Is this The BEST KEPT SECRET of the Guitar Pros? So SIMPLE!

[@RussellGalloway-k7c]

Ive been looking for someone like Mark for years. He actually can play what ive been looking for, for more years than i can count. Thank you

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure ... and welcome aboard!

[@iVenge]

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]

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

[@zigzagwanderer9531]

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!

[@Dan-zq5wt]

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]

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

[@GaryBook]

And a total hipster!

[@MarkZabel]

@@GaryBook LOL! Maybe a hippie-ster.

[@bigfatlazydork]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Sure thing brother. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mbmillermo]

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]

Thanks! I'll have a look.

[@elmolewis9123]

Short, sweet and very informative. 👍👍

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@ScareglowSkull]

I certainly love your approach Sir. Best regards from Argentina

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you! Hello from NY USA!

[@dmbar1953]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ScoobyStrat]

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]

Fantastic! Glad it was helpful.

[@stephenwilson99]

Thank you Mark. Love your work! David Bowie "Sorrow" also uses this maj 3rd to 4th, even the sax solo.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Stephen!

[@melodymaker135]

Mark’s example solos are both good and delightfully short

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks. I work at keeping things moving along!

[@adreenal]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you like it! Rock on!

[@ezkempinkemp3467]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much. Glad you like them!

[@eddieholmes3236]

Thanks Mark! That was really informative.

[@MarkZabel]

Glad it was helpful!

[@GaryBook]

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]

Rock on!

[@azdh85224]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@JamesSBaker-de6sd]

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

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful!

[@jeffmancuso2715]

Been playing for a long time, this was gold.

[@MarkZabel]

Glad it was helpful to you!

[@AncientGranules]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@johnnyboo8243]

That's a wow moment. Thanks

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome. Glad it clicked!

[@atarijam]

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

[@aminahmed2220]

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

[@MarkZabel]

You too!

[@krisstieghorst7415]

Thanks Mark Fantastic lesson👋🖤🦋🖤

[@MarkZabel]

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

[@Dan-zq5wt]

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]

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]

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]

@@MarkZabel really cool. Will try this

[@Dan-zq5wt]

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

[@MusiCatsKing]

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.

[@stefanfful]

I love it! Very helpful.

[@MarkZabel]

I'm so glad!

[@spooky3120]

You discovered the L7 guitar too!

[@MarkZabel]

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

[@Valhalla369]

Excellent video

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@eastcoastwilly1373]

Great tutorial Mark.

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@juliochingaling5824]

Excellent video.

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you very much!

[@scottthomas9181]

Always remember you're only a half scale from greatness

[@waynegram8907]

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]

Johnny Who?

[@MarkZabel]

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

[@cdr-sailor]

@@MarkZabel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_(Jeff_Beck_and_Johnny_Depp_album) and kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5LEYquKgNpql7Msi=bA-71oucAkuZrVMf

[@waynegram8907]

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

[@rogerdaly6326]

I've been partial to the hexatonic scales

[@cliveburgess4128]

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

[@MarkZabel]

You know it!

[@eco9LOG]

steve hillage -fish rising

[@MarkZabel]

Awesome stuff!

[@caryheuchert]

Exactly 👍👍

[@hugocoolens]

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

[@dwainthompson7777]

Nice how them fingers doing today

[@MarkZabel]

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

[@peterm3964]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Okay, thanks.

[@KozmykJ]

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

[@MarkZabel]

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

[@KozmykJ]

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

[@anthonybowers7571]

Steve Hillage ..master of this style

[@MarkZabel]

Yep.

[@anthonybowers7571]

@@MarkZabel ❤

[@Bluepilled-c5t]

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

[@MarkZabel]

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

[@Bluepilled-c5t]

@@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]

@@Bluepilled-c5t 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!

[@CD_Character]

I was getting a Neil Young vibe at 5:25.

[@MarkZabel]

Interesting.

[@anthonydavella8350]

Mixa pentatonic, right?

[@MarkZabel]

Take your pick for the name. 4:24

[@stephensmith799]

Also: P90 pu.s 🙂

[@MusiCatsKing]

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

[@cryptogumbyckb1183]

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

[@MarkZabel]

Maybe soon!

[@mjsmcd]

Dckey betts

[@robertparker-m9d]

👍

[@wideyxyz2271]

🥰💥

[@dawnr8511]

Blukuh!

[@abrogard142]

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.]

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

[@phil.c.]

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

[@abrogard142]

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

[@MarkZabel]

@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]

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.

[@horstglasmann3477]

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

[@MarkZabel]

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 KZbin video.

[@outtathyme5679]

I’m officially naming it the Jeff Beck scale 😁

[@MarkZabel]

Yeah man! Go for it!

[@Predney]

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

[@genenery9315]

Stop playing scales. Play melodies.

[@frannyp46]

He’s given you the blueprint to play melodies.

[@genenery9315]

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

[@x13roger80]

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

[@MarkZabel]

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

[@SeanDoyle-vu9kx]

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

[@MarkZabel]

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.

[@neogeoriffic]

I don't like it.