Jacksnax: B MIXOLYDIAN Basics for Beginners

I’ve gotten a few requests for simple approach to help the beginning or emerging soloist with understanding this mode of the major scale. After thinking about it for a bit, I came up with a lesson that keeps things simple. By just learning three frets at a time, we have a much better chance of really getting this essential sound embedded into not only our inner ear, but muscle memory so that improvisation can take place. Best of luck amigos!
Jack

[@Nowo78]

This lesson is certified gold! Thank you for making videos like this!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Sure thing!

[@kcclem1442]

These videos are great. I'm an old guy that has noodled on guitars for about 45 years. I played in a garage band in high school and for a couple years after but never really got too serious. I ended up going to college, getting a career, getting married, and raising 4 kids, still always noodling and collecting guitars. Now, as an old guy nearing the end of my career, kids all raised, and more time to play a little, I've been getting interested again in learning more about scales, modes, chord progressions, etc. These videos will help me make the most of my interest in learning some Grateful Dead stuff and playing with my latest guitar acquisition, a new Garcia Tiger replica. Thanks for all the time, effort, and useful information you put into your videos.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Great to hear from you! Happy that these vids are helping you enjoy music👍✌️🍻

[@viannarts]

You are an amazing teacher ! Kudos from a Brazilian guy living in The Netherlands.I dont have my family in here and I dont have many friends so playing the guitar has been a blessing for me and your videos are really helping me in my solitude. Thank you.

[@Jerrys_missing_finger]

Thank you for using your time to make these vids and resources. These have been opening so many roadblocks for me. I feel obligated to support this channel somehow.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

You’re too kind! All I ask is that folks subscribe and stay in touch✌🏻🤘🏻🍄

[@chriscurtis8344]

All I can say is thanks for the awesome lesson. Not condescending or showy just flatfooted teaching. You’re like a cool religious guy who hopes for the best…

[@Lobishomem]

Great lesson. Thanks !

[@DNR3402]

Great lesson and instruction. I would like to see a "II-V-I for Dummies" type lesson for all us struggling pre-jazzers in your audience. Theory is necessary stuff, but how it relates to the guitar fretboard, visually, is where I think you shine.

[@snogglemonkey]

I know Mixo mode pretty well but it its always great to hear a master play it with great phrasing, which truly breathes life into this mode (or any mode or scale) .

[@markusgarvey]

This was a good lesson because you showed that Jerry didn't play just straight Mixo, or dorian, or pentatonic on any song. he just used all the notes that worked. None of us are going to play just like Jerry, because we are not Jerry, we are who we are. We make it our own. But there is the zen of Jerry, and trying to get into that headspace and remembering what note makes what sound. I visualize what I want my lead to sound like, and when I finally got to know the tones, I could think ahead of the music. Just like you said, just playing to loops is where you flesh it out. If you don't have a pedal that will make loops, you can get by with backing tracks for almost any song on youtube, and you can loop them on youtube itself. Right click on the video, in the same place where the dropdown menu says "stats for nerds" and you will see "loop" at the very top of the dropdown menu. You can also download Audacity DAW for FREE, and loop yourself until your fingers bleed... ONLY dl from Audacity or Sourceforge. www.audacityteam.org/ sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

[@brianlaprade-mp5iy]

This is an incredible video that absolutely demystifies a lot!

[@MaTTheWish]

Sometimes a lesson and more specifically a teacher just speaks one's language and it resonates powerfully with the student. This was my language. Subscribed...

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Thanks!!!

[@dkysimcox5662]

Makes Morse sense than anyone has ever explained to me! Thanks!!!

[@jroc2201]

You are my new favorite guitar player/teacher, you are a great musican, I'm going to try to follow you

[@user-nz5em5wg2h]

Wow wow wow thanks so awesome I've never played this well! All over neck!😎

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

So glad to read that!

[@leonard_maz]

BLEW. MY. MIND. Amazing!!!

[@markjoy4511]

Excellent explanation!

[@tomask.3983]

Excellent lesson and an approach in teaching more KZbinrs should adapt to. I already knew some about the mixolydian thing, but still mess things up. This lesson is the first on KZbin that ALL beginners should start with. Why? Because it instantly gives away something easy that makes you actually play a tune in mixolydian without all that theory stuff, no wrong in learning that, but can be done later on.

[@TraapperA]

Wow man, your teaching and playing is phenomenal. Thank you good sir

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Very kind

[@joshuacumming4132]

So happy I found you! Thanks!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Happy to help!

[@jeffcramer2463]

Just found you dude. This is awesome! Thank you.

[@hebrewuser]

Very much appreciated. This lesson is fantastic and although I can't speak for everyone, learning to play lead when you've been a rhythm player for 20 years, is like literally being given the keys to the kingdom. Even little too, three, or four notes phrases, when played tastefully and done well, are huge. Thank you.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

My pleasure...keep up the good work, and stay in touch!

[@hebrewuser]

"avoid the clams!"

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

@@hebrewuser Uggh! They like to attack!

[@hebrewuser]

@@jacksnax4guitar460 I am fascinated with this new concept you have introduced us to: GLISSANDO. The note by itself is a CLAM and yet when you "GLISS" it into a non-clamified note it actually sounds better: more lively, active, bouncy -- it adds a pizazz to the note. Also, I want to say again how SIGNIFICANT this lesson is for folks like me: it not only makes clear how good your chops are in that you are literally making 2-4 notes sound (to my ear) fantastic and so it gives the beginner like me ever more confidence that I can actually sound like I don't suck. You may not realize that these things are so huge for us but listening to the way in which you make even one note sort of dance and come alive is critical -- it makes one start believing that playing lead is within reach.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

@@hebrewuser Man...that’s so wonderful to read. Makes it all worthwhile.What a generous compliment. Yes, the gliss is a huge part of creating a more vocal musical phrase rather than just plunking down on the notes straight away. At its core is tension and release...but in a microcosmic way. As to making music with just a few notes, yeah man...that’s the ticket. The ability to harness rhythm is the most essential and foundational element of musicality. Once you have a rhythmic idea then filling in the notes becomes almost secondary. Be confident and deliberate with the rhythm, and even a simple melody can really make some musical magic. Keep it up!

[@HD-rs6fi]

PERFECT!!! Im FINALLY getting somewhere !! Thanks Jack Snax !!!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

You’re welcome!!! So happy that the lesson was helpful🍄💀⚡️✌️

[@sanctuarytimbers717]

A great twenty minutes of learning. Thank you for yOur time… 😁

[@gavinjones8543]

Cheers for this, very useful!

[@gregspradling1495]

Great lesson, thank you

[@adamwilson8150]

Great lesson, thank you!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Hi Adam! Thanks for your comment. I hope this and other lessons will help you get where you want to go as a player. Plz subscribe!

[@user-ux3tx8fn9y]

Awesome. Sure liked that you made it so easy to understand and not showboating!

[@davemo65]

Holy shit!! For the first time since I started playing a few years back, I can actually pull off a little Garcia solo! Fantastic lesson. Thank you.

[@adamstricoff9708]

Jerry Bird yeah birdie up too

[@tylerlevy7142]

This was super helpful, thank you!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

My pleasure!

[@johnbogaczyk24]

Hi Jack, Thank you for this fantastic lesson! I am somewhere between a beginner and intermediate player, and this was really helpful! Would LOVE a few more lessons like this one which are geared a little more towards those of us who are beginners and may know the pentatonic scales pretty well, but don' t really know where to go next, or how. Anyway, love your style of teaching, as it is understandable and makes sense. "Fire" is one of my favorite Dead tunes, so this was really awesome.... THANK YOU!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

There’s another Mixo for beginners lesson here as well. “The NY Shape”

[@johnbogaczyk24]

Thank you!

[@johnpistotnik3536]

super helpful, thank you

[@pixelcruncher]

This is one of those "click" lessons for me; like a piece of the puzzle in the middle where I can finally see how and where it fits in the big picture. Maybe not the right metaphor, but I am grateful nonetheless. And added bonus is that you do it over Fire on The Mountain loop. Many thanks!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Thanks for saying hi! Happy it helped.

[@nealstamey5966]

Thanks man!!!

[@eoinsmith422]

evrey day is a schoolday. great lesson, thanks

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Thanks!

[@stevenmcbride2776]

Fine teaching,thx

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Thanks!

[@zippy61]

Thank you so much!!!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

You’re very welcome!

[@dmc549]

HIgh quality content here man. Subscribed!

[@Acolis]

when you explain it and break it out like this it all seems so obvious. how could i have not seen this myself? thank you

[@armurano5093]

Perfect utilization of repetition in your style of teaching.

[@olbrantz10]

great lesson.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Happy you liked it!

[@thebruckners]

I was just discussing this topic with my guitar tutor yesterday. I grasp that the modes are just playing the major scale in a particular key, but starting at the intervals after the root (i.e., ii, iii, IV, V, etc.). But I have a difficult time when to best introduce them into my playing. I appreciate your time and effort to put this video together - thank you.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Not sure if it’s Chris or Sara (no H cool!) I’m talking to. You’re welcome! Either way...yeah, Modes are usually more trouble than they are worth to developing players. Unless they are taught the right way I feel like most folks just get analysis paralysis from trying to understand and apply all of them at once. My preferred method of teaching/practicing modes is to play the different modes all starting from and against the same root. So...let’s just say B. Now, there’s this non specific B tone that we are playing notes against. Like a tanpura. Start with the major (Ionian) scale. Then play Mixo (Major scale with flattened 7th), Then Lydian (Major scale with #4), then B Aeolian (1,2,b3,4,5,b6,b7), then Dorian (1,2,b3,4,5,6,b7). You need to become familiar enough with the sound that those different scales make relative to the drone note B. Then focus on the types of chords those modes work over. B Dominant 7 (Mixo), B Major (Ionian or Lydian), B Minor 7 (Aeolian) Dorian for B minor 6th chords. Then apply that knowledge to all the keys. That’s usually enough for folks to focus on. Plus you need to get the blues scale and the +/- Pentatonic scales happening too. Plenty of time to mess with the Phrygian, Locrian, Melodic & Harmonic Minor and Diminished once you understand the aforementioned. No need to try to understand all of it in one go. My opinion of course. Hope you don’t feel dispirited...it’s going to be fun!

[@Jerrys_missing_finger]

@@jacksnax4guitar460 thanks for using your time to make these vids and resources. So grateful

[@samardas5460]

Thank you

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

You're welcome

[@leonard_maz]

07:18 Pattern 1 11:54 Demo 13:48 Pattern 2 16:34 Demo 17:28 Pattern 3 17:57 Demo 18:56 Pattern 4 19:56 Pattern 5

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Thanks!

[@corbettsmith7285]

Super sound and digestible lesson! Couldn't help but notice the stellar tone. Any insight into what your running? Sounds like a Fender Tube w/ maybe a little reverb?

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

It’s just my Kemper set to a deluxe reverb and a little delay.

[@matthewdonaghue1431]

Love your content. Also, you kinda look like Doug Stanhope.

[@fredjansohn8888]

Hi, Was wondering if you have any PDFs of these lessons for download? Great eye/fretboard-opening lesson. Cheers

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Sorry amigo… what you see is what you get!

[@GratefulGrove]

Thank you so much, excellent lesson. What gauge strings are you using here?

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

10s

[@GratefulGrove]

@@jacksnax4guitar460 thank you so much!

[@Jerrys_missing_finger]

Revisiting this 7 months later, 12:58 living off shapes.... the struggle is real. Do you have any tips on how to learn the notes on the fretboard? It seems like a mental block for me and others. E,A strings are solid, so that's 3, the other 3 get me though.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

This video is a basic, 3 fret approach. So it might be time to see and instructor or consider some other perspectives. That said. The high E string is the same as the low E. So that should make sense pretty quickly. Learning the G string? The trick is that it is the A string up a whole step. (2frets) The real jerk @ the party is the B string. Look at the E major scale on the B string. Starting at the 17th fret, play it backwards. E Major (Ionian) shares the same notes as B Mixolydian. Learn that up and down on the B and then on the other stings. It’ll come together.

[@brucemartindale973]

The only way this great lesson could be improved is with mixolydian diagrams for E, A and D shapes. Good stuff!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@GuitarHero-go6zy]

👍

[@joederickperez9885]

Hi, can this work on 1 4 5 6m in key E? Thank you so much sir.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

1,4,&5 etc yes…though I’d encourage you to always think of the chord rather than the scale.

[@willbutplural]

Here because of john mayer

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

I like John Mayer

[@zevpass]

how do we get in touch with you for lessons

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Most lessons have my email info…but I’ll write it out so bit don’t spam me. Jack underscore Devine at hotmail dot com

[@Stevesoffthecouch]

Excellent

[@PhaseLockedLoop]

you kinda sound like Bob Odenkirk at times. Good lesson though!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

I love Bob! I don’t know if you’re right…but I thank you for watching!

[@adamstricoff9708]

🗿🗿

[@stevensuh5400]

A great lesson. Say more with less!!!

[@topwater22]

"not to put it in nutritive terms" lol

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Yeah…that was a bit over the top.

[@stefanradkevitch6639]

I don't understand why the first thing people don't explain about the modes is their step pattern. Going straight to talking about a particular mode being the second, third, forth, fifth degree of a blah blah blah scale just mystifies things for the modal lay person. But other than that, good stuff.

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

Because it’s different in each mode If students find learning 7 positions of the same scale and each with their own name, chord type and application…imagine adding that info as well.

[@adamstricoff9708]

Pink Floyd could be B Mixolydian too Same as Garcia man Pink Floyd!

[@jacksnax4guitar460]

I hear more Dorian sounds in Floyd.

[@adamstricoff9708]

Maybe it’s the bass then I meant Pink Floyd Division Bell

[@adamstricoff9708]

Right after B Mixolydian position.

[@adamstricoff9708]

Press play man

[@adamstricoff9708]

It’s true you the man I heard…

[@aizmor2600]

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