This Exercise TRANSFORMED my Playing - Arpeggios in the Major Scale

[@adavies3]

Oh my goodness, this is superb. I just picked up my guitar at the 5 min marker and just those first 6 notes of the arpeggio that you show have had me inspired and practicing for the last 2 hours! This is going to give me months of material to practice. Thank you so much.

[@bruceanderson5188]

I had a hard time getting this under my fingers until I visualized each arpeggio as three 5th's stacked a 2nd apart. In case that helps anyone else. Watch out for the tritones! There are 3 of them in the ii, IV, and vii° chords. Awesome lesson, John. Thank you!

[@alexbranch3018]

I never comment on videos but this was huge in giving me more options for lead playing. Probably the most useful guitar video I’ve seen in years

[@thomasmurphy3570]

This ABSOLUTELY blew my mind as someone being kind of stuck at that same phase you mentioned of relying heavily on pentatonic and mode scales boxes and feeling like I've hit a wall with improvisation ability. Thank you so much!

[@realbass4302]

Omg I’m a bass player what a lesson I’m playing my appregios like this from now own it gives you a more melodic approach when soling over the chord tones superb lesson thanks

[@rogerwilliams2629]

Wow. This is gold. Between this and the moving chords you have really helped an ol road dog out

[@axeman14]

Every now and then a video really inspires me to play…….this was definitely one of them 👌🏻

[@oudaram1]

I thought this was a clickbait title and, after starting to digest this, I am seeing a transformation taking place. You weren't jokin', this is great and can be looked at so many different ways....

[@StEvE1961able]

Thanks! Stuff like this keeps real music alive.

[@johnnathancordy]

I really hope this stuff is useful for a few folks - thanks so much for your generosity and checking out the video!!!

[@JoshPaterson]

This is beautiful approach. I been experimenting with stacking 5ths and including the 9th as well and really gives a fresh, modern sound.

[@stevebuffington6534]

I've always hated "Shredding". But when you play fast, all the lines have huge emotion. Like a well bent note with great vibrato. I know! It's like your lines are a flowing river to a destination that only you know till we get there with you. I don't have enough words. I'll just say you are very appreciated.

[@bobravenscraft5376]

Not shred

[@bobravenscraft5376]

Shred is mindless this isn't

[@stevebuffington6534]

@@bobravenscraft5376 I agree, totally, I think you misunderstand me.

[@lealvazquezosvaldo8431]

He has class 😌

[@dananthony6258]

This has given me quite the work out, it’s been a week or 2 and I finally got the whole thing just need to practice.

[@andytimmonsguitar]

Lovely tone and playing John! Really enjoying your videos!

[@christopherjbutler]

I came for a review of a Sire S7 a couple years back, stayed for the music. John creates new backing tracks and improvs every single day for his intros. If just for listening to them alone I watch his videos every morning. John's a big fan of your playing as well, as he mentions often throughout his back catalog.

[@MG-hx3ym]

I love that you taught the concept rather than a certain lick. I’ve organically seen these patterns and would get confused, but your explanation of something you figured out helped me fill in the holes of my misunderstandings. Thanks!

[@joshistyping]

What I love about this is it’s arpeggios but not arpeggios. You don’t have to really worry about the “chord” anymore so much as keeping a motif harmonious with the key you’re in. I rarely play straight arpeggios but I could definitely use this in my playing.

[@jonhutchinsmusic789]

That was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard!

[@SplooshNoonley]

My man is over here, absolutely ripping and giving out professional insights and tips for free, while looking casually comfy AF in a snuggie. Awesome.

[@frederickklinge2885]

Fantastic, John! Your scale lessons have been transformative to me. I've been focusing on mostly pentatonic patterns, but I'm looking forward to learning this major scale exercise. Thanks again for all the great content!

[@Noneofyabz]

I like it. It's right at the edge of substitution. Drop the 7 to 6 and it's technically the chord a 3rd below. Inversions!

[@Apeshoot13]

This was a fun and helpful visualization exercise. Thank you for your excellent tutelage! Cheers, Sir!

[@beholdxoth]

Cool stuff. Never thought I would get a great lesson from a guy in a snuggie.

[@Yelbomsirhc1]

Coming up with more open voicings of arpeggios is a super great concept. Thanks. I've got my "normal" voicings down fairly well and they can definitely sound a bit trite. Also, adding interesting scale notes such as 4th or 6th is super interesting. And of course it makes sense to add the Maj7 over a Maj7 chord, or the dominant 7th over a dominant chord.

[@personaltip]

I am just learning guitar. This is very cool thing to learn. I will put sometimes learning it. Thanks a lot.

[@wolfgangcordsen3430]

Beautiful playing

[@kb7890]

I’ve been following your videos for years for the gear stuff. Yet, this is by far my favorite video that I’ve seen from you. So valuable!! Thanks

[@christiantaylor4027]

Tough subject. Nice lesson. U must learn this. Must do the work and learn the fretbd. Thanks J.C.

[@lionPGF]

awesome way of treating a major scale! Thank you!

[@douglasbroccone3144]

Thanks John, for beautiful sounds Ill try to use it

[@elkuervojuarez1890]

WOW 😮 bro !!! Stunning lesson !!! I feel blessed that I found your amazing channel . Breathing life into an old heavy metal head . Im a massive fan . Thank you

[@Steve-si8hx]

What do you do with this ?

[@elkuervojuarez1890]

@@Steve-si8hx for me its opened a different way of visualizing the neck . Its completely different to anything that I had in my arsenal per say. And the fact that is sweepable also is really cool or at least for me it is since I'm reasonably decent at sweeping. Also working on how each position sounds against different chords of the scale. So for me it was a great lesson 🙂

[@gambooyt]

These kinda sound like drop-2 or drop-3 voicings/arpeggios. Indeed they always sound fresh.

[@seankenneally6369]

I love your channel and your playing, really top quality. Your insights into various things are great fantastic.

[@JLamont45]

I think I hear a lot of Eric Johnson there!! He was a master at this and making it sooo musical!

[@josephfuentes2251]

Excellent Study my friend! Just brilliant! I have always wondered how to get out of my plain jane scale rut! Thank you so much!

[@craigworgan5569]

Smooth, relaxed and tasteful playing. Love your videos man and I always learn something. Great Epi too!

[@gffg387]

Beautiful arpeggios, Jonathan.

[@Xirrious]

John Nathan wow I didn't realize that's Johnathan.

[@iangordon8078]

Dude you should be teaching Truefire lessons, this is so good, I want to learn this.

[@TheClicheGaming]

this got me to brush up on my theory, haven't quite integrated this into my playing yet but its given me some incentive. cheers 👍🏼

[@ayushmanbhalla8737]

it's a gold stuff dude to learn..... it literally gave me a different aspect and now i'm able to generate some new melodies also..

[@jneily6074]

Wow. This opened up a lot of new ideas for my playing. Such a refreshing way to approach arpeggios. Thanks!

[@ImranDuraj]

Thank you so much! This lesson was really helpful and inspirational.

[@uberjam-sam8512]

The Tim Miller course is gold. Great lesson tyvm

[@icarusi]

There's a similar 'thing' I noticed in the strings line of 'Days of Pearly Spencer'. I couldn't play it at first, but when I did, I couldn't figure out what the 'system' was. After a while I figured out it was 2 notes of scalar movement followed by 2 notes of arpeggiated movement, but if you group the scalar 2s together and, ditto the arp 2s, there are also distinct linear movements on those groups in isolation. The easiest way to experiment with this concept is on a midi grid DAW track, where you can have scales and arp movements on separate tracks, chop them into 2 notes groups, and then reassemble them interleaved on a 3rd track. On the Pearly Spencer track the 2 scale notes ascend but group movement descends, whereas the 2 arp notes descend and the group movement descends, albeit overlapped. Most of the interesting variations use a similar combinations of movement to the Pearly Spencer line. I haven't found a proper term yet for this. 'Style Brise' covers it, but also more complex broken styles. I call a 'scalarp', for a scalar+arpeggiated movement.

[@BoardgameBaker]

I considered my self good at arpeggios until I came across this video. This is good stuff.

[@FranciscoDiaz-kj4vk]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@manuelgonzales6483]

That opening piece was super nice 🙂

[@gumdocga]

Great lesson and video! Thank you for this!

[@Travacaster]

first video in a while (personally speaking) on youtube that is defo a game changer for me; thank you so much

[@PedroMichael-h2h]

Amazing Tone, great video. I really like it. I will practice that for sure.

[@rockinguitar101]

Absolutely Brilliant Lesson John.

[@Terry_Dale]

Thanks for this, very informative and inspirational. Love your chord voicing's as well, great channel thanks for sharing.

[@Vivekaryayoutube]

Wow…I’m blown away by this

[@dananthony6258]

Very cool lesson. Thank you for sharing.

[@pierrepineau5988]

What makes the lick so beautiful is that it contains TWO broken arpeggios : F#m7 and DM7 (A / E / F# / C# / D / A ) The first four notes belong to F# m7 and the last four notes belong to DM7.

[@andercoyote4170]

Hands down one of the best lessons I've ever found on UTube. Excellent excellent . Thanks! Subscribed!

[@rickjensen2717]

Thia is essentially a variation on the common arpeggios in thirds namely: 1, 5, 6, 10(3), 11(4), 15(1). Interesting also to play arpeggios in 4th, 5ths and mixing them up.

[@Yee-ole-benjaminbutton]

You just unlocked a jazz players whole dream in one video

[@Hello_there_obi]

That intro solo was a vibe. Incredible playing!

[@jjnolan]

Excellent. This lesson is one of your best that you’ve done. Very insightful. I hope that you continue sharing your theory and thoughts behind your beautiful and very melodic playing on your intros. While your gear demos and HXStomp presets are great, your lessons are what make you unique. Have you thought of offering a TrueFire course yourself? My only other thought is that you could have used a Freeze pedal at the end when you were hitting the chord and then showing the arpeggio.

[@Mike-rw2nh]

I endorse this comment 💯. If JNC offers a True Fire course, then I’ll happily part with my fun vouchers.

[@davidsummerville351]

This stuff is great!

[@MartyCMega88]

Beautiful harmonic content from a man in a dressing gown and joggers, your my hero John! Honestly man I've gotten so much out of your stuff since you started posting to youtube. Thank you.

[@cankutbayhan]

han'som content, killer tone, elegant and prolific.

[@BParker55]

Beautiful dude! I'm gunna take this to church! 👍🏻

[@sethyjean-pierre5739]

I love it. Thank you my brother!

[@selliantuttimusi6735]

Insane concept brother. I'm practicing it right now. Thank you!

[@jasonkesser]

Dude. For rrrreeeeeaaal a godsend game changer

[@joelandrew84]

They all sound great with your playing 🫡

[@jvz773]

Wow, this is fantastic. Thanks! 🙏

[@nicholasmao2321]

That's the magic of Gibson right there

[@prabhatguitar]

It’s an epiphone, lol😂

[@michaelhimes8778]

Just discovered your channel and subbed. Love your playing and this lesson gives a glimpse into what is underpinning your style. I would describe it like a kaleidoscope of phrases that merge, evolve, and flow from idea to idea. Very cool. Looking forward to trying these.

[@ksharpe10]

MesMeRiZinG and HyPnOtIZINg, all at the Same time. Amazing. kaleidoscope all the pretty colors.

[@OrganicaShadows]

My guitar teacher used to talk about these stuff like 14 years ago, all of them plus me got arrestet by Islamist thugs in Iran for playing western music. He was the first one that tought me Allan Holsworth's theory. They don't let him play in public as much as I know😢

[@Mike-rw2nh]

تو ذهنت هميشه آزاد ميشي. در امان باش، دوست من. سلام از انگلستان.

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

😢

[@OrganicaShadows]

@@Mike-rw2nh Dreaming is the only thing we got I know but you need actual things to happen in your life. hopefully we get free from these monsters one day! I have no hope because the whole world is a mess, they all benefit from having those thugs forcing bullshit on us. Hopefully this nightmare ends one day! I hope something remains out of our culture to survive, they wiped out everything Iranic and replaced it with Arabic(Maybe I'm wrong, I have no information about beautiful Arabs and what is actually their culture, I'm sure I am brainwashed too like everybody else), but I know why, because if just in case they wanna start a war in future, the narrative should be ready for a bunch of fools to kill THE OTHER CULTURE! something so different that makes no sense and makes you feel threatened, the more disgusting the better! they are so evil!

[@tdz69]

This is really heartbreaking to read. But there’s beauty within the story and message…music is the true universal language and no matter where we are from on this planet, there are those of us who connect through it, perhaps a little more than others.

[@OrganicaShadows]

@@tdz69 totally agree! that's why they attack people like us because music teach you what freedom actually is, bodily and mentally. and when you know it you can make other people free! which threatens any cult's control over people's minds. But they can't, they couldn't so far, there is 3000 years history, poetry and art in deep in people's culture, they can suck our balls!

[@TruffulaTreeGTR]

Horace Bray is the bomb! His Dreamstate record is incredibly good. Never gets old.

[@ChristopherOPope]

Hell yea! I am here for all of this!!🔥 great bro!!

[@jakollee]

Great lesson, and amazing intro track!

[@timholtguitar6999]

Really, really enjoyed this lesson. Love your channel!

[@ralphmuller6040]

Outstanding lesson aside - what a lovely guitar tone.

[@brunosampaio2399]

Great approach on good old scales and arpeggios!

[@afri-dancer9967]

Thank you for sharing that will help me.

[@alastairreid3773]

The intro is beautiful John

[@Sammywhat]

Great sounding Epiphone! Which one is that? Awesome content, John! Thank you dearly!!

[@davidespinosa1910]

Arpeggios with more "exotic" chords -- sounds great ! Everything is still diatonic (contained in A major). First arpeggio = 1, 5, 6, 3, 4, 1 Second = 2, 6, 7, 4, 5, 2 Third = 3, 7, 1, 5, 6, 3 Fourth = 4, 1, 2, 6, 7, 4 Fifth = 5, 2, 3, 7, 1, 5 Sixth = 6, 3, 4, 1, 2, 6 Seventh = 7, 4, 5, 2, 3, 7

[@simonhall2682]

Thanks for this, really helpful 👍

[@StEvE1961able]

Thanks for this, and for the discount code.🙏🏽😊

[@AdamGotheridge]

Really cool concept and what a great tone too. I noticed something when trying to play along a bit in that it almost feels like part of that beautiful sound is how the notes overlay. Like I'm playing single notes, but yours sound like you holding down the notes. I think that's the reverb doing that, and I never really use reverb so that's a bit of a revelation to me. Thanks.

[@bryannicholson7111]

Maybe a bloom reverb 🤔

[@rolandguilford8301]

Hi John. I know you have some reservations about the Les Paul in this video. You made valid points about it but I must say as a listener and fan of your channel, I think it sounds awesome!. Truly an amazing sounding guitar! Thanks for the videos mate. All the best.

[@NCSurf888]

Haven’t gotten into the meat of the video yet but had to say, that tone is gorgeous on that improv section

[@conflictchoir5984]

beautifull concept - thank you John!

[@rossdonald5026]

Thank you John 💥

[@bobravenscraft5376]

Definitely Johnson

[@tedtedguitar]

That’s sick dude. Super helpful

[@NilsBreckoff]

Lovely tone, sir.

[@RickDanner]

great playing on the Epi

[@Kevin-nr9lj]

Thank you so much for this lesson.

[@youKnowWho3311]

Very arpeggiated EJ style. I like the sound.

[@robhead22]

What a great lesson! Thank you!

[@trevorjohnson8142]

This is amazing; thank you so much!

[@giovannibonapace4250]

Very Methenyesque... Very relaxing to listen to... i'll try it for sure

[@Phoboss32]

Please do more lessons!

[@GaryBrunoTV]

Very beautiful John

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Good name for a podcast: "Game ofvTones'

[@GinTonDrix]

that's a beautiful guitar!

[@personaltip]

Beautiful. I wonder, do you happen to have tabs for this lesson please. Thanks a lot.

[@edwardgodfrey7002]

How heartbreaking. I have no words. Music is such a beautiful thing. I’ve always wanted to visit Iran. From pictures j see it looks sooo gorgeous and beautiful. Unfortunately our governments can’t get it together to realize the people have more in common than they do differences. Stay safe. And good luck from America.