Hey Mark- this is for your reference. There's another guitar player very similar to DANNY GATTON that nobody knows about. If you're looking for additional material to break down and teach... check out "STEVE TROVATO." There's a video of him playing with ALBERT LEE... and when STEVE solos, it's fairly obvious who was the runner up. JAZZ, COUNTRY, BLUE, ROCK, ETC. He doesn't really teach on Utube... just has a few videos up. Last I knee he was teaching at USC, but he could've retired. He's definitely another "HUMBLER." Helluva guy too!!
Yeah, Steve Trovato ... great player for sure. I think I've got some of his stuff playing with John Jorgenson, another fantastic player. Good to know he's a good guy as well!
You're welcome. Thanks for your kind comment. BTW, I actually do have a Master Black Belt - but in Six Sigma, not karate ... which maybe means I can beat people in an Excel Spreadsheet fight! LOL!! Thanks again!
if x•x=2 its x . b is one , f is x , the next b is two , the next f is two times x and the next b is four ... . f to b is one to x and b to f also is one to x . Also is f÷x=b and b÷x=f . Or you can say : 3 to b7 is the same intervall like b7 to 3 (and looks the same on the guitar if you dont use the b string) .This is the two - note wonder . I think its called the square root . Its the most dissonant intervall and the chromatic scale is based on it . I am german and dont know the right words but i try : A half step is the twelfth root of two .
Good hack, especially since (as mentioned) you can throw in various notes as accents or even 'ride' them 'to taste' here and there; root, 5th, 6th etc..
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"DANNY GATTON" - the MOZART of guitar! I have a bunch of his tutorial discs. If Ur without a tuner and need 2 tune 2 pitch, pick up a land-line phone... the dial tone is "F"- Always "F." He was on stage tuning 3 guitars simultaneously AND, pointing to all the other musicians who were out of tune, then telling them whether they were high or low and by how much. INCREDIBLE PERFECT PITCH!! Could listen to anything and immediately reproduce it, then play it better. "LES PAUL" was impressed by how GREAT he was. DANNY also built HOT RODS... engine and all- from the bottom up. Man was a GENIUS- RIP.
Mr. Z. is a great teacher. Wonderfully clear. I messed with guitar 40 years before realizing playing a chord doesn't require using all 5 or 6 strings, just the 2- or 3-note "shell."
Yes, keep it simple and you can do wonders. A digital computer is all simple 1s and 0s at its heart. You can build and do a few things with a computer.
Really nicely explained. A long time ago my teacher taught me this with reference to the rhythm playing of the great Freddie Green (Count Basie's guitar player for many years). The 3 and 7 define the chord, and so this approach can be used with ANY chord in ANY song. Great in jazz standards. If there is no bassist, you can usually add rgw root or 5 in the bass easily, and it is also the basis of walking bassline guitar comping - similar to what you say about embellishing the chords, just in the bass. As soon as you know the 3 and 7 define the chord it really frees your playing.
I discovered this a number of years ago when I began using three-note “Freddie Green” chords. Cool as hell. And with a tritone inversion, e.g., that two-note G7 is also a Db7.
Exactly so. I see the tritone as a chromatic from the iim chord rather than going to the V7 before the I. It's "just" a chromatic line. (But oh so neat sounding!)
If you substituted Db7, Gb7, and Ab7 for the G7, C7, and D7 you'd be playing those same two notes. Nothing new, though, Lenny Breau used to work these "tritones" into his jazz solos decades ago.
Always appreciate taking a pause to stand back and learn simpler tricks capable of conveying my emotions. What I love about this so much is that while it is so classicly elegant on its own, it remains a great platform to build from and make one's own. Thank you for this tip. Been playing for years but it's always nice to be humbly reminded of little nuances such as this and their roots. 🙏🎶🤘
I used to play a lot with bands and solos using chord melody style. I haven’t played in years and now have guitar playing friends. They like to jam to warm up. I’d forgotten these “broken chord forms”. Like you said, it allows the other guitar players, including bass, an opening to be creative. Also horns and keyboards can be heard and allowed to open up and fill up any blank spaces. Thanks!
Just found this channel. Liking it a lot. So far it seems like clearly presented information with realistic perspective to make it possible to quickly put things into practice. Just enough theory to provide context without obscuring the point of the lesson. Thank You!
Thanks so much! I work very hard to keep the lessons short and tight, and to not try to put too much into any one lesson. Don't be shy about letting me know what else you'd like to see!
Good question! Two basic things: 1. These are rootless chords. Power chords use the 1 (root) and 5 of the chord. Good for laying down a pulse, but not great for color. Also, as you progress, much music calls for avoidance of clutter and playing well with other musicians. By avoiding the roots of the chords, you're helping the bassist and singer. 2. Voice leading. This is not just moving up and down the fretboard - this is moving exactly 1 fret! Abrupt shifts in tone that come with power chords and/or barre chords don't happen here.
That's the most I've ever learned in that short a time. I use the 3-b7 on bass sometimes, but never made this connection on guitar. I hope something brightens your day like you just did mine!
What he's really talking about is what is called a 'shell voicing' for chords. You can look it up, I'm sure, but, essentially, it stems from the Root & 5th contributing the least to a chord's 'color', timbre, whatever term you want to use. So a jazz guy will build things around 1 - (b)3 - 7 AND drop the Root for 'busy' constructions. *Example:* the Root is very often omitted from a ninth (a true ninth, not add9).
@@JESL_TheOnlyOne - True. Especially on guitar -just try to get a voicing for all the notes in a 13th chord! Hey, here's a trick I discovered for blues chords. I voice them 1-V-b7, which leaves the third ambiguous, giving the singer or soloist room to play with that M-m dichotomy. Keep playing, brother.
Thats what i've known as the " jazz power chord" for over 50 years. Jimmy page did it in rock and roll. Its not as exotic as it may seem, but its crazy useful. You can also bend either of the two notes to suggest 1/4 cadences and stuff. When i took a jazz theory course, they taught us the harmonic series created by the 3 and 7 fill out the rest of the notes in the chord. Its straight up thonious monk stuff. Cool video man thanks for helping the world out. Righteous
@@beaud4474 hahaha dude, lets me bs my way thru jazz stuff i have no idea what the chords are for...lol. its super-duper handy, for sure. but yeah, i bet that was a lot of our first exposure to it, pagey in rock n roll ;) AWESOME. rock on, brother
I’m pretty sure this was used in Bill Haley and the Comets “rock around the clock.” I know other guys from that era knew it as it shows up here and there. Anyway, it’s a great little trick to keep in your pocket. Also a great way to ground yourself when you lose your place.
I started doing this when I was a kid, I rarely saw anyone else do it. Cool. I recently actually started writing a whole blues piece based on this. You can do hilarious things just with tritones. Visitor presses apartment buzzer. Answer: Who is it? Visitor: I'm looking for Robert Fripp. Answer: Oh, you want Flat Five. 😂 🤣
Thank you for sharing this! (It also works great as a Chromatic 3-6-2-5-1 , where G (1) is on the 3rd fret, up to B on the 7th fret (3) down one fret E (6), down one more A (2), down one more, D(5), down one more G (1)...)
Yes, exactly - typical jazz blues turnaround sort of thing. And works with the tritone sub versions too. I didn't want to complicate this video with that, so I kept it short and just mentioned it near the end. Thanks for pointing it out!
Thanks brother! It's a Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 2 24 2PT HH - Natural Ash. (They really know how to name them, right? I had to Google "Charvel Tele".) Sweetwater carries them. Here's a link: www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PMSC2PNA--charvel-pro-mod-so-cal-style-2-24-2pt-hh-natural-ash
Kind of a funky jazz electric piano sound played on the guitar, very cool... Sped up it would sound like the main riff in "Jeff's Boogie" by The Yardbirds.
Mark, you look nothing like a guitar monster, but you are. Love your vibe and you're teaching this aging dog some great new tricks.. And Danny Gatton!! Just wow.
That charvel Tele is awesome ! I just recently got the gateway guitar of shred guitars,a Randy Rhoades Jackson V and realized real fast that shred guitars can have good comfortable necks if they added a little roundness to them but the fret board is great and turned me on to a Jackson Dinky Floyd rose tremolo guitar and it's also awesome so yeah agreed shred guitars can be awesome for everything !
Mark, Love that reverse headstock..... very cool looking.... This same pattern can be taken up to G and B strings to do the "skynyrd" style articulated bend.....by bending the G while also hitting the b string.
Cool idea, thanks! It actually works on every adjacent string pair - E/A, A/D, D/G, G/B, B/E. Best on the "bread and butter" or guitar IMHO - the D, G, and B strings.
Great video as usual. Is this the same two note lick that Page uses in rock n roll at the beginning where he does the noted rhythm and with each chord he goes up to the 12th fret and switches the 2 note for each chord A D E ? I’m not sure if exactly the same .thanks again .!
@@MarkZabel cool also in the song rock n roll during the solo after the climb to the 12 th he has a lick that’s in the BB box I learned that from your lesson on the BB box . Thanks again my friend
Talking about playing a Tele, brings back good & sad memories. In 1968, I had a 1951 Tele. That was the same year I was born, so I figured it was made for me! Wish I still had it!
There is a video of Danny Gatton on you tube with him playing slide with an open beer bottle and then he keeps right on playing while using a towel to clean the beer off of his guitar. Some of the best and entertaining playing I have ever seen.
I got the same thing years ago from Rock and Roll by Led Zep. It blew my mind because it looks so wrong that it should work. It blew my mind even more when I took the time to work out why it worked! Nice one.
Well, it's simple maths, isn't it? The distance between the two tones is exactly half an octave (6 semitones), so if you move it half an octave up or down, you get the same tones, but they switch strings, so B₁ becomes F₁ and F₁ becomes B₂. And since it's exactly half an octave, you can also use it with diminished chords (a quarter of an octave between each tone), by the way.
Yes, it's all math, but when it comes to the fretboard, what isn't? Knowing math is one thing, playing is another. Practicing simple things like this brings the together in a powerful way.
@@MarkZabel I totally agree. My point was simple maths, with emphasis on simple, and I was only talking about the thing that happens when you move six frets. Well, I also mentioned diminished chords, but what the heck… 😁
How do you know what note gets what number? Like in your G7 chord the notes are 1, 5, b7, 5 and 1. How do you get those numbers? That totally throws me off. Danny Gatton is amazing! 😮
The numbers come from the associated major scale. This is standard in music theory. For example, C major has the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. They're labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively. For example, G major has the notes G, A, B, C, D, E, and F#. They're labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively. This is what makes it easy (once this technique is known) to transpose music into a different key.
@@MarkZabel I knew it had something to do with the major scale. So even if the notes are scattered around the fret board in a chord, they are numbered in their alphabetic order according to the major scale. I have wrap my head around this, but this points me in the right direction. Thanks!
Was I correct? The notes are numbered according to the major scale? I have been using the two note wonder and it works great for playing anywhere on the fret board.
Okay, I’m admittedly a beginner level player, but I don’t see how to play the c7 and d7 the way you diagram them since there are 5 notes and I only have 4 fingers, don’t see how my thumb can help on these, and don’t see any way to bar the chords? So I’m stuck at the beginning of the lesson scratching my head.
Man this just blew my mind. I've been trying to teach myself some theory and basic rhythm concepts after just playing by ear for years and this is a huge help. Thanks!
Oh yeah well I've been mastering 1 note. Just pluck furiously at the open E while my free hand holds my adult beverage. I don't even have to fret the strings like you nerds and your fancy schmancy 2 finger hey look at me chords.
As an old (66) self taught bass player recently turned to 6 string, my musical theory understanding is rather quite limited. You were making my brain hurt with all the 1's 3rds 5th jargon. But when you played it I totally got it. Thanks for the tips !!!
This use to make my brain hurt too- now it's easy. Simply count to 7- that is all the degrees of the major scale. 8 is back to the root or tonic note only one octave higher. The way the notes are in order is called steps that follow a formula. For the major scale it is simply this. *W W H W W W H.* It never changes. W or Whole step like C to D is 2 steps, H or half like B to C is 1. So in C Major, it is ---*C(1)*--- D (2) E(3) ---*F(4)*--- ---*G(5)*--- A(6) AND FINALLY B (7.) That's it. Eight would start over at C. These are the *DEGREES of the scale.* Most progressions are I, IV, V so in C that is simply C, F, G. They are all major. There are also 3 minor. It's really very simple once it clicks. I, IV, V are always major in the major scale. Recall, the musical alphabet is e.g., C, *C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, A, A#/Bb, B*, (12 notes aka Chromatic) and back to C- that is it. This is what you apply the formula to. That is exactly where the numbers are coming from. Most chords are triads (3 notes) so the 1-3-5 of that major scale. So in C it is simple C, E, G. To make a MINOR C chord, simple FLAT (or go down a Half step on the 3rd) and that's it. So C, D#/Eb, G are the notes there. Print this out so you have a reference. You will find this formula and the musical alphabet (chromatic- 12 notes) very useful. This works in any key. Learn one, you have them all! Also, 66 is not old- I skied everyday with 70+ year old's at Vail, Co/ who skied great. Many better than me and I was an instructor. They skied 100 days a season. I hope this helps. Even it it is confusing at first glance, re-read it 10 times over as many days. One day, it will click I promise. That will be a very happy day for you my friend. 😀
I was taking a class in improvisation on the guitar. I was really starting to hear my notes blend with and accent the background music. My ear was getting better and better. Then one day my teacher told me that I was ready to start making sure my improv notes included the root of each chord. I quit my lessons the next day. I felt like someone put a straight jacket on me. Thank you for this lesson. Thank you very much.
Amazing... thank you so much for showing me that... I will definitely learn and keep that for future use... its so stupid easy, that even I can sound good! 🙂
It never ceases to amaze me how a guitar fret board works. 6 strings and 12 notes and how in standard tuning everything just repeats fret by fret. And then it works in open tunings as well...Same applies to other stringed instruments...and probably all of them one way or another. Totally agree with the keeping it simple comment..I was once asked a question or two by a fella I met who played..(I knew that because he had a guitar case with him) so I got me coffee and sat down...I was a bit of a beginner back then. We got chatting as you do. Any way he asked me how many strings does a violin have..? How long is a violin neck? And how much music can you NOT play on a violin..or fiddle if you're a fiddler.... Have a think he said as he left. So I did..I'll leave the same questions with you. You might look at a violin bridge as well, the way it's built. Doesn't look like you can bow more than 1 or 2 strings at a time.. Once I realised what he was telling me...and I still see a fret board the same way now. Or the part I'm looking at...at any given time. This video..2 strings and how much fret board..? Just thought I'd pass that thought on. I think Mark will know what I'm saying as others will.
Hi Ian! Definitely appreciate this. I'm always amazed by the often very simple and unique ways the greats do what they do. Lenny Breau, for example, could do wondrous things with only 2 notes. I find going back to basics and learning a subject "I already know" in a different way often enables me to see things differently as well. Happens all the time in music! Thanks so much for the story. A fun read!
@@MarkZabel Hi Mark. Again I agree with the idea of going back to basics. Many start with open chords..or "Cowboy" chords as they're often called. So they learn them, or a number of them but then want to move on up the neck. Because who wants to be playing those ..cowboy chords? But should they have spent more time on those supposedly simple chords? Do they discover all the ways we can embellish them? Many discover the often used and very popular D sus 2 and D sus 4 trick, and maybe one or two others. But there's a lot of music in those open chords..They are part of where your fret board begins, those "cowboy chords or at least 5 of them are the basis of your CAGED system..10 if we look at the minor version. More when we think about Dom 7 chords for instance and other variations. Each of those CAGED chords contains one of the 5 patterns of your pentatonic scales. Your Pentatonic begins in open E..C Majors Phrygian mode. All 5 pentatonics exist in the open position. The more you learn in the open position the better as it all simply moves up the fretboard fret by fret. Barre chords are great things but a little limiting, which is where your capo comes in, now all those little embellishments can be played in any key all the way up the fret board. Bit so many are in such a hurry to move away from the open position and then can so easily become confused as they do so. It makes things that much more difficult. IF you did this even if you are a good player going back to these basics can be useful because as ..simple as they are you might just find something you missed. Going back to other things you might think you learned the same applies. We tend to practice things and learn them, or think we have. Thinking we have learned something and moving on means your brain moves on, so now we don't think so much about what we think we have learned. Like this video I learned this little trick some years ago, but I watched it because you might have thought of using it in a way I had not. If so then yes I learned it, but not everything I might be able to do with it. We can add more notes in different ways from the scale...or maybe a note from a different scale..like adding a Major 3rd into a minor pentatonic, or a borrowed chord that doesn't belong in the chord progression. There are so many tricks like these, little nuances we don't think of but someone else does. Two notes can be more than just 2 notes. Django Reinhardt could only use 2 fingers but boy could he do a lot with those 2 fingers. The rest of us have 2 more...usually anyway. So what can we get from those 2 extra digits? Or more to the point what can we do if we just used 2..? Challenging maybe but that's how we can discover new things. Limiting ourselves to just 4 notes, as with the famous 4 note box, challenges us to play more with less. Similar to the violin question, more fret board is not necessarily better than just using a small chunk of it. The violin idea is what eventually led me to understanding how and why a 6 string guitar works, and it never ceases to amaze me you can actually play the thing. Again when you think about it most stringed instruments only have 4 strings. On a guitar we get 2 extra ones. A bit spoilt then, aren't we. Or are we?
In the summer of 2019 I had a lesson with Will Ray and one of the things he showed me was this exact lick, and I've been using it ever since! Great lesson Mark!
Freddy King did that for years, as did many others. Interestingly, though, there was a lot of tension between Roy and Gatton. Both met early callings, cheers Mark . Thanks for the reminder
Yes, certainly known for many years before Danny Gatton. I'd bet Charlie Christian and Django and even earlier players knew it. Sad what came of both Danny and Roy. Thanks for watching!
Didn't know they knew each other. Was Roy B. an influence of Danny's or did they come up at the Same Time? I always thought that....while it was a ways in coming, DG was 'due' some REAL exposure when he passed. Maybe he couldn't wait any longer. Reminds me of Sean Chambers. Too soon. -A
@@allenmcdaniel1470 RB influenced Danny some, particularly in how he set up his guitar (relatively high action). As far as play goes, Danny supposedly wasn't much influenced by Roy ... not from the book I read on Danny's life. Probably the biggest reason Danny was unknown in his time is that he didn't leave the Washington DC area. He had a strong following in the capital region.
Thanks Mark that was brilliant and yes shocking easy to play!! For me definitely a new technique I'll be using now... sounds great on the new guitar too!! Next episode " Rambling Man using this concept" ( that would be an interesting challenge!) Myself I don't think it would work on that song.....any thoughts on that from you or any of the men ( and Joyce)on here? You & Mrs. Zabel have a WONDERFUL Valintines Day tommorro!!!! Always appreciated Mark...⚡🎸⚡🖤Kris IL 🦋 ( guy's remember your wives tommorro! Today is the SuperBowl, I just reminded my Dad & son...they totally spaced it in the surf & scrambling now😅so they can get back to the game....
Thanks Kris! I got rid of 6 guitars to get the Charvel ... well, the two things aren't really related, but that's factually correct - 6 guitars gone since November 2021. No worries though, the blue Strat and Goldtop Les Paul are still in action! The concept doesn't work as well on Ramblin' Man, which has a happier sort of tonality. The flat 7 isn't as pronounced and in fact Dickie avoided it. All covered for V-day! Hope you have a great one too!!
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Hey Mark- this is for your reference. There's another guitar player very similar to DANNY GATTON that nobody knows about. If you're looking for additional material to break down and teach... check out "STEVE TROVATO." There's a video of him playing with ALBERT LEE... and when STEVE solos, it's fairly obvious who was the runner up. JAZZ, COUNTRY, BLUE, ROCK, ETC. He doesn't really teach on Utube... just has a few videos up. Last I knee he was teaching at USC, but he could've retired. He's definitely another "HUMBLER." Helluva guy too!!
Yeah, Steve Trovato ... great player for sure. I think I've got some of his stuff playing with John Jorgenson, another fantastic player. Good to know he's a good guy as well!
Steve T. did a GREAT dvd on playing like Chuck Berry. Highly recommended...
I must check out Steve Trovato... I mean, anyone who tops Albert Lee has to be seriously good.
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Now blues makes more sense and why those weird shapes sound so cool
Great!
I watch a lot of guitar tutorials on TH-cam. You are an exceptional teacher
Thank you so much!
I agree! Mark is a really great teacher (and player)!
And just like that I'm a white belt again. Thank you sensei
You're welcome. Thanks for your kind comment. BTW, I actually do have a Master Black Belt - but in Six Sigma, not karate ... which maybe means I can beat people in an Excel Spreadsheet fight! LOL!! Thanks again!
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@@jimtessin4130 LOL! Thanks!!
Being humble and smart enough to restart learning, is a tremendous gift
if x•x=2 its x . b is one , f is x , the next b is two , the next f is two times x and the next b is four ... . f to b is one to x and b to f also is one to x . Also is f÷x=b and b÷x=f . Or you can say : 3 to b7 is the same intervall like b7 to 3 (and looks the same on the guitar if you dont use the b string) .This is the two - note wonder . I think its called the square root . Its the most dissonant intervall and the chromatic scale is based on it . I am german and dont know the right words but i try : A half step is the twelfth root of two .
Two most important notes in a seventh chord. Three determines major or minor and seventh is the leading tone for the tonic.
Yes, the 7th of the V chord is 1/2 step above the 3rd of the I, so it's good voice leading.
Very clever Mark! Will use!
Great!
You have a nice teaching style 👍❤️
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow, very fun, gotta go try
Please do!
Clever stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is awesome! Tks
Glad you like it!
Good hack, especially since
(as mentioned) you can throw
in various notes as accents or even
'ride' them 'to taste' here and there;
root, 5th, 6th etc..
You got it!
Wow
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You teach so much in 5 minutes. Never disappoint. Thanks
Thanks Garry!
Jimmy Page does just this in the intro and elsewhere in “Rock n Roll” up at the 12th fret on the D and G strings
ZZ Top stuff has lots of the "lazy" chords that sound so amazing but its very very easy to play.
Dude, your headstock is upside down... My favoriteDanny Gatton is him, Albert Lee and Vince Gill trading licks on Lil Liza Jane.
Oh yeah, I never noticed. LOL!
"DANNY GATTON" - the MOZART of guitar! I have a bunch of his tutorial discs. If Ur without a tuner and need 2 tune 2 pitch, pick up a land-line phone... the dial tone is "F"- Always "F." He was on stage tuning 3 guitars simultaneously AND, pointing to all the other musicians who were out of tune, then telling them whether they were high or low and by how much. INCREDIBLE PERFECT PITCH!! Could listen to anything and immediately reproduce it, then play it better. "LES PAUL" was impressed by how GREAT he was. DANNY also built HOT RODS... engine and all- from the bottom up. Man was a GENIUS- RIP.
Mr. Z. is a great teacher. Wonderfully clear. I messed with guitar 40 years before realizing playing a chord doesn't require using all 5 or 6 strings, just the 2- or 3-note "shell."
Thanks! Yes, I did the same ... I'm a slow learner, LOL!
...if you play rhythm in a blues band, and you just realized you drank one too many beers mid-set
Keep it simple, just knowing three cords and how to use them could make you millions.
Yes, keep it simple and you can do wonders. A digital computer is all simple 1s and 0s at its heart. You can build and do a few things with a computer.
Always thought Gatton was very under rated.
And he's super-highly rated!
Really nicely explained. A long time ago my teacher taught me this with reference to the rhythm playing of the great Freddie Green (Count Basie's guitar player for many years). The 3 and 7 define the chord, and so this approach can be used with ANY chord in ANY song. Great in jazz standards. If there is no bassist, you can usually add rgw root or 5 in the bass easily, and it is also the basis of walking bassline guitar comping - similar to what you say about embellishing the chords, just in the bass. As soon as you know the 3 and 7 define the chord it really frees your playing.
Thanks! Well said.
I discovered this a number of years ago when I began using three-note “Freddie Green” chords. Cool as hell. And with a tritone inversion, e.g., that two-note G7 is also a Db7.
Exactly so. I see the tritone as a chromatic from the iim chord rather than going to the V7 before the I. It's "just" a chromatic line. (But oh so neat sounding!)
Real Magic! 2notes in 2 minutes of music theory just changed Everything!!
If you substituted Db7, Gb7, and Ab7 for the G7, C7, and D7 you'd be playing those same two notes.
Nothing new, though, Lenny Breau used to work these "tritones" into his jazz solos decades ago.
Dude. You never disappoint. Thank you 🙏
Thanks so much!
Always appreciate taking a pause to stand back and learn simpler tricks capable of conveying my emotions. What I love about this so much is that while it is so classicly elegant on its own, it remains a great platform to build from and make one's own. Thank you for this tip. Been playing for years but it's always nice to be humbly reminded of little nuances such as this and their roots. 🙏🎶🤘
My pleasure Will. Thanks for watching!
As Gatton couldn’t read music, he just figured this out. There is only 1 Humbler.
I used to play a lot with bands and solos using chord melody style. I haven’t played in years and now have guitar playing friends. They like to jam to warm up. I’d forgotten these “broken chord forms”. Like you said, it allows the other guitar players, including bass, an opening to be creative. Also horns and keyboards can be heard and allowed to open up and fill up any blank spaces. Thanks!
Sure thing. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Just found this channel. Liking it a lot. So far it seems like clearly presented information with realistic perspective to make it possible to quickly put things into practice. Just enough theory to provide context without obscuring the point of the lesson.
Thank You!
Thanks so much! I work very hard to keep the lessons short and tight, and to not try to put too much into any one lesson. Don't be shy about letting me know what else you'd like to see!
How is this different from any power chord principle, pick a shape and move it up and down. (keep in mind I'm super uneducated)
Good question! Two basic things:
1. These are rootless chords. Power chords use the 1 (root) and 5 of the chord. Good for laying down a pulse, but not great for color. Also, as you progress, much music calls for avoidance of clutter and playing well with other musicians. By avoiding the roots of the chords, you're helping the bassist and singer.
2. Voice leading. This is not just moving up and down the fretboard - this is moving exactly 1 fret! Abrupt shifts in tone that come with power chords and/or barre chords don't happen here.
Gatton was shocking in his playing ability, I agree.
Really useful information. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
That's the most I've ever learned in that short a time. I use the 3-b7 on bass sometimes, but never made this connection on guitar. I hope something brightens your day like you just did mine!
Wow, you totally made my day! Thanks so much!!
What he's really talking about is what is called a 'shell voicing' for chords.
You can look it up, I'm sure, but, essentially, it stems from the Root & 5th contributing the least to a chord's 'color', timbre, whatever term you want to use. So a jazz guy will build things around 1 - (b)3 - 7 AND drop the Root for 'busy' constructions. *Example:* the Root is very often omitted from a ninth (a true ninth, not add9).
@@JESL_TheOnlyOne - True. Especially on guitar -just try to get a voicing for all the notes in a 13th chord! Hey, here's a trick I discovered for blues chords. I voice them 1-V-b7, which leaves the third ambiguous, giving the singer or soloist room to play with that M-m dichotomy. Keep playing, brother.
@@onlyrick Look up Drop 2, Drop 3, Drop 4 voicings - most useful for guitar grips.
@@onlyrick Omitting the Fifth very often makes a 'power chord' (q. v.).
Thats what i've known as the " jazz power chord" for over 50 years. Jimmy page did it in rock and roll. Its not as exotic as it may seem, but its crazy useful. You can also bend either of the two notes to suggest 1/4 cadences and stuff. When i took a jazz theory course, they taught us the harmonic series created by the 3 and 7 fill out the rest of the notes in the chord. Its straight up thonious monk stuff. Cool video man thanks for helping the world out. Righteous
TheLonious. Damn phone
Thanks Jimi P!! And LOL on the auto-correct on the phone. I've had some crazy bad misspellings myself. Rock on!
First thing i thought was page and rock n roll . Haha
@@beaud4474 hahaha dude, lets me bs my way thru jazz stuff i have no idea what the chords are for...lol. its super-duper handy, for sure. but yeah, i bet that was a lot of our first exposure to it, pagey in rock n roll ;)
AWESOME. rock on, brother
@@666pinkster Don't you mean the loneliest monk? 🙂
This is awesome thank you! 😀
Glad you like it!
I’m pretty sure this was used in Bill Haley and the Comets “rock around the clock.” I know other guys from that era knew it as it shows up here and there. Anyway, it’s a great little trick to keep in your pocket. Also a great way to ground yourself when you lose your place.
I started doing this when I was a kid, I rarely saw anyone else do it. Cool. I recently actually started writing a whole blues piece based on this. You can do hilarious things just with tritones.
Visitor presses apartment buzzer.
Answer: Who is it?
Visitor: I'm looking for Robert Fripp.
Answer: Oh, you want Flat Five.
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LOL! (Fripp)
I'm familiar with Danny Gatton, but never thought I could play any of his stuff. Thanks Mark.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
I have the Danny Gatton, Guitar Player cover, March 89, Unknown Greats on the wall, near my guitars.
Awesome!
even more fun on bass especially if a guitarist can fill the voids
Jimmy Page does this on 'Rock and Roll'
It sounds very much like the original 'Batman' theme from the 60's.
When played in a simple I, IV, V blues it does. Yes. Many other uses.
Thank you for sharing this! (It also works great as a Chromatic 3-6-2-5-1 , where G (1) is on the 3rd fret, up to B on the 7th fret (3) down one fret E (6), down one more A (2), down one more, D(5), down one more G (1)...)
Yes, exactly - typical jazz blues turnaround sort of thing. And works with the tritone sub versions too. I didn't want to complicate this video with that, so I kept it short and just mentioned it near the end. Thanks for pointing it out!
@@MarkZabel Thank you! I like your teaching style.
Great tutorial. Many Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Where did you get that beautiful guitar brother and where can I get mine and your a great teacher have learned a lot from ya.
Thanks brother! It's a Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 2 24 2PT HH - Natural Ash. (They really know how to name them, right? I had to Google "Charvel Tele".)
Sweetwater carries them. Here's a link: www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PMSC2PNA--charvel-pro-mod-so-cal-style-2-24-2pt-hh-natural-ash
As the old saying goes: "Easy does it."
Kind of a funky jazz electric piano sound played on the guitar, very cool... Sped up it would sound like the main riff in "Jeff's Boogie" by The Yardbirds.
Mark …Thanks for all that you do for the guitar community 😊
My pleasure!
Mark, you look nothing like a guitar monster, but you are. Love your vibe and you're teaching this aging dog some great new tricks.. And Danny Gatton!! Just wow.
Thanks!
How do you find that upside down headstock for tuning stability?
Seems good. I've only had the guitar for 2 weeks, so the jury is still out!
James Burton used these notes all the time.
Amazing. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
That charvel Tele is awesome !
I just recently got the gateway guitar of shred guitars,a Randy Rhoades Jackson V and realized real fast that shred guitars can have good comfortable necks if they added a little roundness to them but the fret board is great and turned me on to a Jackson Dinky Floyd rose tremolo guitar and it's also awesome so yeah agreed shred guitars can be awesome for everything !
I like it! I wish they didn't always look so wild though! :) This one is pretty traditional looking, so I went for it.
I've been using this as long as I can remember. Never thought of the theory behind it or why it works.
Is this that trick you see chris cain riff on all the time? A version of it?
Could be. Lots of blues players do it.
Good,very simple..
I'm sorry..I'm not goot to englis speaking. But I like..
Thank's
God bless you
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Mark,
Love that reverse headstock..... very cool looking.... This same pattern can be taken up to G and B strings to do the "skynyrd" style articulated bend.....by bending the G while also hitting the b string.
Cool idea, thanks! It actually works on every adjacent string pair - E/A, A/D, D/G, G/B, B/E. Best on the "bread and butter" or guitar IMHO - the D, G, and B strings.
@@MarkZabel
Yep. For a 3-note thing, the D,G & B in the Hendrix E7#9, A13 & B13 and easy enough to add the 6 string root.
Nice! Super simple, super useful. Thanks for giving me another tool for the guitar trick bag.
Happy to help!
Great video as usual. Is this the same two note lick that Page uses in rock n roll at the beginning where he does the noted rhythm and with each chord he goes up to the 12th fret and switches the 2 note for each chord A D E ? I’m not sure if exactly the same .thanks again .!
Thanks! And yes, same lick!
@@MarkZabel cool also in the song rock n roll during the solo after the climb to the 12 th he has a lick that’s in the BB box I learned that from your lesson on the BB box . Thanks again my friend
Talking about playing a Tele, brings back good & sad memories. In 1968, I had a 1951 Tele. That was the same year I was born, so I figured it was made for me! Wish I still had it!
Making music and i don't even know what a note is! Thanks
Awesome!
The third is either major or minor, and the 6th, 7th, or 9th makes a sophisticated chord. The bass provides the fundamental.
Beginning of rock and roll on zeppelin same recipe A D E
Yes, absolutely.
PS: I loved Danny Gatton!
There is a video of Danny Gatton on you tube with him playing slide with an open beer bottle and then he keeps right on playing while using a towel to clean the beer off of his guitar. Some of the best and entertaining playing I have ever seen.
He was amazing.
Elvis Presley's guitar man Scotty Moore used those very shapes in many of his solos. Thanks for the memories 🎸
You bet!
Found myself singing you can't do that by the beatles along to that little groove. Dunno if it's the same chords like 😄
Rock on!
@@MarkZabel proud scouser here ✊️
I got the same thing years ago from Rock and Roll by Led Zep. It blew my mind because it looks so wrong that it should work. It blew my mind even more when I took the time to work out why it worked! Nice one.
Thanks man! Yep, Rock and Roll by Zep uses this - exactly!
Well, it's simple maths, isn't it? The distance between the two tones is exactly half an octave (6 semitones), so if you move it half an octave up or down, you get the same tones, but they switch strings, so B₁ becomes F₁ and F₁ becomes B₂. And since it's exactly half an octave, you can also use it with diminished chords (a quarter of an octave between each tone), by the way.
Yes, it's all math, but when it comes to the fretboard, what isn't? Knowing math is one thing, playing is another. Practicing simple things like this brings the together in a powerful way.
@@MarkZabel I totally agree. My point was simple maths, with emphasis on simple, and I was only talking about the thing that happens when you move six frets. Well, I also mentioned diminished chords, but what the heck… 😁
@@guraknugen cool!
How do you know what note gets what number? Like in your G7 chord the notes are 1, 5, b7, 5 and 1. How do you get those numbers? That totally throws me off. Danny Gatton is amazing! 😮
The numbers come from the associated major scale. This is standard in music theory.
For example, C major has the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. They're labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively.
For example, G major has the notes G, A, B, C, D, E, and F#. They're labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively.
This is what makes it easy (once this technique is known) to transpose music into a different key.
@@MarkZabel I knew it had something to do with the major scale. So even if the notes are scattered around the fret board in a chord, they are numbered in their alphabetic order according to the major scale. I have wrap my head around this, but this points me in the right direction. Thanks!
Was I correct? The notes are numbered according to the major scale? I have been using the two note wonder and it works great for playing anywhere on the fret board.
Excellent discussion of blues theory illustrated brilliantly visually, verbally, and sonically.
Thanks!
Now that's a cool trick!
I just bought my first guitar 2 weeks ago you are my new hero
LOL! Thanks. Rock on!!
Okay, I’m admittedly a beginner level player, but I don’t see how to play the c7 and d7 the way you diagram them since there are 5 notes and I only have 4 fingers, don’t see how my thumb can help on these, and don’t see any way to bar the chords? So I’m stuck at the beginning of the lesson scratching my head.
As a beginner...I cannot figure this out.
Which part(s) are confusing to you? That would help me understand what you're struggling with.
Man this just blew my mind. I've been trying to teach myself some theory and basic rhythm concepts after just playing by ear for years and this is a huge help. Thanks!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!
Oh yeah well I've been mastering 1 note. Just pluck furiously at the open E while my free hand holds my adult beverage. I don't even have to fret the strings like you nerds and your fancy schmancy 2 finger hey look at me chords.
As an old (66) self taught bass player recently turned to 6 string, my musical theory understanding is rather quite limited. You were making my brain hurt with all the 1's 3rds 5th jargon. But when you played it I totally got it. Thanks for the tips !!!
Glad it came into place.
Yeah, it is based on triads, and fragments, you would have all of that from your bass playing
This use to make my brain hurt too- now it's easy. Simply count to 7- that is all the degrees of the major scale. 8 is back to the root or tonic note only one octave higher. The way the notes are in order is called steps that follow a formula. For the major scale it is simply this. *W W H W W W H.* It never changes. W or Whole step like C to D is 2 steps, H or half like B to C is 1. So in C Major, it is ---*C(1)*--- D (2) E(3) ---*F(4)*--- ---*G(5)*--- A(6) AND FINALLY B (7.) That's it. Eight would start over at C. These are the *DEGREES of the scale.* Most progressions are I, IV, V so in C that is simply C, F, G. They are all major. There are also 3 minor. It's really very simple once it clicks. I, IV, V are always major in the major scale.
Recall, the musical alphabet is e.g., C, *C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, A, A#/Bb, B*, (12 notes aka Chromatic) and back to C- that is it. This is what you apply the formula to. That is exactly where the numbers are coming from. Most chords are triads (3 notes) so the 1-3-5 of that major scale. So in C it is simple C, E, G. To make a MINOR C chord, simple FLAT (or go down a Half step on the 3rd) and that's it. So C, D#/Eb, G are the notes there.
Print this out so you have a reference. You will find this formula and the musical alphabet (chromatic- 12 notes) very useful. This works in any key. Learn one, you have them all!
Also, 66 is not old- I skied everyday with 70+ year old's at Vail, Co/ who skied great. Many better than me and I was an instructor. They skied 100 days a season.
I hope this helps. Even it it is confusing at first glance, re-read it 10 times over as many days. One day, it will click I promise. That will be a very happy day for you my friend.
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I was taking a class in improvisation on the guitar. I was really starting to hear my notes blend with and accent the background music. My ear was getting better and better. Then one day my teacher told me that I was ready to start making sure my improv notes included the root of each chord. I quit my lessons the next day. I felt like someone put a straight jacket on me. Thank you for this lesson. Thank you very much.
You're very welcome. Thanks for watching!
Sounds like the essence of the song "Flying" by The Beatles
Yes, exactly.
My oh my I feel honored that you replied personally. Thank you so much, Mr. Zabel. I much admire your skill.@@MarkZabel
The worlds greatest unknown guitar player Title belongs to Roy Buchanan!! Period.
Man that's freaking cool thanks for the video!
Glad you liked it!
Amazing... thank you so much for showing me that... I will definitely learn and keep that for future use... its so stupid easy, that even I can sound good! 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
It never ceases to amaze me how a guitar fret board works. 6 strings and 12 notes and how in standard tuning everything just repeats fret by fret. And then it works in open tunings as well...Same applies to other stringed instruments...and probably all of them one way or another.
Totally agree with the keeping it simple comment..I was once asked a question or two by a fella I met who played..(I knew that because he had a guitar case with him) so I got me coffee and sat down...I was a bit of a beginner back then. We got chatting as you do.
Any way he asked me how many strings does a violin have..? How long is a violin neck? And how much music can you NOT play on a violin..or fiddle if you're a fiddler.... Have a think he said as he left. So I did..I'll leave the same questions with you.
You might look at a violin bridge as well, the way it's built. Doesn't look like you can bow more than 1 or 2 strings at a time..
Once I realised what he was telling me...and I still see a fret board the same way now. Or the part I'm looking at...at any given time.
This video..2 strings and how much fret board..?
Just thought I'd pass that thought on. I think Mark will know what I'm saying as others will.
Hi Ian! Definitely appreciate this. I'm always amazed by the often very simple and unique ways the greats do what they do. Lenny Breau, for example, could do wondrous things with only 2 notes. I find going back to basics and learning a subject "I already know" in a different way often enables me to see things differently as well. Happens all the time in music!
Thanks so much for the story. A fun read!
@@MarkZabel Hi Mark. Again I agree with the idea of going back to basics. Many start with open chords..or "Cowboy" chords as they're often called. So they learn them, or a number of them but then want to move on up the neck. Because who wants to be playing those ..cowboy chords? But should they have spent more time on those supposedly simple chords? Do they discover all the ways we can embellish them? Many discover the often used and very popular D sus 2 and D sus 4 trick, and maybe one or two others. But there's a lot of music in those open chords..They are part of where your fret board begins, those "cowboy chords or at least 5 of them are the basis of your CAGED system..10 if we look at the minor version. More when we think about Dom 7 chords for instance and other variations. Each of those CAGED chords contains one of the 5 patterns of your pentatonic scales. Your Pentatonic begins in open E..C Majors Phrygian mode. All 5 pentatonics exist in the open position. The more you learn in the open position the better as it all simply moves up the fretboard fret by fret. Barre chords are great things but a little limiting, which is where your capo comes in, now all those little embellishments can be played in any key all the way up the fret board.
Bit so many are in such a hurry to move away from the open position and then can so easily become confused as they do so. It makes things that much more difficult. IF you did this even if you are a good player going back to these basics can be useful because as ..simple as they are you might just find something you missed.
Going back to other things you might think you learned the same applies. We tend to practice things and learn them, or think we have. Thinking we have learned something and moving on means your brain moves on, so now we don't think so much about what we think we have learned. Like this video I learned this little trick some years ago, but I watched it because you might have thought of using it in a way I had not. If so then yes I learned it, but not everything I might be able to do with it. We can add more notes in different ways from the scale...or maybe a note from a different scale..like adding a Major 3rd into a minor pentatonic, or a borrowed chord that doesn't belong in the chord progression. There are so many tricks like these, little nuances we don't think of but someone else does.
Two notes can be more than just 2 notes. Django Reinhardt could only use 2 fingers but boy could he do a lot with those 2 fingers. The rest of us have 2 more...usually anyway. So what can we get from those 2 extra digits? Or more to the point what can we do if we just used 2..? Challenging maybe but that's how we can discover new things. Limiting ourselves to just 4 notes, as with the famous 4 note box, challenges us to play more with less. Similar to the violin question, more fret board is not necessarily better than just using a small chunk of it.
The violin idea is what eventually led me to understanding how and why a 6 string guitar works, and it never ceases to amaze me you can actually play the thing. Again when you think about it most stringed instruments only have 4 strings.
On a guitar we get 2 extra ones. A bit spoilt then, aren't we. Or are we?
It is stolen from Jazz-Guitar, my Friend !
In the summer of 2019 I had a lesson with Will Ray and one of the things he showed me was this exact lick, and I've been using it ever since! Great lesson Mark!
Thanks so much!!
Thanks Mark you are great.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
This channel imparts some of the best musical knowledge
Thanks Paul!!
Yeah that's cheating! 😆
LOL!
Thank you for this!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Freddy King did that for years, as did many others. Interestingly, though, there was a lot of tension between Roy and Gatton. Both met early callings, cheers Mark . Thanks for the reminder
Yes, certainly known for many years before Danny Gatton. I'd bet Charlie Christian and Django and even earlier players knew it. Sad what came of both Danny and Roy.
Thanks for watching!
Didn't know they knew each other. Was Roy B. an influence of Danny's or did they come up at the Same Time? I always thought that....while it was a ways in coming, DG was 'due' some REAL exposure when he passed. Maybe he couldn't wait any longer. Reminds me of Sean Chambers. Too soon. -A
@@allenmcdaniel1470 RB influenced Danny some, particularly in how he set up his guitar (relatively high action). As far as play goes, Danny supposedly wasn't much influenced by Roy ... not from the book I read on Danny's life.
Probably the biggest reason Danny was unknown in his time is that he didn't leave the Washington DC area. He had a strong following in the capital region.
Thanks Mark that was brilliant and yes shocking easy to play!! For me definitely a new technique I'll be using now... sounds great on the new guitar too!! Next episode " Rambling Man using this concept" ( that would be an interesting challenge!) Myself I don't think it would work on that song.....any thoughts on that from you or any of the men ( and Joyce)on here? You & Mrs. Zabel have a WONDERFUL Valintines Day tommorro!!!! Always appreciated Mark...⚡🎸⚡🖤Kris IL 🦋 ( guy's remember your wives tommorro! Today is the SuperBowl, I just reminded my Dad & son...they totally spaced it in the surf & scrambling now😅so they can get back to the game....
Thanks Kris! I got rid of 6 guitars to get the Charvel ... well, the two things aren't really related, but that's factually correct - 6 guitars gone since November 2021. No worries though, the blue Strat and Goldtop Les Paul are still in action!
The concept doesn't work as well on Ramblin' Man, which has a happier sort of tonality. The flat 7 isn't as pronounced and in fact Dickie avoided it.
All covered for V-day! Hope you have a great one too!!
@@MarkZabel lol " in fact he tried to avoid it." 😅( messin with ya, I've learned enough here to know that would stink) cheers 🍻 Mark
@@krisstieghorst7415 lol!
Double Dutch!
O oh its magic
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it works because the flat fifth (tri-tone) is its own inversion
Great explanation and formatted for beginner to skilled player !
Glad it was helpful!