The single greatest gift of this video to me was learning-after playing the guitar since age 12-that the major pentatonic scale of any key is just sitting there three frets down from the root, in the exact same form. No one ever told me that. 😄 THANK YOU MARK ZABEL! 👏🏻

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

You're very welcome. Glad it was helpful to you!

@zigzagwanderer9531

Ай бұрын

Great "aha" moments are so cool. I had been strumming and singing for years learning by ear or from song books. Then a player told me about the simple 1-4-5 chord progression. I went home, played every song I knew and most all fit that formula. Cheers!

Mark, I think you’re the best teacher out there for learning the fundamentals of all the 60s and 70s guitarists people our age will listen to forever! Really appreciate it!!

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Wow, thanks Dan! Right back at you with the appreciation brother.

@GaryBook

Ай бұрын

And a total hipster!

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

@@GaryBook LOL! Maybe a hippie-ster.

Thank you Mark for your insightful, helpful, and entertaining lessons. You help us average guitarists expand our playing palette.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Sure thing brother. Glad you enjoyed it!

Short, sweet and very informative. 👍👍

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Thanks again, Mark. Nice fresh musical insights, and your demonstration playing really helps.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks Mark! That was really informative.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I love it! Very helpful.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

Good lesson, Mark. Always good to think outside of the box! 👍🏻🎸

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Your videos are so informative and awesome, Mark! Thanks again!

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Glad you like them!

That's a wow moment. Thanks

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

You're welcome. Glad it clicked!

Well Thanks a lot Mr. Zabel. Looks very useful.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful!

Another great lesson! I also looked at your lesson on adding the 6th, which also was great. I'll just add a fact about scale names in case it helps to clarify. Yes, there are many names, but where do they come from? Ian Ring has done us a huge service by making a web site that catalogs every possible one-octave scale in the 12-tone system. He provides names for scales from several systems, but he also gives us one conventional name for each scale, and I'm mostly sticking with those. He calls this Scale 1201 "Mixolydian Pentatonic" (1-3-4-5-♭7). He also has a different Scale 1173: "Dominant Pentatonic" (1-2-3-5-♭7). So Ring's "Mixolydian Pentatonic" is the minor pentatonic with a major 3rd replacing the minor 3rd, and Ring's "Dominant Pentatonic" is the major pentatonic with a minor 7th replacing the major 6th. So Ring's "Dominant Pentatonic" is also a 7(9) arpeggio.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I'll have a look.

Nice job, opens up some real nice tonal options, I've already gone spiral on it. trippin' it, thanks man.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Glad you like it! Rock on!

YOU MEAN WE CAN SOUND LIKE MARK Z?!?!! Rock on brother, great lesson, I just learned this during COVID. Great lesson. The secret ingredient used by Leslie West. Love the fish joke! I like that “keep it sweet, but give it an edge!” Sounds like Fusion cooking 🧑‍🍳!

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Rock on!

Thanks Mark Fantastic lesson👋🖤🦋🖤

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Kris! I'll probably be live tomorrow for a few. Maybe I'll see you there.

Simple... when someone tells you! Usual great teaching...

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

I’ve never caught on to the combining of the major over minor scale, but when you showed the diagram with the first position of A minor with the second position of A major over it, it kind of clicked. Still a lot of work on this part of guitar playing. Thank you for the lesson. ✌🏻

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Fantastic! Glad it was helpful.

Great tutorial Mark.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Excellent video.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Excellent video

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Always remember you're only a half scale from greatness

You discovered the L7 guitar too!

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Yes, it's excellent. They make a humbucker version and this P90 version. I'm digging this one!

Been playing for a long time, this was gold.

@MarkZabel

15 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful to you!

I use the mixo pentatonic all the time. That and the dorian pentatonic for some Santana spice. For the blues I play the minmaj7 pent

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day mark also today is my friends birthday ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

You too!

Thanks Mark! I recently discovered this on my own about a month ago and also then found all these cool licks from Wired! I also found it’s pretty darn cool to play the major 3rd and toggle back to the minor pentatonic (maybe that’s just mixing major and minor). Theory question: why do you call it a “dominant” pentatonic?

@Dan-zq5wt

Ай бұрын

I’ll go on: I found that I’m addicted to this major 3rd addition. One note completely changes the character of what you’re playing. It adds so much hummable melody. I keep thinking of Jeff Beck, but also it opens up Trey Anastasio type jamming and weirdly, I keep hearing the musical themes in the Sideways soundtrack. It’s “sweet” sounding but slightly melancholy. I almost can’t play anything without finding it now in any key. I also really like that 6th video too. At the end of the day we’re just trying to hear bluesy melodies and transpose them, and I’m always hearing those notes in my head. Great tools!

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

You bet! "Dominant" is because that's the type of the chord it fits perfectly - here A7. Chords that are made of a major triad with a minor 7th are dominant chords. (For A7 we have A, C#, E, G ... 1, 3, 5, b7 of A - therefore a dominant chord.) There's more theory-speak to it than this, but the idea of keeping the major 3rd in there with the minor 7th (b7) to give it edginess is a very "dominant" idea. One last thing that I find interesting and you may too. When you toggle the 3rd by 1 fret to the minor pentatonic you can do it two ways - to the b3 or to the 4th. When you go to the b3 you'll get a "tough" sound over an A7 chord. It's kind of harsh and if you lean on that note it'll get annoying over time. Kind of like a bee buzzing around your head. If you go to the 4th (up 1 fret) you'll get an "airy" or "spacey" feel over the A7. Kind of like you just woke up or you're having a dream or you've had an adult drink (but just one!). Going to the 4th is a very David Gilmour sort of move.

@Dan-zq5wt

Ай бұрын

@@MarkZabel really cool. Will try this

@Dan-zq5wt

Ай бұрын

Just to confirm: the flat 3 over an A7 chord is C, and the 4th is D?

I've been partial to the hexatonic scales

steve hillage -fish rising

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Awesome stuff!

@caryheuchert

Ай бұрын

Exactly 👍👍

After flipping and mirroring the image a 1:32 it made sense again ;-)

Another sequence i like to use is a minor6 (not flattened6) chord with a flattened 3rd base. E.g. Fm6/Ab = Ab-G-F-D-C-Ab-G-F-D-C... etc.

Reminds me of Steve Hillage. That's a Good Thing btw 👍

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Another one of those relatively unknown (in the US) players. Dude could play! (still can I'll bet)

@KozmykJ

Ай бұрын

@@MarkZabel All his stuff is good, my favourite is the "Green" album.

Nice how them fingers doing today

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Oh, they're sore and stiff - as usual. LOL!

Jeff Beck covered Beach Boys song Surfs Up which you should take a look at the melody line to make a lesson about it. The Beatles vocal melody lines often have pivot notes and modulating notes which you should look into which Beatles songs used pivot notes to modulate to different keys. Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp album was cool I liked Becks guitar playing on it.

@Thomas-xs2kq

Ай бұрын

Johnny Who?

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Thanks Wayne. Did he really make an album with Johnny Depp??

@cdr-sailor

Ай бұрын

@@MarkZabel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_(Jeff_Beck_and_Johnny_Depp_album) and kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5WVk9qNe9idkbQ.htmlsi=bA-71oucAkuZrVMf

@waynegram8907

Ай бұрын

@@MarkZabel yes its called 18 its the best jeff beck guitar playing I think

Steve Hillage ..master of this style

@MarkZabel

6 күн бұрын

Yep.

@anthonybowers7571

6 күн бұрын

@@MarkZabel ❤

There’s an error on the mixolydian A major chart. The g string is a D not a d#.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

It appears to be correct, as it's a D on the diagram. (i.e., 7th fret on the G string)

@Triple55555

Ай бұрын

@@MarkZabel no. Go to 1 min 52 secs and the scale charts for all the different modes. The middle note on the g string of mixolydian is a fret too high. The 8th fret, should be on 7th. Just a typo. Good video no hassle.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

@@Triple55555 Ah, LOL! I thought you were talking about my "dots" diagrams. I snagged that photo off the internet, as it wasn't really all that relevant to the content of the video. Ha! I guess you never can trust the dang interweb! Thanks for pointing it out!

🥰💥

Mixa pentatonic, right?

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Take your pick for the name. 4:24

Love your stuff and this is great too , BUT am I hearing a whole lotta fret rattle ?

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Okay, thanks.

Also: P90 pu.s 🙂

All these complicated names for the same A scale means nothing to me. How about staying with the A minor but using a maj7?

unfortunately no one ever said to me..hey you sound like Jeff Beck😅😅😅 😢😢😢

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Maybe soon!

Dckey betts

I’m officially naming it the Jeff Beck scale 😁

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Yeah man! Go for it!

Am I the only one confused about the left hand view of the guitar fretboard at 1:27?

@MarkZabel

22 күн бұрын

Maybe not. You've mentally flipped it for years. The view matches the guitar you're watching on screen, so lines up with what I'm playing. You can flip the KZread video.

Blukuh!

Bears ate all my fingers. At least it sounds like it. 😢

I don't believe that moving a pattern up or down the fretboard is going to change the scale from major to minor back. the root being on the first string the intervals as we go up with the same pattern are always going to be the same, surely? And the intervals determine whether the scale is major or minor.

@phil.c.

Ай бұрын

You don't have to believe it. You don't understand yet.

@phil.c.

Ай бұрын

Start on the "A". It's the root in both positions. (5 fret. Low e string.) Learn modes.

@abrogard142

Ай бұрын

@@phil.c. I think you fail to understand what I said.

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

@abrogard142 That's not what is going on in this video. The intervals definitely change when you move the minor 3rd, but not any of the other notes. Perhaps you're just making a general statement ... again this video has nothing to do with what you're making a point on.

@waltjames407

Ай бұрын

Every minor scale pattern is also a major scale pattern in the relative key. For example, A minor and C major use identical patterns. E major and C# minor...identical patterns. The roots are just shifted by a minor third as you go from one to the other.

Stop playing scales. Play melodies.

@frannyp46

10 күн бұрын

He’s given you the blueprint to play melodies.

@genenery9315

9 күн бұрын

@@frannyp46 I've played melodies LOOOONG before this video.

Modes too scaley...then proceeds to show mixolydian 😂

@MarkZabel

6 күн бұрын

It's not mixolydian. Were you watching a different video?

4 minutes in of a 5 minute video and you play 2 notes... stop the bs and so people from the start

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

Not even close to true. Watch again and note actual times. Or, instead of understanding the context for learning, watch someone muddle through a 12 minute video or rambling instruction if that's your bag. No one forced you to watch.

for me, an old timer, it's the Hillage scale! He lived there!!

@MarkZabel

Ай бұрын

You know it!

I don't like it.