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Major Scale Guitar Lesson – Includes 2 Guitar Parts (Rhythm and Lead) – EP217

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to improvise using the major scale over a basic 1, 4, 5 chord progression in the key of G. I’ll show you how to connect the licks back to chord shapes and explain what patterns are being used within the scales. As an added bonus, Premium Members will have access to video and tablature that explains how to play the rhythm track. So you can learn to play this with a friend, or play along with the included MP3 jam tracks.

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Slow Walk-Through - Lead

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Slow Walk-Through - Rhythm

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  2. Biker13 says

    As always a great lesson but what consistently amazes me even more is how prolific you are with these beautiful melodies and songs. There is quite a bit that sets you apart from your competition but that ability is certainly central to what keeps me coming back for more. Thanks for doing more lessons that require a jam track. My favorite way to learn and play.

  20. Angelo I says

    AMAZING……I love the blues lead lessons but this lesson with melodic chord strumming and major scale lead was so beautiful. I definitely need to find more of your lessons like this….it was great picking up my acoustic again. this lesson had me sounding like a great acoustic player in one lesson. thank you

  21. Dory says

    Hey Brain, wow nicely done sir.. Love the lesson and I see once again that Martin guitar (?) is braking like a big ole dog, my curiosity gets the better of me so just what is the guitar and tell me what strings your using? I’ve been a member seems like a life time? but I’ve never seen anything on the maintenance or suggestions on how to improve the guitars. I understand this is more to learn to play, than repair or setup, but if you could have a favorite/knowledgeable site on the web please pass along.
    I took your advice and purchased a Fender Blues Junior I will never regret that! love the amp and probably one I would have pass by with my empty pockets..but I do love it. Once again thank you for another super lesson

  22. Walter D says

    Brian, learned this on my electric (GibsonES-175 knockoff) and loved it. Then was just playing my Classical and tried the tune and it was amazing. Sounds so much better and richer on the Classical (gut string). One of my favorite lessons. Thank you.

  28. wrightclick says

    Great number very uplifting , found it a bit tricky on where to come in on the backing tracks but got there in end with practice . This is truly a great site and have never regretted signing up the best thing i ever did to enhance my playing . Well done Brian .

  30. Alfred Dowaliby says

    Whew! More challenging than I thought it was going to be. Super-melodic licks that all fit together so well. Gonna hold on and stay on this buckin’ bronc no matter how long it takes to get it, because it will be well worth it to get to a whole new level in major scale/country playing…

  31. Renee A says

    This is really terrific! (as are so many of your lessons). The “slow walk through / lead” doesn’t seem very slow to me…? Maybe I’m just “super slow”. Is there some way, without having to re-do it, that you could slow it down (ie: do you have a method of “slow-mo-ing” the video…?

    • wrightclick says

      Just a thought the main free video is on youtube you can play it at several speeds on there I sometimes use it .There is also free software on the web that you can download and set any speed or key come to that if you dowlioad the track on to your pc .

  32. Renee A says

    This is really terrific! (as are so many of your lessons). The “slow walk through / lead” doesn’t seem very slow to me…? Maybe I’m just “super slow”. Is there some way, without having to re-do it, that you could slow it down (ie: do you have a method of “slow-mo-ing” the video…?

    • Brian says

      Hey Renee, you can slow down the play back for the slow-walkthrough video within the “On screen tab viewer”. If you’ll look in the bottom left corner, you’ll see the ability to slow down the speed. Hope that is what you were looking for!

  33. Alfred Dowaliby says

    It is an interesting thing, as far as the learning process. Two days ago, this seemed daunting, so what I decided to do was forget about playing all the other songs and jams and focus 100% on this one, devoting any practice time I had to it. Happy to report (thanks mainly to Brian) that I can now play it along with the slow walk-through (although not up to speed yet). But that means the battle is essentially won, because if you can play it through accurately at a slow tempo, it is only a matter of time until it can be done up to tempo. In the past, I have had an undesirable tendency to skip around from tune to tune – the result being a bunch of tunes i could play at a mediocre level. Focusing on one at a time and really getting it nailed will be my strategy going forward. It’s a winner! It is also interesting to consider this: Let’s say you walked into a room, at hotel, a club, a recreation room at school, a private residence, whatever, and sitting at the grand piano is an individual (Person A) who proceeds to play one piece through perfectly, start to finish. He or she then gets up and leaves the room. We are likely to think and/or tell others, “That was one of the greatest piano players I’ve ever seen or heard.” But unknown to us, that was the only piece they could play. Compare that to listening to someone (Person B) playing a dozen pieces in a mediocre fashion, with glitches and mistakes here and there in each piece. Who has made the greater impression: Person A, with his one song repertoire, or Person B who “knows” a dozen or more songs?

    • sunburst says

      This solo type country bluegrass flat picking or finger style it is pretty quick.. I’ve been messing with this over the weekend.. think these are 16th notes.. i suppose the staves show 4/4 .. the only way I’m getting it down is also watching Brian and taking each couple measures slow and than up to tempo..it gets flowing pretty good after awhile.. this is a great lesson!

  37. Rich F says

    Hi All,

    Just watching this brilliant lesson for this month’s challenge.. the first 5 notes make me think of the beautiful song “Vincent” by Don McLean…

    “starry Starry Night….”!

    Thanks for such a beautiful lesson, Brian: rapidly becoming one of my favourite s! 😁

    Rich F

  38. james s says

    beat me this , its crazy what is it about style ,, if anyone knows it , i worked out from the CD about ten years ago ,, not online , how to play south africa note for note by roy harper ,, yet something like this which is such a cracking catchy lead , listened to it determined spend few hours on it get it sussed ,, for the life of me its tottaly beat me , to extent i have actualy given up on it ,, so much going on ,, maybe another day ;-(

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