lot of slide guitar so I haven't got a guitar properly set up for it. If I did, I would probably make a special nut and bridge for it to help raise the strings away from the frets.
I have a lot of respect for Robert Johnson I'm a lead and rhythm guitar player in a hard rock band and we are wanting to remake a song by Mr. Johnson to pay our respects to him.
Your original videos on the circle of fifths was my launching point, after 30+ years of strumming without understanding, towards a lasting affinity to father charles and his battling and a deep dive into music theory that has expanded my playing, taught me to improvise and brought so much freedom and fun on guitar. Would thoroughly recommend the this fella as the best explainer of the circle of fifths and key signatures on RU-vid and beyond. Period. Fact.
Thanks for the question. Let's give you a bit more detail on this: The 6th string is tuned to E and the 5th string to A. A is five steps up the chromatic scale from E ( F F# G G# A). So, if we cross from 6th string to 5th string at any given fret we are gaining Five semitones. In the example on the video I have just played the note B at fret 7 on the 6th string and I want to go up a full tone to the note C#. This is simple if I stay on the same string - I just move up two frets and play C# at fret 9 on the 6th string. BUT the exercise calls for the scale to be played in one position using different fingers rather than on one string. To find the C# on the 5th string I can move straight across at fret 7 to gain 5 semitones (E at fret 7 on the 5th string) so I have 'added 5'. Then I 'subtract 3' by moving down three frets to find C#' at fret 4. So to move two semitones from B to C# I have the choice to move up 2 frets on the 6th string, or I can achieve the same effect by moving straight across to the 5th string (adding five semitones) and then moving down that string 3 frets (subtracting 3 from 5 to give me the 2 fret increase). Hope that helps!
I know this one is 10 years old, but the channel is still quite active. The links in the description for the site are all broken, which is a shame. Having taken a look, or tried to, it's disappointing that there's no content at all visible unless one signs up first.
Thanks for your interest and thanks too for flagging up the broken link (which I have just fixed). I have recently re-launched the site which is now housed on a responsive platform so that it should be accessible on all device types. I am running it directly rather than using a marketing company, but that means I am still playing catch-up on details like links in the RU-vid descriptions! You can currently access all online site content for a thirty-day trial with a simple sign-up (no credit card details required).
I think once I finish learning 12 bar blues and the different licks and shuffles I'll learn this and move on. I am not a super blues fan but I respect it and do love the rhythm and call and response. Without the Blues - music would be pretty boring, even if you are not a blues fan like me there's no denying that much.
Thanks for a great lesson , covers quite a lot of concepts ! Love the explanation of how to play harmonics correctly , mine have always been a bit hitnmiss up to now
Wow! So much to listen for! Thanks- this helps a lot in breaking down how to do licks.🙏P.S. could you tell me the difference between a lick and a riff,please? I think a riff is a repeated lick?
Thanks for your comment. Good question! The main difference between a lick and a riff is that licks are generally considered part of lead guitar - the layer of music played over the top of the rhythm. Whereas riffs rightly belong to the rhythm layer of music. Because of this, as you rightly suggest, riffs are normally played repetitively. Typically, riffs are played on the lower strings (though not always - think of the riff to 'sweet child of mine' for example) and licks are played on higher strings - though again there are exceptions. It is perhaps not always easy to say were a lick ends and a riff begins.
@@SecretGuitarTeacher thanks so much for that excellent explanation. By lower or higher strings, are you referring to sound. Lower, strings 6,5,4 ( low EAD) and higher strings 123 ( high EBG)? Thanks again.🎸
@@sandragirard8054Yes - confusing instrument the guitar! The top strings are at the bottom and the bottom strings are at the top! But yes, it all makes sense if you think of how they SOUND!
Very cool of you to get back to me. So I skimmed through your channel and I must say well done. I'm 60 and in my 3rd year of guitar, I became attracted to the quality budget gear and purchased an ST, TL, and a semi-hollow guitar. All from Eart. In an attempt to keep my interest. It's working so far. Glad I subscribed to your channel. Peace ✌
Thanks for commenting. Glad you found it useful. I learned these patterns half a centry ago, but I still use them almost every time I pick up a guitar. Nothing has changed in terms of their importance to the guitar player!
I’ve rewound this so much if it were the 70’s I would have ruined the tape. I’m getting it, not very good fast but I’m going to keep plugging. Thanks for the lesson, it’s awesome.
Yeah - digital technology is a godsend for learning guitar-players isn't it? I hate to think how many grammophone needles I would have worn out in the old days! 😁
I'm confused. Is the thing you are calling the "E Blues Scale" actually the E Minor scale? According to Berklee the E Major Blues Scale is E F# G G# B C#. I don't just want the notes, I want to understand how you are getting them. Is this some kind of mixolydian scale? Is it minor or major?
Great question! Here are proper definitions for each of the six scale types that Guitar Players most commonly use: MAJOR = default scale so we number the notes simply 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Major scales can be generated by applying the formula WWHWWWH starting from any note you designate as the key note. (W = Whole tone H = Half tone). From the Major scale you can derive the MAJOR PENTATONIC scale by omitting notes 4 and 7. So the Major Pentatonic is: 1 2 3 5 6 8. The Major Blues scale is created by adding a flat 3 to the Major pentatonic scale. So its formula is : 1 2 b3 3 5 6 8. The NATURAL MINOR SCALE can be created by flatting the 3rd 6th and 7th notes of the Major scale so its formula is: 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 8. If you omit the 2nd and flat 6th you get the Minor Pentatonic scale: So its formula is 1 b3 4 5 b7 8. Add in the flat 5 to that scale and you get the Minor Blues scale. This has the formula: 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 8. There is an extra dimension (and thus potential for confusion) to these scale relationships in that all six scales can be produced by just three different fingering patterns. This is because of relativeness. For example the C Major scale uses the notes C D E F G A B C. The A Natural Minor scale uses the same notes starting from the sixth: A B C D E F G A. The C Major Pentatonic uses C D E G A C; The A Minor pentatonic: A C D E G A. The C Major Blues scale: C D Eb E G A C, The A Minor pentatonic A C D Eb E G A. If you would like me to email you a visual representation of how all these things relate, just go to secretguitarteacher.com and use the messaging system to contact me.
What’s going on at 8:41? I slowed down the video, but I’m not sure what happened when you moved from the third to fourth string. I can’t produce the sound you make as I “jump”. Other major scale for my reference: 9:57
