Nice lesson Mark! Hey, I like how you started with some familiar sixth note patterns that people can identify with, such as "Soul Man." Cornell's, "Rainy Night In Georgia" could have been in there as well. I know, there's a bunch. If I don't chime in again beforehand, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas!

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve. Cornell's play on Rainy Night In Georgia mostly uses 4ths, so I picked a different one. But so many are close. I used a "fake" Brown Eyed Girl, because I'm fairly sure that 3rds are used in the original, not 6ths. But they can sound similar. BTW, I have Rainy Night In Georgia on my short list of things to do in 2020. Cornell is one of my favorites. Thanks so much Steve. Merry Christmas to you and yours too!

@stevedouglas7375

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Awesome. I got my 6ths and 4ths mixed up. I'm glad in a way because that gives me incentive to practice in those areas. It's all good. Thanks mark!

@Redshoes51

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Re: ‘Brown Eyed Girl’… I’ve read that 6th were used in the intro… but for the rest of the song, 3rds were used… having said that… since 6ths are inversions of 3rds… does it matter?

Thanks, I've always wondered what that was called. Thanks for adding structure and understanding. 6ths really are some of the sweetest sounds on a guitar.

@MarkZabel

5 ай бұрын

You bet. Thanks for watching!

Nice! Really makes sense. Instantly found myself playing Cat Stevens "Peace Train".

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Most KZread teachers are concentrating on all this expensive gear, ox, Many interfaces, digital recording. But you my friend teach how to play guitar. A must for all guitar enthusiasts. Learn how to play the guitar and forget what these no name salesman KZread guitarist have to recommend. We need teachers like Mark that will show you how to achieve good values from your skills by learning the important steps to becoming a better guitar player. And Mark can give you plenty of pointers and exercises to achieve your goal. Thanks Mark for your time, lessons and inspiration. You rock.

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much brother!!

You are always a joy to watch. It’s evident you love to play and share ideas with us.

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin. I'm so glad that comes through. I really do enjoy it! Thanks for watching!

Thanks Mark, I enjoyed this lesson. My musical education has been backwards, in that I was self taught as a kid, never learned to read music, but became pretty good on the instrument. Now, at least I can read tabs, and I enjoy picking up these little pieces of theory, which help explain why things that I've learned along the way actually work.

@MarkZabel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! I'm kind of similar, although I started on the Mel Bay books when I was 8. I didn't really pay too much attention to the theory, but learned to read music and probably got a little theory "through osmosis" as they say.

Thank you! Excellent tutorial.

@MarkZabel

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!

Thanks Mark. Very helpful lesson. One of my favorite usages of sixths is Gary Rossington on the live version of Tuesday's Gone right before the ending solo

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Good one!

Very helpful!! I know what a 6th interval is I just didn't know they were running a basic scale in 6th to make these cool sounds. Helped me so much.

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!!

Mark, start on the g note on the high e string and play a b on the g string you can look at it two ways for counting tones. g -a-b is 3 tones apart or b-c-d-e-f-g is 6 tones apart. How do you know which tone to start to figure the interval, is it a 3rd or a 6th?

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Technically you start at the lower tone, so they are 6ths. However, sometimes they are called "inverted 3rds".

Great lesson Mark! I really want to learn more about double stops, particularly surf friendly, and this helped a lot.

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ed. I can definitely do some surf-related lessons. Fun stuff!

Very helpful lesson. Thanks.

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Phil. Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!

Nice lesson Mark. Happy New Year!

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bruce. Happy New Year to you too!

Great lesson Mark! I love your stuff. Great energy in the lessons too! Bravo!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@bonarsmusic01

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel I have referred at least a dozen students to your lessons on People Get Ready and the Hendrix/John Mayer chord approach. Great stuff, taught with depth and enthusiasm. I'm a fan!

This was a great old lesson Mark. Really enjoyed reviewing. the 6th patterns and though I knew you used staggered shape down from the root in the blues, I didn't know why. Johnny Winter did a lot of cool 3rds run on the high strings in his blues and r&r shuffles. If you ever did one on those, please direct me.

@MarkZabel

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike. Will do!

Love this lesson!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Very insightful 🙏

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I love that color on that Squire! That’s really sharp! Nice lesson to 😁👍🏼👍🏼

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 👍

Good lesson Mark!

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Pete!

Lesson was laid out perfectly and clearly. I enjoyed watching. Perhaps next time you could indicate what CAGED shapes you were using when counting out the notes on the diatonic/pentatonic scales. I had to pause/slow it down to see and figure out the patterns. But alas, I am just a beginner.

@MarkZabel

5 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

Thanks so much!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Great lesson

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great lesson Mark. I have been researching this for days and your lesson is the best I have seen - by far. Can you cover sliding 6ths used in slow blues more in a future lesson? Thanks again for all your great work.

@MarkZabel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks and great suggestion!

Thanks for the lesson ,just requesting you cover a topic on fourths and fifths thanks

@MarkZabel

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing!

@richardngila7838

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel I feel so proud of you in fact all teachers on the you tend to neglect this vital lesson

Awesome lesson! Am now looking for songs which use 6ths in cool ways, to see how they can be used phrasing and rhythm wise - which woukd be a great lesson too, on practically using them to play tasty riffs ! Thanks again

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Hey Mark.! Great stuff! I study fretboard theory on another channel.. and your down-to-earth system is a great counterpoint..( no pun intended.. lol ) to all that theory.! Thanks man.!!👍🏼❤️

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe!

Mark, I hate to sound like a kindergarten kid but, This is a great lesson!! SERIOUSLY! Very understandable and that’s the key to great teaching. I have a Masters degrees in Special Education and the one thing I’ve noticed since earning my degree in 1974 is that many teachers teach so poorly that it seems they’re trying to mystify students by holding back key information or by making it so complicated that students come away thinking “Oh No!, not much theory, ugh!” This feeds the teacher’s ego by making them look like “Harry Potter” to their students. Thanks for keeping your ego in check sir!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Walt! A Nobel Prize winner once gave me the advice, "No one will ever be offended by understanding your presentation." That's not a made up story.

@PR-BEACHBOY

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel My Wife was a teacher, I’m a former teacher, My daughter has her degree in Music although she gave up teaching for a more lucrative profession and my son is a Constitutional Law Professor. We all appreciate great teaching. All, including my Son-In-Law are musicians who can read music, that is with the exception of me. I’m a self-taught guitar player who is left-handed but plays right handed. (Thanks to a guitar teacher who didn’t recognize my handedness when I first came in for lessons as a 9 year old). Needless to say my lessons lasted only a week or two and I quit. I kept the right handed guitar my mom bought me and slogged on through, teaching myself what i could. So needless to say I recognize and appreciate your teaching skills.

Great stuff for learning Dire Straits…👍🏼

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

You bet! Thanks for watching!

Thanks, Mark. :) Bet that was my question. Love George's 'She's a Woman' solo for a great, melodic example of the use of 6ths..

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Geert. I'm not familiar with that song/solo ... Oh, of course I do .. was thinking it was a George song. Yes, it sounds like he uses the pattern for 7th chords going down in it. Kind of like what I'm doing at the beginning of the video, but obviously over a different rhythm. Mixolydian man!! :) (I'm sure he wasn't thinking that.)

@drutgat2

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Yes, none of The Fabs knew any kind of music theory, which makes what they accomplished all the more remarkable.

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

I'll take ears over theory any day. Good to have both. McCartney in particular must have had just about the best ears of all. That he could actually compose credible classical music is nuts.

Love the 6ths. I understand the major & minors, Burt what does a diminished double stop look like? (A first and a ??). Thanks!

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

There really is no such thing. The pattern for a 6th though over a note that has a diminished chord associated with it is the same as the "minor" pattern.

@KCostelloe

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Zabel Thank for the reply...even though it’s still very confusing...😟

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin. Ah, I see you're asking about all intervals, not only 6ths. If we're talking about *any* intervals (doublestops are intervals - just 2 notes played at once) you could call the tritone a diminished 5th. (E.g. An A and a Eb.) You could also call it an "augmented 4th." I personally think that when talking about "doublestops" you just want to keep it to 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, and Octaves otherwise it's really confusing. And just think of how the major scale is harmonized and you won't go wrong. (If you don't know the harmonized major scale, let me know and I'll point you in the right direction. It's pretty straightforward.) What follows below is terminology for intervals. It is, I believe a fairly confusing naming convention, but that's what Western music uses. You can learn more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)#Main_intervals Interval naming conventions use Unison, Minor 2nd, Major 2nd, Minor 3rd, Major 3rd, Perfect 4th, Tritone (or "diminished 5th" or "augmented 4th" - all the same), Perfect 5th, Minor 6th, Major 6th, Minor 7th, Major 7th, Perfect Octave. That's just nomenclature. Interval naming conventions use "diminished" and "augmented" as secondary descriptions. So other diminished intervals I know of are "enharmonic". Thus, the "diminished 3rd" is the same a a "major 2nd". (i.e., take a minor 3rd and lower it 1/2 step.).

🎸🤘👍🎼style great

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@sbardellajulio3114

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel you welcome 🎸🎼

Hi Mark, this was very helpful, so thank you! I have a question: would these patterns apply in the same way for playing sixths on the second and fourth strings, or would the pattern change a bit? Thanks again! --Andy

@MarkZabel

3 жыл бұрын

The finger shapes are actually the same on 4 and 2. But on 5 and 3 and 6 and 4 they're different. The old "tuning of the B string" thing.

@andrewptob

3 жыл бұрын

Mark Zabel Gotcha. Thanks!

I noticed that when you play the full “E-Slhape” major chord and the “7th” chord shape that there are offset positions for the ring and middle fingers as well. Anything to say about those?

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Hi Walt. Could you tell me where I do that in the video? (times) I haven't seen this video in years. Without more info ... Generally, I find fingerings to be personal choice for the most part. So I'm probably just more comfortable with whatever I'm doing in the example.

For me, I would like the camera to be close to your hands. Good lesson!

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and thanks for the suggestion too.

Hi Mark, I really like your teaching style, but I'm a bit confused as all other lessons I've seen on sixths use the opposite major/minor labels to you. Yours make sense to me because they match the chord pattern of the major scale, but do they accurately describe the quality of the sixth interval? Seems to me the interval quality and the chord quality are opposite, which confuses me. Is there anything else you can say to clarify this? No worries if not and thanks for the lesson, will keep coming back.

@MarkZabel

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Conor. Thanks for the question. There's no conflict, however it's simpler with a static chord. Take an A6 chord. That's made up of a root (A), a 3rd (C#), a 5th (E), and a 6th (F#). But that's a chord. These 6ths are double-stops. And they arise out of a parent scale. So an interval where the bottom note is A could be A and C# or A and C. It depends upon the parent scale and whether A would be harmonized as a major or minor chord in that scale. So, for example, in the Key of D we have the harmonized triads: D, Em, F#m, G, A, Bm, C#dim. So the 6th with A at the bottom will have A and C#. Now take the Key of C: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim. The 6th with A at the bottom will be A and C. In each case, the 6th starting at A has the same number notes separating it, but in a different scale. Hope that helps.

@conorquinn4779

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarkZabel Thanks Mark, appreciate the answer

@musiccompositionadventures621

Жыл бұрын

Mark is backwards here. If the C is on the bottom and A is on to it is a major 6th since A is the 6th note of the C major scale. If C is on the bottom and Ab is on top it’s a minor 6th since Ab is the 6th note of the C minor scale.

Hi just a question if I may.......in the first part of the mechanic section you start of by playing a c note on the g string and then a g note on the e string.............I thought the sixth of g was e............please excuse my ignorance but I'm really trying to learn these

@MarkZabel

9 ай бұрын

I think it's a B (4th fret) on the G-string and a G on the E-string. The C (5th fret on g-string) and G would be a fifth interval.

@paulkelly6853

9 ай бұрын

@MarkZabel thank you but how is b a sixth interval? Surely it's a third interval

G R E A T !!!

@MarkZabel

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I'm confused. In the key of G, isn't the 6th note an E? Which would be the 5th fret of the B string?

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Yes. That's why the interval G-E is a 6th. And the interval between B and G is also a 6ths. (Start at B in the G-major scales and count 6 notes ... B, C, D, E, F#, G)

Cropper said he just played the dots.....and only the middle pickup on his tele

Whats confusing the heck out of me is when you show the 6th for the G chord, you play a B/E or a 3rd/root. I get they're 6ths apart, but doesn't that make your first shape a minor 6th "di-ad" from the 3 (B) and as you work your way up, you go into a major shaped "di-ad"as your 4 & 5 in the progression? I could definitely be seeing it incorrectly

i'm confused in all these (3rds, 4ths, 6ths)...... make a lesson where you can tell how to differentiate all these !

@MarkZabel

3 жыл бұрын

Okay. Maybe someday soon.

6ths = inverted 3rds?

@MarkZabel

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's correct.

Your labeling for major and minor 6ths is backwards.

@mason87104

Жыл бұрын

I see Mark is calling the minor 6th a "major pattern" since it is the interval from the 3rd to the root above in a major chord. Like wise the "minor pattern" is an interval of a major 6th. So I agree with you but can see where Mark is coming from. I would prefer to use the proper music theory terms my self, but its good to use all available ways of looking at things I guess.

@musiccompositionadventures621

Жыл бұрын

@@mason87104 That’s right. Also, you could look at say E to C for example as the 3rd to the root of a C major chord or as the 5th to the 3rd in an A minor chord. Same notes, different function.

@MarkZabel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads-up. Haven't looked at this in a long while. I'm guessing I said what I said based upon what I was thinking of as the I-chord. I'll have a look sometime soon.

So on the major chord the pattern starts on 1 and on the 7th chord your pattern starts on 5 correct?