Gig videos from this month

[mark wein]

Here's a few vids from recent gigs:

Mike Stern's Chromazone at Vanguard University last week:

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My blues band playing the Howling Wolf song Evil from his 1968 "psychedelic" album:

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Same venue, different gigs - our jam "The Kingsize Stomp"

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In October my rock band gets back together for a show so I hope I'll have something cool to post from that!

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Hey, great playing&grooves! That bass amp seems woefully underpowered though for outside :-)

[Fretz]

Here's a few vids from recent gigs:
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Fantastic! :applause
Great playing Mark...really nice flow.

I really like the style you're playing in the outdoor vids, do you mind if I ask who your influences are for this? And also what scales/arpeggios your using?

[mark wein]

Thanks guys!


Hey, great playing&grooves! That bass amp seems woefully underpowered though for outside :-)
:D

Actually those little GK amps are great and Martin has played some pretty good sized gigs with that amp, including the fusion clip at the top....he has 3 different rigs dpending on the situation but the GK seems to be able to handle everything except for our rock band....

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Fantastic! :applause
Great playing Mark...really nice flow.

I really like the style you're playing in the outdoor vids, do you mind if I ask who your influences are for this? And also what scales/arpeggios your using?

I like a ton of music and players, so its kind of hard to really pinpoint anyone for this stuff. Obviously all of the usual suspects like SRV, BB King and Albert King but I also dig Rockabilly guys like Scotty More and Danny Gatton and even Brad Paisley

.The soloing is a combination of blues scale, major and minor pentatonic scales and most importantly the chord tones of each chord that I'm playing over.

Here are a few lessons:

http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/content.php?192-Using-Major-and-Minor-Pentatonic-Scales-to-play-Blues-Chord-Changes

http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/content.php?194-Using-3rds-and-7ths-as-Guide-Tones-for-Blues

http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/content.php?276-Chromaticism-and-the-Dominant-7th-Chord

[Fretz]

Thanks guys!

I like a ton of music and players, so its kind of hard to really pinpoint anyone for this stuff. Obviously all of the usual suspects like SRV, BB King and Albert King but I also dig Rockabilly guys like Scotty More and Danny Gatton and even Brad Paisley

.The soloing is a combination of blues scale, major and minor pentatonic scales and most importantly the chord tones of each chord that I'm playing over.

Here are a few lessons:

http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/content.php?192-Using-Major-and-Minor-Pentatonic-Scales-to-play-Blues-Chord-Changes

http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/content.php?194-Using-3rds-and-7ths-as-Guide-Tones-for-Blues

http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/content.php?276-Chromaticism-and-the-Dominant-7th-Chord


Thanks a lot Mark.
I could really hear you targeting those chord tones! :)
This is something I'm currently working on and trying to incorporate into my own playing. I've started working on some arpeggios, which seem to help quite a bit.

[mark wein]

Thanks a lot Mark.
I could really hear you targeting those chord tones! :)
This is something I'm currently working on and trying to incorporate into my own playing. I've started working on some arpeggios, which seem to help quite a bit.

Cool! I would just make sure that you can find the chord tones but realize that they don't make a solo by themselves...the most important thing is that you can locate them within whatever scale or sound that you are playing...

[Fretz]

Cool! I would just make sure that you can find the chord tones but realize that they don't make a solo by themselves...the most important thing is that you can locate them within whatever scale or sound that you are playing...

Yea, good tip Mark...I'd kind of considered this already.
So What I'm trying to do is learn the arpeggios in isolation to anything else.
Treat them as something seperate to any scale, etc. Hopefully that way I'll
be able to apply them to any situation regardless of the scale I'm using or the particular type of progression.

...Is this the best approach?


By the way...I checked out your site and I think it's great.
Thanks for sharing so much information. There's a lot of great stuff on there.

[mark wein]

Yea, good tip Mark...I'd kind of considered this already.
So What I'm trying to do is learn the arpeggios in isolation to anything else.
Treat them as something seperate to any scale, etc. Hopefully that way I'll
be able to apply them to any situation regardless of the scale I'm using or the particular type of progression.

...Is this the best approach?


By the way...I checked out your site and I think it's great.
Thanks for sharing so much information. There's a lot of great stuff on there.

I think you do have to learn them as a separate entity at first just to have them under your fingers but it's hard to make melodies just from chord tones since they are all of the "right" notes...no tension and release happening within that group of pitches.

And thanks! The site continues to grow and I've got a few other teachers contributing as well so its turning into a pretty good resource...