There's only one player I've heard of preferring scales to play successfully was Jerry Reed... lots of work but a true monster that's very hard to copy

Best lesson I have heard on triads. Thanks

I had a bluegrass guitar teacher who was a monster player, but his lessons always boiled down to 'play the chord and mess around with it'. Nice to get some starter ideas on just how to 'mess around with it'! Thanks!

I really love this kind of stuff, it feels way more freeing than playing with scales and hoping language emerges.

I have to comment again!!! I spent a little time learning the other triads working out of the D shape. My mind is blown !!! All the chords I have available and the improv vocabulary is a huge game changer for Me !!! If you lower the 3rd a half step ( making them minor) you can make minor cliches with a few little changes! Plus you have access to extended chords ! I can’t express my gratitude to you, Marcel ! You’re the best !!!

"I'm not going to show you anything that you can now find yourself!" Best advice yet. If you're looking for treasure, you're gonna have to dig, baby. Yeah! Great little lesson.

Marcel you are the goat. Miss our lessons, but this one really hits home for me. I still play like Maury Muehleisen but, thanks to you, with some grass. And now they like the archtop. Keep picking my friend. Great stuff.

Cant hit the like button enough for this lesson, thanks brother.

This is gold mate - thanks

Amazing 🙏🏼

This is a great one, Marcel!

Brilliant lesson! Love it

Greatly appreciated this lesson! Thanks

Bring on the theory! Great lesson!

Great lesson, Marcel. Thank you.

You just blew my mind a little bit. Such a simple concept but it sounds so great.

Great stuff A! Awesome example and easy to grasp. Thanks.

Thanks! That really helps a lot!!

Fantastic explanation of a simple way to start branching out from triads. It is also a great way to start moving more comfortably through the intervals of a key. Knowing the 1,3,5 as home base makes 2,4,6 & 7 much more reachable. They are simply left or right of the 1,3,5. Thanks Marcel. Your explanation and teaching is one of your super powers. 🦸 I like the light hearted humor too. 🤩

Awesome lesson

Best lesson ever!! Lightbulb city!! Thank you Marcel ☮️

Awesome lesson. I feel like this is a method that’s really going to stick in my brain. 🧠🤘

Love lessons like this! I appreciate you teaching the theory that's what I want to learn!!!

This is so clever. I play sax and this is super applicable to improvising on a one note at a time instrument. Gracias.

Thanks so much man. You're a fantastic teacher.

Very nice lesson❤

Always fantastic information from you brother! I really appreciate your expertise!

Nice way to explain how the lines evolve from the chord and inversions!

That's cool!

Great explanation of advice I have heard a hundred times!!!

I have really appreciated your lessons and information. I might be too old to ever develop enough speed for bluegrass, but I think all of your videos are great. In watching one where you set out the G pentatonic and then added the 7th and the dirty third, I noticed that there were not a lot of frets left. I wonder if there might be some value on teaching about "the negative space". There is a lot less to remember if we just remember the frets that are kind of normally "no go" places. Not sure if this would work, but thought I would ask about its validity! Thanks for the many joyful lessons. I sent a small donation and hope every bit helps!

Brandon is the man!

I really appreciate this lesson. It is structured so clearly and leaves me with a goal to achieve. Thank You!

you are the best Marcel.No doubt you will defeat brandon Johnson!!

If there were a PDF to accompany this lesson I would buy it.

Thanks, Marcel. I’m a bebop guitarist and have been playing for decades and this really opened up some things for me. Terrific stuff!

Thank you.

I'm at the 6:20 mark and I feel as if I'm having an epiphany !! I'm pulling lines out of thin air and mixing them with kicks that I play all the time - longer more musical lines and licks are flowing. Cannot wait for the rest, but I'm going to noodle a little first up to this point then check out the rest. Thanks,.Marcel. You know how to teach !!

Flatpicker Fight! I like both of you guys so protect those golden fingers.😎

This is a powerful lesson. I’m impressed. I already know my triads, but putting the cliches with it… man, good stuff. I subbed

This is amazing!!! For Me , soloing using scales , I always seemed to get stuck with the same type of licks or breaks , but this really opens to fretboard for Me !! Genius !!!

Great lesson dude. This makes a lot of sense. Seems more intuitive than the caged method of the fretboard

Hey, that's cool. Thanks

Very nice lessons Marcel 👍🏼❤️ Marcel's wagon dragons baby.. 😍

Much like Willaim Clark below me here...Bluegrass is not my bag though I really enjpoy listening to it. I play a lot of Gypsy Jazz and your lessons are nice way fro me to view things from a different angle. Subscribed. Thanks!

Thank you Marcel for showing us the doors. Now the only question is root, primary, or secondary.

I just subscribed in self defense. Great channel, Marcel! Thanks for helping us all :)

This was a great lesson. Don’t worry about Brandon you guys do different things. If you want a basic break to Old Grimes, Brandon. If you want OG to become ur own, next level, Marcel.

great lesson! It looks like you start example 1 with a downstroke? The tab symbol looks like an upstroke.

THIS!

A little off this topic and perhaps you answered this but where is a good place to start for beginners? Tunes to learn recordings to listen to breaks to learn? Love the videos thanks a ton

Paul McCartney brags about not being able to read music 🎵 🎶. I guess Paul, Eric, Carlos and others aren't watching this. Good for them and keep doing what you do for the rest of us! 🤘

I dig the new glasses

Wow, so cool this lesson, I assume the cliche holds true for all triads on all strings?

Extremely educational. I do have one question however, what, if any, accommodations do I need to make if I wish to play in a minor key?

Fiiiight lol love this video! Thanks marcel

Clichés with Marcel ^^ Good lesson, thanks

You didn't go to music school? This is GOLD. Bravo!

Super cool, thanks! I always struggle leading with arpeggios and chords tones (and now will with cliches) when the chords change quickly or there are a lot of chords in a song. (I don’t play bluegrass btw but love it) So I end up in scales. Any advice?

Thank you for mentioning the scary music theory discussion.

I find the crossover between bluegrass and gypsy jazz startling vis à vis playing out of the chord shapes / arpeggios.

Ayyy this is what I'm talking bout'

Love it! The right lesson at the right time (for me) done right. Succinct and powerful. A “how to build licks” lesson that actually explains the “how”.

I'll step in for Brandon he is from Minnesota a sweet heart of a guy. I'm from Minnesota too not to sweet though just a cranky old ex hockey player. A little blood and bluegrass?

Chief!!😂😂😂

Hey Marcel , how do those cliches apply do minor chords? Thank you

Your videos are consistently awesome. Another home run! A note of constructive criticism, the first lick (out of 1st inversion) has a awkward fingering shift. It took me a bit to figure it out (scrunching the hand to play the Bb with a first finger), and it would've been nice to have had that noted. I get that this an advanced lesson, though. And, really, any criticism aside, amazing.

I heard Tony Rice discovered the quantum negative fret realm. Or was it Doc Watson?

I like the filthy third better myself

I guess that why I learned from watching others pick. This is like trying to understand algebra 🤣

GBDGBD baby

Haven't watched this video yet, looking forward to it, but has anyone seen 'Flatpicking Up the Neck' by Jeff Troxel? Would you recommend it?

Hi Marcel, this might be a stupid question, and I feel like I know the answer but I would just use these same patterns over the IV, and V chords? And adjust the third for any minor chords in the song/key?

I realize now that I've done this process for years, but under the guise of "playing out of the chord shape" lol also, is that an accutron!??

The only bluegrass teacher I ever had kicked me out after two lessons. Why? She said I HAD to play "Old Joe Clark" her way using her patterns of up and down picking. When I played it "my way" she said she couldn't teach me because I wouldn't listen (that is, blindly follow) her demands.

4:59 there’s a hole in the wall.

So what is a 3rd, 5th, and a cliché? I've been playing bluegrass guitar for over 30 years and this has lost me

Damn. Shots fired. A waffle house fight?!!

Why the word "cliche"?

Awesome lesson