Jerry Cherry (@jerrycherryband)

Hello Cherries! Do you need an upgrade to your chord vocabulary? If so there is an easy way to add 7 new chords to your arsenal. Use the Melodic Minor Scale. You don't need to be a jazz player to appreciate and use these chords. I'm not a jazz player. Use these chords in your songwriting, or for…

While soloing over a Minor Blues you can use the Minor Pentatonic scale or the Minor scale. You can also think about how modes work over the three chords so that you can target specific intervals. You can also use Minor 2-5-1's which are really cool giving you a jazzy outside sound to effectively…

Hello Cherries! “I’m F#.” 😀 I’m playing just an F# minor pentatonic scale over a chord progression. Focusing on the root note F#. Some of the best players actually only played one scale through the changes. Playing this way gives a certain rub over the chords that you don’t get when you’re playing…

There's no one way to get better on guitar. It's usually a combination of things at the same time. Connecting triads with scales is a perfect example of this. Triads are the basic building blocks of chords, the root, 3rd, and 5th, so playing them directly emphasizes the chord currently being…

I believe that learning to hear major, minor, and dominant chords and scales may be the most important things you can do to improve your guitar playing. In this video I'll show you the D chord, and the D major scale. The Dm chord and the D minor scale. Last but not least the D7 chord and the D…

Happy New Year Cherries! Let's play more guitar this year 🎸😊 I'm going to you show a great framework that puts your hand in position to play a mean blues solo. Enjoy the full video at YouTube/JerryCherryBand and have a Happy, and Healthy New Year Everybody 🥳 #guitarlesson #guitarsolo #bluesguitar…

In this video I’m going to show you How to Play The 5 Patterns of The Major Scale Over a 1-4-5 Progression. Enjoy the full video at YouTube/JerryCherryBand and have a great holiday weekend Everybody ❤️ #majorscale #guitarsolo #guitarlesson #chordprogression #learnguitar

The Magic of 5. With this system I’ll show you a great way to play the Major Scale all across the fretboard using 5 Major Scale patterns that relate to the CAGED System. Playing the major scale around the CAGED system involves mapping five distinct scale shapes over corresponding C, A, G, E, and D…

When playing a Major 1-4-5 progression you can use 3 different Pentatonic Scales, 1 for each chord. Use the Major Pentatonic of the 1 chord, then shift to the Major Pentatonic of the 4 chord, and finally to the Major Pentatonic of the 5 chord. This scale gives you two more notes outside of the…

An arpeggio is a broken chord where the notes are played one after another instead of at the same time, creating a "rippling" or "harp-like" sound. In this video I'll show you how to play over a 1-4-5 progression across the fretboard with arpeggios outlining chords from the CAGED System. Enjoy the…

Hello Cherries! If there is one system out there that creates a framework for seeing the full guitar fretboard and systematically organizing what you can play it's the CAGED System. You can play any chord using these 5 shapes that revolve over and over. In this video I teach this using the most…

To effectively solo over a minor blues progression, use the minor pentatonic scale, target chord tones by emphasizing the roots of the i, iv, and V chords, use triads, arpeggios, apply stylistic techniques like call and response, phrasing, and make it sad. I’ll show you 5 Ways to approach Soloing…

The Harmonic Minor Scale raises the seventh degree of the natural minor scale to create a strong V-i cadence 🤨 It adds a more intense sound to minor key compositions 🧐 The Phrygian Dominant Mode is the 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale, featuring an exotic, Spanish or Eastern flavor due to its…

The Mixolydian Mode is one of the most important, commonly used scale in music. It has only one note that's different from the Major scale and that's the 7th degree. Ionian, "The Major Scale," is very vanilla sounding, while Mixolydian is common in jazz, blues, and rock. The thing is that the…

Here's a simple and very effective way to solo over a chord progression. Play the major or minor pentatonic scale that corresponds to each chord as it is played. This is also known as "playing the changes" with pentatonics. This method can be done while staying in one general area of the fretboard…

We know our pentatonic scales and our chord tones 🤨 Now it's time to level up our blues playing. You can superimpose a diminished arpeggio a half-step above the root of the chord you're targeting 🧐 Think of the diminished notes as "outside" notes that provide tension and resolve into the…

You can use triads to hear modes. Just play a root-note drone or a major or minor chord and then play two triads from the parent scale of the mode, the 4th and 5th degree, over the drone. This technique, called triad pairing, creates a distinct modal sound by emphasizing the "color tone." Practice…

Using Minor Triads as a framework is the best way for seeing the chord tones that you need to play in your minor blues solos. Seeing these triads "3 note chords" all over the fretboard will really help you nail the notes that count in a blues progression. In this new video, I'll show you the…

The tritone is a powerful interval for blues soloing. It's the interval between the 3rd and 7th of a dominant chord. A blues progression is generally 3 Dominant chords. The 1-4-5. If you're on the 1 chord and you play the tritone, go down a half step and you're now on the tritone of the 4 chord…

Minor pentatonic scales and triads (and their inversions) can be connected by visualizing them within the five familiar pentatonic positions on the guitar fretboard. Each position contains the notes of a specific triad, and by understanding how these triads relate to the pentatonic scale within…

Have you ever tried to find the Triads within the Major Pentatonic Shapes? In this video I go through all 5 Major Pentatonic Shapes, 1 string set at a time. Within these shapes we’re going to play the Major Pentatonic Scale and find the triad within the string set. This exercise opens up the…

If you're looking for a great foundation for playing the major scale all over the fretboard, this is it. The 5 CAGED shapes have 5 Major Scale patterns. You can break the fretboard into manageable sections. Enjoy the full video at YouTube/JerryCherryBand and have a great weekend everybody 😎…

I've been searching for years to find the perfect framework for playing guitar and I believe that this is it 🤨 It involves playing a chord progression in just one position of the fretboard using triads 🧐 Once you get that, move on to the other 4 positions, one at a time 🎸 You can use these triads…

I know you know the Minor Pentatonic Scale. But do you know the Dominant Pentatonic Scale? Just change one note, the minor 3rd to the Major 3rd. This works great over a Dominant chord. Use this together with the minor pentatonic. You’ll love it. See the full video a YouTube/JerryCherryBand…

I think the most important thing that you can do as a musician is to develop your ear. One of the best ways to do that is to listen to the bass. That's because the bass usually plays the root notes of every chord in a song. In this video I'll show you how Use your Ear to Find the Root Notes of a…

Something every guitarist should know are the 5 shapes of the minor pentatonic scale. This covers the whole fretboard. You can play this over a dominant chord. Just do a bluesy bend from the minor 3rd to the major 3rd. Enjoy this little example by me playing a Gibson SG through a Fender Deluxe…

Triad pairs are a fascinating concept in music, especially for improvisation. By alternating between the notes of two triads, you can create melodic patterns that sound fresh and interesting. Enjoy the full video at Youtube/JerryCherryBand and a have a great weekend Everybody 🎸 #triads #triadpairs…

Have you ever wondered how or why the chords in a key are Major and/or minor? In this vdeo we're going to construct chords within a key using half and whole steps. This simple concept will help you see and understand the intervals that make up the chords. Enjoy the full video at…

The Minor Pentatonic scale, a five-note scale, is a great starting point for playing blues solos 🤨 It's easy to learn, and you can play it in five different positions along the fretboard, each with it's own shape 🧐 Use these shapes to play your favorite blues licks. Enjoy the full video at…

Do you know the formula for creating a Major scale, or any scale 🤨 If not, "don't fret it." Actually you want to fret it. If you go up or down the fretboard one fret at a time its called a half step. If you go up or down 2 frets it's called a whole step or a "Step." A scale is just a series of…