Guitar Lessons - Marc Guitar YouTube

Do you think that the minor pentatonic scale just sounds a bit cliched? If so, then try this fantastic technique for reusing the minor Pentatonic scales getting some more interesting and complex sounds. This technique is known as Pentatonic Substitution. This is the next video in a series that is really digging in to the Pentatonic scales which includes: going from how a beginner would learn both the major and minor pentatonic Into how an intermediate player would be able to mix major and minor in Blues And now how to become a more advanced player by learning about Pentatonic substitution This lesson teaches: what is Pentatonic substitution? How to apply it? It teaches a specific example WHAT IS PENTATONIC SUBSTITUTION? Put simply, it is using the pentatonic scale from a different key. So, our example is A minor, so we’d usually use A minor Pentatonic to play over it. And there’s nothing wrong with this, in fact that’s exactly what we did in the fi...

It's one of the most common questions that gets asked in blues lessons: Which scales to use when playing blues? Firstly, the answer will depend upon on the chord progression we are playing over, and even though blues is a fairly narrow genre, the fact is that there are still various different blues chord progressions out there, and even if we focus on just the regular 12 bar blues, there's still the option to play different scales over the different chords in the progression: | A7    | A7    | A7    | A7    | | D7    | D7    | A7    | A7    | | E7    | D7    | A7    | E7    | So let's just think about what scales we can play over just a static A7 chord playing a blues vamp and see what possibilities we have. Scales A minor Pentatonic This is the obvious place to start, and where almost all of us start. The guitarists favourite scale! Notes : A C D ...

Traditional style acoustic blues guitar lesson

Acoustic Slide Lesson in Open D This lesson teaches the song 'When I Cry' by my band Northbound. The lesson assumes that you already know the basics of slide guitar, like tuning, holding the slide etc. The lesson instead focuses on playing licks and building the song, which is a traditional delta blues style solo slide guitar piece. The song was written for my acoustic blues album "Wish I was home" by my band Northbound. If you like this style of music, please check out Northbound acoustic blues band on Spotify and  http://northbound.org.uk

Playing slide over songs with Minor chords I usually play slide over straight 12 bar blues songs, and so it's pretty easy to move with the chord changes. Occasionally, I need to play over something a little bit more melodic, where there's the occasional minor chord. These minor chords take a little more care to play over. In this lesson, I give a quick tip on how I approach this. This one my first YouTube lesson and recorded during the writing of my acoustic blues album "Wish I was home" by my band Northbound. If you like this style of music, please check out Northbound acoustic blues band on Spotify and  http://northbound.org.uk

Slide Licks in Open D Guitar Lesson Guitar lesson teaching 14 slide guitar licks. The lesson takes the form of a 12 bar blues in D, and gives simple example licks to play. Want a copy of the TAB for these licks? Just e-mail me at marcellison75@gmail.com FREE Backing track can be streamed from here: https://soundcloud.com/marcellison-1/marc-guitar-open-d-slide-guitar-video-lesson-backing-track/s-bGXv7 My follow up lesson Easy Slide Guitar Licks for Open G is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBwoEpr6RsA This was my first ever YouTube lesson and recorded during the writing of my acoustic blues album "Wish I was home" by my band Northbound. If you like this style of music, please check out Northbound acoustic blues band on Spotify and  http://northbound.org.uk