My favorite blues guitarist? That is easy: Peter Green, hands down. With no close second. Listen to Worried Dream, Out of Reach, I Loved Another Woman, and of course Need Your Love So Bad. To top it off, there is a bootleg of I've Got A Mind To Give Up Living which shows what he could do in a live setting. The man was a genius.
This is SUCH an insightful lesson.. just amazing to take such a deeper look into everyone's favoriate scale.. never seen it taught like this before.. more the laungage of the scale that the positions, just next level.. gotta LOVE Rotem.. his love for the music just touches all of us
I do the exercise with a scale on one string all the time, but not intentionally. But now that I hear you say it, I have been listening to the scales, not just pentatonic, in an entirely new way since I started doing that. Very good lesson, props to you, I love your videos man, thanks a lot.
Rotem, this is an amazing lesson. I have been practicing the Pentatonic scales all afternoon, your demonstration really brought home the pain of the flat 3rd and flat 7th. You have given me a new perspective to work on. I have only playing for 18 months and I know this is a marathon. 👍
Blues man, old-school singer/player. Chris Cain. The real deal with great feel, a unique rhythm style, and fiery original licks. Also a good saxophonist and pianist. On the inter-webs today.
For now I’d say Skip James is my favourite blues player. He is such an original player and I think the ethos of blues is so hard within him. Truly Mesmerizing and hypnotizing player.
Matt Guitar Murphy. Otis Rush. Freddie King. BB King. Albert King. T-Bone Walker. Wes Mongomery(Whenever he plays blues) Earl Hooker. Magic Sam. Jody Williams. Robert Nighthawk. Robert Lockewood Jr. Hubert Sumlins guitar work with Howlin Wolf. Young Buddy guy(early to late 60s) Clarence Gatemouth Brown. Albert Collins(Who played in a unique open F minor tuning)
The one string tip is really important. Anything to break our guitar-centric habit of thinking in "shapes". Every bit of distance we can create between us and fretboard logic is more precious than gold. Sometime I play with my eyes shut because by removing the visual part of guitar it helps to internalize the colors of notes.
Emily Remler the Queen of approach in my ears ❤ Man you really can’t imagine how you changed my listening since i discovered you in Paul Davids Video. Your music and your teaching absolutely changed my learning and listening. One day i will be good enough for your course 🙏 Keep it up please make a Video about Solmisation how you actually learned it. Thanks for everything you told us so far ❤
I like your teaching style. Thank you! Coming from a blues perspective, the pentatonic scale(s) + note bending offer a way in to tempered tones and exploring the microtones that the human ear 'wants' to hear. For example, bending a dominant 7th 'almost' a whole tone to 'just below' the equal temperament tonic and working in between the minor and major 3rd.
I recently realized that I’ve been playing Dorian basically my whole life, because my teacher in high school taught me to add a few extra notes to the minor pentatonic scale, so that’s how I’ve always played it. Honestly, I’m pretty sure he probably did explain that it was Dorian, but that totally went over my head at the time. Anyhow, now that I’ve realized that, I’ve been doing the same thing with Phrygian. So, if you know the minor pentatonic well, you can learn at least a couple modes by just adding the right “extra notes.”
I use the pent that way. I use it as a fretboard map, adding an extra note, or 2 or 3, opens up most other scales, making it easier for me to use them. It's all major or minor pent, with extra notes based on the particular song.
This is great advice, to think of the sound of the note that many pentatonic lessons skip over. Just because the note fits, doesn't mean it's the right note for the moment. Other blues players I'd recommend. Albert King, Rory Gallagher, Eric Gales and Gary Moore.
Hendrix's post mortem "Blues" album is great! I also really like Taj Mahal in a more folk tradition (Statesboro Blues) and for classic good ole blues, I go for Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins!
although you wouldn’t describe Jimmy Page as a blues player , his song ‘ Since I’ve been loving you ‘ has some of the best blues guitar ever ..so good ! Luv your lessons Yotem ....Thx u 🙏🏼🌊
Ronnie was an absolute killer in the 80's and 90's. One of the few who played with a fierceness that approached SRV in honest, soul drenched, gut bucket blues.
My favorite blues guitarist is Stevie Ray Vaughan. The best introduction to him would be his live DVD, Live at the El Macombo. His best album to try would be the 2 CD deluxe edition of his second album, Couldn't Stand the Weather. To just try a song, try any version of his song called Texas Flood.
8:36 very interesting idea that I'm definitely going to try out, because I'm really struggeling a bit atm to move away from just "knowing the shape". I guess if you practice it this with this method you really start to understand the emotion that each note will give in a context of whatever progression you're playing over when you pause for a moment on that note. Thanks, I'll practice it this way from now on for a while :)
Nzinn73 As far as blues players, I have a list more than a favorite player. Stevie Ray Vaughn, Clapton, Jeff Healy, Duke Robillard is a multi Genre player who is great with blues playing, same with Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, for slide Duane Allman, Sonny Landreth, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks. The earlier players who influenced all these guys would include B.B, Albert, Freddie King, Bukka White, Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Howlin Wolf. Johnny Winter would be another. Robert Cray, great singer and player. Walter Trout. Rory Gallagher.
Hey :) Thanks for the lesson! As for Blues Guitarists: look into Angus Young from AC/DC. He obviously uses the pentatonic scale all over, and he does very cool stuff with it. Most important: he's got really really good taste and feel IMO
Scott Henderson is probably the best fusion and blues player alive today. I recommend you listen to his early solo albums for blues. Here is one of the tunes in question. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A2Ka43wF6S4.html
I'm enjoying the "fav blues player" comments here. I'm also feeling the pain of the E flat! seriously. I have to go with Albert King. He said so much with so few notes. Everyone has that one player that speaks to the soul. So, find the one, and "stick to your guns."
רותם רציתי לשאול למה אתה שם גומיות על הנאט כמו זאת או כמו הגומיה האדומה שיש בחלק מהסרטונים? האם זה עוזר להחזיק כיוון ואיך בדיוק לשים אם תוכל לעשות סרטון בנושא זה יהיה נפלא ❤
Is there an advantage to learning the chromatic Solfege to sing along with the notes, or is it just as good to simply use the increment names 1, b2, 2, b3, 3 etc? I can't think of a reason beyond the fact that Solfege is so widely used by other musicians.
I really love what Greg Koch does. but that was already said here. Blues Saraceno is amazing. Back in the late 80's he had three instrumental albums that were great. Check out "Full Tank" on "Never Look Back". He was 17 when this was recorded. Its on the edgy side.
I'm not being original, since I found them on Frank Zappa's list of favourites, but check out Guitar Slim and Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson. Their guitar solos on The Story Of My Life and Three Hours Past Midnight are crazy.
Hendrix, Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, Dereck Trucks, Gary Clark Jr., Billy Gibbons, Eric Gales, Albert King and not so known - Rory Gallagher
