ALL you need to know about scales to play rock and pop
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This short video will provide you with an all-purpose scale tool you can use over any chord progression in the style of rock or pop, simply by combining the pentatonic scale and the diatonic scale in two different ways.
You hit the perfect balance between enthusiasm for theory and enthusiasm for practical solutions to soloing problems! It looks easy (though it is not) and your videos always inspire me to work harder. Excellent presentation.
Your videos are perfect for someone like myself. I am not a beginner, nor by any stretch of the imagination an expert, but for every video I watch I get a 'Eureka' moment where I think 'that is simple, yet genius'. Thank you so much, I learn something new every time.
Evrything u play sounds great..
thanks for taking the time to explain all the little details..
it makes all the difference in the world..ive learned more from this than anything else, and its all in the detail
I've been doing this for 30 years however I don't think anyone has ever explained it this way. It really makes sense!
This is like the best lesson I've ever watched on TH-cam
Claus, just realized that I've watched almost all your videos n still hadn't subscribed, I remedied that my friend. I really would like to thank you since all your tips and little circular exercises have greatly helped with my speed and articulation. Wish I had seen your lessons 20 years ago! Keep em coming, you're a beast.
This has been the foundation of my playing. It always set me apart by adding those sad notes. It's simple concept but is so powerful
You're an awesome teacher. Thank you so much!
Good morning sir.. I have been watching your videos and I learn a lot.. I want to thank you for that.. Keep making videos sir.. I love how you explain things.. Thanks from the Philippines..
Thanks again Claus. I've struggled to succinctly explain when to use the different scales to my students; this will be very helpful. Powerful stuff. Clearly explained.
You are a great player and a fantastic teacher, especially for intermediary players....
Your lesson's are brilliant. You have a great way of explaining things.
I didn't even know i was looking for this lesson, but Dorian had long evaded my reach of knowledge. This really hit home! love the sound of the harmonic Michael or but often wondered why it didn't fit certain progressions or tracks. Feel like I moved up a level! thanks bro, great lesson
Exactly! I've been trying this method to figure things out, and you really sum it up! Thanks Claus!
Hey Claus....I'm enjoying the heck out of your videos. ...I'm not at this level yet but I did understand and it's very helpful. ..so when I come across this I recognize and understand it better. ...little lights going on all the time...I look forward to a time when I can play (half) that well ...really. ..thanks again
Great lesson Claus! Thank you!
That's an interesting approach to keys and modes without ever mentioning the word mode. Great stuff, as always!
Great insight to simplify an approach to soloing over minor major guitar riffs! thx
Wow, that just blew my mind, far and away the best guitar instructor ever
Pentatonic + Sixes&Nines = Diatonic
Diatonic - Sixes&Nines = Pentatonic
When playing in minor pentatonic, if the IV chord is major, use Dorian. If the IV chord is minor, us Aeolian (Natural minor scale).
That is all I know.
that's more than this guy knows
Alex Bueno then don't watch his videos!! Thanks Wes Jourdan
Terrific lesson, going to have to watch this one a couple of times to make sure I understand these concepts. Thanks Claus!
Thanks! Now I got clarity about Dorian use for rock. Amazing!
Hi Claus, I've loved, loved, loved some of your youtube lessons. I am a fan! However, this lesson was like a frenetic mad hatter trying to reveal a pearl of wisdom from pockets full of jumbled and crinkled up paper.
I certainly understand what you were teaching, but in my humble opinion, this presentation could have benefited from a significant degree of tightening-up and pre-record button organization.
Again, I am a fan. Even recently referred a talented guitar friend to your vids. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
love your lessons my friend!
Seriously, so happy I found your videos
The best teacher in a whole world, the pleasure is mine!
really amazing passion for what you are doing. bravo! i'll be watching this one repeatedly.
Very Clear and I am learning thank you.
Great lesson thanks brother man
You’re a great teacher in video. What more in personal.
Show Us On Wrintings Brother ....i cant catch up ....U r Talented no doubt abt that ....
Appreciated Thanx
Fed video Claus. Det er ikke fordi, jeg egentlig ikke kender teorien, men det er en ret fin ny måde at tænke på. Det kan jeg godt lide.
Wish I could even come close to playing like you!
Wow Makes sense...now I am starting to understand what my ear was telling me to do all these years.
Honestly Claus has easily some of the best lessons on TH-cam and half of them get almost no views. Go check out his other videos, people
A Dorian isn't going to work over a C Major chord progression because the F# will clash against the F Major chord in your progression. That's fairly basis stuff tbh.
that was very helpful and cool
I want one of those guitar stands.
The most helpfull Video that i habe eher watched. You are the BEST ever!!!
Very good - thanks for the “big picture” perspective- my brain hurts a little less
I wish someday I'll be able to rip those tasty licks just as easily as you are doing it. Great lesson!
Igor Lebich - How advanced are you my friend? Have you tried just messing with chord shapes alone and different chord positions and arpeggios and then just adding some extra notes in between, ''Ornaments'', here and there for colour before you move to different scale shapes? I apologize if you are passed that point already but, if not, it is how I started and it helped me a great deal and helped my improvising, my rhythm playing and helped me speed things up a lot. So, by the time I started to experiment with scales, different modes, ethnic scale shapes, passing notes and finally chromatics, I understood exactly what would fit perfectly over each chord change, what were the good notes to use for tension and what kinds of dissonance I could use whilst still sounding catchy, melodic and adding some of that ''Wonky'' sounding cartoony stuff! LOL. Just taking my time to flesh things out bit by bit and by understanding why it sounded good in the first place and by understanding it I could then ''superimpose'' these ideas onto all kinds of musical genres and really rip.
Great lesson really. Thank you.
Great Lesson !!!
love your content !!!
keep it up dude
Great vid,man!
great lesson i.ll be working on that
amazing teacher!!
Great lesson, helpful a lot, thanks!!
Is the whole Blues Dorian thing what bands like Dire Straits use? Sounds similar to me.
good ear
I noticed the same. Big Mark Knopfler fan here, so any help I can get is welcomed!
EgoShredder Dorian is one of the modes. These modes hel fresh out your playing by a longshot and is worth investing your time in to if you haven't already (by the age of your comment). All the best to you!
The E pent with the D major over top of it is the exact same as E pent with a C# minor over it with the addition of two G#'s located on the A and G string. Not sure about all this theory?
Excellent, thank you :)
17 minutes of information that will take me 5 years to understand.
I own that same guitar. Accept mine is a lefty model. The Ibanez AS-83. It is a really great guitar for the money it costs. I got mine in mint condition, like new off the shelf it looked when i got it. I paid him next to nothing for it. I got very lucky with that guitar. Now someone is trying to buy it off of me for $400.00 and i refused to sale it!
When you say "blues scale" are you simply referring to the minor pentatonic? Or do you mean the minor pentatonic with the flat fifth ("blue note") added?
So a question for you Claus?
When I started both the pentatonic and then major scale I quickly started seeing the pattern almost visually and one or the other are fairly easy. However when doing these overlays as you're doing, things get a bit confused. What do you normally find in development, you learn eventually to see the layers or do you as a guitarist at some point start figuring out notes more by formula than by visual mapping??
11:15, 13:52, 15:34. Screenshots. Automatic thumbs up.
Love it, Thanks.
Clear as mud.
Does it make sense to extend minor pentatonic with Phrygian?
Maybe ear training + theory ? it is the right way to do it effectively :D
WIk'd stuff. Thanks Claus!
playing D over E? I thought Dorian means to emphasisize the second note in a given scale (in E that's F#) AND staying in the key of E (4 sharps). Playing D would mean to use only 2 sharps(!)
in the end of the video i noticed that you are using special kind of stand :p
Is there a theoretical reason why Dorian works sometimes but not others when playing a minor chord progression?
How about this. Check out the IV chord. By this I mean e.g. if playing in A check out if the IV chord of the progression is major or minor i.e. D or D minor. If it's D, must use A Dorian. Why? cos it has 3rd (f sharp) of the D in it's progression. If it's Dm, use the A minor scale cos it has the flatted third (f). That's one of the main points he makes in this vid that I hadn't ever realized before. There is only ONE note difference b/w the minor (Aeolian) scale and the same note Dorian scale.
I just about got there through trial and error, and now I find this :) Dorian on the iv just sounds right
Thanks gtrdoc911!
Just a friendly question. When you write"iv" instead of "IV" it usually implies the minor chord. So are you saying in the key of A when you play a Dm the Dorian scale sounds good over that? Cause, as I said, the Dorian scale has a normal 3rd and the Aeolian (minor) scale has a flatted third thus to my ears, the Aeolian sounds much better over the Dm.
The best!
Great
THANKS!!!!!
amazing ..... wow..
You need another Holder. For a beer!
You played most chord progressions in the key of A and used position one of A minor pentatonic with additional notes and of course A major pentatonic. I understand C major and A minor relativety. However in your last example you played a chord progression in the key of C. Why did you not play in position one of the C minor pentatonic as in the first examples instead of staying in position one of A minor pentatonic.
I love your face when you hit wrong notes that you are doing with premeditation. I hit right notes with it but usualy a wrong xd
super coool
All of this was a total FOREIGN language for this beginner.
Great lesson. Thanks Claus
motives, not scales
Claus!!!
It is even simpler then you let on! LOL Importances! If you don't put weight on an importance you keep the complexity which may or may not give you new students. Don't get me wrong, you are flying by the seat of your pants; showing and covering a lot of valuable data well explained at the same time! Quite a feat! Did I get anything out of it! Absolutely! Thank you
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Man you make it look so easy. Lol you are definitely an amazing guitar player and teacher. Thank you for doing what you do!!
Great Lesson!