Matt Schofield - Sophisticated Blues

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

I am learning! Love Matt Schofield playing approach.

[@zsoltdubravcsik2750]

Me too. You're also a master Tomo!

[@addigi5598]

TomoFujitaMusic ..you should listen to Robben Ford ..you will love him as well

[@krimisim]

You seriously think he does'nt know Robben ford?

[@growtogether]

krimi I don't think he knows who Tomo Fujita is ;)

[@-Marc2044-]

Absolutly true!!

[@TheBoomer1975]

He's got the perfect blend between blues and jazz, that elegant touch makes him an absolutely true master of the blues! Thanks Matt!

[@JimmySlacksack]

refreshing to hear a player not playing a bazillion notes per second but actually focusing on succinct phrases that mean something musically.

[@henrygerwien186]

@Slack I like your comment, you nail it. Am soo tired of speed wizzards with no idea in it, love indeed less tones and more 'blues content'...

[@quickstep2408]

matt schofield and josh smith... keeping the blues alive in a refreshing way :)

[@chrisb6962]

Took a master class with Matt about a year or two ago, what a nice and humble guy

[@soerenguitarlessons9947]

Matt has a constant natural flow and build up in his solos, and never seems just to show off. I love his musical attitude, that reminds me a bit of the one of Robben Ford.

[@brotendo]

I love that in the start of the video, his noodling was so clean and had direction. You could hear the chord changes clearly and even hum the I IV V bassline along with him. Solid.

[@NUJAKKCITIE]

oh boy, great lesson! what an honest guy, shows all his chops and tries to tell exactly what he's doing. saw him live two years ago it was simply amazing!

[@TheSundayMornings]

Half of my kingdom for a tone like that!!! Holy A!!!

[@BMWBikes-i7n]

Whouuuw, one of the best Guitarist together with Chris Duarte, Charlie Hunter and Josh Smith right now. And this great SVL sound, with this great Curt Mangan strings! Thanks a lot for it.

[@dinosouth7909]

I agree with these comments, I have really gotten into Matt's playing and albums. Bought 5 studio albums in a month and absolutely love them! Great melody, tone and he doesn't rely on 'tricks' and gimmicks - just great playing.

[@AlejandroGonzalez-wo5fk]

No heavy distortion, just pure vibe and talent :)

[@danielsperry8114]

This guy can play ! Ok what he is saying is " learn your major scale modes" If your playing an A7 .. Play A mixolydian ...Key Of D Major, E Dorian .. F# Phrygian .. G Lydian ... A Mixolyian .. B Aeolian .. Here is where it changes , when you go to the IV chord the key changes . D7 is now in the key of G major , if you play A dorian licks over D7 you are playing D mixolydian ? Basically an A dorian is just an A min pentatonic with 2 extra notes B and F#.. All you need to learn is #1 the 7 shapes of the major modes and #2 learn what key you need to be in . Mixolydian is the 5th mode of the major scale E mixolydian = Key of A Major A - B - C# - D - E - F# - Ab - A. Best thing to do is make a loop of A7 and jam over it learning the scale and it's different positions on the neck . Then move to the IV D7 and do the same thing and when you get comfortable make a loop of 4 bars of A7 going to 2 bars of D7 and loop it. I hope this helps somebody , learning is FUN.... I hope i did not confuse you i'm trying to help anybody in a rut .. Have fun guys ..

[@floydknip6943]

this has been my approach for the I and IV but I always struggle with doing this for the V because it just sounds like moving up the scale from the IV by two frets and doesn't that fresh.

[@danielsperry8114]

FloydKnip i get what you're saying . Ok so don't move up to D Mixolydian in 10th position , try playing a lick in the 5th position over the D7 . What you are playing is A Dorian because D MIXOLYDIAN IS THE 5TH SCALE IN G MAJOR AND A DORIAN IS THE SECOND SCALE IN G MAJOR . Or just think of it as A minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes . record a loop of D7 and try it . Or try playing an E Aeolian , again think of this scale as a E minor pentatonic with 2 extra notes .

[@glennkrzeminski7539]

You could just slide up the two frets, like you said, if you stayed in minor scales for the entire progression. For instance, A minor pentatonic, D minor pent. and then slide two frets up for your E minor pent. However, that gets old, as you stated. What Daniel is saying is Major on the I and V chords and a minor on the IV. If you are minor on the IV and Major on the V then even if you move two frets up the notes and their intervals will be different and should give you contrast. Since you are not on that V chord very long sometimes I stay in fifth position and play E Major pentatonic. Start it with your pinky on the E. Obviously I can't roam the fretboard as freely as Mr. Schofield.

[@danielsperry8114]

Lets try this . Play an A7 chord and loop it . Now i want you to play 10th fret all 6 strings D major scale or { IONIAN MODE } Keep playing the A7 looped and do not stop it . Move up to the 12th fret and play E dorian mode , then F# Phrygian 14th fret or 2nd fret next play G Lydian 3rd fret , A Mixolydian 5th fret . B Aeolian 7th fret . Learn the patterns slowly and you will get this . I chose the A7 chord for blues sound but not to confuse you --- you could do this with any chords in D Major like E minor would work over D MAJOR MODES, or B minor, G major7TH and so on . I hope i'm not making this more confusing for you but soon a light bulb will go off in your head and you will figure this out .

[@marcushbsa]

bookmarking this video just for this discussion :-)

[@MrToniRoll]

Matt has such a tasted sound, that's what I really like of him, then his albums, but just his hands on the guitar makes enjoying so much!

[@dzsuba1]

+MrToniRoll Totally agree with you! Enjoy!

[@MrToniRoll]

+dzsuba1 thanks for sharing

[@larstu24]

Awesome, I caught him at the Montreal Jazz Fest a couple of months back. Great technique and awesome sound.

[@ryandunbar1314]

I'd love to have this dude teach me. Love his technique beautifully arranged phrasing. Clean & lovely tone. Melodic bliss 👍🏻

[@jimtoby6688]

The thing that can easily be missed here is his humbleness

[@olliteirikko]

The sound is just perfect!

[@Kistanovblues]

Awesome sound! Awesome guitar player! One of the most favorite!

[@connerwright5346]

That was gorgeous ! Thanks !

[@TomahawkKid56]

Matt Schofield is a big favourite of mine, I wish he'd come home to the Manchester area a bit more often.

[@guitaroidman524]

i went to the same school as him and we jammed green onions in the drama department room, it was a great day

[@quinker6569]

What a charming man, great player too!

[@bluesborn]

Matt was talking about BB King's importance to electric guitar on another video where the comment section was closed but what I wanted to say is the album that really woke me up to how cool a player he truly was is "Blues Is King". Lot's of really tastey and hip playing all over that album.

[@ChrisArlesMusic]

great guitar tone and great music ! thx for sharing

[@codytj3434]

this tone is unreal

[@adamwuksta3255]

Really nice guitar playing, very melodic and smooth. I love that jazz class mixed in with the emotion of the blues.

[@cypressdobro8759]

Well i am very glad to see and hear that my first line of thinking,dealing with the possible set of key changes,not always keeping the 1s blues scale flowing entirely. thanks.

[@QB15Cardinal]

Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.

[@michaeldolby2558]

Hey Matthew glad we got to see you in Buckingham blues bar. Fantastic.

[@mcasey1]

I need this tone. Wow.

[@mrzisme]

Plug your strat into a Two Rock

[@davedagreat69]

....and put on some VERY heavy gauge strings!

[@SpaceCattttt]

----and then give your Strat, your Two Rock and your VERY heavy gauge strings to me. After that, you buy the album I recorded with the stuff you gave me.

[@vvantherel5846]

he only plays 11-54s, heavier than I'd use in standard but a far cry from SRV's 13 gauge

[@col145]

You need his tone ??……. First thing to do is go to a certain crossroad late at night……………….

[@bobbyruggs808]

Very cool, great player and advise. Thanks for sharing.

[@vl292]

Something about his demeanor makes me smile. Almost at least. Always nice to hear the thoughprocess behind ones approach to playing.

[@SadieAliza]

this just gives me hope as a guitarist.

[@guitarman6742]

Alright !

[@usmc1875]

What he does is , he uses arpeggios a lot. So in every chord you have, break it down to a basic 1-3-5-7( of the chord you're playing over) and play those notes on the chords. that's a good starting point:)

[@gauchoguacho2000]

Thirds gives another flavour!!

[@ChrisArlesMusic]

Love his phrasing ! Superb Tone and phrasing in deed !

[@GuidoItaly]

Love that sound!

[@KelsterVonShredster]

this is fantastic, thanks.

[@yellowoceanoriginalsongs7142]

Excellent performance and great sound cheers

[@dallastoto3189]

Met him in a little store in Ct. maybe 10 of us sitting around in a workshop. Nicest guy and a monster player.

[@HittinTheBlueNote]

Thanks for sharing

[@dzsuba1]

+Ryosuke Otsuki Your welcome!

[@Mr59coconut]

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[@triplenickel444]

im diggin the tone and licks

[@doubleneck1632]

Great Matt!!

[@randyshaw2706]

Thank-you Matt, for playing in Victoria, b.c. @ ships point in the inner harbor. Such a shame that the harbor authority wouldn't let you play past 10pm. Really enjoy your' phrasing ♫♪♫♫ ♪♫

[@jefffelderman2409]

A real humble cat who plays masterfully with a wonderful, rich tone. Great stuff!

[@adaptableadventurerider]

Darn i really love this

[@guitarman6742]

yeah man...great tone.

[@voronOsphere]

Great approach!

[@guillermosantacruz1574]

Damn, what a tone

[@mqblues]

Nice melodic blues styling. Retro example of the suspended sound Matt uses at end of clip (5:14 >) can be found on studio version of "All I Want to Be is By Your Side" by Peter Frampton.

[@leftymadrid]

Very nice playing for sure!!!!

[@TroppiSilente]

Lovely playing...

[@guitarnut7438]

this vid makes me want to get a strat again!

[@dzsuba1]

+Guitar Nut Matt Schofield is the man who made me restart playing the guitar after 12 years of even not touching it. Great player and a very good man!

[@sumoblues]

Guy King, Chris Cain, Jack Pearson...to name but a few.

[@dansabag6]

Great lesson and great tone man. Sounds just like those rarely early blues gigs recorded with strat

[@RipVDub]

It's all about the major thirds - true statement. Appreciate the video! #blues

[@stuforty2]

Very nice 😀

[@MichaelMaksymiw]

Very nice..

[@bigleemac]

So, so good.

[@Stevewatson3]

Matts the player I wish I got into much earlier for multiple reasons… he explains why tone is important without going nuts with it! he plays the changes and doesn’t depend on tricks. Made me realise I was always a strat guy in denial he got me out of that lol what a chap!

[@super63strat]

Thanks, great riffs !

[@clarkengelbert4575]

this man and Derek trucks are head and shoulders the best players of the last 20 years or so.

[@jefffelderman2409]

Excellent approach. Much more interesting to play off the changes instead of remaining stagnant in one key.

[@cjchristopher5857]

I think it's strange that people say he sounds just like Robben Ford. His vibrato is completely different and the tonalities he plays are very different from Robben(for the blues anyway). Robben tends to play all that altered stuff right before a V-1 and more Chromaticism in general. Also, I think that Matt's tone trumps everybody's. Just sayin'.

[@dantebrent5075]

CJ Christopher true I agree

[@malisevim]

Yes !

[@joshmuz9018]

CJ Christopher don’t like finger style tone, it’s just weird

[@alsacrime4806]

This is a fine bit of instruction for those who may be inclined to intellectualize the blues. There is always the option of thinking less, feeling more, and playing what you hear. Theory is useful; taste is elusive.

[@inclinethineearmusic2732]

I think his blues is coming more out of the swinging blues style, originated by Lester Young, and finding its way into the guitar by way of Charlie Christian.

[@alsacrime4806]

If Danny Gatton had played a Strat, too. Cheers.

[@markstephenson4258]

Always good to learn how to play around chords instead of just scales though! Whether you play less or more.

[@agtronic]

I think adding some intelligence to the blues really helps set a guitarist apart, and I don't mean really advanced jazz theory, just this little bit that he's doing here is so much more interesting to the ear than your typical bar guitarist that just goes up and down the minor pentatonic all night. I can't stand to listen to that anymore.

[@davejackson88]

must know listen him... great matt

[@westleycarmona3626]

Worship guitarists won't get it. A real player rips with a little bed of reverb. No delays. No mods. Pure tone. And if you can hear closely, 90% comes from his hands. Matt is a Killer. So clean, always has a motif. 🎸🔥🔨

[@marekvodicka]

wow such good tips

[@azguitar]

Nice playing Matt!

[@georgechristiansen6785]

He plays like a jazzer. The chord of the moment rules and key is just about function.

[@davidscott1052]

George Christiansen as a jazz sax/flute and piano player this is just par for the course. we have to study each chord and modulate as we go or find alternate voicings for chord sequences just to keep things interesting

[@Deliquescentinsight]

Yes, well put I reckon, I prefer to call it 'following the chords', listening to the piece and bring out the right feel and notes, respect the song.

[@bobravenscraft5376]

Thank you the brain can be dangerous when people over think they failed play the damn thing lol rock on

[@jamesrusso2523]

well said..seen him,lotta soul/ R-n- b stuff live

[@Deliquescentinsight]

There is always a percentage of humanity who leave a dislike, good on ya dickheads, they have to express their envy, basic bad faith, general bad humor, it is simply part of the wall paper of humanity. Great playing!

[@gabrieldegennaro2588]

Quienes habrán sido los giles, que dieron dislike! Seguro no entendieron un carajo.. Un crack Matt, de los mejores de la actualidad.

[@27scole]

When it changes to the IV, it seems it comes natural to play tones that harmonize with it. I find scales useful to get inspiration for new sounds, although those also come natural given the music you like, but when you have a feeling for what sounds you like, then I see no use of thinking of a scale or how the tone is called.

[@moimeme7839]

Great😀

[@davidscott1052]

Interesting part of the blues is to play dims over the V7s occasionally...or tri tone subs in their place . Plus doing harm. min. turn around from bar 8 to 9....just to add a bit of tension and variety from min. pents 🙂🙂

[@jonjojonjo7057]

Lovley strat sound matts got a nice touch m

[@mikemclenison8200]

Great tone too!

[@CristianMueller]

So, so good! Does anyone know what Guitar that is?

[@zsoltdubravcsik2750]

Cristian Mueller It's an SVL Reserve. Made by Simon Law in the UK. Go to svlguitars.com

[@woscowoscoscos4458]

Good channel!!!moore blues !!!

[@liamsullivan5851]

does anyone have a link to the article that went along with this that has the examples?

[@jasfiona]

Cool. I'm not a great guitarist, but I do consider myself as a competent musician. I'm not going to give up just because I know I'll never be anywhere near as good as Matt. In fact, he's just inspired me to do even more dedicated practice (without recommended any), rather than noodling. Some of the best comedians seem fluent and fresh in their 'ad-lib' and so natural, but they analyse for hours how to make things work. Feeling that I may become stale has stopped me "studying" things, but d'you what.... I just might start. Anyway, I'm also encouraged because l've been going down this "changing key with the chords" since forever, but only because I thought it was easier. There's a great masterclass from Robin Ford in the save series. Worth a watch too. I might just post this note into another video in case it helps. I mean you never know if these comments get read or not do you really.

[@Rick_Cleland]

I just got a Strat, and I feel after I play that my Les Paul feels easy to play.

[@voronOsphere]

The frets are further apart on a Strat than on a Les Paul. I wish I had a Les Paul.

[@mollet09]

Hi, anyone knows what scale is he playing at the EXAMPLE 1?

[@michaelruggles9441]

He's saying that he plays distinctly over each chord, so it's not just one scale. For the I chord it is A mixolydian, IV is D mixolydian, and V is E mixolydian. But you can still use the A blues scale as a skeleton for all of this, while mixing in parts of the other scales when those chords come around, according to your liking.

[@mollet09]

Thank you

[@Nickblanchettemusic]

which jaco pastorius tune does he quote around 3:05?

[@MrApprobatur]

Birdland, by Weather Report :)

[@rudivorster4442]

Very tasteful! Thanks for sharing. Excuse my ignorance, who does/has Matt played with/for?

[@dzsuba1]

He plays his own band, usually a trio. Most well known line up was with Evan Jenkins on drums and Jonny Henderson on organ. More recently he plays with others mostly in USA and Canada with various line ups. He's been playing with singer Jay Stollman more recently and doing a mini tour in USA. Well worth a listening on KZbin. Matt is one of the greatest new blues guitar players. His technique, timing, feel and tone are flawless.

[@rudivorster4442]

Thanks mate, I'll check out the names you mentioned. He does have a lovely touch

[@dmorris2587]

Rudi Vorster His trio is fantastic. I just saw them live last week for the 2nd time. amazing. if you like matts style you should check out Josh Smith he is similar but with his own thing going on.

[@horstlippitsch]

Awesome Sound!!! What Kind of pick you use??

[@J1JL]

watch: matt schofield - guitar lesson... also from guitarist. Matt talks about using his pick.

[@Chilinoploppy]

sheesh this guy had great feel and greater tone!!!!!

[@KeeneSound65]

Thank you , Helpful vid !

[@wolfgang6930]

Very great. Vaughan Style?

[@jay2xtremefy]

Ahh love it

[@BenJBrandt]

Matt is such a good fucking player

[@iamnotaskater11]

I'm a guitarist and a trumpet player, so it's natural I should find myself in the sophisticated section of music *greasy smile*

[@Bflatest]

my approach is similar. over A7: Amin pent., Amaj Pent., Amixo then D7: Dmaj Pent., Dmixo, Amin pent. E7: Emaj Pent., Emixo, Amin pent. Then also pepper it with some half-whole Diminished and maybe altered dom scale.

[@OriginalEyeball]

This is very much how i treat a blues.However i really wanna know those suspended arpeggios he's using at the end.They sound great.Great vid!

[@MattSearsGuitar]

If you play a major triad down a tone from the chord you're playing on that is this sound. In this case he's playing a G triad (G,B,D) over A7. Gives you Asus or A11. Hope that helps

[@OriginalEyeball]

+Matt Sears Thank you!So the major triad of the tone below the tonic played over a dominant?Cheers

[@MattSearsGuitar]

+Eyeball Gaming Guitars no problem. yep thats the one. So when you get the the IV - D7 you would then use a C major triad to create the sus sound.

[@OriginalEyeball]

+Matt Sears Tried it,It actually works.Sounds great when blended in with mixalydian.Thanks alot

[@francheska404]

i don't get it with this scales if im playing blues in A for example I start with the minor pentatonic like he says but when the d comes I don't know what to play should i play the d major pentatonic? i dont know how to connect them, the only way i do it is using some old scool licks i learned but i wanna be able to know what the hell is happening any advice?

[@mateomontenegro2412]

If I would have a bedroom like that, i wolud never go out

[@billhughes7584]

Is there tab for this anywhere?

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

Very nice

[@magsuns7648]

TWO ROCK BABY

[@ekoc92]

Someone can explain me the "sus style"? Sound like G lydian. If the progression is in E, what scale i use? Over what chord? (Sorry for my bad english)

[@inclinethineearmusic2732]

I think the "sus sound" is like if you were playing blues in G, and you start out with an F/G chord, which has the C note (the "sus") in it and wants to resolve to the B note.

[@ekoc92]

Incline Thine Ear Music Thanks, i'll try this!

[@MauricioRodriguez-sm8nj]

wow!!! great tone!! this pickup is dimarzio f1?

[@dzsuba1]

It’s a Mark Foley pickup, made in the UK.