I remember when the line 6 spider IV amp came out and everybody had one with a Schecter guitar. I saw more sweep picking and shredding than I knew existed and became excited of music coming back! Then I realized, thats ALL they could do. Couldnt play a riff along with a drummer, much less a metranome, and eventually guitar in general seemed to be "exposed" and Pop music took over. I hope one day guitar and good music makes a comeback. For those keeping it alive, youre not alone!
Well said! I'm a fan of guitarists that might utilize scales or whatever to support a melody or Motif they heard in their Head. Like they're Vocalizing a solo. I had one of Roberts courses a couple years ago, well before he changed his hair color. I stll have it and looking for the inspiration to finish it.
2009 yep! I grabbed a new Schecter c + and played the spider IV 120 watt for the first time and fell in love but looking back now everybody thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Yeah well ❤️🩹
i have to Laugh, today, now these kids rather go see Katy perry, LOL, instead of pink floyd , or judas priest, etc} the kids have lost there minds if they think thats music , lets go see Kanye west hum our national anthem ,L.M.A.O. they rather see that than a led zeppelin video, NUTS ! how,s a young person going to learn to play a mean Guitar listening to Katy Perry ? or the Jonah,s brother,s ,LOL,
@@The68lespaul i know man! I live in Birmingham Al. Our radio stations are garbage now. We have ONE and only ONE good station. The rest we have to depend on live performances, which cost a fortune. Tool came almost two years ago: 150 for nosebleeds..😑
I saw Rick before I knew who he was. Malmsteen opened, he was being hyped and kind of glorified in a strange obnoxious way, by the announcer. Next Rick Emmett proved that he could play anything yngwie could better, with humility, and a lot of class 🙂
im Living Proof ,Rob,s Lesson,s work, hes helped me to improve more than anyone will ever know, i cant begin to Thank him enough, im grateful he does this, God Bless him !! i hope he makes a gang more video lesson,s , William , 68LesPaul 2-23-23
Dude, you're such a great teacher. It's different to be a killer player, but time and time again, you break it down, work with us, and build confidence, and it's so sick.
One of the first things I learned from my upper 90s guitar teacher was scale sequencing and the pentatonic scales. It was a lot of fun to learn. One of the cooler aspects of it was having both audio and video recordings made by various musicians I admired to refer to as I was learning it.
You can teach an old dog new tricks .Sometimes in your guitar journey you learn things and kind of forget them.Grear lesson reminded me of how good sequences sound ..Keep up the good work Robert !!
Robert, it's funny how you mentored the picking order, I used to worry about that (outside vs inside picking). But, recently I was noticing that when I picked my way through a series of runs it didn't matter which way I did it, in terms of speed or ease. I guess I've gotten better without noticing, because I do remember trying to learn alternate picking, and having to think about it! That's a nice feeling! Also, I've already been doing what you're calling "sequencing," where I practice a run in segments like how you're teaching. But, I still don't consider myself fast at all. I'm still working on smooth. But I am doing it smooth! Yeah, it's a nice feeling to see progress!
My warm-up for the last few years has been to run triplets through the pentatonic positions 5 times. I've never made this connection even though I was basically practicing sequencing this whole time. Thank you!
I'm sure I've said this on your channel a bunch and I know others have too: the way you make everything so understandable is really awesome. Guitar can be so intimidating for newer people or people who haven't practiced in a while. The way you teach motivates me, like a "I'm making this too hard on myself" type of way.
I had a breakthrough last night and just let loose on the higher notes.12th fret and lower on the neck. . Got into the zone and found the notes that connect and just freestyles for over an hour. My buddy passed away about 2 years ago and his wife gave me his Acoustic. I have been playing that for about 1-2 hours a night. Last week I broke my Stratocaster back out after 10 years in the closet. Bought a Boss GT-1 and I can’t put the guitar down now. 3-4 hours a night now. So many melodies to create. Just sitting creating a 30 second loop of a finger/strum pattern then laying that sweet solo down over the loop. It’s starting to sound like real music. Not that the acoustic doesn’t but this has so much more fun to it. I need more experienced players to play with.
This is a great short lesson. I rarely use a pick, and tend to play this type of lick using my right thumb and middle finger, with lots of pull-offs and hammer ons. I also picture the chord shape as well as the scale box, and aim to hit the notes in the chord. Regarding the note positions in this video, I find myself getting to the first "B", but instead of going back on myself from string 5 fret 12 to string 4 fret 9, I slide my left ring finger up to string 5 fret 14, moving into the next box shape in the scale. Then I bar across the 12th fret with my left index finger, and play the remaining notes on frets 12, 14 and 15, hammering, pulling and picking across the strings. The notes are the same, but without the aggressive pick attack, the end result has a different feel. As Robert says, find what works best for you.
‘Outside Picking’ is the whole driving force behind this sequence. The picking mechanics is your ticket in. Absolutely paramount to getting to the other side of the bridge to pro playing. Great vid Rob!
Dude. Excellent. Been in a bit of a soloing rut lately. This is the easily most technique I’ve picked up in a long time and it took all of 5 minutes. Great teacher!
This lesson is just eye opener!👍 as a fan of the old school rockers: Hendrix, Page, Van Halen, Kiss, Deep Purple and my favorite, Yngwie Malmsteen. This is really cool. Thanks a lot Robert. More power, keep rockin!🎸
I remember when I discovered this. It changed my playing for fills and building tension. Bach was a genius at sequences. Check out a few fugues. Good job on this. But I still chuckle at how rock players will use string names and fret position rather than just call out the actual note. But I get it. It took years of classical playing and sight reading to get all the names learned. Worth the work.
That’s so incredibly simple yet so cool!! I can’t believe I never thought of doing this in all my years of playing. Thank you for sharing this information. I can’t thank you enough. I wish I could have had a teacher like you when I was young. You have a great gift in teaching and your playing.
Bought this - great lesson. The thing I didn't know I was missing but was, like an itch I wasn't quite sure how to scratch. There's always 2 quotes spring to mind about situations such as these and learning something new. One was from Donald Rumsfeld (I don't agree with him as a person nor his stance on the war but his quote is great), along the lines of "there are known knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns". This falls into the latter - I wasn't even aware that I didn't know it. I've butted up against it when looking at other things ("Bonamassa Eric Johnson style licks!") but didn't know they were "sequence licks". Makes it all so simple now! Which brings me to my other favourite quote (Kahlil Gibran) "The obvious is that which isn't seen until someone expresses it simply" Cheers Robert - been practising these all weekend and it's great, really inspiring!
I didn't have UA-cam growing up. The people that showed me things only showed me how to play parts of songs without explanations. Reasons why I'm more of a rhythm guy than lead but I enjoy what I can play and that's what matters, soothing my soul.
Alright, you talked me into it! Got the course, scanned it and now I'm pumped! The perfect thing for a guy who has played professionally for 40+ years ... IDEAS that take me out of my typical approach ... I can mess with these and twist them for my own nefarious purposes! Thank you, Robert, I love the way you teach!
Hello and thank you for the video. I was hooked by the use of sequences in your video title. A method taught to me by my teach in my second or third lesson. He gave me pentatonic and modal positions and then said learn the 3s, 4s and 6 note sequences and you I will blow people way. And, when I play the 6 note sequences, it blows people's minds. But he taught it to me in 30 seconds. You are spending a 10 minute video on it. You have really complicated the technique. Here's the scale. Play three notes down, then start on the 2nd note and play 3 notes down, and then start on what was your third note and play three notes down and continue this pattern through the box shape or modal position. Now try it playing four notes... six notes...fawking simple. Discussing outside or inside picking was the part of your video I thought was great to mention. I have never specifically taken an I Teresa ibto dissecting my picking through this practice becUse I have always just focused on the metronome's tempo and getting my number of notes evenly picked within the beat. You may have set me on a path that will change my playing. Thank you.
Robert, you are a frickin' great teacher. While I was aware of this technique I had never known what it was called. Similarly, outside and inside picking concept, I had experienced but had no idea it was its own thing with a name. Learned two things in a short ~11 minute video, great stuff 💪
You have a lot of great lessons but I would rank this number one. Once they wrap their head around this a lot of things are going to fall into place as always appreciate you Robert✌️
Man ,.... just picking it back up after 15 years ... that has to be the best tutorial I found. Thank you! I can get my fingers to move and hit the notes np ..... just don't know where I'm going ...thanks again
Been doing that for a couple of decades now (i practice it in every mode scales) and yeah it sound and feel so great…nice thing about it is that you can insert that sequence in almost every song you are playing..👍
Dude I am raising my hand 🖐️ high! This is a great lesson. This is exactly the kind of thing I’m looking for! How to do more with something I already know - the pentatonic scale! I’m go. A have to check out this sequencing course. I think this could be a huge unlock for me.
Thanks for sharing your picking tech. with this scale pattern to us all who want to become a better guitarist, i liked the title, they "Tricked us" lol, Cool ! you also gave us the way to pic these notes, i have to admit, of all the guitar lesson,s on here , meaning (U-Tube) MR.Baker, is by far one of my favorites , he takes the time to show how and what hes doing and show,s us step by step, he doesnt blast right through it like some of the video,s where the guy giving the lesson wants to show off , or let us see how fast he or she can pic Rob,s Lessons are much , much better than those by a long shot, , lol, Rob takes the time and explains crystal clear exactly what hes doing, to me , hes an Awesome Teacher , as im always looking to improve my playing i go to Rob,s video,s a lot , i can Honestly say, Robert has Helped me , i come away playing better each time after watching any one of his video,s and i go back to all my favorite ones that i like the best just to refresh, Rob,s way of Teaching is specific and concise , and he explains everything hes doing, im grateful hes on here doing this, as ive said, i have gotten better since watching his video,s , at first , i didnt think i could match his speed, lol, now im passing him, dont tell him i said that,lol, Rob is an Excellent teacher, i HIGHLY Recommend Rob,s video,s to anyone that wants to improve there playing , im living proof that his video,s do indeed work, ill never be able to Thank him enough , i hope Rob continues posting many,many more Lesson,s , ill be watching for,em lol, to ROBERT BAKER, CHEER,S !!! from William , 68LesPaul, W.H.W. 2-23-23 ,
Subbed, Joined and Bought the courses. You are easy going; I like that. You can teach an old dog (that's me) new tricks. I'll be 60 this year. Started on the guitar in 1984. This is cool; we were on a 7 month deployment to the Indian Ocean. Guy on my ship (aircraft carrier) sold me his Carvin DC-150. Another guy showed me Train Kept A Rollin'. Since then, whatever I do on guitar I taught myself. I also taught myself bass. I've done well in music. Hundreds of gigs. Borgata Event Center, Hard Rock in Atlantic City. But now I want to learn your courses just for me. So, I think your course would be perfect for me. Thank you Robert.
That Run or sequence is one of the first licks I learned back in 1980 from a book called "the Heavy Guitar Bible" by Richard Daniels. It has 3, 4, 5, and 6 note runs. I still have that book too and refer to it often, one of the best $10 purchases I ever made as a teenager...😉
The inside/outside picking advice is good. Speaking of picking techniques, ever saw Troy Grady's Cracking The Code series? He chronicles his journey 2 figuring out how all those guitarists he grew up with in the '80s played so fast, so (apparently) effortlessly. It's 1 hell of a series, watch it if u haven't!
I'm a beginner, and that was real helpful. Usually i just go down but never back up again doing scales if that makes sense. I've been messing with guitar on and off for years and just got stuck playing the same things, so after lockdown, yer i know, i was gaming mostly threw that i decided to take my love of guitar to the next level, brought some stomp pedals for the muse and I'm just doing my thing but this time learning stuff like this. I've even started doing vids on my channel just for fun, but also I'll get round to how a beginner can sound pretty good with learning this kind of practice, I'm not a great guitarist by any means, i basically learned chords myself and learned what i didn't know was the pentatonic scale. In my mind there's no rules in guitar playing, obviously there's some, but you can shove on a overdrive pedal just use power chords and sound pretty good. I love Black Sabbath and since Iommi used alot of power chords Sabbaths riffs a pretty easy....ish lol. Good vid found it very very helpful. Cheers buddie. 👍
THANK YOU! See so many limiting guitar lessons about picking and so forth that more or less suggest or demand you HAVE to start every alternate picked idea with a down stroke and HAVE to use outside picking. There are pitfalls to both, but I find that inside picking and starting with an upstroke works better for me. If you ever find yourself in a "pickfall" (a picking pitfall) just add a slur (some hammer ons/pull offs, a slide, etc) and you'll be fine. Or learn to adjust your pick slanting to get around it.
Great job on this Lesson Robert !! I've been listening to that Love Gun guitar lick for a couple of decades and you no one could have done it better . Even Ace would have told you the same thing . 🎸
This is the kind of "mind unlocking" thing I've been looking for ....for like 30 years. I never learned to improvise and I think had I learned this all those years ago, I'd be pretty well on by now.
Depends on your definition of talent. Talent as in something a person is either born with or not? False. Talent as in a person spent many years practicing and developing their unique voice (can be any combo of skills, abilities, creativity, sound, etc.)? True.
@@tonekilltech Talent is the ability to focus for longer periods of time and the ability to learn faster. Great teachers helps a lot! Anyway, well said.
Listen bucko,you can do it.I think just about anyone PASSIONATE about music CAN.sure,talent and even coordination help,but I’d take genuine good song writing over THAT shit anyday.and you know what..that’s why I like punk rock ethos..because you don’t have to be yngvie malmstien.just be you.that’s all you can be.
Great video, thanks! I love ascending runs, but have always been more impressed with the long descending runs. Seems like there aren't enough tutorials out there on the descending aspect or I'm just being picky, lol. Thanks again for your time in putting these videos up for us!
This is really great content. As soon as the video opened and I heard the run I though about the sequence. It’s something I’ve made a habit of practicing in all different scales. It’s also great to run up through all the different pentatonic boxes like starting at the 3rd fret in box 5 of the A pentatonic for the low E and A strings and then sliding to box 1 with the D and G string and then sliding up to box 2, etc. Great lesson and a great pattern to extend the scale or run up the fretboard. I find I hear runs/sequences like this in a lot of songs. Great content as always Robert 🤘🏼
Been watching your videos for over a year now,just received my new charvel 🎸 guitar Marshall amp and just signed up for the free introduction mini courses.after I noodle around and get my self familiar again I will sign up for you guitar course. I am 58 haven't played sence i was 19 ,,3 kids and a wife has kept me busy finally kids are grown and I am revisiting my youth its never to late to have some fun with electric guitar 🎸 😊 making noise for the first time in 38 years is just enjoyable. Thanks for your great videos getting me back into my groove,✌ ☮.
OMG! It was tough for me to see because of the glare but the Les Paul you're playing is a 1979 Les Paul K.M. Model isn't it? A buddy of mine had one of those just like yours (tobacco sunburst). That is hands down, the best guitar I've ever played. Incredibly low action.Amazing tone as well! I've been trying for 30 years to get him to sell it to me with no luck. Enjoy that fine guitar!!!
I stumbled into these long ago. Love them. Makes an average player like me sound much better. People actually think I can really play. Thanks Robert, always like your videos.
The 4 note 2 string 1 up 2 down pull off trick was a huge revelation for me early on for alternate picking speed..did wonders..good lesson for the newbies though keep em up
Man Rob, this takes me back to when I first got the Minor pentatonic scale under my fingers and used to exercise by coming up with this sort of thing! I went from daydreaming about how I'd love to wake up and magically play like Jimmy Page to thinking, ya know I kinda like the way _i'm_ starting to play. I think I can do this lead thing without some magical genie in a bottle type thing. I'm already playing stuff I never thought I had in me. I'd run through ascending and descending chromatic exercises moving a half step up, and after 3 halves switch to a higher string until I hit 12 and descend the same way until I was warmed up and then I'd jam along with the radio and a cable company in Miami had an option for DMX radio. 1,000 channels and a few dedicated to BLUES! I'd jam with Albert King, BB, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker and, then Rock along with classic rock, rock, pop radio using my new found minor pentatonic scale and, that combined with my love for singing I felt like I could be a Rock Star!! In my circle of friends we _all_ became Rock Stars but, in soundproofed mini storage units 🤣 This was fun for me bro, I'm feeling better after a bout with pneumonia and nostalgia kicked in. Thanks for this little trip down memory lane and, soon I'll be in shape enough to play this particular run. I'm on the mend but, my .09s are gonna' feel like .13s after a forced hiatus! Signing off bluesy , Rob Baker style 🎸🎶🎶🎶✌️❤️🤣🙏
@@jeffbaker8074 Hey Thanks Jeff, I'm doing all I can to do just that man. Appreciate your well wishes and support and I'm glad someone actually _read_ my comments 🤣 I'll see you around bro, keep on Rockin' for me while I'm unable to alright?✌️❤️🎸🎶🙏
I learned that first sequence when I heard the guitarist in the "The Blues MaGoos" play it in "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet", a song ironically about trying to make it in the music business. A great mid-60's rocker by a great, now obscure band. I'm afraid they never got nothin' much.
This vid just earned a new subscriber. Glad I found the channel. You younger guys dunno how things were in the 80s it was HARD to find guitarists willing to share things let alone teach. If I could sponge one riff it was a good day ! YT is perfect for sharing things like this. ❤
That is so cool! I had just stumbled onto this hack six days ago! I was up on the 12 fret, working on 1st position minor pent. when I naturally moved down to the 5th position and working it when all of a sudden, I did that run and, !! WoW !! I just then realized I had been using the wrong shape for this run! Now I got it !
Rock n Roll is Still Alive and Well I love some of the newer rock music out now though most of it is a few years older than I thought such as Rival Sons, Dirty Honey, The Blue Stones, Cleopatrick, Cold Stares, Black Pistol Fire, Goodbye June are all killer rock bands to name just a Few! Even Billy Strings Rocks
Orchestral sequencing, the same thing, you can play a lot of them with two fingers... or two positions... with the non pivot finger actually using two fingers one to fret, and the other to strengthen and bolster the fretting finger... so it looks like two fingers stuck together, which compared to a lone finger can be super humanly strong... as it's two fingers... you'll see it more than you would think... Basically a hand with fingers all together moving in tandem.
Great lesson. Thanks. Iommi's similar run in "Under the Sun" from Vol 4 seems to confuse a lot of players. Very rarely do I come across a video where it's played as fluently as Iommi.
I've been working on Evrybody Wants To Rule The World, openening riff works better with Ouutside picking like he talks about, but sometimes I reverse it by accident and have to stick with Inside picking, it's tricky but after two months omitting confident
Great lesson, new subscriber here. I learned this lick in the mid 1960’s from a song called “We Ain’t Got Nothing Yet” by the Blues Magoos. I didn’t know it was called sequencing at the time.
My left hand belongs in the hall of fame, my right hand belongs in a dumpster. I have to rely on hammer-ons and pull-offs. I guess I need to work on that. I've only been playing for 45 years, give me time.
This was a very good lesson, but honestly, I understood it better from Paul Stanley's book when he said, "Ace got that from the Blues Magoos We Ain t Got Nothin Yet." From there it just zoomed into my head... go up, go down, whatever...
that one is good and speaking of ACE he did a lot of 5 sequences in the repeated blues licks , Ace was also influenced by Skynard which was really popular when he was coming up Johnny Winter did this on "Ain't your Bussiness" off "Third Degree" as well A cool economy picking riff is the lead break to SATO RR.
The best licks in history. Certainly pentatonic scale has the right attitude. Modes and exotic scales are tremendous, but nothing compares to pentatonic scales. It’s not about how many scales you know, it’s about how you use it.
High Tension Wires is a study in great runs. The disk is as relevant 33 years later as it was the day it was released. The only thing that dates it are some of the synth sounds used. But that just adds to the charm.
Robert, I have several of your courses and they are always easy to follow and I enjoy them!! I purchased this and can’t wait to get started! You are a wonderful teacher👍🏻👍🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸
Once you learn how something is done then the mystery is gone And you can play it . But again playing something is different then creating it . I know this video is about how to play the scale , same thing after you learn it the mystery is gone . When I started I heard Page play and I said I could never play that , well now that I can play it I still realize that I couldn’t write it that’s a lot harder than playing it ,
Check out a 2nd example from the course right HERE - ua-cam.com/video/D0P9N7iqoRk/v-deo.html
I remember when the line 6 spider IV amp came out and everybody had one with a Schecter guitar. I saw more sweep picking and shredding than I knew existed and became excited of music coming back! Then I realized, thats ALL they could do. Couldnt play a riff along with a drummer, much less a metranome, and eventually guitar in general seemed to be "exposed" and Pop music took over. I hope one day guitar and good music makes a comeback. For those keeping it alive, youre not alone!
Well said! I'm a fan of guitarists that might utilize scales or whatever to support a melody or Motif they heard in their Head. Like they're Vocalizing a solo. I had one of Roberts courses a couple years ago, well before he changed his hair color. I stll have it and looking for the inspiration to finish it.
2009 yep! I grabbed a new Schecter c + and played the spider IV 120 watt for the first time and fell in love but looking back now everybody thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Yeah well ❤️🩹
You are so right
i have to Laugh, today, now these kids rather go see Katy perry, LOL, instead of pink floyd , or judas priest, etc} the kids have lost there minds if they think thats music , lets go see Kanye west hum our national anthem ,L.M.A.O. they rather see that than a led zeppelin video, NUTS ! how,s a young person going to learn to play a mean Guitar listening to Katy Perry ? or the Jonah,s brother,s ,LOL,
@@The68lespaul i know man! I live in Birmingham Al. Our radio stations are garbage now. We have ONE and only ONE good station. The rest we have to depend on live performances, which cost a fortune. Tool came almost two years ago: 150 for nosebleeds..😑
Rik Emmet (Triumph) does this on the last lick of his solo in Lay It On The Line. It sounds so good! And if Rick Emmet does it, it's worth learning.
Yeah Rick Emmet has a lot of killer licks for sure. Kirk Hammett does a few of the same runs as well.🤘
I see TRIUMPH IN AROUND 1980ISH . HAMMERSMITH ODEON, YEA RICK EMMETS GUITAR SOLO WAS UNREAL, PLAYING WITH ONE HAND. I WAS ONLY YOUNG. VERY IMPRESSED.
I saw Rick before I knew who he was. Malmsteen opened, he was being hyped and kind of glorified in a strange obnoxious way, by the announcer. Next Rick Emmett proved that he could play anything yngwie could better, with humility, and a lot of class 🙂
He's definitely worth learning from, this guy not so much. Talks way to much about nothing
im Living Proof ,Rob,s Lesson,s work, hes helped me to improve more than anyone will ever know, i cant begin to Thank him enough, im grateful he does this, God Bless him !! i hope he makes a gang more video lesson,s , William , 68LesPaul 2-23-23
Dude, you're such a great teacher. It's different to be a killer player, but time and time again, you break it down, work with us, and build confidence, and it's so sick.
One of the first things I learned from my upper 90s guitar teacher was scale sequencing and the pentatonic scales. It was a lot of fun to learn. One of the cooler aspects of it was having both audio and video recordings made by various musicians I admired to refer to as I was learning it.
You can teach an old dog new tricks .Sometimes in your guitar journey you learn things and kind of forget them.Grear lesson reminded me of how good sequences sound ..Keep up the good work Robert !!
Robert, it's funny how you mentored the picking order, I used to worry about that (outside vs inside picking). But, recently I was noticing that when I picked my way through a series of runs it didn't matter which way I did it, in terms of speed or ease. I guess I've gotten better without noticing, because I do remember trying to learn alternate picking, and having to think about it!
That's a nice feeling!
Also, I've already been doing what you're calling "sequencing," where I practice a run in segments like how you're teaching.
But, I still don't consider myself fast at all. I'm still working on smooth.
But I am doing it smooth!
Yeah, it's a nice feeling to see progress!
You're thoroughly detailed and patient. Wonderful. Yep, I've heard this on Love Gun, Frehley's lead.
My warm-up for the last few years has been to run triplets through the pentatonic positions 5 times. I've never made this connection even though I was basically practicing sequencing this whole time. Thank you!
I know exactly what you’re saying
Fantastic Robert. The simplicity in your process is helping us all accelerate the journey. This one came to me at just the right time..
I'm sure I've said this on your channel a bunch and I know others have too: the way you make everything so understandable is really awesome. Guitar can be so intimidating for newer people or people who haven't practiced in a while. The way you teach motivates me, like a "I'm making this too hard on myself" type of way.
Thanks so much homie
Don't be hard on yourself
Don't expect too fast
Be kind to yourself
@@RobertBakerGuitarhave you seen Queen live at Wembley is Brian May doing rhythm&Solo at same time?dudes got like 4 arms
Both the ascend and descending solos in Good Time Bad Times, are a great example of this technique.
But the chordal riff is what makes the song
I was just thinking the same thing. Angus uses the same pattern in a lot of his chops, back in black for one.
I was thinking the same. The run is the same forward and backward. Played on the inside. I play both ways.
I love that insight about outside and inside picking. I always do that run with outside, but I'm going practice it with inside too.
I had a breakthrough last night and just let loose on the higher notes.12th fret and lower on the neck. . Got into the zone and found the notes that connect and just freestyles for over an hour. My buddy passed away about 2 years ago and his wife gave me his Acoustic. I have been playing that for about 1-2 hours a night. Last week I broke my Stratocaster back out after 10 years in the closet. Bought a Boss GT-1 and I can’t put the guitar down now. 3-4 hours a night now. So many melodies to create. Just sitting creating a 30 second loop of a finger/strum pattern then laying that sweet solo down over the loop. It’s starting to sound like real music. Not that the acoustic doesn’t but this has so much more fun to it. I need more experienced players to play with.
The solos from Flirtin' With Disaster are great to learn sequencing.
YES!
dave hlubeck was a monster!
This is a great short lesson. I rarely use a pick, and tend to play this type of lick using my right thumb and middle finger, with lots of pull-offs and hammer ons. I also picture the chord shape as well as the scale box, and aim to hit the notes in the chord. Regarding the note positions in this video, I find myself getting to the first "B", but instead of going back on myself from string 5 fret 12 to string 4 fret 9, I slide my left ring finger up to string 5 fret 14, moving into the next box shape in the scale. Then I bar across the 12th fret with my left index finger, and play the remaining notes on frets 12, 14 and 15, hammering, pulling and picking across the strings. The notes are the same, but without the aggressive pick attack, the end result has a different feel. As Robert says, find what works best for you.
‘Outside Picking’ is the whole driving force behind this sequence. The picking mechanics is your ticket in. Absolutely paramount to getting to the other side of the bridge to pro playing. Great vid Rob!
You made an old and lazy man practice this sequence! Thank you Robert. You are truly inspiring.
Dude. Excellent. Been in a bit of a soloing rut lately. This is the easily most technique I’ve picked up in a long time and it took all of 5 minutes. Great teacher!
This lesson is just eye opener!👍 as a fan of the old school rockers: Hendrix, Page, Van Halen, Kiss, Deep Purple and my favorite, Yngwie Malmsteen. This is really cool. Thanks a lot Robert. More power, keep rockin!🎸
Kiss ???? wtf ? They do NOT belong grouped w/ the others listed ! The others have/had talent.
I remember when I discovered this. It changed my playing for fills and building tension. Bach was a genius at sequences. Check out a few fugues. Good job on this. But I still chuckle at how rock players will use string names and fret position rather than just call out the actual note. But I get it. It took years of classical playing and sight reading to get all the names learned. Worth the work.
That’s so incredibly simple yet so cool!! I can’t believe I never thought of doing this in all my years of playing. Thank you for sharing this information. I can’t thank you enough. I wish I could have had a teacher like you when I was young. You have a great gift in teaching and your playing.
Bought this - great lesson. The thing I didn't know I was missing but was, like an itch I wasn't quite sure how to scratch.
There's always 2 quotes spring to mind about situations such as these and learning something new. One was from Donald Rumsfeld (I don't agree with him as a person nor his stance on the war but his quote is great), along the lines of "there are known knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns".
This falls into the latter - I wasn't even aware that I didn't know it. I've butted up against it when looking at other things ("Bonamassa Eric Johnson style licks!") but didn't know they were "sequence licks". Makes it all so simple now! Which brings me to my other favourite quote (Kahlil Gibran) "The obvious is that which isn't seen until someone expresses it simply"
Cheers Robert - been practising these all weekend and it's great, really inspiring!
The more of your videos I watch the more I realise how much I wish my teachers were like you when I was young. Great lesson. 😎🤘
Tht's very kind of you.
I didn't have UA-cam growing up. The people that showed me things only showed me how to play parts of songs without explanations. Reasons why I'm more of a rhythm guy than lead but I enjoy what I can play and that's what matters, soothing my soul.
I second that exact thought
Alright, you talked me into it! Got the course, scanned it and now I'm pumped! The perfect thing for a guy who has played professionally for 40+ years ... IDEAS that take me out of my typical approach ... I can mess with these and twist them for my own nefarious purposes! Thank you, Robert, I love the way you teach!
Thank you so much Scot I really appreciate that.
Hello and thank you for the video. I was hooked by the use of sequences in your video title. A method taught to me by my teach in my second or third lesson. He gave me pentatonic and modal positions and then said learn the 3s, 4s and 6 note sequences and you I will blow people way. And, when I play the 6 note sequences, it blows people's minds. But he taught it to me in 30 seconds. You are spending a 10 minute video on it. You have really complicated the technique.
Here's the scale. Play three notes down, then start on the 2nd note and play 3 notes down, and then start on what was your third note and play three notes down and continue this pattern through the box shape or modal position.
Now try it playing four notes... six notes...fawking simple.
Discussing outside or inside picking was the part of your video I thought was great to mention. I have never specifically taken an I Teresa ibto dissecting my picking through this practice becUse I have always just focused on the metronome's tempo and getting my number of notes evenly picked within the beat. You may have set me on a path that will change my playing. Thank you.
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Great lesson on sequences will try on different pentatonic patterns. Love it, your the best dude. 🎸😎
Robert, you are a frickin' great teacher. While I was aware of this technique I had never known what it was called. Similarly, outside and inside picking concept, I had experienced but had no idea it was its own thing with a name. Learned two things in a short ~11 minute video, great stuff 💪
Hand raised here ✋🏽. Thanks for including KISS and breaking this down, and I’m looking forward to the new course.
It was the Kiss that did it..
Yes, exactly!
This has always been one of my basic practice exercises starting at different roots.
This is literally the first thing I learned when I started taking lessons and I still to this day utilize it
You have a lot of great lessons but I would rank this number one. Once they wrap their head around this a lot of things are going to fall into place as always appreciate you Robert✌️
Thank you so much Roger!
I really appreciate you pointing out the inside/outside picking! Nice job!
Wow, I learned this as a scale exercise in box 1 many years ago, never thought to apply it to a solo! Thanks for showing this in your video.
Man ,.... just picking it back up after 15 years ... that has to be the best tutorial I found. Thank you!
I can get my fingers to move and hit the notes np ..... just don't know where I'm going ...thanks again
Been doing that for a couple of decades now (i practice it in every mode scales) and yeah it sound and feel so great…nice thing about it is that you can insert that sequence in almost every song you are playing..👍
Dude I am raising my hand 🖐️ high! This is a great lesson. This is exactly the kind of thing I’m looking for! How to do more with something I already know - the pentatonic scale! I’m go. A have to check out this sequencing course. I think this could be a huge unlock for me.
Always loved the sound of these scale runs! Added to the rest of my RB library 👍
Thanks for sharing your picking tech. with this scale pattern to us all who want to become a better guitarist, i liked the title, they "Tricked us" lol, Cool ! you also gave us the way to pic these notes, i have to admit, of all the guitar lesson,s on here , meaning (U-Tube) MR.Baker, is by far one of my favorites , he takes the time to show how and what hes doing and show,s us step by step, he doesnt blast right through it like some of the video,s where the guy giving the lesson wants to show off , or let us see how fast he or she can pic Rob,s Lessons are much , much better than those by a long shot, , lol, Rob takes the time and explains crystal clear exactly what hes doing, to me , hes an Awesome Teacher , as im always looking to improve my playing i go to Rob,s video,s a lot , i can Honestly say, Robert has Helped me , i come away playing better each time after watching any one of his video,s and i go back to all my favorite ones that i like the best just to refresh, Rob,s way of Teaching is specific and concise , and he explains everything hes doing, im grateful hes on here doing this, as ive said, i have gotten better since watching his video,s , at first , i didnt think i could match his speed, lol, now im passing him, dont tell him i said that,lol, Rob is an Excellent teacher, i HIGHLY Recommend Rob,s video,s to anyone that wants to improve there playing , im living proof that his video,s do indeed work, ill never be able to Thank him enough , i hope Rob continues posting many,many more Lesson,s , ill be watching for,em lol, to ROBERT BAKER, CHEER,S !!! from William , 68LesPaul, W.H.W. 2-23-23 ,
Subbed, Joined and Bought the courses. You are easy going; I like that. You can teach an old dog (that's me) new tricks. I'll be 60 this year. Started on the guitar in 1984. This is cool; we were on a 7 month deployment to the Indian Ocean. Guy on my ship (aircraft carrier) sold me his Carvin DC-150. Another guy showed me Train Kept A Rollin'. Since then, whatever I do on guitar I taught myself. I also taught myself bass. I've done well in music. Hundreds of gigs. Borgata Event Center, Hard Rock in Atlantic City. But now I want to learn your courses just for me. So, I think your course would be perfect for me. Thank you Robert.
That means a lot Ray thank you
@@RobertBakerGuitar Fistbump 🤜
That Run or sequence is one of the first licks I learned back in 1980 from a book called "the Heavy Guitar Bible" by Richard Daniels. It has 3, 4, 5, and 6 note runs. I still have that book too and refer to it often, one of the best $10 purchases I ever made as a teenager...😉
The inside/outside picking advice is good. Speaking of picking techniques, ever saw Troy Grady's Cracking The Code series? He chronicles his journey 2 figuring out how all those guitarists he grew up with in the '80s played so fast, so (apparently) effortlessly. It's 1 hell of a series, watch it if u haven't!
I'm a beginner, and that was real helpful. Usually i just go down but never back up again doing scales if that makes sense. I've been messing with guitar on and off for years and just got stuck playing the same things, so after lockdown, yer i know, i was gaming mostly threw that i decided to take my love of guitar to the next level, brought some stomp pedals for the muse and I'm just doing my thing but this time learning stuff like this. I've even started doing vids on my channel just for fun, but also I'll get round to how a beginner can sound pretty good with learning this kind of practice, I'm not a great guitarist by any means, i basically learned chords myself and learned what i didn't know was the pentatonic scale. In my mind there's no rules in guitar playing, obviously there's some, but you can shove on a overdrive pedal just use power chords and sound pretty good. I love Black Sabbath and since Iommi used alot of power chords Sabbaths riffs a pretty easy....ish lol. Good vid found it very very helpful. Cheers buddie. 👍
THANK YOU! See so many limiting guitar lessons about picking and so forth that more or less suggest or demand you HAVE to start every alternate picked idea with a down stroke and HAVE to use outside picking. There are pitfalls to both, but I find that inside picking and starting with an upstroke works better for me. If you ever find yourself in a "pickfall" (a picking pitfall) just add a slur (some hammer ons/pull offs, a slide, etc) and you'll be fine. Or learn to adjust your pick slanting to get around it.
Great job on this Lesson Robert !! I've been listening to that Love Gun guitar lick for a couple of decades and you no one could have done it better . Even Ace would have told you the same thing . 🎸
This is the kind of "mind unlocking" thing I've been looking for ....for like 30 years. I never learned to improvise and I think had I learned this all those years ago, I'd be pretty well on by now.
And here I am , thinking the trick to sounding amazing was talent. I guess that is why I will never sound amazing. :)
Desire Discipline Dedication for the mortals.
Practice practice practice
Depends on your definition of talent. Talent as in something a person is either born with or not? False. Talent as in a person spent many years practicing and developing their unique voice (can be any combo of skills, abilities, creativity, sound, etc.)? True.
@@tonekilltech Talent is the ability to focus for longer periods of time and the ability to learn faster. Great teachers helps a lot! Anyway, well said.
Listen bucko,you can do it.I think just about anyone PASSIONATE about music CAN.sure,talent and even coordination help,but I’d take genuine good song writing over THAT shit anyday.and you know what..that’s why I like punk rock ethos..because you don’t have to be yngvie malmstien.just be you.that’s all you can be.
Great video, thanks! I love ascending runs, but have always been more impressed with the long descending runs. Seems like there aren't enough tutorials out there on the descending aspect or I'm just being picky, lol. Thanks again for your time in putting these videos up for us!
This is really great content. As soon as the video opened and I heard the run I though about the sequence. It’s something I’ve made a habit of practicing in all different scales. It’s also great to run up through all the different pentatonic boxes like starting at the 3rd fret in box 5 of the A pentatonic for the low E and A strings and then sliding to box 1 with the D and G string and then sliding up to box 2, etc. Great lesson and a great pattern to extend the scale or run up the fretboard. I find I hear runs/sequences like this in a lot of songs. Great content as always Robert 🤘🏼
Been watching your videos for over a year now,just received my new charvel 🎸 guitar Marshall amp and just signed up for the free introduction mini courses.after I noodle around and get my self familiar again I will sign up for you guitar course. I am 58 haven't played sence i was 19 ,,3 kids and a wife has kept me busy finally kids are grown and I am revisiting my youth its never to late to have some fun with electric guitar 🎸 😊 making noise for the first time in 38 years is just enjoyable. Thanks for your great videos getting me back into my groove,✌ ☮.
Dude that is awesome. Play that guitar loud and proud! Also thank you for gettign the course.
OMG! It was tough for me to see because of the glare but the Les Paul you're playing is a 1979 Les Paul K.M. Model isn't it? A buddy of mine had one of those just like yours (tobacco sunburst). That is hands down, the best guitar I've ever played. Incredibly low action.Amazing tone as well! I've been trying for 30 years to get him to sell it to me with no luck. Enjoy that fine guitar!!!
I stumbled into these long ago. Love them. Makes an average player like me sound much better. People actually think I can really play. Thanks Robert, always like your videos.
The 4 note 2 string 1 up 2 down pull off trick was a huge revelation for me early on for alternate picking speed..did wonders..good lesson for the newbies though keep em up
I bought this lesson as soon as I saw it. It is great! Very practical and applicable. Worth every penny and more!!!
He's right especially for beginners this will open a whole new door for you like the way your thinking
Bingo! Note grouping. Something that just sounds cool is just the next fret.
Man Rob, this takes me back to when I first got the Minor pentatonic scale under my fingers and used to exercise by coming up with this sort of thing! I went from daydreaming about how I'd love to wake up and magically play like Jimmy Page to thinking, ya know I kinda like the way _i'm_ starting to play. I think I can do this lead thing without some magical genie in a bottle type thing. I'm already playing stuff I never thought I had in me. I'd run through ascending and descending chromatic exercises moving a half step up, and after 3 halves switch to a higher string until I hit 12 and descend the same way until I was warmed up and then I'd jam along with the radio and a cable company in Miami had an option for DMX radio. 1,000 channels and a few dedicated to BLUES!
I'd jam with Albert King, BB, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker and, then Rock along with classic rock, rock, pop radio using my new found minor pentatonic scale and, that combined with my love for singing I felt like I could be a Rock Star!!
In my circle of friends we _all_ became Rock Stars but, in soundproofed mini storage units 🤣
This was fun for me bro, I'm feeling better after a bout with pneumonia and nostalgia kicked in. Thanks for this little trip down memory lane and, soon I'll be in shape enough to play this particular run. I'm on the mend but, my .09s are gonna' feel like .13s after a forced hiatus!
Signing off bluesy , Rob Baker style 🎸🎶🎶🎶✌️❤️🤣🙏
Get well Stan and good luck getting back to playing!!
@@jeffbaker8074 Hey Thanks Jeff, I'm doing all I can to do just that man. Appreciate your well wishes and support and I'm glad someone actually _read_ my comments 🤣
I'll see you around bro, keep on Rockin' for me while I'm unable to alright?✌️❤️🎸🎶🙏
I learned that first sequence when I heard the guitarist in the "The Blues MaGoos" play it in "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet", a song ironically about trying to make it in the music business. A great mid-60's rocker by a great, now obscure band. I'm afraid they never got nothin' much.
Blues Magoos are way underrated.
@@TonyMcClelland2 No one remembers them today, well, almost no one, you and I do. .
That’s where Ace got it from; he actually knew those guys growing up in the Bronx. Deep Purple also ripped off the main riff for “Black Night”.
This vid just earned a new subscriber. Glad I found the channel. You younger guys dunno how things were in the 80s it was HARD to find guitarists willing to share things let alone teach. If I could sponge one riff it was a good day ! YT is perfect for sharing things like this. ❤
Excellent video, Robert. I learned this back in the early 80's and it was a favorite tool to help increase speed when practicing.
I would really like to hear how that sequencing sounds with a major scale, a minor, melodic minor, phrigian, etc... ! I think it would be cool!
That is so cool!
I had just stumbled onto this hack six days ago!
I was up on the 12 fret, working on 1st position minor pent. when I naturally moved down to the 5th position and working it when all of a sudden, I did that run and, !! WoW !!
I just then realized I had been using the wrong shape for this run!
Now I got it !
I purchased this today since I have been away from playing for a year or so. I figured it would get my brain and fingers moving again and be fun. 😊
Awesome lesson. Thanks for supporting Ace frehley playing
dude fr this video was so eye opening thank you so much. instant subscribe 🔥🔥
I’m happy about the time and fun I’m gonna have with “you” on your courses and for such a good price ! Merci Robert🇫🇷🙏🏻👍🏼🍒
I remember learning this from learning a Triumph tune when I was 15 and it was definitely a game changer.
Really good one, Robert!!!! And thank you for covering some Frehley stuff
You know how to teach...never even heard of inside outside picking...TY!
Beautiful Les Paul. DiMarzio double creams look great on LPs. Is that what you're running?
Rock n Roll is Still Alive and Well I love some of the newer rock music out now though most of it is a few years older than I thought such as Rival Sons, Dirty Honey, The Blue Stones, Cleopatrick, Cold Stares, Black Pistol Fire, Goodbye June are all killer rock bands to name just a Few! Even Billy Strings Rocks
Guitar decoded! Nice! Show us more with soloing more casually on too of others songs, please.
Thank you for your incredible lessons!! I buy them pretty much as soon as you release them. Thank you for helping me to be a better guitarist!!!
Orchestral sequencing, the same thing, you can play a lot of them with two fingers... or two positions... with the non pivot finger actually using two fingers one to fret, and the other to strengthen and bolster the fretting finger... so it looks like two fingers stuck together, which compared to a lone finger can be super humanly strong... as it's two fingers... you'll see it more than you would think... Basically a hand with fingers all together moving in tandem.
I wish this was available when I started out, quite a while ago!
I'm so in!
Just got it! Love your lessons! Looking to up my picking facility and speed. Been working on getting your 80s shred harmonic minor lick up to speed.
Great lesson. Thanks. Iommi's similar run in "Under the Sun" from Vol 4 seems to confuse a lot of players. Very rarely do I come across a video where it's played as fluently as Iommi.
Fantastic video!!!!!!! Very easy to follow and makes absolute sense! Thank you!!!!!
The solos to Scorpions Blackout and Triumph Rock and Roll machine come to mind and possibly Rock you like a Hurricane ? Zep Good times Bad times ..
Same sequence in Sweet child o’mine 🤘
I finally figured it out recently after years of just thrashing through a random pentatonic run 😅
I started playing guitar in 1987 and sign up for lessons. My guitar teacher taught me the same lick all those years ago
I've been working on Evrybody Wants To Rule The World, openening riff works better with Ouutside picking like he talks about, but sometimes I reverse it by accident and have to stick with Inside picking, it's tricky but after two months omitting confident
ive been trying to learn love gun for the LONGEST time .,, this just opened my eyes., as i really dont play fast., holy moly
I play this as part of my warm up, great pattern
Great lesson, new subscriber here. I learned this lick in the mid 1960’s from a song called “We Ain’t Got Nothing Yet” by the Blues Magoos. I didn’t know it was called sequencing at the time.
Sequencing scales.. new term for an old trick. Didnt know thats what it was called. Your instruction is always top notch.
Love when you muted the strings. Had a dimebag feel to the sound 🤘🤘 awesome video. I will definitely try this. Thank you
My left hand belongs in the hall of fame, my right hand belongs in a dumpster. I have to rely on hammer-ons and pull-offs. I guess I need to work on that. I've only been playing for 45 years, give me time.
Super simplified modes in use...well done
May I ask what kind of pickups did you have in your Les Paul for this lesson? They're like the perfect blend of sustain, distortion, and tone.
This was a very good lesson, but honestly, I understood it better from Paul Stanley's book when he said, "Ace got that from the Blues Magoos We Ain t Got Nothin Yet." From there it just zoomed into my head... go up, go down, whatever...
that one is good and speaking of ACE he did a lot of 5 sequences in the repeated blues licks , Ace was also influenced by Skynard which was really popular when he was coming up
Johnny Winter did this on "Ain't your Bussiness" off "Third Degree" as well
A cool economy picking riff is the lead break to SATO RR.
I've noticed Aces Skynyrd influence.
The best licks in history. Certainly pentatonic scale has the right attitude. Modes and exotic scales are tremendous, but nothing compares to pentatonic scales. It’s not about how many scales you know, it’s about how you use it.
This might be the best channel for this kind of content and related right now.
Steve Morse-Highland Wedding has some really good runs, I struggled for the longest to play it to speed.
High Tension Wires is a study in great runs. The disk is as relevant 33 years later as it was the day it was released. The only thing that dates it are some of the synth sounds used. But that just adds to the charm.
Robert, I have several of your courses and they are always easy to follow and I enjoy them!! I purchased this and can’t wait to get started! You are a wonderful teacher👍🏻👍🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸
I learned this technique long ago playing Triumph tunes. Rick Emmet is the bomb!
Junior Marvin does this on the last lick of the solo from Bob Marley's "Waiting In Vain."
Once you learn how something is done then the mystery is gone And you can play it . But again playing something is different then creating it . I know this video is about how to play the scale , same thing after you learn it the mystery is gone . When I started I heard Page play and I said I could never play that , well now that I can play it I still realize that I couldn’t write it that’s a lot harder than playing it ,
always like this lick when i played it. even though i knew this lick still want to watch the content.