Joe Bonamassa's ONLY Advice For Guitarists
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- What's the ONE piece of advice Joe Bonamassa can give to guitar players when constructing a guitar solo?
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In this insightful interview, blues guitar maestro Joe Bonamassa helps us unlock the fingerboard and get out of those pentatonic ruts we as guitarists can get stuck in. Watch as he and Gibson Gear Guide host, Dinesh Lekhraj show us how to move between scales, taking inspiration from our favorite blues guitar players like Albert King. This foundational knowledge of blues licks and scales, Joe argues, is the key to unlocking a world of musical possibilities, allowing for expressive and innovative playing that can set us free from the patterns we as guitar players tend to gravitate towards, time and time again.
Another key piece of advice Joe offers is that guitarists experiment with playing familiar phrases in various neck positions, thereby discovering new creative avenues that we may not have thought of when building a guitar solo. He introduces the idea of modal playing, particularly the Mixolydian mode, to add a fresh twist to the blues scale.
This blues guitar lesson from Joe Bonamassa will improve your soloing in less than 4 minutes. Enjoy this excellent guitar solo, pentatonic and playing tips from the Grammy award-winning guitarist!
"Learn the entire fingerboard." - Joe Bonamassa
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I got to meet Joe around 2015. Everyone had his signature guitars for him to sign. I was the last person to get to talk to him and I had a white strat. I’ll never forget when he laughed and said ,”Ah! The lone white strat.” He was such a cool dude. I asked him if he could give only one piece of advice on guitar what would it be. He stood there quietly for probably 10 seconds and said “Make every note as clear as you can. It doesn’t matter how fast or slow you play if no one can understand it”. Best advice I ever got for music.
Yep...My High School Jazz Band teacher would always say"Make every note a pearl" .... same idea. And a good way to be
Thank you for sharing that!
When I played sultans of swing, lead parts , the guy at the music store said to play it dirty it sounds to clean
Yeah great advice, even spend as much attention to ghost notes as regular notes.
Learn the entire fingerboard in all keys
Great advice. See you in 4 years
I’m 28 years in and i don’t know !
Did you think it was going to be instantaneous? Quick fixes don’t last
😂😂
Learning the fretboard in different keys is not far-fetched or unheard of. However, it will take a lot of commitment. I heard something similar before.
The idea is to bake it into your rehearsal. Make it a habit of trying to play (and sing) everything you learn in 12 keys around the neck. At first it’s daunting but it becomes second-nature. After doing it for a few years, I now suck in all of them equally. In a few more, who knows?
The uncomplicated version of what he is saying: learn all 5 positions of the pentatonic, learn all 5 positions of the major scale, learn the modes, practice all of it until it’s engrained in your brain and muscle memory permanently.
Chord Tones and Common Tones
He only plays min pentatonic there
And learn how to conect patterns.
@@tr3ndkillerNo, he didn’t. Invest in Rick Beato’s Ear Course.
Timing is very important. You can play any note out of key and make it sound good as long as you go back to that original shape or stay in that new scale and jump back. Remember it's music not just practicing scales. Smh 😵💫
Dude: "How can I get OUTSIDE of the pentatonic scale"
Joe: "Play the pentatonic scale in different positions"
Pentatonic is hotel California. Once you check in you don't check out 😂
@@waynekerr67 wrong bro, it should be "You can check out anytime you like, BUT u can't never leave" :)) once u stuck in the pentatonic there's no way to get out of it.
Modes. Dorian for minor Mixo for Major.
@@weakmangetnobitchespentatonic is just a fraction if the major scale, so like it is inevitable.
It is the barebones of guitar music
@@AlexG-xl1ccdo A dorian for a G major key, thats why aminor pentatonic works so well right?
Guy asks him for a little trick for getting out of the usual approach.........Joe proceeds to play every note in the scale at lightening speed
I bet he seldom plays that scale up/down the same way! The combinations are endless.
Yeah, but honestly - that's the ugly truth. Unless you know the fretboard inside out, know (_feel_) the chord changes and anticipate what to play, how to connect etc ... you will always be stuck in boxes or patterns. So the most simple but powerful tip is actually the hardest one, and can take a lifetime to learn (you might never get there... speaking with experience here).
And it did nothing for me….
Indeed , he is a one trick pony. Fast cascading runs is all he seems to do. No feel. Would rather listen to Billie Gibbons play two notes with feel
He actually had a great point, but yeah I cringed when he played that run. He should have stuck to playing that lick in three different positions. That part illustrated his point perfectly.
My best advice for guitarists is learn everything there is to know about guitar. All the notes, all the scales, all the chords, all the modes. That’s step one. Easy
Ha!
Plus learning a lot of chords helps with that creative rut when trying to write songs. And if you play guitar long enough, you will sleepwalk through a pentatonic.
I watched the whole interview on another channel and I think the best advice he gives is: "the best thing I ever did as a guitar player/artist was learn how to sing"
Or play bass well lol. Everyone will be asking you to be in a band. Honestly though, even learning bass can help a lot with overall musicality.
@@tblx2675 if I started over, I could definitely play bass as main. It's bad@$$. Got the rhythm, the funk, somebody on the high end. Party in a box
@@tblx2675 Both the above: learn to sing, and play bass too. Increase your odds getting called A LOT more!
@@tblx2675 Ha! I know you were joking but it's true. There is a guitar "player" under every rock but finding a good bassist or drummer is not so easy.
Joe is absolutely right. When it comes to improvising, everything has to be in the moment and you shouldn't be "thinking",but rather "feeling". All these terms like mixolydian, chromatic, etc... are just theory. You have to internalize what these sound like, and when comes time to improvise you will instinctively know to invoke those sounds.
...hence intentional practice!
bullshit! it's false there is a moment when you stumble on the technique on the music and you need the skills to help you.The knowledge will open up another world for you another world on music.And after you come back in a form of letting go.Bonamassa knows the theory like me because your guitar progression is made thanks to the knowledge of the theory
@@ericgisclon8122 I didn't say theory wasn't important. My message was that you always have to internalize what the theory means in terms of sound, emotion, mood, etc.. For example, here are my associations for some of the modes:
1) Ionian: traditional happy
2) Mixolydian: folk/medieval happy
3) Lydian: Nostalgic happy
...
I can even break it down further on which intervals make the modes feel that way to me:
Mixolydian ==> major 3rd (happy), dominant 7th (folk/medieval flavor)
Lydian ==> major 3rd (happy), augmented 4th (nostalgic/longing flavor)
With practice and time, you will be improvising confidently and won't be thinking: "Ok I need to use the Phrygian mode now." It will instinctively come out in a stream-of-consciousness manner depending on where your feeling goes.
All of it may be true , but I learned from the Who "Pinball Wizard" lyrics
The way J.B. approaches a "simple" pentatonic box and spreads her... blew my mind. I now feel the urge to practice.
I feel like taking up the drums!
Was in a band that opened for Mr. Bonamasa about 20 years ago. It ws a lot of fun to watch him play. Good times.
4:27 J.B.: "But Why Not - There's NO RULES." In other words - If It Sounds Good - IT IS GOOD !!!!!
Mr Joe I really enjoy listening to you and the guidance you give is as deliberate and accurate as your playing thank you for sharing
I learned major and minor pentatonic all over the fretboard just from connecting chords. Then it made "more" sense what people like Robben Ford were doing. I'm now using it on 251s and it's a blast. Learning all of the major chord scales and inversions is also essential.
Love Joe's clean, slightly overdriven sound
Play melodies instead of licks. Play music instead of solos.
Exactly!
Well said ….!
I’m sure there’s a band out there looking for an acoustic player who wears a beanie in the summer time. Don’t stop searching bro.
It's all melody man (insert non-existent stoned aged-hippy emoji here). It's just starting it from the middle is all. I just haven't figured out what to put before and after it…every time.
I agree 100%! More fun to play melodies…. Pentatonic scales are just gibberish…but fun also
It's always good to play along to backing tracks, the more you play ,the more you'll stay in key and try new areas on the fretboard eventually!👌😎🎸
I'm born to a grunge/nu-metal generation that have never heard of Bossonama, but I love you bro 🫒☮️ so sweet
Bossonama lol
Start by learning everything.
Gotcha.
Love this interaction! Good advice. Joe is a master.
After 40yrs of intentional musical theory illiteracy being self taught by ear i discovered i was mainly using the Dorian mode when it came to blues and most rock.
That’s because Dorian is essentially the major and minor pentatonic laid on top of each other
@@Dr.CeeCee I mainly have Angus Young
to thank for teaching me that while most players i have studied use the separate scales in the different positions he was the one who taught me how to use both
together in any position.
Joe is just a down home kid that’s still growing up! Thanks for the sharing Joe and friend!!!
Peter Frantic. Great line, among great questions. Thanks
That...was brilliant!
I laughed at that! -Lee
@2:51 after Joe Bonamassa finished with his Albert King pentatonic example.
I wasn't expecting that exotic sounding phrasing he just improvised with.
Which I think sounded cool.
Plus his dry sense of humor here, with not taking himself too serious.
Reminds me of some of the many reasons why I'm such a fan of his.
He channeled Blackmore at that point! 😀
He's a monster. Such a cool dude also.
Could only watch a couple seconds maybe a minute way over my head that’s incredible you guys rock
That exotic sounding lick at 1:43 is a G Phrygian Dominant lick.
yeah. harmonic minor scale. but 1:38-1:40 is mixo
I did'nt thé name of that scale. Does joe know thé name you reckon?
@@guitariste47 He says in the video that it's mixolydian (which is wrong) and then that someone would fact check him in the comments.
I came here for a good conversation. The quick witted Peter Frantics comment was gold
Joe, I once entered into Blackbird Music in Orlando, FL and noodled around a bit- I was then told that you had been in the same chair like a few hours before. It was really cool. One of my bucket list goals is to be in a jam sesh with you. By the way, your Lydian dominant is really something else.
Great lesson and interview. Keep up the good work!
Much appreciated!
All 12 notes are available over a Dominant 7 chord. First 1-3-5-b7 are the super-safe chord tones. Next are b3 (up into 3), b5-2-4-6 (from the Blues scale and Mixolydian). The last 3 notes, b2-b6-7, can be used in chromatic lines.
Play a triad from each degree, eg, from the 5th of A minor pentatonic which is E play an E minor triad , or the 4th D minor triad, try the others also, 2nd, 6th, 7th etc add these into your A minor pentatonic box to get that outside feel along with the blues scale, Dorian mode, chromatics
Yep, that's a great idea, and also phrasing, lots o' phrasing lol
Do this around the fretboard for different keys and you'll already be on your way to knowing the fretboard
I learn about 2 positions really well, then also know your audience. Playing with other guitarists is different than playing for a bar or something. As I play more and more I enjoy playing alone the most.
Can’t help but like Joe B! Such a musical communicator and sooo down to earth. And he plays like a demon!
This guy has been playing his whole life and at 12 was better than anyone watching probably. He gives advice but people expect him to say something spectacular that will have them playing like him in 5 hours lmao 🤣.
Forget 5 hours . I was thinking an hour and a half… tops
Dinesh, I miss seeing you at Mesa Boogie on Sunset bro! Was always a pleasure interacting with you.
I actually rarely think about what I'm playing, I just play what I feel in the moment according to where the song is going. Then....I'll play it completely different on the next take, it's a wonderful feeling of freedom
thanks for the tips mr. bonermassa you have excellent toan!
Dinesh that tone is to die for you got going there.
Watch “The Southbank session” 1987 buddy guy and Clapton. You’ll learn a lot of dirty moves in pentatonic. Clapton repeats riffs a lot but then gets funky. And then buddy guy is a beast.
His playing on the new knopfler song was amazing
Gotta love those crunchy bends of him
JOE YOU ARE SUCH AN INSPIRATION!
nice short lesson and the part at the end is very funny
This is what we do as violinists, violists, cellists etc. It's a must.
Joe is the deal ////...so glad for Him and what he means to us and what hes doing..not like we needed a savior in guitar but Hes rockin pretty solid...
I remember hearing Joe on an album called bloodline for the first time and he was just a kid unbelievable
I have that guitar. '68 Custom Reissue? I love it.
If it’s Joe it’s probably an original, one owner with providence.
@1962RJP I mean the presenters Custom. JB has a Standard there.
I always liked the Half Toned Minor Diminished Triad Byzantine Combination Short Mode Locian when I need to mix it up a little .......
I'm pretty sure the Byzantians never had more than two notes polyphony though... So the name might not be accurate
7 notes in the Byzantine scale ...7 notes ...
I was more excited to see Dinesh than Bonamassa.
I'm glad he got that Peter Frantics (Framtics?) joke in .
Excellent advice
Glad you think so!
Wow, two great friends of mine....great guitarists.
JB’s noodling is my favourite of all noodling
Gary Moore ate him for breakfast
Great point Joe makes. If you think about it, you are too late. Yep, know your notes on the fret board, then jam out with feel.
Joe is such an incredible guitarist. Wish I could play like him.
Play like you, my friend. You can only be you! I'm sure you're awesome at guitar. -Lee
If you want to find notes outta the box ????. Besides the """ pentatonicss. ""Minor and major. """
Then what you should research is
Whats referred to as both jazz minors and bebop scales.
Theres a very old album which featurings herb ellis. Charlie byrd and a young barnie kessel.sll on the same album.
That is where you will find great chromatic lines that blend both major and minor harmony .
Utilizing the harmonic content of the dominant harmony family.
Very cool and a great example
To answer yout question!!
I can play bar chords and one string at a time,does that help?!
"Modal dexterity" is now my favorite musical phrase ever! Thanks, Joe! 😁
...lol! That's how you bamboozle a bamboozled. @1:10 ...love him!
Joe: if you're thinking about it in real time you're too late.
guy: (after a minute processing)...ahhhh! very nice!
1:12 Ok, now I get it, it's so easy, I will play that from now on..... 😋
Great to watch as always, but I would have liked him to answer the question more directly. Telling us to learn the entire fretboard in all keys is great advice, but it is a bit 'macro'. This question needed a more 'micro' focus. Having said that, He is, without doubt, the most important blues guitarist around today.
There are 5 box shapes in the Pentatonic scale. Each one starting on one of the notes of the scale. To be able to play that in all keys is simply moving them up or down the fret board. Same with the Modes.
there is no direct answer which is why he started with the number one fundamental idea to master the guitar.
if it was marty he would have said, know the roots and when to end and start new phrases just practicing over an A blues track
Well that’s debatable…
Gracias❤🔥🎸
Apparently I have always played "frantic". 🤣 But it has always worked for me.
Bonamassa is just freaking great and so smooth
My only advice: learn everything.
Thank you very much Joe
If you’re a beginner I highly recommend you learn as much theory as possible. All scales, all chords you can, and PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE LEARN LEARN LEARN!! In about 5-6 years of countless hours you’ll be surprised. No matter what your genre of choice is.
"The launch pad move" lol
PETER FRANTICS!!! Love it!!!
Mathematics aside sir JB's tone is just too good! even when he's noodling in an interview. Hats off
He certainly knows how to dial in a Les Paul!
@@gibson indeed
The Peter Frantics... classic!
Joe is just so fckn fluid!!
Im a singer/composer and I can say that since I started studying the modes, scales and how my tracher calls it "polytonality" (sorry i speak spanish) you start to find so many flavours in your compositions. Mind you i dont focus on guitar solos, but the regular chords are honestly a cage. "If thats your thing" means find YOUR thing. Dont judge what comes from you in music, we are humans interpreting it, but it was always there.
Berklee: Learn all your major modes, Melodic minor modes, pentatonic boxes and whole tone scales
Not frantic, just singing , mastery is a important thing and as such I believe it’s the ability to “play” where you want to go
I recently learned the minor scale in 2-3 keys and he’s right, learn it all.. Marty Friedman said it best, the more u know the more aggressive you can play.
Joe is on a totally different level from 99% of guitarists. He plays ridiculously hard riffs, perfectly, while making it look as easy as buttering a piece of bread.
Play what moves you, play your feelings, play your soul.
Replace the F with E on the 4 chord in a G blues. Use D minor pentatonic on the 5 chord D7 in G blues is a cool starting point.
Joe just knows and plays, and he’s much more than ‘just’ a pentatonic player! Go Joe!
generally wearing glasses for interviews sucks. imho. for me it helps thinking about if next note should be half, whole or more frets up or down. while the note sustains i can bend and caress it slightly, til i made my mind up 1 bar later.
How can I make some different things happen " just in that first box? Like what's a good way just kind of get outside it?" Joe: Learn the other boxes...look what I can do...that'll be $800. The real answer is you play ideas with a tonality that functions like a V chord. Then resolve to the position 1 box pattern. The V chord takes you out and the blues box in position one brings you back in. Try D melodic minor to "go out" in G minor. Or Eb melodic minor to go out in G minor.
Actually that helped thx
Glad it helped!
Oh thats it? Cool thought it was going to take awhile
What he meant to say was, "mastering guitar is a long and arduous task that doesn't provide any easy solutions so don't ask me for one."
Practice with your head. Perform with your heart.
That's actually really great advice. -Lee
Great performers are hardly ever great teachers.
Those who can...
Minuto 4:05 épico en la historia del Blues
Nice LP Custom.
He should say, you have to know all the position in each mode!!
Wow. “Only” advice is great…learn everything on the fretboard? Crazy. And build your music vocabulary to include everything. Mind blown. I will now be a guitar master.
I like this interviewer
How bout the "Roam Frantics"?
A great way to break out of the pentatonic scale is to play more like a horn player. Learn some Charlie Parker solos for example..
Also know when to take the spotlight and when to move back to the groove.
The best advice i ever heard is "stick at it boy".
Dude: 'How can I get *outside* of the pentatonic scale?'
Joe: 'Start playing guitar as a 4 year old'
Okay, I got it now!😂
This stuff shouldn't be free 😂 . Kudos tho ! That was a great insight about improv in general ❤
Thank you! 😁
Peter Frantics is going to be the name of my next band.
his best advice...'don't get bogged down playing a 1-4-5 progression for the rest of your days when there's so much cool music just waiting for you to discover and play it.'
It’s all a natural feel thing…
😊🎶👀😳😎