I’ve had a lot of questions lately about the Major Pentatonic Scale and using for different chords…
The thing is… you can use the Major Pentatonic scale a lot, and you can change it to fit all the chords…
But I don’t think you’ll like it š
At least, not without a little “blues-i-fi-cation.”
So in this video, I’ll go over a bit about how I use it, and how I change it to sound more in line with the blues as I go.
(warning, this is not for you if you’re just starting with soloing – this is a little more advanced, but even if it doesn’t make sense, file it away for later because if you like the sound, you’ll want to come back to this later)
20 replies to "Blues-i-fying The Major Pentatonic Sound And 7th Arpeggios"
The just major progression is definetly a “Happy Daddy Blues’, like the feeling you get greeting the kids after a long road trip. The blues is about emotions, happy and sad, so a Happy Daddy Blues sound , but emphasising the 1,3 and 7 , works for me.
Great lesson Griff! I understood everything but actually putting it into practice? How on earth do you have such an incredible memory for all this, especially with regard to visualising the notes on the fingerboard and their functions. Are you sure you havenāt already had a chip installed!
Your mastery of the guitar is very impressive. For example, how you played the demo with just the flattened seventh so well, without automatically breaking into using the subsequent improvement as well, must have taken a lot of focus and control.
what a great tutorial Griff since i watched this learning the patterns as well as the notes. i have been over lapping the 1 and2 using all the notes to slide both ways in and out of both patterns p maj. / p min.
thanks
bill
I’m guessing I can bend into those thirds (rather than the half-step slide) and mix it up a little, too. Can’t wait to practice that one!
Intervals. I never really focused on intervals. It seems like an āalternateā approach to learning your fretboard. You can know the note names, but still not understand where they are in relation to each other. Both letters and numbers are needed! I got to check out the Chord-By-Chird soloing course…
Inspiring and clarifying! Thanks!
Thanks for the good information and the time you have invested in trying to help us.
Excellent overview Griff – Thank you.
G’morning Griff,
What difference a note makes! Thanx 4 sharing. Its all starting to make sense…its almost SCARY…..Lol Have a Great Day
Tab would be the proper teaching lesson,Griff
Learn. Your. Boxes.
Great lesson!!
This is a GOOD blues lesson. I already target the flatsevenths on th3 changes in a dominant blues, and this follows on from that. The ā box fiveā insight is very useful. Manythanks.
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Your emails don’t load up anymore. Cheers
That was great! Now I know which notes were missing thank you , thank you
Very cool Griff! Thanks for this valuable lesson
I own Chord By Chord Blues Soloing. This is a real topper for the course. Thanks Griff!
Thanks griff, I think you touched on bluesifying the major somewhere else or I just happened to stumble into that sliding into the third. Have been trying to use major over 1 chord more often, but have not tried over the 4 chord using major yet. I’ll give it a try today, thanks again for what you do to help us along our musical journey.
not to shabby. makes sense . watching the Allman bros on stage doing one way out i think you can see Duane do that relax thing and resort to the a minor blues .