Fastest way to nail the pentatonic scale shapes 1 to 5
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- Hi, Please take the time to listen to the instructions for learning the accelerated way to learn and memorise the 5 Pentatonic positions. Or jump to 6 mins (ish) to watch and learn the 5 shapes. FREE PDF for this lesson at www.guitarjammingtracks.com Remember to take your time and play each scale in turn.
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great job
I am a 57 year old guitar player who has played for 30 years by ear. Only a strummer. Well I finally decided it's time to get better and learn some lead. I have watched several videos on Pentatonic scales and their usage. This was by far the easiest to understand!!
Thanks
Andy
Andy Hiskett Brilliant. Glad to be of service to you 👍🏼
Andy Hiskett Me too mate I'm 67 and like you plonked since I was 15 , now retired and bought first electric, (Fender Strat) it's a whole new ballgame now for me, I hope I stick with it, best of Luck with your playing mate.
Hi Andy and Terry, great to see other mature guitarists here! I'm 52. Just stumbled upon this video. Pretty awesome. I'm a jazz rhythm guitarist like Freddy Green, so yeah, just chords for years and years, but lately I've been getting into the blues and thought it’s about time to learn scales. LOL. Better late than never. Well, nice meeting you guys! Good luck to you both.
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Thanks for that B.J.C. I'm struggling along with it and some days I flow better than others, wish I'd have learned yrs ago , if I could be only half as good as the likes of Robert Johnson and B.B. I'll die happily, Ha! Keep "Motivated" is key I think, good Luck BLIND JACK.
Hi Terry! Half as good as Robert or BB? Heck, I'd die happy if I could become only 1% as good. But yeah, I dig where you're coming from, brother. Stay motivated. Consistency is the key. Play EVERY day, even if it's only 10 minutes!!! Good luck👍☺👍
One thing I did notice about his scale form that is extremely helpful is the positioning of the actual diagrams on the paper. If you notice, the bottom of one scale becomes the top of another so they pretty blend into one another. Guess it's time to bear down and start learning scales. It almost certainly has to help with dexterity going from string to string.
Thats bc both the top and bottom strings are E STRINGS SO THEY WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE EXACT SAME NOTES AS EACH OTHER!
I agree with Toby. Best explanation Ive seen. And showing the progression how they all link makes it easy to remember. Thanks man!!!
JonMarc22 awesome thank you
By far the best approach I've seen in teaching the 5 positions. To overlay them diagonally in individual boxes takes the confusion out of the picture. Well done, Danny.
+Mrwill2kill Thanks to my old guitar teacher (Dave Kilminster) for showing me the ways!! Makes it so easy to understand! Visualize and embed with ease!!
Yeah, exactly.
+Nick kourletis These are the main ones and in all honesty the only ones you will need to know to be able to play extremely well with variety. There are other pent scales and Majors etc but stick with these and you wont go far wrong...
I agree
Really clear - brilliant pdf's on your site. Thank you greatly to you and your hat!
People seem to like the silly hat.... Thanks for the comment and for learning with me..
Damn man, the website is a virtual fountain of knowledge, and its free. Thanks so much for sharing it. 👍👍👍
Thank you, I had to come back to this video after practing and watching videos for a few months and this makes so much more sense now!
In a world of selfishness and I don't cares, thanks for your time and effort in posting this. This has been a big help.
Brilliant. Very good. Thanks for doing this. Well done.
Agreed! concise, enjoyable and easy to follow.
This is by far the best video lesson on scales I have ever seen, it's so understandable. Thank you for your insights.
Thank you so much. Like the guys below, I've been a chord player for decades of a dubious skill level, over the past few months upgraded my acoustic, then bought my first SG. Now have amps in almost every room and making a determined effort to actually understanding music. Even went to lessons although I detest country and learning by rote. This is a great help in stitching what I've learnt together. Downloaded the pdf's and bookmarked your page.
Whole heartedly agree with this method of learning the shapes...The most effective way to learn is visualising.
Yup yep! Works well for me..
...and then practice, practice practice! Visualizing is the first step, but muscle memory helps to eliminate the need to memorize everything.
Danny Page no
No what??
Yes..and the most effective way to learn how to paint is to listening to your canvas.
Awesome lesson! Thank you for the free PDF's, this has helped out so much! We all here agree on that. Great job!
Cool cool Thank you
@@DannyPage teach me plz
Thanks for these 5 pentatonic forms! I started playing electric guitar 35 years ago and I pretty much ate, drank and breathed guitar for hours a day. Got really good and was onstage with a band in two years. I eventually stopped playing because of work and family obligations and sold all of equipment. Now 20 years later I bought all new equipment and I'm getting my "chops" back quickly but need refreshers like this. Thanks brother!!
Thank you buddy for taking the time to provide this video. I loved it. Can't wait to look at it again and start to apply some of those principles. Thanks again!
Its awesome. I really love it the way you teaching,
Thanks for that
FINALLY!! Someone who explains these scales and I can actually get it! Thank you so much!
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching the video.
This was the best!
can you explain what is these 5 shapes? i know what a pentatonic scale is(just 5 certain notes of a scale). but what is these 5 form?why do we need 5?
Started playing 3 months ago at 59. Just so clear and easy to pick up.Great job Danny, TQVM..hope to see more of your videos after I practise enough as per your advise..Hope you still teaching..highly recommendable.
Hey. Yeah still playing and teaching bits. Pleased to hear you have benefited from the video
Thanks Danny. I could never remember everything but with the interlink it is much more clear. I think I can handle it now. Great job.
Excellent...your PDF diagrams are first class. Thank you...
Thanks you :-)
Danny, Thanks for the great charts and lesson.My printout of the pentatonic patterns is dog-eared and abused. I refer to them all the time and include the patterns in each of my practice sessions. I move them around the fretboard as they are translatable to any key. (reference the low E string). Pattern 5 (key of A) is tough on an acoustic, but moving it to the 3rd & 5th frets works well.. and actually underscores the portability of the sequence. One of the best lessons for a new guitar player. Many Thanks!
THANK YOU ! Visualization really works !
I now know all 5 shapes in no time .
Thank you .
NJ , USA
Thank you! I'm completely new to guitar and this is the only video of the many I have watched where it's now become clear and understandable to me.
Thats cool...thank you.
ive been struggling with scales for the 18 months that ive been playing.....in an hour or so of doing this i had all 5 shapes up and down the neck.....great stuff danny, much appreciated
don't know how it is done. Confusing.
That's gold. I just learned the 5 positions from your chart. I've tried to learn from someone else's video a long time ago but I gave up. But this time it came easy. Thanks man. Good upload!
biblical giants Brilliant. Nice work. Please share the video on you social media platforms. Really cool comment. Thanks.
Excellent lesson, I bought the cd of tracks and thank you for the print outs, this is the way for me to learn this essential material. I had parts but not the rock solid grasp I needed. Lots of great stuff on your site, very helpful for me.
Youve made more sense than any vid iv watched as a beginner in the last year excellent thankyou 😊👍🏻
To save being bored play them with one of the million backing tracks available on you tube.
Great idea
Good idea
Wow been working on this for months and found your page and got it down in 20 minutes thank you where have you been!!!!
Brilliant. Thats what its for... Great work my friend
You are awesome bro! This is the first time I actually watched a video that breaks it down perfectly, unlike other people who show something but don't explain the theory and techniques and they treat the knowledge like a secret that they shouldn't share but we are lucky to just get a taste so we should be thankful for getting that much!
Thankyou so much brother!
Well played Danny! Never seen it explained so well before.
You sure make it so easy!!! I can't wait to learn the rest of what you have to offer! This is my wife's post site. You'er the MAN!!!!!
Hey thanks, More lessons will be coming in good time... Keep checking back or like facebook fro recent updates of things going on. Thanks again!
Finally someone who teachers slowly thanks lots for your help. Michael from Australia
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Good man. Gives us free downloads without registration. Thank you Danny.
Great lesson! learned more in the last two days practicing than the last six months trying too learn all these scales. Thanks.
Fanstastic Cool Thanks
60 year old acoustic bedroom basher ...just bought my first electric (fender mustang)...loving the new sounds and direction opportunities...ty @Danny Page for the free downloads
Thank you.
I LOVE your diagram! It's brilliant! In a flash the whole 5 position concept became clear!
DucksDeLucks That's it! Keep practicing them and it will be near on impossible to forget.
same here 🎸😎
Thank you so much!!!
I have been struggling so much with this! I have been watching videos that do not help me, THEN BOOM! I run into your video and I am a master at it! Thank you!! :D
Very nicely organized... great way to visualize and memorize! Thanks!
Works nearly every time..
This helped me out a lot. Thanks for giving your time to help.
No worries.. Thanks for learning..
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best explanation I have seen! thank you!
Cool Thank you
true!
You're spot on in your unorthodox teaching/ learning method. Thanks
Thank you very much Danny, my first entry into the world of pentatonic scales, and you made it look easy!
Bro do you have any Idea how much you have helped me? Like man, I was in a solo rut where I couldn't get out of a fucking box for example I would only play in the 5'th and 17'th fret box to solo because I didn't know how to get out of it, and now that you showed me these 5 positions and how they link together just fucking helped me out so much! Like I can express myself so much more and its so beautiful... Other people that I have watched didn't seem to show it the way you showed it. Fuck man I really cant thank you enough :(
+Ross Linden Ah man thank you for such a cool comment. Its definitely the best way to nail those buggers huh!! I guess a way to return the favour (as such) would be to share the videos where you think best, that would be cool. Again though, thanks for using the vids I post. Cheers dude. Danny
Danny Page Gave your channel to a couple of my guitarist friends. Hopefully they subscribe :D
Those PDFs that you have provided are really well laid out and easy to understand. Must have taken you a while and the fact that you provided them for free is massively generous! Subscribed and thanks very much :-).
Ah thank you for saying so. It’s not a problem and I’m pleased people are using them and understanding them well. Have fun. 👍🏼
Where are the Pdfs, please? I didn't find anything on the website.
Sachendra M. In the lessons and download page. ‘Click through’ button.
Brilliant! Thanks so much for the PDFs and have a great month
Thanks for the video. Very useful info. Can’t wait to learn and use these scales.
Click! Paradigm shift! The one I was waiting for so many years! I was locked into the first pattern Am pentatonic type playing for 20 years, with a little bit of break-outs into the BB-King box. The glory moment was when I saw that BB King box in the 2nd pattern, and especially the formation above, those additional semi-tones, and my solo'ing sounds finally in-tune! The rest of the patterns just make so much sense and I got all of them down in one morning, in 3 hours. It's all coming together now, the pieces are finally glued. I can't thank you enough. It's something about the way you explained how to approach and memorize it and that magic PDF! I will share your video as much as possible! Thanks again!
Ah brilliant. Thats a great comment thank you. If it wasn't for my guitar teacher Dave Kilminster showing me a brief version of this I would not have nailed then so fast! Thank you again!
Beautifully explained Danny and youve clearly put a lot of work into this. I just wish that CZcams and this video had been around when I was learning.
Excellent way of visualizing the shapes and connect them up and down the neck!
Thanks Danny!
No worries! Thank for learning...
Man i have been learning guitar this way for years i just though it was wierd visulizing first but it does work nice to know im not only one
Yep the concept is a little strange at first, but it really does make sense very quickly, for the majority! 👍🏼
Just wanted to say a huuuge thank you! Saw this video a couple of years ago when I was younger, got bored and quit at 2 shapes .... Got the motivation and finished all 5 in one day and I feel great!!!
You're a blessing man! Thank you so much! Much love from India😊💕🇮🇳
Ah mate. That’s cool. Thanks for sharing the comment. Hope you continue to use them well. Check out the lick Friday series if you get stuck. ✌️
Awesome video. Easy to grasp the shapes as you explain them. Really well done. Thanks so much..
Good god this is some great info. Thanks for spreading!
Matt Priestess 🤘
I Love your teaching method and approach, great lesson.
meulas Baldrro Cool thank you.
Kudos! Great chart and simple to follow!
Thank you very much, Danny, this is super helpful & thank you for the download!
Great lesson Danny thanks for the help good stuff to know.
Hope you managed to nail them all and keep them in the mind. Cheers.
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Thanks for the the reply mate.
I posted 5 years ago. I m still learning them lol. Stay safe.
Thanks man...
Thanks mate!!!! Old punk rocker here. Then I broke into folk finger picking, Now I want to learn how to noodle around the neck. I can’t afford guitar lessons, and I don’t have time. Life kids, you understand. This is really awesome, In a way I can understand! The I already have learned the pentatonic shapes! Next I’m gonna have a go with the blues shapes on your website! Cheers! Thanks!
Thanks Danny, this is of real help. It's concise and easy to grasp.
nice, thanks it helped! 💜
Major Tom
Finally....that made sense!! Thank you very much
You're welcome..
I followed your instructions and went to the website www.guitarjamming.com, and I was blown away at the extent of information and knowledge you have organized so well (and for free). Wow, there are so many people out there with their videos click-baiting to get people in to sign up for their lessons at enormous prices. I commend you for putting all of this out there for young and old. I just wished I'd had videos and literature at my disposal just by the click of a button when I was a teenager. But, I'm 55 and determined to learn. You've done a great service to a lot of people out there. I just hope those that are searching for help will find your site. The least I can do is to share your site with everyone I know. Thank you.
I have watched many You Tube videos on how to do this, yours comes out tops. Thank you!!!
thanks for doing this video it has helped me alot, scales dont seem that difficult to learn anymore!😎
robrager10 Great stuff. All becomes clear huh! Nice
Maybe it’s just me, but I found that writing them
out in TAB form and practicing from that was
far easier than looking at the scale diagrams.
i agree, writing is time consuming but always a better way to understand and memorize
You're probably right. I haven't tried that yet but it sounds like a good idea. It will force you to memorize them by writing it down instead of looking at a sheet. Plus the diagrams don't look quite right to me how they're laid out. In my head, or the way that i visualize the guitar fretboard each of those boxes should be rotated clockwise one time. So the strings are up and down and not left to right.
Jerm
It’s not so much the writing it down that helps me, but
as you said it can be confusing looking at the diagram
because it seems upside down and I am never sure of
the fret number, especially on more complicated
patterns, whereas with TAB there is no confusion
because the fret numbers are right there on the
string.
@@xaj1543 im the same. Tab looks upside down. Low e on top of guitar and at the bottom of tab notation. I rewrite so my fingers can follow my eyes
Steven Fry
That doesn’t matter to me, as long as you know
where you are starting then TAB is easy to follow.
My problem with scale diagrams is that they don’t
make it as clear which fret to use, without seeing
the numbers. Any way, it’s still upside down on a
scale diagram, isn’t it? You could write the TABS
and make them right way up if you want, but that
would be risking confusion going forward.
A unique approach to learning these scales. Can't wait to try it!
How did it go? Did you learn them well?
I started to learn the pentatonic after years of strumming. I wish I had seen this video years ago. By far the best explanation.
I’m already nailed the A min pentatonic, but struggling to transfer into different keys
Look up Scott Paul Johnson 'The Pentatonic scale' video. He breaks everything down so easily and shows how to easily change key. His other videos are gems as well. He also had PDF files to download.
This is how my teacher taught me the scales years ago.
Good stuff. Makes so much sense.
Just the type of advice that I've been looking for thanks Danny!..
No problem. Hope you get the fretboard freedom these allow.
Thanks so much for your detailed description of what's on the page before us, & to take
time to learn
Hope you learn them well
How do you apply the Am scales to any key...?
Trash city if you move the root of the first position to the 4th fret it becomes Ab minor. If you move it to the 6th fret it becomes A sharp minor or Bb minor etc.
Learn to use this these shapes with my #lickfriday series right here czcams.com/video/YJhCsVj2KBQ/video.html
Thanks so much, Danny. Putting it do good use! Never have seen the diagrams of overlapping patterns. Awesome!
Make much more sense this way, that’s for sure.
Danny, I just found this and it is a great video. Easily one of the best videos on youtube in the guitar lesson category. Thank you for steering clear of all of the awkward self promotion jargon and getting right into something that helps people. I like that you made it simple and basically just said, memorize them. Too many of us guitarists want to get ahead too quickly and skip the fundamentals that turn into something bigger.
No problem. Keeps it easy to digest and actually use without having the theory knowledge to start, that cam come later. The self promo jargon does, unfortunately come into play in my later videos. The time came to make some money to help keep creating. Cheers for the comment and I hope you get to use them well. If you need pointers on how to use them please check out my #lickfriday series if you can,. Predominantly pentatonic licks throughout (that was self promotion in a kind way) Cheers mate.
in the key of A,so is it called A minor pentatonic scale ?
ya also the c major penatonic scale
I memorized them as if they were chord shapes.
Brilliant idea....Nice one.
Nice thorough lesson. Great idea to visualize before playing. Well done!
Cheers. ✌️
Great explanation and easy to follow and learn. Thanks for the lesson...
Is each block a different key.
Harold Sauer Nope. Each block is a different shape in the same key. If you have downloaded the PDF from my site there should be a brief description.
Thank you for sharing this. This was very helpful.
Danny, I also am a 58 year old ear player. thank for for the best method to burn this stuff into what is left of my memory. Truly, great job.
No worries PM. Pleased it works for you.
is it me or all those diagramms upside down and back to front?
Danny Jones Nope they are correct. Lowest note first from the bottom of the TAB.
Wow its so long since ive used anything like that my brain is seeing it all the wrong way round.
Danny Jones the way i was shown the shapes makes these backwards and upside down as far as blocks go. maybe for tab these are correct but in block form yes these are backwards!
I see thats cool. I need to relearn all this stuff. Ill put some work into it in the coming months. Cheers
@@DannyPage I have a question. Im a filipino so some of your explanation is kinda confusing. With this five shapes, your basis is a key of am right? So if I will use this 5 shapes on a key of Gm i will start on the root of 3rd fret to do the shape 1 then move on root of 6th fret to do the shape 2 for Gm and so on? Is my understanding correct? Sorry for the trouble. Please respect. Im willing to learn more things in scaling so Im asking this. Thanks again. Hoping for your reply, sir.
this was seriously the best video i have seen on pentatonic scales. u made it very very easy. thanku so much.
This is really cool. Very nicely done
Love it, really well explained and best i've seen so far, thank you
DUDE!!!! Thank you! I finally got it after watching so many videos. Nice job! God Speed
That’s cool. Hope you start to use them with your solo guitar playing.
Super helpful! Thank you so much!
Thank You! That's the best thing I've seen so far on the scales!
No probs. Thanks.
DUUUUDE i´ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thank you a lot!!!! i am a much better musican because of you
Thank you Danny. This was really nice.
mr #DannyPage I honestly wanna thank you so much for your video..you are the only one to explain and clarify all this stuff and making it also so expressive
Still getting my head around this. Back your Ebony LP blues jam where you rip it up. Can’t get enough of that video.. 😛👍🇦🇺
Edit: WOW, 8 years old now..
I know right. Thanks for enjoying the jam too.
Danny Page Okay this is do-able . . . Totally love your tip on visualizing the scale after looking at it fort a minute or so! THANKS!!!!
Leona Sackaney No worries. Get looking and learning. Cool 👍🏼
Hi Danny, just wanted to say thank mate, that was so easily explained etc, I'm 7 months into my guitar, I luv it, can be frustrating at times, but I'm getting there, thanks again, and you've got another new subscriber, cheers mate.. 🎸👍🤘🤘🤘