Hi there, guys, it's Jack, and welcome to your blues and rock theory module, and I'm super excited
about this module because I hate blues and rock music is where it's at.
Super fun to play.
Right.
And so many people play blues and rock, but they don't really kind of get how it's built.
Right.
And so just like, you know, I kind of say the same stuff, but there's nothing wrong with just kind
of playing basic styles and things.
But if you understand how the music is built, then you're going to have more options instead of just
always playing a one, you know, minor scale, you can say, hey, you know what, I'm going to try
a Dorien scale over this chord.
And when I mean we switch the four chord, I'm going to go to the full minor blues.
And then when we go to the five core, I do this extension blues scale and it's all these tricks that
more advanced players use and it's very difficult to learn them and utilize them without understanding
them.
Right.
Because you're like, why am I doing this?
Why am I doing that?
Why is this note important?
Right.
And then you go forget it.
I'm just going to stick to my basic blues scale.
Right.
It's kind of a cycle that guitar players get into where they like.
They want to learn more.
Then they start hearing about more stuff.
It seems overwhelming.
So then they go, I'll never forget it.
I'll just do my basics.
And then the problem with that is it's this little cycle and you end up going for years sometimes and
you didn't really get any better, you know.
Yeah.
If you practice more, you're more fluid.
If you practice less, you're less fluid.
But overall, as a player like you didn't grow, you know, you just still doing the same stuff.
Right.
So there's a reason why it's overwhelming for people to learn and grow.
It's because they don't have that language to understand a concept.
OK, so if you understand the concepts behind blues and rock music, then when someone tells you something
like, hey, throw in, you know, the third of the four chord here, it's the six of the scale, or
maybe just do the Dorian scale for that corporate you know, that part of the progression.
None of this will sound like Greek to you.
You'll be like, yeah, OK, that makes sense.
It's easy.
You know, I just had the you mean the, you know, over my eight
and maybe go for you.
So point being, when you try to learn a new technique or someone says something in a lesson or try
to explain why, like, hey, try the Dorian mode here or throw in the third of the four chord here,
all that stuff that seems like a little bit too much won't be too much for you because you'll be like,
oh, OK.
Yeah, that makes sense because you'll know the relationships between the scales in the chords as they
apply to blues music, just like you've learned how the chords and scales relate to each other and diatonic
regular major minor scale music from the last section.
OK, so I'm really excited to kind of jump in to this module.