Learning Bluegrass Vocal Melodies By Ear - Bluegrass Guitar Lesson

[@amusicallifepdx]

Thanks!

[@JosephusDalrymple]

Thanks Teach. This is really useful. I’ve been hearing the advice to “use the common notes between the chords” but really never could visualize it until now, thanks to you the quick grafic mid-way through the vid.

[@TheTajmahodges]

Great lesson! That big dipper box got me through many a jams, good name for it!

[@brodie814]

Thank you for this video. Hearing how you work your way through breaks really helps give me some direction for improving mine. I've been kind of faking the occasional break they throw at me (I play rhythm) with minor and major pentatonic licks and sometimes accidentally finding the melody. I tend to just stay in the root key during leads because the thought of changing scales during a break is intimidating. The way you break the scales into smaller "dipper" shapes looks really helpful. Gonna give it a shot when I get home.

[@als1023]

Always interesting and fun ! This is a clever tool to add to the box, thanks Marcel !! Goodness knows the big dipper dominates the northern sky here on the north-west coast. OK it owns the show anywhere in the northern hemisphere.

[@stephenweade7487]

Wow!!.. great vid.. fantastic insight!..appreciate your work!!

[@vinceconlan8328]

Great! Thanks.

[@gazicj]

great stuff brotha--ur helpin me a lot--much obliged! I'm just a beginner/intermediate musician at best, but fwiw, I think & feel ur a sweet picker--very tasteful--reminds me of Adam Aijala of YMSB--u can turn on the afterburners if ya need or want to, if the music/situation calls for it, but otherwise, ur not flashy just for the sake of it, all the time, just cause u can or to show off. anyways, that was a long comment, more like coltrane than monroe! too many notes, err, words!!! stay healthy, lata:)

[@gazicj]

soooo helpful--much obliged

[@MyBackHurtsALittle]

Awesome...hows this shape change over say a D minor vs a D? What if we are play over A major? Thanks!

[@BrianTheVoice]

That is the second scale I learned twenty five years ago.

[@rhyspowell7334]

Cool way of thinking about it, I have a tendency to just listen and guess the notes but this is for sure more reliable:) Tangent question: the melody for mountain girls at the end, why does my brain know instantly that it's going from iv to i when there's no obvious musical context, and based on the notes used it could be going from i to v in the key of C... what's going on there?

[@hdborden]

Marcel, love you teaching. Just joined your face book-----looking into skipe (sp?). Would love to talk. Thank you

[@garycoen6943]

Another excellent lesson!

[@LanceClark]

So, you're using that big dipper shape across all the chords in the song, right?

[@LessonsWithMarcel]

Yup, that one shape can work over all the chords just because bluegrass melodies and chord changes tend to be fairly simple!

[@LanceClark]

Ok, great. I see now that the big dipper shape is also useful for improvisation. I'm excited to give it a try later today.

[@paulawhtkr001]

Thanks!