You teach so much in 5 minutes. Never disappoint. Thanks

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Garry!

And just like that I'm a white belt again. Thank you sensei

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for your kind comment. BTW, I actually do have a Master Black Belt - but in Six Sigma, not karate ... which maybe means I can beat people in an Excel Spreadsheet fight! LOL!! Thanks again!

@zeppelinfan9360

2 жыл бұрын

By your belt turning white again is the essence of Bruce Lee's "Jeet Kune Do" 🎸☮️

@jimtessin4130

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Thanks for the lesson. I'm a Lean Enterprise guy. Love Process Improvement. Not much Muda here. Great Cpk!!!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimtessin4130 LOL! Thanks!!

@davidhumphries853

2 жыл бұрын

Being humble and smart enough to restart learning, is a tremendous gift

Real Magic! 2notes in 2 minutes of music theory just changed Everything!!

Mr. Z. is a great teacher. Wonderfully clear. I messed with guitar 40 years before realizing playing a chord doesn't require using all 5 or 6 strings, just the 2- or 3-note "shell."

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes, I did the same ... I'm a slow learner, LOL!

ZZ Top stuff has lots of the "lazy" chords that sound so amazing but its very very easy to play.

"DANNY GATTON" - the MOZART of guitar! I have a bunch of his tutorial discs. If Ur without a tuner and need 2 tune 2 pitch, pick up a land-line phone... the dial tone is "F"- Always "F." He was on stage tuning 3 guitars simultaneously AND, pointing to all the other musicians who were out of tune, then telling them whether they were high or low and by how much. INCREDIBLE PERFECT PITCH!! Could listen to anything and immediately reproduce it, then play it better. "LES PAUL" was impressed by how GREAT he was. DANNY also built HOT RODS... engine and all- from the bottom up. Man was a GENIUS- RIP.

I discovered this a number of years ago when I began using three-note “Freddie Green” chords. Cool as hell. And with a tritone inversion, e.g., that two-note G7 is also a Db7.

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Exactly so. I see the tritone as a chromatic from the iim chord rather than going to the V7 before the I. It's "just" a chromatic line. (But oh so neat sounding!)

Talking about playing a Tele, brings back good & sad memories. In 1968, I had a 1951 Tele. That was the same year I was born, so I figured it was made for me! Wish I still had it!

Hey Mark- this is for your reference. There's another guitar player very similar to DANNY GATTON that nobody knows about. If you're looking for additional material to break down and teach... check out "STEVE TROVATO." There's a video of him playing with ALBERT LEE... and when STEVE solos, it's fairly obvious who was the runner up. JAZZ, COUNTRY, BLUE, ROCK, ETC. He doesn't really teach on Utube... just has a few videos up. Last I knee he was teaching at USC, but he could've retired. He's definitely another "HUMBLER." Helluva guy too!!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Steve Trovato ... great player for sure. I think I've got some of his stuff playing with John Jorgenson, another fantastic player. Good to know he's a good guy as well!

@mikegee729

Жыл бұрын

Steve T. did a GREAT dvd on playing like Chuck Berry. Highly recommended...

@castleanthrax1833

Ай бұрын

I must check out Steve Trovato... I mean, anyone who tops Albert Lee has to be seriously good.

@panagdimi

28 күн бұрын

​@@MarkZabel

Really nicely explained. A long time ago my teacher taught me this with reference to the rhythm playing of the great Freddie Green (Count Basie's guitar player for many years). The 3 and 7 define the chord, and so this approach can be used with ANY chord in ANY song. Great in jazz standards. If there is no bassist, you can usually add rgw root or 5 in the bass easily, and it is also the basis of walking bassline guitar comping - similar to what you say about embellishing the chords, just in the bass. As soon as you know the 3 and 7 define the chord it really frees your playing.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Well said.

Always appreciate taking a pause to stand back and learn simpler tricks capable of conveying my emotions. What I love about this so much is that while it is so classicly elegant on its own, it remains a great platform to build from and make one's own. Thank you for this tip. Been playing for years but it's always nice to be humbly reminded of little nuances such as this and their roots. 🙏🎶🤘

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Will. Thanks for watching!

I've been using this as long as I can remember. Never thought of the theory behind it or why it works.

Jimmy Page does just this in the intro and elsewhere in “Rock n Roll” up at the 12th fret on the D and G strings

I used to play a lot with bands and solos using chord melody style. I haven’t played in years and now have guitar playing friends. They like to jam to warm up. I’d forgotten these “broken chord forms”. Like you said, it allows the other guitar players, including bass, an opening to be creative. Also horns and keyboards can be heard and allowed to open up and fill up any blank spaces. Thanks!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Sure thing. Glad you enjoyed the video.

I'm familiar with Danny Gatton, but never thought I could play any of his stuff. Thanks Mark.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

There is a video of Danny Gatton on you tube with him playing slide with an open beer bottle and then he keeps right on playing while using a towel to clean the beer off of his guitar. Some of the best and entertaining playing I have ever seen.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

He was amazing.

So easy and elegant. Gatton, the one and only!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Gatton was amazing. I don't know that he was the one who first saw it, but he certainly used it to great effect!

I loved Danny Gatton and his fantastic playing. One of my all time favorite guitarists.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt an all-time great!

@gc8620

2 жыл бұрын

Love Danny! Had the chance to catch a show and meet him. A true tele magician. One guy to check out if you never hear of him: Scotty Anderson

Dude. You never disappoint. Thank you 🙏

@MarkZabel

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

I learned this two note trick playing blues on mandolin years ago but never applied the concept to guitar. Now I will. Thanks!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Very nice! Thank you for keeping Danny Gatton in our lives.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Danny was truly amazing!

Man this just blew my mind. I've been trying to teach myself some theory and basic rhythm concepts after just playing by ear for years and this is a huge help. Thanks!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!

Mindblowingly simple. Kudos to you Sir!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Just found this channel. Liking it a lot. So far it seems like clearly presented information with realistic perspective to make it possible to quickly put things into practice. Just enough theory to provide context without obscuring the point of the lesson. Thank You!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I work very hard to keep the lessons short and tight, and to not try to put too much into any one lesson. Don't be shy about letting me know what else you'd like to see!

Nice! Super simple, super useful. Thanks for giving me another tool for the guitar trick bag.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

You really make clear how these tricks hang together - learning new stuff from you and I’ve been playing for a long time 😎🎸👍

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

That charvel Tele is awesome ! I just recently got the gateway guitar of shred guitars,a Randy Rhoades Jackson V and realized real fast that shred guitars can have good comfortable necks if they added a little roundness to them but the fret board is great and turned me on to a Jackson Dinky Floyd rose tremolo guitar and it's also awesome so yeah agreed shred guitars can be awesome for everything !

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

I like it! I wish they didn't always look so wild though! :) This one is pretty traditional looking, so I went for it.

I was taking a class in improvisation on the guitar. I was really starting to hear my notes blend with and accent the background music. My ear was getting better and better. Then one day my teacher told me that I was ready to start making sure my improv notes included the root of each chord. I quit my lessons the next day. I felt like someone put a straight jacket on me. Thank you for this lesson. Thank you very much.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Thanks for watching!

Great tutorial, well done. Thank you so much!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

Amazing... thank you so much for showing me that... I will definitely learn and keep that for future use... its so stupid easy, that even I can sound good! 🙂

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent discussion of blues theory illustrated brilliantly visually, verbally, and sonically.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you for sharing! Keep spreading the blues

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You bet! Thanks for watching!

How smooth and appropriate Thx man

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Sure thing brother! Thanks for watching.

it took me all of 3 minutes to subscribe! No flash! No drone speech about this/that or whatever! Clear Concise and down to earth! I salute you and thank you! Subscribed!!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton Michael!

Kind of a funky jazz electric piano sound played on the guitar, very cool... Sped up it would sound like the main riff in "Jeff's Boogie" by The Yardbirds.

I just bought my first guitar 2 weeks ago you are my new hero

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

LOL! Thanks. Rock on!!

Holy hell. My son bought me a guitar for Christmas last year. I'm starting to play at 60. Needless to say I know nothing of music... But tonight I'm going to become a 2 note wonder! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

Wow. I've watched countless theory "explanations" on YT but this is the first one where I light bulb went on for me. Music is so much like learning a foreign language where fluency means more than knowing unconnected phrases, it's knowing how/why a phrase is constructed. I love the 2-note method, and now can see how learning triads can take me to a different level as well.

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video! I do a lot of work with triads and "partial chords" on my channel, along with lots of other things. I didn't go to music school, so my "models" are often a bit different from others. Thanks for checking out my video and for the kind comment!

That's the most I've ever learned in that short a time. I use the 3-b7 on bass sometimes, but never made this connection on guitar. I hope something brightens your day like you just did mine!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, you totally made my day! Thanks so much!!

@JESL_TheOnlyOne

2 жыл бұрын

What he's really talking about is what is called a 'shell voicing' for chords. You can look it up, I'm sure, but, essentially, it stems from the Root & 5th contributing the least to a chord's 'color', timbre, whatever term you want to use. So a jazz guy will build things around 1 - (b)3 - 7 AND drop the Root for 'busy' constructions. *Example:* the Root is very often omitted from a ninth (a true ninth, not add9).

@onlyrick

2 жыл бұрын

@@JESL_TheOnlyOne - True. Especially on guitar -just try to get a voicing for all the notes in a 13th chord! Hey, here's a trick I discovered for blues chords. I voice them 1-V-b7, which leaves the third ambiguous, giving the singer or soloist room to play with that M-m dichotomy. Keep playing, brother.

@JESL_TheOnlyOne

2 жыл бұрын

@@onlyrick Look up Drop 2, Drop 3, Drop 4 voicings - most useful for guitar grips.

@JESL_TheOnlyOne

2 жыл бұрын

@@onlyrick Omitting the Fifth very often makes a 'power chord' (q. v.).

love this stuff. keep learnin and keep it real. very nice!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

That is really a simple 2 note to get yourself playing all over the neck. I will have to watch this again tomorrow. Thanks

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You bet. Thanks for watching!

Now blues makes more sense and why those weird shapes sound so cool

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Great!

I learned that "two note wonder" from watching Angus Young. I use it all the time in blues progressions, especially a little half step slide up.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Great! Amazing how easy it makes jazz blues.

I love this thank you and being able to learn this great trick I’m 6 and a half minutes was a amazing

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Thank you 😊 for your knowledge and explaining slowly for a beginner like me.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Mark, you look nothing like a guitar monster, but you are. Love your vibe and you're teaching this aging dog some great new tricks.. And Danny Gatton!! Just wow.

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Ah yeah thee old Tritone! Did you ever see Danny Gatton plays slide with a full bottle of an open beer. Awesome stuff. Mr. Gatton takes a back seat to no one. 🎸☮️

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, one of his many tricks and amazing guitar acrobatic feats!

In the summer of 2019 I had a lesson with Will Ray and one of the things he showed me was this exact lick, and I've been using it ever since! Great lesson Mark!

@MarkZabel

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

I’m pretty sure this was used in Bill Haley and the Comets “rock around the clock.” I know other guys from that era knew it as it shows up here and there. Anyway, it’s a great little trick to keep in your pocket. Also a great way to ground yourself when you lose your place.

Top lesson! Thanks for sharing!!!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

This is really simple but clever. You can build round this in so many ways.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt. What Danny G was doing was really cool. Honestly, I think that's such a key insight into how the greats play - they keep it simple, but know it like the back of their hands. Thanks for watching!

I'd always wondered about that. Thanks man.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You bet!

I got the same thing years ago from Rock and Roll by Led Zep. It blew my mind because it looks so wrong that it should work. It blew my mind even more when I took the time to work out why it worked! Nice one.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Yep, Rock and Roll by Zep uses this - exactly!

This is awesome thank you! 😀

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Thank you for sharing this! (It also works great as a Chromatic 3-6-2-5-1 , where G (1) is on the 3rd fret, up to B on the 7th fret (3) down one fret E (6), down one more A (2), down one more, D(5), down one more G (1)...)

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly - typical jazz blues turnaround sort of thing. And works with the tritone sub versions too. I didn't want to complicate this video with that, so I kept it short and just mentioned it near the end. Thanks for pointing it out!

@thomasmartinscott

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Thank you! I like your teaching style.

Great tutorial, that is so useful to know, thanks.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for this!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

Excellent, excellent, excellent! Makes me aware of and think of the different inversions of those chords and the placement of the all the chord tones in the 7th chord, be it I, IV or V. Thanks for the enlightenment Mark!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure Doug!

Love this for jamming the blues.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Great for it definitely

YES!! Danny G is one of my favorites!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too!

Wonderful !! Thank you so much !!!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

I found that out myself and use it all the time in some variations. :) Feeling good.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Seems I heard Jesse Ed Davis using this too (early 70's in Ottawa Canada) with Taj Mahall. Still listen to the great Danny Gatton with awe and humility!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt Danny was amazing. If you get a chance to see the creative way he uses this simple structure in "Strictly Rhythm", make sure you check it out!

Great tutorial. Many Thanks

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Never disapointed man.....awesome !.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton!

Mark, Love that reverse headstock..... very cool looking.... This same pattern can be taken up to G and B strings to do the "skynyrd" style articulated bend.....by bending the G while also hitting the b string.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Cool idea, thanks! It actually works on every adjacent string pair - E/A, A/D, D/G, G/B, B/E. Best on the "bread and butter" or guitar IMHO - the D, G, and B strings.

@MAC-jl7uk

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Yep. For a 3-note thing, the D,G & B in the Hendrix E7#9, A13 & B13 and easy enough to add the 6 string root.

Really useful information. Thanks

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great explanation and formatted for beginner to skilled player !

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Elvis Presley's guitar man Scotty Moore used those very shapes in many of his solos. Thanks for the memories 🎸

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You bet!

Thanks Mark you are great.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

Always thought Gatton was very under rated.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

And he's super-highly rated!

great lesson clear, concise, and uncluttered good work \m/

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Now that's a cool trick!

Great lesson! Thanks for sharing.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

now that is slick thanks look 4ward to seeing more of your videos....

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Amazing. Thank you.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Mark this is deffinetly up my allie .. iv played pices like this be for like 50 yr's ago but some how forgot that .... thank you so much

@MarkZabel

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

That is really cool, Thanks Mark.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

This is an important lesson. Can’t recall now where I first heard about it. (I’m old…) An important thing to take from this is that you can find other two-note shapes on the D and G strings that give the “essence” of a chord (M7, m7, Don 7) and use them for comping. The bass player handles the root and 5th, the melody line is above, and the rhythm guitar cuts through without muddying up anyone else’s part. 😊

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark (and Avery)!!

@tinastanley4444

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I'm old too! This just made my playing easier@ thanks

Beautifully Explained!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!

NICE ! Thanks Andrew

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for listening!

I watch a lot of guitar tutorials on KZread. You are an exceptional teacher

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@rturney

Жыл бұрын

I agree! Mark is a really great teacher (and player)!

Dude that is fantastic😀😀😀 thanks for sharing

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I use that lick but i didn’t know why it worked so well. Now i can apply it more

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Freddy King did that for years, as did many others. Interestingly, though, there was a lot of tension between Roy and Gatton. Both met early callings, cheers Mark . Thanks for the reminder

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, certainly known for many years before Danny Gatton. I'd bet Charlie Christian and Django and even earlier players knew it. Sad what came of both Danny and Roy. Thanks for watching!

@allenmcdaniel1470

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't know they knew each other. Was Roy B. an influence of Danny's or did they come up at the Same Time? I always thought that....while it was a ways in coming, DG was 'due' some REAL exposure when he passed. Maybe he couldn't wait any longer. Reminds me of Sean Chambers. Too soon. -A

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

@@allenmcdaniel1470 RB influenced Danny some, particularly in how he set up his guitar (relatively high action). As far as play goes, Danny supposedly wasn't much influenced by Roy ... not from the book I read on Danny's life. Probably the biggest reason Danny was unknown in his time is that he didn't leave the Washington DC area. He had a strong following in the capital region.

A Great one, Mark. Danny Gatton was definitely in a league of his own. Thanks for sharing! I came back for a refresher. I enjoy your videos and your laid back easy to understand teaching method. The 3 & flat 7 is also why Tri-tone Subs work so well. They are the same 2 notes again that switch places, without moving. So A flat 7 can sub for D7.

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

That's right. An Ab7 is basically a D7 with the bass note changed. If one leaves out the bass note ... well, you already told me the answer! Thanks for watching!

@thomasmartinscott

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Thanks for responding. I just love talking about music and sharing little tidbits with each other. I've learned a lot that way. I hope I didn't come across as pushy or anything. I never mean to. I'd love to be able to Jam with you sometime. Your the kind of guy that I would enjoy just jamming with. Thanks again.

Just love your lessons!

@MarkZabel

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Ey Mark, it's very interesting and useful, thanks a lot.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you found it helpful.

It never ceases to amaze me how a guitar fret board works. 6 strings and 12 notes and how in standard tuning everything just repeats fret by fret. And then it works in open tunings as well...Same applies to other stringed instruments...and probably all of them one way or another. Totally agree with the keeping it simple comment..I was once asked a question or two by a fella I met who played..(I knew that because he had a guitar case with him) so I got me coffee and sat down...I was a bit of a beginner back then. We got chatting as you do. Any way he asked me how many strings does a violin have..? How long is a violin neck? And how much music can you NOT play on a violin..or fiddle if you're a fiddler.... Have a think he said as he left. So I did..I'll leave the same questions with you. You might look at a violin bridge as well, the way it's built. Doesn't look like you can bow more than 1 or 2 strings at a time.. Once I realised what he was telling me...and I still see a fret board the same way now. Or the part I'm looking at...at any given time. This video..2 strings and how much fret board..? Just thought I'd pass that thought on. I think Mark will know what I'm saying as others will.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ian! Definitely appreciate this. I'm always amazed by the often very simple and unique ways the greats do what they do. Lenny Breau, for example, could do wondrous things with only 2 notes. I find going back to basics and learning a subject "I already know" in a different way often enables me to see things differently as well. Happens all the time in music! Thanks so much for the story. A fun read!

@ianrichardson3968

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Hi Mark. Again I agree with the idea of going back to basics. Many start with open chords..or "Cowboy" chords as they're often called. So they learn them, or a number of them but then want to move on up the neck. Because who wants to be playing those ..cowboy chords? But should they have spent more time on those supposedly simple chords? Do they discover all the ways we can embellish them? Many discover the often used and very popular D sus 2 and D sus 4 trick, and maybe one or two others. But there's a lot of music in those open chords..They are part of where your fret board begins, those "cowboy chords or at least 5 of them are the basis of your CAGED system..10 if we look at the minor version. More when we think about Dom 7 chords for instance and other variations. Each of those CAGED chords contains one of the 5 patterns of your pentatonic scales. Your Pentatonic begins in open E..C Majors Phrygian mode. All 5 pentatonics exist in the open position. The more you learn in the open position the better as it all simply moves up the fretboard fret by fret. Barre chords are great things but a little limiting, which is where your capo comes in, now all those little embellishments can be played in any key all the way up the fret board. Bit so many are in such a hurry to move away from the open position and then can so easily become confused as they do so. It makes things that much more difficult. IF you did this even if you are a good player going back to these basics can be useful because as ..simple as they are you might just find something you missed. Going back to other things you might think you learned the same applies. We tend to practice things and learn them, or think we have. Thinking we have learned something and moving on means your brain moves on, so now we don't think so much about what we think we have learned. Like this video I learned this little trick some years ago, but I watched it because you might have thought of using it in a way I had not. If so then yes I learned it, but not everything I might be able to do with it. We can add more notes in different ways from the scale...or maybe a note from a different scale..like adding a Major 3rd into a minor pentatonic, or a borrowed chord that doesn't belong in the chord progression. There are so many tricks like these, little nuances we don't think of but someone else does. Two notes can be more than just 2 notes. Django Reinhardt could only use 2 fingers but boy could he do a lot with those 2 fingers. The rest of us have 2 more...usually anyway. So what can we get from those 2 extra digits? Or more to the point what can we do if we just used 2..? Challenging maybe but that's how we can discover new things. Limiting ourselves to just 4 notes, as with the famous 4 note box, challenges us to play more with less. Similar to the violin question, more fret board is not necessarily better than just using a small chunk of it. The violin idea is what eventually led me to understanding how and why a 6 string guitar works, and it never ceases to amaze me you can actually play the thing. Again when you think about it most stringed instruments only have 4 strings. On a guitar we get 2 extra ones. A bit spoilt then, aren't we. Or are we?

As an old (66) self taught bass player recently turned to 6 string, my musical theory understanding is rather quite limited. You were making my brain hurt with all the 1's 3rds 5th jargon. But when you played it I totally got it. Thanks for the tips !!!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it came into place.

@Deliquescentinsight

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it is based on triads, and fragments, you would have all of that from your bass playing

@MOAB-UT

Жыл бұрын

This use to make my brain hurt too- now it's easy. Simply count to 7- that is all the degrees of the major scale. 8 is back to the root or tonic note only one octave higher. The way the notes are in order is called steps that follow a formula. For the major scale it is simply this. *W W H W W W H.* It never changes. W or Whole step like C to D is 2 steps, H or half like B to C is 1. So in C Major, it is ---*C(1)*--- D (2) E(3) ---*F(4)*--- ---*G(5)*--- A(6) AND FINALLY B (7.) That's it. Eight would start over at C. These are the *DEGREES of the scale.* Most progressions are I, IV, V so in C that is simply C, F, G. They are all major. There are also 3 minor. It's really very simple once it clicks. I, IV, V are always major in the major scale. Recall, the musical alphabet is e.g., C, *C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, A, A#/Bb, B*, (12 notes aka Chromatic) and back to C- that is it. This is what you apply the formula to. That is exactly where the numbers are coming from. Most chords are triads (3 notes) so the 1-3-5 of that major scale. So in C it is simple C, E, G. To make a MINOR C chord, simple FLAT (or go down a Half step on the 3rd) and that's it. So C, D#/Eb, G are the notes there. Print this out so you have a reference. You will find this formula and the musical alphabet (chromatic- 12 notes) very useful. This works in any key. Learn one, you have them all! Also, 66 is not old- I skied everyday with 70+ year old's at Vail, Co/ who skied great. Many better than me and I was an instructor. They skied 100 days a season. I hope this helps. Even it it is confusing at first glance, re-read it 10 times over as many days. One day, it will click I promise. That will be a very happy day for you my friend. 😀

Great lesson. Thanks a lot. 👍👍👍

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

Wow thanks for recommending Danny , what a player. Subbed.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

I always thought the flatted 5th was considered the "spice" note, but maybe more in the rock/hard rock setting. Strangely, I've already been using the two-note in my playing a mix of major/minor flavors in my style of reved up blues or blues-rock and some heavier stuff, except I didn't know the theory behind it as my grasp of theory is pretty far from most. But I love using chord fragments, or I used to call them "broken chords" when I first heard some 80s guys using them, George Lynch is a great example, different music style, but still full of flavor & tasty when applied liberally like a good BBQ sauce. Excellent lesson, very informative and thorough without being over repetitive.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. Great that you related it to music you know too!

I have the Danny Gatton, Guitar Player cover, March 89, Unknown Greats on the wall, near my guitars.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great tip!

A great hack! I’ve been using this one for years

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Thanks man!!! now to practice and not confusion. Danny WAS & Still is the best. saw him from his time with Liz Myers on., We always talked cars he dug his classic ford almost as much as his tele

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Danny was the best!

SO NICE!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Great tip thamks for sharing

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍