You're one of the best teachers on UA-cam, my friend. You have helped me a great deal in understanding this. The visuals are a tremendous assistance to me.
The visual element of the light up fretboard is both unique and extremely helpful. You're also one of the first I've seen to color code the notes while ALSO showing how the positions share notes. Ingenious.
You're the best guitar teacher I've come across on UA-cam! I love the way you just get right into playing across the WHOLE NECK without delay. It's perfect! Thank you!
Another Amazing Lesson Gary . Your Avenue of Teaching is unlike no other. Your Methods are 21st Century and a Legacy. Outstanding Levels of teaching and your Visuals for Learning Nobody in the World can Teach. Thankyou Gary for teachings us Fundamental Foundations and your Free You Tube Video through the years.
Fret Live is a total game-changer for me! As a visual learner, this is just what I needed to piece it all together. My only complaint is where was this back in 1982 when I was a kid and had dreams of being a rock star, like Tommy Lee? lol 😆
Wow you are the good teacher in guitar music because you are so clean on how to teach them and step by step on how to practice...soloing.....god bless you pow music...
And once you understand all of the patterns just 'link up' along the fretboard, you realize if you want to play in Em instead of Am you just slide that 'starting pattern' so it starts at the 12th fret instead of the 5th fret! Then you can 'magically' play the pentatonic scale in ANY KEY, just by 'sliding' that 'starting pattern' to whichever fret you 'root' note is located. ;)
Very nice video with great visual demonstrations. I wish more teachers would use this type of visual aid in their lessons. Fretjam is a favorite of mine for this reason. The types of "patterns" you refer to at 5:40 were a major breakthrough for me years ago. I prefer to use the term "sequence" since this is the terminology you will most often run into in discussions on music theory. What guitar teachers often don't mention and consequently beginner players don't seem to realize, is that these sequences are the building blocks of improvisation. For me the more sequences I added to my arsenal the better I got at soloing. You just have to get used to mixing and matching different sequences and stringing them together and/or ending them with slower melodic lines and all of a sudden you can practically play forever without running out of ideas. Especially once you learn to apply these sequences to different scales. Another major factor for me (which it sounds like you might touch on in your patreon lessons) was learning to look at the neck of the guitar as three sets of two strings and seeing all of the smaller two string patterns or "shapes" that the larger six string scale shapes are built from. This really gave me the freedom to move around on the fretboard in a way I hadn't experienced before. Dweezil Zappa has a lesson here on UA-cam called "the five shapes of freedom" that does a great job of demonstrating what I'm talking about here with regard to the pentatonic scale. For the diatonic scale and other 7 note scales these are known as the "hexatonic" patterns or simply "hexachords" for anyone who's interested. I'm really surprised that I don't see more lessons on this approach. For me, this along with practicing single string runs are the total cure for that "stuck in the box" problem so many players seem to find themselves in. Again, great lesson.
Great video Gary ! ! Basic yet thorough and it progresses at a good pace for advanced students ! ! I was wondering if you could supply information for the guitar stand. You are now on my scope. I will check out your website and progress from there. Patreon sounds well worth it.
These are great exercises MINUS the fact some of the steps trips the fingers up by not using proper fingering... 1234, 2345 makes it near impossible to use the pinky when hitting the 4th back to 2, you need to use the ring finger and trips me up being taught to always learn to use the pinky. Outside of adjusting this is great!
Does it make sense to expand this to the whole 7 diatonic scale and get the proper fingering right, making the pentatonic scale a stripped down version of that ?
Sure, if you want to learn 7 note scales FIRST and then REMOVE 2 notes to play Pentatonic scales... I think most people find it easier to learn the 5 note pentatonic scale and then eventually ADD the 2 extra notes?
And I 'blame' all of these teachers who seem to promote those 'Pentatonic Boxes' or 'CAGED' systems, which just seem to make things MORE confusing, and even the names suggest being CONFINED to playing in a certain 'position', rather than promoting the 'exploration' and EXPLOITATION of the entire neck!
@@StreetPreacherr the book series: “fretboard logic 1-3“ which relies on the caged system helped me to find the symmetry in scale positions and made me understand when to play 2- or 3- note per string patterns or a combination of those to navigate the fretboard with intent, and connect chord shapes to harmony. Of course, first there was music, then came theory to make sense of it, talk about it, teach it. And innovation stems from exploration, sure. But that doesn’t mean systemisation is a bad thing It’s almost like: guns don’t kill, people do
@@StreetPreacherr seeing the CAGED system as restrictive is missing the whole point of it. it's a roadmap of intervals connected to shapes on the fretboard and resulting in fingering solutions for what you want to deliberately emphasise harmonically. what a teacher makes of it and how it is being communicated to newbies and beginners is a whole different story
Video Chapters: Lesson Preview: 0:00 Lesson Overview and Gift Card Giveaway Info: 0:44 Lesson Begins on Developing Good Time and Technique: 2:16 Up and Down Single Shapes with Metronome Exercise: 3:01 Straight up one pattern down the next routine: 4:13 1/8th notes, then triplet, then 1/16th notes without stopping: 5:06 Intro to Patterns and their significance: 5:40 Forward Two Back One up and down a single shape: 6:03 Forward Two Back One Through the 5 Shapes with a Drum Track: 9:55 Forward Three Back Two: 10:45 Tips on clean tone and muting string noise: 12:15 Pentatonic Stacks: PATRON ONLY VIDEO Up and Down Single Strings: PATRON ONLY VIDEO Single Strings forward 2, back 1: PATRON ONLY VIDEO Sliding across single strings: PATRON ONLY VIDEO Forward Two Back One Across String Pairs: PATRON ONLY VIDEO Pentatonic stacks across string pairs: PATRON ONLY VIDEO Special Thanks to Patrons Outro: 14:52
The "forward two back one" is that something you just created? I know the caged patterns and understand the importance of drilling those, but I'm trying to understand why to learn that forward two back one pattern. Thank you
I can do the shapes for C but when I try another tone I have a hard time. Any tips? It almost seems like I’m memorizing the specific neck spots and not the patterns themselves
Glad you like the video - Just FYI, all of the shapes you see in this video are in the key of A - but where I show the "m" as the minor root note, and the "M" as the major root note, all you have to do is slide the shapes around so that the "m" is the new root note, and you'll be in the right place - so for instance, if you want B Minor, you just slide all the shapes up two frets! I hope that helps! :D
Great lesson, but for me as a beginner (and a ‘logical’ rather than an ‘artistically’ minded person) why do so many guitar teachers insist on showing diagrams upside down from the guitar on screen (strings one to six) It means I have to go through a reversing mental process when visualising the graphics instead of just observing and copying them (if that makes sense 🤔).
Hey Steve! Good question - I do this for a couple of reasons. The first is that it is consistent with all other forms of notation - Tablature, Staff Notation, and fretboard diagrams. The high notes are at the top and the low notes are on the bottom, and it's read left to right. It's also to stay consistant with the established common practice of the past few hundred years when drawing out notes on the fretboard. Although my videos are innovative in how they communicate information, some things I did not want to reinvent altogether, such as this. I find what is helpful to students for understanding both TAB and fretboard diagrams is just to think of the guitar sitting on your lap, and you looking down at it. All the best! Gary
Pow Music. Thanks Gary. I think it’s just me as a beginner and my logical mind more than anything 🥴🤪. I look at the image straight on and think the graphics should be the same, butI I fully get the ‘looking down on the guitar fretboard’ angle. Cheers 👍
![Ultimate Pentatonic Scale Guide [Every Essential Shape!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q8TJZb4wVmY/mqdefault.jpg)
I loved the soloing for complete beginers course.
CUNEYT TASLI that’s great to hear! Thank you
Pow Music that is really a great course. It’s definitely worth the money. Are you planming to have an advance course?
@@juno7893 absolutely - by the end of the year!! :D
wow you are the best teacher
You're one of the best teachers on UA-cam, my friend. You have helped me a great deal in understanding this. The visuals are a tremendous assistance to me.
Great to hear! Thank you!
The visual element of the light up fretboard is both unique and extremely helpful. You're also one of the first I've seen to color code the notes while ALSO showing how the positions share notes. Ingenious.
You're the best guitar teacher I've come across on UA-cam! I love the way you just get right into playing across the WHOLE NECK without delay. It's perfect! Thank you!
Another Amazing Lesson Gary . Your Avenue of Teaching is unlike no other. Your Methods are 21st Century and a Legacy. Outstanding Levels of teaching and your Visuals for Learning Nobody in the World can Teach. Thankyou Gary for teachings us Fundamental Foundations and your Free You Tube Video through the years.
thanks Wayne!
Fret Live is a total game-changer for me! As a visual learner, this is just what I needed to piece it all together. My only complaint is where was this back in 1982 when I was a kid and had dreams of being a rock star, like Tommy Lee? lol
😆
thank you Jose! Glad it's helping!
You are a very dedicated teacher! I have been searching for pentatonic solo lessons so long. Finally, I’ve found yours.
Wow you are the good teacher in guitar music because you are so clean on how to teach them and step by step on how to practice...soloing.....god bless you pow music...
You are a great teacher..💗
Best Video I found So far
Man you make this much simpler. I'm buying your course now. Thanks
And once you understand all of the patterns just 'link up' along the fretboard, you realize if you want to play in Em instead of Am you just slide that 'starting pattern' so it starts at the 12th fret instead of the 5th fret!
Then you can 'magically' play the pentatonic scale in ANY KEY, just by 'sliding' that 'starting pattern' to whichever fret you 'root' note is located. ;)
Really really good stuff. Presentation, content, pace, approach, everything, you nailed it. thank you so much
Nice thing to have for my practice routine, keeps the fingers loose, and solidifies the 5 shapes , cheers Gary I will always keep this for practice
Ur the source of my quarantine improvement !
haha - enjoy!
Very nice video with great visual demonstrations. I wish more teachers would use this type of visual aid in their lessons. Fretjam is a favorite of mine for this reason. The types of "patterns" you refer to at 5:40 were a major breakthrough for me years ago. I prefer to use the term "sequence" since this is the terminology you will most often run into in discussions on music theory. What guitar teachers often don't mention and consequently beginner players don't seem to realize, is that these sequences are the building blocks of improvisation. For me the more sequences I added to my arsenal the better I got at soloing. You just have to get used to mixing and matching different sequences and stringing them together and/or ending them with slower melodic lines and all of a sudden you can practically play forever without running out of ideas. Especially once you learn to apply these sequences to different scales.
Another major factor for me (which it sounds like you might touch on in your patreon lessons) was learning to look at the neck of the guitar as three sets of two strings and seeing all of the smaller two string patterns or "shapes" that the larger six string scale shapes are built from. This really gave me the freedom to move around on the fretboard in a way I hadn't experienced before. Dweezil Zappa has a lesson here on UA-cam called "the five shapes of freedom" that does a great job of demonstrating what I'm talking about here with regard to the pentatonic scale. For the diatonic scale and other 7 note scales these are known as the "hexatonic" patterns or simply "hexachords" for anyone who's interested. I'm really surprised that I don't see more lessons on this approach. For me, this along with practicing single string runs are the total cure for that "stuck in the box" problem so many players seem to find themselves in.
Again, great lesson.
Great comment!!
Absolutely great lesson! This video is a gem, Gary!
thank you!
Great lesson!
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I’ve been looking for exercises like this for the pentatonic scales! Thx!!
Awesome video🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍 it is helpful to get the jobs of 5 shapes pentatonic scales done.!!
Thank you so much,Gary.
Another fabulous lesson from a great teacher.
Gary, You are amazing. Your lessons, your downloads and your delivery are the best. Please keep up the great work.
thank you Mark!
Great video Gary ! ! Basic yet thorough and it progresses at a good pace for advanced students ! ! I was wondering if you could supply information for the guitar stand. You are now on my scope. I will check out your website and progress from there. Patreon sounds well worth it.
You're awesome man. As always, amazing lessons with illuminating visuals and expert guidance. Wish you the best!
thank you!
Hi Gary
❤your solos exercise
Being new as an Patreon member
Thanks man!!!
Great visualitation with the overlay.! Well done
Great lesson.. really useful. Very clear with those cool graphics.
Great thank you
Yes! Another great lesson! Great teacher! Thank you Gary
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 🎸
Muy buen video!!
Uno de los mejores q he visto !!!
Thanks , great lesson. Gives me some direction.
You are a legend
Perfect practice routine bro ,,,,TY,,, 😎✌
I think your fretboard visualization just might turn on some lights for me in helping to get out of the same old playing rut 👍🏻. Thanks!
Fantástic method. Great lesson
These are great exercises MINUS the fact some of the steps trips the fingers up by not using proper fingering... 1234, 2345 makes it near impossible to use the pinky when hitting the 4th back to 2, you need to use the ring finger and trips me up being taught to always learn to use the pinky. Outside of adjusting this is great!
great lessons finally
thx g hope to meet u you high donation if blessed
Lesson Great teacher ! Thanks
WOW! Great Lesson!! Thank you.
thanks Kent!
That caged system opens up the eureka moment
Thanks, i think and hope you will get 1 million subscriber in a few years
Yes! Another excellent lesson. Gracias!!
Thanks David!
Hay quá ạ! Thanks you
Grandioso!
Thank you. 😃👍👍👍
Great lesson, thank you, I need to work more with the metronome, it's something that has not bee a part of my practice routine,
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i wish that people would also overlay the notes not just the numbers
'having good machinery' = "honing the vessel" as Vai says
Does it make sense to expand this to the whole 7 diatonic scale and get the proper fingering right, making the pentatonic scale a stripped down version of that ?
Sure, if you want to learn 7 note scales FIRST and then REMOVE 2 notes to play Pentatonic scales... I think most people find it easier to learn the 5 note pentatonic scale and then eventually ADD the 2 extra notes?
And I 'blame' all of these teachers who seem to promote those 'Pentatonic Boxes' or 'CAGED' systems, which just seem to make things MORE confusing, and even the names suggest being CONFINED to playing in a certain 'position', rather than promoting the 'exploration' and EXPLOITATION of the entire neck!
@@StreetPreacherr the book series: “fretboard logic 1-3“ which relies on the caged system helped me to find the symmetry in scale positions and made me understand when to play 2- or 3- note per string patterns or a combination of those to navigate the fretboard with intent, and connect chord shapes to harmony. Of course, first there was music, then came theory to make sense of it, talk about it, teach it. And innovation stems from exploration, sure. But that doesn’t mean systemisation is a bad thing
It’s almost like: guns don’t kill, people do
@@StreetPreacherr seeing the CAGED system as restrictive is missing the whole point of it. it's a roadmap of intervals connected to shapes on the fretboard and resulting in fingering solutions for what you want to deliberately emphasise harmonically. what a teacher makes of it and how it is being communicated to newbies and beginners is a whole different story
Video Chapters:
Lesson Preview: 0:00
Lesson Overview and Gift Card Giveaway Info: 0:44
Lesson Begins on Developing Good Time and Technique: 2:16
Up and Down Single Shapes with Metronome Exercise: 3:01
Straight up one pattern down the next routine: 4:13
1/8th notes, then triplet, then 1/16th notes without stopping: 5:06
Intro to Patterns and their significance: 5:40
Forward Two Back One up and down a single shape: 6:03
Forward Two Back One Through the 5 Shapes with a Drum Track: 9:55
Forward Three Back Two: 10:45
Tips on clean tone and muting string noise: 12:15
Pentatonic Stacks: PATRON ONLY VIDEO
Up and Down Single Strings: PATRON ONLY VIDEO
Single Strings forward 2, back 1: PATRON ONLY VIDEO
Sliding across single strings: PATRON ONLY VIDEO
Forward Two Back One Across String Pairs: PATRON ONLY VIDEO
Pentatonic stacks across string pairs: PATRON ONLY VIDEO
Special Thanks to Patrons Outro: 14:52
Wow, where did you get that electric guitar stand/holder. I love it! Could you provide link etc….
Tried to learn a scale 30 yrs ago but never used them in soloing but something different
Cool
I wish there was OSU for electric guitars
The "forward two back one" is that something you just created? I know the caged patterns and understand the importance of drilling those, but I'm trying to understand why to learn that forward two back one pattern.
Thank you
Cool!!!!!
6:30 AKA the Losing My Way pattern ;)
Leo Funks yep!!
Why the guitar not mirrored though, Im kinda confused to follow it
Which songs can we play in accordance with the series you show? sample song !!
Check out my other lessons - most of them are on songs and solos that use these scales, with animated fretboard like this.
Whoa your guitar is floating
I can do the shapes for C but when I try another tone I have a hard time. Any tips? It almost seems like I’m memorizing the specific neck spots and not the patterns themselves
Hi Gary, are your classes only for students in your timezone?
hi! My live sessions I do one on thursday evening and one on sunday morning so that students from all over the world can join :D
I know all the pentatonic shapes in the key of a. I am working on where those shapes are in other keys. This will help a lot thank you
Glad you like the video - Just FYI, all of the shapes you see in this video are in the key of A - but where I show the "m" as the minor root note, and the "M" as the major root note, all you have to do is slide the shapes around so that the "m" is the new root note, and you'll be in the right place - so for instance, if you want B Minor, you just slide all the shapes up two frets! I hope that helps! :D
Also - this video will be helpful to see how they all move to the key of F# - ua-cam.com/video/vdQUlSmDqhs/v-deo.html
@@PowMusic thank you
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I love playing guitar but dont like to practice
Where can I buy that invisible guitar strap?
hahaha
Great lesson, but for me as a beginner (and a ‘logical’ rather than an ‘artistically’ minded person) why do so many guitar teachers insist on showing diagrams upside down from the guitar on screen (strings one to six) It means I have to go through a reversing mental process when visualising the graphics instead of just observing and copying them (if that makes sense 🤔).
Hey Steve! Good question - I do this for a couple of reasons. The first is that it is consistent with all other forms of notation - Tablature, Staff Notation, and fretboard diagrams. The high notes are at the top and the low notes are on the bottom, and it's read left to right. It's also to stay consistant with the established common practice of the past few hundred years when drawing out notes on the fretboard. Although my videos are innovative in how they communicate information, some things I did not want to reinvent altogether, such as this. I find what is helpful to students for understanding both TAB and fretboard diagrams is just to think of the guitar sitting on your lap, and you looking down at it. All the best! Gary
Pow Music. Thanks Gary. I think it’s just me as a beginner and my logical mind more than anything 🥴🤪. I look at the image straight on and think the graphics should be the same, butI I fully get the ‘looking down on the guitar fretboard’ angle. Cheers 👍
huh unless your looking up its just as you would see it
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I get confused on what fingers to use at the 15th fret and beyond.
good question! Once you get that high - sometimes you replace pinky with ring, and ring with middle! :D
Show us what holds your guitar up
TIL youtube has chapter functionality
I came here by accident and I stayed on purpose .
That visual is awesome.. was the PDF pay for ? I'm kinda stuck playing the same things, need a routine 🫡
Dope technique thanks blessings