@@mjsmcdcopied from records and found a guy to teach them 100% plus there was a guitar book in the 60s that a bunch of the guys in the UK read and would get mentioned every now and then in interviews in guitar mags, can't remember what it was called off the top of my head.
This is great info. Because really scales shapes 1-5 of any scale are just one pattern repeating in each octave. This becomes really evident when you play through the octaves of a scale going up the shapes on the fretboard like this.
Marty looks so cool in his hats some people can just wear hats better than other people and Marty can wear the hell out of a hat and thank you for your wisdom and knowledge
You’re right about the hat. He just suits them. They look natural and correct on his head (I hope that makes sense. Not sure it does.) He’d possibly look a little “off” should we see him without. Now me in a hat? Forget it. Definitely a look made for ridicule itself’s benefit. Exactly the same if I put on a pair of sunglasses. Be it in shades or jaunty headgear the only look I’m able to achieve is that of an absolute clown. I wouldn’t like to imagine how bad it’d be if I were ever to try both together.
That was the first pentatonic shape I learned from my teacher way back in the way back! I actually didn't even know of any other shapes until years later. And this one carried me through decades of intuitive improvisation and a handful of albums. Great lesson!
And you never have to use that measly, weak, fourth finger! I charted out the entire neck this way, with only first and third fingers when I started out, cuz way back in the 70s, the little glimpses I'd get of guys playing on TV, they all seemed to only use those two fingers and move diagonally up the neck.
When I was a complete noob in 1988, I had the good fortune of learning this shape out of Guitar Player magazine. 36 years later, after developing a strong command over dozens of different scales and modes, including all the 8-tone scales, I still find it every bit as useful as the day I learned it.
This 'diagonal' shape completely opened up my soloing. Plus, where you do the 2 fret slide, the note inbetween is the 'blue' note that changes a pentatonic scale to a Blues scale.
This was the only thing I retained from the 3 formal guitar lessons I’ve had in my life. It unlocked the board so much for me. When I realized I was basically just connecting octaves of the pentatonic scale- huge AH-HA! moment for me.
@ Bro, it took me well over 10 years worth of playing the blues scale over and over to unlock this. You’ll find it. Just keep doing that pattern Marty showed and you’ll fall into the groove.
@@Metabo1950 the place where those slides arrive, hit on that note behind the one you landed on thats not in the slide.... its a good one to play with too
Great tip, I tell this all the time to people that are stuck in that minor pentatonic box. I also tell them to move their shapes 3 frets closer to the headstock and try major tonality. Also, I tell people to work on trying to play emotionally by using only 3 notes and their bends/prebends etc over a backing track for 20 mins
This was one of the first things my guitar teacher taught me alongside the pentatonic shapes, but I don't see it being talked about often enough There is another pattern which starts with the 4th on the low E
dude has been teaching me guitar for a long time. Always good to check to see if maybe there is something there you can take. Sometimes it isn't what they are talking about.
I have to give u credit for at least 80% of my guitar knowledge you’re awesome Marty love your videos. Also if you could in the future do a lesson on pigeons playing ping pong, melting lights that would be awesome I just can’t seem to get down the Rhythm. Thanks for all the guitar wisdom.
I’ve been referring to Marty’s videos for years. It was only after I got into triads and being able to identify each shape that all my former work came to fruition. Damn, it’s so nice now to recognize the relationships of shapes!
This is the first time I see any one show this. I'm self thought and that's the shape I use when I solo. I've been thinking to upload a video to suggest this way of playing instead of the standard shape everyone use but it never happens. But here it is.
Thanks, Marty! You always have huge info in your short videos. I have learned a ton from you. I noticed some strumming and bends. I really need to work on some techniques.
Thank you so much Marty! You've helped me so much through the years. Your lessons are just the right speed for me and I've told so many young beginners that they can learn everything they need to know by watching your videos. Also, I think that what you just explained should be the way that people learn the scales from the jump. The basic pentatonic scale is useless unless you know how to expand upon it, unless the basic pentatonic scale is taught by sliding from note to note or incorporating hammer-ons and pull-offs instead of the trade-off and straight back down way that every guitar teacher teaches it.
Man been watching you since I was 10yo now 23 you are literally one of the soul reasons I can play guitar and even do music now today. Thank you Marty.
Yes this is big to know starting out. Also I think beginners should do the same with the blues pentatonic and minor pentatonic. But once they feel they can move up and down pretty good they should just turn on the radio and try to play some simple lead by ear to whatever song is on. This will sometimes expose they are not using the right pentatonic scale , so they can experiment with finding the root note and chord of the song. In rock it will often be Key of G E or F. G only has one sharp , F#, so it’s an easy key and scale. F is easy cause it only has one flat, Bb. So if I’m playing along by ear to some classic rock probably 4 songs of 10 will be one of those keys: G or F. So now the student is playing the extended pentatonic and listening to music and figuring out which key the song is in (usually the First chord or note in the verse progression) and they are jamming along by ear using a pentatonic scale but changing any notes that sound off key. I experiment with all notes on the fretboard in that area I’m working on so I can hear which notes sound good and which are bad. I adjust my scale from major pentatonic to whatever this new adjusted pentatonic turns out to be. Marty could say it better. But my point is some “by ear” playing coupled with your roadmap of basic pentatonic extended scales that Marty speaks of here can get you playing lead faster and training your ear to find good notes in the key and avoid notes off key. I think this is critical to playing music with and for other people. You have to be able to discern notes off key immediately and play in key without a bunch of numbers and scales in your brain slowing you down. It’s very satisfying when I find the key and then the appropriate type pentatonic scale and now I can jam along without to many wrong notes. Let’s say It’s a blues song in E so immediately I switch to my blues pentatonic scale as my reference point for lead jamming, but the more interesting place to play lead would be starting on the 5th note from E ,which is C# . Starting my lead on the C# fifth note of the E scale will sound better sometimes. Or Bouncing back and forth between E bass Note (fret 12 or 0) and C# (9th fret on low sixth string and on fifth string 4th fret C# ) is going to sound better. But here is the payoff: I’ve experimented playing by ear to any song that comes on the radio and Now my ear and fingers find the notes and frets automatically with out me even knowing what key I’m in! I don’t even have to know! If anything not knowing helps. Because my ear plays interesting notes not in that key but perhaps from the relative minor key or diminished chord in that key. I don’t know and don’t need to, as long as it sounds good. But noticing what key I’m in is good for knowing what minor chords are available in that major key. For example key of G has E minor and A minor chords. Each major key has two minor chords and one diminished chord. My goal is for playing to be automatic and intuitively play the right key and notes without actually thinking about it at all. I’m getting there and it gets easier as I let go and let the mind and fingers steer themselves in music instead of commanding them to stay in a formatted box or set of rules. What do you think Marty? I’m not a music teacher and I may have some points unclear or wrong so I would like Marty’s view of using pentatonics in an experimental way to explore the fretboard.
Learning the 5 shapes is like beginner stuff, with commitment it take 2-3hours tops! (Plus you have to use it often for it the come naturally) ! Great tuto but if you’re a beginner JUST LEARN THE DARN THING IT AINT THAT HARD 😂
I started playing 3 months ago and i’m now learning scales. It’s been such a fun journey, I do need to learn more songs though instead of just learning chords and scales. Any advice on some songs that are simple yet challenging?
keep learning songs, I have playlists on this channel. Also only 3 months in, I would definitely learn the "home row" main pentatonic shape and work on that for awhile. I also have a "soloing for beginners" course that has gotten a lot of great feedback www.martymusic.com/store
What marty said! But as an aside, Emerald by Thin Lizzy is a great song to work on the specific run shown in this short lesson. One of the main riffs is basically the first part of this run. Also really fun to play and should be enough of a challenge without being frustrating since you're early in your guitar journey. You should give it a whirl!
Yes I like that one Marty... Is figuring out which finger you want to slide... And it looks like you're playing it backwards to say you're ascending and descending what you don't really say but look like that's what you were doing when you were playing it from the box. 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Thank you so much Marty for all your instructions in your wisdom it has been a lifesaver to me even though my playing is still not the best it's a lot better than it was
When i was 12 and just learning to play, my dads buddy who played in tons of bands taught me that extended scale. Can be used from any postion. That scale opened up the wntire fretboard from me. When i started learning songs like sweet home Alabama it just clicked when i seen they used the same extended scales. Between learning that and learning to tune or hear notes by ear, i never looked back.
That technique works well. Also, if you do 3 whole steps (at say fret 8) then 4 whole steps at the same fret on the next string over you get a major scale shape that repeats all the way across the neck. You can start at open E do 3 on the E string, 4 on the A, then 3 on the D Starting on the E and 4 on the G etc. You end on the 11th fret and you just played the entire neck by just going 3 then 4 then 3 then 4.
Marty huge fan!!!! What is the next wave of things you recommend one goes after from here??? I love these sliders but I’m trying to figure out where to go next
Very nice. I shall be having it a go at it the second I finish writing this. Come this evening, I’m pretty sure, if not certain Mrs. Simon will be sick to the back teeth of hearing it as I’m positive it’s not going to sound like the excellent example we are all hearing here.
I will coin the phrase - "The Golden Pentatonic Scale" - during my in-person guitar teaching "back in the day" before UA-cam, this scale pattern was one of the 1st things I taught my guitar students when learning to improvise.
This is the first solo pattern I learnt off Deep Purple vinyl records when I got my guitar. I later learned I could play with it and put other notes in it. It was only 20 years later, gigging in bars, that I learned it was called the pentatonic. In fact everything I learned on the guitar over 50 years, you could learn on UA-cam in a couple of days. The only difference is the mileage and the feel.
Got a tips on how to memorize the fretboard? It’s hard not going what numbers whatever your talking about. I’m sorta self taught and I learned by looking at the position of the dots but even then I don’t know any theory. I just have good muscle memory lol 🤣
I’ve been sat in my kitchen for months trying to play solos, I decided to sit down and do nothing but scales for a week….my god my solo playing improved massively…I realised if I played each note four times it was the artic monkeys intro “I bet you look good on the dance floor” play it backwards and it’s Link Wray and the Wray men’s slinky from pulp fiction…..from there I went to Black sabbaths Paranoid …it’s making sense 🥳 it’s clicking 😜 Taught myself badly, back to basics and i see I’m improving.
It repeats every octave. There are positions all the way up the neck until you get back to where you stared. Not just immediately on either side of the pentatonic box you are working from. All the scales repeat throughout each octave until you arrive back at yourself, and it starts again. Not just pentatonic, major, minor, whichever. All the scales have patterns all the way up the neck.
I stumbled upon this by playing along to Hendrix and Sabbath but stupidly never bothered to memorize a specific pattern, so whenever I'm just noodling I'll hit a sour note every once in a while and just try to slide it into the right note next to it. Always wanted to know what the secret was to knowing how to go up and down the whole neck.
The first book i ever bought 20 years ago said that this was the best pattern to learn as most professionals only use that mainly anyway. . .and now I'm hearing again. . .
Bro I haven't seen this dude in over 10 years and he's still at it. Must be proud to have taught 99% of all beginner guitarists of the last decade
Me included, although I'm just a casual rockstar wannabe
💯
And still can't play that good
Always wondered if the 60:70s rock gods learned pents growing up or just copied from records
@@mjsmcdcopied from records and found a guy to teach them 100% plus there was a guitar book in the 60s that a bunch of the guys in the UK read and would get mentioned every now and then in interviews in guitar mags, can't remember what it was called off the top of my head.
This is great info. Because really scales shapes 1-5 of any scale are just one pattern repeating in each octave. This becomes really evident when you play through the octaves of a scale going up the shapes on the fretboard like this.
Yes, exactly
look up modes
Marty looks so cool in his hats some people can just wear hats better than other people and Marty can wear the hell out of a hat and thank you for your wisdom and knowledge
Now the question is : who put it on first : Marty or Indiana Jones ?
Yeah. I would feel so self-conscious dressed like this, but he looks like a responsible adult musician, so it's a good look.
You’re right about the hat. He just suits them. They look natural and correct on his head (I hope that makes sense. Not sure it does.) He’d possibly look a little “off” should we see him without.
Now me in a hat? Forget it. Definitely a look made for ridicule itself’s benefit.
Exactly the same if I put on a pair of sunglasses. Be it in shades or jaunty headgear the only look I’m able to achieve is that of an absolute clown.
I wouldn’t like to imagine how bad it’d be if I were ever to try both together.
I, personally, am not good at hats
That was the first pentatonic shape I learned from my teacher way back in the way back! I actually didn't even know of any other shapes until years later. And this one carried me through decades of intuitive improvisation and a handful of albums. Great lesson!
And you never have to use that measly, weak, fourth finger!
I charted out the entire neck this way, with only first and third fingers when I started out, cuz way back in the 70s, the little glimpses I'd get of guys playing on TV, they all seemed to only use those two fingers and move diagonally up the neck.
Always wondered if the 60:70s rock gods learned pents growing up or just copied from records
When I was a complete noob in 1988, I had the good fortune of learning this shape out of Guitar Player magazine. 36 years later, after developing a strong command over dozens of different scales and modes, including all the 8-tone scales, I still find it every bit as useful as the day I learned it.
Marty should be in the rock hall of fame for the countless young guitarists he helped to educate from a far through his timeless lessons.
he can pick stuff out that just fits right
Thank you God Blessings though u n 2 ❤🐶🙏
This 'diagonal' shape completely opened up my soloing. Plus, where you do the 2 fret slide, the note inbetween is the 'blue' note that changes a pentatonic scale to a Blues scale.
This was the only thing I retained from the 3 formal guitar lessons I’ve had in my life. It unlocked the board so much for me. When I realized I was basically just connecting octaves of the pentatonic scale- huge AH-HA! moment for me.
I have not had that realization yet......ugh
@ Bro, it took me well over 10 years worth of playing the blues scale over and over to unlock this. You’ll find it. Just keep doing that pattern Marty showed and you’ll fall into the groove.
@@whatsabryanUA-cam helps of course 😂
@@rAndomlight1069 yeahhh, I grew up with instructional DVDs and chord books lol we didn’t have the luxury of UA-cam yet 🤣
@@Metabo1950 the place where those slides arrive, hit on that note behind the one you landed on thats not in the slide.... its a good one to play with too
Great tip, I tell this all the time to people that are stuck in that minor pentatonic box. I also tell them to move their shapes 3 frets closer to the headstock and try major tonality.
Also, I tell people to work on trying to play emotionally by using only 3 notes and their bends/prebends etc over a backing track for 20 mins
This changed everything for me, can now solo with my band.
Man you are the reason ive been playing guitar for a decade now. You really are a legend. What you do matters so damn much. Thanks for everything 🤘
This was one of the first things my guitar teacher taught me alongside the pentatonic shapes, but I don't see it being talked about often enough
There is another pattern which starts with the 4th on the low E
There is an extended shape for every key
Very well explained, and absolutely correct!
You are an awesome teacher, sir. Good job 👍.
dude has been teaching me guitar for a long time. Always good to check to see if maybe there is something there you can take. Sometimes it isn't what they are talking about.
I have to give u credit for at least 80% of my guitar knowledge you’re awesome Marty love your videos. Also if you could in the future do a lesson on pigeons playing ping pong, melting lights that would be awesome I just can’t seem to get down the Rhythm. Thanks for all the guitar wisdom.
Rock on!
@@MartyMusic
Keep jamming
Thank you for teaching me Marty. Seriously you and bernth have saved me money and made me a lot better
You are so awesome!! Thank you for your continued teaching 🙏 😊
😮 that sounds way better than just boring scale runs, keeps me engaged lol
This is great! So helpful
I’ve been referring to Marty’s videos for years. It was only after I got into triads and being able to identify each shape that all my former work came to fruition.
Damn, it’s so nice now to recognize the relationships of shapes!
This is the first time I see any one show this. I'm self thought and that's the shape I use when I solo. I've been thinking to upload a video to suggest this way of playing instead of the standard shape everyone use but it never happens. But here it is.
Thanks for the extended Pentatonic scale short!!
Knowing the notes is what unlocked this for me
Thanks, Marty! You always have huge info in your short videos. I have learned a ton from you. I noticed some strumming and bends. I really need to work on some techniques.
Glad to hear it's helpful!
Can this work also on the major scale three frets down? Great lesson! Thanks,Marty👍👍
great tip. when i first saw this it really helped me unlock the fretboard and connect the positions. it's also known as the 3-2-3 pattern.
Thank you so much Marty! You've helped me so much through the years. Your lessons are just the right speed for me and I've told so many young beginners that they can learn everything they need to know by watching your videos. Also, I think that what you just explained should be the way that people learn the scales from the jump. The basic pentatonic scale is useless unless you know how to expand upon it, unless the basic pentatonic scale is taught by sliding from note to note or incorporating hammer-ons and pull-offs instead of the trade-off and straight back down way that every guitar teacher teaches it.
Thank's a lot Marty!
Man been watching you since I was 10yo now 23 you are literally one of the soul reasons I can play guitar and even do music now today. Thank you Marty.
Thanks marty
Very welcome
Valuable knowledge!
Yes this is big to know starting out. Also I think beginners should do the same with the blues pentatonic and minor pentatonic. But once they feel they can move up and down pretty good they should just turn on the radio and try to play some simple lead by ear to whatever song is on. This will sometimes expose they are not using the right pentatonic scale , so they can experiment with finding the root note and chord of the song. In rock it will often be Key of G E or F. G only has one sharp , F#, so it’s an easy key and scale. F is easy cause it only has one flat, Bb. So if I’m playing along by ear to some classic rock probably 4 songs of 10 will be one of those keys: G or F. So now the student is playing the extended pentatonic and listening to music and figuring out which key the song is in (usually the First chord or note in the verse progression) and they are jamming along by ear using a pentatonic scale but changing any notes that sound off key. I experiment with all notes on the fretboard in that area I’m working on so I can hear which notes sound good and which are bad. I adjust my scale from major pentatonic to whatever this new adjusted pentatonic turns out to be. Marty could say it better. But my point is some “by ear” playing coupled with your roadmap of basic pentatonic extended scales that Marty speaks of here can get you playing lead faster and training your ear to find good notes in the key and avoid notes off key. I think this is critical to playing music with and for other people. You have to be able to discern notes off key immediately and play in key without a bunch of numbers and scales in your brain slowing you down. It’s very satisfying when I find the key and then the appropriate type pentatonic scale and now I can jam along without to many wrong notes. Let’s say It’s a blues song in E so immediately I switch to my blues pentatonic scale as my reference point for lead jamming, but the more interesting place to play lead would be starting on the 5th note from E ,which is C# . Starting my lead on the C# fifth note of the E scale will sound better sometimes. Or Bouncing back and forth between E bass Note (fret 12 or 0) and C# (9th fret on low sixth string and on fifth string
4th fret C# ) is going to sound better. But here is the payoff: I’ve experimented playing by ear to any song that comes on the radio and Now my ear and fingers find the notes and frets automatically with out me even knowing what key I’m in! I don’t even have to know! If anything not knowing helps. Because my ear plays interesting notes not in that key but perhaps from the relative minor key or diminished chord in that key. I don’t know and don’t need to, as long as it sounds good. But noticing what key I’m in is good for knowing what minor chords are available in that major key. For example key of G has E minor and A minor chords. Each major key has two minor chords and one diminished chord. My goal is for playing to be automatic and intuitively play the right key and notes without actually thinking about it at all. I’m getting there and it gets easier as I let go and let the mind and fingers steer themselves in music instead of commanding them to stay in a formatted box or set of rules. What do you think Marty? I’m not a music teacher and I may have some points unclear or wrong so I would like Marty’s view of using pentatonics in an experimental way to explore the fretboard.
Learning the 5 shapes is like beginner stuff, with commitment it take 2-3hours tops! (Plus you have to use it often for it the come naturally) ! Great tuto but if you’re a beginner JUST LEARN THE DARN THING IT AINT THAT HARD 😂
I started playing 3 months ago and i’m now learning scales. It’s been such a fun journey, I do need to learn more songs though instead of just learning chords and scales. Any advice on some songs that are simple yet challenging?
keep learning songs, I have playlists on this channel. Also only 3 months in, I would definitely learn the "home row" main pentatonic shape and work on that for awhile. I also have a "soloing for beginners" course that has gotten a lot of great feedback www.martymusic.com/store
@@MartyMusicThank you so much man, hope you had a great thanksgiving !
What marty said! But as an aside, Emerald by Thin Lizzy is a great song to work on the specific run shown in this short lesson.
One of the main riffs is basically the first part of this run. Also really fun to play and should be enough of a challenge without being frustrating since you're early in your guitar journey. You should give it a whirl!
A song that i found easy to play thanks to marty was under the bridge by the red hot chilli peppers
Pick songs you like! Learning Shine On You Crazy Diamond taught me so much and really improved my playing
Yes I like that one Marty... Is figuring out which finger you want to slide... And it looks like you're playing it backwards to say you're ascending and descending what you don't really say but look like that's what you were doing when you were playing it from the box.
🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Just appreciate the FREE lesson without trying to be a smart ass!
Thank you so much Marty for all your instructions in your wisdom it has been a lifesaver to me even though my playing is still not the best it's a lot better than it was
Thank you Marty!
When i was 12 and just learning to play, my dads buddy who played in tons of bands taught me that extended scale. Can be used from any postion. That scale opened up the wntire fretboard from me. When i started learning songs like sweet home Alabama it just clicked when i seen they used the same extended scales. Between learning that and learning to tune or hear notes by ear, i never looked back.
Brilliant!! Thanks man!!!
Noted and consumed Sir!
Awesome Video ! . Gracias/Thanks . from Guadalajara Mexico .
You’re a straight up G for this Marty ! 🫶🫶🫶
Love it Marty Mar.
Thank you again Marty.
I've been playing the guitar for over 25 years and this has been the best quick tutorial I've seen in a very long time
This is useful for sure! My ex-guitar teacher thought me this for one of my first lessons with him. It’s helped quite a lot for sure!
Marty’s sound is beautiful! What kind of amp do you use?
I know he sponsored by boss katana, but I’m not sure what he uses when he’s not videoing with it.
That technique works well. Also, if you do 3 whole steps (at say fret 8) then 4 whole steps at the same fret on the next string over you get a major scale shape that repeats all the way across the neck. You can start at open E do 3 on the E string, 4 on the A, then 3 on the D Starting on the E and 4 on the G etc. You end on the 11th fret and you just played the entire neck by just going 3 then 4 then 3 then 4.
Great, man!
Thanks for watching!
This was just so awesome but I feel like to you it’s so simple. I gotta practice this
👍 lookin sharp dude 🔥🚬😎
Thank you Marty
I'll stick with phyrigian dominant when riffing and soloing.
Marty huge fan!!!! What is the next wave of things you recommend one goes after from here??? I love these sliders but I’m trying to figure out where to go next
Soloin For Beginners at www.martymusic.com/store
Pianost/drummer here. I guess what I'm hearing is that starting on other notes beside the root opens up new possibilities for solos?
Very nice. I shall be having it a go at it the second I finish writing this. Come this evening, I’m pretty sure, if not certain Mrs. Simon will be sick to the back teeth of hearing it as I’m positive it’s not going to sound like the excellent example we are all hearing here.
Thanks!
My guitar father at it again…Thanks for the many years of knowledge Marty
I will coin the phrase - "The Golden Pentatonic Scale" - during my in-person guitar teaching "back in the day" before UA-cam, this scale pattern was one of the 1st things I taught my guitar students when learning to improvise.
Do you give one on one lesson in this area of lead guitar
Also known (to me) as the Don't Look Back in Anger solo
you're the best Marty
This is the first solo pattern I learnt off Deep Purple vinyl records when I got my guitar. I later learned I could play with it and put other notes in it. It was only 20 years later, gigging in bars, that I learned it was called the pentatonic. In fact everything I learned on the guitar over 50 years, you could learn on UA-cam in a couple of days. The only difference is the mileage and the feel.
Marty your the best guitarist I very seen that's not in huge band.
More Marty Magic. Sessons Greetings to him and everybody here.
Marty - the original guitar teacher on youtube. What a legend - feels like I've known him most of my life.
Thanks
My Man!... Peace n Love
I’m fixing to buy my first electric guitar here in a couple weeks any tips on where to start ?
Thanks Marty !
The Piano on a wood stick ! Nice 😂
so the sublime solo 😅
That bend at the end…super tasty.
Got a tips on how to memorize the fretboard? It’s hard not going what numbers whatever your talking about. I’m sorta self taught and I learned by looking at the position of the dots but even then I don’t know any theory. I just have good muscle memory lol 🤣
Sweet 😊
So do you actually hit the note for the slide everytime, or while playing do you just hit the 6-8 6-8 slide whithout hitting the 8 again?
Wish I could look this cool playing scales lol
You sir……. Are a legend
Music is a gift of God,
thanks for sharing Bro
This guys a great teacher if you want to sound like you never took the training wheels off your guitar.
I like to say I taught myself how to play guitar, but it was really Marty ❤
I’ve been sat in my kitchen for months trying to play solos, I decided to sit down and do nothing but scales for a week….my god my solo playing improved massively…I realised if I played each note four times it was the artic monkeys intro “I bet you look good on the dance floor” play it backwards and it’s Link Wray and the Wray men’s slinky from pulp fiction…..from there I went to Black sabbaths Paranoid …it’s making sense 🥳 it’s clicking 😜 Taught myself badly, back to basics and i see I’m improving.
That’s literally my guitar 🤩
Are you calling Marty a thief?
That is dope
Marty is your blues course ok for us camp fire hero slow types. I hope to get it next month. Will it be on sale still.
Does this work on acoustic too
It repeats every octave. There are positions all the way up the neck until you get back to where you stared. Not just immediately on either side of the pentatonic box you are working from. All the scales repeat throughout each octave until you arrive back at yourself, and it starts again. Not just pentatonic, major, minor, whichever. All the scales have patterns all the way up the neck.
This is exactly what I teach. This is literally the missing link for a lot of guitarists.
I have this problem where when I solo, I typically find myself just walking up and down a scale, it doesn't sound musical at all. Any advice?
So true
I stumbled upon this by playing along to Hendrix and Sabbath but stupidly never bothered to memorize a specific pattern, so whenever I'm just noodling I'll hit a sour note every once in a while and just try to slide it into the right note next to it. Always wanted to know what the secret was to knowing how to go up and down the whole neck.
thanks
is this the same as 3-2 pattern?
been playing for a little time now but just been learning songs straight off tabs and never any scales or theory etc, help where do i start
start playing
Too wonderful for me
Perfect i just nailed it on the first try 😅
Class
The first book i ever bought 20 years ago said that this was the best pattern to learn as most professionals only use that mainly anyway. . .and now I'm hearing again. . .
Diagonal pentatonic
Gold