Bonus Video 3 - 10 Day Electric - "High Flying Birds" Style Minor Pentatonic Lead

In this jam track video, we're again looking at an A minor pentatonic lead line that we can play over this jam track, but we're doing something different here with this chord progression. This is a very famous chord progression. And this is a lot of songs, and what we're gonna look at is basically a method to be able to play over this, but also why this works from a theory point of view as well, because so far we've looked at how to play A minor pentatonic. Shape one, and kind of covered that it works over blues. This kind of thing Or rock And that A minor pentatonic works over that. What it also works over is songs in the key of A minor. Uh, that would mean that the chord progression, the chord progression we're looking at here, uh, would use the chords A minor, G. F F 7 to keep it a bit more beginner friendly, and E. Now that chord progression is called the Andalusian chord progression or the Andalusian cadence. Crazy name, I know it makes it sound like classical music or something, but this is a classic chord progression used in countless songs, but let me give you a rundown of the top 5 or top 10. Uh, Hit the Road, Jack. Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Nina Simone's er Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, the venture surf rock hit Walk Don't Run, which we've got a tutorial for, Sweet Dreams are made of these, even Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, and even things like Seven Nation Army. How does all that work over this chord progression? Well. hit the road And Um, Walk Don't Run, we've also got. It is also Good vibrations I love the colour. It's also not too different to a song we'll look at a little later at the next level of. House of the Rising. Major on it, so it's very famous, but when we're playing over it, we're just thinking A minor pentatonic for the time being. Nice and simple. And just 5 notes of it fret 7, fret 5. Fret 7 and fret 55 notes from the middle octave. That's the crucial part to it that we'll be focusing most on in this video. A strumming pattern for this chord progression, down, down, down, down, up, down, down. And uh and finally, just to cover sound wise, I'm on the middle pickup setting of this semi hollow body guitar, which is a, a little bit Noel Gallagher-esque or a little bit Foo Fighters-esque, it's a D'Angelio, and that means that we're using both of these pickups and that means that. Just a little more rounded. Rather than the very bright um pick up here. And I'm on the clean setting of the Boss Cortana, but what sounds really great on these and most amplifiers is if you're on the clean setting but add a little boost to it and there's a boost button or a boost uh dial that you can do, just add a little bit of that in, you'll find it really kind of comes to life and works great on that middle pickup. That's especially good for any Noel Gallagher's high flying birds or maybe any Oasis. That's how you get those sort of sounds from um these sort of guitars and just from basic equipment. So just a quick demo of this chord progression, but then the full play along video of this will be down below and we'll focus mostly on the lead, um, but the strumming pattern, 1 and 2 and add 3 and 4 and add, down, down, down, down, up. Down, down. And this will go 234. For example, now top tip, I'm going for this way of playing F major. Because it's a fantastic hybrid and the F major 7. of it. Is that thinnest string ringing out as an E? Flat like this, so we're keeping. But that can be a tricky chord for many people. It's basically E major, one fret up, so 234, slide them all up one string. Index finger right on the tip and really curled over. That's the trick with that. Get a, get a real Captain Hook index finger to do that. Have your nails nice and short. The way to do it. Uh, let's just have a quick look at this lead line and then we'll go for the lead line practise in this video. Rhythm guitar practise is down below if that's what you want to focus on. Lead line is 7. 757 The rhythm of that is 12341. Alternate picking if you can with down and up motions. And the rule with both the picking and the strumming is let the guitar and the amplifier do the work. Pick and strum with as small a motion and as lightly as possible. We're not wanting to dig in with this style of stuff, let the boost do a little bit of work to kind of make all the levels of the notes even out a bit, just hit everything. Like almost as light as you And with the strumming Like on the middle strings, keep it really. Let the guitar do the work, don't let it be a physical skill to do this stuff, try and let the guitar and amplifier do the work for you. Let's have a play along to the lead part now, rhythm part is in the description video that's uh separate to this one. So here's the jam track video for this A minor. Pentatonic uh lead line. Top tip, try not to play it with your fingers straight along with the frets. Try and be on this angle, like going in for a handshake, because then we can start to get more of a grip on these strings and start to add something called vibrato later where we kind of. Do this sort of thing And that is much better when we're on this angle like this, trying to act with the three fingers always almost acting as one giant finger and fretting like this. You'll see me do this a lot, and you're not gonna see me play this lead line, lined up a finger of fret like this, it's gonna be like this. There's your top tip, let's go for this. We'll be covering more on vibrato in the next module and the final module of this beginner series. Also, you can come back to this video after watching the next one where we look at how to improvise and make up your own lead lines with the A minor pentatonic. You can come back to this jam track or any other jam track or any other song that's in the key of A or A minor. Bear that in mind as you go through this course. I'll give you a reminder when you need to, and I'll see you in that next video.