Scofield's Outside SECRETS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- John Scofield is an absolute master of playing outside lines. In this lesson I'll break down some of his trade secrets including how to use the awesome half whole diminished and Phrygian Dominant scales to play over functioning V chords. There are obviously some super tasty Scofield outside licks, but I'll also be diving into the theory and how you can also repurpose the licks to make them your own.
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:54 The I-vi-ii-V and why it's important
3:06 Sco's Secret #1 - Diminished 7th Substitution
6:23 Repurposing Sco's Lick Part 1
7:25 Repurposing Sco's Lick Part 2
8:59 Nailing the C7(b9) sound over a Bossa
9:16 The Half Whole Diminished Scale
11:24 Diminished Lick Inversions
12:52 Subbing the vi for a VI7
15:20 Sco's Secret #2 - The Phrygian Dominant
18:32 Repurposing Sco's Idea
20:24 Combining both concepts
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really cool video!
This is superb top quality instruction and demonstration. Well done sir and I’m definitely looking forward to more of your content! It’s great to hear these in the context of bossa nova style and helps explain why I’m so attracted to the bossa nova harmony. Very cool.
That's awesome! Thanks for the kind words - yeah, the Bossa isn't very Scofield, but it definitely helps to hear it in a different context (and I also love it) 🙌🏼
Steve, you deserve a bunch more subscribers and likes. The clarity of your instructions is unsurpassed. This is exactly what I need to get my outside playing on track, as is your Robben Ford video. I will be sending links to all of my guitar buddies. Please keep up the great work!!!
That's super awesome John - thanks very much! I feel like I'm only just starting out on my TH-cam journey, so it's lovely getting humbling messages like this 😊🎸
Advanced harmonic concepts has been the pinnacle of JS sound forever
I honestly feel like I could do 20 videos on Scofield and I still wouldn't be able to cover everything! The man is the GOAT 🐐
You put so much work into these lessons. Thank you. I really hope your channel is a huge success.
I hope so too! Really appreciate the comment 🙏🏼
It's going to take me a long time to learn the harmonies and licks you've presented here. But it is a great challenge, a worthy challenge. I gotta go practice now! .
I feel very humbled that I've inspired people like you to go practice - love it!! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Great stuff Steve! Looking forward to this channel
Awesome! Thanks a lot Declan 😃
Absolutely superb teaching! I keep coming back to this video, it's a wealth of knowledge. Thanks, Steve!
Awesome, thank you Simon! 🙏🏼
Very clear! Well done
Thank you! 🙌🏼
Your channel is great, so glad I found it! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge
Hey thanks so much - glad you're enjoying it! 🙏🏼
absolutely brilliant stuff here! I love also your repurposed lick versions. That pause on the first 16th note on some of the licks is so Robben Ford phrasing to me. It also always works great. Thanks for your lessons🙏
Thanks Cal - much appreciated! Yeah, big Robben fan here 🙌🏼
Great explanation of an inspiring tune!
Thanks very much Raymond! Yeah it's a great tune!
So clear!... Thank you Steve.
Glad it was helpful! 🙏🏼
Great lesson and content....you take the time to explain everything slowly which helps so much....big thanks, new subscriber, keep up the good work!
Hey Jake, thanks for taking the time to leave a message - your support is much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed the lesson 🙌🏼
Great work, Steve. Nicely played and nicely explained. Hope you build a big channel - you certainly have the quality content to make that happen.
Thanks for the kind words John - I really hope so! 💪🏼
Loving this Steve! Keep it coming!
Cheers Phil - much appreciated! You back in the YT game this year? x
@@SteveAllsworth ye I’m gonna try and get back into the swing of it this year! Need to do some thinking and planning about what I want to do
I hear ya - blood sweat and tears in the planning! 💪🏻
Great teaching vid. Thanks!
Thanks James - cheers for watching! 🙌🏼
Awesome, Steve! Thanks for this
Thanks Sam! Recognise any of the licks? I think we did one of them in your lesson a while back! 🎸
This song has been on my bucket list to learn since I first heard it. Since then, have gotten much more into Sco and jazz. Spent a good bit of time on this lesson and will be coming back to it until I have it in the vocabulary. Thanks so much! Instant sub
That's awesome - glad you're having fun with it! 🎸
That’s a brilliant lesson, thanks! Just pressed the bell button 👍
Awesome, thank you! 🎸
Instant subscription.. I think this is where my playing is at. Playing the same thing over and over. Thanks for not getting too deep into jazz. The b9 and diminished and harmonic minor is a slow step forward for me.
Nice one Ernie! It makes me very happy reading comments like this 😁
Awesome video learned a lot
Glad to hear it! 💪🏼🎸
Steve, your videos are awesome!
Thanks so much Johnny! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
amazing lesson. exactly the kind of info i craaveeeeee. thank you so much!!
Awesome! Thanks - more incoming in the next few weeks! 🙌🏼🎸
Thanx ! So clear. And yes, playing with diminished is magical !
Glad you enjoyed it - you're very welcome! 🎸💪🏼
Brilliant lesson, inspired by aone of the masters of playing "OUTSIDE" Mr Schofield. More more more outside playing lessons please Steve.
Thanks for the lovely feedback Robert! I hope to do more of this type of thing in the future 💪🏻
@@SteveAllsworth your lesson lead me to check out this video (th-cam.com/video/O3G5c-gho3w/w-d-xo.html) and in particular I really liked Larry Goldings outside playing. If you apply your expert ear to his playing this may generate potential content for your chanel. If you get a chance check it out. Thanks again.
Ah man that's a killer lineup! Such an ocean of great ideas 🙌🏼 Thanks for the link
awesome lesson..thank you
You are very welcome! 🙏🏼
Thanks Steve. First class playing and teaching
Cheers John - glad you enjoyed it! 🙌🏼
Another masterclass from Mr Allsworth! Probably one of the best channels out there! Thank you for this Steve 🎉
Cheers J.O. - too kind sir!
Thank You!! Great vocabulary for Dominant situations. Half-Whole Tone scale really sounds like Scofield! Love the symmetrical stuff.. Thanks for sharing
You're most welcome - glad you enjoyed it - 8 note scales are where it's at! 🙌🏼
great video!! Thanks a lot
Welcome - glad you enjoyed it!
Youre a gem brother. Need more stuff!
Cheers! I'm working on it 😅😅😅
Yes, sir! Clashy is a much a word as this is your channel, sir! Subscribed! Cheers😊
Haha - thanks for the sub! 🙌🏼🎸
Nice one Steve! 🤘🥳🤘
Cheers Dan! Hope you're keeping well man! 🤘🏻
Liked, subscribed :) Thank you for your videos!
Thanks for the sub Ivan!
Sir You are A GREAT TEACHER!!
THANKS A LOT
You are most welcome!
Gotta love what he’s doing with the Allmans & the Dead heads…I remember seeing Scofield a bunch of times back in the late 80’s early 90’s doing that progressive jazz thing…he was always chewing gum.
Scofield looked like he'd been in the Allman brothers band for years - yeah I thought that was great!
@@SteveAllsworthI’ll give you a sub for that observation my friend.
gr8 lesson on sco thanks
My pleasure - glad you enjoyed it! 🙌🏼
Love this thanks
Cheers Kameron - glad you enjoyed it!
Cool! Thanks.
Cheers Michael! 🎸
Thanks!
My inaugural superthanks! Cheers Tim 🙌🏼
Premium quality tuition thanks!
My pleasure! 🎸
holy cow. so good, I am subscribed now
That's awesome! Very happy to have you on board 💪🏻😎
Merci beaucoup !! Big thank you!!🎶🎶🎶
Thanks Alain - glad you enjoyed it! 🙌🏼🎸
In addition to the great playing, that guitar sounds glorious!
Thank you!
Steve, though I am already familiar with the information that you are sharing, I want to tell you that you do a great job of explaining and applying this information. If I could have watched this video 46 years ago, it would have accelerated my grasp of how we apply diminished chord/scale over dominant chords by a few years.
I wish the internet had been around when I started! Still, maybe that helped my ears... Glad you enjoyed the lesson and found it useful! 🙌🏼🎸
Have to thank you for posting the gear used below the video! If there's one thing Uncle Larry taught me, always check the info below the video!! 😄
Haha you're welcome - very wise words! 😜
Great editing! haha
Thanks! 😁
Merci!
Thanks Claude! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I’m going to need a couple of coffees to keep up with you. Super instructional video Steve. Thanks
Cheers Tim! How did you get on? 5 strong espressos? ☕🤯
@@SteveAllsworth I’m realistic about gleaning your years of study and practice in a 20 minute video. Starbucks doesn’t have enough coffee to make that happen but it’s great to learn or steal an idea when I can. Keep em coming Steve. Thanks 🙏
Ha! Little by little I guess! Cheers for the kind comments 🎸
Thanks
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I finally started to understand these concepts. Now for the hard part. repeat repeat repeat till it’s ingrained
That's great Ted - it'll come, and before you know it! Cheers 😄
Yeah, no, why is this free? Great stuff man!
My gift to the world! Thanks Ujan 🙌🏼
Great lesson, so for the dim lick the last time you slide up to the A and the second time you slide up to the E, any general rules about that? Moving the diminished lick around changing the resolutions to the F (the I chord)
Thanks Brian! Are you referring to the inversions Dim lick? Generally you want to try and resolve to the closest chord tone of the I chord - typical resolutions would be b9 (of V7b9) down semitone to 5th of I, b7 down semitone to 3rd of I, 3rd up semitone to root of I, 5th could go to 3rd or root of I etc. Hope that makes sense! Cheers
I always think of his solo on "Do Like Eddie" from the Hand Jive album as being amazing in terms of outside sounds. The harmonic background is just essentially Bb7 but he superimposes some very interesting and stanky things over it!
That's a great shout! Love that tune - there are some lovely wonky lines in between the blues stuff. I had recorded some 'sidestepping' ideas in this lesson (which he uses a lot in this track) but the video was already too long 🤣 Thanks for watching!
@@SteveAllsworth Thanks for doing them. I have always liked Sco's approach to things!
Tanx!
Pleasure!
Mode 5 of the F harmonic major scale works also on the c7b9 chord but it’s not particularly altered ... no alt 5s ... mode 3 of Ab harmonic major scale also works and is more altered - c db eb e g ab bb ... other choices perhaps other than diminished or harmonic minor Phrygian dominant or melodic minor but I understand ur point that the symmetry of diminished makes it an accessible replicable choice
Cheers Sean - I'd love to do some of that - already worried I'm trying to cram too much in one video! 😂
His horn-like effects deserve an investigation
Too right!
Funny how all slowed down excerpts sound reggae-y! Great lesson.
Haha - thanks - you should hear my voiceover slowed down! 😂
How about Phrygian b4 mode on the VI chord? My mind would go there for stability on the Dmin, plus it will resolve chromatically to the Gmin. Thoughts?
Yeah it's got that diminished vibe and works nicely on dominant chords, so could imply a D7alt to Gm - same issue with the major 3rd (b4) potentially clashing against the b3 in Dm7, so a D7 or D7alt would arguably sound stronger (as with my Bossa example) Nice! 👍🏻
@@SteveAllsworth yep, nice. Thanks for a great video too btw! 😊
... wooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww ! Much appreciated !
You're very welcome! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
This is a very useful and well made tutorial, and thanks for that. However, there is absolutely nothing in those lines that would be typical of John Scofield's vocabulary, let alone any of his "secrets" revealed.
Hey thanks for the feedback. I was trying to show how to repurpose 3 of Sco's licks/concepts to make them your own - I'm glad you got something from it anyway. Thanks for watching!
You make me feel like dancin'!! 😅
Awesome! 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻
I think he’s referring to the tune of that title by Leo Sayer. Probably one of the most well known 1-6-2-5 tunes in pop music. Although he may actually feel like dancing…🤔😂
@@BassGuyNL haha I didn't catch that 😂😂
Since we’re all guitarists here: Lee Ritenour recorded a nice cover version of this song, a bit funkier than the original, on his Feel the night album from the 70s. Patti Austin on lead vocal. Now go dancin’!
Aren't enclosures based on the diminished scale, in general?
No, it just means to 'enclose' a target note from both above and below - can be any scale 💪🏻
@@SteveAllsworth the notes most people are using for enclosures, in practice, fall into the diminished scale. This is what i meant.
@@user-ov5nd1fb7sno not true- the notes of an enclosure don’t need to stem from any scale- maybe think about those notes as sort of a „decoration“ of the note they are enclosing
Well done lesson, but this is not scos secret, it is just a standard way to play over 2 5 1, any jazzplayer since Charlie Parker (he used this scales too !) knows this and plays like this. Sco is doing much more real outside stuff with outside pentatonics and superimposition.
It was more the ideas he used in this particular track - and yes they are pretty standard if you've used them before! Cheers for tuning in
John? What about Matt Schofield?
Haha - well I absolutely love Matt's playing too - maybe an idea for a future video 🤔
They’d be secrets if he never played them for the public.
Ha!
Ain’t a secret if he plays it and you hear it.
It certainly is to some folk! 👍🏻
Thanx for the effort, but that has nothing to do with playing “Outside”.
I beg to differ - playing the H/W diminished over a functioning V chord is outside 101!
Playing an altered V7 chord isn’t a “secret”. LOL.
Regardless, it was a fantastic lesson.
Not really the point of the video 😅
Cheers Johnny!
@@SteveAllsworth YOUR video description says, “In this lesson I'II break down some of his trade secrets including how to use the awesome half whole diminished and Phrygian Dominant scales to play over functioning V chords”.
So how have I mischarterized your video? It’s about playing altered V7 chords.
@jonasaras Exactly, it's about playing altered and PD scales over functioning V chords, not about playing altered V chords
Is it me, or is this too much after thought to be useful to innovate? Maybe just play out and time getting in and out with your ears?
Yeah that method can absolutely work, but I think at some point there has to be some knowledge of the scale/theory to see WHY it works - although that can come later of course! I see a lot of guitarists struggle to play 'out' because there's no foundational knowledge and playing loads of out notes can sound really random and very hit and miss as a result.