Peter Green---master of taste and restraint. I was lucky enough to play with him when the Mac played our blues club just before the release of their first album.
@@rv6205 Yes, they all were. I was playing bass in the resident band and it was a sort of tradition that at the end of the night everybody would get back on stage for one almighty jam. They were more than willing. John McVie let me use his bass rig while he went for a drink!
Peter Green had an instinctive musical ability, most guitarists now play from memory not reacting to what the rhythm section is playing or the singer's melody, Peter's ears & hands were totally connected, having played bass at many Blues Jams it was a rarity to find a guitarist who could play rhythm, as most think of chords or riffs when in fact you're meant to play with the rhythm section & singer musically not mathematically. Peter's rhythmic mastery allowed him to stretch time, he could play before the beat, on the beat & after the beat with consummate ease, and rhythm is the basis that many instrumentalists overlook now.
#PeterGreen was and IS the greatest blessing EVER gained for guitar! SOOOOOOO much came from him and so few realize it. His roots support a family tree of some of the greatest musicians to ever grace the planet earth regardless if they display it or not. The roots and rabbit hole goes VERY deep with this one... Love y'all...
YESSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!! Back in the day EVERYONE said " Clapton is god" , BUT..... Peter was MINE... NOTHING is as good as the "ORIGINAL" fleetwood mac...DEFINITELY NOT what they became later... UUUUUUGGHHHHHHH....
I could not agree with you more. Years ago I saw him with the Splinter Group on the same bill as John Mayall (with Buddy Whittington on lead guitar). At the intermission after Peter's performance, I had to hit the john. My wife went up to him, he was signing CDs, and she went up to him and said " I don't know much about you, but my husband has talked about you our whole life". I never got to meet him or speak to him, but SHE did LOL!
Peter Green was an incredible guitarist but it didn’t come from him. The music came from BB King, Albert King, Freddie King. Peter had the ability to perfectly imitate and mix their tones. He was a master but it’s imitation and not innovation.
Exactly. When I learned the "Blues scale" it had this note in it. I know that's not the technical blues scale, but it should be part of your vocabulary from early on.
Jeff sounds awesome every single time. Always true classic sound out of the guitar he chooses. Awesome lesson to. One thing people miss often is that when mimicking someone's sound way person bends is crucial. Speed and how it accelerates and does it stop abd where it stops and vibrations in it is the character of that playing. Some stop on the dot some stop slightly under or over the pitch. Some stop bend into the mute. Some bend same speed. Some bend starting slow and then accelerating some do opposite. Some accelerate very fast some slow. It helps recognizing it. I am not great player but I am at the place where I do not think about it. I just hear it and way it was bend comes into my playing sort like a parrot but naturally sounding. Feel is the most important thing there. Seen so many players with perfect knowledge and super speed but missing the feeling making it sound awful. Soulless. Some players play few notes but every note tells the story. Playing those notes is not enough if you do not tell the story. Peter Green was all about feeling in those days and that was inspiring. Pitty he got poisoned in Germany. His brain was never same after it. Was sad seeing his late life concerts him being half way there. R.I.P. legend.
My old (jazz) guitar teacher called this the 6 no 7 scale. I use it all the time mixed with other stuff. Sounds great in many situations, now I know why. Cool. Thanks.
Its finally coming to my ear.. that major minor third spot....funny how long it took me...god I love you tube....thanks jeff...the sixth is magic in minor pentatonic!
Brilliant lesson Jeff as always. Strangely I’ve been working on this this week - licks from ‘if you be my baby’, ‘need your love so bad’ and ‘merry go round’. Great stuff! ..
Coincidentally, just the other day I did the Peter Green mod to my Lester. Sounds great - lots of excellent tones to be had. This maj6 scale lesson was that much more enjoyable!
Jeff. Again thank you for all that you do. I really enjoy your live streams on Wednesdays at 4pm est. I was surprised to learn some time ago that Peter Green wrote the song "Black Magic Woman." An interesting and expressive player. RIP....
Peter Green didn’t actually like the phrase “Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac” nor the ‘founding member’ because the band was founded in practice by Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie closely followed by Jeremy Spencer, I think. Good video, though
Great vid, but....wouldnt it be B.B King's magic scale? ....or was it Lonnie Johnson's magic scale? I heard them both use that note as well and Lonnie pre dates them both
Jeff McErlain, The peter green scale formula is 1-3b ( tweaked ) -4-5-6 which is called the "Dorian Pentatonic". The think the BB Box is a Major Hexatonic scale because there is not 7th degree. The BB Box is 1-2 ( tweaked 2nd )-4-5-6. The Tweaked 2nd bends to a 3b or 3. You should really do a video lesson about the Dorian Pentatonic, Phrygian Pentatonic, Lydian Pentatonic, Mixolydian Pentatonic, Aeolian Pentatonic, Phrygian Dominant Pentatonic.
Thank you for this lesson. I use the "box 1" pentatonic shape a lot it's nice to learn a new way to use it to get me out of my rut. I greatly appreciate it.
Great lesson! Also enhanced here in the UK by an ad break for Mark’s and Spencer which was using “Albatross” as the backing music. Uccanny! Or is it all down to some secret RU-vid “blues” algorithm?
Nice lesson. Mentioned Michael Schenker and Robben Ford. Peter Green and BB King,,,,i prefer to think of them as play by feel players. Sure, shapes were there but the less theory, the better.
Great sound but as a intermediate, i cant see where your fingers are on the fret board and 6th 7th and other positions are not familiar. Would like to know where exactly the 1st 4th 5th boxes lye on fretboard.
The frequent interruptions for ads are very rude and ruin this video as a teaching tool for me. Im not against ads but have them at the beginning or the end!
Jeff, i bought your Truefire Blues Arpeggios and Advanced Blues Soloing courses. As a hobbyist who's noodled for decades and has devoloped an amazing facility with "learned licks", I imitated you quickly against the backing tracks, but still how I struggle to play the changes. I'm particularly exposed a capella! I understand that the blue b5 is the same as the Country minor third in either face of the blues scale, and I can rip up and down the penta in "a key" but mixing major and minor seemed more of an effect than an art form until this lesson. Thank you so much for the way you broke this down. I sat and jammed on a triplet feel for over an hour with all manner of chord stabs that I had no idea were in my repertoire, mixing quick change and regular 12 bars for fun at a whim. I'm hearing the changes, and a whole new world is waiting...
@@JeffMcErlain You've played and taught many great things, and for each lesson those students who were ready likely grew in epic ways. But I'm biased, and since this was that lesson for me, I consider the lesson epic. Please take more feedback and consider my position. 😉
And wonderful lesson. Thanks Jeff!!! I can see how this hints at the major pent and just weaving in and out of major pent to minor pent so seamlessly like BB always did.
This is a great lesson. I have loved Peter Green since I was a boy. If you listen to his licks and break them down, he has passing notes that in isolation sound so 'off' but his resolutions and responses to call and response licks are gold.
Thanks Jeff, you are a TERRIFIC teacher. I had always used the 6th in this fashion but never knew why it worked from a theory perspective. Now I know! And to be perfectly honest, I never thought of it as the 6th, I just thought of it as a 'cool color note'! LOL
