The Country Scale
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Introducing the Country Scale
Learning the Blues Scale is, for many reasons, almost certainly the easiest route to take into the subject of improvising on guitar.
In the long run however, it is likely that you will more often find use for the Country Scale than for the Blues Scale.
This is because with one or two notable exceptions, the blues scale cannot be used directly to improvise to songs written in a Major key and I think it would be accurate to say that Songs written in Minor Keys are, if you'll excuse the pun, in the minority!
The good news is that if you have been following this course reasonably diligently you have already learned the patterns needed to play the Country Scale!
They are the same as the Blues Scale.
To illustrate here are the notes of the E Blues scale:
E G A Bb B D E
And underneath are the notes to the G Country scale
E G A Bb B D E
G A Bb B D E G
Can you spot the connection?
E G A Bb B D E
G A Bb B D E G
Both scales use exactly the same series of notes -- the Country scale just starts and ends one step further along the series than the blues scale does..
This takes a bit of getting your head round but if we listen to the E blues scale played over one octave from E to E It has a bluesy, minor key sound.
If I play the same pattern but starting on the G I get a more happy-go-lucky, major key country sound.
This can perhaps be heard more clearly if you follow the Blues scale run with an E chord: (Listen to video)
Or An E7 chord: (Listen to video)
...Both of which seem to fit in a nicely resolved bluesy sort of way... or an Em chord: (Listen to video)
Which perhaps sounds more like a Minor ballad resolution..
If I play the pattern from G to G -- giving me the Country scale and play a G Major immediately after it gives a nice sense of Major resolution and if I slide into a G6 -- something of a Country cliché ...you can really hear it as a country scale...(Listen to video)
Just as the Blues scale has many uses beyond just Blues music, so has the Country scale many applications beyond just Country music.
In the next lesson we'll look at several examples of how to use this information to good effect, but for now I suggest just taking a few minutes out to explore this interesting musical relationship for yourself.
See you in the next lesson! - Hudba
Your lessons are fantastic. The Blues scale was the first scale that I learned up and down the neck thanks to you. Please dont stop!
Short, simple, to the point, usable lesson. Great instructions.
ahhh okay, that's what it is. Major blues scale then. That's what I've usually seen it called, but that's in a blues context. If that's more common than the minor blues scale in Country then it does make sense to call it a country scale, but that's where my confusion this last little bit's been drawn from
It is an inherently confusing area of guitar instruction. But you have hit the nail on the head - it is all about context.
That's just a G-run, it can be played in C and F with the same shape. Not really a secret is it?
He didn't say the scale was a secret.
Since this is obviously a lesson for beginners it would probably be more helpful to teach using an E country scale in comparison to the E blues scale or vice versa ie teach the G blues scale if you're going to teach the G country scale. This video made me feel really bad for any beginner trying to learn from you.
fucking sorcery!!!
I'm confused. Is the thing you are calling the "E Blues Scale" actually the E Minor scale? According to Berklee the E Major Blues Scale is E F# G G# B C#. I don't just want the notes, I want to understand how you are getting them. Is this some kind of mixolydian scale? Is it minor or major?
Great question! Here are proper definitions for each of the six scale types that Guitar Players most commonly use: MAJOR = default scale so we number the notes simply 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Major scales can be generated by applying the formula WWHWWWH starting from any note you designate as the key note. (W = Whole tone H = Half tone). From the Major scale you can derive the MAJOR PENTATONIC scale by omitting notes 4 and 7. So the Major Pentatonic is: 1 2 3 5 6 8. The Major Blues scale is created by adding a flat 3 to the Major pentatonic scale. So its formula is : 1 2 b3 3 5 6 8. The NATURAL MINOR SCALE can be created by flatting the 3rd 6th and 7th notes of the Major scale so its formula is: 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 8. If you omit the 2nd and flat 6th you get the Minor Pentatonic scale: So its formula is 1 b3 4 5 b7 8. Add in the flat 5 to that scale and you get the Minor Blues scale. This has the formula: 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 8. There is an extra dimension (and thus potential for confusion) to these scale relationships in that all six scales can be produced by just three different fingering patterns. This is because of relativeness. For example the C Major scale uses the notes C D E F G A B C. The A Natural Minor scale uses the same notes starting from the sixth: A B C D E F G A. The C Major Pentatonic uses C D E G A C; The A Minor pentatonic: A C D E G A. The C Major Blues scale: C D Eb E G A C, The A Minor pentatonic A C D Eb E G A. If you would like me to email you a visual representation of how all these things relate, just go to secretguitarteacher.com and use the messaging system to contact me.
if u see closer, and from my experience of playing country (i also study music as an arranger) the country scale can be shown and played in the ordinary minor and major scales including all of the alterations of the scale (stable ones and not stable alterations). so if you play in a major it can be also F# minor (blues) pentatonic scale :)
Your videos are so helpful. Thank you for posting.
Great lesson and application of it. One of the better, useful videos I have viewed, thanks
Excellent lesson. Thanks from New England!
Secret - as a teacher, I run across all sorts of names for things, and often, the more the better - country scale, major pentatonic, hexatonic mixed mode, the 6/9 scale - all make sense, andt all the different descriptions may assist in understanding, but, as always, just pickin the thing repeatedly makes it truly "value added".
I've got into ideas for this g scale lesson already thanks
Well done mate... great video, I liked and subscribed.
I have that very same guitar in the same colour to, Best £175 second hand axe I’ve ever owned !
The pentatonic scale has five forms. The teacher was simply using the 2nd form of the minor pentatonic blues scale starting on the G note to achieve the country scale. Good job
Interesting lesson!
I'm a metalhead, recently got into country. Started playing again recently, but wanted more than Slayer... Learned some priest.. got into chords... Now I play my warbeast without an amp .. gotta say, great teacher.. getcha pull massah!!
Bravo!
I enjoyed the lesson! You sure have a lot of patience.Thank you for giving your time to share your knowledge with me,for free even.Im sure you could have spent your time in other ways ,rather than putting together a video on Utube that offers to teach and entertain people you do not even know.I thank you Sir
I have always thought of the major pentatonic with a flat 3rd as the major blues scale and the minor pentatonic with a flat 5th as the minor blues scale. Those are my definitions and a lot of people I know refer to them as that. But ideally people can label scales whatever they want.
Nobody told me before. Thanks so much.
nice job sir
THERE COMES A POINT WHERE THE HEART TAKES OVER AND PLAYS TO THE SOUL NOT TO THE NOTES AND INTERVALS
Google the word "Entomology" -- language develops based on exactly as you say, when its necessary--and yes, the title denotes an important distinction which is explained in the video by great guitarist with a music degree, studio musician, etc--by the way, the 2 sharp is used in many many blues songs-- so I deem it as part of the true blues scale.
You know Mike,, I have to agree with you,, I never had the opportunity to be taught theory but as like you, you could probably hang with the schooled players. Believe me, some of these guys just sound like they're playing scales with no emotion because they are over thinking. I just play from my heart,, it makes a big difference.
YA GOTTA LOVE JIMI
I believe he means whats the name of the strings you were playing, such as E-A-D-G-B-E.
Hello, I really appreciate your CZcams channel and have learned a lot from your videos. I was wondering which course this video is from as I would like to see the earlier videos in the sequence. Is it one of the courses that can be downloaded from your site? Thanks!
SecretGuitarTeacher Thanks! I will definitely check it out!
100% agreed.
Jody is an absolute genius, -- he knows, however, that most guitarists, over-emphasize the value or importance of the so called "pentatonic" scale in the sense that great guitarists and great studio performances are in no wise limited to 5 (pentatonic) notes. The Flatted 3, 5, and 7s are freely used, --the flatted 2nd and 2 sharp are freely used.-as are both 6s (see e.g, Redihouse), and Malmsteem, he can't get away from the Perfect 7th- Hendrix? he uses all 12 notes in Hey Joe- AM I WRONG??
YOU ARE exactly right-- incorrect spelling-- but, from the context, you understood the meaning--- that is how language develops--so, again, I think Jody properly described "the country scale" and defined it with examples in support of his definition (and demonstrations as well)--I am not sure what you mean about the 2# ---it is the note 1/2 step below the b3rd or 1 step up from Root- most leads, blues, country, rock, are not 5 notes, except to cover bands-- 2# is used in many ways.
a scale is any sequence of musical notes in an ascending or descending order...I've studied many scales/modes and never heard of the "country scale" but I guess there's a first time for everything...peace!
Would the blues in G be the same as the country scale?
Where and what is the next lesson please? Thanks for this by the way.
Many thanks, love your lessons.
Well country music is blues sped up in octave and bpms
Ok, i understand why call it that way !
You can play country on minor pentatonic scales ! Not just in major
Great Blues players basically use the minor scale --root, 2#, 3flat, 4, 5, 6flat,7 flat, and root--but also, at times use the major third, and 6 sharp,.. another way of thinking of this is using the major scale except flating the 3rd and 7th, and often walking through the flatted 5th -- don't even try to tell me the blues scale is just penatonic--its just not true--Redhouse uses both 6s (flat and sharp) both 3rds, and of course the flatted 5ths and 7ths--I don't know if that helps, but its true
Sorry for getting off topic, but I didn't fully know the definition of "internet troll" before reading some comments below.
what strings were you picking to get that sound?
Bb...
Country scale? Is it really necessary to make up new scale names? I believe the most common approach in country is to mix minor and major pentatonics with chromatic passing tones, correct me if I'm wrong.
like I said "there's a first time for everything"...again the scale you are playing is a G Major Blues scale (a Hexatonic scale)...Scale - Major Blues Scale 1,2,b3,3,5,6...the minor third you refer to is in chord progression not in the scale, NO note is minor or major only scales and chords...the G major scale has a B minor chord...
come on you are smart
I personally don't think of genres having scales, even the blues, blues is a feeling and the "country" scale like most country songs uses the Major Scale almost always, hence the G maj you are using not the 2nd of E min (which is the flat 3rd of E minor it's 'relative') but the G Maj Blues Scale...so it doesn't give the sense of a Major scale/sound...it is a Maj Scale/sound...
he biejo pete. medio no abla.
um.. handsome voice 5555
EEK !!!! When did Piers Morgan shave his head ??
This is not critical of the lesson buy myself. Why is it after 20 yrs of playing, all this things that came natural by ear, when I see one of these lessons. It just comfuses the hell outta me and I end up over thinking instead of playing. Then I cant play it at all.
Btw that is G Dorian lol
it's mixadorian.
AM I right? Mixadorian... I've only been playing a bit over a year.
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hey bot
YEAH .. BUT HE LACKS THE IMPROV TALENTS THAT JIMI HAD ..
thanks for the truth. does anybody believe the Great Ones gave a damn that they were a few notes off in their scale playing?
or even knew? thats what bends are for. to cover "technical" mistakes. jimi hendrix was the master of not givin a fuck.
and steve howe. the man could chicken pick to beat the band.
listen to "ram" if you wnat to drive yourself batty.
Sorry to say!!!!
But that was not a lesson. It was Info. Only Info...
No...
Maybe give me the link...
complete songs, but no hard rock or rap
***** I was hopping to learn from your youtube 'The Country Scale' a complete song using 'The Country Scale' do you have anything you can show me??? Do you understand now???
***** You are being very patient and polite to someone, I think, who has boorish manners. And that is a lesson for us all. Cheers.
Blues Scale, Country Scale - all BS in my opinion. It's pentatonic scales with some chromatics thrown in. That's all there is about it.