Usually a mixture of minor blues scale and mixolydian, but your gonna want to play so many outside notes it really does kinda suck to think of it that way in this context

@@ethanwelch3013yeah like coming from a jazz and country background helps to “get it”. It’s basically bebop phrasing focusing on different notes and 1-4-5 instead of 2-5-1. You are going from somewhere and getting to somewhere. How you get there is a stylistic thing you pick up from jamming and your vocabulary. Bluegrass uses a lot of minor third major 3rd chromaticism. It’s more “dukka dukka” and jazz is more “be bop be bop” just learn some runs and then try to steal pieces of it and make your own. True fire has great courses on bluegrass licks that can get you started. Then just sit on your front porch and go to town for a few years and don’t forget bluegrass is all G. No Bb nonsense.

My wife is from there too.

Right?😂 Spent my best years there and also in Auburn and Foresthill. Beautiful area ❤

You don't have to even worry about what scale it is. You develop an ear that hears and remembers melodies, notes, sequences, runs etc and you learn how, where and when to move your fingers to create similar sounding breaks. If you think in terms of scales, you'll be the weak link in most jams. Bogged down by theory.

Exactly, and many practice them regularly! I wonder, though, if they mean that many bluegrass players consider the chords and following the changes first, so a simpler answer may be "think of the notes in the chord being played at the moment and emphasize them. Play other notes in between that sound good." Also, many bluegrass guitarists tend to switch scales (major to major pentatonic to minor blues scale) so fast you couldn't shout them out as they go by in a single solo, so it's hard to explain in a single sentence.

@@cmcapps1963 they (we) switch scales but you don't have to even know that when you're playing, you play what your ear has heard in recordings and jams and don't waste time even thinking about which scale it is. Play along with yt vids, slow them down, copy them. Learn how to use those notes in a song. No need to simply practice scales. That's for ppl who haven't developed a good ear. Lol

Here's an example from my teaching: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNmEYMVisNXFeJ8.html

@@LessonsWithMarcellink doesn’t work for some reason…?

Hear the melodies, remember them, and replicate them. Or something similar. It's called playing by ear. Learn how and you'll be set free 😅

@@LessonsWithMarcellink doesn’t work at least on mobile. Could you give the video title?

Your video on improvising is using the pentatonic scale though. In fact, I'm practicing the endless lines (im new and bad) drill using the open G scale from Mel Bays scale/appregio/chord reference book. Gonna repeat for C and D too. I want to be able to 'sing' what I'm feeling through the chord progressions of basic songs, then pick up the minor and 7th scales and build a range. I didn't know what a chord was a couple years ago, your lessons have been clutch.