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Dude, how are you not the most viewed guitar youtuber? Just watched a bunch of your videos and the way you explain plus add visuals is epic. Awesome work.
Ive been obsessing over guitar for almost a month now. This might just be the best channel Ive ran into. Several concepts that Ive struggled on, hes breezed me through.
The clarity and simplicity of how you explain and present your guitar lessons is simply brilliant! You are such an amazing teacher! Please continue sharing your guitar knowledge! Thanks a ton, you've just earned a subscriber!
I just really Appreciate that you get straight to the point- provide a high high quality of info and knowledge without the waffle the me me me stuff - so refreshing !!! you're the guitar DUDE!
Brother, I have been looking for someone to explain to me this concept for years. Every person I ask gives this convoluted half assed answer. I like you said in the beginning, I knew the pentatonic and caged and I knew yhey went with eachother, but anytime I’d ask someone, they would give me something that contradicted both concepts. Thank you so much, I’m going to watch this video about 8 more times and I think you have just broken my plateau
This is brilliant. An entire course in one video. Excellent graphics. Outstanding. I’m an advanced beginner and this ties together a lot of disparate pieces in my understanding. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Cant tell you how many video's I've watched on utilizing penatotnics and CAGED to its fullest, could easily shred through all 5 positions, and knew of the positions in each box, but this was the first video that actually clicked, and before the video ended I was playing all over the neck switching between major/minor keys with ease! Unbelievable video!!
The best solo tutorial. I watched myriad of solo tutorial, none of them shared the same method to do soloing. Practical and straightforward way to approach.
This is just perfect. I was trying to understand some music theory, but everything was so confusing until I found this videos. Thank you so much man. Keep up the good work!!
Bro, I have been looking for ages for a video like this. There's so many videos on CAGED and pentatonic scales but none really explained the connection between both. This video is a game changer!
I have spent today watching your content back to back and can’t thank you enough for clarity of your lesson. Today has been a real lightbulb moment for me, lots of things I didn’t understand have now fallen into place thanks to your clear visuals and plain waffle free approach. Brilliant stuff 👍👍 thank you👍👍
Love this! Why don't more people teach caged pentatonics? Instead we always see caged on top of the diatonic scale which only works for the one chord. Wish someone had showed me this 50 years ago.
hi Steve here in Sydney Australia thanks so much for the lessons on connecting all the boxes together i have been trying for ages to work out how all the boxes connect i can play them all but just really didn't know what i was doing or why ... You have solved all my problems .. now onwards and upwards !!!!! Awesome thanks ... Enjoy your day Cheers Steve
Epic video. Been looking around for a while for exactly this, as I see many musicians do exactly this, but no one explains it well. This vid is comprehensive and succinct. Thanks!!
Love your videos! I watched the video you did about how to find the key to a song, and I right away subscribed! I like your no nonsense, straight forward approach to showing the material, and demonstrating it all in action. Good job!
Love this Channel. Exactly what I was looking for to understand the fretboard better and integrate it into my practice. Short comprehensive and with visualization...
I always get confused by what scale to use. Finally a brilliant visual guide! Definitely the best lesson I've seen on this subject! So good to discover your channel. Thank you!!
Fantastic content, masterfully presented to gain musical understanding AND transfer it to the fretboard! No doubt, this is one of the very best channels (that I know) to develop as a guitar player! 👍
This channel is smoking hot🔥🔥🔥🔥. Thank you for your super awesome lessons, I don't need other channels anymore. 👏👏👏. You have answered, and easily so, all my questions about scales and caged chords
This is definitely the clearest explanation I’ve ever heard on this. I’m excited to try this with progressions progressions that use the ii and iii chord, as well as modal progressions like the “mixolydian vamp” and with Lydian and Dorian progressions. Do you have any videos of anything like that?
literally the best guitar channel on youtube so far . Please make more videos like these and a little in depth and long so it will be much easier for the beginner to implement stuff just as you explained in this video 🫶🏻
This may be the most important video I've ever viewed in my guitar journey. I've always been told to learn CAGED and the different scale positions, but never WHY, or what I could use them for. This video demonstrated both of those points in an extremely simple and easy to understand way. Thank you so much dude.
@@Samjamguitar Also, I have a question. You say to use position 1 of the major pentatonic for E shaped major barre chords, and position 4 of the major pentatonic for A shaped major barre chords. But in a chord progression, would this not change the key of the scale? For example, in the progression you did near the end, you went from G major E shaped barre chord to D major A shaped barre chord. If I were to follow what you've suggested in the video, the key of the scale off the first chord would be g major, but then the scale off of the 2nd chord would be D major. Is this what we want? Naturally I would imagine not, and that we'd want to stay in the key of G major and E minor?
@SlicedInThree you could use G major pentatonic over the entire progression. Changing positions based on individual CAGED chords may lead you to think you are changing key, however this is not the case here. I would encourage you to analyse what notes/intervals you are playing over each of these chords when using the CAGED method, you will find that we are very much still in key.
This is one of the difficult thing i find for myself. I can play Rhythm guitar, Solo guitar (Hellraiser), Bass,,, yet I can't play this style. Tnx for posting :)
Hello, Great Video series and very well presented in an easy to understand way. Watched this one couple of times, so ok,, combining major pentatonics of G,D,C and minor pentatonic of E... this would give us the G Major scale ? so can we use for example C dorian? or D myxolydian or any other "mode"..or perhaps Em pentatonic with an added C note ? thank you👍
Hi, thank you for sharing. What would you describe the type of effect coming out of your amp or sim when playing your demo segments here? I'm looking for a similar effect/tone.
Patreon member here! Working through this amazing video and stick on something. In your example chord progression at the end, you do both a 6th string G major and C major. What happens here because you can’t play position one of the major pentatonic scale in both places?
hi Keith! You would play G major pentatonic position 1 over the G chord and C major pentatonic position 1 over the C chord. remember that the CAGED shape determines the position you play! if you have watched my videos on the CAGED system for guitar then you will know that the correct order for CAGED chords is not CAGED but EDCAG i.e if you are using an E shaped chord then this would be position 1 - D shapes use position 2 - C shapes use position 3 - A shapes use position 4 and finally G shapes use position 5. so you simply need to identify which shape you are using to identify each chords corresponding pentatonic position. in the case of both the G and C chords in the last example that both use a sixth string root and are also both E shape chords, this would require you to use position 1 pentatonics over both also! hopefully that helps however if you need further assistance then drop a comment on my PATREON page and I would be happy to do a quick dedicated video to explain further!
hey sam! I really love your lessons, thank you! I had question about the last chord progression -- if you play G Major Position 1 (E Shape) and the corresponding G Major Pentatonic Position 1 over it, the finger barres the third fret for the chord but then the scale lands on the second fret for the third and fourth tones of the scale, so it kind of displaces the "overlapping" images I have in my head for the CAGED shapes fitting into the pentatonic shapes -- is this just something to keep in mind while learning the pentatonic scales and how it all fits together? thanks again!
Think of overlapping more as being within easy reach without shifting hand position....it's very normal for notes to fall outside of corresponding chords but you should see the chord shape within the scale easily!
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Dude, how are you not the most viewed guitar youtuber? Just watched a bunch of your videos and the way you explain plus add visuals is epic. Awesome work.
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Agreed wholeheartedly! Succinct presentation and great playing
Where was I lost all these years trying to learn music theory and concept. This is exactly what any guitarist need
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Yea. This is perfect. I’ve been noodling on guitar for 30 years and this is unlocking a lot of things.
Great to hear!
Ive been obsessing over guitar for almost a month now. This might just be the best channel Ive ran into. Several concepts that Ive struggled on, hes breezed me through.
Thanks!
The clarity and simplicity of how you explain and present your guitar lessons is simply brilliant! You are such an amazing teacher! Please continue sharing your guitar knowledge! Thanks a ton, you've just earned a subscriber!
You're very welcome! many thanks!
That was a year of lessons rolled up in an 8 minute video. Great job. Thanks
Much appreciated 👌
I just really Appreciate that you get straight to the point- provide a high high quality of info and knowledge without the waffle the me me me stuff - so refreshing !!!
you're the guitar DUDE!
Thanks Vee🎸🎸🎸
I agree Sam this is a great video, very concise and entertaining, thanks!!
Best teachers can make something reasonably complicated sound real easy. Nice one!
Cheers!
This plus fretboard science is absolutely life changing when it comes to understanding the fretboard. Thanks a ton!
Brother, I have been looking for someone to explain to me this concept for years. Every person I ask gives this convoluted half assed answer. I like you said in the beginning, I knew the pentatonic and caged and I knew yhey went with eachother, but anytime I’d ask someone, they would give me something that contradicted both concepts. Thank you so much, I’m going to watch this video about 8 more times and I think you have just broken my plateau
This is brilliant. An entire course in one video. Excellent graphics. Outstanding. I’m an advanced beginner and this ties together a lot of disparate pieces in my understanding. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Yup! You are the best- and I've tried em all!! Thanks SAMJAM
Cheers Vee🙂🙂
Cant tell you how many video's I've watched on utilizing penatotnics and CAGED to its fullest, could easily shred through all 5 positions, and knew of the positions in each box, but this was the first video that actually clicked, and before the video ended I was playing all over the neck switching between major/minor keys with ease! Unbelievable video!!
Awesome cheers 👌
These will soon be the most viewed and most valuable guitar lessons on the internet. Best I've ever seen. Great stuff
Glad you think so!
The best solo tutorial. I watched myriad of solo tutorial, none of them shared the same method to do soloing. Practical and straightforward way to approach.
Thanks!
This is just perfect. I was trying to understand some music theory, but everything was so confusing until I found this videos. Thank you so much man. Keep up the good work!!
Brilliant thanks!!
Bro, I have been looking for ages for a video like this. There's so many videos on CAGED and pentatonic scales but none really explained the connection between both. This video is a game changer!
Glad you think so! Feel free to share it around! Also check out the rest of my channel! I'm sure you will find many more lessons that will help you👌
I have learnt so much from this channel. It’s mind boggling that this channel doesn’t have more subs and views
Thanks! These things take time... I'm in no rush👌
I have needed this video for at least the past year. You are amazing!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome, so much info packed in one video. Thanks a lot !
Glad it was helpful!
So solid information! Simple yet so effective in improvising guitar fills. Thank you so much and more power. God bless!
Thanks!
This will keep me busy now I can understand it Thanks
Great Andy 👍 if you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments section 🙂
Awesome.. you just pulled so much together... makes all the pieces fit!!
Best explanation of the Caged system I've seen yet it makes a lot of sense
Cheers!
Appreciate the clear visuals 👏 really enjoy listening and watching the clips of you playing the guitar 🎸 thanks SamJamGuitar! 😊
Thanks Alda20 👍👍👍
Thanks for putting the major and minor fretboards side by side.
hands down best guitar tutorial i've seen tysm
Wow, thanks!
You are the best teacher I've found.
Clear and concise explanation Sam. Great visuals and examples.
Thanks Jimmy A 👍Much appreciated
I have spent today watching your content back to back and can’t thank you enough for clarity of your lesson. Today has been a real lightbulb moment for me, lots of things I didn’t understand have now fallen into place thanks to your clear visuals and plain waffle free approach. Brilliant stuff 👍👍 thank you👍👍
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If i saw this 1 year ago i would say - black magic. Now i see well done tutorial which nicely gets things together.
Fantastic glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for the lesson. I can't afford a person face to face lesson and this really helps. I really appreciated it.
You're very welcome!
Its so cool when I learn actual new things on the guitar. Thanks . This is one of the best channels for guitar I've ever come across
Wow, thanks!
First viewer so far😊
You inspired me a lot bro🙏
Thank you so much 😀
Best lesson on the subject. Hands down.
Thanks! Feel free to share it around👌
Love this! Why don't more people teach caged pentatonics? Instead we always see caged on top of the diatonic scale which only works for the one chord. Wish someone had showed me this 50 years ago.
hi Steve here in Sydney Australia thanks so much for the lessons on connecting all the boxes together i have been trying for ages to work out how all the boxes connect i can play them all but just really didn't know what i was doing or why ... You have solved all my problems .. now onwards and upwards !!!!! Awesome thanks ... Enjoy your day Cheers Steve
Glad to help Steve! Enjoy your day also👌
man thx so much!! thats the best video on youtube!
Thanks Chodi! Feel free to share it about👍 and check out the rest of my channel for similar content 🙂
Certainly is!
This is probably the most useful guitar video I've ever watched. 😍
Thanks 👌
Epic video. Been looking around for a while for exactly this, as I see many musicians do exactly this, but no one explains it well. This vid is comprehensive and succinct. Thanks!!
Glad I could help!
Totally random I came across this channel and you’ve just turned on the light bulb 💡!! Thank u so much mate
Hey! No probs 👌 glad my videos are helping!
Outstanding graphics and diagrams!
Many thanks!
Can’t believe I just discovered your channel. Nice to see a fellow Brit making great guitar content. Subscribed. 🇬🇧
Welcome aboard!
Nice work, Sam. A ton of info in a short time span. You rock!
Hi Pat👋 Thank you very much 👍
Couldn't have said it better!
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so clear and easy to follow, best guitar theory lesson on UA-cam !!!
What a great lesson, it really brings things into clarity. Thanks so much.
You're very welcome!
😎👍👍👍wow I'm sharing all this with my Band, fills in all the gaps from just learning by ear! Your channel rocks!
Thanks!
Short, Effective,
Dude, your video is just Brilliant!
Thank you!
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Love your videos! I watched the video you did about how to find the key to a song, and I right away subscribed! I like your no nonsense, straight forward approach to showing the material, and demonstrating it all in action. Good job!
Brilliant thanks! Very much appreciated 👌
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Nice lesson. Love the tone of the guitar.
Thanks!
Love this Channel. Exactly what I was looking for to understand the fretboard better and integrate it into my practice. Short comprehensive and with visualization...
Great to hear! thanks!
Trey Anastasio is brilliant at mixing rhythm and lead.
This must be viewed of many guitar tutorials! 🎉🎉
Thanks!
Thanks Sam for the well structured lesson. Of course it needs a lot of patience, dedication and practice. To get to where one wants to get.
My pleasure!
I always get confused by what scale to use. Finally a brilliant visual guide! Definitely the best lesson I've seen on this subject! So good to discover your channel. Thank you!!
Straight forward and practical explanation. You’ve certainly gained a sub.
Thanks!
Thank you for this great video! You inspired me to look at fretboard from new perspective.
That's great! Feel free to check out the rest of my videos...hopefully they will have the same effect!
Always wondered how that worked, thanks bro!!
Any time!
What a wonderful explanation, u just answered a lot of questions I had
Great! glad to help!
Fantastic content, masterfully presented to gain musical understanding AND transfer it to the fretboard! No doubt, this is one of the very best channels (that I know) to develop as a guitar player! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
AMAZING lesson! Thank you! Subscribed.
Thanks! Welcome aboard👌
This channel is smoking hot🔥🔥🔥🔥. Thank you for your super awesome lessons, I don't need other channels anymore. 👏👏👏. You have answered, and easily so, all my questions about scales and caged chords
Hey Ray! Thank you!! it's much appreciated! feel free to hit the notification bell🔔 so you don't miss any uploads👍 got one ready to go now!
I'm very impressed by this short lesson. Excellent graphics as well
Thanks Nigel!
This is definitely the clearest explanation I’ve ever heard on this. I’m excited to try this with progressions progressions that use the ii and iii chord, as well as modal progressions like the “mixolydian vamp” and with Lydian and Dorian progressions. Do you have any videos of anything like that?
I am currently working on a very detailed and comprehensive MODES lesson! So turn on all notifications so you don't miss out!
I love that you visiual the fretboard!!!!
Thanks!
Awesome! Happy I found you!!
Likewise! Thanks for watching!
I understand on how I can apply pentatonic to chords thank you bro
No problem!
literally the best guitar channel on youtube so far . Please make more videos like these and a little in depth and long so it will be much easier for the beginner to implement stuff just as you explained in this video 🫶🏻
Thanks, will do!
Thanks for this, a bit short but very informative video.
Thanks!
This may be the most important video I've ever viewed in my guitar journey. I've always been told to learn CAGED and the different scale positions, but never WHY, or what I could use them for. This video demonstrated both of those points in an extremely simple and easy to understand way. Thank you so much dude.
No probs! I think you will find the rest of my videos very helpful also👌
@@Samjamguitar Also, I have a question. You say to use position 1 of the major pentatonic for E shaped major barre chords, and position 4 of the major pentatonic for A shaped major barre chords. But in a chord progression, would this not change the key of the scale? For example, in the progression you did near the end, you went from G major E shaped barre chord to D major A shaped barre chord. If I were to follow what you've suggested in the video, the key of the scale off the first chord would be g major, but then the scale off of the 2nd chord would be D major. Is this what we want? Naturally I would imagine not, and that we'd want to stay in the key of G major and E minor?
@SlicedInThree you could use G major pentatonic over the entire progression. Changing positions based on individual CAGED chords may lead you to think you are changing key, however this is not the case here. I would encourage you to analyse what notes/intervals you are playing over each of these chords when using the CAGED method, you will find that we are very much still in key.
Amazing lesson thanks sam 😎👍🏻
Glad you liked it!
subscribed and liked and loved all your videos.! I was stuck and been playing chords with capo for 10 years...still feel like a beginner.,
Excellent lesson fren 👍💯🎸
Many thanks!!
This is one of the difficult thing i find for myself. I can play Rhythm guitar, Solo guitar (Hellraiser), Bass,,, yet I can't play this style. Tnx for posting :)
This is an excellent lesson
Thanks!!
This was sooo helpful thank you very much 👍🏻
No worries 👍
This is pure gold! Thx
Cheers!
Revolutionary video for me thanks bro!
Glad you enjoyed it... check out my other videos also! You may find quite a few more lessons that really help you out👍
Top tier lesson.
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Great lesson🙏
Cheers👌
Thanks for watching!
Best channel ever
Thanks!!
Thank you brother. God bless
These lessons are gold, this sounds like the same guy from fretjam guitar. I could be wrong.
Not the same!
Hello, Great Video series and very well presented in an easy to understand way. Watched this one couple of times, so ok,, combining major pentatonics of G,D,C and minor pentatonic of E... this would give us the G Major scale ? so can we use for example C dorian? or D myxolydian or any other "mode"..or perhaps Em pentatonic with an added C note ? thank you👍
Best visuals man
Cheers!
Cheers pal!
Great explanation. The penny just dropped I have some work to do now. Cheers
Brilliant! Glad I could help! Feel free to browse my other lessons and if you haven't already hit the NOTICATION BELL 🔔👍👍
Yes brilliant video Thankyou
Glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant! Thanks!
Hi John! Thanks and your welcome 👍
Hi, thank you for sharing. What would you describe the type of effect coming out of your amp or sim when playing your demo segments here? I'm looking for a similar effect/tone.
Patreon member here! Working through this amazing video and stick on something. In your example chord progression at the end, you do both a 6th string G major and C major. What happens here because you can’t play position one of the major pentatonic scale in both places?
hi Keith! You would play G major pentatonic position 1 over the G chord and C major pentatonic position 1 over the C chord. remember that the CAGED shape determines the position you play! if you have watched my videos on the CAGED system for guitar then you will know that the correct order for CAGED chords is not CAGED but EDCAG i.e if you are using an E shaped chord then this would be position 1 - D shapes use position 2 - C shapes use position 3 - A shapes use position 4 and finally G shapes use position 5. so you simply need to identify which shape you are using to identify each chords corresponding pentatonic position. in the case of both the G and C chords in the last example that both use a sixth string root and are also both E shape chords, this would require you to use position 1 pentatonics over both also! hopefully that helps however if you need further assistance then drop a comment on my PATREON page and I would be happy to do a quick dedicated video to explain further!
Could you please make another video like this? A part 2?? Please!!❤
What would you like to be included in a 2nd part?
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Fantastic! 👏👍🙏
Thanks!
hey sam! I really love your lessons, thank you! I had question about the last chord progression -- if you play G Major Position 1 (E Shape) and the corresponding G Major Pentatonic Position 1 over it, the finger barres the third fret for the chord but then the scale lands on the second fret for the third and fourth tones of the scale, so it kind of displaces the "overlapping" images I have in my head for the CAGED shapes fitting into the pentatonic shapes -- is this just something to keep in mind while learning the pentatonic scales and how it all fits together? thanks again!
Think of overlapping more as being within easy reach without shifting hand position....it's very normal for notes to fall outside of corresponding chords but you should see the chord shape within the scale easily!
Great video bro
Appreciate it!
This is great!
Hey Juan FM Thanks! feel free to share it around👍
great lesson
Cheers👍
Cool lesson!
Cheers 👌