Thanks for a great hang Brett, so much fun 🎸🎸🎸 That UA OX sounds killer!!

Brain overload!!! Absolutely incredible! Thanks! I don't comment hardly at all (I need to do it more often)…….been subbed to you for years, you never let us down!!! Thanks Papa!

Hey Brett, thanks for exposing my small brain to such big ideas. Thank you for reaching out to interesting people and expanding your own knowledge, and then sharing it with us out here in the world. I'm growing as a player with your help.

Awesome. Love that jam in the beginning. Cool vibes.

Cool the two of you finally met !! :-)

Brett, thanks, So beautifully melodic. What a truly a fabulous video! Quist is amazing and I just discovered him thanks to you! Merci pour la video.

I love your lessons, man! Between your channel and Guthrie Trapp's, there is so much learning content to be had. Thank you!! I'd love for you to outline the Allman Bros and show how they played blues. Very Major dominant.

Great and awesome tone..

Thanks guys, that was awesome. And I'm gonna head right on over to Quist's channel in about three years time when I might just be ready to digest all that great stuff. Cheers!

Just like back in the day. You guys rock man. Sounds awesome

Hey Brett, another excellent video, very good playing from both of you. Quist has an amazing clean tone. Thank you guys for sharing your knowledge with us!! The performance of your children was very entertaining! It reminded me of the little marty running in front of the camera... ;-)

Hey Brett, another great lesson! Just found your channel and the way you explain using the chord tones with the pentatonics is awesome. I've been playing for more years than I'd care to admit and you're the first teacher to actually explain this in a way I understand. Thank you so much! ps what are the gorgeous chords you're playing during the first 12 seconds of this video? Thanks again.

Brett, one of the best channels yet, thanks for the tips, subscribed to Quist, I found you by the way on RJ's channel, I should have moved to Nashville years ago but I'm regretting it now.. 😆🤪😁🎸

Thanks for sharing Brett! Quist is awesome! Your kids are beautiful.

Papa papa papa...ur really refining this channel and ur interview(?) style, which mainly entails slowing these guys down so us hacks can follow...anyway great work.

Great stuff! 2 of my 4 heroes! Wish you guys would do some clinics this summer around the country. I would pay to come.

I can dig it!

What’s a playing and tone dude 😍

Great stuff.....unbelievable tone. Thank you.

Very Floyd ... AWSOME lesson

Cool chord progression-great motivation to get creative, I want to jam on that all day

AWESOME STUFF GUYS!!! THANKS

HOLY Spidey fingers Brettman!! OK I"LL pratice SLOOWLY now

Help! I think I liked jazz for a minute!! Frickin’ awesome!

Gread vid, and great applicable information. Like Quist's t-shirt shout out to Albert Lee. (Quists guitar looks massive)

Disregard my question. When they played the original song at the very end of the video they went to that A to B change which could be played in A Lydian, B Mixolydian and c# Aeolian or c# minor pentatonic and they would all sound cool depending on whether you elected to keep C#m as the tonal center or do modal interchange to emphasize a different tonal center making the song more happy and sweet sounding. At least that’s how I think about it. On the other hand you could stay in C-sharp Aeolian But still land on root chord tones occasionally occasionally giving the song a decidedly Lydian or mixolydian vibe and then go back to resolving on C-sharp minor during that part to prepare the listener for the original verse, smoky blues roadhouse tune. Whether that’s considered musically correct I have no idea but I do know that if we consider the C-sharp minor chord as the sixth chord of the A Major key signature and the A major scale as that containing all the right notes, with C# Minor as the tonal center, then I think my analysis is one way of approaching the song. The reason I’m writing this down, it’s because I am 49 years old and I’ve been playing for 35 years. I’ve known how to use modes and Pentatonics for at least 32 of those years but Had no idea about western music, the cased system And the difference between Key signature and tonal center. I assumed the tonal center Was the key of the song because I learned playing blues where the one chord Is always the key and the tonal center. For that reason for that reason I always searched for the tonal center of non-blues Chord progressions And assumed that the total center which would typically be in a particular modal shape, was the key of the song. It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I bought textbook on music Theory, Which was a short handbook for probably 40-50 pages Along with watching Rick Beato’s channel and reading articles about theory and guitar magazines that I have. General music Theory Using the circle of fifths, the caged system, Learning triads, adding 7ths and augmented and diminished, arpeggios, shell voicings and building chords based on the major scale or the natural minor is something anybody can learn in a few weeks of study. The difficult part of theory for me is when you begin to harmonize non-modal scales such as harmonic and melodic minor, plus you learn the bebop scale and then you learn how to play solos using arpeggios, chord tones and scales as well as switching them quickly over basic Jazz progression like 251 and 1624. Reading is something that I can decipher but sight reading is something that will require lessons and a good teacher. This is the problem with self taught players. You learn to shred and play licks and chords by ear and watching people (which is good, but as far as knowing why this fit or work well together was something I intuitively knew but Would’ve been fast track head I bothered to take lessons and focus from the beginning. I took 405 lessons and learned nothing but basic songs. Whenever the instructor want to teach me the things that I need to know, I was just saying yeah yeah yeah just teach me the song, I understand teaching guitar Is competitive and you kind of have to sacrifice what you know a student needs sometimes to keep the student coming back. The problem with teaching songs is the student will learn to teach himself songs very quickly, but the real value of having a good teacher is fast tracking your road to playing lead well and playing resin well well understanding how the fretboard fits together. I always wished that the teachers I had with tell me that we are going to learn a song is lesson because I know that’s a good way to get you inspired but you also must learn but I’m teaching you because you will get so much better very quickly and be able to play those songs you don’t think you will ever be able to play at this point. Because of not getting any better learning songs after four or five lessons, I quit playing through high school and picked it up again in college. Within a year of reading magazines I was playing with pentatonic scales and with modes Although not playing over the changes. Therefore I could sound fairly decent if I was playing other songs that remained in the same key and didn’t have cords containing wrong notes based on the scale I was playing. Soon I realized some of my lead notes didn’t sound right so I started learning about playing the right notes but I still was intimidated by Theory so I just figured it out By comparing the scales to the underlying chords and simply modifying some of the notes as a progression change occurred. This worked very well and I became a competent guitar player capable of playing all of my favorite blues and rock ‘n’ roll songs and even the stuff that I thought I would never play. When I learned theory I didn’t necessarily get better in terms of chops but I got much better in terms of playing with other people. I learned to stop over playing, I learned that some songs are reliant on Licks and other songs Rely on knowledge of the chords, As well as knowledge of the arpeggios, triads and scales that work. With rhythm I learned about using shell voicings with jazz, 7th triads or even 4 note chords with blues and rock, when trying to play sparsely and not get in the way of a keyboard player, piano player or bass player. Previously I played much bigger chords that tend to drown out some of the other people. Now I focus on knowing my place within the soundstage. That’s why I encourage people to really know basic theory Before watching a lot of these great instructional videos. A lot of these guys are teaching is so much easier to grasp when you know theory Not too much in it you have train your ears directly or in invert and leaf from teaching yourself off records instead of relying on KZfaq. Today these instructional‘s are so valuable and you can get so much out of them but a prerequisite, is a good ear and a thorough knowledge of music Theory As well as getting all five positions of the Pentatonic major and minor, The modes in terms of shapes, triads, dominant major and minor seventh chords as well as suspended chords diminished chords on augmented and half diminished chords. Once you know this it’s easy to learn about cord substitution, using non-scaler notes for chromatic leads, memorizing all the notes on the fret board And learning how to build any kind of cord weather they are basic major or minor chords, as well as major minor or dominant seventh chords, sixth chords, 9th, 11th and 13th Chords, sus 2 and 4 chords, Diminished, 1/2 diminished and double diminished and augmented chords. These are the basic fundamentals that every guitar clarity to have. After this there’s still a whole universe of stuff to learn but this will be plenty for any rock, blues, country folk tune snd Enough for plenty of Jazz Tunes. Practice with purpose and learn things thoroughly before moving on to something else, use a metronome at least a third of the time that you practice. Some people will use it more and some will use it last and some flame you don’t need to use one at all but I think that’s bullshit. If you’re not playing over jam tracks or drum beats you need to learn to play over the click.

Thanks for the vid... You are doing a good job... Must mention your kids are sweet too.... Keep up the good work 👌 Special thanks to Quist also

Those kids need to be CAGED! haha Sorry, I could not resist my dumb joke. That's so cool seeing you two together! I learn soloing from Brett and practice to Quist jam tracks all the time. Also great to see how Quist approaches soloing. He's great at it too. Awesome points from two great strat players! : )

Quist s awesome

Great Stuff guys!!

Love the tone and licks in this lesson..question though! What's are the chords being played under this Brett? Would love this as a backing track! Big time fan long time sub. Keep up the awesome work man!!!

🎸 blues 😍🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

You guys should do a guitar album together-that sounds dope

The context of the D to the a is a change in the song in C-sharp minor then c# Natural minor or Aeolian or C# Pentatonic works but if it B M to A M alone it is B Mixolydian. A to B is Lydian. I guess I’m unclear on whether that is what the change is or if that is its own thing. Then that’s the same vamp as Fire on the Mountain by the dead m. The 5 chord to 4 chord. Or 4 to 5 Lydian. I would never correct either of these guys because They are awesome players, but I guess I was just a little bit confused about whether the B and A was a change to the “smoky Road House” rhythm. When Quistgard went from the C sharp major it to the D sharp major And began playing C# Lydian licks then I realized That he was referring to that vamp being the four to the five chord As a standalone, versus the verse to chorus change within the context of the original song. Is that what you got out of it.

Quist has Gullum fingertips. I am jealous.

Question for you Brett. IF you could NOT use the pentatonic scales..which ONE would you use instead?

I was about to head to bed, but now I’m sorely tempted to instead go grab my guitar.

Ha, awesome end jam

Tasty

Sure your times tight but would’ve been super helpful to leave a rhythm jam track for this lesson to help explore mateys licks.. Thanks all the same.

Wow great jam session and lesson. Really enjoyed that. Your son looks just like you, poor kid, lol. Just kidding.

I keep on looking at my notifications saying papa had done MAROONED by pink Floyd...hint hint..I'll keep looking lol