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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to use the Mixolydian scale to play over a 2 chord vamp. I’ll show you how to play up and down that scale quickly by “dancing with your fingers”.
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Michael Allen says
Thank you for coming up with something spectacular every week. I can really use an easy way to play this scale. And I would love for my fingers to dance across the fretboard!
blues46 says
I keep signing in but still can not get to the lesson.
blues46 says
I finally got to today’s lesson. Ignore previous post.
Garry says
Can’t wait to break this one down to learn (listen, analyse and play) how you’ve created this masterpiece Brian. Very timely too as I’ve been wanting to play a blues with a tremolo featured. All the best! 😎🎸😎
San Luis Rey says
I don’t know how you keep coming up with these new innovative lessons every week, but thanks Brian! This one goes great with EP 556 as well as the one you mentioned. Great explanations!
Max d says
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James W says
These are the ones I subscribe for. Great one this week Brian.
Harry B says
This is great stuff, Brian. It explains things that I have heard and sensed in a life-time of playing guitar but didn’t fully understand. Getting into the theory and more technical aspects of music is especially helpful. It is lessons like this that keep me looking forward to your lessons every week so don’t even think about leaving that part of your lessons out.. Thanks so much!
John I says
Brilliant ! A revelation for me. Thanks yet again, Brian!
owen a says
Yes, I think the penny dropped for me. Keep up the good work Brian.
klox says
Another thoughtful lesson & tune to play – thanks Brian.
I like to print the notation & tab from Soundslice. This is working fine but for the last 3 weeks the lesson titles have been missing. Can you please restore these in the Advanced Settings ?
Many thanks !
Michael J says
G’day Brian,
George Benson! I hear him!
M.J.
Raymond P says
Please don’t stop your intro with theory and how the chords interact. It truly is the best part of the lessons.
Doug H says
I used to think it was easier to just “flat the 7” for than training myself to ask what the undelying chord is the Five Chord of and then play that chord’s major scale.
I WAS WRONG! It actually becomes VERY ESSY and FAST. Just pretend the underlying chord IS the 5 chord of some other key. Switch fingers to the new 1 chord and play its major scale. Our fingers and minds are pretty good at going from 5 chords back to 1 chords.
If I want B mixolydian, I pretent B is the 5 chord and switch to any E chord and play E major scale stuff since B is the five chord of E major. It all happens in the imagination with only a little practice once the process of “I’m a five chord now so play the new one chord’s major scale” becomes automatic. You can play this trick with the other modes as well. Dorian mode? “I’m a two chord, now switch to the one”. Etc.
Thanks Brian! You taught me this a ling time ago. I use it a lot – especially for Mixolydian . 🙏
Raymond P says
Hi Brian,
I mentioned last week that I’m not seeing the title name or any other information on the top of the Soundslice music sheets. Could you please restore this?
Thanks
Blaine L says
Nice job. Do I hear echos of “Friend of the Devil” in part two?
Lyn C says
Hi Brian.. great lesson as usual! And good advice about learning the major scales in all positions.. I have been struggling to learn major and minor pentatonics in all positions, so will focus more on major scales first.
PS.. also having the same problem with Sound Slice for the last 3 weeks- no titles. Is it something to do with my older laptop, or is it a setting at your end?
Paul N says
When Brian says you can “skip to the ## minute mark” if you just want to learn the song and not hear me talk” – I suggest don’t skip a thing! The first 14 were very helpful Brian. Thanks!
mritalian says
Hi Brian, Hope all is well for you and your family and friends after watching what’s going on back east. I went back this week and reviewed lesson 374 I thought I knew enough, but I just had a light bulb moment and as I was playing the scales I would take the time to engage my brain and see were the intervals are. What worked for me is taking a little melody that I hear in my head like when the Saints Go Marching In and then hear were the major 3rd, second 5ths etc. This helped me to really understand the neck better and were everything is at in the CAGED positions. Thank you for all you do again, I enjoy your lessons every week, these modes that you have been teaching are really helping to cement things together. Take care Ron T