{"id":8022,"date":"2020-05-12T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2022-07-19T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:35:38","slug":"jon-mayer-agrees-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/jon-mayer-agrees-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mayer Agrees With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the guitar community, when John Mayer speaks&#8230; a whole lot of folks listen \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now, maybe you&#8217;re a fan, and maybe you&#8217;re not, but John&#8217;s a great player and if you&#8217;ve never heard him really dig in and play some blues, I encourage you to do some YouTube searches and find some examples.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I saw on Instagram he did a lesson, of sorts, that seemed to set the internet all a flutter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I watched it&#8230; and wouldn&#8217;t you know, it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve talked about for years \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>First, here&#8217;s his video, skip ahead about 5 minutes and watch a little&#8230; it&#8217;s a little jumpy, and if you&#8217;re not fairly comfortable with blues soloing it&#8217;ll be tough to follow, but I think you&#8217;ll get the idea:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXxLR8s4xRQ?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>What he&#8217;s talking about is a concept that I call &#8220;left facing&#8221; and &#8220;right facing&#8221; patterns that revolve around root notes. Here&#8217;s is the concept as I teach it, this video is from 2014, but it&#8217;s still just as relevant today as it was the day I made it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06lTyRUbq7k?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>And if&nbsp;you like the flash card idea, I\u2019ve got a tool now to do this for you&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blues-scale-guitar-trainer\/\">here<\/a>. I recommend it to all of my students, so I hope you\u2019ll&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blues-scale-guitar-trainer\/\">try it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I will admit, that Jon talks a little bit more about migrating your licks to these other options when it comes to playing your scales. If you&#8217;ve comfortable with that, it&#8217;s a great idea, but most people aren&#8217;t that comfortable looking at their scales in this way, so get that going first. Once you&#8217;ve done that, trying out your licks in different patterns will make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the guitar community, when John Mayer speaks&#8230; a whole lot of folks listen \ud83d\ude42 Now, maybe you&#8217;re a fan, and maybe you&#8217;re not, but John&#8217;s a great player and if you&#8217;ve never heard him really dig in and play some blues, I encourage you to do some YouTube searches and find some examples. 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