Change Your Blues Solos from Stale to Great | A Simple Trick 

Thx Mark . Excellent instruction. Love the superimposed colored lights on the fretboard. Gracious

And the hits keep comin. Never to old to learn. Thanks Mark for sharing.

Mark's lessons are insane. So glad I found this channel. If you haven't seen his Allman Bros. Harmonization go find it. I still love you too, Marty.

This is such a great lesson, one of the best I've watched on RU-vid, such a simple concept but so effective. I've been trying to play over chords for a while and this has really helped. Brilliant!! Thank you so much for posting.

What a great lesson! Your teaching approach is so clear and authentic. Thank you!

Good stuff, Mark. By the way, that painting on the wall behind you is very clever.

Dang! I watched some of your videos yesterday for the first time! Talk about enjoyable!!! I know lots of this already but I absolutely love the way you explain it all! Especially what I don't know. I would recommend your videos to anyone that wants to really understand what they are trying to do and how to get there while still fun along the way! Thank you so much

Thanks Mark, my man! I'm so glad I decided, a couple of months ago, to learn the solos from That Smell. That's what initially turned me on to your channel. You seemed to be the only one to do all of the solos, and correctly. I decided to check out the rest of your channel, and then subscribed. I'm glad I did! God Bless!🙏❤🙏

Top lesson Mark, keep 'em coming!

Nice painting on the wall

What a brilliant lesson, this looks like so much fun! Thank you Mark for sharing this technique! Have a great weekend! :)

Hell yes! Great lesson. Thanks Mark.

Definitely one of if not best lesson I've had. It finally makes sense

MARK RULES!

Thanks Mark 🎸 💯 on the method today 👍 no pressure...lol.... this was alot of fun! Love Kris IL 👻 👻 🎃 🎃

As always Mark your knowledge and insights which provide meaningful enhancements for the guitar playing community are so appreciated. Everything you share has made me a better guitarist. Thank you for your work. You’re awesome!

Best lesson on chord tones ever!! Thanks Mark. The lighted dots on the fretboard make for easy times :)

Great lesson Mark.

Hi Mark, Great lesson as always, your range of material is impressive and your teaching style accessible and extremely useful and helpful. Don't take this the wrong way as I hope you can take a little ribbing......all of us out here in the youtube viewing audience have come to know the instructors/teachers/presenters as we see the videos week after week stretching back many years in many cases. We all know you better than you know any of us. I find reading other viewers comments is often insightful and I myself am no stranger to making comments on various youtube videos or sports blogs or the like, often of a rhetorical or humorous nature. Anyway where I am going with this is the last video of yours I watched and really enjoyed was on a Jump Blues Solo, this was about October or November and the video was from a few years back. I'd seen a few other videos of yours in the past few years so I was taken back a little.....wait a minute, "where's Mark?".....last time I saw him he was giving a instructional video and appeared like he just got off his job as a CPA and found time to do a video, time before that he was riffing guitar licks in a crewcut. Must have been during the lockdown and your son home from college was an "influencer" of another sort with a bag and a bong. I'm an old hippie with a ponytail and black coffee is the strongest I indulge in so I thought I'd poke a little fun...... Robbie in Colorado

Always gold here.

mercy mercy mercy......what a wonderful video..... love it thanks mark

Thanks, Mark! I always, ALWAYS enjoy your videos. Like a man after my own heart, "it's my favorite thing to do on two feet!"

Just found your channel! Great content! looking forward to deep diving through your archive!!!!!

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Thanks Mark, this lesson will certainly help with my blues soloing, thanks again, keep jamin bud...

Nice lesson Mark! I loved that sticcato country lick you threw in at around 5:14. Very cool! The graphs are very helpful too.

Great lesson Mark!

Very smooth! Subscribed

I liked this lesson. Some great simple concepts...thanks

Beautiful real life pentatonic study. Thanks Mark!

Mark that was one sweet lesson, thank you

Man, I have been looking for years, YEARS, trying to find someone who will cut the crap and "get down to it". Decades ago I bought some Eric Clapton instruction book and that really opened my eyes but your instruction closes them in ecstatic music making. Thanks👍

That’s very tasty pickin’! Thanks! I’ll have to work on this.

Hello again from Tokyo - I working on your instruction which I found highly insightful. Thank you.

Wow, such a great lesson!

Great little tidbits that amount to enormous wisdom! 🙏

Mark Zabel Wow!!! All of your lessons are really fantastic. This may be the best one yet. I'm going to watch it several more times before applying what you've taught. Thank you SO much!!! P.S. I envy your full head of hair........a distant memory for me. ;.)

Another great lesson !

Nice soloing! Looks like some hybrid picking was going on there as well making it sound very smooth 👍🏻

Thanks, Mark.

Okay Mark, so I’ve been trying to learn how to solo with little success. (Loooong time trying) Now I’m not paying too much attention to the parts about the third of each chord etc. (I recognize that it’s a huge factor in determining whether the chord is maj/min etc) But after watching your video once I was able (using “CAGED” chord shaped arpeggios) to start soloing a bit! I’m not saying I’m doing it well but it’s a start and, after not getting anywhere for ages I’m very excited! Thanks very much Mark!!

I’ve been playing for &*# years, but I learn something new every single time I pick up my guitar. Your lessons do that, too. Thanks much, Mark!

brilliant teacher, many thanks

Thank you for your time.

Great lesson.

Excellent lesson and quite valuable, as per norm

Thanks Mark I'll try the special note!I'll check it out! Jim

Liked the video for the end where you said "not gonna lie it does take some actual practice but once you get it it's great." Way better than other youtube guitar lesson people that try to pass these things off like they're instant keys to success lol

Thank you! extremely useful :)

I just remembered what Artie Traum's Rock Guitar book taught me. On the change from Am to D just move the pentatonic pattern up one string from E to A and go for it.

Handy tips, thanks

You are such a good teacher.

Cool lesson! I don't need to play like EVH but I do admit I hate sounding too predictable or robotic soloing on guitar and this lesson absolutely helps!! Also.....very cool looking guitar hanging artwork on the wall!! Looks like a guitar pick holder?? Jim C.

I just love the tune .....wow ...

Great. Like Mick Ronson said "Play. Don't Worry."

I am just beginning and your video series is really opening my eyes. One request: perhaps make a video about soloing over chords (just as you've done here) but slow it way down and simplify it for folks like me. A true beginner lesson on this where I could copy and repeat so that I can start training my ear to hear it would be very very helpful!

Great lesson Mark. Like the new hair style a little shaggy but looks cool.

A big fan or your lessons and playing.

Nice lesson, I miss the Sunday afternoon chats.

Thank you!

great tempo nice hand TY !! new sub

Good Lord, you started playing and I thought immediately of Jerry Garcia, but I can't think of the rest of the tune or its name. What a great variation on just using the Am for a beginner's finger work. Mahalo plenty.

I like how you painted your wall

Everyone talks about using the chord tones but you do it with out the inferred pressure of the theories. Very useful and simple. One thought - maybe when you demo'd the solo ideas it would be helpful if you put up the pentatonic diagrams highlighting the notes you were using as you played so the visual of the notes could support what you were doing. Thank you for your help.

@3:40 that’s the key …. Sense and timing !!! 😎🤘🏼 I live and love to solo I know your a fanatic of composition as well as I am would love to hear any original pieces

Thank you

Thanks!

This is gold. I wish you had made this video 30 years ago.

Great lesson again thank you. Your demo solo was fab but as a new concept it would have helped me a lot to hear you show the difference between playing the straight A minor pentatonic, then gradually start also hitting the third from the coming D7 or E7 chord. Rather than going straight into a whizz all-over the neck lead break, inspiring, aspirational but hard to relate it to the lesson. No worries though, I'll practice this slowly for myself. I think this will be useful.

I used to think all I needed to know was what key is it in. Now I am paying more attention to the changes.

Audacious 10X

Smoking licks Mark. Somehow you must know what I'm thinking. Thanks

Thank you for this excellent instruction. Gibson guitars are the best. I've had that understanding since the age of 7.🙂

Really love this video !!! Thx so much for uploading this !!

Very nice to hear and see a simple explanation of chord tones. Thanks! See ya on down the road or " further on up the road". (Somebody's gonna hurt you like you hurt me.)(I think it's the one where he calls out key changes a couple of times...). Rock on! 🤘

Love your channel, very informative! I do have a question for you, what's your take on your Blackstar amp?

💡 moment!

Wow that was fucking amazing

Nice guitar graphic on the wall.

Excellent! Playing and playing notes that matter. This is exactly what I was hoping to find someone explain. You did and you did it in a simple to understand way! Thank you forever! Gonna practice this! So the "third" is always based on the diatonic and not chromatic scale? I have one of these brains that tend to overthink and complicate things. Thank you.

MZ, When staying in minor pentatonic box#1 how can you make it sound like you're playing the ii chord, iii chord, vi chord? because mostly it always sounds like its the I chord, not the other chords in the key ii,iii,IV, V, vi. I'm trying to stay in minor pentatonic Box#1 but able to make the blues licks sound like other chords in the key, instead of the blues licks always sounds like they are the I chord.

Those thirds are the missing link - chromatically from the minor & major third through the blue note chromatic run...high or low on A string rooted 9th's or G string dom7ths....glad I picked up the guitar to hear what you meant by the red dots.

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for some reason my am pentatonic position doesn't sound like Marks! Good stuff man, thanks.

Like this lesson a lot. Could you gear it towards country licks instead of Blues ? I know how to switch over from relative minor to relative major but just need some extra licks for my vocabulary. Thanks

Thank you.. this is magnificent.. I guess this only applies to major blues.. Can you show us the same trick with minor blues..

Hey. Just found your channel and your really helpful. Can you do a 'reckless' bryan adams or 'Jungle love' Steve Miller Band cover?

Could you maybe tell me where you got your decal/picture in the back from? Thanks a lot from Germany! (:

great lesson but you call out the target note for those peaple who have trouble hearing the tones

Hey Mark, i could not find the last reply i had yesterday from my phone but about that squier affiniry i ordered.. thats laural, i do have a pacitica with walnut, and a gregg bennet idk i think rosewood, and a talman half electric is purpleheart fretboard.. i first wanted a maple frethoard.. now i have a laural because it was 30 euro cheaper . is this alot different? less then maple, or does this not matter.. (i think, i cannot play on the tele also, because i practice 6 weeks😂. it goes fast; but after this one, i first try to learn things befote i buy others.. kind of addicted since 6 weeks to guitars after 18 year drug addiction😅😅 so it also helped in some ways als i watch your videos together with marty music, and music is win a lot because they are good to follow and also lots of speaking about the guitars.. i want to be able to work on my guitars myself.. i think it cannot be that hard? because it is not that its 1000 elements.. but im afraid that if i start i have fooled mtself thinking it was easy and screw it all up

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Is that a epiphone dot if so what size of string do have it I have 12

Too difficult for me but thank you

Ok Mark this time you really ticked me off.....I'm going to go throw rocks at my gear......again

And the blue note.

Fabbydoo - ta much!

Better than Hendrix your dreaming pal

i got a stank face when you started playing.

And, BTW, you're better than me, because you still have HAIR!

Tony Robbins 😂😂😂