Nice video! Thank you for having me Gary! I really like the editing and layout. Just a few notes: About the Eric Gales chord, I meant B7#5#9, not Bb7#5#9. Also, the part about how I was just "having fun with my life", I was specifically alluding to the lack of structure/schedule, self-discipline, good time management skills, and personal finance awareness in my life. This was strongly due to my depression/hopelessness. My depression/hopelessness was strongly due to my negative thinking, unstructured diet, and tendency to procrastinate. Vice versa. So I guess I wasn't really having fun at all like I said I was in the video haha The isolation of the corona virus pandemic gave me time to self reflect and create a more positive, structured lifestyle so that I can grow! If I were someone my age who's going through the same thing(s), I would highly recommend researching everything I just mentioned and also talking to a counselor about these things. I am currently reading 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle and 'Modern Chord Progressions' by Ted Greene. I hope this comment and video has made a positive impact on someone!
Wow! Thank you for sharing! I’m a huge Eckhart Tolle fan and have read Power of Now and listened to the audiobook a few times. The pandemic has definitely given us all an opportunity to grow if we are willing to use it that way and look at it that way. I’m happy to hear that it has had this positive impact for you. Now I want to do a second interview to discuss the topics you just mentioned!!! Thanks again for your generosity of spirit, Melanie. 🎸🙏✌️😁
For the beginner's.. ya dont have to b the best, its not a competition its learning and loving what your doing! You do that and youll be just as good as anyone and youll be the best you can be and others will recognize your sound bc youll develope yr own sound n youll be great at YOUR sound... n thats unique! Thats what its about.
The simplest chords are the most complex in that it allows the listener to imagine and think on deeper levels as the space they (simple chords) bring...🥰🥰
🎸Chapters: Video Intro: 0:00 Brief Bio of Melanie and People Learning her Riffs: 2:35 How Melanie’s sound came to be and her education: 5:30 Classic Jazz and the modern mixing of jazz and popular music: 13:50 Emulating singers in phrasing & Mariah Carrey Influence, Kerry "2Smooth" Marshall: 15:24 Intro to Melanie’s Song “Fan Art” and how to play it: 17:22 “Fan Art” with boring phrasing vs. Melanie’s slides, palm muting, etc.: 18:09 Melanie breaks down the underlying theory/patterns of “Fan Art”: 19:15 How Melanie visualized scales: 19:55 Using your ear vs. relying on shapes: 24:17 Phrase by Phrase breakdown of “Fan Art”: 25:00 Melanie’s nails: 25:22 humbuckers vs. single coils, and playing differently with different guitars: 30:02 Melanie’s long lost Gibson SG and her quest to get it back: 30:54 Why it’s good to learn on less than great entry level guitars: 33:28 Melanie’s preference for thick neck guitars: 35:00 Return to the lesson on “Fan Art” phrase 2 and beyond: 35:52 Todd Pritchard & Soundslice - the awesome neo-soul/R&B guitarist: 42:56 The thumb slap and how Melanie mixes it with single note lines: 49:20 Melanie leaving pentatonic scales and discovering diatonic scales and modes: 55:15 Gary’s attempt to play the song like Melanie after working on it after the lesson: 1:01:05 The chords to Fan Art fretLIVE Demo and lesson : 1:01:46 How Melanie goes about coming up with Chords voicings: 1:04:10 Floating bridges on Strats vs. Mustang and Melanie’s style: 1:06:04 Return to Chords lesson: 1:08:04 Why Melanie loves Eric Gales playing: 1:13:38 Melanie’s interpretation of Bach and more on Eric Gales: 1:15:15 Melanie’s other current influences (Tennyson, Knxledge, Bearface): 1:15:58 Melanie’s belief in herself, confidence and upbringing: 1:17:10 Melanie’s work ethic and approach to practicing: 1:21:44 Balancing social media, artistry, and business: 1:24:27
That was a great lesson, man! It's really difficult not to fall in love with her! Melanie is just an amazing, unique artist and a wonderful person. And gosh, she is beautiful!
I’ve recently stumbled onto your videos because I’m a big fan of Melanie and I would consider myself someone who knows a decent amount of these music theory concepts, but man your lessons are some of the clearest and most well explained I’ve ever seen. Totally recommending your videos to some of my friends-great job, the effort you put into these really shines through.
What a great, inspirational video. Thank you Melanie for your generosity and time sharing how to play your exquisite song. Thank you Gary for this awesome interview. Ps. I’m also a lefty playing righty; to me it’s always felt more comfortable to use my dominant left hand to fret, as I’ve always found that fretting requires more dexterity than picking. Gaetano
Thank you so much for this! She's the best! I actually watched what seemed to be the UA-cam Live before she got into this video maybe?! Wish the best for both of you! So happy to have found about Pow music a few weeks ago and wasn't expecting anything like this at all!
just found your channel today and man this is great, I've been playing the acoustic for a while now but dont practice very often, but have recently ordered a strat and this will help so much
Awesome, I’m caught somewhere between a bunch of different influences as well, from learning punk rock at first to ska and reggae like sublime stuff, then got into edm and started making dub step and house lol, then eventually moved away to NorCal and got into folk and blues and bluegrass , then years later trap was on the radio and now I’m like trying to blend guitar playing into beats , then I got into django and Wes and miles , and then dilla, but these days I’ve been playing along with like lil baby tracks and trying to pick up on his rythyms and Melodie’s and motifs . I figures there’s probably not a whole bunch of people doing that either so hopefully it’ll kinda give my guitar playing a style of my own, that doesn’t fit into any of the previous modes I’ve been through. And I think this cycle will continue. Cool to see someone so young and polished technically to have this like wise perspective of these ideas . ❤
What the name of the song they both were working on? Anyone? She siad she called it FAN ART but cant find it in her youtube page bc she also said its not really called that... but they started talking and i never got what she called that piece of great music. Thanks a MILLION to who ever has the answer.. ill b checking back daily and ill personally thank the person who has the answer!
that part about not thinking about some box while playing is so true, my mind is constantly changing context depending on chord tone. If anything I'd say I'm thinking in pentatonic almost always and major and minor scales come next. I'd think in notes for a specific mode if I want to highlight that sound but is rare the moments I do it. If anything what I focus now is rhythm and timings and try match with what my ears tell trusting my intuition, the notes choice/boxes are not even a concern because it doesn't take much to free flow on the fretboard, it repeats itself a lot. when all things are put on the table it is the ornaments, phrasing and little nuances that matter. BB King didn't need much theory knowledge to play like he did, he heard it all and replicated the phrasing note for note.
I am not sure who her influences are, but this riff Has a very Zappa-esque feel to it. Add some crazy Bozio playing, drum machine sounding offbeat and slap some of that reverb/echo/chorus on the git and it Cld be something off of Jazz From Hell. Maybe? Anyways, she’s amazing.
Nice video! Thank you for having me Gary! I really like the editing and layout. Just a few notes:
About the Eric Gales chord, I meant B7#5#9, not Bb7#5#9.
Also, the part about how I was just "having fun with my life", I was specifically alluding to the lack of structure/schedule, self-discipline, good time management skills, and personal finance awareness in my life. This was strongly due to my depression/hopelessness. My depression/hopelessness was strongly due to my negative thinking, unstructured diet, and tendency to procrastinate. Vice versa. So I guess I wasn't really having fun at all like I said I was in the video haha
The isolation of the corona virus pandemic gave me time to self reflect and create a more positive, structured lifestyle so that I can grow!
If I were someone my age who's going through the same thing(s), I would highly recommend researching everything I just mentioned and also talking to a counselor about these things.
I am currently reading 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle and 'Modern Chord Progressions' by Ted Greene.
I hope this comment and video has made a positive impact on someone!
Wow! Thank you for sharing! I’m a huge Eckhart Tolle fan and have read Power of Now and listened to the audiobook a few times. The pandemic has definitely given us all an opportunity to grow if we are willing to use it that way and look at it that way. I’m happy to hear that it has had this positive impact for you. Now I want to do a second interview to discuss the topics you just mentioned!!! Thanks again for your generosity of spirit, Melanie. 🎸🙏✌️😁
woow melanie that's such a nice thing of you to share! thank you for your honesty, i feel inspired to do better myself
Thanks for sharing you're words have a huge amount of weight with them. Nothing but at the at most respect to you and your host
Melanie, you are amazing
Thanks for sharing Melanie !! Thats amazing!!
For the beginner's.. ya dont have to b the best, its not a competition its learning and loving what your doing! You do that and youll be just as good as anyone and youll be the best you can be and others will recognize your sound bc youll develope yr own sound n youll be great at YOUR sound... n thats unique! Thats what its about.
Gary thanks for this introduction. Melanie Faye is now my new favorite human such a cool and talented young person. What a beautiful soul.
Thank you for spotlighting Melanie Faye on so many levels! Great music and can’t wait to wait her career grow! Thank you again POW and Melanie!
this is the best youtube video ever. thank you so much for this.
The simplest chords are the most complex in that it allows the listener to imagine and think on deeper levels as the space they (simple chords) bring...🥰🥰
Thank u for thos loved Melanie Faye since she came out on UA-cam
🎸Chapters:
Video Intro: 0:00
Brief Bio of Melanie and People Learning her Riffs: 2:35
How Melanie’s sound came to be and her education: 5:30
Classic Jazz and the modern mixing of jazz and popular music: 13:50
Emulating singers in phrasing & Mariah Carrey Influence, Kerry "2Smooth" Marshall: 15:24
Intro to Melanie’s Song “Fan Art” and how to play it: 17:22
“Fan Art” with boring phrasing vs. Melanie’s slides, palm muting, etc.: 18:09
Melanie breaks down the underlying theory/patterns of “Fan Art”: 19:15
How Melanie visualized scales: 19:55
Using your ear vs. relying on shapes: 24:17
Phrase by Phrase breakdown of “Fan Art”: 25:00
Melanie’s nails: 25:22
humbuckers vs. single coils, and playing differently with different guitars: 30:02
Melanie’s long lost Gibson SG and her quest to get it back: 30:54
Why it’s good to learn on less than great entry level guitars: 33:28
Melanie’s preference for thick neck guitars: 35:00
Return to the lesson on “Fan Art” phrase 2 and beyond: 35:52
Todd Pritchard & Soundslice - the awesome neo-soul/R&B guitarist: 42:56
The thumb slap and how Melanie mixes it with single note lines: 49:20
Melanie leaving pentatonic scales and discovering diatonic scales and modes: 55:15
Gary’s attempt to play the song like Melanie after working on it after the lesson: 1:01:05
The chords to Fan Art fretLIVE Demo and lesson : 1:01:46
How Melanie goes about coming up with Chords voicings: 1:04:10
Floating bridges on Strats vs. Mustang and Melanie’s style: 1:06:04
Return to Chords lesson: 1:08:04
Why Melanie loves Eric Gales playing: 1:13:38
Melanie’s interpretation of Bach and more on Eric Gales: 1:15:15
Melanie’s other current influences (Tennyson, Knxledge, Bearface): 1:15:58
Melanie’s belief in herself, confidence and upbringing: 1:17:10
Melanie’s work ethic and approach to practicing: 1:21:44
Balancing social media, artistry, and business: 1:24:27
Thank you a lot! maybe you can also do class with Asato? it will be amazing
Melanie is an inspiration, got me thinking about the guitar, in a whole new way.
That was a great lesson, man! It's really difficult not to fall in love with her! Melanie is just an amazing, unique artist and a wonderful person. And gosh, she is beautiful!
Melanie Rocks! 🎸
Love this conversation, thank you Melanie and thank you Gary! 🙏
Matthew Dressman thanks for checking it out Matt! Nice to hear from you. I hope all is well 😀🙏
Pow Music absolutely. It is so great to see you sharing your passion and musical wisdom with the world!
I cant thank you enough for making a video like this, and it features melanie faye? Omg man, THANKS
Melanie Faye!! So inspiring!
Fantastic video. Great questions, great lesson idea, great editing. All around fantastic. You deserve more viewers... keep it up
I’ve recently stumbled onto your videos because I’m a big fan of Melanie and I would consider myself someone who knows a decent amount of these music theory concepts, but man your lessons are some of the clearest and most well explained I’ve ever seen. Totally recommending your videos to some of my friends-great job, the effort you put into these really shines through.
thank you! I'm glad you are finding value in the content, and appreciate you sharing it! 🙏
Wonderful, and quite educative.Please,keep it up.We are learning alot from you.
Best teacher ever
THANK YOU FOR THIS ! 🔥❤️
What a great, inspirational video. Thank you Melanie for your generosity and time sharing how to play your exquisite song. Thank you Gary for this awesome interview. Ps. I’m also a lefty playing righty; to me it’s always felt more comfortable to use my dominant left hand to fret, as I’ve always found that fretting requires more dexterity than picking. Gaetano
Thank you so much for this! She's the best! I actually watched what seemed to be the UA-cam Live before she got into this video maybe?! Wish the best for both of you! So happy to have found about Pow music a few weeks ago and wasn't expecting anything like this at all!
thanks Helder! Happy you are finding value in the channel. I appreciate your comment!
Always following Melanie works! Thanks for everything 🙏
Really cool format! Sort of a mix between podcast and guitar lesson. 👍
that's what I was going for. Glad it worked out!!
@@PowMusic I haven't seen anything like that before. It's informative and inspiring. Please keep it up! :)
just found your channel today and man this is great, I've been playing the acoustic for a while now but dont practice very often, but have recently ordered a strat and this will help so much
glad you're enjoying it Alaya :D
Just discovered your channel. LOVING YOUR VIDEOS!
this content is crazy!!! thank you so much for this video!!
thanks Maria!
So insirational man, thank you for this video! And shoutout to Melanie, keep on making your guitar sing:) and hope you get your old guitar back haha
thanks Sekko!
Wow Melanie Faye, such a great Guitarist
agreed!
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Thanks to both of you. Inspiring and informative.
Thank you very much🎸🎸🎸😍🤩🤩
Such a great video! So much work behind. Hat off!
thank you Pedro!
great stuff man. GREAT STUFF!
Glad you're enjoying it Eugene!!
U r amazing man!! Thank u
I enjoyed n learned a lot
thank you!
*Wow you two in one video what a lovely day 💟*
thank you :D
this is it! ❤️
Great artist and great channel!
Amazing.
Great interview, gotta appreciate the editing too, that probably took forever
Awesome, I’m caught somewhere between a bunch of different influences as well, from learning punk rock at first to ska and reggae like sublime stuff, then got into edm and started making dub step and house lol, then eventually moved away to NorCal and got into folk and blues and bluegrass , then years later trap was on the radio and now I’m like trying to blend guitar playing into beats , then I got into django and Wes and miles , and then dilla, but these days I’ve been playing along with like lil baby tracks and trying to pick up on his rythyms and Melodie’s and motifs . I figures there’s probably not a whole bunch of people doing that either so hopefully it’ll kinda give my guitar playing a style of my own, that doesn’t fit into any of the previous modes I’ve been through. And I think this cycle will continue. Cool to see someone so young and polished technically to have this like wise perspective of these ideas . ❤
Sounds like a really great school
Amazing
Liked then watched. Appreciate this.
Thanks for checking it out! 🎸
Melanie!!!!
Does anybody know which kerry2smooth video he teaches that song?
Very cool.
Sick video 🔥 pls do some for prog also
This is 🔥🔥🔥 content
Glad you think so, Burn!
J dilla; D angelo; Robert Glasper....Melanie Faye !!
What the name of the song they both were working on? Anyone? She siad she called it FAN ART but cant find it in her youtube page bc she also said its not really called that... but they started talking and i never got what she called that piece of great music. Thanks a MILLION to who ever has the answer.. ill b checking back daily and ill personally thank the person who has the answer!
that part about not thinking about some box while playing is so true, my mind is constantly changing context depending on chord tone. If anything I'd say I'm thinking in pentatonic almost always and major and minor scales come next. I'd think in notes for a specific mode if I want to highlight that sound but is rare the moments I do it. If anything what I focus now is rhythm and timings and try match with what my ears tell trusting my intuition, the notes choice/boxes are not even a concern because it doesn't take much to free flow on the fretboard, it repeats itself a lot.
when all things are put on the table it is the ornaments, phrasing and little nuances that matter. BB King didn't need much theory knowledge to play like he did, he heard it all and replicated the phrasing note for note.
What happened to Todd Pitchard???!! I got a Skype lesson from him in 2015. I haven’t seen anything about him recently, it’s kind of worrying!
Show 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎸👏🎼
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I am not sure who her influences are, but this riff Has a very Zappa-esque feel to it. Add some crazy Bozio playing, drum machine sounding offbeat and slap some of that reverb/echo/chorus on the git and it Cld be something off of Jazz From Hell. Maybe? Anyways, she’s amazing.
Bro your channel rules
like bro thank you
Wow hadn't heard of Melanie definately going to check out her UA-cam. Melanie listen to Jeff Buckley I was amazed one song, missing out.
18:39
im also a lefty who plays righty XD
I have the SG gibson I want 1 million dollars
yo why is she doing an interview in a one piece bikini
thinking of a box not on music scale... sorry... not sorry
say what now?
30:28