The MOST Important Scale I Use ALL THE TIME

The MOST Important Scale I Use ALL THE TIME - The Hexatonic Scale

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2 жыл бұрын

For my Presets visit: johnnathancordy.gumroad.com/ Since I keep getting asked about what I'm thinking etc when I improvise, here's a thing that I'm pretty sure I'm using almost all the time. The Hexatonic note is....Well the Pentatonic Scale plus a note...Or the Major Scale minus one...The reason it works so well is that it makes it much less likely that you will hit an ugly avoid note...Give it a try?
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@ITzRobertoBRO 2 жыл бұрын

Bro, the playthrough at the beginning was beautifully powerful 🙌

@Crabfather 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. That sounds really lovely and that new age sort of reverb effect was so perfect for it too.

@BluesInSeattle 5 ай бұрын

Finally a lesson that provides a good way to alter the scale in a way that's easier to memorize for improv.

@Kevindragon789 Жыл бұрын

Wow J, You even make the scales sound great, keep up the good work John Cordy thanks 🙏

@rsmallfield 2 жыл бұрын

That’s so useful - and will take time to practice. Your channel is so helpful and inspiring. Thanks!

@planetside11 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding. Yes, that too, was super helpful. This is exactly the kind of content I need. Thank you so much for giving us a window to your heart and mind. Your songs and solos are beautiful. Just beautiful. I would love to get your Helix patch for this session.

@rumbuzz1 Жыл бұрын

Wow, your tune hits the heart strings ! Sounds super solid !

@trickylights4380 Жыл бұрын

Great lesson. I really appreciate the minimal editing. It makes it feel like a real in person lesson. I wish more teachers took this approach. Thanks again

@ebeep Жыл бұрын

First new-to-me concept I've run across in a long time. Thank you so much!

@rorylisbon4723 2 жыл бұрын

I spent quite a bit of time transcribing RG soloing over chord changes and discovered this, thank you for clarifying.

@nathanallen9291 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible insight. This is helpful beyond words. Thank you.

@pageluvva 9 ай бұрын

Everything about your playing is beautiful. Thanks for this.

@Touchguitar Жыл бұрын

I’m always impressed by your playing! This lesson is very helpful, thanks!

@Jo3sX Жыл бұрын

This is amazing. I’d been adding this into my pentatonic noodling after discovering that lovely sound when you slide up to the 7 and then play the 1 over the top. Sounds beautiful. This feels like it will be a breakthrough as it actually explains what I’ve figured out accidentally.

@tomneal1789 4 ай бұрын

Sublime concept here, and great teaching. Had never heard of the "avoid note" before but it all makes sense now.

@jimbob6th Жыл бұрын

Think I’m going to be transcribing that opening jam! So sweet! Thanks John

@TLMuse 2 жыл бұрын

"I think people get the sense that maybe in my playing I'm doing more thinking than I really am.... I'm not actually thinking too much." Well, John, I really enjoy your thoughtlessness! More seriously: Exceptionally cool opening piece-really strong melodically. Thanks for this lesson; I wasn't aware of hexatonics, and seeing them as "major - avoid note" was ear-opening. -Tom

@grade43podcast 2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe you put this out so soon! Hope Nemo had a good swim and you got dad something proper

@johnchambers3217 2 жыл бұрын

Thank John your lessons are really helpful and inspirational

@MaTTheWish Жыл бұрын

Fantastic lesson, I've never heard of the "avoid note" I'm gonna try this out. Thanks John,. More intermediate lessons please. Thanks

@joelandrew84 Жыл бұрын

Your rhythm stands out above so many others. Along with the way you put things together. ❤️🫡

@jordankneal Жыл бұрын

Love this! Very inspired by your guitar playing and lessons

@seanmiller7889 Жыл бұрын

New Subscriber. When I am not working or practicing guitar I am watching KZfaq guitar videos. For some reason it has taken me awhile to stumble upon your channel? All I can say is amazing intros and great content! You have quickly become one of my favorite channels. Thanks John.

@mike_aiton 4 ай бұрын

Welcome to “the enlightened”…..better late in this world than early in the next !

@stuartgonsal8443 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson. Thanks for the effort putting it together

@erickpontes2564 2 жыл бұрын

That stuff you showed in this video instantly reminds me to Kurt Ronsenwinkel's playing. Well done!!!

@aaron_trice Жыл бұрын

That intro! I FEEL EVERY THING 😭😭😭

@pierreschnehage8152 Жыл бұрын

I;m the lazy dude who does what you do without knowing what I'm doing. Been trying to find explanations for years... yours works very well.

@johnatchiane4460 4 ай бұрын

The melody never ending to listen so beautiful❤

@Deric_Rocks Жыл бұрын

Love it! Great, useful, lesson - thank you!

@tiagoramalhais5493 2 жыл бұрын

I went 20+ years without knowing this scale until a couple years ago i saw a Rick Beato video explaining this scale ... it's been one of my go to scales ever since.

@OlivvYeah 2 жыл бұрын

I feel connected with most of your content, thanks a lot for your lessons! These six note scale are awesome. I did work on some bebop scales, but I found them too much Jazz specific. Whereas six note scales can work on more musical contexts in my opinion, and you still get the symmetry thanks to the even number of notes ( Like in the Barry Harris approach), you get two triads, two distinct polarities, very intuitive to work with

@glennmichaelthompson4112 Жыл бұрын

You might enjoy Jerry Bergonzi's book "Inside Improvisation Series vol.7 Hexatonics"; published by Advance Music. Very thorough indeed. Cheers p.s. not a big fan of the "bebop scale" approach either....and Barry Harris' approach is preferable. :0)

@appoocha Жыл бұрын

Lovely intro... Smooth and melodious. 👌🏼

@dcsurgery 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic lesson. Tks so much for posting

@BobRaikes Жыл бұрын

Beautiful sound on the opening!

@marceli155 2 жыл бұрын

very good lesson thank you John thank you very much ! have good day ( from Poland )

@JDmusic518 Жыл бұрын

nice and good explained hexatonic schale and now i understand it clearly

@fredero76 3 ай бұрын

Cours magistral !! Merci beaucoup !!

@joelmaynard6063 Жыл бұрын

Amazing playing!

@kentl7228 Жыл бұрын

The blues scale is hexatonic. The flat five adds the 6th note ) There's also the Hirojoshi? A Japanese one that has wide and close intervals and is also hexatonic. Vai and Satriani are Lydian fans where it has a sharpened 4th instead. The 4th degree of the major scale

@MrMixolydian7 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful and very useful.

@adamgrierson8082 Жыл бұрын

Liked and subscribed as soon as i heard the intro that is some of the best playing ive ever heard what the actual fuck

@danielgalanti2166 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, this is awesome.

@ashirdaniel3115 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful lead tone!!!

@dankingsleyyyy Жыл бұрын

This is what I needed

@uptownphotography 2 жыл бұрын

Very well explained. Enjoyable to watch as well beyond the details you shared. Curious what amp/pedal/patch, combination, etc you're running the P90s through? Whatever combination you're using sound's really great with the P90s. Thanks as always. Phil NYC Area

@digipeet2866 Жыл бұрын

wowww...beautiful!!!❤

@gbut2757l Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@flamingocrazee 10 ай бұрын

It occurred to me while playing along with some Allman Brothers songs, that Dickey Betts was avoiding one note in his solos. It was a hunch, but I wasn't absolutely sure that I was correct. It's not that the fourth is exactly wrong, it just subtracts from the overall joyful upbeat feel of certain tunes. Didn't realize that it was an actual thing with a name, but this sheds much light on what I was hearing and trying to capture.

@far1es 7 ай бұрын

Blue sky?

@flamingocrazee 7 ай бұрын

@@far1es For the most part, but I think he throws in some 4ths on the descending riff at the beginning and end. I'll test it out the next time I have my guitar in hand.

@ruoiealpaeiout2103 Жыл бұрын

Hexatonic means 6 potential tonics and implies an octave divided into 6 equidistant notes similar to the 4 notes of a full diminished 7th being Quadratonic or the 3 notes of an augmented triad being 'Ambiguously TRITONIC'.

@zenncatt 11 ай бұрын

The Triad Pair approach made more sense to me when I saw their combined notes as a Hexatonic scale. Not sure why, but one of my earliest harmonic discovery was the natural IV scale degree over Major harmony - used as a tension/passing tone/appoggiatura - call it what you will. I suppose I'm in the minority, but it still sounds good to me.

@vinniedixiemusic 4 ай бұрын

I like more the octatonic scale , or diminished ,AKA Back to the future sound track scale

@cjm4921 Жыл бұрын

"In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave. Famous examples include the whole-tone scale, C D E F♯ G♯ A♯ C; the augmented scale, C D♯ E G A♭ B C; the Prometheus scale, C D E F♯ A B♭ C; and the blues scale, C E♭ F G♭ G B♭ C. A hexatonic scale can also be formed by stacking perfect fifths. This results in a diatonic scale with one note removed (for example, A C D E F G)".

@b1daly1 Жыл бұрын

Can’t believe i never heard of this🤘

@FasterCrypto Жыл бұрын

lovely guitar btw m8

@glennmichaelthompson4112 Жыл бұрын

Great topic and explanation of how you use the hexatonic scale. Thanks! For anyone looking for further resources on playing hexatonic scales (as there are many different types) there's a great book (w/CD) by Jerry Bergonzi. It is from his "Inside Improvisation Series (for all instruments)... Vol.7 Hexatonics. It's very thorough for those who are curious. Published by Advance Music. :0)

@renanalmeida5977 Жыл бұрын

Awesome🔥

@alej3795 8 ай бұрын

There is another way - to play a pentatonic (Major or relative minor), plus the same shape from the 5th *same way to avoid b6 in Aeolian Hexatonic you play is also a Triad pair - Maj Triad from the 5th + min Triad from the 6th(Relative minor) - that approach gives new,different sound to the scale

@felorio5514 3 ай бұрын

Roy ziv has an actual in depth course on this subject and he is a monster

@benniejohnson81 3 ай бұрын

That’s fine, but I came here because I enjoy John’s vibe, his playing and sound nuances have emotive force, and his instruction is good and helpful. Thanks John!

@godbyone 2 жыл бұрын

Wow beautiful. U get right to music. Helps. Instead of blah blah 5 minutes. Great

@wolfgangcordsen3430 2 жыл бұрын

Great 👍

@terrapin323 2 жыл бұрын

I always think of this as Aeolian or min9 with the 9 and 4 of that scale being the juiciest notes as you point out. Which would be the 1 and 6 of the Dorian min6 scale... and Dorian is the best scale of course :0

@john808welk 2 жыл бұрын

I've never really thought of it as a scale, but I have just gravitated towards it because the 4th degree just sounds so off sometimes. It is also easier for me to think of it as major scale with an avoid note than the pentatonic with an extra note. Not sure why...

@grade43podcast 2 жыл бұрын

That's funny because during our lesson today that was how John describes it too and I struggled. Then he said pentatonic + 1 and lightbuld went off

@kane6529 Жыл бұрын

This is funny I was learning some Allman brothers stuff and Dicky Betts used the major pentatonic quite a bit and added the 4th to make a Hexatonic scale then you tell us to throw away the 4 😂. I get it, different situations and styles

@marcsullivan7987 Жыл бұрын

In most (not all) contexts, when he plays the 4, the chord under it has probably changed from the I to the IV. The “avoid” note applies only to when playing over a particular chord.

@hollywoodactress 2 жыл бұрын

I will give this a go. Btw what you think of that revstar with p90s. I need to try one as I always thought look great and p90s is win win

@josephcobbinah5412 Жыл бұрын

Are those P90s? Sounds really good!!!!! Also, thanks for the tutorial

@Jed_Phoenix Жыл бұрын

What sort of reverb are you using? It creates such a full sound, even when you are only playing single notes, without ever being overpowering. Sounds amazing!

@robertmiller8110 Жыл бұрын

Oh man!! So Holdsworthian ❤

@SirDLee 2 жыл бұрын

N I C E !!!!

@fab672000 Жыл бұрын

tabs are wrong but it does not matter too much as it's just one Maj7th note to find on the top of the 5 other ones though (in the example a G#), i played that all the time not thinking hexa but thinking penta on maj7th arpeggios, then adding that maj7 is natural

@williams.1130 2 жыл бұрын

Just think of it as the note just right below your root. Its just a half step down from every root note you hit. Easier for me than trying to think of it as another scale pattern.

@Enryu_CZX Жыл бұрын

Can you make a lesson on how to use this scale and how to improvise on

@josephwhite8896 4 ай бұрын

Why does this scale work so well for solos

@timothy5974 8 ай бұрын

Question to anyone here? Stumbled on a guitarist out of Toronto Canada who’s teaching hexatonic scales in his course, his name is Roy Ziv. Does anyone use his course?

@indianrockstrat 2 жыл бұрын

Which patch was that used during the intro to this video? I'm on the Helix floor unit. I bought the 2.9 folder back in late 2020.

@indianrockstrat 2 жыл бұрын

In other words, which bundle do I order to get what was used during the intro of this video?

@andersoncamargo5864 2 жыл бұрын

Onde encontro IR seu do Ac 30 ??

@digipeet2866 Жыл бұрын

this gitaar sounds so good..what is it? ( p90?) i want it..thnxxx

@guitar9310 11 ай бұрын

Do you have records? Greet playing man!

@LeMans512 Жыл бұрын

There’s a ripple or wave in the body finish just above the 22nd fret.🤨

@sir_nightrax Жыл бұрын

can someone tell me what pedal/pad and preset he's using? sounds heavenly

@TheLegendOfTerry 3 ай бұрын

I was rearching this scale for a game project and this was the first video I found that referenced the 'hexatonic' scale. Is this the same as the 'whole tone' scale?

@bobsegar1242 Жыл бұрын

lol i love how he was like not today phrygian

@realbass4302 Жыл бұрын

John I want to use this hexatonic concept in my bass playing is there anything different I may need to know

@westrig180 Жыл бұрын

As a bassist I can tell you it works and very well. It definitely has its places for bass whether just running lines during verses and bridges or soloing. Just work out the positioning because some guitarists do use it in open tunings. The beauty of doing this is that you can experiment and open up many variations of Hexatonic.

@Shaunquirk89 Жыл бұрын

Can you tell me how you got this tone 😅 are you using an overdrive?

@far1es 7 ай бұрын

What backing track is this?

@kevinwagner8697 Жыл бұрын

scott goram-emerald!!!

@cornpuppies5687 Жыл бұрын

wow

@mjpierrejr 10 күн бұрын

I hear Alan Murphy

@elyum 2 жыл бұрын

The harmonic context dictates what note will clash or not, this scale will sound almost right on any major chord, but instead of removing the 4th try to raise it by one half tone and you get lydian mode which sounds great on a IV Maj7 chord. When one knows the modes and is able to anaylse a chord progression there is no need to use this kind of shortcut which in the end is more musically limiting than anything. I thought you were about to talk about the tone scale.

@johnnathancordy 2 жыл бұрын

Yeh. And until you "know the modes" perhaps you'd use this kind of thing in your improvisation. The whole point is people ask me what I'm thinking. This is what I'm thinking.

@johnnathancordy 2 жыл бұрын

Incidentally I get asked this stuff by people who know their theory and scales. When it comes to improvising, tons of theory, tons of analysis and having loads of options working through your head is just as "limiting". Also when it comes to the majority of music that isn't fusion guitar on KZfaq, Modal analysis doesn't really make any sense. Particularly in a progression like this which is entirely diatonic.

@elyum 2 жыл бұрын

For many beginners, a lot of the joy in playing guitar comes from easy visualisable patterns (pentatonic, power chords, familiar open chords) that works really well with some style of music, but this is also the reason why a lot of guitarist get quickly to a plateau where progressing is getting harder and opening to other styles of music could be discouraging because they are limited in their vocabulary and harmony knowledge. It's great that you are able to reach a lot of guitarists and help them to break some barriers. It seems that you are doing more and more gear reviews. I prefer more the musical oriented content. The gear-hunting "game" can really kill or distract a lot from the creative part of what is playing guitar.

@pedroguimaraesguitar Жыл бұрын

@@elyum jesus you are annoying 🥲

@CortMarshal 2 жыл бұрын

I too hate 4s

@vincele6174 Жыл бұрын

With the Hexatonic scale, do you really have to know what the chord is as you solo in order to target the right note? Let's say you are 2/3 of the way into your improv and you lost track of what the chord is currently playing while you solo, can the hexatonic scale save you and help you to land on the correct note and not an "avoid note"? I know that if you happen to land on an avoid note, you can simply move 1 note down or up to land on the right note. I am wondering if the hexatonic scale can help you out while you solo without knowing what chord is currently playing underneath.

@chrisvanderwalt790 Жыл бұрын

If you hit the avoid note (the 4th) and go up a semitone you hit b5 /tritone, which is an even bigger avoid note as it's not in the diatonic scale that the hexatonic is derived from. I prefer sticking (mainly) to the hexscale of the overall key rather than changing its key with each chord. As for your question - it certainly helps to know the notes of each chord or at least visualise the shape of whatever chord you're playing over & avoid lingering or landing on its 4th. The caged system is an easy way of seeing all the inversions of a certain chord up & down the neck. The extent to which you 'spell' / arpeggiate each chord (play the changes) as opposed to milking the penta or hex scale of the key center depends on the genre and is a matter of personal taste & expression. The former approach lends itself to the formal & sophisticated, the latter to freedom & spontaneity. Theory does not dictate what sounds cool - it's just a language to help decipher and describe what's happening (and, paradoxically, which notes to avoid! ; )

@falseprophetsthorn8723 2 жыл бұрын

That Yamaha guitar sounds good and no doubt it plays well but I can't come at the look of it. It reminds me of Japanese styled cars in the 60's. (Sorry if I called your new girlfriend ugly).