I am learning! Love Matt Schofield playing approach.

@zsoltdubravcsik2750

7 жыл бұрын

Me too. You're also a master Tomo!

@addigi5598

7 жыл бұрын

TomoFujitaMusic ..you should listen to Robben Ford ..you will love him as well

@krimisim

7 жыл бұрын

You seriously think he does'nt know Robben ford?

@growtogether

7 жыл бұрын

krimi I don't think he knows who Tomo Fujita is ;)

@-Marc2044-

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutly true!!

He's got the perfect blend between blues and jazz, that elegant touch makes him an absolutely true master of the blues! Thanks Matt!

refreshing to hear a player not playing a bazillion notes per second but actually focusing on succinct phrases that mean something musically.

@henrygerwien186

4 ай бұрын

@Slack I like your comment, you nail it. Am soo tired of speed wizzards with no idea in it, love indeed less tones and more 'blues content'...

matt schofield and josh smith... keeping the blues alive in a refreshing way :)

This guy can play ! Ok what he is saying is " learn your major scale modes" If your playing an A7 .. Play A mixolydian ...Key Of D Major, E Dorian .. F# Phrygian .. G Lydian ... A Mixolyian .. B Aeolian .. Here is where it changes , when you go to the IV chord the key changes . D7 is now in the key of G major , if you play A dorian licks over D7 you are playing D mixolydian ? Basically an A dorian is just an A min pentatonic with 2 extra notes B and F#.. All you need to learn is #1 the 7 shapes of the major modes and #2 learn what key you need to be in . Mixolydian is the 5th mode of the major scale E mixolydian = Key of A Major A - B - C# - D - E - F# - Ab - A. Best thing to do is make a loop of A7 and jam over it learning the scale and it's different positions on the neck . Then move to the IV D7 and do the same thing and when you get comfortable make a loop of 4 bars of A7 going to 2 bars of D7 and loop it. I hope this helps somebody , learning is FUN.... I hope i did not confuse you i'm trying to help anybody in a rut .. Have fun guys ..

@floydknip6943

7 жыл бұрын

this has been my approach for the I and IV but I always struggle with doing this for the V because it just sounds like moving up the scale from the IV by two frets and doesn't that fresh.

@danielsperry8114

7 жыл бұрын

FloydKnip i get what you're saying . Ok so don't move up to D Mixolydian in 10th position , try playing a lick in the 5th position over the D7 . What you are playing is A Dorian because D MIXOLYDIAN IS THE 5TH SCALE IN G MAJOR AND A DORIAN IS THE SECOND SCALE IN G MAJOR . Or just think of it as A minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes . record a loop of D7 and try it . Or try playing an E Aeolian , again think of this scale as a E minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes .

@glennkrzeminski7539

7 жыл бұрын

You could just slide up the two frets, like you said, if you stayed in minor scales for the entire progression. For instance, A minor pentatonic, D minor pent. and then slide two frets up for your E minor pent. However, that gets old, as you stated. What Daniel is saying is Major on the I and V chords and a minor on the IV. If you are minor on the IV and Major on the V then even if you move two frets up the notes and their intervals will be different and should give you contrast. Since you are not on that V chord very long sometimes I stay in fifth position and play E Major pentatonic. Start it with your pinky on the E. Obviously I can't roam the fretboard as freely as Mr. Schofield.

@danielsperry8114

7 жыл бұрын

Lets try this . Play an A7 chord and loop it . Now i want you to play 10th fret all 6 strings D major scale or { IONIAN MODE } Keep playing the A7 looped and do not stop it . Move up to the 12th fret and play E dorian mode , then F# Phrygian 14th fret or 2nd fret next play G Lydian 3rd fret , A Mixolydian 5th fret . B Aeolian 7th fret . Learn the patterns slowly and you will get this . I chose the A7 chord for blues sound but not to confuse you --- you could do this with any chords in D Major like E minor would work over D MAJOR MODES, or B minor, G major7TH and so on . I hope i'm not making this more confusing for you but soon a light bulb will go off in your head and you will figure this out .

@marcushbsa

7 жыл бұрын

bookmarking this video just for this discussion :-)

oh boy, great lesson! what an honest guy, shows all his chops and tries to tell exactly what he's doing. saw him live two years ago it was simply amazing!

That was gorgeous ! Thanks !

Half of my kingdom for a tone like that!!! Holy A!!!

Matt has a constant natural flow and build up in his solos, and never seems just to show off. I love his musical attitude, that reminds me a bit of the one of Robben Ford.

Took a master class with Matt about a year or two ago, what a nice and humble guy

I love that in the start of the video, his noodling was so clean and had direction. You could hear the chord changes clearly and even hum the I IV V bassline along with him. Solid.

Awesome, I caught him at the Montreal Jazz Fest a couple of months back. Great technique and awesome sound.

Awesome sound! Awesome guitar player! One of the most favorite!

Whouuuw, one of the best Guitarist together with Chris Duarte, Charlie Hunter and Josh Smith right now. And this great SVL sound, with this great Curt Mangan strings! Thanks a lot for it.

The sound is just perfect!

great guitar tone and great music ! thx for sharing

this is fantastic, thanks.

Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.

I agree with these comments, I have really gotten into Matt's playing and albums. Bought 5 studio albums in a month and absolutely love them! Great melody, tone and he doesn't rely on 'tricks' and gimmicks - just great playing.

Really nice guitar playing, very melodic and smooth. I love that jazz class mixed in with the emotion of the blues.

Love that sound!

I'd love to have this dude teach me. Love his technique beautifully arranged phrasing. Clean & lovely tone. Melodic bliss 👍🏻

Very cool, great player and advise. Thanks for sharing.

this tone is unreal

What a charming man, great player too!

No heavy distortion, just pure vibe and talent :)

Hey Matthew glad we got to see you in Buckingham blues bar. Fantastic.

The thing that can easily be missed here is his humbleness

Darn i really love this

Excellent performance and great sound cheers

Matt was talking about BB King's importance to electric guitar on another video where the comment section was closed but what I wanted to say is the album that really woke me up to how cool a player he truly was is "Blues Is King". Lot's of really tastey and hip playing all over that album.

Great Matt!!

Love his phrasing ! Superb Tone and phrasing in deed !

Well i am very glad to see and hear that my first line of thinking,dealing with the possible set of key changes,not always keeping the 1s blues scale flowing entirely. thanks.

Great approach!

Something about his demeanor makes me smile. Almost at least. Always nice to hear the thoughprocess behind ones approach to playing.

Matt has such a tasted sound, that's what I really like of him, then his albums, but just his hands on the guitar makes enjoying so much!

@dzsuba1

8 жыл бұрын

+MrToniRoll Totally agree with you! Enjoy!

@MrToniRoll

8 жыл бұрын

+dzsuba1 thanks for sharing

Thanks, great riffs !

Thank-you Matt, for playing in Victoria, b.c. @ ships point in the inner harbor. Such a shame that the harbor authority wouldn't let you play past 10pm. Really enjoy your' phrasing ♫♪♫♫ ♪♫

Matt Schofield is a big favourite of mine, I wish he'd come home to the Manchester area a bit more often.

@guitaroidman524

7 жыл бұрын

i went to the same school as him and we jammed green onions in the drama department room, it was a great day

A real humble cat who plays masterfully with a wonderful, rich tone. Great stuff!

yeah man...great tone.

Thanks for sharing

@dzsuba1

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryosuke Otsuki Your welcome!

@Mr59coconut

7 жыл бұрын

N

Thirds gives another flavour!!

Great lesson and great tone man. Sounds just like those rarely early blues gigs recorded with strat

I need this tone. Wow.

@mrzisme

7 жыл бұрын

Plug your strat into a Two Rock

@davedagreat69

7 жыл бұрын

....and put on some VERY heavy gauge strings!

@SpaceCattttt

7 жыл бұрын

----and then give your Strat, your Two Rock and your VERY heavy gauge strings to me. After that, you buy the album I recorded with the stuff you gave me.

@vvantherel5846

6 жыл бұрын

he only plays 11-54s, heavier than I'd use in standard but a far cry from SRV's 13 gauge

this just gives me hope as a guitarist.

@guitarman6742

7 жыл бұрын

Alright !

@usmc1875

4 жыл бұрын

What he does is , he uses arpeggios a lot. So in every chord you have, break it down to a basic 1-3-5-7( of the chord you're playing over) and play those notes on the chords. that's a good starting point:)

So, so good.

Very nice playing for sure!!!!

Lovely playing...

Thank you , Helpful vid !

It's all about the major thirds - true statement. Appreciate the video! #blues

Ahh love it

im diggin the tone and licks

Met him in a little store in Ct. maybe 10 of us sitting around in a workshop. Nicest guy and a monster player.

Very nice..

Very nice 😀

wow such good tips

Damn, what a tone

I think it's strange that people say he sounds just like Robben Ford. His vibrato is completely different and the tonalities he plays are very different from Robben(for the blues anyway). Robben tends to play all that altered stuff right before a V-1 and more Chromaticism in general. Also, I think that Matt's tone trumps everybody's. Just sayin'.

@dantebrent5075

7 жыл бұрын

CJ Christopher true I agree

@malisevim

5 жыл бұрын

Yes !

@joshmuz9018

5 жыл бұрын

CJ Christopher don’t like finger style tone, it’s just weird

Guy King, Chris Cain, Jack Pearson...to name but a few.

Nice playing Matt!

must know listen him... great matt

this vid makes me want to get a strat again!

@dzsuba1

8 жыл бұрын

+Guitar Nut Matt Schofield is the man who made me restart playing the guitar after 12 years of even not touching it. Great player and a very good man!

Excellent approach. Much more interesting to play off the changes instead of remaining stagnant in one key.

Good channel!!!moore blues !!!

Nice melodic blues styling. Retro example of the suspended sound Matt uses at end of clip (5:14 >) can be found on studio version of "All I Want to Be is By Your Side" by Peter Frampton.

Great tone too!

Great😀

Matts the player I wish I got into much earlier for multiple reasons… he explains why tone is important without going nuts with it! he plays the changes and doesn’t depend on tricks. Made me realise I was always a strat guy in denial he got me out of that lol what a chap!

Lovley strat sound matts got a nice touch m

TWO ROCK BABY

He plays like a jazzer. The chord of the moment rules and key is just about function.

@davidscott1052

6 жыл бұрын

George Christiansen as a jazz sax/flute and piano player this is just par for the course. we have to study each chord and modulate as we go or find alternate voicings for chord sequences just to keep things interesting

@Deliquescentinsight

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, well put I reckon, I prefer to call it 'following the chords', listening to the piece and bring out the right feel and notes, respect the song.

@bobravenscraft5376

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you the brain can be dangerous when people over think they failed play the damn thing lol rock on

@jamesrusso2523

5 жыл бұрын

well said..seen him,lotta soul/ R-n- b stuff live

There is always a percentage of humanity who leave a dislike, good on ya dickheads, they have to express their envy, basic bad faith, general bad humor, it is simply part of the wall paper of humanity. Great playing!

sheesh this guy had great feel and greater tone!!!!!

Very nice

This is a fine bit of instruction for those who may be inclined to intellectualize the blues. There is always the option of thinking less, feeling more, and playing what you hear. Theory is useful; taste is elusive.

@inclinethineearmusic2732

7 жыл бұрын

I think his blues is coming more out of the swinging blues style, originated by Lester Young, and finding its way into the guitar by way of Charlie Christian.

@alsacrime4806

7 жыл бұрын

If Danny Gatton had played a Strat, too. Cheers.

@markstephenson4258

7 жыл бұрын

Always good to learn how to play around chords instead of just scales though! Whether you play less or more.

@agtronic

7 жыл бұрын

I think adding some intelligence to the blues really helps set a guitarist apart, and I don't mean really advanced jazz theory, just this little bit that he's doing here is so much more interesting to the ear than your typical bar guitarist that just goes up and down the minor pentatonic all night. I can't stand to listen to that anymore.

Sweet.

Quienes habrán sido los giles, que dieron dislike! Seguro no entendieron un carajo.. Un crack Matt, de los mejores de la actualidad.

this man and Derek trucks are head and shoulders the best players of the last 20 years or so.

Worship guitarists won't get it. A real player rips with a little bed of reverb. No delays. No mods. Pure tone. And if you can hear closely, 90% comes from his hands. Matt is a Killer. So clean, always has a motif. 🎸🔥🔨

Matt The Master

Matt is such a good fucking player

I just got a Strat, and I feel after I play that my Les Paul feels easy to play.

@voronOsphere

4 жыл бұрын

The frets are further apart on a Strat than on a Les Paul. I wish I had a Les Paul.

When it changes to the IV, it seems it comes natural to play tones that harmonize with it. I find scales useful to get inspiration for new sounds, although those also come natural given the music you like, but when you have a feeling for what sounds you like, then I see no use of thinking of a scale or how the tone is called.

Fantastic( ¨̮ )💕

Interesting part of the blues is to play dims over the V7s occasionally...or tri tone subs in their place . Plus doing harm. min. turn around from bar 8 to 9....just to add a bit of tension and variety from min. pents 🙂🙂

If I would have a bedroom like that, i wolud never go out

Harry Enfield on guitar! I can also take hear him now “woooot” “I’m going to perrriis”

Long live the I-IV-V

@justinlee9756

6 жыл бұрын

And the 2 5 1 of 4

nice playing nice tone

Nice....

I'm a guitarist and a trumpet player, so it's natural I should find myself in the sophisticated section of music *greasy smile*

Guitarist magazine issue 371, Summer 2013

SRV had it…..now Matt have it. Iam a great fan of him and his tastefully guitar playing! Did “Don’t know what i’d do” with my former bluesband….as an opening song….(sorry Matt😮)

this guitar sound killing me. thank you for lesson

This guy is a great guitar player. Check out his TrueFire vids. Amazing touch and tone!

my approach is similar. over A7: Amin pent., Amaj Pent., Amixo then D7: Dmaj Pent., Dmixo, Amin pent. E7: Emaj Pent., Emixo, Amin pent. Then also pepper it with some half-whole Diminished and maybe altered dom scale.

Cool. I'm not a great guitarist, but I do consider myself as a competent musician. I'm not going to give up just because I know I'll never be anywhere near as good as Matt. In fact, he's just inspired me to do even more dedicated practice (without recommended any), rather than noodling. Some of the best comedians seem fluent and fresh in their 'ad-lib' and so natural, but they analyse for hours how to make things work. Feeling that I may become stale has stopped me "studying" things, but d'you what.... I just might start. Anyway, I'm also encouraged because l've been going down this "changing key with the chords" since forever, but only because I thought it was easier. There's a great masterclass from Robin Ford in the save series. Worth a watch too. I might just post this note into another video in case it helps. I mean you never know if these comments get read or not do you really.

does anyone have a link to the article that went along with this that has the examples?