You cannot exist without these - 3 Scales lesson

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] greetings I am Rob Chapman your friendly neighborhood guitar teacher - tell us suppose I'm gonna be teaching you three scales that you simply cannot exist without if you are into blues funk reggae metal steam punk guitar the steam punk guitar even exists I don't think it does probably doesn't I've got Sylvia on B cam I'm gonna be teaching you these three scales and more importantly how to incorporate them into your music how to use them because it's great to learn a shape but it doesn't mean a thing if you can't actually practically apply it into your music if you are a complete beginner please use this video as if it is a resource learn a thing go away have a beer have some rice fries whatever you eat in your country of origin and please tell me what you're eating because I am currently very hungry and learn that thing practice it up good come back get some more of the guitar education pie that I will be dishing out to you in this lesson today before we kick off here are some tuning notes for you it might be easy for you to tune to the sound of my guitar if you're a beginner however if you can't do that please use an electronic tuning device for example the boss tu pedals are excellent and what I use all of the time here is an e string for you here is a string [Music] [Laughter] here is the d-string [Music] [Applause] here is a g-string here is a B string and here is another e string [Music] the first scale we're going to learn is fundamentally the most important scale you will ever learn irrespective of style it is the minor pentatonic scale I'm going to be teaching you it in a and it sounds like this here's how it looks and how to play it nice and slow first finger is going to go on the a note which is the fifth fret on the e-string and then the little finger is going to reach out and you can only do this if your thumb is behind the neck and your wrist is sunk to allow you to play the eighth fret on the e-string so you would go some folks will use a third finger which is even harder really but the little finger is what I want you to try and do from here bring the first finger down to the a string and again we're gonna stick actually this finger is only gonna play the fifth fret all the way down that's all it's going to do so fifth fret on the a string third finger is going to play at the seventh fret down a string first finger always on the fifth fret again we're gonna play the seventh fret on the string [Music] first finger down again fifth fret again we're playing the seventh fret fifth fret little finger is gonna reach out and play the eighth fret first finger fifth fret and then eight fret again I don't make this shape while I'm playing the scale I'm just trying to give you as much visibility as possible on the scale so here's how it sounds and looks [Music] [Applause] you so how do we use this scale this is the most important thing to understand you get the information and then you learn to practically apply the information I want you to imagine that this pattern of notes is a mobile thing that you can move around the fretboard in the example I've just taught you we played an a because the first note we played was an eighth note however if I played it here it would have been a sharp if I played it here it would have been e if I played it here it would have been G so where you play it is the origin note the first note is the tonic is the root of that scale so if I'm playing for example a G chord like this in this instance this is just what we call a power chord it doesn't have a major tonality it doesn't have a minor tonality it's just a chord with a root and a fifth and a roof again in this instance I can play the G minor pentatonic scale starting on the G note and play the same pattern keeping the fingers the same distance apart randomize the notes play around with them bend some of them and experiment with where it takes you and you'll find that you're playing a solo here's an example of that right now in G [Applause] [Music] wherever you play a power chord you can play a minor pentatonic scale it's really exciting power chords are great because they kind of don't have a major vibe don't have a minor vibe they are non major non minor just a bunch of notes if you play a minor chord say for example I'm playing an a minor seven chord which is just a bar and then my second finger is playing a fifth note I can play my minor pentatonic scale exactly where I'm playing the chord [Music] so if you're playing a minor chord or a power chord you can whack that scale directly on top provided your first note is the root note of that chord so a G power chord G pentatonic a chord a pentatonic let's move on to scale number two which is exactly the same shape I'm just going to move it so here is the a minor chord I was playing earlier [Applause] [Music] but what if I'm playing in a major chord instead let's brighten up the sound well I wouldn't work playing the same scale you could make it work but it would sound a bit unorthodox so instead you take the same scale shape and you move it down flat three steps one two three so your little finger now starts on the tonic the root note the a note so here's the a chord little finger on that a chord a note and then you play a scale [Music] here's a close-up of how that works [Music] we put our little finger on the a note and play the scale like this now I've got another a chord just here [Applause] [Music] so it's a little bit more practical to play this chord and then play some of those notes they actually fall around where my chord is and this is an a string so I can play the note and pull off to the open string [Music] practicality how do we apply this scale wherever you play a major chord you can put your little finger on the tonic on the root note and then play that scale and it will fit with the chord so for example if I wanted to play a G major chord put my little finger on the G and then imagine playing the same scale shape you'll soon find and this is common that the nut here takes the place of a finger it's even easier so we only have to go [Music] now I wouldn't be using my little finger for this I would cheat so here's a nice big fat friendly G major chord [Music] if you are not familiar with chord shapes I've got a cool video all about ten chords that you absolutely need to learn but this is a G major and to play the major pentatonic scale you put your little finger on the root and imagine playing the scale shape but because this nut is taking place of the first finger I can forget the little finger and just use these three fingers to facilitate the scale so open E because the nut is playing it third fret open a since the a string when it's a second fret open D third fret open open beat third finger open e third finger so really it's mostly third finger for the third fret and second finger for the second fret [Music] you've got a minor scale for minor chords you've got a major version of that scale for major chords but let me give you one more scale that is really useful because you can move this scale to create all kinds of cool sounds that we call the modes and it's something that I want to slightly demystify it's really one shape that we're going to move around to create different kinds of sound it is a major scale as in there are seven notes it's technically a diatonic major scale seven notes we're gonna be playing this in the key of C because a lot of beginner lessons are in C because there are no sharps or flats it's just the letters c d e f g a b c so first finger on the eighth fret E string and we're gonna be playing what i call a major shape which is first finger eight second finger on the tenth and little finger on the twelfth you can only do this if your wrist is sunk otherwise it will be really hard to play this shape like this and then the good news is that you're going to do exactly the same thing down on the a string so so far now we're gonna duplicate again first finger comes down and we're gonna keep these two fingers playing the same frets so now we've got this fret and then second finger here on the tenth little finger on 12th and then exactly the same again nine ten twelve so so far we've got now we're gonna bring the first finger along a fret so that we're on the tenth fret and we're gonna be using 10 12 13 and then all over again the same shape on the E string the whole scale looks like this [Music] why is this scale shape important is it practical can we use it absolutely this is the best scale shape in the world it can be any kind of sound depending on where you move it and I've got an exercise for you to learn as a practice that will give you a glimpse of how this works there's a big topic surrounding this for example if I'm playing in E so I play an E string and I want you to really hear that E and then I play that scale shape from an E you are gonna hear an E major scale I'll do that again for you [Music] you [Music] however staying in E if I drone that east ring but instead of playing it with my first finger plays an e if I bring the whole thing back two steps so my second finger is on the E you will hear a completely different sound despite the fact that the shape is the same it will sound sad but with a slightly happy vibe we call this Dorian here's our sound [Music] [Applause] so we went from major to minor by shifting that shape backwards wherever you move it you're gonna get different sounds it's gonna be a whole world of adventuring for you for example try putting the third note on an e and you're gonna get a really cool sound that sounds kind of Spanish and kind of evil and it's great for metal [Music] here's my e note 12th fret on the e-string I'll drone it for you so you can hear it and I'm going to play the scale shake [Music] let's start the second note on the e-string [Music] let's start the third note on the e-string [Music] I really want you to dip in and out of this video treat it like a resource as I said experiment with the minor pentatonic experiment with the major pentatonic and then take that major diatonic seven note scale and move it around droning a note and see what kinds of sounds you get there are really seven different kinds of tonality that you can achieve called the seven diatonic modes they're great they're nutritious they're delicious you take it easy I've been robbed Chapman choppers out [Music]

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Length: 19min 17sec (1157 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 06 2019