"Shut up and play your guitar"- Frank Zappa during audition with a prospect

All these patterns are simply means to achieve an end: hitting the chord tones. Then there's the issue of which note to hit and in what context. What these discussions always seem to lack is that transition between chords. I sorta assume the authors just leave it to the audience how to figure it out because, let's face it, just playing a pattern over a chord is fragmented if not kinda lame. So my strategy is a bit more simple: target your note (root or 3rd, sometimes 5th) and practice on how to get there from the previous chord. There are natural ways to get from a note of one chord to a note in the next chord to make the sound melodic. Then expand my vocabulary of those paths. For example, in your example of Amaj7 arpeggio, going from 7th to root sounds good because of that chromatic effect. Check. I'll use it. But suppose you want to target 3rd. Going from 5th to 3rd sounds just too abrupt, then I'll add the 4th (and even b5) in between. You may say yeah but you're using the major/minor scale. That's why I don't particularly just follow any pattern. That's not to say arpeggio isn't good. I especially like using the dim7 (or even dominant 7) arpeggio as the tension to go to (some note of) another chord. I wish someone out there who's had so much experience with soloing would, for example, take a solo over a chord progression and explain to us the ideas behind it as the artist goes from one chord to another (or even stay in the same chord). Why does he choose this over (whatever)? That sort of thing. That analysis is probably more valuable than any other patterns or tricks or what have you out there.

@Fake_Jesus

Ай бұрын

Make a video for us.

@eagles_s

Ай бұрын

I know it can be annoying sometimes when people criticize the creators but I do agree with their point. Theres a million videos about patterns and scales but they all just say the same thing and dont put it into context. It WOULD help to take a song and show the context of how this all relates.

@MustafaBaabad

3 күн бұрын

It will be nicer if you include on how to implement it in real song. Cheers from Indonesia

Wow…. That string buzz would realy get on my nerves! Great lesson though.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Yes, with all of the humidity affecting the guitar, it's time to turn the truss rod! :). Thanks for watching!

@TickTownProductions

29 күн бұрын

Someone needs a setup

😵‍💫! Amazing lesson ! 🇧🇷 👏👏thank you a lot for the education

That really really sounds beautiful. many thanks my friend.

Fantastic lesson 🔥🎸 Muchas gracias

I just got your beginning guitarist playbook and just going thru the first several pages tells me that this was a great investment in my guitar hero journey of a thousand licks! I truly suggests that everyone should have this book if nothing else for clarity and a different way of approaching learning guitar.

Amazing lesson !!! Looking forward for more videos like this.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback and you watching!

Good knowledge. The chord charts being upside down and backwards may be a problem for some people.

@Really_is_all_about_the_Bass

7 күн бұрын

He is demonstrating the chord charts in the proper format. As if you were holding your own guitar. That’s where the notes would be. The closest string to your eyes would be low E.

Great lesson Paul. I like simple and I know this will help boost my melodic sound to new heights 👍🏼

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I like simple as well and this really was a simple pattern I overlooked for way too long! Hope it helps! :)

Great video, spoken clear and precise, very calm, so I could understand and absorb what you were saying, unlike most of the American fast and furious videos with lots of hand gestures, well done young man.

Hello Paul, thanks for sharing your knowledge. As you mention, I would like you to create a video about how to target notes and approach them in a I IV V blues progression. Have a good one, thanks again.

Very well presented and extremely valuable lesson !!!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching!

Thank you for sharing your tips..Absolutely awesome ❤❤❤

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! I'm happy to share any tips like this that I can! :)

A7 - using the leading tone G# actually kinda blew my mind. Thanks!

Great video thank you!!!! I'm going to test this!

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Hope your playing goes well!

Cool lesson!!!! I love that guitar. Color is gorgeous!

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I love the color too! :)

Simply fantastic!

Great lesson for a practicing beginner like myself, thank you so much

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! So glad this was helpful!

I always refer to that first pattern as the Doug Aldrich pattern. It really helps you learn the 7-1-3-5 notes of the key quickly in multiple places on the fretboard.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Nice! I agree. It really is helpful to identify the notes faster than a scale etc for me. Thanks for watching!

Beautiful guitar, can't stop staring! Great lesson too!

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I love the guitar. :) I appreciate you watching and hope the lesson was helpful!

Superb lesson. Just found your channel and I’m impressed by your clear and thorough explanations. Thank you. New subscriber ….

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!! I really appreciate that and I hope you find more of my videos to be helpful. Thanks for the sub!

This is awesome, so simple and useful for lots of things!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

I appreciate it! Simplicity works for me and I'm glad this is helpful. :)

Thank you! for resuscitating my arpeggio practice!

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! Hope it was helpful!

Great content. keep these coming. Awesome work.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching and commenting! :)

Nice one! Amazing how we often overcomplicate our playing or don't look outside the box for the simple things lol... great video buddy!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! So much of what slows us down in learning is just overcomplicating simple things. I still do it all the time and have to call myself on it! :)

Very nice. This helps me and I'm sure many others😊

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for watching and I'm so happy it's a help!

great guitar , really amazing ... did not see it available in any store

Awesome Paul thank you sounds great very helpful God bless

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! I appreciate you watching the video! :)

Thank you for this lesson. The building blocks of arpeggios 😀

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thank you for checking it out! I appreciate it!

Been playing for years, but sometimes feel stuck - your videos are amazing - a huge help with that. Thank you!

@PaulWarrenMusic

21 күн бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback and for watching. I'm glad you've found the videos helpful. Keep on rockin'! :)

Very nice lesson! Thank you so much !

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! I appreciate you watching and giving me feedback. :)

Excellent lesson.

Nice arpeggio lesson & insights.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching and I hope it's helpful!

Lotta fret buzz on that low E.

@Fake_Jesus

Ай бұрын

I n n noticed

@R.E.A.P

Ай бұрын

Little bzzzz in the A too😂

@allengarrow6295

27 күн бұрын

lol… needs a little relief in the neck… roll back the truss rod tension just a little. Or just turn up the amp😉

@zlatkodraskovic5532

17 күн бұрын

😆😁😄😄

@cannadaincowboy

15 күн бұрын

I couldn’t listen to this drove me mad with the buzzing.

Simple and helpful... Thanks a lot 🙇🏻‍♂️

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! So glad it was a help!

Very helpful & well explained! Thanks so much for sharing.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it!

@jsebsteelguitar

9 ай бұрын

@@PaulWarrenMusic It was not my goal to make the fret buzz the number one comment... Nobody notice it unless someone say it 😞 Your video is interresting in the way you articulate on the fretboard the different patern scales in one mouvement. Thank you

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

@@jsebsteelguitar No problem! I'm glad it was mentioned. :) Thanks so much for your kind words regarding the video material!

Absolutely love your lesson Paul … will look out for more … make it look so easy and simple

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Looking forward to releasing more soon! :)

@stricknine8623

9 ай бұрын

Subscribed !

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

@@stricknine8623 Thank you! Hope you enjoy future content!

Great lesson, thanks man, subscribed

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate the sub very much!

Great lesson, Paul!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Jedi Master Daniel!! :)

Thank you for another tool for the phrasing toolbox!

@PaulWarrenMusic

7 ай бұрын

Of course! Thank you for watching and I hope it helps!

Very good explanation Thank you

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! Glad it was helpful!

Beautiful Paul thank you blessed be

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! It’s greatly appreciated!

Great info!

@PaulWarrenMusic

2 ай бұрын

Thank you and I really appreciate you watching!

That guitar looks amazing.. Love the inlays and finish 🔥🔥

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I love it too! :) I review it here in case you want to see more of it. :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/iGqm0LqzptO4oNI.html

@polyeder2000

9 ай бұрын

But it is buzzing.

@kipponi

9 ай бұрын

​@@polyeder2000Yes thirth fret low-E string buzzing. Some others too. It needs settings.

Excellent Transmission

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate you watching and hope it was helpful!

1st time the lesson has actually been helpful thanks

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching and I'm glad it was helpful!

Awesome lesson!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! I really appreciate you giving it a watch and I hope it helps!

Great lesson Mr.paul

@PaulWarrenMusic

21 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

Really explained well, thanks

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I appreciate you taking the time to check it out!

Nice little trick. Thanks.

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Hope it helps! :)

I want that guitar!! 🤩Gorgeous colour.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!! I love the color as well and am so happy Musicman was able to paint this one! :)

Great lesson Paul😎😎😎

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you checking it out and hope you find it helpful!

Very smart and simple 👍, I know those arpeggios, but never in those patterns, smart, and I love the three octaves, WOw 😮 9:02

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking it out! I'm glad it was helpful! :)

I agree with you, and I think it took me more than 20 years to figure out it, which I did, but only when I started considering an exhaustive approach to scales and arpeggios. The key insight is to start on the 7th instead of staring on the tonic - then things fall into place. Once you get the patterns, you can start on any of the notes. Another way to get this is by playing the usual ascending A minor pentatonic starting with the index finger on the G on the 6th string, 3rd fret, then drop the 4th of the scale (the D), and you have the A minor 7 arpeggio. From there you can get the major 7, dominant 7, minor 7♭5, diminished, major 6th, etc. (I'll bet Django used your major 7 trick, playing the whole thing with fingers 1 and 2.)

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

It's very easy to overlook simple patterns when books and charts show us six string scales etc. There are so many patterns I should have known a looooooong time ago but just missed out somehow. :). Thanks for watching!

Thanks, Paul! That's handy. 👍 👌

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching!

Your sound is out of this Galaxy. Sounds like a new genre .. Is that what you hear in your head before you start playing?

Thank you so much. Excellent.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching it!

Thank you for showing the tab structure the best way, from the veliewpoinr of the guiatrist.

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate you watching!

W0W! Thank you!

Cool idea.

Great lessons

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching!

Wow, it works!

Brilliant channel and presentations

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you watching!

Just discovered your channel. Great lesson and very well explained and awesome diagrams. How did yo get that shimmery sounds when you play your guitar it sounded so beautiful.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found the channel and appreciate the diagrams. Those take loads of time to create, for sure. :) The tone I was using a Mesa Lonestar model with some tape delays and reverb. I can't take credit for it, as I just downloaded it from the Neural cloud into my Quad Cortex. :). Thank you for watching!

Right video at the perfect time for me

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Excellent! I appreciate you watching!

Great lesson Paul! I was wondering as I was watching this is do these arpeggios only work over 7th chords or can you use these patterns over a straight major, minor chord progression for example a C - F - G - Am progression?

Thanks...I have been stuck in the pentatonic for along while and Thanks for the explanation .it helps me when I first get started on something new. 👍👍

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching and I'm glad it's something new for you. I'm considering using the major scale and pentatonic with it in the next video. Should have made this video a touch longer and shown that part of using them. :)

Thank you Mr. Warren, been playing in different bands and genres for 62 years, but never thought or known of these straight forward patterns. At last, I feel as though I’ve got something new to play. Regards. Vic - Hampshire England

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences. It's true, so many patterns, shapes and approaches are things we never run across for a long time. I'm glad you found this interesting and I hope it helps you play in yet another way! :)

Nice work!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Very appreciated!! Thanks!!

Great content

@PaulWarrenMusic

28 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate you watching!

GREAT STUFF

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching!

Also everyone can lower the last note of 4 so it will be g#ac#d# - it can sound great on a chord B7 or F#m. Any others changes can help too)))

I enjoy your demeanor so much! KZread is so often soiled with shouty abrasive talking, it's so refreshing to see someone treating their viewers like grownups!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

@ErForce1

9 ай бұрын

@PaulWarrenMusic 🥰 And on a different note, I literally found out about this pattern when learning a Marty Friedman solo last month!

Love the JP signature Majesty! It's great that they make them in "Hi-Vis" colours, too! Very safety conscious, can potentially prevent on stage accidents and incidents, no more clumsy bassists bumping into you during the lead break!😂😂😂👍

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Ha ha! I've been using this Majesty like crazy since I got it. If you haven't seen it already, I did a review of it. :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/iGqm0LqzptO4oNI.html

@zwastiunburzy3688

9 ай бұрын

@@PaulWarrenMusic I can see why you'd want to play the strings off that thing! They're a work of art! 👍

I'm in. Thanks!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for watching!

Damn that guitar is beautiful !! Nice video man

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!! I appreciate you watching and yes, I love the guitar too! :)

I had heard that arpeggio in the Michael Angelo Batio song "Speed Kills" some years ago and I always wondered why more people didn't use it.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Very cool! I'll have to rewatch that video! I remember it, but not that particular arpeggio. Thanks for watching!

Thanks!

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! That's very kind of you!!

This flew clear over my head, but that's a really cool guitar.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Sorry if this was confusing! Regarding the guitar, thank you! I love it! :)

Whoah! Thank you! Subbed!!!!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the sub and for watching!

I recently just discovered the first pattern (major7) because I wonder why I saw that pattern In so many solos and riffs, like the solo in poison was the cure, John Petrucci's solo in Erised and the chorus riff in 22 faces by Periphery Amazing Video

@PaulWarrenMusic

10 ай бұрын

Excellent! I'll have to check out those examples. Thank you very much for watching! :)

Nuno Bettencourt was rocking these patterns hard 30+ years ago. Listen to the opening of Mutha Don't wanna go to school today from the first extreme album. I've been using this stuff ever since hearing him do it way back then. So efficient and versatile.

@robertdouble559

9 ай бұрын

I just re-listened to Mutha, he's only using a one octave version in that tune. There must be one where he does it over 3 octaves, or maybe that was just an innovation I built upon his 1 octave version. Maybe Vai does somethinf similar in Eugene's trick bag from crossroads. I find it super handy for pentatonic fragments shredded over 3 octaves too.

@robertdouble559

9 ай бұрын

Ahh. I think it was Michael Angelo Batio doing the 3 octave run on his ancient hotlicks tape form the late 1980s. Yep. That's it. Dig it up.

Glad i found this

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found it too! Thanks for watching!

Nice idea, thanks. I keep blazing away on blues licks when i need to slow it down and be more melodic sometimes.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's always difficult to slow down and take our time. We guitarists seem to be programmed to play all the notes...all the time. :)

Very useful

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! I appreciate you watching!

excellent

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

6:28 is just good practice 👍 very good point

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate you watching very much!!

WOW! where did you got that majesty?? some special edition or something? Good vid by the way, new sub here :)

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I appreciate you watching and subscribing! Yes, it's a one-off Majesty in Lambo Pearl that EB/MM made for me. I love it! I review it here if you want to see more of it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iGqm0LqzptO4oNI.html

I think it makes more sense to say pattern-based scale rather than scale-based pattern. Very cool pattern, though! Thank you for sharing!

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Good point! Thanks for watching!

nice set up

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

Thank you very much 😊, great lesson but signed in did not receive tab for lesson ....

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thank you!! I'm sorry you didn't get the tab. You should have received an email with a link to download the files. If you don't get that email, let me know and I'll get the tab to you. :)

Yes, makes a lot of sense using the 4 notes of the chord into a pattern.

HARMONICALY SMART. can u play, I Found The Lilly in My Valley , Bryan Haynes and put the chord charts in upper corner for my Birthday May 19th? Thank You 👍

Thanks for the lesson Paul! Could i clarify something please, and please, excuse my ignorance! So if i'm playing over a 1/4/5 progression in the key of A, i use the Maj7 pattern for 1 & 4, and then for the 5 chord i use the Dom7 pattern? And if i'm playing same 1/4/5 over an A minor progression, do i use the Min7 pattern for 1 & 4, and the Dom7 again for the 5 ? Appreciate your time mate, thank you :)

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

You're very welcome and thanks very much for watching! Yes, as you've described it, they would work very well! Happy jammin'! :)

@nathanbottrell2529

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Paul! @@PaulWarrenMusic

@IamCceeLL

9 ай бұрын

lol was thinking the same thing. the application on the vid was quite blury. was about to ask and found your comment😅

Great, but would be nice to hear yoiu play it using that fancy QC and a nice backing track. So we use this over any A major chord in any key?

@PaulWarrenMusic

10 ай бұрын

Yes, you can use the A Major 7 over the A chord in a major key. You can also use the A Dom 7 over the A chord for a bluesy sound or if the A chord is the 5 chord in the key (Key of D for example). I thought of putting in a little bit of improvising, but I was trying to fit as much teaching info in there as possible because so many people want the lessons as short as possible. But yes, I think I probably will include more of that in future videos. :) Thanks for watching!

Good job ole buddy! LAD

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Hey Lynn! Good to hear from ya!

I'm imagining how I would work these into a solo. Would you link them together and think of the second arpeggio as being the fourth fifth 7th and 9th of the original A key?

When the student is ready the teacher appears, thanks for a great lesson

@PaulWarrenMusic

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I really appreciate you watching the video!

Enjoyed it. I know maj 7 arps but this is a slightly different approach. I will work with it and see what happens. Now I have to ask you How the guitarist stole the Grinch's guitar.

@PaulWarrenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! It is really quite different than what most guitarists do for arps, but it's quite effective I think. Have fun working on them! :) Btw, here's my review of the Grinch's guitar. :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/iGqm0LqzptO4oNI.html