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Patreon only! What Scale is James Playing?!

🕑 Added 2024-02-21 19:16:36 +0000 UTC

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Ben Eller

Thanks! Nothing wild, little stereo delay like I usually use!

Ben Eller

People need to be sending me some videos! Would love to do more.

Ben Eller

that's right! Harmonic minor is rarely used as a "full-time" scale, but rather a little vacation away from "normal" harmony. This is especially true when turning that V chord dominant in a minor progression!

Phillip Avery Mitchell

Please do more Theory videos. I have studied numerous books and none of it has ever made sense to me.

MrTriggerhappy

Also, what were the effects you had on the guitar there? I've always been garbage at picking out different effects types. I LOVE the airy feel to it.

MrTriggerhappy

I have always been thrown off by how modality interacts with chosen scales/keys. This explanation is pure gold! I hope you bring out more theory-based videos like this, I will be ALL over them. Thanks Uncle Ben

Markus Dreßen

Theory? Always! I'm quite good at it but I always learn something new or different perspectives from different people. But man! What happend to the Lick Doctor? Such a fun idea and so interesting to watch! Cheers!

Todd Pettit

There's another Todd here!? Hi Todd! :D

Aerosmtih717

That was incredible , would love a series on this!!!

NYCM&AHole

Or the jimmy page double neck - no price on that yet.

Kasper Beuse Fauerby

Interesting stuff indeed! I recently started digging into harmonic minor, and once you know what to look for it's just so damn useful! To my big surprise, many songs that I previously thought of as simply being "in minor key" are actually in harmonic minor... even pop songs on the radio (ex. "Flowers" and so many more). The biggest tell, to my understanding, is that major/dominant V chord in a minor key, which just pulls so strongly back to the I chord, compared to the minor V chord that is diatonically in the minor key. In the example you discuss in this video I think you can almost hear James play a big open E chord... so starting the song on the V... and then pulling it straight into that normal Am intro riff. With E Phrygian Dominant I would have expected a lot of "E to F" action, but I guess that is indeed happening in those licks James is playing so it makes sense to label it as such. Thanks for also doing some theory stuff, useful and interesting!

Samuel Valle

Wow, I thought it was going to be above my head, but it was perfectly explained. Thanks Uncle Ben. And yes, a video on the subject of intervals (and a little of modes) would be cool.

Jeffrey Bridges

Excellent explanation Uncle Ben! Modes are making much more sense to me now, thanks! Would love to see more theory.

Dedé

I love your theory lessons, UB! Fantastic video! We definitely need more theory stuff!

Eric Bullington

Pretty cool….never thought of it that way. As a rookie at best this stuff helps a lot.

Diogo Camacho

This was fantastic. I don’t like the constraints of playing within scales, and this kinda reinforces that. Just throw in a backing track in any given key, which gives you the root, and then improvise over that with whatever shape you like and educate your ears into what sounds good or not. Then you can figure out if it’s minor, major, Phrygian, alien, or whatever else.