This Exercise TRANSFORMED my Playing - Arpeggios in the Major Scale

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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!!!

[@axeman14]

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

[@rogerwilliams2629]

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

[@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 😌

[@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.

[@JoshPaterson]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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....

[@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!

[@jonhutchinsmusic789]

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

[@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!

[@nathanfortin8192]

Huge thanks!

[@craigworgan5569]

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

[@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.

[@Apeshoot13]

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

[@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 🙂

[@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!

[@Reimua]

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

[@lionPGF]

awesome way of treating a major scale! Thank you!

[@Tintifaxl]

This exercise gave me some John Mayer-Edge of Desire vibes. Great lesson 👍

[@beholdxoth]

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

[@wolfgangcordsen3430]

Beautiful playing

[@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.

[@personaltip]

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

[@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

[@ChristopherOPope]

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

[@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.

[@jayjeeaar]

Thanks

[@douglasbroccone3144]

Thanks John, for beautiful sounds Ill try to use it

[@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.

[@gffg387]

Beautiful arpeggios, Jonathan.

[@Xirrious]

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

[@FranciscoDiaz-kj4vk]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@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!

[@woodyrussell]

Brilliant!

[@jneily6074]

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

[@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..

[@Travacaster]

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

[@gumdocga]

Great lesson and video! Thank you for this!

[@jvz773]

Wow, this is fantastic. Thanks! 🙏

[@manuelgonzales6483]

That opening piece was super nice 🙂

[@rossdonald5026]

Thank you John 💥

[@ImranDuraj]

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

[@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!

[@Hello_there_obi]

That intro solo was a vibe. Incredible playing!

[@Iridium19219]

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

[@uberjam-sam8512]

The Tim Miller course is gold. Great lesson tyvm

[@alastairreid3773]

The intro is beautiful John

[@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.

[@PedroMichael-h2h]

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

[@christiantaylor4027]

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

[@john_atco]

Diddly diddly dee. Very clever..Give the man a medal for going where no guitarist has been before.

[@sethyjean-pierre5739]

I love it. Thank you my brother!

[@dananthony6258]

Very cool lesson. Thank you for sharing.

[@gambooyt]

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

[@rockinguitar101]

Absolutely Brilliant Lesson John.

[@andercoyote4170]

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

[@Terry_Dale]

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

[@JLamont45]

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

[@tbluesboye]

Way cool John! Thanks!

[@jasonkesser]

Dude. For rrrreeeeeaaal a godsend game changer

[@jakollee]

Great lesson, and amazing intro track!

[@selliantuttimusi6735]

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

[@Vivekaryayoutube]

Wow…I’m blown away by this

[@tedtedguitar]

That’s sick dude. Super helpful

[@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 👍🏼

[@cankutbayhan]

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

[@NilsBreckoff]

Lovely tone, sir.

[@afri-dancer9967]

Thank you for sharing that will help me.

[@bradrapp3697]

Serious AND fun!

[@GinTonDrix]

that's a beautiful guitar!

[@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.

[@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.

[@joelandrew84]

They all sound great with your playing 🫡

[@personaltip]

This is really awesome.

[@TruffulaTreeGTR]

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

[@robhead22]

What a great lesson! Thank you!

[@brunosampaio2399]

Great approach on good old scales and arpeggios!

[@ralphmuller6040]

Outstanding lesson aside - what a lovely guitar tone.

[@BoardgameBaker]

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

[@franciscomanuelgalanfernan36]

Amazing!! 🎉. Espectacular😊

[@BParker55]

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

[@StEvE1961able]

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

[@trevorjohnson8142]

This is amazing; thank you so much!

[@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 👍

[@Yee-ole-benjaminbutton]

You just unlocked a jazz players whole dream in one video

[@bobravenscraft5376]

Definitely Johnson

[@conflictchoir5984]

beautifull concept - thank you John!

[@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.

[@mark.guitar]

Great lesson John. Subscribed.

[@GaryBrunoTV]

Very beautiful John

[@timholtguitar6999]

Really, really enjoyed this lesson. Love your channel!

[@NCSurf888]

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

[@duncan1386]

Wonderful lesson- opened lots doors! Thanks

[@stickman55100]

Great lesson and a fantastic reframe on arpeggios and scales.