The 4 Essential Scales that Every Guitarist Should Know
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Lesson Intro
1:44 - Scale #1: Pentatonic Scale (Minor Key Context)
4:01 - Scale #1: Pentatonic Scale (Major Key Context)
6:23 - Scale #2: Blues Scale (Minor Key Context)
8:32 - Scale #2: Blues Scale (Major Key Context)
10:30 - Scale #3: Diatonic Scale (Minor Key Context)
14:57 - Scale #3: Diatonic Scale (Major Key Context)
18:43 - Scale #4: Harmonic Minor Scale (Minor Key Context)
22:50 - Scale #4: Harmonic Minor Scale (Major Key Context)
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20:32 when you are teaching about harmonic minor scale. Thank you.
@@percumatawaran5740 I'm not sure where the mistake is. I have definitely been known to make mistakes in these fretboard diagrams before, but I don't see what you're talking about at that slot in the video.
Noted with thanks.
Sure. Thank you so much. You are awesome. Really like watching your channel.
Finally a guitar teacher that understands my plight! Thank you Brian Kelly
Another great lesson. I've only been following this channel for a few weeks and my knowledge and understanding has vastly increased. I spent a very lot of time on other channels with only slow progress, Brian's presentation really works for me. Thanks Brian.
Brian Kelly is one of the best teachers on the internet! His lessons are excellent! He will definitely take your playing to the next level! Thanks Brian for sharing your expertise!
He seems like a really good guy too.
Absolutely...
Loving the no bs type of lessons, straight to the chase with great pointers 👍
This certainly removed a lot of confusion for me and has given me a clear and easy understanding of all that is needed for the essential scales - a huge time saver - thank you very much.
Brian,
Been playing for about 18 years now. I just wanted to say thank you! I've always learned pieces of these puzzles, but you have really helped me push through to the next level on my journey. Keep up the good work man. You are without a doubt my favorite guitar instructor on UA-cam.
Thank you Kevin!
I love your videos, I've been playing for 46 years and you teach me something every time I watch one of your lessons... Great job!
Me too!
Me too ! 40+ years and I'm learning all kinds of cool new stuff from Brain. He's absofukkinlootly GENIUS !
@@mackvismusic8622 Same Same ! 40+ years here ... We should form a zombie cult !!!
Incredible! This is way better than online lessons that I have paid for.
Awesome lesson Brian! Very cool! Thank you!
Another very instructive vid! As another comment stated, I've been playing for twenty-odd years. But as largely a "bedroom guitarist," my music theory is crap; so I always like looking at instruction videos a few steps "below" my skill level because these lessons often break things down "like I'm a 3rd grader" -- which I need -- and I often learn something new. You do a great job of doing this. When I play in a major key, my brain always maps my finger to the Is IVs & Vs of it's relative minor (first position, Am vs C, for example). Your method of using your index finger for locating the root of a minor key and pinky for major key is a very helpful way of orienting your approach based on major/minor. I will definitely be practicing this when playing in the major key. Thanks!
You are a GREAT teacher. Not surprisingly, I learned more from this video (and your website which has a ton of incredible info./lessons.) I knew most of these scales (finally) but the way you explain it makes it easy to follow. Once I learned the patterns by themselves, I practiced using 1-2 slides to get me into the next shape. That really helped to connect the patterns.
I am really thankful for your sincere and most important lessons of scales. I am so thankful to you. God bless you.
i never believed i could instant solo over track and just follow the root note and use the scale usable for that chord to it. i literally soloed 1st time in my life after watching this video and it didnt sound terrible, it sounded like music. like i was almost feeling it, i cant believe it if somebody wouldve explained this lesson to me when i was 12, i wouldve never quit quitar. there is no lesson in youtube better than this teaching quitar, i dont care what it is, this is the best video to somebody who already knows how to strum, been noodling pentatonic and wants to move on with quitar. this should been taught 3-6 months after starting quitar, real go- getters at 1-2 month after starting. you will see results INSTANTLY.
Glad to hear it!!!
I still don't get how u only have 63k subs yet u literally teach everything people need to know and don't waffle on.
Thanks man. The channel is constantly growing, so maybe one day I'll hit the big numbers. Thanks for following along 🤘
@@zombieguitar I think u will honestly. Well done.
I second this. First person who broke down circle of fiths in ways that made sense to me. Dude deserves a big following. He gives great info
Your method and knowledge of giving lessons are exceptional, you merit success, thanks 🙏
Awesome lesson again!!!
Thank you Bryan!!!!
Another great lesson. Thanks!
Great Brian, loving your site too 👍🏻 thanks mate 👍🏻🇬🇧🎸
I love your channel, I discoverd your videos a week ago and now you are my sensei. Thanks a lot.
Superb as usual. Thanks Brian.
Brian, thank you so much man!! Here is a lot of work, I don’t need to check any other video for a long time!!!
Same here ... I need to go over the same material many times until it takes hold,
But once I know something I know it like that back of my hand
Brian, You are an excellent Guitar Teacher. Greatly appreciate your instructions
Great lesion. Finally getting some speed by using the different scales with a backing track and a metronome as you suggested. I'm getting a lot out of the lesions and this one opened up some new avenues to to go down. Thank you Brian.
Thanks Brian for sharing your talent
More great stuff from Brian. Game changing. You share a great gift with us. Glad I signed up to your terrific Zombie guitar lessons. A terrific value.
Thanks Tom! Glad to hear it and much appreciated 😃
Thank you Brian I learn my major and minor and blues I'm working on the rest of them blessed you're heart .
Definitely a very practical lesson ! Thank u !!
Well done Brian...thank you!
I purchased Brian's courses and I am so glad. He explains everything perfectly. Thank you so much. I've been playing fingerstyle electric blues for years and I'm proof that this type of instruction can be useful for any kind of style
Thank you Steve, I really appreciate it!! I'm glad to find that this stuff is helping for you!!
This is a thing of beauty. Thank you.
This is great lesson ❤
Good stuff Brian, thank you.
Wow, great how you've done all this with the notes on the fret board at the top along with the chord changes to the left while you play to the backing track etc, nice job. Also explaining the relative major / minor stuff. Have subscribed and also on my way to checking out your other stuff. Peace
Hey thanks for stopping by and checking out my stuff 😎
One of the best teachers ever. Thank you so much kind sir !!!!
I am working on this at the moment so thank you for this video
You are an absolute genius... You have solved many of my confusions through this vedio..lots of love from Bangladesh ❤️❤️❤️
Bravo Professor ..... great lesson. Blew away some cobwebs in certain areas, and illuminated some light bulbs in others. As always ... great content, and presentation.
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Dude, definitely getting me gooder at guitar. Saving a ton of your material in my YT guitar playing folder. Always thanks for showing and sharing.
I be gettin lernt gooder two
Thanks for showing your fingers Brian dug the lesson🎸
Holy Moses! As an entry-level guitar player hoping to become a neophyte, I've seen too many videos on scales and patterns to count. While they all deal with the same basic information, the effectiveness of the presentation (for me personally) varies widely. This is the best I can recall seeing with regards to what I really need to pay attention to and how the patterns can link together. For whatever reason, this really seemed to enhance my comprehension and help it all start to gel for me.
Awesome! Glad to hear the vid helped 😀
Man! So easy to understand! As french,do.re.mi,fa etc I have to get used to ABCD,then your diagrams with red lining is a godsend!Big big Merci !
Great lesson.....thanks
Great job thank you so much !!!
Thank you very much!!!
Late to the party as usual. Awesome video lesson, thank you! Keep up the good work.
You the man. Signed, a recent fan
A Great Teacher! God bless! :)
Great video bro thanks got so much from it cheers Brian Ireland 🇮🇪
Thanks for going right to the essens. Great!
Excellent frickin lesson brah!,ride on and thank you Brian from Aztec nm. Peaceeee and keep on keeping on!😉😎👍🤟🤟🤟🤟
Nice video. Brian, I have been watching more and more of your videos. Although I am a semi-intermediate player, I fund some new nuggets of knowledge in every video of yours I watch. Some day I may buy a couse that is alittle more advanced for me, as I know like 90% of the basics, so I am looking for something to get me to a new level.
Buy "a course", or the "best course" (aka. Zombie Guitar)?
Thank you
The harmonic scale sounds awesome
Very helpful
Thanks a lot
Zombie guitarist rocks!🤟🤟🤟
Nice lesson Brian , those are the scales I want to learn to use more effectively. Especially considering I just don’t get the caged system for soloing , and there sure seems to be mixed reviews on it .
great teacher
How the fudge does this not have more views??!!??! Thank you Brian👍😎🍺
Bravo!
Fantastic! I noticed as your closer to the nut you go left. And as you go up the neck farther away you go right. Great job anyway.
You’re the Best!!!
You're a great teacher.
And the ocean is moist
Legend.
Brian, pls do a practice along video for right and left hand. i think if we can practice the exercises along with you at diff metronome speed then it will allow us to stay on point and follow your lead on each exercise. this will forever be useful for new players who get lost while practicing alone and this video will always be in use and circulation for new players.
Sweet Gibson Les Paul you're playing
My mentor here
Very comprehensive
I've always felt that the harmonic minor scale sounds exotic ... very unique'
The intervals if manipulated within the diatonic scale contains all the others, all the chords/arpeggios for Penta (major/minor), Blues (add flat 5), 7-Modes ( learn which are the flavor intervals within each mode), 3-major, 3-minor, 1-diminished, augmented and 7's chords/arps/progressions....all this from diatonic, excluding Harmonic minor which is a new harmonic "series" of tones, learn to spell them intervallicaly within the diatonic, they're all sitting right there.😉👍
Awesome lessons man. It's everything I need to know without the fillers. This much information would of been spread across 5-7 videos. These videos keep me playing guitar every day
I appreciate that man. However when you make "series" videos on UA-cam, part 1 always does well and the rest flop hard. Series = bad for UA-cam. This is based on lots of experience with flopped videos 🤣
Man, just when I thought I had a good understanding on scales! Probably a dumb question: Is the diatonic scale just the major scale, as in Do, Re, Me, Fa, etc?
Brain Thank you man! I hope you are doing well in your life
Hey Brian I love your website and thank you for all your teaching. You have some unbelievably great lessons! And I love this one. But my question is is would this also work in jazz? Obviously rock pop blues country etc are more simple than jazz and I've heard you say that before. Would these 4 scales be sufficient in the jazz contest as well Like u said obviously sometimes there are going to be more exotic scales used. But will these 4 scales still be sort of the meat potatoes even in a jazz context?
Yes absolutely... especially pentantonic and diatonic. Remember that the diatonic scale goes by 9 different names: major, natural minor, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian...all of which are used A LOT in jazz 😁
@@zombieguitar silly me.....I wasn't even thinking about the modes! You're right the modes open up a world of many additional possibilities, so yes I can see that. And obviously like you said jazz is more complex because the cords are extended chords and in soloing/improvising/ composing you have to figure out which scales and which arpeggios and phrases/licks sound good as each (more complex) chord goes by so yeah that's true. I think the modes with these scales that you mentioned probably give enough to work with for a lifetime lol
Hi Brian would be interest in a video on using harmonic minor with pentatonic and minor arpeggios
No one seems to have covers this combination and what it sounds. Like combined correctly 🎸
This one may be for you 😁 www.zombieguitar.com/blog/writing-a-solo-using-arpeggios-and-the-harmonic-minor-scale
Hi my dear friend. I registered you for a while. Bell is on too. I am glad I listened to your new song. Very beautiful.
You have a very successful channel. I will support you.
I am watching your guitar performance now, very good upload. Well done. Like 694
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@Brian Kelly are you familiar with Guitar Grimoire for scales book. I’ve used this to learn 7 positions/patterns (By Mode) and have the major patterns down good and getting ready to hammer down the minors next. How does the 3 position system work with modes? Maybe I’m approaching this wrong for instance my second major position is the Dorian pattern and I was thinking as long as I identify the root of major scale and root of mode I would be good?
You need to watch this video man: www.zombieguitar.com/how-to-solo-across-the-fretboard-using-modes/
Trust me, just do it 🤘
@@zombieguitar Thanks thats exactly what i needed
Hey Brian where can I find your vid on moving these patterns depending on the Key
I have lots of videos about that! This is one of them 😀
www.zombieguitar.com/solo-over-the-entire-fretboard-with-3-easy-patterns/
It is good lesson, difficult for me. If the fret board diagram at the top was flipped upside down it would mirror the right handed guitar & this seems much easier to understand. Jimmy Hendrix must have had a great advantage learning this, considering he played a right handed guitar upside down. Can I get that diagram the same length of the 22 frets so I can position it for my best understanding while practice?
What you are suggesting here would be backwards. I highly recommend you get used to reading fretboard diagrams this way, as it is the correct orientation which matches a right-handed guitar. It is the same as the chord diagrams too, just rotated 90 degrees
I hope the diagrams etc come soon!
Just did the written lesson today! www.zombieguitar.com/the-4-essential-scales-that-every-guitarist-should-know-fully-across-the-neck/
Very helpful, very well explained in a nice comfortable manner. Here is my problem. I learn say Minor Pentatonic 1st Pattern say Am. To move around the fretboard with different patterns (1-5) I find impossible to remember. Hence to try and do the same with all the other patterns is impossible. Learn 1 move to the next, go back to the first I have to learn it all over again, move to the second, I have forgotten that have to learn it again. Ad Infernitum . Do I give up?
Never give up!! Have you seen my "roadmap" lesson. This may help a lot 😀
www.zombieguitar.com/solo-like-a-pro-in-8-weeks/
@@zombieguitar I am considering subscribing. I am though unsure if I will every be able to progress from playing "campfire" songs. At 74 memorising things are not as easy as they used to however.
It's not a bad site if I don't say so myself!
I've memorised the a minor pentatonic scales of the entire neck of the guitar can I now use it for any other keys or are they different shapes
Same shapes 😁
Sorry I am new to guitar and would like to know why for the harmonic minor scale the note "E" is not "b" as shown on the fretboard. Sorry if my question is too simple to ask.
Hey what spot of the video are you talking about?
Hey Brian nice lesson,
What "scale" do you recommend to use (apart from Minor Pent') for an 80's/90's Hard Rock style genre ?
I recommend the 4 scales from this lesson 😉
Brian Kelly so just so I get this straight.If I'm playing in Major keys or Power chords,do I use Major or minor scales ?
@@hectorheath yes, if all of the chords are all part of the same key (which is usually the case for 80s hard rock tunes), then you just play the key-scale, while focusing on landing on chord tones which are the best-sounding notes to sustain on over the chord at hand.
Power chords still imply either major or minor chords. For instance a progression that goes: A5 - F5 - C5 - G5 is in the key of A minor/C major. Those power chords are just abbreviated variations of Am - F - C - G. The scales that you would use to solo over that progression would be pentatonic, diatonic and blues. The note selection of which notes sound the best would be the chord tones of the underlying chords!
Brian Kelly Cool,thanks for taking the time to explaining this,it is much appreciated.👍🇦🇺
@@hectorheath no prob 😎
Kind or interesting that we can take the exact same scale in the exact same order, played with exact same time signature with the exact same backing tracks or other musicians .... but two different guitar players will play them with such differences. Mabey to most people might sound the same but there's nuances that make sound we produce with our instruments unique' as fingerprints. We could develop an computer program that could 'listen" to a very short piece of someone's playing and it would instantly match against recordings in storage and know exactly whoever played it. Reality of that's a trip !
I've been struggling with the scales for a while now. This lesson gave me a wholly shit, light bulb moment! Thank you so much...can't believe I didn't see it this way before?
@Buzzman I have a lesson on it here too: www.zombieguitar.com/how-to-solo-within-a-key-aka-diatonic-scale-using-7-patternspositions/
@Buzzman nice, I'll check it out!
@@zombieguitar Here is where he takes a crack at explaining this concept in 2017 ua-cam.com/video/BSyuBEcd3kw/v-deo.html (Helped me a lot.) And here he is updating and explaining again in 2020 ua-cam.com/video/HaxTHNkSbsI/v-deo.html ... Worth a look, might be able to incorporate something into your lessons... forewarned, they are like watching paint dry... but the concept is great...
What about melodic minor?
Not essential?
As always, Sifu Kelly leads his many students down the path to 6 string wisdom....😎
🤣🤣🤣
I can only hope to have helped half as many souls as Brian has helped gain inner wisdom*
*dramatic sigh
Great lesson. How come a dominant 7th isn't one of the essential scales?
Dominant 7th is a type of chord, not a scale 😁
Thanks. So we should think of the dominant seventh run as being built on the fifth of the major?
Is there a specific placement for the Blues not in each pentatonic shape
I definitely suggest starting to think in terms of intervals if you're not already. Basically you just need to know where the "b5" is in relation to the root. I have a bunch of lessons on intervals, but this older one will do the trick 😁 ua-cam.com/video/yei534K7U2k/v-deo.html
Thank you Brian for your great lessons. But they are not easy to understand... Can you make them more simple please ?
What specifically don't you understand? I'm glad to help 😁
Hi Brian, I'm confused. I'm kind of new to this and I have no idea know to find the other positions relative to the first position? You make it look so easy. Please explain.
Thanks in advance.
Hey, my suggestion would be to actually play along with the video and go through each position. It makes MUCH more sense when you try and follow along with a guitar in your hands. When you find "position 1" (your reference position), then the neighboring positions will always be the same amount of frets away as shown in this video....there will just be a "shift" depending on which key you are in. For instance if you were to locate the 5 pentatonic positions in the key of B minor, your "reference position" will start on the 7th fret (instead of the 5th as shown in this video), and all of the other positions will be the exact same amount of frets apart.
In short, everything is "movable" on the guitar. Make sense?
I second people's comments. I don't get why such an amazing teacher only has 90k subs like whAT?
Clearly better than those with million subs and views lol. Maybe 'cause of the thumbnails (not to offend you teach 😂)
No offense taken. What do you think I should do with the thumbnails?? I'm open to suggestions 😀
Thank you so much,the scales have fallen off my eyes,a bad pun but appropriate.
I need to figure this out on the piano then I'll understand what scale etc. I see the pattern changes but I'm not sure why. Probably because those are the right notes - HELLO!
it's easier than you think ...if these RETARDS stop making RETARDED videos
of the same Olds shiet ...becuase they havnt learn the rest of it.
Why would want to learn ONLY 10-15% of anything...just so you can just get by???.Do you do that with everything else in your life????..Then ask yourself
that;s probably why everything in your life is less than HALF ARSS...
I thought it was...put in 100% or 110% effort if you want to succeed.
Becuase you DONT always get what you want and things dont always
turn out as to planned..So you need to put in more/extra effort
DONT GET HUNG Up the JURGINS/terms...
The 5 black NOTEs... In C MAJOR/A min
b2, b3, b5,b6, b7
Im going to push DOWN from C MAJOR towards C min
SHIFT one note at a time DOWN...
b6 ( Ab) = C harmonic MAJOR
b3 (Eb) = C melodic min
b3, b6 Ab, Eb = C Harmonic min
b3, b6, b7 = C Natural min
The other 2 black notes...combo
b3, b2 = Melodic min b2 ...aka N6
b3, b6, ...b2 = Harmonic min b2
b3, b5
b3, #4
b3, b5, b6
b3 #4, b6
Just REVERSE the PROCESS
PUSH UP from A NATRUAL/RElative minor towards A MAJOR..
G#,.......F#, G#......D#, F#, G#............Bb, G# Bb , F#, G#......Eb, G#...ect
b3, b6, b7
b3, b6
b3
b6
b3 #4
b3 #4, b6
b2, b3, b6.......ect
or like this...IT"S EASY than Fu$K
Play those same damn 5 black KEYS
aeo maj7 Harmonic min
dor maj7 melodic min
phy Maj7 Harmonic min b2
mix maj7 ION
loc Maj7 Harmonic min b2, b5
Just reshuffle everything and play it over the same ROOT..
such as A min...melodic min...harmonic min...harmonic min b2....b5...#4...ect
aeo b2, maj7
aeo #4 maj7
aeo b5 Maj7
dor b2, Maj7
dor #4 Maj7
dor b5 Maj7
aeo has b6....dorian has Maj6...
in a nutshell....play the b6 and Maj6 maj7.....with a tritone (b5)
Harmonic min b5 and melodic min b5 ( COMBINED) = Full dim W/H
this 4th mode
dor b2, #4 and Lyd b2, #4 = FUll dim H/W
You cant DOMINANT jackshiet if you dont know the DOMINANT pentatonic.lol
1....x...2....x...3................5.............b7....x....R
THE INLAYS are in DOMINANT PENTA ( root on 5th fret)
or it's 4th MODE...root at nut/12 fret
dorian ish
1..........b3...x...4....x....5....x....6...................R ( b3, maj6)
it's not thousands of scales..it's only 15 -EA.
KEYS are just PITCH...
YOu can use the GUTAR FRETBOARD like a SLIDE RULER...un like the piano.
That's why Via , Satriani, slash, Blackmore , dimebag, Gilbert, (PROS) Modulate and WING it all day long....EASY....becuase they LEARNED it and COMPREHEND it. it's quicker to learn it..than to make up thousands of EXCUSES to not
learn it....
Do or do not..
There is no try.
What is the scale you use most in your 30 years?
The diatonic scale 😀
Hey man. Love your work. Subscriber and member of Zombie Guitar.
But as a new set of eyes, I can say that your fretboard illustrations are all upside down. In the split screens where you are playing and the fretboard illustration is above your live screen, the nut of the fretboard illustration is on the opposite side of the screen as the nut of your live guitar.
Not a big deal but thought I'd point that out
It's not backwards, and they aren't supposed to match! If you ignore the diagrams...it's like having an in-person lesson with a teacher sitting face to face with you. If you look at the diagram, it then gives you an additional perspective which is YOUR perspective... similar to reading TABs or sheet music 😃
Minor--->🤘