Nail 5 Core Guitar Skills With These Pedal Point Exercises 

How the heck are you so skilled at putting these lessons together?!? Awesome man!

You are my favorite teacher in RU-vid. Thank you so much for all the lessons and tips, you explain it so well :)

dude i love your channel so much. ur transforming my playing within only 2 years of playing guitar. you my good man are going to get me to where i want to go. much love man keep up the good stuff.

I've been playing for a long time. Taken guitar in college, etc... I've been binge watching your lessons and they're so damn amazing. Perfect visual lessons. Thanks bro

This is excellent. Thank you! I really like how you linked tones, picking patterns, neck diagrams, and chord intervals in a way that is easy to see all of these things at the same time. I found this very intuitive to understand at many levels.

Hey Fret Jam, with no doubt one of THE music theory pages on RU-vid. Right to the point of the subject, no stammering, not one word to much or missing - and out of those reasons no confusion. In short: Fabulous!!! Thank you for your huge effort ... I like to wish you a great 2018 ... may the muses keep staying very close to you!

This was such an amazing lesson, so easy to follow. Even a beginner like me who never improvises or does complicated solos found it very informative and easy to digest. Thank you so much keep up the good work

tag your videos they should get more views, they deserve them! great stuff!

Always excellent lessons here! Merry Christmas and I wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous new year!

Easy there Angus Young. Another good example is TomPetty's Running Down a Dream.

Holy open strings batman! I think I got it! Thank you for your teachings sensei!

for continued listening: The Strokes -- "The Modern Age" solo is drenched in this stuff also "Vision of Division" by the same band has a solo that's all over this stuff! Great lesson and thanks!

Great lesson. Always so clearly explained and easy to follow. Best guitar theory teacher on youtube! As a counterpoint to your pedal point I'd just like to add that this technique could probably be considered a more advanced (much more advanced) version of the Drone! For example, when I'm playing an octatonic dominant bebop scale, which is a jazz scale of sorts, if you put a drone in there or pedal around a certain point, it suddenly turns in to one of the classical hindustani rags. That pedal point or drone really gives a whole new flavour as opposed to just noodling through the actual notes that comprise the scale. Sometimes, even just learning how to pluck two strings at once (one with your thumb, the other with your finger) in the most basic of fashions really opens up your guitar playing. You can quickly enter that magical world of 'is this just me playing this' as the whole is so much more than the sum of its parts. Pretty soon you are learning to alternate your thumb drone or pedal point and you start to get coordinated. Then you start getting good at it and it can really bust you out of a rut. Any intermediate guitar players out there that feel as if they have hit the wall - if you're a shredder or just a chord thrasher, put down that pick (actually learn to keep it tucked between your fingers and flick back and fore) and just tool around with your thumb hitting the lower bass strings and whatever finger you are comfortable with plucking the higher ones. It's not too difficult to drone or pedal on the D string when playing that jazz/indian scale, and then switch up to the A string and pedal on that. It doesn't have to be just rock/metal pyrotechnics. This video lesson will show you how to get authentic sounding Indian/Sitar like scales going. It's all about the drone baby. Or rather the pedal point!

i shared on Facebook 😊 I request all viewers to share their videos coz they always come with the things which we don't deserve in free. At least we can share to make this channel more and more known to people. A lot of love and respect from Pakistan and thanks for teaching me so many things. I have no teacher but I proudly say I learn guitar from Mike Beatham . I am proud to be viewed of your videos sir😊

One of the best channel with guitar stuff on YT. Your lessons are f*n great. You could speed up the tempo, sometimes you take too much time to explain simple concept. Anyway, amazing content

I shared this on my Google+ page. Although I was hesitant to do so with the rather risqué picture. The pic didn't being me here, your excellent lessons did!

Nice voice, nice lessons, EXCELENTE TEACHER, nice graphics... Damn it bro, you got it! thaniks.

Excellent lesson again Mike. So grateful for your work. Just sent you a small donation and hopefully others will be encouraged to support you too.

Very very use ful thankyou fr alll

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That sounds great! Hell, I sound great! Thanks man

A video like this but with tapping would be great!

Thanks!

I love your lessons.Merry Christmas

Great lesson, thank you.

Nice video as always!! very clear

Excellent lesson!! Can you talk about pentatonics superimposition? (Sorry for the bad english and greates from Brasil)

If I had a theory like you the world would know me ...unreal...we all waiting for a video about tapping in the solos ...come on Mike!!!!

Awesome lesson!

Good job as always! Great

Awesome!!! As good as always!!!! 👍🤘

congratulations bro those video heiping me too congratulations

Do you have a playlist where I can start at the beginning and work my way up? Your lessons are superb and I can’t thank you enough.

Thank you.

A favorite

who is the teacher ? he's really good !

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

I had heard the pedal point in a lot of songs that I like without knowing that it had a name. When you use a mode scale should you use the chords of that mode? I'm confused about that. I mean, the phrygian dominant, for example, is the parent scale or it's just playing every chord in that mode?

Nice editing, i bet it took awhile to do

5:25 green text should say "quarter note count" right?

Can anyone help me with how he was changing the chords with the melodies ?

What do you use for your amp and recording? Kinda sounds like a EVH 5153

I cant go on the complete lesson page. Its no https...

Can the master of puppets riff be considered a pedal tone

What happened to the I chord in minor?

What a fucking God you are

I can't tell which is hotter between the lesson and the chick in the video thumbnail!

thunderstruck anyone?

whos the chick on the thumbnail for this video? @fretjam

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Great lesson. Thanks.