How Do Bluegrass Musicians Use The Major Scale? - Guitar Theory Lesson

No transcription or "how to play" videos this week! Enjoy a little bit of major scale theory.
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[@midnighttoker8663]

Love these lessons on general concepts which you can apply everywhere as opposed to specific tunes.

[@allenronaldson4381]

Gun to the head, If there was one lesson you had to choose to give the average player before you die, would this lesson be a candidate? The reason I ask, is because I wish I had seen this particular lesson about 3 years ago when I got into bluegrass. Great stuff!

[@agalligani]

VERY interesting theory. I think this is all information that I've probably somehow internalized but to have it explained like this is refreshing.

[@guysaul6212]

Once again expanding my musical mind!!! Good stuff man.. and thank you !

[@Allen2saint]

So well explained! Respect!

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Thank you for this!

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Good stuff!

[@JeffQuestad]

Greatness. I learn a lot from your videos. So well done.

[@ianweston9152]

Love your work, Marcel! One explanation for the G on beat 4 of bar 16 working might be that the G and A notes are running up to the target note of B on beat of bar 17. In this case the "wrong note" is justified as it's tension is released when the target B, a very strong note of the G chord, is reached. I was told by by a teacher once that sometimes you need to sit back and look at the overall intention of a line and not try to justify each individual note :)

[@zakygerman9897]

Love this. I wonder if it's worth trying to actively work on internalizing this to apply it to improvisation by starting slow and being conscious of note choices with all that in mind, or if it's one of those things that you just pick up intuitively with experience

[@gordonbrackett7220]

Good morning Marcel!

[@neildrachlen9149]

Awesome lesson Marcel. Ice cream truck in my neighborhood growing up would play that "turkey in the straw song"🤗😂never knew the name

[@allenronaldson4381]

That and Clair de Lune. Check out Andy Hatfields arrangement of TITS that won him the flat picking competition at Winfield.

[@ejtonefan]

Tony and Norm commonly add the #9 to the major scale notes.

[@johnbackman4475]

A major light bulb lit up. The notes that “threaten “ the chord played over

[@reinaldoferreira9503]

Good....'....Tks from Brazil :D

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How can I sponsor a transcription, Marcel? Awesome video with useful information, as always.

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[@hjarnansjarn5969]

This was very interesting.

[@danbromberg]

Why does playing with a downstroke or upstroke (5:06) affect stability? Doesn't the note still sound the same no matter which direction the string was struck?

[@kellygotell1179]

When you conclude at the end , we shouldn’t be just noodling with the major scale, I am confused. All the notes in turkey in the straw are all in the g major scale are they not? Unless you mean we shouldn’t be just noodling in the pentatonic major scales.

[@loganbrown3565]

Arpeggios and note choice over chord type (3rds b7 2)

[@kellygotell1179]

Hi Marcel, I love your lessons, in this one I am confused a bit. In your conclusion you say we shouldn’t be just noodling with the major scale , but all the notes in turkey in the straw are in the g major scale are they not?……(Unless you want us to think about the pentatonic scale for each chord) but still every note in this song is in the G major scale.

[@LessonsWithMarcel]

Pentatonic notes feel stable and can be used on down beats. If a note is not in the pentatonic scale it generally appears on up beats. I recap all of that around 6:00. In the end my point is noodling isn't the most effective technique. You should be carefully placing your stable notes and unstable notes whether you're thinking diatonically or pentatonically.

[@kellygotell1179]

@@LessonsWithMarcel thank you for your reply, I understand

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Looks like a blues cat, or a bluegrass kat ? Thank you