Guitar Scale Phrasing - The Basics
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
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Learn the fundamentals of scale phrasing on guitar. This video covers concepts such as starting and ending notes, arpeggios, runs and string skipping. Very basic, but essential!
"Give each phrase a destination note and play towards it with purpose!" -An excellent philosophy! Well put, thanks! :)
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Laughed @4:11 when you breezed right through the run and went right on to discuss the next section. Love this channel. Thank you for the teachings you put up on UA-cam! Learning a lot.
Short, easy to understand. Watching this and pairing it with my guitar lessons are going to help me a ton. Many thanks!
Really nice video, thanks for sharing this. It's clearly presented and makes it way easier to understand than just plain text.
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Great lesson. Very easy to undersatnd
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@LohTek Great insights. I like the term "robot rock"! There is also the matter of linking phrases together meaningfully. Call and response is one method, also lead-ins. There really is a lot to think about but it can only be worked towards one step at a time.
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Definitely what my playing needs :) I can build nice melodies in key, but knowing how to 'land' the phrases is my next challenge. I can find the best notes by ear, but it often means 2 or 3 extra notes at the end of the phrase as I'm working out where that good note is. Time to develop a better awareness of the scale degrees in each pattern I think 😀
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@@OzTwanger good that's the main thing. I'm having the same problem and I'm 21.and been playing 2 years
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Depends on how you phrase it
Very very good. The diagrams make everything clear and remove any of the doubts caused by videos of fingers on or just hovering over fretboards. They also allow demonstrations that no other method could achieve. The explanations are also a model of clarity and steady progression point by point. Absolutely brilliant and making a huge difference to my learning process. So now all this has got me wondering about you, Mike, who you are and how you learned all this in the first place? Thank you very very much, best wishes, Steve
Great to read that such an old lesson is still effective!
I learned everything I know through independent study and then trying out what I learn. A combination of books, internet and many hours of listening to and analysing all kinds of music. I'm still learning like everyone else and I often learn new things when creating these videos.
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I think this wil be invaluable to me. I thank you.
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@LohTek Much of that emotion also comes from string bending, hammer-ons/pull-offs, vibrato etc. so there will be lessons on using these to build phrases. Follow my secret plan and you will become a rock star!!!! Disclaimer to follow.
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Your video is a big help to me. With the enormity of scale tones available, it's really hard not to get lost. Having a structure to start with will help me create phrases with more confidence.
My question is this: When applying this to a chord progression, are you thinking of the 1, 3, 5 in the other chords or are you thinking of them as the intervals within the major scale? For instance, the V chord in C Major is G and is made up of the 5th, 7th and 2nd of that scale. I'm using the E shape which is your example in the video.
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Hopefully it wont come down to having to do any chickens
this is a great video and very informative but in my experience as a music teacher I find hat its better for most students to start with more linear phrasing when they are first learning to create melodies bc other wise they seem to just kind of jump around the scale with no reason and it sounds random. Also , on the guitar its not obvious to beginners how to go up and down the scale in one position so its important to get used to that. Again ;great video and I love the channel. Just a thought.
No, but this is a good place to start as they are the "safest" tones to rest on over their related chords. Once you get to know how scales interact with chords a bit better, you can start building phrases around other tones in the scale. The reason I focused on triads is because they exist in every scale, so you can always rely on them as safe points in your solos.
And there is nothing like a safe mooring .. in a tempest of notes .. loosing a many of ships round that Cape . I ought to bellow a hearty Aye aye Captain :)
I'll go one even further, When I first asked you for an indepth guide to phrasing back in 09 I was extremely frustrated with my attempts to understand and use the major scale to solo, I eventually got frustrated to the point where it inspired me to use my frustration of using the scale to master the scale by using obscene "phrases" which I wont repeat here, I ended up writing a slash metal song using 2 chords and triad triplets.
Now we have the fundementals, all we need to do is add the "phrase" to phrasing, which is to say to yourself a phrase which can convay emotion, We know that music is a journey from the tonic around the scale and returning to the tonic in circle. This "middle area" is where phrasing comes in, such as you can give different emotion to a simple three note lick by the phrase you use, by saying the words "I AM ANGRY!" produces a much different feel than "I am happy" experiment with this.
yeah whats those tros about the chicken and smoking the crillers? great info in the guitar part!
Your content is super. The only frustration I have here is when you play an example the notes are not animated as in many other channels and I’m never sure what notes you are actually playing....🤔
Sorry about that. This is a very old video and I've improved the quality somewhat over the years. Thanks for your time!
@fretjamdotcom Yeah, that term comes from the little digital drum machine I use to practice with, I call it robot rock because you can only choose between 4/4 quarter notes, 8/4, and 16/4 sixteenth notes it is incapable of using a mix of quarter notes and eighth notes.
For me studying scale is knowing the formula then practice from the formula, cmaj scale form is C,D,E,F,G,A,B but the formula used in this video is C,D,E,F#,A,B for everyone who is just starting to learn scale i suggest you stick with the formula on major which is indicated above and minor C,D,D#,F,G,G#,A# on the key of C, and before you study 7key scale i would suggest you start with pentatonic scale to blues scale because they're so much alike, you just 1 key on the formula to make a pentatonic scale a blues scale.
The key of C does not contain accidentals.
Super Hans? You get a sub mate. ✌
This looks like a Gmajor scale because of the F#.
Not only that, but the root being indicated as a G (3 fret of the E strings)
I always viewed theory as a throwaway and as an impediment to creativity. I was wrong. Too bad it took me 20 years of playing to figure it out.
Just a clarification, I dont mean that I used two chords to create the song, I mean 2 chords as in D2, A2 power chords. The point being that "phrasing" is a powerful tool to harness your frustrations with learning the scales/disappointment at work/whatever is bothering you to write music and make playing enjoyable and powerfully meaningful for you if you so desire.
I didnt know Jon Snow can teach guitar! HAHAHA just kidding. This is very helpful! :)
Hi fretjam...a question for u..or anyone who can help..so to keep it mega simple..im learning a song with Dm A and G chords..so do does that mean EACH TIME the chord changes i need to do new scale?
E.g play Dm pentatonic scale over Dm chord..A pentatonic scale over A chord etc?
Thanks
Try A minor pentatonic over Dm and A major pentatonic over both A and G. Dm is "borrowed" from the A minor key.
do you have a video with necessary sequences?
I would like to buy a e-book with all your lessons. They are so good but I like to highlight, practis will I'm reading and so on..
Hi Jon. Do you mean something that you can print out? It will take some time, and there are still many gaps I need to fill in the process, but it's something I'm considering.
fretjam exactly. Your lessons are very good but I realy miss something to read, and to think while I'm reading you know.. when I don't have my guitarr with me and so on...
Never mind, figured It out
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I thought if we were in C minor bar cord shape @ the 8th. fret.
And we wanted to play the Dorian scale, one would start on 10th. fret the D note, on E 6th. string.
Dorian is the second note or scale/cord of the C major scale and I know it's a minor scale. So why does this not apply to the Dorian scale in your diagram?
Despite these both being in C (key centre of C, not the Key of C major) the parent scales these modes originate from is different.
C Ionian is the first mode of the Key of C major .
C Dorian is the second mode of the Key of Bb major.
If you were to start the Dorian mode in first position (the second diagram) on the tenth fret like you claimed we'd actually be playing in D Dorian (second mode of C major).
Hope this helps.
@@davidberkowatz3933 I think the guy just assumed that we had stayed in the key of C major and that the Dorian example was in fact D Dorian.
I really love how we as musicians can use social media platforms like UA-cam to have conversations like this and help each other out. I'm over 50 years old now and would have killed for something like this when I was younger and trying to learn this stuff. It's too bad more people don't use it in the way that you have here instead of to attack each other. Great answer!
do starting and destination notes always have to be major and minor triads?
Haha, sweet man.
july 2023.😍
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great lesson! you remind me of a robot! i love it!
+Da Guvna Not sure how to take that. I suppose robot is more of a compliment than "bag of shyte".
fretjam this is one of the best lessons I've had. The simple idea of starting and ending each phrase with a chord tone is magic. my playing sounds better than ever. btw, you're more like an Android than a robot and i mean it as a compliment. thanks!
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What was that word he used at 3:59? It starts with a R, I think
+timi0000 Runs
Is this a C major scale? Why are the root notes at G?
i was thinking the same thing - the diagram doesn't specify what frets he's on, is all haha
oh wait he does, just later in the video
@@BobTheOneGuy Yeah, the diagram notes that the 1 note is at Fret 8 from about 1:08 to about 1:20, then that part disappears. I don't see anyone reason not to leave the thing that says Fret 8 all the through the video. It can create confusion otherwise because it looks like the 1 note is on the third fret without the marking.
Different between pharasing and filler? Explain plz
Well I think of musical phrases in a similar way to written or spoken sentences. We have sequences of words that communicate a thought or expression and then resolve and stop. In that sense, any sequence of unbroken notes you play can be considered a phrase. The musical equivalent of a full stop is holding or emphasising a note longer than the notes leading up to it and is often a chord tone. And of course you can also have moments of silence between notes which gives a sequence of notes a kind of containment that could be called a phrase.
thank u dude
Love your lessons, but why so much emphasis on major scales and keys? I don't think I have come across one of your videos yet in minor.
+expat2010 I have a few minor lessons. Harmonic minor, Dorian etc. Definitely not my intention to avoid minor. It'll all balance out eventually.
1 note and 5 note is call 5 power Chords I'm right
+jermain burnett Correct.
I’m not sure how this is a C major scale with the root on G?
Sorry, should have made it clearer this is at the 8th fret, not the 3rd.
This looks like a GMaj scale to me. The root is a G, Right? But he calls it a C Major Scale.
The root is at the 8th fret, a C. Watch again.
G major scale?
Oh 8th fret root. Ok my bad
@fretjamdotcom Technique is important, "phrasing" is about adding emotional depth through technique, after all your solo wont be very good if you played the whole song just using quarter notes, You would have what I call robot rock. The use of an actual phrase tells your fingers the direction, speed, and technique to use.
But the the hilighted root note is G.
Sorry for the confusion. The diagram is not in the open position. It's a movable pattern so you can position it anywhere up the neck depending on which root you want.
It is clearly stated that we are on the 8th fret.
its G major scale
C Major? its G Major
At the beginning you are talking about c major and you are showing the g major
I think u confuse me more each video. Lol.
The charts are confusing, sorry.
This doesn't make sense to me, the root notes are G. You say you're in C.
+Chris Heise I'm at the 8th fret. I think I show that below the diagram at some point. These are movable patterns anyway.