EP608 : One position minor pentatonic scale.

[Geoff]

Well I am finally back to the ‘electric guitar again. Just been doing so much classical guitar stuff until now.

This was a great lesson for me because I am always tempted to move all over the neck when improvising. This lesson shows that this can be overkill and there is real value in learning to limit oneself. I think this is an especially useful approach when thrown into an unfamiliar jam session with new people. A fun lesson 🙂

[charjo]

Sounds good, Geoff. Good to see you on electric again.
John

[David L]

Well-played, Geoff. Sweet and subtle. Sometimes less can be more. Nice change between pickups. You have become quite a versatile player.

[Geoff]

Yeah. I should have done more of the pickup swapping. Changing tone like that can keep the ear engaged.

[JoeD1]

Sounding good Geoff. Very nice.

Joe

The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
--Graeme Edge

[Guo, Tao]

Good to hear your electric again Geoff👏👏👏

Friend of Ray (The Corgi)
Vive la music!
--- Tao

[Dieter]

Fine groovy music, great sound and excellent timing.

Dieter

[Guido]

Glad to see you playing the electric again, Geoff, and it sounded very good, with a great clean tone with just a very little overdrive and the right amount of reverb! Excellent rendition!

Guido

[Geoff]

Thanks Guido The overdrive was not actually intentional but I ended up with it because I used a compressor with this one and I think that must have influenced the output to the amp. I am not actually and effects guy at all and I still don’t really know what I am doing when I use them -:)

[Chuck P]

Sounds very good, nice job and I really like the sound of that Guild hollow body – big fan of Guild guitars. Wish I hadn’t sold mine many years ago.

[Geoff]

Thanks Chuck. Guitars are such personal things in my opinion. This one produces a nice fat sound that I really enjoy but, then again, I have a cheap Squire Strat that I also enjoy for different reasons.

[Tremelow]

Nice playing, Geoff. Shame this guitar isn’t played more often 😉

[Geoff]

Oh don’t worry Tremelow. This guitar is played all the time 😉.

[Garry]

Yes Geoff. I’ll second and third what has been said above. Great to see you playing the Guild. And I agree with the lesson and what you said in blurb: A lot can be done with very little positional change. Well played! All the best! 😎🎸😎

[Helen Lazaridou]

Bravo my friend!!!This is the lesson I told you I’ve been learning and somewhere in July I’ll be able to post it😅😅I love it and I loved your rendition too!I’m not an effects expert either but the sound you got is awesome!!!💖❣️💕❤️

[Geoff]

It’s a good lesson Helen. I am still trying to figure out how to do more with less and this lesson helps with that I think.

[Ralph P.]

Good Ol’ Pattern 1…usually the first go to position for most Blues and Rock players. It just lays well on the guitar and there’s so much you can do in that position.

Good job of keeping it simple and limiting yourself. Well played Geoff.

Ralph

Ralph P.

[Geoff]

It was hard to do Ralph. Personally, I find sticking to one position on the guitar pretty boring but , then again, I am a classical guitar player. This style really makes sense when filling in for a band – keeps me from trying to do too much 🙂

[Wayne Nunez]

Great job sounds smooth really like the way you played this one!👍

[Geoff]

Thanks for giving this a listen Wayne 🙂

[Mike D]

Well done Geoff , you nailed this lesson …sounded great!

Live on planet Earth ? You got the blues.

[Geoff]

Thanks Mike, it was a great lesson.

[John H]

Geoff
Fantastic. You dialed in some great tone. Love the reverb.
Your performance is sweet and smooth. You are doing a lot in a limited space.
Great to hear you on the electric again.

John

[Geoff]

Thanks John, I have got this fancy Boss ME-80 multi-effects unit and, 90% of the time, all I use if for is the Hall Reverb effect that it provides me. I sometimes think that is all I really need the vast majority of the time, I don’t use distortion much.

[Andy N]

I’m also going to call out that we need to see you playing the Guild a bit more, especially when you play it this well.
Your improvisation skills have improved no end and the phrasing of the bend in particular caught my ear.
Great tone there too, nearly clean with just a smidge of grit when you dig in and the delay/reverb gives it plenty of air.

[Geoff]

Thanks Andy. Like I was saying to Tremelow, don’t worry, I play the guild a lot. I generally like it more than my Strat because it produces this fat mellow sound that I love but it is just a bit of a personal bias, I like my Strat too. The strat is better for very clean metallic sounds and I like that too. I have four guitars and I try to give them all equal attention.

One approach I have taken over the past four years or so is to never just copy Brian’s lessons. I think the whole point is to take ideas away from them and apply them to one’s own style and that is what I have been trying very hard to do.

Thanks for giving this a listen Andy 🙂

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