Using The Whole Tone Scale To Spice Up Blues Soloing - Levi Clay Guitar Lesson
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When playing blues, I like to use the whole tone scale over the V chord.
Hi Levi!!! This video does not have subtitles, could you activate it?. Thank you.
Great stuff Levi! Perhaps you could do a video on the different double stop chords you were using over the Blues. I see you doing lots of little variations on G over the G chord, see Over the Sea cord Etc. Those would be really cool to learn! Thank you
Hey Frank!
I've done a video on double and triple stops - have a look on my channel :)
Great video dude!!
Thanks for this Levi!
I thought of doing this yesterday and thought, wow I wish I learned how to apply this like 5 years ago. And this video is 6 years old. I promise to watch more, Mr. Clay!
Some seriously nice phrases in that vamp Levi. Loved it!
I like the whole tone scale, it has that dreamy endless quality to it! Cheers!
Bro your playing is pretty darn good, imma pick up some of those lines
amazing stuff here. God so lame channels that a just show off. Truly helpful
Some great playing and phrasing here!
What about using it to imply a I V I in the Blues? There's just something about a V chord and whole tone... My ears gravitate towards that sound these days :)
Yeah man! Anywhere you have a 7 chord that resolves up a 4th (or down a 5th) it's functioning, so you can treat it as altered. In this case, your treating it as though it's a 7#5 - western swing guys love that!
the example around 16 mins is just GORGEOUS sounding! Whole tone is even more complicated than DIMINISHED is as far as sussing out (look at me talkin' all Brit over here..lol) USEFUL AND USEABLE ideas..but when you get one, one great trick Jimmy Wyble (RIP) showed me was the whole "take the whole tone phrase and find all the mathematic possibilities of those notes and see where THAT leads you"... it's CONTRIVED.. it's not "Improv", but what it's doing is it's showing you all the possibilities available from just that one lil lick that you liked in the first place.. just an idea I picked up on from one of the "top of the mountaintop" gurus I've had the pleasure of studying with.. :)
between Jimmy wyble and Diorio (GIT grad 1993) those two were an ENDLESS WELL of 'super cool ways of coming up w/ stuff you've had inside you but just didn't know it or realize it"
Wyble's book "Techniques for the classical and jazz guitarist" has a ton of stuff in it. from Mel Bay Pub. also Joe's "Creative Jazz Guitar" video is PARAMOUNT!
My channel is so cool - not because of me (that's obvious) but moments like this! :)
Levi, started watching your channel for the transcriptions, subbed, enjoyed all the commentary, and as i continue to see you "play", i am loving that more than anything! I checked out Rick Graham's channel from your vid about guitar sites you like, yeah he is amazing. I also enjoyed you doing your "Weaboo Reacts" impression while doing the Scotty Anderson interview, LOL. To my ear the whole tone scale ONLY works when resolved properly. The sound of it is "out there" lots of tension, and does not sound great until resolved!
Thanks so much dude :)
I like the sound a lot when guys like Oz Noy use it, and the augmented sound is something you hear a lot from guys like Michael Brecker... so that tells me it's more a case of not having fully integrated it into my playing to the same level that I've got pentatonic scales down for example.
That's what's so cool about music... there's always something cool to work on!
I urge everyone to go and find Bob wills and his Texas playboys version of take the A train. They all play whole tone over the II chord. The 7#11. 'Most' jazz guys will use Lydian dominant but all of them opt to use the whole tone. Even on lap steel.
the other concept I plan to cover for wholetone is as a substitute on any melodic minor mode - just find those 4 consecutive whole tone... and keep going!
The nice thing about the whole tone scale is you only have to know two of them…
Some these chords remind me of "Rythme Futur" by Django Reinhardt.
You’re the gift that keeps on giving Levi! So glad this was requested!
Where is your vid how too play this style
Listen to the intro to Stray Cat Strut!
Nice
Holy crap, being going through your channel's back catalogue and I can't believe you've actually been going for 8 years on here - and I've only recently discovered you!
The algorithm was unkind to me!
@@LeviClay Well, I've ended up in a Rob Chapman rabbit hole off another video of yours I watched - shocking!!
@@3rdtonefromthesun I tried to leave those rage videos behind me, but I still think it’s good to stand up for your community! 🙌🏻
@@LeviClay I watched a few they were pretty funny haha... But yes indeed, Chapman - what an unbelievable narcissist!
you da man!
so when are you going to start playing the blues, there's none in this video?
Seems that you don’t now what you are doing….there are so great videos about it on UA-cam….yours is…..nothing…..
And yet I’ve racked up 20 million views here on UA-cam and sold 10000s of books all over the world. Maybe you’re the problem? You know… the person looking for how to do a thing. If your opinion was worth anything, you wouldn’t have clicked the video in the first place would you? 🤡
me going through UA-cam throughout the years ooooew diminished sounds so cool oh wow whole tone sounds insaine .. wait what augmented is crazy to