New Videos: Scales for Country and Western Swing

Each summer for the past few years, I have done a YouTube guitar instructional video series while my wife is away on her relentless pursuit of fitness. This year she only left for a few days to run a marathon in the Guadalupe Mountains, but I got one started and finished it up over a few week period.

The series is Scales for County and Western Swing. It kind of starts with the major scale, but I show it from the inside out, starting with the three major chord arpeggios, progresses to the related major pentatonic scales, then the major scale, then add the b7 to the major pentatonic scales, expand to the dominant/mixolydian scale, then playing over minor chords, playing in minor keys, diminished, ii7 V7 I, and some odds and ends.

I show the majority of the material in what I think are the three most useful home positions for major key playing, although I discuss the other positions generally shown in scale systems.

Poor production quality, many playing and speaking errors left in (I only have so much time, ability and pride), but I think an intermediate guitarist, or a player who only knows the minor pentatonic, can learn a lot from it.

Here is the first one. My channel on YouTube is ljgaustin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKxpROrW9t0

OKxpROrW9t0

I greatly appreciate this new series and the old ones.

Awesome ! Just what I needed ! I appreciate that...

Many, many thanks for the great information. You also have my vote for the best dressed instructor on You Tube!

You always look good Leon!

Truth is, I just do that so I can pop home from work at lunch. Then I'm locked in and have to put on a grown man suit on the weekends, too.

Hey Leon, I really like your new series of videos. Well done! They should keep us busy for a while.

I just subscribed to your Youtube channel and learned about the SIMS Foundation (http://simsfoundation.org/). You're a class act Mr. Grizzard! Keep up the good work! :cool:

Although I know a lot of scales and practice them fairly often, I have been wondering how they fit in country swing, so this is great serendipity. Thanks!

Hey, many thanks for this. I'll check out the others now, great!

Thanks to your wife too, long may she be doing marathons etc :wink:

Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!!

thank you,that´s real cool stuff !

agreed with everyone here ... great info from a well-dressed class act! thanks for these lessons

Leon, these lessons are great.:grin:

Great video lesson Leon. I agree with you that first scale everyone should learn is the major scale, as all other scales are derived from it.

I gotta say, this newfangled interwebs thing sure is nifty.
Boy I could have used this info 30 years ago.
Thank you Mr. Grizzard.

I gotta say, this newfangled interwebs thing sure is nifty.
Boy I could have used this info 30 years ago.
Thank you Mr. Grizzard.

Me, too.