Holy cow - THANK YOU! My instructor has used the "five shapes" (CAGED more or less) as the foundation for learning to navigate the fretboard but it has never really clicked with me as a way to understand "where you can go". The method you've illustrated in these videos is so much more intuitive to me! By limiting the "shape" to ONLY the scale (octave shape and the notes in-between) it sets a very understandable navigation system for moving that shape system up and down the fretboard by memorizing the relationships between the octaves/root notes. Even though you haven't yet explicitly touched on it here, I can now also see how learning the "standard" interval "positions" within each of these shapes would allow you to combine the two systems to play pretty much anything, anywhere on the neck! It's like "seeing the matrix" for me in a way the "five shapes" has never been... THANK YOU!
The method you've shown in these videos is so much more intuitive for me than the five CAGED shapes! By limiting the "shape" to ONLY one scale (ONE octave/shape and only the notes in-between) it sets a very understandable and repeatable navigation system for moving up and down the fretboard. I can now also see how this and learning the interval "positions" WITHIN these shapes would allow you to combine the two systems to play pretty much anything, anywhere on the neck - it's like "seeing the matrix" for me! THANK YOU!
As a beginner this is one of the absolute best instructional videos I have found on all of youtube -- just a great idea around developing a theme and then practicing those themes and riffs all over the fret board.
What an amazing guitar player. Great simplistic teaching. Adrienne, you are awesome! Thank you for all you do and keeping it understandable without rambling on about pentatonic scales! Subscriber right here!
Adrian - your lessons are great and much appreciated. I've learned so much from your videos - across the pond here in the United States of Texas. Keep the videos coming!!
after years of being stuck in the basic pentatonic up and down scale and struggling to remember the "5 boxes" as some charts have them called ,your video just clicked a bit. i couldnt "get" how to use them... but with this octave shape video it is starting to make sense . now back to practice.... ( i need a lot) ...lol
This lesson was so obvious - so why did I never realise it all before? Great lesson. That's given me about 3 months of hard work to do, to get this all intuitive.
Very helpful, as usual. And practical, as far as immediately applying various licks where they belong. I've learned CAGED about four times and still have to spend a minute or two thinking about it before I commit to a scale pattern or a chord. This is downright handy. Thanks for making it work......
Light bulb moment. I just realized that the first octave(R,b3,4,5,b7,R) position in the first pentatonic scale position is with in all the other positions, accounting for the B string when you start at the root note. Thanks this lesson helped me a lot.
Adrian, this is great because phrasing is my achille's heel. I have good technique and speed, but improvising nice melodies doesn't come easy and what comes out is, unfortunately, repetitive and reliant on scales. Any possibility you would do a lesson on target notes for advanced guitarists?
BTW, you have the best approach in teaching guitar in YT. It's patient, to the point and not bogged down in theory-speak. Nice job. Keep it up. Greetings from Connecticut, USA!
Surely your target note is always the root note of the scale? As long as you resolve to the target every so often then you can noodle away to your heart's content? I don't know the names of a lot of scales but as long as I have a basic scale I know then I just improvise around it and just listen to what sounds good. If it goes way off then I just go back to the basic scale and start again. Check out Mark Ribot for someone who loves dissonance but always takes it back home just in time.
really good, nice 1. always the b that u have to compensate for. annoyed me for years! if only i could get a compensated nut so they're all the same, heee. love your mystery train rockabilly stuff. cool mate.
Brilliant. Lick freedom in the pentatonic scale. Practice that one a ton. You mentioned other scales. Would that be applicable to jazz and playing over standards?
Holy cow - THANK YOU! My instructor has used the "five shapes" (CAGED more or less) as the foundation for learning to navigate the fretboard but it has never really clicked with me as a way to understand "where you can go". The method you've illustrated in these videos is so much more intuitive to me! By limiting the "shape" to ONLY the scale (octave shape and the notes in-between) it sets a very understandable navigation system for moving that shape system up and down the fretboard by memorizing the relationships between the octaves/root notes. Even though you haven't yet explicitly touched on it here, I can now also see how learning the "standard" interval "positions" within each of these shapes would allow you to combine the two systems to play pretty much anything, anywhere on the neck! It's like "seeing the matrix" for me in a way the "five shapes" has never been... THANK YOU!
The method you've shown in these videos is so much more intuitive for me than the five CAGED shapes! By limiting the "shape" to ONLY one scale (ONE octave/shape and only the notes in-between) it sets a very understandable and repeatable navigation system for moving up and down the fretboard. I can now also see how this and learning the interval "positions" WITHIN these shapes would allow you to combine the two systems to play pretty much anything, anywhere on the neck - it's like "seeing the matrix" for me! THANK YOU!
As a beginner this is one of the absolute best instructional videos I have found on all of youtube -- just a great idea around developing a theme and then practicing those themes and riffs all over the fret board.
Thank you!
Loving the channel
Thanks for that. Finally, a simply brilliant breakdown. Awesome Adrian. My skills have really taken off. All the best!
What an amazing guitar player. Great simplistic teaching. Adrienne, you are awesome! Thank you for all you do and keeping it understandable without rambling on about pentatonic scales! Subscriber right here!
A very unique approach and well presented. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Really useful lesson thankyou.
Adrian - your lessons are great and much appreciated. I've learned so much from your videos - across the pond here in the United States of Texas. Keep the videos coming!!
Such a great lesson man. Really opens things up a bit for me. Very cool
Adrian, your only a young chap, but you have a wonderful mastery of the guitar, great to see, Many thanks.
after years of being stuck in the basic pentatonic up and down scale and struggling to remember the "5 boxes" as some charts have them called ,your video just clicked a bit. i couldnt "get" how to use them... but with this octave shape video it is starting to make sense . now back to practice.... ( i need a lot) ...lol
This lesson was so obvious - so why did I never realise it all before? Great lesson. That's given me about 3 months of hard work to do, to get this all intuitive.
Very helpful, as usual. And practical, as far as immediately applying various licks where they belong. I've learned CAGED about four times and still have to spend a minute or two thinking about it before I commit to a scale pattern or a chord. This is downright handy. Thanks for making it work......
Great stuff brother. Keep it rollin!
Excellent lesson thanks. That's really helped. More of the good work please. Well explained . Thank you
Really useful lesson - thank you
Man. This is some music theory that's actually useful for the guitar. Thanks for posting. I've got more stuff to practice now.
Thanks Adrian fr another great lesson
Excellent. Thank you for helping me move out of the same old box.
I like that sound - towards end of video, starting on the fifth.( and using the flat 5)
This just opened a whole new way of playing for me. Thanks Adrian..Cheers.
That's good to hear, glad you found the video useful.
Brilliantly simple. Ans simply brilliant.
Thanks enjoy your videos are informativeness useful and beneficial. Thank you
I will be working on this set of lessons!
Great lesson! Super useful.
Brilliant lessons - You are a star !!!
This is great! Thank you Adrian!
Very helpful, Adrian. Thank so much for this.
Happy New Year, Adrian. You’re one of the good guys. Look forward to that follow-up vid.
great lesson keep em coming
After 10 years of wanting to lean lead guitar, something just clicked, love it
Thanks
That's good to hear Andy. Glad you got something out of this video.
Fantastic guitarist, Thank you very much,
Thanks a lot Robert.
Your getting some serious boom out of the Fender Champ!
You helped me a lot...Thanks!
Great lesson
Thx
im obsessed with you. You are so special
Thank you very much.
Light bulb moment. I just realized that the first octave(R,b3,4,5,b7,R) position in the first pentatonic scale position is with in all the other positions, accounting for the B string when you start at the root note. Thanks this lesson helped me a lot.
You got it! Glad this helped.
mind blown..... thats it... thanks mate....
Good one!
Hello teacher. Could you explain how to apply that method to a complex song? (giant steps for example)
nice work mate all great stuff
Thank-you mate!
awesome...thank you very much....
Adrian, this is great because phrasing is my achille's heel. I have good technique and speed, but improvising nice melodies doesn't come easy and what comes out is, unfortunately, repetitive and reliant on scales. Any possibility you would do a lesson on target notes for advanced guitarists?
BTW, you have the best approach in teaching guitar in YT. It's patient, to the point and not bogged down in theory-speak. Nice job. Keep it up. Greetings from Connecticut, USA!
Surely your target note is always the root note of the scale? As long as you resolve to the target every so often then you can noodle away to your heart's content? I don't know the names of a lot of scales but as long as I have a basic scale I know then I just improvise around it and just listen to what sounds good. If it goes way off then I just go back to the basic scale and start again. Check out Mark Ribot for someone who loves dissonance but always takes it back home just in time.
really good, nice 1.
always the b that u have to compensate for.
annoyed me for years! if only i could get a compensated nut
so they're all the same, heee.
love your mystery train rockabilly stuff. cool mate.
What brand is your sweater? I like it lol
Thank you :)
Brilliant. Lick freedom in the pentatonic scale. Practice that one a ton. You mentioned other scales. Would that be applicable to jazz and playing over standards?
Which amp do u use dude
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Amazeballs
Adrienne, I have that amp. it won't "sound",,tubes are lit , ever had that happen.
Not sure what the problem is, I'm no amp tech. Mine's been pretty reliable, but does need servicing every so often. Sure it's nothing serious.
Midnight Raiin try to insert a jack into the headphone connector, in and out, 2 or 3 times in a row.
Great lesson thank you