I wish my grandmother were alive to hear you solo over your own changes like this. She would just love it. Thanks for setting up a nice nostalgic moment for me my friend.
Really good stuff. Great way to play over changes. Playing 50 years and never knew how well playing the V chord minor pentatonic over the V chord works. Thank you
Very aptly titled lesson, Corey. 99% of YT lessons focus on major/minor pentatonic and blues scale patterns and random licks but those are just tools. This gem is pure gold that clearly explains how to use those tools to actually build something !!! Thanks, man, this was very much appreciated.
Great lesson Corey. Best thing of all is telling folks, don't worry about hitting exact notes in certain spots but rather to just play and hear and feel it! That's how you really learn.
You rule Cory, been playing for many years and have tried many teachers and can say without question nobody can teach the blues like you. I FINALLY can play a decent rendition of a Texas shuffle! Signing up for Working class guitar has led me to be obsessed with being a better player-I would recommend it to anybody who wants to up their game.
Corey this is one of the most profound lessons I’ve come across in terms of truly understanding not only blues soloing but understand the way the blues works. Super grateful for your knowledge. Thank you.
Yet another awesome lesson, I learned so much from you, Corey, and that’s why I’m a member of your Working class Guitar! If you haven’t taken any of Corey’s courses or joined, the price is unbelievably reasonable and you will learn a ton! Doug from Denver .
@@coreycongilio the thanks goes to you Corey. You are helping me so much in my understanding of the Guitar and my playing. One of these days I’ll make it to Nashville to meet you and see one of your shows live!
Thanks Corey for the great lesson! The best thing you do for us novices is to play your lessons with clean tones, it helps eliminate any confusion we might hear with distorted overtones. Super helpful!!
What a great Blues Scale lesson Corey. So well explained and layed out in such a friendly manner. The teacher gets an A+ here. I could just see B.B. King saying `Hey, wait a minute kid. You`re giving away all my secrets now`, and saying something funny at the end. lol All the best bro. Cheers!
I love your work Corey. Something I like to do is play a quick diminished run built off of the 3rd of the V chord, when the V chord is being played. It pulls it outside for a minute and then I bring it back by resolving to the key center.
The longer I play the more i appreciate just how important the blues scales are ----- to everything else. I really enjoyed how you melded the the three positions together ----------- and showed how important those notes are & how well they work with those chords. Thank you.
Corey, I saw you on a Rhett Shull video about three weeks ago and have watched (and subscribed) at least two dozen of your awesome tutorials since then. You are a natural and gifted teacher. Working now on mixing my major and minor pentatonics as well as my triads thanks to your showing me the way! Awesome.
Another great lesson. Signed up for working class guitar a few months ago and it is simply the best. I’ve made so much progress and it’s really showing at my weekly blues jam! Thanks Corey!
Tons of tasty licks and notes, it's a joy seeing you make the most with the available vocabulary and catalogue there is - and every time so and in pretty much every genre. Really great!
Thanks Corey, that was just amazing. I knew I could play other scales, but I was stuck in those patterns and tried to play the major fourth scale or triad over the fourth cord. What you were about to exlpain in the video seems much easier to me (but maybe that‘s just the way you‘re mastering the guitar, I‘ll find out soon). So thanks again!
great lesson!! i’ve never seen a lesson discussing playing a min blues scale on the 5th when it comes up. brilliant! i’ve taken both your playing blues by yourself and 7th arpeggios course and they’re both amazing. i was just playing the 7th (or usually 9th) arpeggio over the 5th but will try bringing in the min blues scale as you discuss in this lesson. thanks again!!
Over a dominant chord, you can play any note as long as you phrase emphasizing the chord tones. If you combine the scales that contain a dominant chord such as mixolydian, lydian dom, phyrgian dom, Dim 1/2 whole, etc, it's pretty much a chromatic scale.
Hey Corey! Love LOVE your playing and your teaching! May I ask more about your in ear monitors? Which are you using in your videos? Thanks for your time! Huge fan!
I discovered a few years ago when playing a jazz blues in F that the Dm blues scsle seemed to work really well. So that was a bit of a light bulb moment. But unappreciate the way you have suggested using some different scales over the other chords.
Great lesson, really well explained. A lot of people skip over this and it's probably the best way to hear the changes. edit, I wrote the comment at 13 mins in, just before you said exactly this.
What people rarely talk about is the blue notes are played in between the notes. The blues were originally sung and played on fretless banjo. That’s why we do bends, vibrato and trills. It’s kinda microtonal although the tone can be whatever you feel. It’s not a defined pitch.
Question and Request - I'd love an explanation or video about why what you call the Major Pentatonic Blues scale doesn’t sound that bluesy in the hands of Jerry Garcia and many country players. Maybe including Dickie Betts. They often use a 2 b3 4 chromatic runs. Great video. Thanks.
That was sort of my argument about the so-called blues scale. It`s not technically the pentatonic 5-note scale but a 6-note scale. Anyway, it`s all good what ever you want to call it, just add that flat 5 in there from time to time and you`re good. lol
Hey Corey, I wanna learn a solo for the song feeling all right with the two cords C7 F7. What would you play for the song feeling all right on the solo, scale wise and etc.
Thanks Corey, great lesson! Interesting you said not to "chase the 4 chord", but play minor instead. Would you ever play the 4 (so F major or F minor) then, or just skip this always?
Holly crap this was an eye opening class for me! I needed this my solos have been the major and minor blues scales but I always felt my 5th was missing something I hear in blues playing and you showed me play the minor blues scale over the fifth with the fifth as the root for some flavor there! It works! Question I’ve heard that playing in key of E blues to use the f sharp and play the pentatonic there for the b chord? Is that an option? I can’t seem to think it sounds as good as the minor pentatonic over the b when playing blues in E when playing the fifth b. So like can I play f sharp pentatonic over the b chord in e as well? Or no?
I can't answer your question. But I know Jerry Garcia uses the flat third in the Major pentatonic and many country players do. I also know that when you play the Dead's version of Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad it's easy to end up in Ramblin Man. Love to know why.
Corey, I have really enjoyed your courses on TrueFire, but it looks like your Working Class Guitar courses have some additional and new content. What are some of the differences between the TrueFire and the Working Class Guitar courses?
Oh thx! There’s LOTS to tell so drop me an email at support@workingclassguitar.com We’ve built quite the community and I look forward to telling you about it!
O.K. , minor blues : minor pentatonic , blues scale , aeolian , dorian , harmonic minor ." There Are No Wrong Notes . " Miles Davis P.S. That might work better for Miles than some of us but I like the sound of that quote .
What does your t-shirt say? Mary Ford _as A _______? I know she had hits like How High The Moon & others with Les Paul.... it's killin' me lol Well taught lesson BTW :0)
Cory, I must know what your T-Shirt says! I’m thinking from what little I could see it says, Mary Ford is a badass”. Right of wrong? I know she was married to and show biz partnered with Les Paul for a while.
To me, Major is like the husband calmly complaining, Minor is like the wife building up, and Dom7 is like the wife hurling a final insult as he walks away. BTW, GREAT GREAT LESSON!
@@coreycongilio To go so far as to say 'no one teaches you' is quite an exaggeration. Let's be honest, you TH-camrs have gotten caught up in the race for clicks, and that's what I deplore-not what you're teaching in this video (maybe except for the use of minor thirds on major chords ^^, but that's another debate). But cheer :)
@@jeromeweissmann9941 Once again, I implore you to look at the comments regarding how this helped people. In their case, "no one taught them" this instance of this topic. You're certainly free to have your opinions but, I'm in the business of helping people advance on their instrument and be happy while doing it. Those are the people I do it for. My question to you is, why do you feel the need to comment? Why waste your time typing your opinions when you can just move on and never watch again. My guess is that you need to be heard and I'm happy to read your comment and potentially offer a soft place to land as said listener/reader. I'm here to help any and all and I hope that you find peace and cultivate happiness.
@@coreycongilio I suppose that when I read this title, I was hoping to come across something that no one had ever taught me, and I was disappointed that this wasn’t the case. I simply shared my opinion, that’s all. One can give an opinion even if it doesn’t flatter the creator of a video. That said, I still watched your video because it’s always interesting to see the same topic from different perspectives. I’m not questioning your approach or the help it will provide to some people. In any case, I’m jealous of all that equipment you have in the background. :)
I wish my grandmother were alive to hear you solo over your own changes like this. She would just love it. Thanks for setting up a nice nostalgic moment for me my friend.
Thx for that, man! Hope all is well with you
Great lesson as always Corey.
Really good stuff. Great way to play over changes. Playing 50 years and never knew how well playing the V chord minor pentatonic over the V chord works. Thank you
Very aptly titled lesson, Corey. 99% of YT lessons focus on major/minor pentatonic and blues scale patterns and random licks but those are just tools. This gem is pure gold that clearly explains how to use those tools to actually build something !!! Thanks, man, this was very much appreciated.
Great lesson Corey. Best thing of all is telling folks, don't worry about hitting exact notes in certain spots but rather to just play and hear and feel it! That's how you really learn.
You rule Cory, been playing for many years and have tried many teachers and can say without question nobody can teach the blues like you. I FINALLY can play a decent rendition of a Texas shuffle! Signing up for Working class guitar has led me to be obsessed with being a better player-I would recommend it to anybody who wants to up their game.
That’s so great to hear! Glad to have you at WCG!
Corey this is one of the most profound lessons I’ve come across in terms of truly understanding not only blues soloing but understand the way the blues works. Super grateful for your knowledge. Thank you.
Yet another awesome lesson, I learned so much from you, Corey, and that’s why I’m a member of your Working class Guitar! If you haven’t taken any of Corey’s courses or joined, the price is unbelievably reasonable and you will learn a ton!
Doug from Denver .
Thx Doug! Love having you as a VIP and spreading the word!
@@coreycongilio the thanks goes to you Corey. You are helping me so much in my understanding of the Guitar and my playing. One of these days I’ll make it to Nashville to meet you and see one of your shows live!
Love everything you do mate!
Thx so much!
”Working Class Guitar" is where I have learn the most and I thank you 🙏 for being such a good guitar teacher Corey 😊
Thx so much for that! Glad to have you at WCG!
Thanks Corey for the great lesson! The best thing you do for us novices is to play your lessons with clean tones, it helps eliminate any confusion we might hear with distorted overtones. Super helpful!!
great lesson Corey! your phrasing and rhythm is on point!
Wow! Never realized this. Thank you Corey!
My pleasure!
What a great Blues Scale lesson Corey. So well explained and layed out in such a friendly manner. The teacher gets an A+ here. I could just see B.B. King saying `Hey, wait a minute kid. You`re giving away all my secrets now`, and saying something funny at the end. lol All the best bro. Cheers!
Thank you. 🙏🏼Finally somebody just shows it simply and straightforward, instead of the usual hints and roundabout ways while hiding their knowledge.
My pleasure! I’ll never do that haha
@@coreycongilio good man 😎🎸💜
This is why you are the master Corey! You want us to learn but you also want us to have fun doing it. Thank you!
Yep--I was thinking the same...
You are an awesome teacher man. Thanks for all these lessons!
thx! My pleasure!
Perfect guitar tone for this! Thanks for this lesson it's a biggie!
Another great lesson, Corey. Hope all is great in your world. Cheers!
Gonna have to to try this.
You have a gift. Thank you for sharing it.
I love your work Corey. Something I like to do is play a quick diminished run built off of the 3rd of the V chord, when the V chord is being played. It pulls it outside for a minute and then I bring it back by resolving to the key center.
The longer I play the more i appreciate just how important the blues scales are ----- to everything else. I really enjoyed how you melded the the three positions together ----------- and showed how important those notes are & how well they work with those chords. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great lesson, really helpful.. - thanks Corey !
W0W! This is a good one! Thank you Mr Congilio.
Amazing how Corey has the ability to give so much on this 15 minutes lessons. Fantastic work 👏
Corey, I saw you on a Rhett Shull video about three weeks ago and have watched (and subscribed) at least two dozen of your awesome tutorials since then. You are a natural and gifted teacher. Working now on mixing my major and minor pentatonics as well as my triads thanks to your showing me the way! Awesome.
Hey thx so much!
Greetings and well wishes from Queensland Australia, you rock Corey ,thanks for the great lesson always a pleasure
My pleasure!
Awesome lesson, thanks Corey.
You are spot on with this one Corey. There are so many great bluesy licks in the major blues scale.
Thanks Corey. I found this really valuable. Appreciate all your lessons.
Glad to hear it!
Another great lesson. Signed up for working class guitar a few months ago and it is simply the best. I’ve made so much progress and it’s really showing at my weekly blues jam! Thanks Corey!
Wow thx so much for that and thank you for joining us at WCG!
Tons of tasty licks and notes, it's a joy seeing you make the most with the available vocabulary and catalogue there is - and every time so and in pretty much every genre. Really great!
Great information!
Great playing and phrasing in this one!
Super helpful, Cory. Many thanks.
My pleasure!
Thanks man that was one of the more useful Blues lessons I've seen :) You explain well
Really cool. Thanks !
Good lesson Corey!
That was eye opening! I don’t know of anyone covering that and being so easily understood.
Glad to hear it!
Man, you sound awesome no matter what!
Really nice to see you dropping music lessons more often! wishing you a happy 2025 and let´s see this channel grow a lot this year.
Thx for that! Indeed, gear related vids will be few and far between going forward. Thx again for the kind words
Great lesson - beautifully done.
Thanks Corey, that was just amazing. I knew I could play other scales, but I was stuck in those patterns and tried to play the major fourth scale or triad over the fourth cord. What you were about to exlpain in the video seems much easier to me (but maybe that‘s just the way you‘re mastering the guitar, I‘ll find out soon). So thanks again!
Mahalo for the awesome lesson!
Really good lesson. Grazie mille!
Great lesson. For others I recommend becoming a member on his site. Tons of great courses and learning. Now if I could even play half of it…
Thanks, Brian!
such a fantastic player AND teacher.
Thanks my friend. Mighty kind of ya.
Thanks Corey! Quality content as always! Don’t ever assume ‘we’ “already know that”… ‘we’ don’t. 🤣
Currently in Corey's Truefire Blues course. Really good stuff. Corey's is one of the best presenters IMHO.
Thanks Corey!
great lesson!! i’ve never seen a lesson discussing playing a min blues scale on the 5th when it comes up. brilliant!
i’ve taken both your playing blues by yourself and 7th arpeggios course and they’re both amazing. i was just playing the 7th (or usually 9th) arpeggio over the 5th but will try bringing in the min blues scale as you discuss in this lesson. thanks again!!
Amazing teacher ! 👍👍
Really nice lesson!
Well organized and informative. Thanks!👍
My pleasure!
Good stuff, thanks!
Great lesson!
Thanks! 😃
Very cool!! 👍🏻
Over a dominant chord, you can play any note as long as you phrase emphasizing the chord tones. If you combine the scales that contain a dominant chord such as mixolydian, lydian dom, phyrgian dom, Dim 1/2 whole, etc, it's pretty much a chromatic scale.
thanks I didn't know how to do this basic thing before this video
Hey Corey! Love LOVE your playing and your teaching! May I ask more about your in ear monitors? Which are you using in your videos? Thanks for your time! Huge fan!
I discovered a few years ago when playing a jazz blues in F that the Dm blues scsle seemed to work really well. So that was a bit of a light bulb moment. But unappreciate the way you have suggested using some different scales over the other chords.
Thanks!
Great lesson, really well explained. A lot of people skip over this and it's probably the best way to hear the changes.
edit, I wrote the comment at 13 mins in, just before you said exactly this.
Thanks Corey! However remainder of the day I’ll be wondering “Mary Ford…..????”
I definitely did not know that, Corey. So, thank you.
What people rarely talk about is the blue notes are played in between the notes. The blues were originally sung and played on fretless banjo. That’s why we do bends, vibrato and trills. It’s kinda microtonal although the tone can be whatever you feel. It’s not a defined pitch.
The best Blues teacher am telling you
Question and Request - I'd love an explanation or video about why what you call the Major Pentatonic Blues scale doesn’t sound that bluesy in the hands of Jerry Garcia and many country players. Maybe including Dickie Betts. They often use a 2 b3 4 chromatic runs. Great video. Thanks.
This lesson is awesome....but your tone is GREAT! the perfect hollow body/electric sound.
Preach, brother!
Thank You
Nice!
The good ole Hexatonic is also got your built in diminished arpeggio. Corey learnt me that.
That was sort of my argument about the so-called blues scale. It`s not technically the pentatonic 5-note scale but a 6-note scale. Anyway, it`s all good what ever you want to call it, just add that flat 5 in there from time to time and you`re good. lol
Hey Corey, I wanna learn a solo for the song feeling all right with the two cords C7 F7. What would you play for the song feeling all right on the solo, scale wise and etc.
A combination of C major and c minor pentatonic is a great place to start.
I have no profound statements to make, just wanna say thank you for a great lesson!
Rock on Corey, thanks for another great lesson! If your t-shirt says what I think it says, that's awesome man! 😀 Mary Ford was legit awesome.
Thanks Corey, great lesson! Interesting you said not to "chase the 4 chord", but play minor instead. Would you ever play the 4 (so F major or F minor) then, or just skip this always?
V tasty playing sir! And yeah, good point... I was aware of this - but dont use it as much as I should... Thanx!
YEAH!!
Holly crap this was an eye opening class for me! I needed this my solos have been the major and minor blues scales but I always felt my 5th was missing something I hear in blues playing and you showed me play the minor blues scale over the fifth with the fifth as the root for some flavor there! It works! Question I’ve heard that playing in key of E blues to use the f sharp and play the pentatonic there for the b chord? Is that an option? I can’t seem to think it sounds as good as the minor pentatonic over the b when playing blues in E when playing the fifth b. So like can I play f sharp pentatonic over the b chord in e as well? Or no?
Is the flat 3rd in the major blues the same as the gospel or hexatonic major scale that Dickey Betts used a lot ?
I can't answer your question. But I know Jerry Garcia uses the flat third in the Major pentatonic and many country players do. I also know that when you play the Dead's version of Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad it's easy to end up in Ramblin Man. Love to know why.
Does anyone know how he gets that tone? Is it replicable on a Spark Go?
Little question: in G7 (V) chord part... Why G minor Blues scale instead of G Mayor Blues scale??
(sorry my english)
You certainly could use G maj blues there. He's just keeping it simple.
Great lesson Corey thanks for your time and expertise!
Wishing you could take a few seconds to show the chords you’re playing over.🙏🙏🙏
Corey, I have really enjoyed your courses on TrueFire, but it looks like your Working Class Guitar courses have some additional and new content. What are some of the differences between the TrueFire and the Working Class Guitar courses?
Oh thx! There’s LOTS to tell so drop me an email at support@workingclassguitar.com We’ve built quite the community and I look forward to telling you about it!
So Cmin and Amaj over 1. Cmin over 4. Gm over 5?
Not quite. Over 1 it's: Cmin pentatonic* and/or Cmaj pentatonic* (which is same as Amin pentatonic*). [*with added blues notes]
O.K. , minor blues : minor pentatonic , blues scale , aeolian , dorian , harmonic minor ." There Are No Wrong Notes . " Miles Davis P.S. That might work better for Miles than some of us but I like the sound of that quote .
Thanx corey good man sharing your talent for every one to benefit from god bless
The minor blues scale is rock n roll period but I’m in
Salute
What does your t-shirt say? Mary Ford _as A _______? I know she had hits like How High The Moon & others with Les Paul.... it's killin' me lol Well taught lesson BTW :0)
🎸🥁🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁
Cory, I must know what your T-Shirt says!
I’m thinking from what little I could see it says, Mary Ford is a badass”. Right of wrong?
I know she was married to and show biz partnered with Les Paul for a while.
Correct!
Thank you . . Edit: 1 hour later - oh my GOD!
Coppers?
Play Db…Right Before the G7…Changes to C7 Perhaps…FLAT 2 In Relation to C7
To me, Major is like the husband calmly complaining, Minor is like the wife building up, and Dom7 is like the wife hurling a final insult as he walks away.
BTW, GREAT GREAT LESSON!
Wow
Tritone.
something amiss around 3:08
Well?
Hot take, blues is the emotion and technique.. notes are downstream !
Not the coppers. You mean the Fuzz. Haha. So now you have to play the fifth and flat fifth with a fuzz pedal. 😂
Clickbait title, nothing new.
It’s new to those who didn’t have this information. Just read the comments 😂
@@coreycongilio
To go so far as to say 'no one teaches you' is quite an exaggeration. Let's be honest, you TH-camrs have gotten caught up in the race for clicks, and that's what I deplore-not what you're teaching in this video (maybe except for the use of minor thirds on major chords ^^, but that's another debate).
But cheer :)
@@jeromeweissmann9941 Once again, I implore you to look at the comments regarding how this helped people. In their case, "no one taught them" this instance of this topic. You're certainly free to have your opinions but, I'm in the business of helping people advance on their instrument and be happy while doing it. Those are the people I do it for. My question to you is, why do you feel the need to comment? Why waste your time typing your opinions when you can just move on and never watch again. My guess is that you need to be heard and I'm happy to read your comment and potentially offer a soft place to land as said listener/reader. I'm here to help any and all and I hope that you find peace and cultivate happiness.
@@coreycongilio I suppose that when I read this title, I was hoping to come across something that no one had ever taught me, and I was disappointed that this wasn’t the case. I simply shared my opinion, that’s all. One can give an opinion even if it doesn’t flatter the creator of a video. That said, I still watched your video because it’s always interesting to see the same topic from different perspectives. I’m not questioning your approach or the help it will provide to some people.
In any case, I’m jealous of all that equipment you have in the background. :)