fretjam thanks Mike!!

Thats so awesome to hear. its literally like Christmas everytime you upload. always a pleasure to watch and rewatch this content. Big ups!

Your lessons are my go to and I frequently come back to them. Well explained and demonstrated.

Awesome work, thank you so much.

Ditto that.

Tulk, use the force! :D

Just remember chords are scales and there’s only so many potential notes that can be used so they end up sharing many. In a lot of cases the pent works well for this reason, which makes it versatile as fuck. But as the chords change within the key certain notes that don’t necessarily fall within the pent, that do, however fall in the chord being played, can be hit for flavor.

but thats what is so hard about all this and using this approach. You have to remember all these different scales and notes that fit into certain chord changes but not others. I find it more confusing than good a lot of the times..No wonder most people suck at guitar and very few ever get it..

In the old days it was just a book of chords and scales and moving the needle on your record player back to hear what was going on? This now with all these great videos is like been given the answers to an exam and passing it without doing much study? Stick to G Major and E Minor and look at the Circle of Fifths.Learn the Five patterns of the Major Minor and pent scales and the CAGED chords and you can make a career out of that! Know the notes of all chords and scales and notes on the neck. Drill it till you are bored. If it ain't easy it probably ain't worth it!

Learn basic music theory and all of this is very easy.

Now that is a looooong wait! Sorry it took so long.

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absolutely the best on u-tube I stopped playing for 14 years due to disgust with musicians/bands Mike has me rocking again :)

Wow, that's so great to read. Out of interest, what was the disgust with musicians/bands at the time? I know it can be frustrating.

I have been trying to learn the theory behind guitar for about a year and feel like I get more results from your content than the others. Great job with the lesson pages.😃

Mike, it's prolly the same thing you have seen a Band gets something decent going, some crowds, loyal fans then-- the Singer, or maybe the other guitarist thinks they are just really hot shit, not that it is a band effort generally, it goes way downhill from there I started playing out in 1971, nothing has changed even today, it might even be worse

I should add that I had discovered Modes, well not "officially", but "practically" but You have helped me to understand the Patterns that I had puzzled out over the years it all makes sense now and I am rockin' as the 1970's type of melodic player I was years ago think Niel Schon

You are correct. A Dorian is related to D Mixolydian (same notes). So you can see it as either.

Exactly!

A separate EQ pedal can help. I use a GT-001 processor for recording. The distortions aren't amazing (typical digital limitations) but it offers plenty of tweaking and some decent presets as a starting point. To get a smoother distortion try placing an overdrive before or after it (the cleaner the better). Roll back the distortion and push the overdrive. This should remove a lot of the harshness.

Most likely, although you can use the scale changes covered in this lesson in their relative major key positions. So in C major, the chords we'd be looking at changing our pentatonic scale would be Dm, Em and Gmaj/G7, just like the relative Am key. The only difference is we've changed the tonic to the relative major, so Dm becomes ii, Em iii and G7 V. Hope that makes sense!

Ah I thought so, thanks! I appreciate the reply. Just wondering, do you have any videos on how to create an 'outside' kind of sound? I think I have a reasonable understanding of standard diatonic tonality now but I get quite confused when trying to implement stuff relating to diminished and augmented triads/scales in my playing, and those scales seem to really stand out, but I don't really understand how to make it sound good rather than just plain wrong.

Definitely on the list. In fact, next lesson might help you with the whole diminished thing. For augmented, take a look towards the end of my last video on augmented chords. It shows how the symmetry of augmented chords works. You can essentially use these patterns as movable aug arpeggios.

It was a while back but I think I was still using the Boss GT-001 on a modified preset (can't remember which one, sorry). It's a really great little box of tricks, albeit a bit dated now (though that does mean you can get it for a very reasonable price).

@@fretjamdotcom I just bought the Boss GT1 I need to play and find that preset . Thanks !!

Celicharvel. Just read your post,... you can do it dude! Just slide on up, no difference: just 12th fret is new nut. You got it 👊

Thank you so much!