Make Scales Make SENSE! Try This!

[@BenEller]

I hope this helps you understand the relationship between scales and chords! What music theory topic should we tackle next?

[@timothy5974]

I like the idea of of expanding on creating a chord progression from this Lydian Dom scale and creating little song to practice a jam over. Using the Alan Holdsworth dinner table analogy would be a good start. I’m a home hobby musician and my song writing sux. Great lesson. Thanx uncle and give those puppies a treat for me !!🤣🤓🤘

[@ethanreed5815]

I remember when I learned this and it blew my mind. I taught myself the basic modes by coming up with a bunch of etudes to learn the sound of all the different chord extensions and possibilities. Before that I just did everything by ear and this method made it way easier to write songs. I'm still doing this to this day with stuff like the Byzantine scale or the Romanian Minor scale. What about doing a lesson on key changes? I know the Opeth method that you mentioned in the Blackwater Park video, but I'd like to see if there are any others.

[@rong9758]

Harmony, of course. Iron maiden anyone?

[@albandunford2809]

Ben I need to understand playing over chord changes. How do you think or relate notes .

[@willkirby5520]

I think a deeper lesson on a subject you brushed upon here regarding how to know how /what scales are available to use when chords are being played would be an awesome topic for those of us out there still kinda in the weeds with understanding that relationship 👍

[@bestboy897]

This is an incredible lesson. Every beginner guitarist who wants to up their game and want to improvise better needs to watch this video.

[@markyourcheck4417]

Excellent! You ever think you know something and then hear someone else explain it and you realize there is way more to know? That 'light-bulb' just went off for me. This lesson just landed into my favorites, it will take me a year to apply this and go back over the scales I 'thought' i knew. Fried Gold my friend.

[@Meshuggapeth]

I wrote down all the types of scales (harmonic minor, etc), then wrote down what mode and triad/seventh chord would work based on each scale degree of each scale

[@alexandrehopeson3048]

That is one beautiful guitar.. goddamn

[@halohat2286]

"Every note is everywhere" The best info I gotten from the internet. Thank you Uncle Ben, you are awesome.

[@wchurchill419]

Uncle Ben, would love to see a tour of your gear and all your guitars!!

[@alexandrehopeson3048]

You want 20hr long video? Because that's how you get 20hr long video.

[@wchurchill419]

@@alexandrehopeson3048 nah. I got almost as much gear as him and i got my video down to minute or so. Dont need super in depth. Just wanna see what he's rolling with

[@alexandrehopeson3048]

@@wchurchill419 Twas a joke Sir.

[@DojCity]

@@alexandrehopeson3048 I was going to make a similar comment but yours was funnier

[@jaymakesmusic6916]

I second that

[@WillieEaderbush]

One of the most informative guitar videos I've seen in a long time.

[@lManwel]

Best channel ever! Great video; the only problem is that is way too short. We could listen to you for hours, UB! Thanks!

[@antoniopavicevac-ortiz8886]

“Crazy aunt Judy!” Love it.

[@dannyspitzer1267]

Sensei Uncle Ben! Cool guitar too! Luv the color

[@fredericdufond4571]

Totally makes sense 👍🏻 Thanks again for nailing it Ben!

[@JBM935]

5:38 you flew like Frank awesome

[@oldguitarguy7528]

Uncle/nephew ben, this is why i subscribe! Youre a guitar nerd too.

[@dumbohill42]

Thank you Uncle Ben for this utmost informative video, bless your soul.

[@JETGuitars]

Wow! Thank you! I had figured out the skipping thing, but I had never put two and two together to follow the scale with that method! Kinda feel like an idiot for never realizing it! So simple!

[@dfnymusic3396]

Perfect lesson! I will definitely be implementing this immediately!

[@InsolentMusicalPeasant]

Really cool application of a concept that tends to cramp my brain. Much appreciated!

[@paf268]

Most underrated video on soloing - great work

[@bedroomlevel]

Got dayum the purple on that Luke looks soooo good! 🤤

[@slicknicdwyer]

8:36 - A cool thing is that you can play a regular old A Major Pentatonic over those chords and it works, since there's an A Major Pentatonic hiding within the A Lydian Dominant scale. Helps my dumb rock guitarist brain to have a more familiar point of reference when I get lost while trying to improv over these freaky chords

[@BenEller]

True! Pentatonic is always the answer, no matter what the question!

[@CMM5300]

True that is a good reference point So is dom pent 1 2 3 5 b7 (Dom7 add9)

[@sdothodg]

True dat, but the passing tones are what add color

[@CMM5300]

@@sdothodg you ever play Lydian dominant? 1 2 3 #4 5 6 b7 It's a mode of melodic minor. It has a lot of pentatonic scales hiding within it. Like Lydian dominant Pentatonic 1 3 #4 5 b7 major Pent 1 2 3 5 6 and dom Pent 1 2 3 5 b7. Color tones are always the 9s 11s and 13s of whatever scale/mode your playing. Passing tones are the other 5 notes that doesn't fit the scale/ mode your playing.

[@DVincentW]

Allan (Holdsworth) seemed to have a mastery of this. In no sense, nonsense. I mean the Bradford 9.15 Executive still tears my brain in half.

[@skipkelton]

I remember being blown away by a Guitar player interview with John McLaughlin - they made up their own modes and built songs around it. Our drummer said Mahavishnu Orch would go out to lunch and pick a random license plate and play the time signature from the numbers in it. I geek out on that stuff.

[@keithbriscoe99]

No way!!!! This is freakin awesome. Yes!!! Thank you so much.

[@MrSonicAlchemy]

Great explanation of scale/chord relationships. You can pull some awesome chords from any scale, even simple pentatonics, if you free your mind and try out a bunch of interval combinations. Stacking 2nds, 3rds or 4ths in different combinations starting on every note in a given scale can yield some great discoveries. Thanks for an awesome video on this important topic!

[@andypearce5537]

Great work Ben!

[@rexturner8208]

This was awesome!

[@1ofthedudeswatching57]

Its amazing you can adapt small harmonica scales to electric guitar .

[@steveswindler2189]

Entertaining and educational as always.

[@felixporras5115]

The Simpsons dominant scale Great lesson!

[@forex922]

Good one, by the by I got a lot out of that chromatic video really helped me with hand position.

[@daves6701]

This vid provided a connection between my ears and brain that most don't. Thanks Ben for the $10K lesson.

[@albandunford2809]

Great to see you playing Luke. Love mine so much i have 2

[@michaelb.42112]

Great lesson, UB.

[@mikeking453]

You're such a great teacher thank you

[@Miggeddy]

8:47 thx thats perfect for my sauna spotify playlist xD

[@danielsalas9438]

great explanation ! thank you Ben

[@jamiem7114]

Great lesson man!!! Thanks!

[@Aphex083]

Thanks a lot and cheers for the Perfect Circle reference. Man of culture ;)

[@prateepdasgupta]

Uncle Ben you rock 🤘🏻🤘🏻 what a simple but great concept you explained so clearly is just awesome. Thanks! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@usmcchrisg]

Thanks. This made a lot of sense.

[@8KilgoreTrout4]

I had a little eureka moment there that I even started to laugh a little! I know how to play the guitar but I need to understand it better now after 2 decades and THESE gems are exactly what I need. Thank ya! It actually made sense to me

[@duncanyoyoboy]

wHen & wHere all day, love it!

[@gjtube37]

Great lesson from a great teacher! Thank you Ben!

[@Scoey666]

Yer good. The way you break it down is like a, made for dummies book 👍

[@chrisloud1976]

Really nice lesson Uncle Ben 🤘

[@lyresmyth]

Great explanation Ben really made things simple to visualize.

[@twanja08]

Man!! Almost feel you were like "this twanja guy....he needs this"! 🤣🤣 When I started messing around with the geetar, I never put a lot of focus on scales. Always riffage. Then, once I started writing my own stuff I started hitting a wall in some scenarios....mostly due to what you've kinda explained in this vid. And, Lydian is probably the "prettiest" through my ears. That's the EJ way, right!? Anyway, thanks!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@brianmesser8924]

Augmented Fourth is that weird cousin at the dinner table who shows up with all the crazy stories that everybody wants to listen to all the time because his stories are so damn odd, but in a cool way.

[@RonSavage01]

Have you ever done a video showing off your guitar collection?

[@Dr-Grayson]

I know it's not exactly the core theme on your content but it would be *awesome* to get some episodes from you about the writing in extreme metal, there just isn't really much of a resource out there and I know it's mixed into your listening. You know breaking down what made Troy Azagoth so unique, or how Cattle Decap writes the way they do. Stuff like that. Granted I'm asking you to pander to me personally, since I love your technical content like this but I'm just not a hair/traditional heavy metal guy. Either way love your stuff and keep it up.

[@Str8Faced]

very modern opethy sounding scale. Awesome lesson again thank you ben

[@chucksaeger7500]

Very odd sounding but I guess it fits in certain places. Thanks for extending the possibilities.

[@youtubeblowsgoats2823]

Sup Uncle

[@davidsk8rz]

Thanks a lot uncle, now this is truly a slice of fried gold

[@msevilkuchikopi]

Nice sleepaway camp shirt ❤️

[@BenEller]

Classic!!!

[@mangoherpson]

It’s 12:30am. This is a morning video, I know it will be amazing though

[@pologashima]

ben u are the best

[@fabi507714]

You Sir should do a tour of guitar clinics around the U.S. and europe... I'd come out 4 shUAAAAAA (And prob. buy a t-shirt)

[@scottharnish]

Before you showed the headstock I thought it was an old Yamaha SE you were playing.

[@rayfabris2512]

Back in the 80s guitar players didn't give away their secrets and I was taught the RR chord a lot harder than what you're playing it was so crazy and painful on my left hand I stopped so ty

[@Robbie28]

Awesome video. Thank you again Uncle Dad, i mean Uncle Ben :)

[@patrickhlavinka6364]

I always just added the notes lydian dominant to minor pentatonic when a dominant chord came up. Doing it the way you're doing it never seemed to wanna resolve to itself. But either way definitely agree with the importance. I would probably sub some chords from the major scale though. Dominant scales seem too unstable.

[@ghanssperling9890]

Great insight!

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

I'm partly through. You're going to talk one chord matching different scales, eg, Cmaj C-E-G - those notes are in G, C, and F major scales - I hope. :)

[@Khae.]

Thanks Uncle Ben! I'm gonna have to wait until my arm healed up again. I was a naughty kid and didn't warm up properly before I tried the downpicking you showcased in your July video on Master of Puppets. Has your warmup routine changed? What do you do? Cheers!

[@williamkirchoff4293]

Thanks Ben no I'm going to try and impress my step-dad

[@CMM5300]

Now switch back and forth between mix#4 and mixb6

[@kitchenguitarshred8587]

Have you done a review of this luke guitar yet mate ?

[@AntonSherar]

10:01 what about my step-dad!?

[@mrburns366]

10:56 the Satriani song that never was. 😋

[@maJastoL]

09:54 where was the step dad joke?

[@monkface]

Is that Dom7 #4 also in Girl Gone Bad? Hmmm

[@ivolokiris1472]

Is that "just outline the chord in the scale" means... it took me years to add two and two together...

[@thetylerholt]

Wow, that Luke is gorgeous! Do you know what the color is called? Great video too, by the way!

[@BenEller]

Firemist Purple!

[@man66iac]

What about chromatic riffs like slayer?

[@prewettcr]

@8:20: Birds of Fire by JM!?

[@gitaaa7740]

Thanks for the lesson Uncle Ben! Would this work for a pentatonic scale?

[@BenEller]

Ehhhh KIND OF. The pentatonic is “missing” a few notes, it doesn’t have any kind of 2 or 6 in it. Just a 5 note scale. If you do the “leap frog” trick, you’d have 1 4 b7 off the first note, which isn’t much anything. But you can look at it as 5 ingredient bank and make a number of chords.

[@gitaaa7740]

@@BenEller thanks Uncle Ben!

[@galelongputt]

👍I have Ben(see what I did there 😏 ) an Uncle Ben follower for quite some time now however I do not dig the monthly patreon type of commitment. Please let me know if there is a one time at a time type of way that I may support you. 🙏 Gale

[@BenEller]

Donate to a local no-kill animal shelter! Or bring them some animal food or cleaning supplies. They always need more. Cheers!

[@galelongputt]

All righty then🙃 I miss your "this is why you suck at guitar videos. Cheers 🍻

[@BenEller]

Oh there’s more coming for sure. Cheers!!!

[@nabilsalha1941]

Im a bit confused how U added the flat 7 in a lydian? If u could explain that would be cool

[@BenEller]

This is the Lydian dominant scale. It’s different like that.

[@BenEller]

You may also know it as the Simpsons Scale!

[@nabilsalha1941]

@@BenEller thank you so much for taking the time answer! I guess the word dominant slipped from my ear when watching,i just rolled with it and kept understanding everything else, thank you so much for an awesome video :D

[@andersb2770]

I’m confused Aunty Ben!

[@davidcampbell5775]

Uncle Ben, explain why you are playing a G instead of a G# if it is A Lydian. Would be same notes as E Major scale, which has G# correct?

[@BenEller]

Keep watching the video, this isn’t Lydian. It’s Lydian Dominant.

[@davidcampbell5775]

Got it, and hence the example of forming the A7 chord to play those scale notes with. Thanks for clarifying. Great lesson as usual.

[@gitaaa7740]

Uncle Ben. Do you have control over the ads are shown during your videos?

[@BenEller]

Nope! Why?

[@gitaaa7740]

@@BenEller got this long one from this Dr Gundry and I had to sit through it cause I was driving 🤪

[@rockcrusader182]

Nagaland.

[@rockcrusader182]

India.

[@rockcrusader182]

Asia.

[@rockcrusader182]

South East Asia.

[@rhythmmmanavery]

Hey there Ben. I love your channel! Do you do private lessons? Skype?? I would love to take lessons from you. Not only are you a great picker, you have a way of explaining complex topics in a way I can understand and digest. Please let me know. Thank you for your time! Mike Avery.

[@BenEller]

Thanks a lot dude! I unfortunately haven’t had any openings for lessons in years!

[@rhythmmmanavery]

I figured as much but thought it was in my best interest to ask anyway! Lol Thanks for all you do!!!!

[@bob7919]

Dad, sister, mum and mad auntie Joy. That's two people in Alabama.

[@666rbr]

Pretty Woman

[@matthewmorrison1431]

Love the playing and love the lesson. Don’t like the tone. Still good stuff here! Thanks Ben!

[@lucasvbf]

Por um momento eu pensei que o meteoro tinha largado política e começado a fazer vídeos de teoria musical

[@elixir418]

Thx Uncle Ben, gotta go beat on my step dad with all these hammers. \m/ 666

[@tom12ta]

🍺🍺🍺😉🤘💚

[@Hiro.the.God.]

Can’t I just sell my soul to the devil and be a great guitarist like the old days?

[@tommysedin]

No no no, for "Hammers", it's "Ons".

[@BenEller]

Huh?

[@somtingwongwai7194]

So by this logic 135b7 the dom chord, mixolydian, dim 1/2 whole, whole tone, harmonic minor will also fit because they all share the same chord. so why not just play any note with the chord tone as a reference point. since all those scales will cover the chromatic notes.

[@mattmovesmountains1443]

Important! I watch with captions, and when you said "do re mi fa so la, right?" The caption said "don't remember fossil law, right?"

[@BenEller]

Hahahaha

[@tylertremblay3323]

this is the same scale that the simpsons theme song uses

[@BenEller]

Correct!!!

[@gh0ul666]

why not take a proper fretboard layout and instead take a drawing that looks like its made by a kid which is super hard to read due to that

[@BenEller]

I would like to offer you a refund on this video. Please send in your receipt.

[@karthain5742]

I hope you go back to saying which frets you are playing like you use to. It really helps us blind people.

[@trueServantOfJESUS]

read the bible

[@american_psycho1147]

great video, great explanation and examples, but damn your guitar tone was terrible. sounded awful