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Everyone talks about using the chord tones but you do it with out the inferred pressure of the theories. Very useful and simple. One thought - maybe when you demo'd the solo ideas it would be helpful if you put up the pentatonic diagrams highlighting the notes you were using as you played so the visual of the notes could support what you were doing. Thank you for your help.
You are right - this is pretty much what I had in mind. You did point out the specific notes per chord change. Doing anything more during the actual solo demo would probably be to messy. Thanks again for what you are doing with your site. I'm sure you are helping many others along this path.
@@MarkZabel My dad had a Blue Ridge Gibson. He rebuilt it, after house fire damage. It turned out sounding great. He glued pieces of old arch - top guitars, where holes were burned through. The neck needs work. It has rich tone and extra volume. I can't give up on it.
Very nice to hear and see a simple explanation of chord tones. Thanks! See ya on down the road or " further on up the road". (Somebody's gonna hurt you like you hurt me.)(I think it's the one where he calls out key changes a couple of times...). Rock on! 🤘
MZ, When staying in minor pentatonic box#1 how can you make it sound like you're playing the ii chord, iii chord, vi chord? because mostly it always sounds like its the I chord, not the other chords in the key ii,iii,IV, V, vi. I'm trying to stay in minor pentatonic Box#1 but able to make the blues licks sound like other chords in the key, instead of the blues licks always sounds like they are the I chord.
Hi Wayne. I'm not sure of your question, because in the context of this video (standard blues I7, IV7, V7 in A) there are just as many chord tones in the Am pentatonic for D7 as there are for A7 - and the same ones in the chord. (1, 5 and 7, no 3rd). So "sounding like D7" shouldn't be any more difficult than "sounding like A7" and in my opinion it isn't any more difficult. The general answer to your question though is basically given in this video - play chord tones. And if a chord tone is out of the scale, then feel free to play that note - the note that's not in the scale. And don't worry about complex "what is the new scale" theory, because it's as simple as "I play the note because it's in the chord". That's the theory. Most melodies come from chord tones with scale tones OR chromatic tones connecting them. A bit deeper, the chord tones that really work well are the 1, 3, and 7. IMHO one of the weaknesses of strictly using the minor pentatonic over a blues (not minor blues) is that the 3rd of the I chord isn't in the scale. So that, IMHO, greatly limits being able to sound like the I chord - which is why I freely play the C# in an A7 blues (i.e., the 3rd - not in the minor pentatonic).
Thanks for watching. Do you mean the 2nd solo I do in the video. I'm sorry, I don't have it transcribed. I just improvised it. I do have a number of these sorts of transcription on my member's site. Or you could check the free tabs too. I'll give you both links below. Rockstar Membership: mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/p/mark-z-guitar-members-rockstar Bar Band Membership: mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/p/member-level2-bar-band Open Mic Membership: mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/p/member-level1-open-mic Some FREE TABs here: tinyurl.com/ybpzjuwm
This is such a great lesson, one of the best I've watched on TH-cam, such a simple concept but so effective. I've been trying to play over chords for a while and this has really helped. Brilliant!! Thank you so much for posting.
Cool lesson! I don't need to play like EVH but I do admit I hate sounding too predictable or robotic soloing on guitar and this lesson absolutely helps!! Also.....very cool looking guitar hanging artwork on the wall!! Looks like a guitar pick holder?? Jim C.
Dang! I watched some of your videos yesterday for the first time! Talk about enjoyable!!! I know lots of this already but I absolutely love the way you explain it all! Especially what I don't know. I would recommend your videos to anyone that wants to really understand what they are trying to do and how to get there while still fun along the way! Thank you so much
As always Mark your knowledge and insights which provide meaningful enhancements for the guitar playing community are so appreciated. Everything you share has made me a better guitarist. Thank you for your work. You’re awesome!
Thanks Mark, my man! I'm so glad I decided, a couple of months ago, to learn the solos from That Smell. That's what initially turned me on to your channel. You seemed to be the only one to do all of the solos, and correctly. I decided to check out the rest of your channel, and then subscribed. I'm glad I did! God Bless!🙏❤🙏
I just remembered what Artie Traum's Rock Guitar book taught me. On the change from Am to D just move the pentatonic pattern up one string from E to A and go for it.
Mark Zabel Wow!!! All of your lessons are really fantastic. This may be the best one yet. I'm going to watch it several more times before applying what you've taught. Thank you SO much!!! P.S. I envy your full head of hair........a distant memory for me. ;.)
Hi Dan! Great to hear from you. Awesome, thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. And the hair? LOL! Right now it's 20 Fahrenheit outside, so if I recall correctly you've got some beautiful weather right now where you are - so I can envy that. (I'm laughing!)
Hi. Thanks for your comment. I'm a little confused by your comment however, because the lesson is *only* for one position - the 5th position. However, the concept is exactly the same up and down the neck. I didn't teach the chords anywhere but those near the 5th fret in this video. The demo just shows it can be done. It's not meant to be understood any more than that. (I.e., "Play minor pentatonic, add tones from A7, D7, E7 as desired" is the concept.)
Thanks Mike! That was a 2nd take. I actually liked the 1st take better, because it had some "guitar player" runs in it. (I.e., playing fast kind of for the sake of playing fast) My wife rightly convinced me to post the 2nd take! I'm telling you this, because I know of your "streak" of metal appreciation. This is kind of anti-metal. LOL!
Hi. For some reason this was flagged as spam and I just saw it. First, thank you so much for your kind words. Both of those are great suggestions I'll put on my list. Thanks for stopping by. BTW, I have no clue why TH-cam flagged your comment. If you read it alongside of others that were flagged you'd be aghast! Yours stuck out - because there was no profanity or ugliness in it at all. So I'm dumbfounded as to why it didn't get through. Sorry for the delay in responding.
Great lesson again thank you. Your demo solo was fab but as a new concept it would have helped me a lot to hear you show the difference between playing the straight A minor pentatonic, then gradually start also hitting the third from the coming D7 or E7 chord. Rather than going straight into a whizz all-over the neck lead break, inspiring, aspirational but hard to relate it to the lesson. No worries though, I'll practice this slowly for myself. I think this will be useful.
Hi Mark, Great lesson as always, your range of material is impressive and your teaching style accessible and extremely useful and helpful. Don't take this the wrong way as I hope you can take a little ribbing......all of us out here in the youtube viewing audience have come to know the instructors/teachers/presenters as we see the videos week after week stretching back many years in many cases. We all know you better than you know any of us. I find reading other viewers comments is often insightful and I myself am no stranger to making comments on various youtube videos or sports blogs or the like, often of a rhetorical or humorous nature. Anyway where I am going with this is the last video of yours I watched and really enjoyed was on a Jump Blues Solo, this was about October or November and the video was from a few years back. I'd seen a few other videos of yours in the past few years so I was taken back a little.....wait a minute, "where's Mark?".....last time I saw him he was giving a instructional video and appeared like he just got off his job as a CPA and found time to do a video, time before that he was riffing guitar licks in a crewcut. Must have been during the lockdown and your son home from college was an "influencer" of another sort with a bag and a bong. I'm an old hippie with a ponytail and black coffee is the strongest I indulge in so I thought I'd poke a little fun...... Robbie in Colorado
LOL! Thanks Robbie. No blame to my kids as "influencers" there. (Which is a good thing!) And I don't know if it's legal yet in NY State. I'm not exactly a teetotaler, but no bags and bongs here. For some reason, just before the pandemic ... sometime like Xmas 2019 ... I decided to let my hair grow. The wife likes it, so there you go. Glad you liked the lesson. Rock on brother!
@3:40 that’s the key …. Sense and timing !!! 😎🤘🏼 I live and love to solo I know your a fanatic of composition as well as I am would love to hear any original pieces
Like this lesson a lot. Could you gear it towards country licks instead of Blues ? I know how to switch over from relative minor to relative major but just need some extra licks for my vocabulary. Thanks
Thanks. Absolutely I could do that. It's probably more important in country, where the major 3rd is emphasized much more than in rock and classic blues.
Those thirds are the missing link - chromatically from the minor & major third through the blue note chromatic run...high or low on A string rooted 9th's or G string dom7ths....glad I picked up the guitar to hear what you meant by the red dots.
Okay Mark, so I’ve been trying to learn how to solo with little success. (Loooong time trying) Now I’m not paying too much attention to the parts about the third of each chord etc. (I recognize that it’s a huge factor in determining whether the chord is maj/min etc) But after watching your video once I was able (using “CAGED” chord shaped arpeggios) to start soloing a bit! I’m not saying I’m doing it well but it’s a start and, after not getting anywhere for ages I’m very excited! Thanks very much Mark!!
Thanks so much for sharing that! Glad my videos are helping. As long as it's moving forward it's good. It's okay to be mechanical at first. Over time you begin to get fluent and to come up with your own ideas. Keep it up!
Hey Mark, i could not find the last reply i had yesterday from my phone but about that squier affiniry i ordered.. thats laural, i do have a pacitica with walnut, and a gregg bennet idk i think rosewood, and a talman half electric is purpleheart fretboard.. i first wanted a maple frethoard.. now i have a laural because it was 30 euro cheaper . is this alot different? less then maple, or does this not matter.. (i think, i cannot play on the tele also, because i practice 6 weeks😂. it goes fast; but after this one, i first try to learn things befote i buy others.. kind of addicted since 6 weeks to guitars after 18 year drug addiction😅😅 so it also helped in some ways als i watch your videos together with marty music, and music is win a lot because they are good to follow and also lots of speaking about the guitars.. i want to be able to work on my guitars myself.. i think it cannot be that hard? because it is not that its 1000 elements.. but im afraid that if i start i have fooled mtself thinking it was easy and screw it all up
Hi. Thanks for watching! A laurel fretboard is fine I think. Some people don't like the look of it. I think it looks good. I have a couple of guitars with laurel fretboards.
@@MarkZabel ok thanks.. i do have canceled it and ordered the 3color sunburst.. maple fretboard.. i dont have thatso want to tey that one time.. havr 3 other guitars with walnut palisander and roseheart so i think those are all kind of the same
@@MarkZabelIt is a backhanded compliment, Mark. I use it as a term of endearment and respect to exceptional pickers.....Nothing Personal. I sent the same statement to Redd Volkart, his reply "yea I've heard you play." How's that for a comical retort....Keep up the good work Mark
Good Lord, you started playing and I thought immediately of Jerry Garcia, but I can't think of the rest of the tune or its name. What a great variation on just using the Am for a beginner's finger work. Mahalo plenty.
I don't think so. It's an idea video. If you took away "think about chords as well as scales" that's enough. The "how to" is there if you want it. It's not detailed, but it's there and it's very basic. As I clearly state in the video, it takes time to become proficient (5:55). If one is looking to be spoon-fed, this is not that video.
I am just beginning and your video series is really opening my eyes. One request: perhaps make a video about soloing over chords (just as you've done here) but slow it way down and simplify it for folks like me. A true beginner lesson on this where I could copy and repeat so that I can start training my ear to hear it would be very very helpful!
Excellent! Playing and playing notes that matter. This is exactly what I was hoping to find someone explain. You did and you did it in a simple to understand way! Thank you forever! Gonna practice this! So the "third" is always based on the diatonic and not chromatic scale? I have one of these brains that tend to overthink and complicate things. Thank you.
Man, I have been looking for years, YEARS, trying to find someone who will cut the crap and "get down to it". Decades ago I bought some Eric Clapton instruction book and that really opened my eyes but your instruction closes them in ecstatic music making. Thanks👍
What a brilliant lesson, this looks like so much fun! Thank you Mark for sharing this technique! Have a great weekend! :)
Thanks so much Joyce. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Everyone talks about using the chord tones but you do it with out the inferred pressure of the theories. Very useful and simple. One thought - maybe when you demo'd the solo ideas it would be helpful if you put up the pentatonic diagrams highlighting the notes you were using as you played so the visual of the notes could support what you were doing. Thank you for your help.
Glad it was helpful! Have a look at this video for what you're suggesting. th-cam.com/video/5h-3Dq9yYb4/w-d-xo.html&lc=UgwqGP_pU-OwgkVHtfx4AaABAg
@@MarkZabel I will be going there shortly, thanks😜.
You are right - this is pretty much what I had in mind. You did point out the specific notes per chord change. Doing anything more during the actual solo demo would probably be to messy. Thanks again for what you are doing with your site. I'm sure you are helping many others along this path.
Thank you for this excellent instruction. Gibson guitars are the best. I've had that understanding since the age of 7.🙂
Great to hear!
@@MarkZabel My dad had a Blue Ridge Gibson. He rebuilt it, after house fire damage. It turned out sounding great. He glued pieces of old arch - top guitars, where holes were burned through. The neck needs work. It has rich tone and extra volume. I can't give up on it.
@@troymattingly3071 cool!
Very nice to hear and see a simple explanation of chord tones. Thanks!
See ya on down the road or " further on up the road". (Somebody's gonna hurt you like you hurt me.)(I think it's the one where he calls out key changes a couple of times...). Rock on! 🤘
Thanks John!
I watch that too Mark...alot of great stuff!❤☝🍻
MZ, When staying in minor pentatonic box#1 how can you make it sound like you're playing the ii chord, iii chord, vi chord? because mostly it always sounds like its the I chord, not the other chords in the key ii,iii,IV, V, vi. I'm trying to stay in minor pentatonic Box#1 but able to make the blues licks sound like other chords in the key, instead of the blues licks always sounds like they are the I chord.
Hi Wayne. I'm not sure of your question, because in the context of this video (standard blues I7, IV7, V7 in A) there are just as many chord tones in the Am pentatonic for D7 as there are for A7 - and the same ones in the chord. (1, 5 and 7, no 3rd). So "sounding like D7" shouldn't be any more difficult than "sounding like A7" and in my opinion it isn't any more difficult.
The general answer to your question though is basically given in this video - play chord tones. And if a chord tone is out of the scale, then feel free to play that note - the note that's not in the scale. And don't worry about complex "what is the new scale" theory, because it's as simple as "I play the note because it's in the chord". That's the theory. Most melodies come from chord tones with scale tones OR chromatic tones connecting them.
A bit deeper, the chord tones that really work well are the 1, 3, and 7. IMHO one of the weaknesses of strictly using the minor pentatonic over a blues (not minor blues) is that the 3rd of the I chord isn't in the scale. So that, IMHO, greatly limits being able to sound like the I chord - which is why I freely play the C# in an A7 blues (i.e., the 3rd - not in the minor pentatonic).
Do you have a transcript to this or similar?
Thanks for watching. Do you mean the 2nd solo I do in the video. I'm sorry, I don't have it transcribed. I just improvised it. I do have a number of these sorts of transcription on my member's site. Or you could check the free tabs too. I'll give you both links below.
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And, BTW, you're better than me, because you still have HAIR!
LOL!! Some days I think that's all I've got going on. Thanks for watching brother!
This is such a great lesson, one of the best I've watched on TH-cam, such a simple concept but so effective. I've been trying to play over chords for a while and this has really helped. Brilliant!! Thank you so much for posting.
You're welcome. I'm so glad it was helpful to you! This really made my day!
Thx Mark . Excellent instruction. Love the superimposed colored lights on the fretboard. Gracious
Thanks Mark 🎸 💯 on the method today 👍 no pressure...lol.... this was alot of fun! Love Kris IL 👻 👻 🎃 🎃
Glad you enjoyed it Kris! Happy rockin' Halloween!
Good stuff, Mark. By the way, that painting on the wall behind you is very clever.
Thanks Rene. I like that painting too! (Actually enamel on aluminum)
And the hits keep comin. Never to old to learn. Thanks Mark for sharing.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Nice painting on the wall
What a great lesson! Your teaching approach is so clear and authentic. Thank you!
Thanks Patrick! Really appreciate the kind comment!
Best lesson on chord tones ever!! Thanks Mark. The lighted dots on the fretboard make for easy times :)
Thanks so much Bob!
Cool lesson! I don't need to play like EVH but I do admit I hate sounding too predictable or robotic soloing on guitar and this lesson absolutely helps!! Also.....very cool looking guitar hanging artwork on the wall!! Looks like a guitar pick holder?? Jim C.
Thanks Jim! Glad it was helpful. The artwork is just artwork. Enamel on aluminum.
MARK RULES!
Thanks Dave!
Dang! I watched some of your videos yesterday for the first time! Talk about enjoyable!!! I know lots of this already but I absolutely love the way you explain it all! Especially what I don't know. I would recommend your videos to anyone that wants to really understand what they are trying to do and how to get there while still fun along the way! Thank you so much
Thank you so much! Appreciate you spreading the news!
As always Mark your knowledge and insights which provide meaningful enhancements for the guitar playing community are so appreciated. Everything you share has made me a better guitarist. Thank you for your work. You’re awesome!
Thanks so much Frank! So glad you enjoy the channel!
Mark's lessons are insane. So glad I found this channel. If you haven't seen his Allman Bros. Harmonization go find it. I still love you too, Marty.
Thanks Brian! (No shade on Marty from me. He's great. Very positive attitude.)
Hello again from Tokyo - I working on your instruction which I found highly insightful. Thank you.
You're welcome. Glad it's helpful to you!
Always gold here.
Thanks Richard!
Thanks Mark, my man! I'm so glad I decided, a couple of months ago, to learn the solos from That Smell. That's what initially turned me on to your channel. You seemed to be the only one to do all of the solos, and correctly. I decided to check out the rest of your channel, and then subscribed. I'm glad I did! God Bless!🙏❤🙏
My pleasure. So glad you're enjoying the channel!
I just remembered what Artie Traum's Rock Guitar book taught me. On the change from Am to D just move the pentatonic pattern up one string from E to A and go for it.
Interesting, and that does work. However, keep in mind the 1 chord here is A (or A7), not Am.
Smoking licks Mark. Somehow you must know what I'm thinking. Thanks
Thanks!! I promise I'm not bugging your office! LOL!
mercy mercy mercy......what a wonderful video..... love it thanks mark
You are very welcome. Thanks so much for the kind words!
Mark Zabel Wow!!! All of your lessons are really fantastic. This may be the best one yet. I'm going to watch it several more times before applying what you've taught. Thank you SO much!!! P.S. I envy your full head of hair........a distant memory for me. ;.)
Hi Dan! Great to hear from you. Awesome, thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. And the hair? LOL! Right now it's 20 Fahrenheit outside, so if I recall correctly you've got some beautiful weather right now where you are - so I can envy that. (I'm laughing!)
Top lesson Mark, keep 'em coming!
Thanks, will do!
Audacious 10X
Nice soloing! Looks like some hybrid picking was going on there as well making it sound very smooth 👍🏻
Thanks! Yes, definitely some hybrid picking happening.
great lesson but you call out the target note for those peaple who have trouble hearing the tones
Thanks.
Great lesson Mark. Like the new hair style a little shaggy but looks cool.
Glad you enjoyed the lesson! The hair? I'm just letting it grow for a while.
Could you maybe tell me where you got your decal/picture in the back from? Thanks a lot from Germany! (:
It's enamel on aluminum. www.aluminartz.com/index
@@MarkZabelthank you very much!
Too difficult for me but thank you
You're welcome. Maybe it will make sense at a later time. Thanks for stopping by.
Wow that was fucking amazing
Glad you enjoyed!
great tempo nice hand TY !! new sub
Thanks for the sub!
I followed the concept right up until you started moving up and down the neck. Then I got lost.
Hi. Thanks for your comment. I'm a little confused by your comment however, because the lesson is *only* for one position - the 5th position.
However, the concept is exactly the same up and down the neck. I didn't teach the chords anywhere but those near the 5th fret in this video. The demo just shows it can be done. It's not meant to be understood any more than that. (I.e., "Play minor pentatonic, add tones from A7, D7, E7 as desired" is the concept.)
@@MarkZabel Thanks for the reply and explanation. Now I understand it.
A big fan or your lessons and playing.
Thanks so much!!
Nice guitar graphic on the wall.
Glad you like it. The aluminum artist is at Aluminartz.com.
for some reason my am pentatonic position doesn't sound like Marks! Good stuff man, thanks.
LOL! Thanks John. Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@MarkZabel mark, which one of your courses has the key to the highway stuff on it? Or at least helps me learn those licks and theories?
Nice lesson, I miss the Sunday afternoon chats.
Thanks! Live streams still happen, but not as much on TH-cam. I always send out an email to those who opt in for my updates.
Me too....
Love your channel, very informative! I do have a question for you, what's your take on your Blackstar amp?
I like how you painted your wall
Glad you like it. It's just white, but there's a guitar landscape art - enamel on aluminum.
Great lesson Mark.
Thanks K.T.!!
Thank you.. this is magnificent..
I guess this only applies to major blues..
Can you show us the same trick with minor blues..
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, I can show it for minor blues too. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@MarkZabel love and respect
Nice lesson Mark! I loved that sticcato country lick you threw in at around 5:14. Very cool! The graphs are very helpful too.
Thanks Mike! That was a 2nd take. I actually liked the 1st take better, because it had some "guitar player" runs in it. (I.e., playing fast kind of for the sake of playing fast) My wife rightly convinced me to post the 2nd take!
I'm telling you this, because I know of your "streak" of metal appreciation. This is kind of anti-metal. LOL!
I love it all ! I like the buffet. Sometimes I’m metal, sometimes I blues or country or even folky. Just a fan of fine playing 😁
I just love the tune .....wow ...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for your time.
My pleasure! Hope you enjoyed it!
Definitely one of if not best lesson I've had. It finally makes sense
So glad you found it helpful!
Hey. Just found your channel and your really helpful. Can you do a 'reckless' bryan adams or 'Jungle love' Steve Miller Band cover?
Hi. For some reason this was flagged as spam and I just saw it. First, thank you so much for your kind words. Both of those are great suggestions I'll put on my list. Thanks for stopping by.
BTW, I have no clue why TH-cam flagged your comment. If you read it alongside of others that were flagged you'd be aghast! Yours stuck out - because there was no profanity or ugliness in it at all. So I'm dumbfounded as to why it didn't get through. Sorry for the delay in responding.
Great lesson again thank you. Your demo solo was fab but as a new concept it would have helped me a lot to hear you show the difference between playing the straight A minor pentatonic, then gradually start also hitting the third from the coming D7 or E7 chord. Rather than going straight into a whizz all-over the neck lead break, inspiring, aspirational but hard to relate it to the lesson. No worries though, I'll practice this slowly for myself. I think this will be useful.
Thanks. And thanks for the suggestion.
I second that emotion. I was like uhhhhhhh okkkk :/
Thanks, Mark! I always, ALWAYS enjoy your videos. Like a man after my own heart, "it's my favorite thing to do on two feet!"
Thanks Jeff and LOL!! Glad you caught the reference there.
Fabbydoo - ta much!
You bet. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Mark, this lesson will certainly help with my blues soloing, thanks again, keep jamin bud...
You bet! Thanks for watching!
Is that a epiphone dot if so what size of string do have it I have 12
Hi Sam. It's a Gibson. I use 10s on it.
@@MarkZabel did u have to adjust your guitar for 10s
I liked this lesson. Some great simple concepts...thanks
Glad you liked it!
Thanks, Mark.
You bet. Missed you on the live show today. Elrondo was even on! Maybe next time.
Hi Mark,
Great lesson as always, your range of material is impressive and your teaching style accessible and extremely useful and helpful.
Don't take this the wrong way as I hope you can take a little ribbing......all of us out here in the youtube viewing audience have come to know the instructors/teachers/presenters as we see the videos week after week stretching back many years in many cases. We all know you better than you know any of us. I find reading other viewers comments is often insightful and I myself am no stranger to making comments on various youtube videos or sports blogs or the like, often of a rhetorical or humorous nature.
Anyway where I am going with this is the last video of yours I watched and really enjoyed was on a Jump Blues Solo, this was about October or November and the video was from a few years back. I'd seen a few other videos of yours in the past few years so I was taken back a little.....wait a minute, "where's Mark?".....last time I saw him he was giving a instructional video and appeared like he just got off his job as a CPA and found time to do a video, time before that he was riffing guitar licks in a crewcut. Must have been during the lockdown and your son home from college was an "influencer" of another sort with a bag and a bong. I'm an old hippie with a ponytail and black coffee is the strongest I indulge in so I thought I'd poke a little fun......
Robbie in Colorado
LOL! Thanks Robbie. No blame to my kids as "influencers" there. (Which is a good thing!) And I don't know if it's legal yet in NY State. I'm not exactly a teetotaler, but no bags and bongs here. For some reason, just before the pandemic ... sometime like Xmas 2019 ... I decided to let my hair grow. The wife likes it, so there you go.
Glad you liked the lesson. Rock on brother!
subscribed
Thanks!
💡 moment!
Love it!!
@3:40 that’s the key …. Sense and timing !!! 😎🤘🏼
I live and love to solo
I know your a fanatic of composition as well as I am would love to hear any original pieces
Thanks Ron! At some point I may post some of my compositions on social media.
Like this lesson a lot. Could you gear it towards country licks instead of Blues ? I know how to switch over from relative minor to relative major but just need some extra licks for my vocabulary. Thanks
Thanks. Absolutely I could do that. It's probably more important in country, where the major 3rd is emphasized much more than in rock and classic blues.
Those thirds are the missing link - chromatically from the minor & major third through the blue note chromatic run...high or low on A string rooted 9th's or G string dom7ths....glad I picked up the guitar to hear what you meant by the red dots.
Yes, 3rds are a key to getting the listener to hear the chords. Thanks for watching!
Hell yes! Great lesson. Thanks Mark.
Thanks Bruce!!
Thanks Mark I'll try the special note!I'll check it out! Jim
Awesome!
Great lesson.
Thanks! 😃
Great playing as well.
@@mraggrovator thanks buddy!
Great.
Like Mick Ronson said "Play. Don't Worry."
Thanks Glen!
Just found your channel! Great content! looking forward to deep diving through your archive!!!!!
Welcome aboard! Enjoy!
Beautiful real life pentatonic study. Thanks Mark!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching Tray!
Tony Robbins 😂😂😂
Okay Mark, so I’ve been trying to learn how to solo with little success. (Loooong time trying)
Now I’m not paying too much attention to the parts about the third of each chord etc. (I recognize that it’s a huge factor in determining whether the chord is maj/min etc) But after watching your video once I was able (using “CAGED” chord shaped arpeggios) to start soloing a bit!
I’m not saying I’m doing it well but it’s a start and, after not getting anywhere for ages I’m very excited!
Thanks very much Mark!!
Thanks so much for sharing that! Glad my videos are helping. As long as it's moving forward it's good. It's okay to be mechanical at first. Over time you begin to get fluent and to come up with your own ideas. Keep it up!
Hey Mark, i could not find the last reply i had yesterday from my phone but about that squier affiniry i ordered..
thats laural, i do have a pacitica with walnut, and a gregg bennet idk i think rosewood, and a talman half electric is purpleheart fretboard..
i first wanted a maple frethoard.. now i have a laural because it was 30 euro cheaper .
is this alot different? less then maple, or does this not matter..
(i think, i cannot play on the tele also, because i practice 6 weeks😂. it goes fast; but after this one, i first try to learn things befote i buy others..
kind of addicted since 6 weeks to guitars after 18 year drug addiction😅😅
so it also helped in some ways
als i watch your videos together with marty music, and music is win a lot because they are good to follow and also lots of speaking about the guitars.. i want to be able to work on my guitars myself.. i think it cannot be that hard? because it is not that its 1000 elements.. but im afraid that if i start i have fooled mtself thinking it was easy and screw it all up
Hi. Thanks for watching! A laurel fretboard is fine I think. Some people don't like the look of it. I think it looks good. I have a couple of guitars with laurel fretboards.
@@MarkZabel ok thanks.. i do have canceled it and ordered the 3color sunburst.. maple fretboard..
i dont have thatso want to tey that one time.. havr 3 other guitars with walnut palisander and roseheart so i think those are all kind of the same
Excellent lesson and quite valuable, as per norm
Thanks!!
And the blue note.
That’s very tasty pickin’! Thanks! I’ll have to work on this.
Thanks! Have fun with it!
I used to think all I needed to know was what key is it in. Now I am paying more attention to the changes.
It just adds to what you can express. Takes practice certainly, but it's worth it.
Ok Mark this time you really ticked me off.....I'm going to go throw rocks at my gear......again
Uh oh! Why?
@@MarkZabelIt is a backhanded compliment, Mark. I use it as a term of endearment and respect to exceptional pickers.....Nothing Personal. I sent the same statement to Redd Volkart, his reply "yea I've heard you play." How's that for a comical retort....Keep up the good work Mark
i got a stank face when you started playing.
Awesome!
Thank you
Great little tidbits that amount to enormous wisdom! 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Good Lord, you started playing and I thought immediately of Jerry Garcia, but I can't think of the rest of the tune or its name. What a great variation on just using the Am for a beginner's finger work. Mahalo plenty.
Thanks man! Wish I could help you out with the name of the tune!
@@MarkZabel Found it. There are parts of Shakedown Street, about 1:20 into the studio version, that this put me in mind of.
Thank you! extremely useful :)
Glad it was helpful!
Yeh, think u jumped a step or 10 there.....
I don't think so. It's an idea video. If you took away "think about chords as well as scales" that's enough. The "how to" is there if you want it. It's not detailed, but it's there and it's very basic. As I clearly state in the video, it takes time to become proficient (5:55).
If one is looking to be spoon-fed, this is not that video.
Better than Hendrix your dreaming pal
I think you missed the joke - pal.
Very smooth! Subscribed
Thanks!
brilliant teacher, many thanks
You're welcome. Thanks for watching and for the kind comment!
I am just beginning and your video series is really opening my eyes. One request: perhaps make a video about soloing over chords (just as you've done here) but slow it way down and simplify it for folks like me. A true beginner lesson on this where I could copy and repeat so that I can start training my ear to hear it would be very very helpful!
Thanks! Great suggestion!
Click on the settings button on youtube screen and you can speed up or slow down videos. I do it all the time, learning guitar.
Another great lesson !
Thank you!
You are such a good teacher.
Thanks Juan!!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Mark that was one sweet lesson, thank you
Glad you liked it Max!
Thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thank you
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
Handy tips, thanks
Happy to help
Thanks!
Thanks a bunch Max!! Really appreciate it!
Excellent! Playing and playing notes that matter. This is exactly what I was hoping to find someone explain. You did and you did it in a simple to understand way! Thank you forever! Gonna practice this! So the "third" is always based on the diatonic and not chromatic scale? I have one of these brains that tend to overthink and complicate things. Thank you.
Awesome, thank you! Yes, diatonic. You got it.
Great lesson Mark!
Glad you liked it!
Man, I have been looking for years, YEARS, trying to find someone who will cut the crap and "get down to it". Decades ago I bought some Eric Clapton instruction book and that really opened my eyes but your instruction closes them in ecstatic music making. Thanks👍
Thanks so much!!!
I’ve been playing for &*# years, but I learn something new every single time I pick up my guitar. Your lessons do that, too. Thanks much, Mark!
Great to hear! Rock on!