Truly appreciate you all checking the video out. Hope you found it helpful. If you don't mind please like and subscribe...trying to build the channel to reach TH-cam's steep monetization requirements. The best way to support the channel is to hit those sweetwater links in the description if you are digging any of the sounds happening. Thanks again! -Nicky V
@NickyV this and your last video on harmonic major are what got me to subscribe. There already a ton of gear chanels, but not that many with clear, useful teaching. I hope you continue down this path.
@@dontuttleThanks man! I think it’s easier to monetize the channel doing gear demos with links but my heart is in teaching…so I’ll probably stick more to that. Appreciate the feedback!
Dude I have been playing guitar for over 20 years and these little lessons are really helping me not feel plateaued. Thank you for your kind and simple descriptions. Love that I randomly stumbled onto your channel.
@Luke….over 40 years for me and I said the same thing when I heard his first video lesson…I feel like I found the pot o gold at the end of the rainbow….
I did some studio work in the 80s-90s but most of my experience has been nightly bar gigs (30+ years). I had a brain tumor pretty much wiping the rich and famous guitar dream out LOL. So I sit here watching videos on TH-cam all day long of guitarists and videos like this. Despite being 60+ and totally disabled (unable to even leave the house) I still have this fantasy of getting back to it someday. In the meantime I keep learning and dreaming. I was also a college instructor (music and computer tech) both public and private schools. Of all the channels I have seen and some are excellent yours is quickly becoming my favorite, The nuts and bolts usefulness, clarity, and delivery is amazing you are a natural born teacher. I am sure this channel is going to be very successful. I just wanted to comment here to inspire you to keep this up and stay on topics like this. GREAT JOB!
So sorry you had to go through that medical situation and change plans. Thank you for your kind words and positive spirit. So glad you enjoy the videos and I’ll do my best to keep them coming!
So sorry you had to go through that medical situation and change plans. Thank you for your kind words and positive spirit. So glad you enjoy the videos and I’ll do my best to keep them coming!
As I suggest to all young or new players, learn all the theory you can. Theory is the tools to give you your musical language. An extended vocabulary is never a bad thing. 🤘
Great lesson, I'm glad I found (and subscribed to) your channel. I love these pentatonic substitution ideas, maybe you could do a future video discussing the best notes to target (i.e., playing Bm pent. over CMAJ7). Thanks!
This lesson is one I will watch many times. I play jam music some of the time and the modes are super helpful but hard to play through on the fly. This is a needed and nice cheat code.
Very cool lesson, thank you. Although this lesson is MUCH simpler than it appears since all examples (except the altered chord) simply point to the exact same scale (specifically the 3 chord's pentatonic). If in C major then... 1. To the 1 chord (C), play Em pentatonic 2). To the 6 chord (Am) play Em pentatonic 3). To the 4 chord (F/Lydian) play Em pentatonic 4). To the 2 chord (Dm/Dorian) play Em pentatonic But that's a great point...Em pentatonic gives you EGABD, so by getting the B in there that gives you the tonic's major 7, the Dorian's major 6 and Lydian's #4.
Spot on. Thanks for checking the video out man. Tried to keep it simple and straightforward so the intermediate and advanced intermediate players could start generating some more color right away
Thank you for this video! Simple and immediately usable. Like others here, I've been playing for decades and missed this kind of stuff. Keep up the great work.
Great video! I subscribed to your channel. I have a question, do the substitutions work over the chord or the key? So, if you are playing over a C major chord and you play an Em pentatonic to get the major substitution, does that work only over the C major chord, or all of the chords in the chord progression as long as they stay in the key of C major? Or, do you change the minor pentatonic scale root note to always stay a major 3rd above whatever major chord is being played?
It’s a bit tricky. The substitution technically works over every diatonic chord in the key. All the notes in Emin pentatonic belong to the key of C so it will work (just like how Cmaj/Amin pentatonic works over every chord depending on how you finesse it) but you will get a few cases where it’s really dissonant. It will work well over the 1maj chord, 3min chord, 5maj chord, and 6min chord. The others (2min, 4maj, 7dim) might be a little out there. For those three chords there’s another substitution you can use that I didn’t mention in the video which would be playing a Minor Pentatonic up a whole step from the tonic major. (Dmin pentatonic in the key of Cmaj). Moving up a major third from every chord in a particular key doesn’t work diatonically. Hope the long winded reply makes sense haha. Really appreciate you watching and subscribing. If what I said doesn’t make sense or click, let me know and I’ll give it another shot!
Guitar player for 50 years. Still a hack. Major, minor pentatonic, Dorian, and Mixolydian, all at various positions. Not that good really. I try my hand at some jazzy-sounding chord/melody stuff (I play a mean Misty!) to make up for my lack of lead/solo play. Your videos are pretty good and are relatively simple ways to "color-fade" or whatever term you use. Thanks Nicky V. I subscribed. I am subscriber 17,701. 😎
Truly appreciate you all checking the video out. Hope you found it helpful. If you don't mind please like and subscribe...trying to build the channel to reach TH-cam's steep monetization requirements.
The best way to support the channel is to hit those sweetwater links in the description if you are digging any of the sounds happening.
Thanks again!
-Nicky V
@NickyV this and your last video on harmonic major are what got me to subscribe. There already a ton of gear chanels, but not that many with clear, useful teaching. I hope you continue down this path.
@@dontuttleThanks man! I think it’s easier to monetize the channel doing gear demos with links but my heart is in teaching…so I’ll probably stick more to that.
Appreciate the feedback!
Dude I have been playing guitar for over 20 years and these little lessons are really helping me not feel plateaued. Thank you for your kind and simple descriptions. Love that I randomly stumbled onto your channel.
@Luke….over 40 years for me and I said the same thing when I heard his first video lesson…I feel like I found the pot o gold at the end of the rainbow….
I did some studio work in the 80s-90s but most of my experience has been nightly bar gigs (30+ years). I had a brain tumor pretty much wiping the rich and famous guitar dream out LOL. So I sit here watching videos on TH-cam all day long of guitarists and videos like this. Despite being 60+ and totally disabled (unable to even leave the house) I still have this fantasy of getting back to it someday. In the meantime I keep learning and dreaming.
I was also a college instructor (music and computer tech) both public and private schools. Of all the channels I have seen and some are excellent yours is quickly becoming my favorite, The nuts and bolts usefulness, clarity, and delivery is amazing you are a natural born teacher. I am sure this channel is going to be very successful. I just wanted to comment here to inspire you to keep this up and stay on topics like this.
GREAT JOB!
So sorry you had to go through that medical situation and change plans. Thank you for your kind words and positive spirit. So glad you enjoy the videos and I’ll do my best to keep them coming!
So sorry you had to go through that medical situation and change plans. Thank you for your kind words and positive spirit. So glad you enjoy the videos and I’ll do my best to keep them coming!
This is the best applied teaching I’ve seen on this content. 🤯 thank you for taking the time to do this
You are more than welcome. So happy you found it useful and thank you for the kind words.
This is one of the best and one of my favorite lessons ever on TH-cam. Thank you for sharing this knowledge, Nicky!
David you are more than welcome. Thank you for the kind words and so glad you found it helpful
Excellent lesson my friend! 🤘🏻
@@joey_ruma Thanks man!
As I suggest to all young or new players, learn all the theory you can. Theory is the tools to give you your musical language. An extended vocabulary is never a bad thing. 🤘
Exactly! Spot on. Thanks for watching!
God, You're lessons like Moses splitting up an ocean....Thank You !!!!
Hahaha appreciate you man
Great lesson, I'm glad I found (and subscribed to) your channel. I love these pentatonic substitution ideas, maybe you could do a future video discussing the best notes to target (i.e., playing Bm pent. over CMAJ7). Thanks!
Thanks! So glad you found it helpful. Ill have to put that on the list for a future potential video. Thanks for the suggestion!
Excellent video. It's so redundant soloing in the pentatonic scale. This opens up many different options. Thanks Nick
You got it! Appreciate you watching!
What a treat to find this channel, not sure how it ended up in my suggestion box but i'm glad it did. Subbed!
Nice! Really appreciate the sub and so glad you like it!
Making the complex simple is at the heart of genius!
The jam you started about 6:25 reminds me of the Triumph Lay it on the Line intro! 🎸😁
Hahaa you are right. Might have unconsciously ripped it off
Dude, your channel is just great - clear, simply explanations. Preciate ya!
Appreciate you man! Thanks for watching
This lesson is one I will watch many times. I play jam music some of the time and the modes are super helpful but hard to play through on the fly. This is a needed and nice cheat code.
Killer! So glad you found it helpful!
Very cool lesson, thank you. Although this lesson is MUCH simpler than it appears since all examples (except the altered chord) simply point to the exact same scale (specifically the 3 chord's pentatonic). If in C major then...
1. To the 1 chord (C), play Em pentatonic
2). To the 6 chord (Am) play Em pentatonic
3). To the 4 chord (F/Lydian) play Em pentatonic
4). To the 2 chord (Dm/Dorian) play Em pentatonic
But that's a great point...Em pentatonic gives you EGABD, so by getting the B in there that gives you the tonic's major 7, the Dorian's major 6 and Lydian's #4.
Spot on. Thanks for checking the video out man. Tried to keep it simple and straightforward so the intermediate and advanced intermediate players could start generating some more color right away
Thank you for this video! Simple and immediately usable. Like others here, I've been playing for decades and missed this kind of stuff. Keep up the great work.
So glad it was helpful and appreciate you checking the video out!
Very cool concepts .. you made them simple n easy to understand too .. kudos
So glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching
Excellent video! All kinds of interesting things to add to the arsenal! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!
Glad you enjoyed it! I honestly use this stuff all the time
thanks so much! best lesson I've seen in a long while..Will be rewatching it!
Nice!!! So happy you like it
OMG! ❤❤ LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!
Nice! So glad you like it!
TRay's Diggin' It and will be sharing.
Appreciate you boss!
Very cool stuff! Thanks man!
Right on! Appreciate you watching
Thanks Man good for the brain now for the hands.
I know right haha. Trying to get my hands to keep up with my hands….then my head to keep up with my hands
Great info. I can't wait to see more and learn.
Killer!!! Thank you so much for checking the video out!
Great way to think about modes!
Thanks for checking it out!
Big fan. Thanks amigo.
You got it! Thanks for checking the video out!
Just came across the channel. Great stuff man. Respect.
Thanks man! So glad you are enjoyed the videos
Just found your channel. You're so mellow. Love it. Liked and subbed.
Love that! Appreciate the kind words and so glad you enjoy the channel
Nice lesson!
Thank you! So glad you liked it! Appreciate you watching.
Quite a bit to take in all at once but seems to be at my knowledge and ability level. You Sir, are now bookmarked! Thanks! Yes I did subscribe!
Easy to digest, you definitely accomplished what you were setting out to do with this video.😊
Really appreciate the kind feedback Mike. Thank you for watching
Saw you in Glen Rose the other night. Great performance. Truly tasteful and very inspiring. New subscriber.
Awesome! So glad you enjoyed the show man! Appreciate the kind words
Amazing. As usual.
Thank you for watching! Appreciate it!
Thanks Nicky sounds so sweet can’t wait to start using this stuff 🎸
I can use this info! Right on, Nicky!
Killer!!! So glad you found it helpful man!
very helpful demonstrations, thank you!
You got it! Thanks for watching
Man, this is great.
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it
This is the one video all guitarist need to check out….
Thank you!
Very nice lesson thanks :)
Thanks Steve. Appreciate you watching!
That was inspiring Thanks
Love hearing that! Thank you for checking the video out!
@NickyV I've subscribed great stuff
@@bruceewing166thanks man!
Greate content I am following you 🎉
Awesome! So glad you like it and thank you for the follow!
Huge help. Big thanks!
Killer. So glad you found it helpful!
Thats gold!
Ooof: that lydian move. Nice!
Haha so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for checking the video out!
All the best picker's play tele's! Great job. Thank you. Now that I have watched the whole thing, this is an amazing lesson. It opens up so much.
Thanks John! It opened a lot up for me when first got into it. So glad you found it helpful!
I LOVE this,🎉send eggs
So glad you like it! Thanks for watching
Great video! I subscribed to your channel. I have a question, do the substitutions work over the chord or the key? So, if you are playing over a C major chord and you play an Em pentatonic to get the major substitution, does that work only over the C major chord, or all of the chords in the chord progression as long as they stay in the key of C major? Or, do you change the minor pentatonic scale root note to always stay a major 3rd above whatever major chord is being played?
It’s a bit tricky. The substitution technically works over every diatonic chord in the key. All the notes in Emin pentatonic belong to the key of C so it will work (just like how Cmaj/Amin pentatonic works over every chord depending on how you finesse it) but you will get a few cases where it’s really dissonant. It will work well over the 1maj chord, 3min chord, 5maj chord, and 6min chord. The others (2min, 4maj, 7dim) might be a little out there. For those three chords there’s another substitution you can use that I didn’t mention in the video which would be playing a Minor Pentatonic up a whole step from the tonic major. (Dmin pentatonic in the key of Cmaj).
Moving up a major third from every chord in a particular key doesn’t work diatonically.
Hope the long winded reply makes sense haha.
Really appreciate you watching and subscribing.
If what I said doesn’t make sense or click, let me know and I’ll give it another shot!
Awesome shit!!
Thanks man!
@NickyV no prob bud!!
Guitar player for 50 years. Still a hack. Major, minor pentatonic, Dorian, and Mixolydian, all at various positions. Not that good really. I try my hand at some jazzy-sounding chord/melody stuff (I play a mean Misty!) to make up for my lack of lead/solo play. Your videos are pretty good and are relatively simple ways to "color-fade" or whatever term you use. Thanks Nicky V. I subscribed. I am subscriber 17,701. 😎
Love hearing that you find it helpful. Appreciate the sub and thanks for checking the video out!
Coolness tha ks
Absolutely! Thanks for watching
I'm not a guitarist. This sounds very jazzy. No Serial Killer.
It definitely has some of that in it
You need to be careful in this room. You could accidentally learn something very useful. Thanks again Nick.
Hahaha thanks Ben! Appreciate you
Outstanding!!!
Thank you!