Pentatonic Scales (Part 1) - Technique Lesson

[@365carpenter]

Hi my name is joe I’m 56 and play guitar but always wanted to play the fiddle. I have only been playing for a week and already got the hang of it. Your videos are very helpful. Thanks

[@fiddl3hed]

365carpenter Great to hear! Keep up the great work!!

[@valeriewallace3138]

I played violin for 4 years 5th grade - 9th grade. Hvae not touched one in over 40years! My Son, a stings teacher gave me a violin to fool around with... Loving the fiddle! Love the lessons!

[@ncao]

The BEST tutorial of Pentatonic scales. LOVE it.

[@catherinefenech2334]

i'm in my very first week of fiddle lessons, and although i'm no where near the right notes your teaching makes me smile from ear to ear, thank you!

[@susanmecredy6831]

I want to learn chords and double stops. So excited to have come across these lessons. I started playing violin at 10 years old but didn't really catch on until high school then when I raised my kids, kind of put it down for 30 years. Now at 66, am playing every Friday nite in a worship band. I want to add more to the music than just playing melody. These lessons are so inspiring and I feel I can connect to this teaching style. I love the humor as discrete as it is and the sound of the voice and accent is very pleasant.

[@debhilton5627]

Hi Jason, I picked up my fiddle after about 15 years of not playing... I am having so much fun with your lessons! Been practicing everyday since picking it back up, because of you! Thanks so much for all of your wonderful lessons, tips and tricks!

[@fiddl3hed]

Great to hear! Keep on fiddling, and have fun along the way...🎻

[@cellophane9366]

I'm beginning to play fiddle. I love the sound, when you play. When I play, Its like "screech screech" -almost a note- "screech screech"

[@lethamorris8719]

I absolutely love the pentatonic scales. they are beautiful and sound a little Oriental. thanks for all of your lessons. I have learned more from you than anyone else.

[@fiddl3hed]

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback!

[@cherisegonzalez6496]

You have such a wonderful way of showing the steps to what your teaching. You are patient, easy to follow and I had fun learning from you. For once I feel like it's possible for me to learn to play. I am a mature lady, meaning old and not so sure about the lady part, lol that just started learning about a month ago. I watched this video and feel that I sound like I'm getting somewhere. lol I practiced till my fingers were numb. I learned more watching your video than I have all the others put together. I don't mean to put any of them down because they are very good too. It's just the way you explain things. Thank you for all your help and I can quit looking now for my favorite instructor. I want to grow up and be like you someday... lol I'm a 54 yr old hippie. Just so you know... lol

[@fiddl3hed]

Cherise, thanks for the kind words. Keep playing and you will get better. I have many students who are much older than you. We are all in this but we are not in a race. Cheers.

[@jeanbean704]

Love you and your cat! Fiddle lessons are wonderful! 😍

[@joelegand1035]

Thank you very much, i did not found any channel in KZbin learning pentatonic scale like yours.

[@twilson6784]

I've used pentatonic scales with clawhammer banjo playing and now with the fiddle (been playing one year now). A friend recently told me to think of the introduction to My Girl. He taught a group of children in a weekend class to play My Girl on their different instruments then explained the pentatonic scale and its uses. My friend, John Allison, showed me this at the Will McLean Festival while I was playing with a mandolin at our camp site. It really makes improvising so much easier. I pulled off a simple break using the scale up the E string while playing mandolin at an open jam and a very enthusiastic young lady asked if I would give her lessons! I told her about the pentatonic scale and referred her to John.

[@docterdad1]

Your passion and love for sound is beautiful!

[@fiddl3hed]

Thank you.

[@joelegand1035]

The most amazing Video ever for me .

[@dmcmac9619]

Wonderful thank you

[@Ingobernable]

I just made tabs of all three scales for a quick review without watching again the whole video ;) G major pentatonic G0-1-2-D0-1-3-A0-1-3-E0-L2-3-4 D major pentatonic G1-2-D0-1-2-A0-1-3-E0-1-3-4 A major pentatonic G1-2-h3-D-1-2-A0-1-2-E0-1-3-4

[@fiddl3hed]

Daniel, make sure you listen and try to do the scales by listening. If you have problems, check your tabs but try to train your ears. Cheers.

[@Ingobernable]

I know, I know. I just made it for for a quick reminder. Thank you Jason!

[@kbmats]

Daniel Berjano mvp thanks bro

[@bittergreen722]

Just had to pause my playing to say thank ou Fiddlehed! I sound like I'm gettin somewhere (high five)

[@martincairney1746]

You are brilliant your very good for a short fused enthusiast Thank you for simplifying this without putting me to sleep I'm now subscribed thank you.

[@woodycrabtree5096]

I know ime very late for the party but this lesson was AWESOME for me learnt a load from it,cant wait to watch all your other lesson,,you are the best teacher and i realy mean that man thank you

[@cengizziypak5564]

My man, you are the man.🎻

[@bluefidle]

Lovely !

[@mikecaul4216]

Thank you very much for your lessons. They are so easy to understand!

[@fiddl3hed]

+Mike Caul you're welcome :)

[@sarbanibanerjee6323]

Thank you so much for this and the lessons more generally. They've made getting back into playing after 20 years such fun. Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously. : ))

[@fiddl3hed]

Glad to hear you are playing again and I'm glad you found the channel. I'll have a new website up in a few weeks. It will have learning guides for different levels of players, sheet music, tabs, etc. I have a Facebook Page, FiddleHed, that carries announcements.

[@sabualamoanasalsacelebrati4591]

Beautiful

[@FrankDaViolinist]

Thank so much

[@freebornjohn6876]

That opening sequence: Isn't that The Lark Ascending, by Vaughan Williams? Almost every Brits favourite piece of classical music.

[@raymond4u100]

Thank you

[@nancynormand6589]

Thank you! I plan to busk soon with a sax friend!

[@fiddl3hed]

Nancy Normand Excellent, have fun!

[@denvermadison9052]

I spilled some beer on my violin the other day and for some reason I just can’t stop playing fiddle..

[@debbiednne1349]

Awesome lesson!!

[@bejaises1]

wow just wow :) :) absolutely love it

[@johnaustin9259]

I can understand minor pentatonic for blues for that sadder tone.

[@emilyfraser2272]

I love your lessons! Thank you so much! Wish we could jam together :)

[@joelegand1035]

Wooooooooooow amazing

[@fiddl3hed]

Tanx Joe

[@joelegand1035]

@@fiddl3hed 😍

[@robertbrawley5048]

I forgot I had viewed this video before . I see from the comments I'm the Bob brawley and the Lior Holtslag. Before viewing this video I read an article on the pentatonic scale ? it appears that in all major keys the F and B notes are skipped. But the article only covered the G D A E Oh and the C major pentatonic scale the article went into the minor pentatonic. Boy it's a life time of memorizing to get this down pat. I admire your urge ring to play by ear and have tried to distinguish notes or intervals on a casio keyboard but didn't find I was catching on. One technique I find fascinating is a technique sort of called sole figs. That the phonic spelling of the term that is where you learn a tune using doe ray me fah so lah tee doe . The Traylor Fuentes youtube introduced me to that. I check my doe ray me with a electronic tuner and is seem like I sing themall in Bb. So back to square one. Thanks for listening

[@shewvrain]

You talk like a high functioning stoner man. you're awesome, man. keep it up!

[@fiddl3hed]

+João Pinheiro :)

[@curiousgeorge555]

I would be really surprised if he doesn't puff the herb (or maybe used to). Good content and interesting content here any way you look at it.

[@shakyhandpictures2185]

Thanks. Do you have any lessons for guitar players who want to begin playing violin. A week in and I’m making a tolerable noise, my mandolin experience is very helpful but I don’t speak violin, I’m doing scales, and simple tunes but I find very few lessons specifically for guitars people who want to expand their range. Your lessons are very well done, thank you for all the effort you put into making this beautiful instrument more accessible for untrained players who just want to play music.

[@robertbrawley5048]

@@shakyhandpictures2185 it seems like you have a huge advantage learning the guitar before the fiddle. Being aware of of the chord name lingo

[@dogsnbows]

Hahaha :-D I knew there was something ...

[@channelphongsakpanta1794]

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[@trkish_Dlit3]

Please do a lesson on country roads by john denver

[@johnnyparker9928]

Nice INTONATION.

[@karentaylor2296]

Wow, I watched your video and felt like I was hanging out with an old friend, just talking about the violin.

[@fiddl3hed]

Great to hear this!! I actually want to create some looser podcast style lessons.

[@johnlynch575]

4:20 LOVE YOU, BUDDY. I'M LIKE SIX HUNDRED SIXTY SIX. :>0 NOT JUST, AS, BUT, LIKE, AS WELL, AS AS :>) THANK YOU VERY MUCH. KEEP GOING. HAPPY SHABBAT.

[@philnewton4844]

Why not do it aurally by listening ( Royal college tests )and copying like aural training ,,,,enjoy the sound yes but with the ears and minus the eyes ?

[@bobbrawley9439]

Not really . . what key was the first pentatonic scale , you started the first one on G, so it's G major? And a lot of YT. teachers don't say the notes . ,and you don't call out the notes but say the finger numbers . . I find using finger numbers quirky . Where did you teachers come up with using finger numbers instead of the notes letter name which would describe the exact location ( sharp, natural , flat. )..WHEN ONLY FINGER NUMBERS ARE USED . THEN THE STUDENT MUST ALREADY KNOW THE SCALE OF THE KEY If a student knows the scale of the key I would think they would know The nome of the note that the 3ed. finger would hit on the D string in the key of G major . I'm not asking a question but just making a comment

[@johnaustin9259]

Why bother with G major pentatonic when G major itself is just as easy and easier to remember initially?

[@fiddl3hed]

Fewer notes. Easier to improvise and know you are in the right key.

[@scootin123]

No, no Ì don't know the pentatonic scale yet . It look like you played stopped A, B on the G string possible an open D on the D string and a F or Fsharp on the D strings . You may have played a E òn the D string

[@fiddl3hed]

Lior Holtslag G Major pentatonic notes are G A B D E.

[@scootin123]

FiddleHed so I see its 1,2,3__5,6, interval so the next question is "Is that true in all keys" and so not to burden you I looked it up on Google search and yes or the simple explanation I could understand is "on major keys don't play the 4 *& 7 interval and in minor keys don't play the 2 & 6 interval"

[@trungnle4578]

man you talk too much.

[@fiddl3hed]

+Trung N Le okay, I will work on talking less. Thanks for your feedback.

[@annmarie3573]

Don't change a thing!! Haters gonna hate. :)

[@stjohnsclaycollective1302]

i appreciate your added "talk" your teaching! especially your elaboration on the 2nd lesson of the Pentatonic scale. keep it , notes, words and all

[@scootin123]

FiddleHed I think he was making a joke. Ha, ha,

[@scootin123]

Twice Lovely he was being scarcastic

[@hafidlalaoui9798]

Thank you