Study guitar online with Berklee: www.berkleemusic.com Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Joe Musella explains the Pentatonic scale – the quintessential tool for playing classic rock guitar scales in this Berklee guitar lesson.
same notes, different shapes, different sounds. yay!!!
virtually all rock is based on blues. keep playing like a blues man and along the way, when you start playing with bands and the such, it will sound right and your ears will guide you. but dont worry about nailing just rock solos… if you can play the blues wellm, then good for you.
Drop that b5 note from the blues scales u are playing – 1, b3 , 4, b5 , 5 , b7 and you will get the rock pentatonic minor scale – 1 , b3 , 4, 5 , b7 !
And stop bending your strings.
dude, if you got the blues, you got the blues. Cherish that feelin man, its a wonderful one, if you can accept it.
Nice job !
I remember seeing Steve Vai @ Berklee Music years ago
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Nice job on the Guitar Lesson
Stevy
good video- straight forward and to-the-point.
I have that guitar a epiphone less pual tabaco sunburst nice!!!!!
Great Guitar Lesson
Simply and right to the point .. All the tools you need to start playing guitar today !
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It’s definitely an easy trap to fall into and as has been said before, there will always be a blues influence in rock music and you’ll hear it especially when using pentatonic scales. Using excessively wide or exaggerated vibratos, pinch harmonics and incorporating longer runs and patterns into your solos (avoiding so many bluesy bends, as someone said before) I think are good starting points to start to move away from the blues sound. Hope this is helpful. Keep practicing!
dude thats a gibson…
@elieo7424 Dude, this is a Gibson!!!
I think that the best thing you can do is try to learn some other scales and get used to them, then you’ll play them naturally when improvising. I improvise with a very middle eastern or egyptian feel.
only the guitar in this video is a Gibson.
@thisisfunNOT learn some more scales… i like soloing w the harmonic minor cz it has like a middle eastern tone and its really cool for metal…listen to death’s crystal mountain..he utilizes it superbly, very greatly in that song
learn one scale then improvise from there.. thats how you get good in solos
@thisisfunNOT Just throw in alot of power chords into it, lol. Or learn the full major scale and shred
He’s got a real deal pall, Hes holding a Gibson Les Paul not Ephiphone.
first scale ive ever learned! love how versitile it is.
I think it’s a Gibson, not an epiphone. Epiphone are “beginner” guitars from Gibson, just cheaper. If you can play as well as this guy you’ll probably get a Gibson. ( not when you have a smaller budget )
wow i actually learned something! thanks
Very good. Great way to get a basework for lead guitar. Later it’d be good to practice full scales with all the notes when the subtle nuances come. Great video.
What effects is he using?
Learn all 5, then put them into Diatonic Scales. They fit right over, so learn these 5, then learn the 7 diatonic scales over them. Makes it a bit easier when memorizing stuff.
dammnnn nice les paul o.O
@AlmostPerfectProd I think it’s just a little gain on his amp, no effect.