Lead Strategies: Minor/Major Pentatonic Crossover Licks

[@CGDGCD]

Eric, I'm not affiliated with your marketing team, but... since I started your Truefire class I've really started to see the instrument in a different way. Chords first and then find the scales, modes, licks and tricks around those shapes. Really helped tie all the positions together and really in a very simple way. Still working through the material but very cool approach. Thanks friend! Gus

[@JasonClute]

Agreed! Before the course dropped I had gotten into this way of looking at the fretboard from Eric’s and a couple other tubers that share that philosophy. The biggest thing for me was associating the chords with pentatonics. So the course was great timing as it just solidified the journey I was on 🤘

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! It’s so much easier to remember everything if we go chords first!

[@stevenjones6780]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Have you done a thing on 10th's as yet? I use them constantly as musical shorthand to un-clutter the midrange in a band or ensemble setting. 10th's are an excellent visual and ear training tool as well that simplifies things in a hurry. You can always add more chord/scale tones to them, so great for chord spelling as well.

[@karllongbottomguitars9192]

The slide from the minor 3rd to a major 3rd then the octave in A is killer 👍

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's amazing how much one chromatic color tone can change the feel of everything!

[@karllongbottomguitars9192]

@@EricHaugenGuitar to my ear it's also having the 3rd in a lower register than the root note

[@jukejointjack]

Dude, that hendrix lick is killer

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Forever the GOAT!

[@joshuaevans1922]

Love these tasty major/minor licks, they are such a key part of playing pop, rock and blues.

[@deafrider]

Wow this video really enriched my usual pentatonic minor lick arsenal

[@boomerdell]

Hangin’ with Eric here, on Patreon, on Truefire…always an excellent choice.

[@russelljoplin2728]

Beautiful and elegant, as always. Thanks, Eric!

[@blues61]

Dude, good stuff! A bunch to unpack, but that 6th to flat 3rd move is an easy takeaway from this lesson that I want to put in my kit. Tasty, tasty. My first experience recognizing that Blues players mix minor and major pentatonic was when I transcribed Bonnie Raitt's cover of "Love Me Like a Man". I knew it was done, but working on that transcription brought it home.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

(Takes a moment to reflect on what a badass Bonnie Raitt is.)

[@macsarcule]

This always makes my Friday ✌️😌🎸

[@DeGroove]

In addition to the pursuit of the Ribot skronky sound I’ve been wrapping my mind and fingers around harmonic minor lately so would be a very much appreciated idea you mentioned there. Thanks for this utterly tasty lesson. Have a great day Eric.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Stay tuned for next Friday!

[@DeGroove]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Always! Looking forward to it.

[@blakejones6648]

This was a wonderful stereo experience

[@stevenjones6780]

Yes, your nice loose and gentle demeanor is easy to follow. I promise I'll stop calling you the Bob Ross of UT guitar 😁

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I don’t mind at all!

[@CC-qb9sm]

Good stuff. Will be purchasing your TrueFire course in the next few days, looking forward to it. Have a great rest of the weekend!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! You’ll see - it really ties everything together!

[@mantashaft]

Haugenaughts Go!

[@druewilliams1820]

Your true fire course has been the number 1 thing to help me improve that iv come across!! Thankyou.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! That makes me so happy to hear!

[@davidpepper442]

Thanks, these are great licks Eric. By the way, I started your CAGED course a couple of weeks ago. It's already helping me to fill in gaps and make connections that I've been missing for years. Thanks man!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! That makes me so happy to hear!

[@MrAquatoad]

Put a slow G, F, C progression into the looper... and rub G major against G minor. The most unexpected thing was how i was suddenly incorporating MUSICAL BENDS into lines, where as before i knew bend licks. Slinky. Thank you Eric!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Yeah that classic G F C change would be prefect for this kind of crossover

[@marcsullivan7987]

Nice guitar! My main gigging guitar for 20 years has been a ‘73 Tele w the same stock “fender” Bigsby. Except rosewood fingerboard. Bought it on a road trip to New Orleans!

[@boomerdell]

Oh, yeah, meant to add that Friday night is pizza night in our home, and I watched this just a few hours after the family enjoyed our traditional Friday supper. Perfect.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! I’m influencing your whole family now! 🍕🍕🍕🍕

[@coastercook]

Thanks, Eric.

[@harrisonpye2030]

Hendrix is, indeed, forever the greatest. Thanks for that mad Little Miss Lover trick. More Jimi licks please senor.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ooooh I’ve got a whole playlist of Hendrix-y lessons! Him, Marc Ribot, and Dave Rawlings are my big 3

[@matthewchunk3689]

Thank you Eric!

[@jamesleigh900]

Tasty playing, love you channel

[@Billybolo53]

Would love to see you do a lesson on Lenny by SRV or at least post a cover it, Seems like he mixes the scales quite a bit in that song. Thanks so much for the content. You have helped my playing tremendously

[@robotandgirl1170]

Look up Ross Campbell.

[@madsbrandt598]

Its a great mic, but mixes bad on 8"'s maybe try it more to the center and in the middle. i just got hung up on that it dont do the amp justice in the lowend. Great video as always !

[@scottkidwellmusic9175]

Thank you, Eric 🙏 Appreciate the lesson and the tasty licks. Be good to you

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Scott! I try!

[@scottkidwellmusic9175]

@@EricHaugenGuitar - as Master Yoda says: "There is no try. Do, or do not." 😂🍕

[@elliotvernon7971]

Excellent!

[@johnpauldove3892]

Damn it, Haugen! Absolutely tasty!

[@collierlandry]

As always, great video, Eric! And I ate pizza today woohoo!

[@DeGroove]

Also…that gospel thingy you mentioned…made me think of AC/DC’s Gone Shootin’…

[@denomdemon]

I can't wait to put down the coffee mug and pick up the guitar and pdf for this one! Well, I can wait. Coffee is important.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yes! Coffee is LIFE

[@thenameless3271]

I'd love a showcase of major into a minor tune. Great video, thank you

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Interestingly enough - it doesn’t often work that way!

[@markusasmussen30]

You don’t use that cool Gretsch any more, did you sell it? I fell in love with it 🎸 💔

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I had to sell it when I moved - needed the money for furniture!

[@dragon43inf]

good stuff

[@joserra79]

Very Grant Green-esque! Great ;)

[@bobbysherman254]

Sounds awesome! Thank you! You have a link for the jacket🙂

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Levis outlet ftw

[@keithdavis5464]

Dickie Betts was also famous for Minor/Major licks

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Such a great phraser - he always lands everything just right!

[@deanjohnston104]

Hi. Nice lesson. Thanks for the hard work. How’re you digging the Vox? I have the exact same amp, and mostly use my Bootstrap Pickups’ Extra Crispy equipped MIJ (standard bridge) 50s / Blackguard Tele with it. Sounds great. Peace & all that, Dean

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I love that lil vox! So easy to dial in!

[@leifkeane]

thanks!

[@lanemiller4322]

Eric, great lesson. Are you getting more into the dead/Garcia?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Naw! Still like Europe live 72 though!

[@shaneevans2788]

Is that an AC4 Handwired? I didn’t think of myself as a “Vox guy” but that thing sounds sweet.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! There’s a specific sting to the high end on voxes that’s very unique!

[@matthewlawson5056]

best april fools prank yet

[@misled1664]

Hey Eric, Is that bridge surface mounted? My main guitar is a telecaster 52 replica, but I wanna learn surf guitar so I need a tremolo. Do you recommend that bridge? Stays in tune?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah it’s factory! The key is the very pricey mastery bridge - that really holds it all together

[@richardlynch5632]

Makes so much sense...2nd nature😎👍 😎👍❤🖖

[@timothy5974]

Great lesson, that tele looks heavy. Eat 🍕

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It’s a BRICK! But it’s also my favorite

[@caseyapgar1153]

You're about chords, so what progressions are good for this crossover? I can do the crossover but always get stuck by progressions.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Any standard blues, country, or southern rock would definitely fit the bill! G - F - C - C -

[@mantashaft]

Wherever he goes the people all complain

[@TheDrewjameson]

Well hello, Bill Frisell!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I wish!

[@nigelsmith8727]

that's a cold house to wear a hat indoors

[@JasonClute]

Not proud of following the crowd here, but I really want to Will Smith smack the hot licks away 🤣😂 However, I’ll take these tasty chill licks all day 🍕 🤘🍕🤘

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

My cousin Brad Haugen works for Will Smith’s management team!

[@JasonClute]

whoa, thats wild. I'm guessing they are little busy! I would never want the celeb thing. Being scrutinized for everything you do. I've got a temper and tend to lash out before I think. I know its easy for everyone to laugh, and totally judge what he did, but when us normal people make a mistake, its not on the world stage

[@kaneharrell]

“That’s a fart.” @2:37

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah I noticed that when editing 😂

[@endiiskaable]

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