This simple square pattern gives you both major & minor pentatonic lead options-Guitar Lesson EP489
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play both major and minor pentatonic scales in the same song, using a simple box shape that is easy to visualize and use.
To download the tablature and the MP3 jam tracks for this lesson, visit: www.activemelody.com/lesson/t...
00:00 Intro / Demonstration
01:21 Wide Sky Guitar
02:41 What it means to "play in the key" of the song
03:33 Locate the Major Pentatonic Scale
04:21 Locate the Minor Pentatonic Scale
05:43 Locate the first major pentatonic box
07:07 Locate the second major pentatonic box
09:05 Locate the first minor pentatonic box
10:34 Locate the second minor pentatonic box
11:12 Demonstrating how to use the boxes to improvise
Brian’s enthusiasm shows through in every video. He seems genuinely excited to present the material.
Excellent teacher he is.
Such a fun terrific piece Brian. Thank you for all you do for us. Doug Pierce 🎸
I hadn't picked my guitar up in years, until watching your videos a couple of weeks ago. Thank you.
same here. Thank you Active Melody.
Many of your lessons are worth the price of a yearly membership, and this is one of them. A real gold mine on this one.
I have been playing guitar since I was 9 years old, I have Never seen this kind of great teaching in simplicity as what Brian has shown us here.
Absolutely fantastic job Brian, thank you for your time , energy, & knowledge of the guitar fret board.
I am 71 years young now and still learning.
God bless you Brain, & thanks again for all your lessons, I believe I may head over to your home page & join up for some extra material. Lol 😆
Fantastic lesson Bryan. Really a simple way to improvise. So useful. Also appreciate the fact your videos don’t show any annoying UA-cam ads!!!!!!
You are a natural-born teacher with perfect clarity in your explanations!
You make it easy for an old man to improve, thanks
As a newcomer to soloing, can I just say "Thank you" Brian for explaing this in a way that is simple to use, and sounds great. And thanks for not skipping over the small details that others might know. I get a lot out of these lessons.
Great use of graphics to show scales. Tremendously useful teaching tool
Good basic pentatonic box theory, that we can practice with! Thank you Brian !👍
Yer my favorite teacher. love the new guitar
Thank you. Excellent video. Amazing clear and helpful information. The quality of the video HD is beautiful.
One of the first things that occurred to me as you explained the major and minor box locations was that you could do a 'call' in major and 'respond' in minor. You could do this alone or while swapping licks with another player. Very cool, as usual, Brian.
You have the some of the best guitar lessons out there! Your approach to instruction is very thorough yet simple to understand. I’m learning a ton!
I’ll be joining your website membership and look forward to many more great tutorials.
BTW… some day you should walk us through that impressive wall of vinyls that are behind you. I bet there’s some gems in that collection!
Keep it up!
Yes please on the vinyl!!
Mind boggling, and very well explained! Super clear, and finally something that looks like I can and will integrate into my playing. Thanks a lot!!
Some people teach and some are teachers. Man you're a teacher. I've seen similar things on UA-cam many times but you went a step further and was much easier for me to get it. Thanks for your time. I had to sub. Looking forward to much more.
His course is awesome.... I only signed up two months ago and managed to complete his "basic training" modules and now I can comfortably run basic solo lines over any key..... the membership is surprisingly affordable given the amount of content available. Just to put into perspective I would have paid the same amount of money for only 3 face to face lessons in uk.
Highly recommend ACTIVE MELODY.....
Fantastic. I’ve been piecing this together with more sections of caged system. This is much simpler and sounds much better. Thank you.
One great lesson after another! He's fast paced but that's ok. You get a lot of information in a short time and, unlike an in-person lesson, you can back it up and watch again until you get it. Good stuff!
So much to work with from this simple example of M/m pent boxes! Thx Brian
Hello Brian, been following you for years now. A classic simple way to move round the pentatonics family, gives me more belief in myself to play tunes, thank you so much, keep up the brilliant work😀😀😀👍
Great lesson, gave me food for thought for sure, thanks.
hands down the most useful teacher ever. where were you 20 years ago when I started playing I have learnt more in the last six months since I found your lessons than I learned in the previous 19 years. and I love that guitar. thanks Brian.
Thanks for this lesson; it's 'guitar-life' changing. You're doing well 👍
Eye opener, and very well explained. Thanks again, Brian!
Thank you Brian! A very fun lesson! I'm really glad you put this together in such an accessible way. I love these "tips" you give that are geared perfectly for anybody who needs a little success in their playing. I've been stuck noodling for a while and needed something I could manage that will also encourage me to be creative. This hits the nail on the head!
Great Lesson. Highly appreciate your time.
I love your creative way of undertand guitar playing. You hit it out of the ballpark with this lesson
Simply the coolest lesson I've seen in a minute. You're greatly helping the guitar simpletons like me.
I think this is my favorite lesson yet. Best back track style and great tips. Thanks Brian.
One of the best lessons for soloing... thank you so much
That was one of your best lessons, thank you!
Thank you for sharing your experience. This was one of the most helpful videos I’ve seen in a long time.
Great lessons in you channel man!!!
Complementing this with daily practice and private lessons is gold.
Thanks Brian, very well articulated and another way to look at the fretboard. Great lesson!
I’ve played the square box for a while now. It makes it easy to sound more advanced. I didn’t know about the playing in the key I just knew it worked and I didn’t have worry so much about chord changes. Thanks for the lesson!!!
I love your teaching style . Organized and patient.
Such a beautiful and great sounding guitar!!! 👍🙏 Very useful these square patterns🎸
Genius. Simple but a lot to work with, especially getting the whole and half bends over the right interval 1,4 or 5. Best lesson. You could solo over any song when playing with others.
He is always clear and easy to follow.
Congratulations on the beautiful guitar, great sound and a great player/teacher Thanks for the many inspirations and lessons.
Repetition is the key to higher learning..Love to hear reminders constantly.
Pinky major, index minor..
Another great lesson. I've said it before, I'll say it again: I wish I had Active Melody and UA-cam when I was coming up. I might actually be a good guitar player! Oh well, better late than never. Thanks, Brian! AM is worth every penny!
P.S.- I'm definitely going to check out Wide Sky Guitars!
Thank you Brian, this lesson had a real light bulb moment for me, I appreciate it, when you went down three strings, and went from the major pentatonic’box’ to the minor pentatonic.
Thank you Brian. This makes me understand the simplicity of switching minor and major scales. And hitting the transitional notes will make big difference in my playing. All these years, I’ve always wondered how these guitarists 😮come up with these cool riffs. It seemed too complicated for me to learn
Brian..simple and well presented thank you. I a lot to be thankful for.
Brilliant lesson. It's making me understand more about scales. Thanks.
Love this video, try and watch all your videos. Keep up the good work. THANKS
Awesome class. It was good to see that just breaking a little piece of the scales iis enough to have fun
Thanks for this lesson the pentatonic scales and boxes sound and makes more sense!
Excellent and simple to understand
Oh great lesson. Love it. The way you explain, is easy to learn. Thank you so much. I can play it now on B and Bm. Love that blussy sound and that beat.
This was great! Thank You Sir
Been playing guitar forever and still learned a lot from this lesson. Thanks!
Again, great eye-opening lesson. Thanks!
Brilliant tuition. Thank-you.
I love this lesson! thank you so much!!
Simple and powerful!!!
So much sound and variety out of those few notes.
Thanks Brian. Excellent lesson as usual. Helps in hitting the ground running.
I sure am learning now! I have to say You are at the top with me.
Hi there - this has been a real 'breakthrough' video for me, as a 20-year beginner looking to expand my knowledge / abilities through improvisation, and having watched hundreds of youtube videos that never quite crack it. There are lots of videos that are very theoretical, purely practical, superficial hacks, or just plain confusing in relation to minor / major / pentatonic / soloing principles etc. But this has a perfect balance of all those things in a way that is immediately useable. Thank you, I'm now a subscriber!
Beautiful lesson
Very nice leads lesson for major/minor pentatonic boxes, thanks a lot Brian
Great lesson. Easy to understand
You have fulfilled your life's work
the Einstein of the pentatonic scales, Mr Brian
Makes
So much sense, thanks!
That's a wealth of info... Thanks!!!
Somewhere beyond excellent!
Bryan, this was really great, enjoy your stuff so much... God Bless...
Love it! Great sounding guitar. Thank you for your time & info. I'm self taught. I started at 9 yrs old & I will be 69 yrs old in a couple of months. I play everyday, & you have helped me.
Awesome lesson once again, thanks Brian.
Yup! Clean & clear! I hear BB King all day in this lesson. My TBI fights my guitar progress often, but not on this lesson, YAHOO!!! Thanks man.
I really appreciate these lessons!
Lovely little idea that can be used anytime during playing.
Thanks master. Great lesson to keep in mind. Kudos 👌👍
Excellent lesson. Great teacher.
Great Lesson. I really got it! Thanks
Your tidbits of information are so great! After seeing your videos or your Instagram clips, I'm always motivated to pick up my guitar :)
beautiful lesson, beautiful guitar
Thank you that's wonderful easy to learn..
Just another great lesson everyone is so helpful your lesson ideas every week are mind blowing. And a very nice new axe I love P90’s off to practice my new knowledge. Thanks
Yes i got to usually landed on given note such that Key B or B note is fantastic.
Woah, really cool. I almost feel like this is one of your best lessons on the pentatonic scale at least that I have watched. Your enthusiasm shows particularly with this video, which I interpret as a sign that you also are convinced of this method, and how it comes together. Really like how this complements previous beginner videos on that box and triangle. This brings it together for me. I really like the visual shapes approach, really makes it accessible for me. Also like the demonstration of full and half bends, and where to place them. The root note as an anchor was a revelation to me, how major and minor pentatonic are connected, didn't realize that before. Now I just need to figure out what notes distinguish major and minor, and where the critical ones are, e.g. the third, fifth, flat seven, minor third, which corner of box and triangle, then i think I'll have it figured out so I can play major and minor pent intelligently. Also striking to me was to hear major and minor right after each other like call and response, inspires typical blues lick. So cool. Definitely going to try and use that. The bends, like I said, really inspiring. I am a beginner with blues, have classical background and am using your channel to get ideas and widen my repertoire. Great work, really enjoy the videos and your particular approach.
ALL RIGHT ! - Just WHOA, '"ALL RIGHT'" !!!
This was a fantastic lesson,thank you
Outstanding lesson. Thank
You're a great teacher!
What a great lesson.
Really a big help. Thanks! Can’t believe I’m just now learning this stuff
Great lesson Brian! Very well put clear instruction.
Gorgeous sounding guitar Brian and another incredibly useful lesson. Thank you so much … off to grab the tabs now.
At first glance I thought it was your little sister crossroads
Oh man I totally agree. That is an incredible sounding guitar.
love your lessons.
Great really well explained, thankyou.
this is a great lesson !!!
Another great lesson Brian🙏🙏🙏
That is a beautiful guitar! and lesson !
Great video! Concise
Fantastic lesson Brian. Thanks a lot.
Great Stuff Brian, love these videos