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This is Part 2 (of 3) of a blues phrasing mini-series for guitar. If you’ve ever struggled with not knowing what to do with all of the scales and information that you’ve learned for guitar, this mini-series will be perfect for you. It’s designed to give you some essential tools to get you improvising right away. This lesson focuses on combining the major and minor pentatonic scales so that they can be played in the same area, as opposed to 2 separate areas on the neck like we learned in the previous lesson (EP311)
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Brian, thanks for this series! It is right in my wheelhouse. By that I mean exactly what I have been looking for, phrasing. I have learned the pentatonic and natural scales but not have been able to find my voice. Now I think I can make some great advancement in my playing. I also love all your blues lessons, Thanks!
Bob
Exactly!
Ditto
Hi Brian,
Excellent material as usual. Could you possibly show us exactly how you played the rhythm for the backing track for this lesson?
Thanks
Brian a fantastic continuation all really useful practice and instinctively instructional. I will keep taking the medicine it can only get better!
Thanks
As always, awesome Brian. Thanks for all you do. Hands down best online guitar teacher I’ve come across. Wondering if next week you can add a little lesson on the rhythm that backs these past two vids
Never met an offline teacher any better either!
That’s so true. In many ways, online teaching is better than in person teaching if the production is good…and Brian’s is great!
Wow !!! These concepts open up a lot of soloing ideas by making old licks sound new and fresh.
I finally got back home! Away on vacation with poor internet mobile service..anyway cool stuff never too elementary
Great stuff Brian! Thanks for a series that has to help us get better at blues lead playing.
Hey Brian, great lesson. What I noticed was that even though you were playing A major and minor pentatonic scales, as the chord changed from A to D to E, you highlighted the A, D, and E notes in the scales, right?
Dick y
Correct
I’m guessing that there is a relative major minor lesson in all that. I think too much, lol
Dick, Can you point out an example of what you mean?
I love this, it really works for me.
I would like to learn the rhythm to this.
it would make a great micro lesson.
ML 312
You call this a mini series, but I have to tell you this is A Super Large Series. Wow, if I could of learned these things somewhere during the 40 years of playing guitar, I would be a monster! But it is never too late and what you are teaching me is going to turn me into Monster Guitar Player! I always grin and smile when I first watch your weekly lessons, but this week the grin was biggest yet. I guess there really is something to simple is best. As simple as this might seem the doors opening up for me are bigger than life.
Robi If this lesson doesn’t get your guitar to talk I don’t know what will..
Great lessons Brian
These lessons are so helpful in showing me how to put all these scales into practical use.
Thanks Brian
Ray P
Very nice classic pentatonic riffs/licks you are treating all of us to Brian!.. I am always learning here at Active Melody and the take aways I pick up are helping me figure out many other tunes I always wanted to learn to play good/better.. anyway, this I started an hour ago and really enjoyed this over a Saturday morning cup of joe! ty again friend!
Wow! Scales continue to fall from my eyes. Thanks, Brian!!
nice one
again.. a lot of great moving parts and re usable riffs and ideas
thanks
love the chuck berry sound
Phrasing is probably my biggest challenge when it comes to playing… This series certainly hits the spot for me!
Love your Lessings. Bit bei aware that the Full Screen Mode of the tab will not work iPads. This is very uncomfortable.
Regards
Martin
If this doesn’t light your fire, your wood’s wet.
This lesson has elevated my play a lot, especially my improvisations. I feel like I am now on a higher plane. Thanks!
Good Stuff!
Thanks for the reference to EP 130 where you use visual diagrams to help visualize the overlap between the two scales. The chart with colour coding and the theory lesson behind it will work very nicely with this series. A great compass to navigate with.
Yes . That was a good idea . Finally I see why most teachers start you out learning scales.
Great lesson Brian. I am amazed at how you manage to get so much variety from a few notes! BTW A quick demo of the rhythm shuffle would be appreciated. Cheers!
Brian,
This series is so helpful on connect the dots across the fretboard. So useful!!
Your teaching is a gift!
Mahalo,
Tom
God bless you Brian .
These Active Melody lessons are the best on the internet! Brian is a great teacher. I’m finally understanding how the chords and scales mesh together. I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere!
Brian,
This is an excellent lesson! This moved me to a new level of improvising and feel more free to explore while playing.
For long time I was to careful and watched to solo over the right chord and not sounding off in any key. This is opening a whole new
World of music for me to explore.
I am very grateful for your incredible way of teaching.
Thank you so much,
Avinash
this mini series is coming to me at just the right time, lessons 1,2,3 will be my main practice for what ever time it takes me to get it down!
I am backing these lessons up with – ep130 & EP219
I would like to ask Brian to continue this series, expanding the boxes slowly and showing us how to switch between octaves in a little more detail.
actually this series of lessons could probably go on for ever as there are so many variations and so many
This series has been perfect for my development & I just love your teaching style.
I always wondered why the guitar was so difficult for my ear to capture. This tune and a few prior is changing all that. Well, anyway I think it is. Thanks Brian
Hi Brian you have showed me a whole new world today and unlocked minor and major scale for me enjoying this so much Thank you Colin
Great series ! Working on 1 and 2 really learned a ton with these, also! Enjoy the ML lessons…
Thanks for what you do !!!
Scott
Cracking good lesson, Brian. You continue to amaze!
I’m a new member. I am sort of blown away by this lesson. Amazing. With all the extras, too. Yikes!
Great lesson.
would be nice to have the backing tracks just in A also.
Someone please help me here. I am looking for a backing track to play along to on YouTube. Something different than what Brian has created here. To test myself and hear how it sounds in a different backing track and to see if I can make the adjustment. The tabs says 70 bpm. When I find a track at 70 bpm it is slow and not quite up to the tempo of Brian’s track, thus I play quite slowly. I found a few tracks in different keys other than A (major and minor) but they don’t seem quite right. Any help would be appreciated. Today is 03 19 2022
Great series of lesson!!!!!For new comers,start with EP 130 which has a series of very,very helpful diagrams and licks. then move on to EP311,312 , and 313. I have learned so much from Brian in the past year . What a great teacher!
Super lesson! Thank you
at 3m.56s of the video “minor pentatonic scale pattern 2 moved down 3 frets results in the major pentatonic scale pattern 2. Should that be called major pentatonic scale pattern 1 rather than 2?