Hey @Jazzbass19, thanks for asking! Posting in the forum is always a good option, it’s easier to follow up and get other peoples’ thoughts than YT comments or lesson pages.
Sooo…
The “Simple Blues Groove” video is intended as a “pre-scales” video, for someone who hasn’t learned scales yet. So we just learn using a shape, minus the theory.
BUT that shape is root-fifth-flat 7-root, which is the same notes as the Funk Box. (from the Bootsy vid)
Because that shape doesn’t contain a third, it doesn’t dictate “minor” or “major”, it could be used on any chord where a fifth and flat 7th fit.
EXTRA THEORY ALERT: I don’t cover 7th chords in the Beginner to Badass course, so that’s a little outside of what you might have heard from me before.
Whereas if you play root-3rd-5th-3rd, you have to know if the chord is major or minor, because the third changes between the two (half step lower on a minor chord).
Does that answer your question?
Nailed it! 