This is a great lesson. I'd love to share something that really was a breakthrough for me. It may be obvious to good players, but gets lost in the shuffle for many beginners. Most tutorials on shapes simply tell you to "noodle around the pattern, and it will all sound good". What they should also teach you, is that you will sound so much better if you start and end your riffs on the root note. Not all the time, but focusing on the root and the 5th,will make your jams sound so much better! Try it.
I say: Put stickers on the neck, where your scales are. Change ONE note, and relearn, etc. Clean sticker crud off with toothbrush. Replace girlfriends toothbrush in the rack.
My husband has been watching you for years and loves your videos. I feel like you are a part of our family because as he is practicing we hear about you all the time. This is him actually typing this for me. Hey Marty, thanks for video, I like this one because you really are trying to show me the "music."
Marty, I think you have some of the best lessons on the internet. I learn so much so quickly with your leadership. You got it going on. So glad to be able to find you when I want to learn one.
I've been playing for about five years now, and still really struggle with being able to solo, but after watching this it was like something clicked and I just had my most successful jam session ever! Thanks Marty! You're the best!
Sometimes when I am randomly going through guitar lessons on UA-cam, I find these kinda smooth lessons that make me stop whatever I was doing at the moment, pick up the guitar and play. Thanks Marty :)
This is a great lesson. I don't get what's confusing people in the comments. Basically learn your pentatonic scales/shapes but make sure you know where the root is within the shape. I wish I'd had people giving me free stuff like this 30 years ago when I started playing.
What sucks is that some of us old school players have been doing this for years without even knowing it, or remembering when it "came" to us. If someone would have laid these basics out in the correct context back then, we all would have gotten a lot better, a lot faster. Also, more beginners would have stuck with it instead of losing interest in what used to be a long drawn out learning process involving weekly lessons. Learning to master "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star when all we wanted to learn was the solo from Zeppelin's Stairway to heaven,,, Aaaugh!. Nice job puttin' this stuff out there for all to see Marty. Here's to keeping real music (with real instruments) alive!
+common logic totally, i got into playing freestyle jams and stuff after I figured out that when you start out with and then land on the same sounding note you could just flow as long as you hit some of those certain notes. I never got any of this pentonic or even the names of the notes or strings but i could still jam out going up and down the scale that i didn't even fully understand
I'm not even exaggerating, for all you people looking through the comments before the videos ended. My advise is definitely to watch to the end... It helps so much! Thanks Marty! :)
I apologize to you for making a somewhat mean comment to you a while back. I think I was just in a bad mood. You are a good guitar tutor and seem like a cool dude as well.
Very helpful lesson.....Just starting to learn my scales and the roots and various notes in them...so thank you Marty..I have purchased some of your videos and love them..
this a cool vid! I lost te use out of my pinky a few year back due to a rugby accident. i got stuck play too much 3 finger pentatonic, comfortable mundaine crap!! Thanks for give me a good challenge again bro!!!!
Such a basic lesson but oh so valuable. Marty you nailed it when you said knowing the roots is sooooo important than just knowing the shapes. Land on those roots to make good music. Thanks Marty !!
The octave notes form two different kinds of geometric triangles. take the A note 5th fret on 6th string(fat E string), go down two strings and up two frets, will give you the octave A note at the 7th fret D string. And obviously the A on the 1st string (thin E) 5th fret is an A note also. LOOK, those three A notes form a Triangle. Change the sixth string note to any note and follow the down two- over two and you know half the notes on the guitar without really memorizing them. From the 4th (D) string A note at the 7th, go down two more strings and over 3 frets and you have an A on the B string 10th fret. This is a pattern! if you try this with any note on the 6th string (E), say, the G note, and go down two stings over two frets, another G note (the octave), then from that note, down two more strings and over three frets, another G note. this note will tie to another pattern triangle. They are all the same notes every time. The fifth string A does this pattern the same way, Down 2 -over 2, then down 2 over 3. There are two different triangles that will tell you everywhere on the neck there is an A. See The video called "learn every note on the guitar in four easy steps". It shows this triangle and the other triangle needed to learn the other half of the notes. With these two triangles, you don't really need to memorize where the notes are just know were to go to make your triangle. This is how I learned (or at least know, without knowing, where to get the next octave note. I am still not super fast at finding them but I can find them without really knowing. Love your stuff Marty, big fan. David
I remember watching similar lessons in the past and I realize now I just wasn't "ready" to learn them yet at the time and I would get confused. Watching this now makes soooo much more sense. Super helpful Marty - awesome and thank you!
Marty is the best teacher anyone has ever had bar none. Almost anytime I got frustrated trying to find it on my own,I knew all I had to do was see if Marty covered it for me,and 9 times out of 10. Yeah he did and made it understandable enough for a guy with 3 figures to be able to make it close enough and sometimes,not to crappy. Thanks Man !
Last week i literally just googled "fretboard layout on guitar" and i learned all the roots in like 2 days. Just remember guys you dont need to worry about anything higher than the 12th fret, because it is the same notes as everything before it. just learn the root notes up to the 11th fret and take it one fret at a time. dont even focus on sharps or minors, just the whole notes. write it down if you have to or get creative with it. for example the 7th fret is BEAD-B it is very easy to remember beause it makes a word. or on the 10th DGCFAD i just remember D Guitar Center For All D- and make fun abbreviations. good luck all
This lesson was a life saver, I just learned the pentatonic scale and this helped me so much, as you said, it's good to know this early well, I'm 14 and I've been playing for almost a year now without lessons, and I this has benefited me tremendously, and hopefully it will benefit me in the long run. Thanks Marty!.
I am absolutely new to guitar, and having played keyboards in the past, I have yet to understand "where everything is" on the guitar, so *THIS* was the exact video I was looking for to START trying to make sense of it. Everybody learns differently I suppose, but I couldn't agree more, knowing those roots is key for me to really feel like I have some place to start, and I haven't seen anyone else suggesting this.. then again, I am pretty new, so maybe they have, I dunno... but whats important is, its first time I seen it and its helped me, so your message was well received on my end! Thanks!
learn the 5 shapes of the pentatonic major and minor scales starting with E & A. connecting licks by the root notes. start with 1st position memorizing each shape until 5th position, then start connecting your root notes up and down as shown here in this vid. It's all time and repetition, there's no other way around it. Print out a note chart of the fretboard to refer to during practice. You should be able to solo no problem once you get this down.
Played drums most of my life, just picked up a guitar for the first time a few weeks ago, and some of what you say I sort of understand, but most is like your speaking french, i'm only learning to help my son, who loves the guitar, and i can't afford lessons for him
If your son really loves guitar, then you shouldn't worry about instructing him. He'll learn on his own. but if you want to teach him, then i recommend knowing all the open chords, the barre chords or shapes, and the 5 shapes of the pentatonic scale. That should keep him busy for a couple of years...
There are 5 patterns for the pentatonic scale on the guitar. One can easily memorize those 5 patterns but to switch in between them it's important to know where the roots are on each string, and also where the roots are in the pattern itself. Knowing where the roots are helps you switch between different scale patterns easily, it also helps you know where to go when you end your melody. A melody that doesn't resolve on the root note sounds...well kinda unfinished.
Your sons got a dad to be proud of then. Couldn't afford lessons, so you learn to play the guitar yourself.. Sorry but that's fantastic haha. What a father. Hope your boy knows how lucky he is :)
I picked up the guitar again after nearly 20 years leaving it lay in the case. I never could play much before, just plucking around. After about 2 weeks of watching you on youtube I am actually playing some mediocre leads. This lesson was super important in getting to this point!! Thank you Mr. Schwartz
fella, this was really helpful. It's actually really fun, finding yourself in the middle of the neck and knowing what safe harbor (your root note) to hop over to.
Marty, thank you so much, i have been learning from you for the past 2 years... so i consider you my teacher, i have become really good, and its all thanks to you, i can express through an instrument now and not through destruction, So you have no idea how much you have helped, again thank you sooo freakin much!!!!!
you guys have it made. in the early 70s we didnt have shit to teach us. You all can get in youtube learn black dog bend for bend in 45 mins tops. crap i would have killed for all these lessons back then. We just practiced all fucking day listing to first an album them thank God the cassett came out rewind city. Oh we saw all the major band live to watch them Lynard, led, ZZ, hell even alice. We saw them all. Steve Gaines one of the best i ever stood in front of and watched. Next morning he was dead. Greenville 3 rows back. He was left side facing stage Allen on right side. They rocked.
And don't forget when videos came out - not dvd or youtube but videos - we could then rewind them too until they wore out man ;-) Yeh, kids these days have it made, but good for them - lucky bastards ha ha
Back in those days though, good guitarists were rare to come by because it was harder to learn. Now guitar players are a dime a dozen, since basically anyone can get a cheap guitar and then just look up a quick google search how to play a song. You can practically teach yourself how to be a guitar pro just by looking up scales on google images and memorizing them
honestly... that was a GREAT FREAKING TIP. ive been playing guitar for 2 days after having given it up 15 years ago . i cant believe how helpful this is
Thanks, Marty .. your efforts are appreciated.. At same time I''d like to contribute a comment ive heard others make, and im coming from the point of view of trying to be helpful: It very common for you in your fingering demonstrations , where you show the pattern and then destroy our trying to visualize it by you giving a virtuoso demo of your great skills.. Examples are easy to find, and the one at 4:02 in the above video pretty clearly shows what I'm talking about.. For 'we earthlings struggling ', we need time to visualize etc, and your flourish of fancy blues right after your mini-demo just FLUSHES our student minds .. causes confusion and frustrations. We *know* you are a master, and we're just not here to enjoy your very-capable performances: we're here for a singular purpose, and when you obliterate our perceptions of the 'lick at hand' , well: it's counter-productive. I have to say that this issue exists in nearly all of your presentations ... Why not make a vid just as a performance?! We'd enjoy that so much .. but performance is not necessarily 'good teaching'. Performance is measured by the qualities of the performer, while 'teaching' is measured by the 'effects on the student' .. I hope you take this in the 'helpful feedback spirit' in which I make this point , and thanks again for your continued efforts!
You've made me a fan and a beliver..I take back what i said a few years ago. About you not being a good teaher..i guess i was feeling overwhelmed on one of your lessons that day. Thanks for the lesson, look forward to the others!🎸
Hi Marty, just got to say this is such a good lesson, I had just learnt the 5 shapes and I was "what the heck do I do now" but learning the position of the root notes opened it all up.
It would be helpful if you let your viewers know what prior knowledge required to understand what you are doing. All I am seeing is you are just moving up and down the guitar. You are explaining the concept to people who already got it.
I just watched the tutorial without my guitar in front of me, however because of this lesson when I do pick it up to practice I will know for sure that you just opened a lifetime of knowledge to me in this 14:43 video
I usually find Marty's videos very useful and educational, but I do not get the message of this. What is the use of knowing where the root note is? And which root? why just A? Maybe "Artful Dodger" below made a comment that can help understand, but I still do not get it
Good questions. When you play a solo, it's important to hit the "roots" of a note at intervals. If you don't, usually it won't sound right. And he just used A as an example. You could find the root of any note A-G.
Nowing chord names scale names is good if you ever wanna play with a band. Why is it cool not to know what your doing on the guitar? Its not cool. It just plain idiotic.
If you're playing a solo over a song that has his root in A and you solo has a root in E it will sound like you're playing to the wrong song.. very simple really
the point of knowing the root note. is knowing in what key you are playing. lets say the key of G minor when you play a solo over some chords in the key of G Minor you want to play the notes of the G minor scale this way you are playing the notes that fit in the song so the two parts will sound like they fit together. which they actually do hence it are the same notes. the chords in a key are build up from notes from the matching scale;)) this knowledge is useful for playing in a band; and for jamming with a buddy/ for sing/songwriters there is a lot more to it but this will be a good starting point.
All of the notes revolving around the first note in the first position are the same in the other root positions, just find those roots and you're gravy
Hands down the best 14.43 minutes of advice I've ever gotten regarding music! I can't express my thanks to the fullest! But, heres one of at thousand - THANK YOU! :D
You do realize that a pentagram is used to WARD OFF evil..lol.. assuming you believe in worshipping something bad and evil..You might want to get rid of pentagrams...
Very cool lesson Marty. I've been learning lead guitar for a little over 1 1/2 now. I have always just played rhythm. I have been using something a technique like this to help me , but you explained it in a really cool way. Thanks!!!!!! Keep Rockin!!!!!!!
Your guitar distracted me the whole video! It's beautiful😍!!! I'm not worthy!!!! Great video! 👍 you are totally correct about musical concepts!👊 spot on man. You helped me out a lot this video.
Dude. Thank u! I always solo on the 5th fred position and all this time I couldn't find a way to sound different till I saw this video. Thanks so much Marty!
always such a amazing teacher Marty always explains it in such a great way so awesome you do these videos thanks so much its deeply appreciated thank you Marty
Get a blank guitar neck diagram to write out the notes on the guitar. you can print plenty of them from the internet, or draw one yourself. I filled in all the whole notes, (not the flats and sharps) those should become obvious, (if the space is blank on the fret or string, it is either sharp or flat note.) I have also studied the 5 patterns of the natural scale (The do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do scales) I have found that if you lay these patterns out on the fret board drawing that the BC and EF notes are stacked on top of each other, always, so say you go to the 6th string, B note(7th fret) C note(8th) you will find that the E and F are directly below the B and C respectively and anywhere else they show up on any string. the only exception is: If you find the B
Just come across this video and read the previous comment from "common logic" Absolute !! 60 years as a jazz chord guitarist busking the odd melody, crikey! now "the correct context", thankyou Sir for the video.
I think this video is great. The A Minor scale with the repeating A, C, D, E and G notes is very useful for learning the fretboard. I googled up a page with the minor and major pentatonic scales then came over here for clarity. The C Major scale notes of C, D, E, G and A combined with the A Minor scales practiced while saying the notes as they're played seems like an ideal way to learn the fretboard with useful scale patterns that can go up, down, left and right.
I said the same thing learning the note names is a game changer in guitar playing I have been playing 20+ years and that was the best thing I ever did and it makes it so easy to learn everything else on the guitar so much faster the modes make more sense when you learn the note names
thanks marty! this technique makes perfect sense. alot of playing music is learning this stuff well enough to not have to focus on it when you play. you must internalize it so it becomes second nature. most people want short cuts but don't understand that even the short cuts require WORK. playing guitar or any instrument doesn't fit the 'fast food' mentality that is prevalent today. i dig what you do! don't stop.
U r a awesome guitar player..... I have learned a lot from you because really explain into details up and down the neck of the guitar and you really helped me a lot and I wish you all the luck
Thank you so much for this. I was practicing the pentatonic scale not know why tf and how tf this was going to help me with go up and down the fret but this ABSOLUTELY makes sense. THANK YOU!
This is a great lesson. I'd love to share something that really was a breakthrough for me. It may be obvious to good players, but gets lost in the shuffle for many beginners. Most tutorials on shapes simply tell you to "noodle around the pattern, and it will all sound good". What they should also teach you, is that you will sound so much better if you start and end your riffs on the root note. Not all the time, but focusing on the root and the 5th,will make your jams sound so much better! Try it.
I say: Put stickers on the neck, where your scales are. Change ONE note, and relearn, etc. Clean sticker crud off with toothbrush. Replace girlfriends toothbrush in the rack.
I giggle when ever someone plus ones me.
+IETCHX69 Top kek
+IETCHX69 have a giggle on me :)
+IETCHX69 That would imply that anybody here has a girlfriend XD
Eli Fenn ouch...
My husband has been watching you for years and loves your videos. I feel like you are a part of our family because as he is practicing we hear about you all the time. This is him actually typing this for me. Hey Marty, thanks for video, I like this one because you really are trying to show me the "music."
Sara Bryant I’m confused so he’s typing pretending to be you talking about himself then says he’s actually him. So it’s him all along? 🤔
Daniel Brown IKR
This comment cured my cancer
Wtf
It's been 4 years and I still have no idea who typed this comment
Marty, I think you have some of the best lessons on the internet. I learn so much so quickly with your leadership. You got it going on. So glad to be able to find you when I want to learn one.
I've been playing for about five years now, and still really struggle with being able to solo, but after watching this it was like something clicked and I just had my most successful jam session ever! Thanks Marty! You're the best!
Sometimes when I am randomly going through guitar lessons on UA-cam, I find these kinda smooth lessons that make me stop whatever I was doing at the moment, pick up the guitar and play. Thanks Marty :)
This is a great lesson. I don't get what's confusing people in the comments. Basically learn your pentatonic scales/shapes but make sure you know where the root is within the shape. I wish I'd had people giving me free stuff like this 30 years ago when I started playing.
What sucks is that some of us old school players have been doing this for years without even knowing it, or remembering when it "came" to us. If someone would have laid these basics out in the correct context back then, we all would have gotten a lot better, a lot faster.
Also, more beginners would have stuck with it instead of losing interest in what used to be a long drawn out learning process involving weekly lessons. Learning to master "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star when all we wanted to learn was the solo from Zeppelin's Stairway to heaven,,, Aaaugh!.
Nice job puttin' this stuff out there for all to see Marty. Here's to keeping real music (with real instruments) alive!
The internet is full of plenty of bad things, but it has some positive things too.
+common logic totally, i got into playing freestyle jams and stuff after I figured out that when you start out with and then land on the same sounding note you could just flow as long as you hit some of those certain notes. I never got any of this pentonic or even the names of the notes or strings but i could still jam out going up and down the scale that i didn't even fully understand
WiL Schafer
Yeah WiL, I would have traded my ex-wife for the internet 30 years ago!
I'd be a lot better player (and a bit richer too)! :)
hahaha awh shit man! but if you never had a wife you probably would have less inspiration to play the blues eh?
WiL Schafer
Truer words were never spoken!
This guy is hands down my favorite teacher on the tube. Thank you.
Swear to god no one better than Marty Fucking Schwartz
+Connor Richards F'kn A Brudda! He is the real deal...
me
+austin cutty i 2nd that
+austin cutty no
Ryan Bright awww darn it
I'm not even exaggerating, for all you people looking through the comments before the videos ended. My advise is definitely to watch to the end... It helps so much! Thanks Marty! :)
I apologize to you for making a somewhat mean comment to you a while back. I think I was just in a bad mood. You are a good guitar tutor and seem like a cool dude as well.
tim hitt No, from Idaho. Joe Blow from Idaho.
Man... that's great, ya don't see that much anymore.. especially on UA-cam. Happy 2015 everybody, keep on jammin'!!
*****
Nice to see you admit fault and apologize. I've done that a few times too here on youtube. It's humbling.
wowww, this is internet? lol, never seen this.. xD. Its nice to see some "humans" on the internet.
***** troll
this was one of the most valuable lessons for (me) out of all lessons on you tube to date. Thanks bro!
thank you, I'm a slow learner and will watch 10 more times.. Great lessons..
Been watching your videos for a little over 3 months now, started as a beginner. Leaps and bounds thanks to you! Thanks Marty! You are the man!
Very helpful lesson.....Just starting to learn my scales and the roots and various notes in them...so thank you Marty..I have purchased some of your videos and love them..
this a cool vid! I lost te use out of my pinky a few year back due to a rugby accident.
i got stuck play too much 3 finger pentatonic, comfortable mundaine crap!! Thanks for give me a good challenge again bro!!!!
Inspirational stuff I'm at work but I just want to get back to my guitar now,,,,,, cheers man:)
That makes sooo much sense! Deceptively simple, but enables you to find an anchor point wherever you are on the neck! Awesome! Thank you!
Such a basic lesson but oh so valuable. Marty you nailed it when you said knowing the roots is sooooo important than just knowing the shapes. Land on those roots to make good music. Thanks Marty !!
This is cool. The basic message is to stay on the A chord in every string at different positions and go the 5 steps of the scale from each A chord.
The octave notes form two different kinds of geometric triangles. take the A note 5th fret on 6th string(fat E string), go down two strings and up two frets, will give you the octave A note at the 7th fret D string. And obviously the A on the 1st string (thin E) 5th fret is an A note also. LOOK, those three A notes form a Triangle. Change the sixth string note to any note and follow the down two- over two and you know half the notes on the guitar without really memorizing them. From the 4th (D) string A note at the 7th, go down two more strings and over 3 frets and you have an A on the B string 10th fret. This is a pattern! if you try this with any note on the 6th string (E), say, the G note, and go down two stings over two frets, another G note (the octave), then from that note, down two more strings and over three frets, another G note. this note will tie to another pattern triangle. They are all the same notes every time. The fifth string A does this pattern the same way, Down 2 -over 2, then down 2 over 3. There are two different triangles that will tell you everywhere on the neck there is an A. See The video called "learn every note on the guitar in four easy steps". It shows this triangle and the other triangle needed to learn the other half of the notes. With these two triangles, you don't really need to memorize where the notes are just know were to go to make your triangle. This is how I learned (or at least know, without knowing, where to get the next octave note. I am still not super fast at finding them but I can find them without really knowing.
Love your stuff Marty, big fan. David
Just checked out the video you mentioned...Very handy and easy to understand...It really is just two kinds of triangle...Thanks for that.
***** Hey Gerald, I wrote some more on the subject of finding notes on the fret board to further explain my way of thinking. check out the links too.
That is strange
And great info
I remember watching similar lessons in the past and I realize now I just wasn't "ready" to learn them yet at the time and I would get confused. Watching this now makes soooo much more sense. Super helpful Marty - awesome and thank you!
Marty is the best teacher anyone has ever had bar none. Almost anytime I got frustrated trying to find it on my own,I knew all I had to do was see if Marty covered it for me,and 9 times out of 10. Yeah he did and made it understandable enough for a guy with 3 figures to be able to make it close enough and sometimes,not to crappy. Thanks Man !
Dude ur a great teacher 👍
Last week i literally just googled "fretboard layout on guitar" and i learned all the roots in like 2 days. Just remember guys you dont need to worry about anything higher than the 12th fret, because it is the same notes as everything before it. just learn the root notes up to the 11th fret and take it one fret at a time. dont even focus on sharps or minors, just the whole notes. write it down if you have to or get creative with it. for example the 7th fret is BEAD-B it is very easy to remember beause it makes a word. or on the 10th DGCFAD i just remember D Guitar Center For All D- and make fun abbreviations. good luck all
sharps or flats*
Yea, it's convenient. But I would say it's important to practice above the 12th fret too for various reasons. One being that the frets are narrower
Hooga Booga He meant learning root notes.
xMotoMitchx honestly bro your comment literally just made things about 10000 times more simplistic for me to understand! thank you so much!!
Damn this shit helped a LOT actually.
This lesson was a life saver, I just learned the pentatonic scale and this helped me so much, as you said, it's good to know this early well, I'm 14 and I've been playing for almost a year now without lessons, and I this has benefited me tremendously, and hopefully it will benefit me in the long run. Thanks Marty!.
You're videos open many doors for me as I continue to learn. Thanks you for sharing.
This video gave me a fucking breakthrough! thanks alot Marty!
Gotta love a break through!
Thank you Marty. For that advice
I am absolutely new to guitar, and having played keyboards in the past, I have yet to understand "where everything is" on the guitar, so *THIS* was the exact video I was looking for to START trying to make sense of it. Everybody learns differently I suppose, but I couldn't agree more, knowing those roots is key for me to really feel like I have some place to start, and I haven't seen anyone else suggesting this.. then again, I am pretty new, so maybe they have, I dunno... but whats important is, its first time I seen it and its helped me, so your message was well received on my end! Thanks!
Marty, never forget your roots. God knows I've never forgotten any of mine.
As usual you are bang on the juice with this one.
your lesson worth many Chinese pebble...you really are a rock dude!
@@lyles32386 huwwy up and play!!! Love my chinese peeps
I sincerely have no idea what is going on.
Go back to just the pentatonic scale lesson and watch that first! Then you'll understand this one more as it's a slightly more advanced!
Majyc
He's helping me
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learn the 5 shapes of the pentatonic major and minor scales starting with E & A. connecting licks by the root notes. start with 1st position memorizing each shape until 5th position, then start connecting your root notes up and down as shown here in this vid. It's all time and repetition, there's no other way around it. Print out a note chart of the fretboard to refer to during practice. You should be able to solo no problem once you get this down.
thanks for taking the time to post this easy to understand short lesson for free, it helped to tie some things together.
because of this video my guitar skills have become astronomically better!!! Thank you so much Marty! been watching all your lessons for some time now.
Played drums most of my life, just picked up a guitar for the first time a few weeks ago, and some of what you say I sort of understand, but most is like your speaking french, i'm only learning to help my son, who loves the guitar, and i can't afford lessons for him
If your son really loves guitar, then you shouldn't worry about instructing him. He'll learn on his own. but if you want to teach him, then i recommend knowing all the open chords, the barre chords or shapes, and the 5 shapes of the pentatonic scale. That should keep him busy for a couple of years...
There are 5 patterns for the pentatonic scale on the guitar. One can easily memorize those 5 patterns but to switch in between them it's important to know where the roots are on each string, and also where the roots are in the pattern itself. Knowing where the roots are helps you switch between different scale patterns easily, it also helps you know where to go when you end your melody. A melody that doesn't resolve on the root note sounds...well kinda unfinished.
Your sons got a dad to be proud of then. Couldn't afford lessons, so you learn to play the guitar yourself.. Sorry but that's fantastic haha. What a father. Hope your boy knows how lucky he is :)
How's he doing man?
I think I just had that moment where it all clicked for me. Weird stuff.
I’m sooo jealous :((
I picked up the guitar again after nearly 20 years leaving it lay in the case. I never could play much before, just plucking around. After about 2 weeks of watching you on youtube I am actually playing some mediocre leads. This lesson was super important in getting to this point!! Thank you Mr. Schwartz
I been playing a year and you helped me become a way better guitar player then I was. thanks man rock on
Lmfao dude you had me laughing so hard at 3:53 1, 2, 3 , 5 blahhhhh
Holy shit this completely blew my mind.
fella, this was really helpful. It's actually really fun, finding yourself in the middle of the neck and knowing what safe harbor (your root note) to hop over to.
This is one of the most helpful videos I have seen. Made soloing so much easier. Wow thanks Marty!
This helped, thanks
I keep watching your videos.but still having trouble learning the basics.
***** I'm not giving up. Just gets a little depressing when I try it makes an awful sound.
I'm trying
James Myers Don't give up! It's worth it! :D
Great teacher, great attitude, awesome person ...
Marty, thank you so much, i have been learning from you for the past 2 years... so i consider you my teacher, i have become really good, and its all thanks to you, i can express through an instrument now and not through destruction, So you have no idea how much you have helped, again thank you sooo freakin much!!!!!
I understand it all now after 20 years.Just like the Barre chords you understand all Barre chord positions if you know all notes on the neck,right?
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you guys have it made. in the early 70s we didnt have shit to teach us. You all can get in youtube learn black dog bend for bend in 45 mins tops. crap i would have killed for all these lessons back then. We just practiced all fucking day listing to first an album them thank God the cassett came out rewind city. Oh we saw all the major band live to watch them Lynard, led, ZZ, hell even alice. We saw them all. Steve Gaines one of the best i ever stood in front of and watched. Next morning he was dead. Greenville 3 rows back. He was left side facing stage Allen on right side. They rocked.
And don't forget when videos came out - not dvd or youtube but videos - we could then rewind them too until they wore out man ;-)
Yeh, kids these days have it made, but good for them - lucky bastards ha ha
Yeah but back then guitar players were appreciated and you had a better chance to become famous
Back in those days though, good guitarists were rare to come by because it was harder to learn. Now guitar players are a dime a dozen, since basically anyone can get a cheap guitar and then just look up a quick google search how to play a song. You can practically teach yourself how to be a guitar pro just by looking up scales on google images and memorizing them
there guitar lessons back then and books with notes
BlueMonster yeah but they weren't as common in music stores back then as they are now. You could really only get them if you lived in a big city
honestly... that was a GREAT FREAKING TIP. ive been playing guitar for 2 days after having given it up 15 years ago . i cant believe how helpful this is
marty you are a freaking legend. i have learned so much from you.
know your roots man know your heritage lol
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Fuck jerry
Soo funny!
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Thanks, Marty .. your efforts are appreciated.. At same time I''d like to contribute a comment ive heard others make, and im coming from the point of view of trying to be helpful: It very common for you in your fingering demonstrations , where you show the pattern and then destroy our trying to visualize it by you giving a virtuoso demo of your great skills.. Examples are easy to find, and the one at 4:02 in the above video pretty clearly shows what I'm talking about.. For 'we earthlings struggling ', we need time to visualize etc, and your flourish of fancy blues right after your mini-demo just FLUSHES our student minds .. causes confusion and frustrations. We *know* you are a master, and we're just not here to enjoy your very-capable performances: we're here for a singular purpose, and when you obliterate our perceptions of the 'lick at hand' , well: it's counter-productive. I have to say that this issue exists in nearly all of your presentations ... Why not make a vid just as a performance?! We'd enjoy that so much .. but performance is not necessarily 'good teaching'. Performance is measured by the qualities of the performer, while 'teaching' is measured by the 'effects on the student' .. I hope you take this in the 'helpful feedback spirit' in which I make this point , and thanks again for your continued efforts!
I disagree, i enjoy his extra little "flourishes" and in no way do they effect the teaching he had done just before >_>
MrGeary08 well we all have opinions .. i just stated mine ... i find it disconcerting.
You've made me a fan and a beliver..I take back what i said a few years ago.
About you not being a good teaher..i guess i was feeling overwhelmed on one of your lessons that day.
Thanks for the lesson, look forward to the others!🎸
Hi Marty, just got to say this is such a good lesson, I had just learnt the 5 shapes and I was "what the heck do I do now" but learning the position of the root notes opened it all up.
How do i find people to play with
Find out the key of any song and play the pentatonic scale in the same key.
ask people if they play an instrument
Look up a backing track in a key that matches the scale you want to use and play along with that. All the notes should sound good played with it.
Thanks for a great video lesson. One question, how to do other root notes, G, C, F, D, for example?
It would be helpful if you let your viewers know what prior knowledge required to understand what you are doing. All I am seeing is you are just moving up and down the guitar. You are explaining the concept to people who already got it.
U suck ricky
I just watched the tutorial without my guitar in front of me, however because of this lesson when I do pick it up to practice I will know for sure that you just opened a lifetime of knowledge to me in this 14:43 video
This is the easiest video I have seen so far explaining how this is done--I wish I could have seen it much earlier. Thank you
I usually find Marty's videos very useful and educational, but I do not get the message of this. What is the use of knowing where the root note is? And which root? why just A? Maybe "Artful Dodger" below made a comment that can help understand, but I still do not get it
Good questions. When you play a solo, it's important to hit the "roots" of a note at intervals. If you don't, usually it won't sound right. And he just used A as an example. You could find the root of any note A-G.
Nowing chord names scale names is good if you ever wanna play with a band. Why is it cool not to know what your doing on the guitar? Its not cool. It just plain idiotic.
If you're playing a solo over a song that has his root in A and you solo has a root in E it will sound like you're playing to the wrong song.. very simple really
Thanks to all for explaining, I am a beginner and never played with somebody else. C U
the point of knowing the root note.
is knowing in what key you are playing. lets say the key of G minor
when you play a solo over some chords in the key of G Minor
you want to play the notes of the G minor scale
this way you are playing the notes that fit in the song so the two parts will sound like they fit together. which they actually do hence it are the same notes.
the chords in a key are build up from notes from the matching scale;))
this knowledge is useful for playing in a band; and for jamming with a buddy/ for sing/songwriters
there is a lot more to it but this will be a good starting point.
you kina lost me. are you saying to just memorize the fretboard? and then how will I know what shapes to use when I know the roots? im just lost.:(
Memorize the minor pentatonic scale first and be able to play that anywhere. Then plug in the root notes like he does here
Cameron Allen ok cool I know the tried and true pentatonic scale, so I just have to plug in the root notes?
Yeah, that really helped me.
Cameron Allen thanks so much.
All of the notes revolving around the first note in the first position are the same in the other root positions, just find those roots and you're gravy
Hands down the best 14.43 minutes of advice I've ever gotten regarding music! I can't express my thanks to the fullest! But, heres one of at thousand - THANK YOU! :D
This is a great video. I have been learning the shapes for a while but couldnt figure out how to really link them all together. It was the roots!
Pentatonic has 5 notes, the same way that the pentagram has 5 points. Hail Satan!
Satan get you -- Hells Bells!
You do realize that a pentagram is used to WARD OFF evil..lol..
assuming you believe in worshipping something bad and evil..You might want to get rid of pentagrams...
+TheKroeterich got me ringin
Thanx brother! Exactly what I am working on and needed that little added structure for my brain to understand my ears! Love your lessons!
Super clear and extremely usable for self taught beginners!!!Congrats!!!
Very cool lesson Marty. I've been learning lead guitar for a little over 1 1/2 now. I have always just played rhythm. I have been using something a technique like this to help me , but you explained it in a really cool way. Thanks!!!!!! Keep Rockin!!!!!!!
Your guitar distracted me the whole video! It's beautiful😍!!! I'm not worthy!!!!
Great video! 👍 you are totally correct about musical concepts!👊 spot on man. You helped me out a lot this video.
Thank you for another fantastic tutorial Marty.. hopefully there's more to come. thx again.
Dude. Thank u! I always solo on the 5th fred position and all this time I couldn't find a way to sound different till I saw this video. Thanks so much Marty!
Nice concept. I have been playing for years but had never really specifically focused on the root notes in this way. Thanks for the lesson!
always such a amazing teacher Marty always explains it in such a great way so awesome you do these videos thanks so much its deeply appreciated thank you Marty
Get a blank guitar neck diagram to write out the notes on the guitar. you can print plenty of them from the internet, or draw one yourself. I filled in all the whole notes, (not the flats and sharps) those should become obvious, (if the space is blank on the fret or string, it is either sharp or flat note.) I have also studied the 5 patterns of the natural scale (The do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do scales) I have found that if you lay these patterns out on the fret board drawing that the BC and EF notes are stacked on top of each other, always, so say you go to the 6th string, B note(7th fret) C note(8th) you will find that the E and F are directly below the B and C respectively and anywhere else they show up on any string. the only exception is: If you find the B
Just come across this video and read the previous comment from "common logic" Absolute !! 60 years as a jazz chord guitarist busking the odd melody, crikey! now "the correct context", thankyou Sir for the video.
Marty, I swear to god, you post videos right in sync with where I am with my playing...outstanding as always, thank you!
Hey Marty. I really appreciate your style of teaching. Well done.
Marty I've been soloing around a little for a few months and never thought of this its really helpful bro.
Totally the best instruction, Marty. Thanks! You have made me a better guitar player!
I think this video is great. The A Minor scale with the repeating A, C, D, E and G notes is very useful for learning the fretboard. I googled up a page with the minor and major pentatonic scales then came over here for clarity. The C Major scale notes of C, D, E, G and A combined with the A Minor scales practiced while saying the notes as they're played seems like an ideal way to learn the fretboard with useful scale patterns that can go up, down, left and right.
I've been studying the CAGED system which opens up the keyboard.
Thank you so much marty, i have been playing dor 2 years and have really been working on solos and this helped a lot. Keep on jammin man!
Marty - Great advise. All of a sudden my licks are beginning to sound intermediate. This concept certainly helped develop my improvisation.
Brilliant lesson, Marty - very helpful.
Definitely one of the best online guitar teachers.Thank you!
Went from being frustrated at the slow pace of the video to being pretty amazed with how it all wrapped up, reeeeaally good stuff.
I said the same thing learning the note names is a game changer in guitar playing I have been playing 20+ years and that was the best thing I ever did and it makes it so easy to learn everything else on the guitar so much faster the modes make more sense when you learn the note names
Excellent lesson. Thank you Marty
Marty how are you not famous?! Seriously your knowledge of the guitar and skills to match are insane.
Nice job as always Marty! Thanks so much to you!
thanks marty! this technique makes perfect sense. alot of playing music is learning this stuff well enough to not have to focus on it when you play. you must internalize it so it becomes second nature. most people want short cuts but don't understand that even the short cuts require WORK. playing guitar or any instrument doesn't fit the 'fast food' mentality that is prevalent today. i dig what you do! don't stop.
Get the basics down and the creativity will flow-cool as always,ta mate.
U r a awesome guitar player..... I have learned a lot from you because really explain into details up and down the neck of the guitar and you really helped me a lot and I wish you all the luck
Thank you so much for this. I was practicing the pentatonic scale not know why tf and how tf this was going to help me with go up and down the fret but this ABSOLUTELY makes sense. THANK YOU!
Marty, great lesson and thanks to you for passing on your knowledge.
That is a very awesome and informative lesson. It's exactly what I'm trying to learn right now and my attempt to learn how to play lead guitar
Man...what an eye opener. Cant really think how to connect them notes until you show me.
Really important lesson. Thanks Marty
I usually have no idea how to implement certain techniques even though I know how to do a technique. Your videos help a lot
Thanks Marty you helped me get back to my roots...cheers man
dude that is one great lesson you've got there and thanks for all of them