The Ronnie Wood Scale

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[@jon.wilson]

Ronnie Wood is so cool. Faces, Stones, and his first solo album "I've Got My Own Album to Do" is probably one of my favorite albums of all time.

[@lyndamcardle4123]

The Ronnie's Lane and Wood have always been so under-rated in term of their playing and compositions.

[@jjwatson605]

Eric something about your videos feels so much more intimate than a lot of guitar content out there. Love what you do.

[@Steaminlidz]

You’ve hit the nail on the head there. Kudos.

[@philmckenna5709]

Nice compliment. And deserved.

[@michaelawatson3566]

“He plays everything dead in the middle, where he knows he can land everything.” This is not only a great way to approach your live playing attitude, but also how you approach the way you live in many real world situations. Eric Haugen is a one of a kind teacher! Thank you

[@superreality3823]

Debris is in my favourite 5 songs ever. Listened decades ago with my now-gone oldest brother and it still touches me the way only music can. Thank you Eric (and Ronnie Lane)

[@brianwood7237]

Woody is so underrated as are the Faces... discovered nod is as good as a wink when I was just a kid looking through my dad's record collection changed my life made me want to play guitar

[@michaelschaefer7962]

His major pentatonic solo on “Maggie Mae” is so beautifully lyrical-a perfect example of what you’re talking about here, Eric. Thanks!

[@dickschlitz1360]

Don’t think he played that though …but he’s great I agree 💯

[@michaelschaefer7962]

@@dickschlitz1360 The note selection and tone sure sound like Wood to my ear, and he seems to be billed as the primary electric guitarist on that album, but I could be wrong.

[@michaelschaefer7962]

Thank you for fifty-plus years of beautiful music!

[@Teleman73]

Great Ronnie feature. Ronnie also played in Open E a lot, not just for slide. He got into Open E after hearing Duane Allman on Aretha Franklin's version of "The Weight". Perfect guitar choice, since he has a 54 Strat that he's used throughout his career, when not using Zemaitis guitars.

[@buddybeetle]

+ 1 for Zemaitis guitar.

[@jcoffeycup]

Ron Wood's bass playing with the Jeff Beck Group is unparalleled IMO

[@blues61]

As much as I already know about CAGED and pentatonic patterns, I always come away from your vids with new nuggets of information. Thanks, dude.

[@bluesintheblood]

A couple of my fav records are Ronnie Wood solo stuff in the 70's, full of soul-rock of the time: Now Look, I've Gto MY Own Album To Do

[@brucejackson1329]

RW is a great artist to feature. Accessible and solid and does not get enough credit. Thanks for this!

[@fredoatreides5104]

Eric, I have to say your playing is thoroughly listenable. Your feel, tone, and overall musical sensibilities are very accessible even to old players who have been playing forever. Thank you for all you do. You still look like Matt Hooper from Jaws.

[@johnryan3913]

Ron Wood is a terribly underrated songwriter and, unlike many lead guitarists, a talented collborator....One of my favorite RW songs is 'Breathe On Me' from his great "Now Look" album - some beautiful guitars, inc. Hawaiian slide. Thanks for posting this!

[@lyndamcardle4123]

I agree and Willie Weeks also plays a great basic rhythm guitar and Wood also plays a very melodic pedal steel guitar !

[@johnryan3913]

@@lyndamcardle4123 That groove is SO funky!

[@bluesintheblood]

I've heard that's geroge harrison doing the slide work on that one, great tune!

[@rudimol6347]

And Ronnie and Keith singing together

[@charliedk]

Debris is such a beautiful song! That's actually how I've gotten to know mr Eric Haugen, through his excellent taste in music. He did cool lessons on overlooked artists in the 'guitar lesson world' like Captain Beefheart, Ry Cooder, Ron Wood... way back before he became this wonderful and loved guitar teacher.

[@charliedk]

I’ve meant guitarists on beefheart albums, not Don himself of course.

[@andrewhibben8327]

Funny, I was driving around this morning and thought of Ronnie Lane’s ‘flags and banners’, and what a great songwriter and diamond geezer he was…then you put this up -Debris is my favourite track on the album. Thank you! Reminds me a bit of XTC’s bass player, Colin Moulding in as much as they were 2nd in the pecking order of writers in their bands, but wrote some beautiful songs.

[@jcoffeycup]

Ronnie Lane isn't Ron Wood. 2 different musicians. Though I think I heard even Eric say Lane @ 1:04. 😅

[@andrewhibben8327]

You are correct. The lesson is on Ronnie Wood’s guitar part on Ronnie Lane’s song ‘Debris’. Eric mentioned loving the Faces and especially the Ronnie Lane songs, so I was paying tribute to him. Ronnie Lane started the small faces with Steve Marriott, co wrote most of their hits. I saw the Faces 3 times, btw, 1st 2 with Lane - who left after ‘ooh la la’, they never made another album

[@jcoffeycup]

@@andrewhibben8327 I stand corrected. I guess I'm not really familiar with Lane's work. Too many Ronnie/Rons for me

[@andrewhibben8327]

And just to add to the confusion there was a certain Rod somebody or other in the band!

[@michaelmerrullo2043]

My eyes lit up when I saw you were doing a Ronnie Wood lesson. Been enjoying a deep dive into your lessons the last few weeks. I think you've into my number one spot for two weeks running now. Love your instruction style Eric.

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

so very simple but immediate results! I'm always looking for the complex but this is brilliant

[@johncharal1698]

I just bought my 2 year old grandson a similar tiger adorned jersey. Kind of makes me happy that you like it, too, Eric.

[@sonicrecruiter]

Love Ronnie's playing. He's so underrated

[@csgband]

I love this one, Ronnie is sublime. Thanks

[@collierlandry]

Great video @EricHaugenGuitar! Thanks for sharing your talents, and for being you !

[@barrieglenn8353]

Saw Ronnie many times at our local music venue in Reading UK. He and his band The Birds were resident every Saturday night. He is a fine guitarist, wasted as KR’s back up guitarist.

[@metalfuryskulls]

Out of interest, what was the venue? (I live in Reading)

[@barrieglenn8353]

@@metalfuryskulls Reading Olympia, can’t remember the name of the road, but if you are stand in front of the church in St. Mary Butts ( church behind you) look to your left ang straight up that road and about half way up the hill on your left was/ is Reading Olympia. Saw lots of bands there, besides the resident bands I have already mentioned on a Saturday night, they had visiting bands on a Thursday night, saw the Hollies, Undertakers, Screaming Lord Sutch, Johnny Kid and the Pirates and many more. Also they had the Rikkie Tic Club on a Sunday afternoon wher I got to see some of the American blues guys, Howling Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Reed, and others. Some of these bands you may have to KZbin, this was back in the ‘60’s. Reading was a great town to grow up in, They had great bands at the Majestic saw the Kinks there, Reading Uni saw Yes, Bondo Dog, Fairport Convention, Reading Town Hall, saw The Rolling Stones, the band I was in at the time, The Memphis Gents played Reading Town Hall, built for a pipe organ bit too much echo for bands. Yes fond memories of Reading growing up. Went back about 5 years ago, what a change, some for the better.’

[@andrewhibben8327]

@@barrieglenn8353 Unexpected trail of responses here - I also grew up in Reading, saw the Faces @ the Reading festival, And many great soul bands at the Top Rank…Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, my car got broken into in the parking lot behind St. Mary’s butts…but I digress… And now the Stones just released another great track, Mick is 80 years old ffs…and them 2 guitars just keep weaving away…

[@barrieglenn8353]

@@andrewhibben8327 Reading Olympia, Majestic Ballroom ( Top Rank), Reading Uni, Town Hall all great places to see bands back in the 60’s plus a couple of folk clubs, great area to grow up in, nothing like it anymore ☹️

[@agent_of_cthulhu]

Great video, Eric. Love this scale. Sounds so good when you're just grooving on it. Was one of the first things I learned on guitar but I still am finding new uses for it.

[@petergoddard1960]

I've been using this ascending pentatonic for years. You just showed me the way to employ it in a major context that totally made sense. So it turns out that today has been abundant in wins. To celebrate, some extremely hot Indian food is requisite. Peace.

[@crimfan]

The diagonal major pentatonic really ends up leading to some excellent melodic leads. Plan well so that it tells a story by moving up or down and you're going to sound great.

[@adoubleu___]

I love Ronnie Wood. This is so awesome, thank you. Happy New Year’s Eve. This just made mine better

[@donindri]

Funny how some of the simplest music is the most moving and memorable. Thanks for posting.

[@tonythue8113]

A great study on Ronnie can be had on Maggie May. Great tone, great use of the pentatonic, sublime phrasing. Super underrated player imho.

[@macsarcule]

Awesome lesson! Thank you, Eric! ✌️😌🎸

[@dustylense]

Cool stuff Eric.

[@July4.1776]

Dude, you’re exceptional! If you ever go on tour, I’ll be there.

[@geoffb9999]

Pure class, as always. Thanks Eric

[@Jos317eph]

Love your videos, man. Last week I learned the jet video riffs and practiced them throughout the week. Really helped unlock the fretboard for me. Cheers

[@ordinalkirk]

Eye opening lesson.

[@dullsearake]

I love you Eric Haugen I have learned a lot from you. May all your dreams come true except the inappropriate ones.

[@thebombu]

Needless to say, you got that real good!👍🎸

[@davemassie3726]

Nice Eric, thanks for sharing.

[@daverench2327]

Very cool stuff! Thanks for the tabs

[@fedea5777]

Beautifull celebration of Ronnie lane and ron wood. Sweet sweet sweet

[@richardlynch5632]

Remember flying through a storm while keeping a hand on a bottle o' Drambuie as we continued on our way to merry ol' England via Virgins 1st class sofa😂 Had a new copy of Ronny Woods album "Slide on This" that the flight attendant happily played on the on board sound system😎👍 Absolutely became one with Mr. Wood on that flight😉👍 😎✌👍❤🖖 Love Brother

[@johntaylor8829]

It's solid with a nice feel!

[@jamiecobbe2987]

Thanks Eric, happy Friday and cool shirt 🤘🏻

[@alphanumeric1529]

You got to me pre pizza today, rare! And what a mitzvah? Just procrastinating on KZbin, but I'm about to go in and work on a song in F major, a key I'm not often in, so my eyes/fingers get a little confused (especially because I've spent like 6 months almost exclusively in C# minor... don't ask me why). But here is a nice little diagonal pentatonic scale, as I'm not much of a pentatonic player, but I've been getting a little more pentatonic with this song, but I've been sorta trapped in a box, so this diagonal pentatonic will really help the work I'm about to do. So, big thanks, homey. And to everyone else, this video deserves a couple watches, a lot of little pearls in this one!

[@lit3229]

love seeing the Dusky!

[@Taffafilms]

Love your lessons! True.

[@petervanderweerd]

Really nice. Thank you!

[@camwelch9948]

Great teaching as always

[@patrickbourke2385]

Funny you uploaded this as my dad gave me Ronnie's autobiography yesterday

[@karllongbottomguitars9192]

Ronnie was killer in the faces 🔥🔥

[@NickJardine]

Great video! Hey, curious why you replaced the neck on this one? I have a CS 50s MIM Strat too. I love the 7.25” original neck!

[@scottkidwellmusic9175]

Fun lesson! Thank you, Eric! Be good to you! 🍕

[@jimmyj4811]

Mr Wood is awesome!

[@mark46c]

Do I owe Ronnie royalties for playing F pentatonic? Do you?

[@Rick_Cleland]

[@waynegram8907]

What scale is this called that Ronnie wood uses?

[@donyoung7874]

Debris is a wonderful song. Ronnie Lane's career after Faces is really interesting but sad. Traveling the country like a carnival show of sorts and making no money in the process.

[@gaulpict]

Yeah, bittersweet is how Id say it with the challenges he had but he always managed that wry smile and he never lost the twinkle from his eye - kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6OWpnyLq5JrbZY

[@LiteralApe]

1:30 reminds me of My Girl

[@Hans-PeterDraschnar-ec2yo]

Danke!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thank YOU Hans!

[@KyleEngen1]

Love to have my pizza and learn from Eric on a friday!

[@MuggsyStyle]

use the bridge pickup eric! stop resisting

[@Stewartchampion]

You should do a ronnie lane video ..the guy had great feel .very underrated

[@filippofelicioni5957]

Hi, I find your videos very useful and well done, I really like it. What if you do something about Jack White?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oooh good idea!

[@MusicEnthuZone]

He's 'basic' in the best possible way. And, as has been noted on these comments a pretty good bass player too. The key is he's a musician first and foremost. Seems like a chill hang too. As a wierd sidenote apparently there was talk of Steve Marriott joining the Stones instead of Mick Taylor. He was another pretty basic guitarist, but good enough to inpire 'Whole lotta love'. And he would have blown Jagger off the stage too.

[@michaeldematteis3409]

I love playing n the key of F.

[@johnmcelhaney8490]

I appreciate the knowledge I got from this. you are a great player, a pretty good teacher of guitar too. wtf are you doing throwing papers around the room:)

[@hancemcpherson1117]

Thanks

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@Stonecrow25]

Thanks. My fav faces tune

[@stephenbrumlow931]

Seems like it could be a good scale for slide guitar work also.

[@MatthewTomich]

Dusky D2O! 🔥

[@shanebrbich5698]

Lovely stuff mate! Simple is best! Just a quick one..Nat Merchants “Carnival”! Such a great song from the 90’s with so much CAGED going on! Very refrained playing, very relevant to this style! Just saying! Take care amigo!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I know that record well! It's one of my Mom's favorites!

[@shanebrbich5698]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Say hi to ya Mum (❤️) for me... A big thumbs up to you from Australia

[@georgebesios9713]

Did you change the neck?

[@nicirvin1994]

I've been playing this all along and because I'm Deffinatly not a stones fan I didn't realise...

[@kmajor44]

Am I seeing a D# in the tab diagram? (Instead of D)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oooh good eye thanks for letting me know! I just fixed the typo on the download, but unfortunately I can't fix the screen typo!

[@kmajor44]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Hey, your videos are great - btw. Really appreciate this Ronny Wood breakdown.

[@jeffrowlette]

My Girl

[@jcoffeycup]

Must kinda suck being the most talented multi-instrumentalists of all time and then be constantly confused with Ronnie Lane. Ain't hatin' on Ronnie Lane, but they are 2 entirely different people. Hence the different last names. 😀

[@johnryan3913]

It was easier when, in Faces, Lane was 'Ronnie' and Wood was 'Ron'.

[@jcoffeycup]

@@johnryan3913 I think the only one who is confused is me.

[@johnryan3913]

@@jcoffeycup Simply that in the Beck Group and much of the Faces, Wood went by Ron, and Lane by Ronnie, so less confusion. When they both went by Ronnie, there's more room for confusion. Unless I'm confused?🤯

[@stephenbrumlow931]

Speaking my language, Eric, speaking my language…

[@mikebee888]

Your voice is to low in the video pal. Nice video. 👍

[@Rick_Cleland]

*_Mmmmmmm..._* 🤔🤔🤔

[@bennettbernerproject3289]

F Mixolydian scale

[@rickd1201]

But Keith Richards looks cool 😎

[@paulchristie8452]

He plays everything dead in the middle. He doesn't always try to pluck every single note the rhythm guitarist is strumming while trying to stay in the time frame. Is that the real reason shred guitar was invented?

[@kaarejansbol]

You make Ronnie Wood sound cool. Got to admit, I find his own recordings kind of boring.

[@Danny-qq5nr]

Sorry, it has no soul

[@vincenzostr4488]

Ronnie Wood is so mediocre

[@franktaconelli9095]

who the fu@% would want to sound like Ron Wood?!

[@Rick_Cleland]

👀

[@larryguilfoyle5731]

You obviously, get over it , you’ll always be a loser

[@dickschlitz1360]

You lie…I seen u gas it❤️👍

[@mjjames2442]

Nice one Eric!