EASIEST PATTERN EVER I should have known 20 years ago!
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- In today's guitar lesson, we learn the easiest pattern ever! This one is so simple that it's actually very easy to overlook. I should have learned this 20 years ago, because it makes playing beautiful solos and arpeggios MUCH easier than you would expect. It's very easy to memorize and play through! Many will find this easier to play than a scale. Enjoy learning this simple guitar pattern that will forever change the way you play guitar!
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00:00 - 00:32 - Intro
00:33 - 05:10 - Pattern explanation and Maj 7
05:11 - 06:33 - Dom 7
06:34 - 08:22 - Min 7
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All these patterns are simply means to achieve an end: hitting the chord tones. Then there's the issue of which note to hit and in what context. What these discussions always seem to lack is that transition between chords. I sorta assume the authors just leave it to the audience how to figure it out because, let's face it, just playing a pattern over a chord is fragmented if not kinda lame. So my strategy is a bit more simple: target your note (root or 3rd, sometimes 5th) and practice on how to get there from the previous chord. There are natural ways to get from a note of one chord to a note in the next chord to make the sound melodic. Then expand my vocabulary of those paths. For example, in your example of Amaj7 arpeggio, going from 7th to root sounds good because of that chromatic effect. Check. I'll use it. But suppose you want to target 3rd. Going from 5th to 3rd sounds just too abrupt, then I'll add the 4th (and even b5) in between. You may say yeah but you're using the major/minor scale. That's why I don't particularly just follow any pattern. That's not to say arpeggio isn't good. I especially like using the dim7 (or even dominant 7) arpeggio as the tension to go to (some note of) another chord.
I wish someone out there who's had so much experience with soloing would, for example, take a solo over a chord progression and explain to us the ideas behind it as the artist goes from one chord to another (or even stay in the same chord). Why does he choose this over (whatever)? That sort of thing. That analysis is probably more valuable than any other patterns or tricks or what have you out there.
Make a video for us.
I know it can be annoying sometimes when people criticize the creators but I do agree with their point. Theres a million videos about patterns and scales but they all just say the same thing and dont put it into context. It WOULD help to take a song and show the context of how this all relates.
It will be nicer if you include on how to implement it in real song. Cheers from Indonesia
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Good knowledge. The chord charts being upside down and backwards may be a problem for some people.
Wow…. That string buzz would realy get on my nerves! Great lesson though.
Yes, with all of the humidity affecting the guitar, it's time to turn the truss rod! :). Thanks for watching!
Someone needs a setup
Lotta fret buzz on that low E.
I n n noticed
Little bzzzz in the A too😂
lol… needs a little relief in the neck… roll back the truss rod tension just a little. Or just turn up the amp😉
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I couldn’t listen to this drove me mad with the buzzing.
Great lesson Paul. I like simple and I know this will help boost my melodic sound to new heights 👍🏼
Thank you! I like simple as well and this really was a simple pattern I overlooked for way too long! Hope it helps! :)
Fantastic lesson 🔥🎸 Muchas gracias
Amazing lesson !!! Looking forward for more videos like this.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback and you watching!
Simply fantastic!
That really really sounds beautiful. many thanks my friend.
😵💫! Amazing lesson ! 🇧🇷 👏👏thank you a lot for the education
Very well presented and extremely valuable lesson !!!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching!
A7 - using the leading tone G# actually kinda blew my mind.
Thanks!
Great content. keep these coming. Awesome work.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching and commenting! :)
Nice one! Amazing how we often overcomplicate our playing or don't look outside the box for the simple things lol... great video buddy!
Thank you so much! So much of what slows us down in learning is just overcomplicating simple things. I still do it all the time and have to call myself on it! :)
Absolutely love your lesson Paul … will look out for more … make it look so easy and simple
Thank you! Looking forward to releasing more soon! :)
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@@stricknine8623 Thank you! Hope you enjoy future content!
Excellent lesson.
Thank you for sharing your tips..Absolutely awesome ❤❤❤
Thank you for watching! I'm happy to share any tips like this that I can! :)
Great lesson for a practicing beginner like myself, thank you so much
Thank you! So glad this was helpful!
I always refer to that first pattern as the Doug Aldrich pattern. It really helps you learn the 7-1-3-5 notes of the key quickly in multiple places on the fretboard.
Nice! I agree. It really is helpful to identify the notes faster than a scale etc for me. Thanks for watching!
Great lesson, Paul!
Thanks Jedi Master Daniel!! :)
Great info!
Thank you and I really appreciate you watching!
Great video thank you!!!!
I'm going to test this!
Thanks so much! Hope your playing goes well!
I just got your beginning guitarist playbook and just going thru the first several pages tells me that this was a great investment in my guitar hero journey of a thousand licks! I truly suggests that everyone should have this book if nothing else for clarity and a different way of approaching learning guitar.
Thank you! for resuscitating my arpeggio practice!
Thank you so much for watching! Hope it was helpful!
That guitar looks amazing.. Love the inlays and finish 🔥🔥
Thank you! I love it too! :) I review it here in case you want to see more of it. :) th-cam.com/video/V6rnXzvpRpo/w-d-xo.html
But it is buzzing.
@@polyeder2000Yes thirth fret low-E string buzzing. Some others too.
It needs settings.
Very nice lesson! Thank you so much !
Thank you very much! I appreciate you watching and giving me feedback. :)
Great lesson Mr.paul
Thank you so much for watching!
This is awesome, so simple and useful for lots of things!
I appreciate it! Simplicity works for me and I'm glad this is helpful. :)
Very helpful & well explained! Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it!
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It was not my goal to make the fret buzz the number one comment... Nobody notice it unless someone say it 😞
Your video is interresting in the way you articulate on the fretboard the different patern scales in one mouvement. Thank you
@@jsebsteelguitar No problem! I'm glad it was mentioned. :) Thanks so much for your kind words regarding the video material!
Awesome Paul thank you sounds great very helpful God bless
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Beautiful guitar, can't stop staring! Great lesson too!
Thanks! I love the guitar. :) I appreciate you watching and hope the lesson was helpful!
Superb lesson. Just found your channel and I’m impressed by your clear and thorough explanations. Thank you. New subscriber ….
Thank you!! I really appreciate that and I hope you find more of my videos to be helpful. Thanks for the sub!
Cool lesson!!!! I love that guitar. Color is gorgeous!
Thanks so much! I love the color too! :)
Nice arpeggio lesson & insights.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching and I hope it's helpful!
Nice little trick. Thanks.
Thank you! Hope it helps! :)
W0W! Thank you!
Very nice. This helps me and I'm sure many others😊
Awesome! Thanks for watching and I'm so happy it's a help!
Great lesson, thanks man, subscribed
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Thank you for this lesson. The building blocks of arpeggios 😀
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Simple and helpful...
Thanks a lot 🙇🏻♂️
Thank you very much! So glad it was a help!
Beautiful Paul thank you blessed be
Thanks so much for watching! It’s greatly appreciated!
Cool idea.
Great lesson!
Thanks so much for watching! Hope it helps! :)
Been playing for years, but sometimes feel stuck - your videos are amazing - a huge help with that. Thank you!
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback and for watching. I'm glad you've found the videos helpful. Keep on rockin'! :)
Very good explanation Thank you
Thank you so much for watching! Glad it was helpful!
Really explained well, thanks
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Great lesson Paul😎😎😎
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Excellent Transmission
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Thank you so much. Excellent.
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Nice video 🎉, thank you.
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Great content
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Great video, spoken clear and precise, very calm, so I could understand and absorb what you were saying, unlike most of the American fast and furious videos with lots of hand gestures, well done young man.
Wow, it works!
Great lessons
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Thanks, Paul!
That's handy. 👍 👌
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching!
1st time the lesson has actually been helpful thanks
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Thank you for another tool for the phrasing toolbox!
Of course! Thank you for watching and I hope it helps!
I want that guitar!! 🤩Gorgeous colour.
Thanks!! I love the color as well and am so happy Musicman was able to paint this one! :)
Brilliant channel and presentations
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Hello Paul, thanks for sharing your knowledge. As you mention, I would like you to create a video about how to target notes and approach them in a I IV V blues progression. Have a good one, thanks again.
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Thanks!
Thank you so much! That's very kind of you!!
Nice work!
Very appreciated!! Thanks!!
great guitar , really amazing ... did not see it available in any store
Thank you! It's a Music Man Majesty. I reviewed it here if you want to see a bit more of it: th-cam.com/video/V6rnXzvpRpo/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for showing the tab structure the best way, from the veliewpoinr of the guiatrist.
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Right video at the perfect time for me
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I'm in. Thanks!
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
excellent
Thank you!!
Just discovered your channel. Great lesson and very well explained and awesome diagrams. How did yo get that shimmery sounds when you play your guitar it sounded so beautiful.
I'm glad you found the channel and appreciate the diagrams. Those take loads of time to create, for sure. :) The tone I was using a Mesa Lonestar model with some tape delays and reverb. I can't take credit for it, as I just downloaded it from the Neural cloud into my Quad Cortex. :). Thank you for watching!
Very smart and simple 👍, I know those arpeggios, but never in those patterns, smart, and I love the three octaves, WOw 😮 9:02
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Very useful
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I agree with you, and I think it took me more than 20 years to figure out it, which I did, but only when I started considering an exhaustive approach to scales and arpeggios. The key insight is to start on the 7th instead of staring on the tonic - then things fall into place. Once you get the patterns, you can start on any of the notes. Another way to get this is by playing the usual ascending A minor pentatonic starting with the index finger on the G on the 6th string, 3rd fret, then drop the 4th of the scale (the D), and you have the A minor 7 arpeggio. From there you can get the major 7, dominant 7, minor 7♭5, diminished, major 6th, etc. (I'll bet Django used your major 7 trick, playing the whole thing with fingers 1 and 2.)
It's very easy to overlook simple patterns when books and charts show us six string scales etc. There are so many patterns I should have known a looooooong time ago but just missed out somehow. :). Thanks for watching!
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I enjoy your demeanor so much! TH-cam is so often soiled with shouty abrasive talking, it's so refreshing to see someone treating their viewers like grownups!
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And on a different note, I literally found out about this pattern when learning a Marty Friedman solo last month!
Glad i found this
I'm glad you found it too! Thanks for watching!
This flew clear over my head, but that's a really cool guitar.
Sorry if this was confusing! Regarding the guitar, thank you! I love it! :)
Damn that guitar is beautiful !! Nice video man
Thank you!! I appreciate you watching and yes, I love the guitar too! :)
Love the JP signature Majesty! It's great that they make them in "Hi-Vis" colours, too! Very safety conscious, can potentially prevent on stage accidents and incidents, no more clumsy bassists bumping into you during the lead break!😂😂😂👍
Ha ha! I've been using this Majesty like crazy since I got it. If you haven't seen it already, I did a review of it. :) th-cam.com/video/V6rnXzvpRpo/w-d-xo.html
@@PaulWarrenMusic I can see why you'd want to play the strings off that thing! They're a work of art! 👍
nice set up
Thank you! :)
Great lesson Paul! I was wondering as I was watching this is do these arpeggios only work over 7th chords or can you use these patterns over a straight major, minor chord progression for example a C - F - G - Am progression?
Thank you Mr. Warren, been playing in different bands and genres for 62 years, but never thought or known of these straight forward patterns. At last, I feel as though I’ve got something new to play. Regards. Vic - Hampshire England
Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences. It's true, so many patterns, shapes and approaches are things we never run across for a long time. I'm glad you found this interesting and I hope it helps you play in yet another way! :)
Nice idea, thanks. I keep blazing away on blues licks when i need to slow it down and be more melodic sometimes.
Thank you! It's always difficult to slow down and take our time. We guitarists seem to be programmed to play all the notes...all the time. :)
6:28 is just good practice 👍 very good point
Thanks! I appreciate you watching very much!!
I had heard that arpeggio in the Michael Angelo Batio song "Speed Kills" some years ago and I always wondered why more people didn't use it.
Very cool! I'll have to rewatch that video! I remember it, but not that particular arpeggio. Thanks for watching!
WOW! where did you got that majesty?? some special edition or something? Good vid by the way, new sub here :)
Thanks so much! I appreciate you watching and subscribing! Yes, it's a one-off Majesty in Lambo Pearl that EB/MM made for me. I love it! I review it here if you want to see more of it: th-cam.com/video/V6rnXzvpRpo/w-d-xo.html
Good job ole buddy! LAD
Hey Lynn! Good to hear from ya!
I think it makes more sense to say pattern-based scale rather than scale-based pattern. Very cool pattern, though! Thank you for sharing!
Good point! Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much 😊, great lesson but signed in did not receive tab for lesson ....
Thank you!! I'm sorry you didn't get the tab. You should have received an email with a link to download the files. If you don't get that email, let me know and I'll get the tab to you. :)
Great
Thanks so much for watching. Hope it's helpful for you!
Thanks for the lesson Paul! Could i clarify something please, and please, excuse my ignorance! So if i'm playing over a 1/4/5 progression in the key of A, i use the Maj7 pattern for 1 & 4, and then for the 5 chord i use the Dom7 pattern?
And if i'm playing same 1/4/5 over an A minor progression, do i use the Min7 pattern for 1 & 4, and the Dom7 again for the 5 ?
Appreciate your time mate, thank you :)
You're very welcome and thanks very much for watching! Yes, as you've described it, they would work very well! Happy jammin'! :)
Thanks Paul!
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lol was thinking the same thing. the application on the vid was quite blury. was about to ask and found your comment😅
I recently just discovered the first pattern (major7) because I wonder why I saw that pattern In so many solos and riffs, like the solo in poison was the cure, John Petrucci's solo in Erised and the chorus riff in 22 faces by Periphery
Amazing Video
Excellent! I'll have to check out those examples. Thank you very much for watching! :)
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Great, but would be nice to hear yoiu play it using that fancy QC and a nice backing track. So we use this over any A major chord in any key?
Yes, you can use the A Major 7 over the A chord in a major key. You can also use the A Dom 7 over the A chord for a bluesy sound or if the A chord is the 5 chord in the key (Key of D for example). I thought of putting in a little bit of improvising, but I was trying to fit as much teaching info in there as possible because so many people want the lessons as short as possible. But yes, I think I probably will include more of that in future videos. :) Thanks for watching!
Also everyone can lower the last note of 4 so it will be g#ac#d# - it can sound great on a chord B7 or F#m. Any others changes can help too)))
I'm imagining how I would work these into a solo. Would you link them together and think of the second arpeggio as being the fourth fifth 7th and 9th of the original A key?
Nuno Bettencourt was rocking these patterns hard 30+ years ago. Listen to the opening of Mutha Don't wanna go to school today from the first extreme album. I've been using this stuff ever since hearing him do it way back then. So efficient and versatile.
I just re-listened to Mutha, he's only using a one octave version in that tune. There must be one where he does it over 3 octaves, or maybe that was just an innovation I built upon his 1 octave version. Maybe Vai does somethinf similar in Eugene's trick bag from crossroads. I find it super handy for pentatonic fragments shredded over 3 octaves too.
Ahh. I think it was Michael Angelo Batio doing the 3 octave run on his ancient hotlicks tape form the late 1980s. Yep. That's it. Dig it up.
Thanks...I have been stuck in the pentatonic for along while and Thanks for the explanation .it helps me when I first get started on something new. 👍👍
Thank you! I appreciate you watching and I'm glad it's something new for you. I'm considering using the major scale and pentatonic with it in the next video. Should have made this video a touch longer and shown that part of using them. :)
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There is a fret buzz on the 6 E string...
Interesting video.
Yes, the fret buzz has become the number one comment. :). I should have turned the truss rod before shooting, but didn't have much time and forgot. Thanks for watching!