Unlocking Robben Ford's Altered Magic in "Help The Poor"
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2023
- What Robben Ford plays on the Altered Dominant chord in "Help The Poor" is simply magical. He uses the Altered Scale to great effect in this solo. In this video, I'll show you the Altered Scale, explain the theory behind it, and demonstrate some licks using the scale that you can incorporate immediately into your playing.
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Killer tone. Outstanding playing.
Absolutely awesome! Very useful, thank you!
Nice work, very fusiony sounding!
Great playing, explanation and great sound....thanx a lot...regards from Germany👍👋
Beautifully presented
Great playing. Fabulous sound.
This is quality content! Great tone, great guitar, great lesson, excellent video.
Always love the sound of this music, just wasn’t sure what I was listening to. Thanks for bringing some insight to the subject. Robben has such gift.
Great tone and feel! Congratulations! Love the editing too :)
Excellent lesson. Thanks Andy.
Great video and sounding awesome. Thank you!
Sounds just freaking awesome!
Excellent tutorial. Lovely tone too 😊
Sounds great! It has a lovely outside flavor to it...thanks!
Awesome tone. Fabulous playing. Impressed. [and subscribed].
Funny thing is I already know this stuff, but you make it sound so good. All the best mate.
Bravo!!! One of the best lessons on Ford's use of the Altered scale!!! Props!
Thank you!
Andy is one of the best teachers!!
Sounds fantastic!
Wow! Thanks man. What’s a great lesson
One of the best lessons i v ever seen, perfect love your stuff dude💜
Thank you! So glad that you enjoyed the video. I appreciate the awesome comment
Great job on this Andy! I just downloaded the transcription of the complete opening solo. Killer. Thanks.
Awesome - thank you, Kim!
god damn Andy, you really break these ideas into digestible chunks in such a useful way! Fantastic content!
Glad that the video was helpful!
Fantastic Andy!!!
Very cool. Great work.
You play great, Andy!
Coming from you, Denny, this is high praise. Thank you! Love your playing
Great teaching
Great lesson. I love UA-cam so much. I can get back into Robben and resources like you just land on me.
Thank you!
Great lessons, great materials. I'll have to order some of your lessons
Thanks Matthias - feel free to take a look at the lesson packages on my website.
Killer tone !
Andy, those are some very, very "taste-t" licks! Well done, and great lesson!
Love that sound thank you your a good guy for teaching that its gold
Brilliant.
Outstanding tone and lesson. Thank you just isn't saying enough.
Thank you!
Awesome , love help the poor. That bit just blows you away. Most peoples vids on Mr Ford seem to think his secret flavours are all about the diminished scale. Not so!
BEAUTIFUL 335 Andy!
great stuff. took me decades to understand it, now it seems easy.
Great!
nice. thankyou👌
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Killer tone and "dexterity".
Viva La Robben Ford! And of course, Carlos Santana!🎵
Cool bro
great sound ! smooth approach !I know you are teaching us a tune but I would love to hear YOU play C melodic minor and then Bb Melodic minor over the Ford tune
Thanks
Thank you Victor!
Muito bom! 👏 👏
Great Video! interested on how you arrived at Fords tone.
Hey Andy, your stuff is definitely some of the best and most applicable out there! Question, are you using one of your Helix presets on this video? Thanks!
Hi Jon - yes, I am using the Plexi Brt preset that I sell on my website. Glad that you like the video
Killer!
Unreal. Great lesson. Thank you. What guitar are you playing? You nailed Ford’s tone
Thanks Khalil - it's a 1990 Gibson ES-335.
That lick at 5:44 is everything I want to master in this life.
UA-cam can be slowed down to quarter speed.
Just realised, that A7#5 chord is the last chord in the chorus of 'Ladies Night In Buffalo' by Steve Vai/Roth (for what it's worth)
I have a combination whole tone/chromatic scale to help cover up mistakes if i accidently hit the wrong note. 😂
YEP!!!! Lol
Genius ahahah
Just discovered your channel and like it. How about listing your equipment in the gray box area?
Sure that's a good idea. I'll do this moving forward. I am playing a 1990 Gibson ES-335, and I use the Line 6 Helix for the tones. I am glad that you are enjoying my content Thanks
Great lesson! Very clear explanation of the altered scale over the altered V chord! But may I ask, what scale are you playing over the Bb7 chord towards the end of the progression, and on the bridge? Thanks!
Hello - that is the Lydian Dominant scale. It's the 4th mode of the melodic minor scale.
@@AndyDacoulis thanks!
one thing I learned was to make this mode sound great you need to play it more like triads and not just scale lines. So I am learning this mode as 7 triads
I agree. Scales tell part of the story but the arpeggio and lines give you the sound of the mode instantly. Good observation.
Excellent information! A little D melodic minor sprinkled in? (same shapes as A altered, just up a major third)
Indeed!
Andy, what amp model are you using? Sounds very Dumble like. Excellent tone sir.
Hi Patrick - it's the Litigator model. It's here: andydacoulis.com/product/585039
Yeah buddy, sweet Los Angeles
Good altered-blues vocabulary. Well done.
Thanks Michael
Hello Andy, I just discovered your channel. Great videos in various style which you master. Lucky person ! If you like challenges to transcribe and play an amazing solo (IMO) check Andy Timmons and the Paw Kings : Loosen up. It is testy, powerful, and harmonically surprising.. I'm sur I'll love it. Thank you any way for the great work. Hibou
Hi Andy. You were kind to answer yesterday. Your sound is so nice, so before blowing money I'd like to be sure about your rig. I believe you have a Strat wired to the Helix which goes straight to your computer where you record. Is this correct? Since you don't have headphones, you are probably listening to your computer speakers for monitoring purposes, but we hear the directly recorded sound, which is probably better. Are both these statements correct? Thank you and keep up the good work.
Yes, you are 100% correct. I plug the guitar into the Helix, then into my interface. I use the studio speakers to hear my guitar and the backing track. You hear the recorded sound in the video, If you don't want to buy the Helix, you can use their plug-in, Helix Native. It works well.
Thanks!
OREOS!!!!!
How did you get that great clean tone at the beginning?
I use the Line 6 Helix for the tones in my videos. I set the amp model to clean, but allow for some break-up when I pick hard.
@@AndyDacoulis is the patch available? I have the helix as well, didn't expect that ahaha
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Do you sell the backing track?
Hello - yes, the backing track is here: andydacoulis.com/product/903595
The symmetrical augmented arpeggio (A-C#-E#) comes right out of the diminished whole tone scale. Not all the notes of a true whole scale starting from A are “compatible”, but there are no wrong notes, merely poor approaches and/or poor resolutions. It’s easy to make it all work.
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Can someone please spell out the scale ? Thanks !
A, Bb, C, Db, Eb, F, G, A
bro is showing us the matrix
you call out the Bb Melodic Minor = Bb-C-Db-Eb-F-Gb-A ... you’re playing Bb-C-Db-Eb-F-G-A ... is that a preference because Robben does it from the A ... so he resolves to the A ... and its just better to go G-A ... ?
Very tasty!
I absolutely LOATHE that half the community just says "Super Locrian, 7th mode of the Melodic Minor scale."
And the other half just says some vague "A altered scale" Which really means B melodic minor or A super locrian, so misleading, for literally no reason.
You sound great, but hot damn I do not know why people do this!
Superlocrian mode
$15 for 8 bars???
8 bars? The transcribed solo is 25 bars. These 25 bars represent a lot of time, effort, and money invested to play this style of music over 20+ years. My goal now is to share this knowledge with people trying to learn it themselves through my UA-cam tutorials. If the $15 is an issue, I will gladly send it to you free of charge. Just contact me through the CONTACT page on my website and I will send it to you.
@@AndyDacoulis My apologies; all I saw was 8.
I'm not looking for free goods. I'll send the 15 through Your site.
Thanks
@@Boozetowne All good! Thanks for clearing it up.
A class way to handle that little interaction. Love it!
Who the heck is robben ford?
Don’t get me wrong but this sounds so composed and nothing is improvised. Robben improvises all his solos even on Records in studio!
Can’t you be thankful for his dedication? Mr Big Ego
They are prepared demonstrations for the purpose of teaching. It’s not a performance.
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