A 30 Minute Expert Guide to Pentatonics on Guitar
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- In this episode I discuss how to quickly learn pentatonic scales on the guitar neck.
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Speaking as a very amateur musician .. I really enjoy your channel.. Very interesting and informative.. Thank you from England
The knowledge this man shares is incredible. Im a novice but have been playing for a long time. But i still enjoy guitar and music very much.
No one is amateur. We are all learning on the big arch of knowledge
X-Your honest self-proclaimed status as an amateur is a respected diagnosis because, only you know your "current" place and ability relating to your peers and influences available to you. That does not mean that if your bus stops at the next stop you should get off. Keep going and see where the music bus takes you. Or, make a sandwich! Ha!
Man Rick I’m really enjoying your channel and would like to get more out of my playing can you help me, please remember that I totally am a novice and want to understand music and how it’s all intertwined. Please help I hurt my back 14 years ago and it has taking everything from me accept guitar and I have a lot of time to learn. Btw love the Pantera video you did with Charlie, Rex and Zakk
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I started practicing (after I got the 5 shapes down) playing the pentatonic scale on one (each) string. I found this gives you the intervals between the notes and helps you find the scales either side of the shape you're playing
I follow a lot of teachers, but Rick is my go to for laying a good foundation 💯💪
Super nice way to connect the positions ! I found that learning one iconic lick in each position helps to remember how to navigate on the fretboard
this video is a treasure. For me it's a complete package when it comes to pentatonic stuff + more musical application. Rick is so generous when it comes to sharing his wisdom. Thank you Sir!
I’m glad you mentioned Eric Johnson cuz I was getting some serious Cliffs of Dover vibes from the backing chords mixed with those arpeggios, flat 6 and 13th notes. Love it. Thanks Rick! This is the video I needed
Superb advice, thank you Rick. Really helpful to connect and expand on those pentatonics!
And this is exactly why I love your teaching you took the basic Pentatonic and started adding to it and then you are making it sound so different making us think outside that Pentatonic box! I love it!
Yep. Those are NOT cliche blues lines by any stretch of imagination. Knowing scales in every neck position, my first "huh?" was that so many phrases he demonstrated started on the V (or other scale degree) instead of the root. That alone perked my ear. Same notes, differing starting tone
I needed this.. learned soo much! Thank you!
Fantastic lesson Rick. I just had a "one giant leap" moment watching this one lol Thank you very much Sir. 😊
As always Rick excellent stuff !!
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Really helpful..thank you Rick!!
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Thank you, Rick. very good and was just what I needed. I've been playing all day and was looking for something to decorate this F sharp tune I'm creating, very cool... pattern of 5 and include the 9 and the 13 every now and then.
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The A sus4 arpeggio sounds very beautiful !!! 🙂👍🏻
Sonic Shapes - 2 note per string pentatonics are super useful, great article Rick!
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When I saw the word “pentatonic”, I said to myself that it really must come from Beato. Because I'm not a big fan of this scale. But I learned a lot more than I expected. Thank you, it was worth it. Salutations!
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Rick when you started saying how you could hear the 13th, it immediately reminded me of Christopher Cross’ “Ride Like the Wind” where the vocal melody and harmonies are doing the “ba da da da . . . “
Well looking forward to the dom interveiw, nice one rick 🤘🏼
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Great video Rick 👍
I've been playing guitar for nearly a year and I just learned La Bamba for my Spanish class recently without realizing that it uses the pentatonic scale. Trying to learn the clean solo for Master of Puppets and that song made me love playing guitar even more ❤
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Great stuff as always.
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Thank you ,that was awesome!
The best explanation I've heard for how is it possible to hear intervals? If you were blindfolded in a room and 20 friends and family came in and took turns talking, could you identify each one? The common answer is, "Of course". It is the same thing identifying intervals. It's sound memory.
The first intervals I learned by associating them with common uses - major 3rd "ding-dong" of old doorbells, 4th "Om" of meditation or "taps" of military bugal. 5th - common Roman fanfare, etc. The rest follow from repetition. My sister is studying piano theory, and re-enforces her mental block whenever I mention ear-training or improvising. Yes, one day she WILL have that ability, but HAS to try... and experiment. My own teaching method uses MOSTLY doodling and familiarizing yourself with any instrument, by ear, once posture and sounding the instrument (and in rhythmic pattern), is correct. Play your favorite song *from beginning to end* using only one note without breaking rhythm.Scales, exercises and "theory" explanation come later, and even then, "doodling" for fun remains half of your daily practice. ANY instrument. I can often tell in seconds if someone can't play without sheet music/notation. That is a shame to watch, ESPECIALLY when it is obvious they've already learned the rudiments of posture, tone, and staff notation
That would be like recognizing 20 different instruments, not intervals.
Bad analogy
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ive been playing for over 20 years and rick is great at teaching. maybe this lesson is not for me but its very informative
Hey Rick, I was wondering why you didn't discuss MAJOR pentatonic?. Its a great sound, and I was gonna do a video on my channel touching basics of pentatonic both Major and Minor, but show the sound of major pent and how its in our countries folk music from its origin. That, and of course the blues.
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Hey Rick!
Y'know, sometimes i wish i hadn't moved away from the Atlanta area, where i grew up.
Moving back now would be prohibitively expensive, but maybe if I'd stayed, i would've earned more abd could afford to still live there.
Anyway, besides giving up all my old friends (the ones who didn't move away also), i missed an opportunity to know you.
Well, anyway,.i enjoy the videos, keep 'em coming!
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Hey Rick, I been studying theory on keyboard, and guitar now as well. Guitar is much interesting theoretically, as well as clever. Been practicing minor scales in natural/harmonic/melodic on guitar, but not pentatonic. I know pentatonic is popular, but do you advise practicing 7-note scales on guitar? Haha silly I feel asking this
🔑 awesome lesson.
Love that you are playing phrases starting not on the relative minor root, but the 5th. It "sounds" more melodic that way. You only mention for a quick second that the Em uses notes of the G major scale -relative minor scales start on the 6th of the major.
For some really incredible scale "exercises", check out the sitar handbook at the back of Ravi Shankar's large format paperback, "My Music, My Life"!!! But Hindustani music "notation" uses solfegg note names instead of Western staff notation. I'm sure you'll agree Ravi drops some bad-ass scale "patterns" usable in improvs, whatever scale mode you're based.
Had you for half the lesson and then I'm lost😅 love all you do! Thanks 👍
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Most excellent
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Mr Beato … consistent with this lesson of pentatonic, I’d love to see an interview with a couple of predominant musicians who use this technique
A) slash
B) zakk wylde
👍🏻 nice ! I love ❤️ it when you shift across the fretboard or move diagonally up etc 😨
Thanks that opens up the guitar fretboard a bit , i didnt quite understand how you can play a a lick in em pentatonic
Thanks Rick .
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this is a good lesson Rick is showing you how to use your pinky finger ...and that is a must when it comes to playing guitar the same math applies when playing right hand or left guitar its a thing study it
I love your channel btw
Nice!
Thx!
Ever think about doing a gig in San Antonio or Austin? Would be cool if you spread your wings further than GA, NY and Germany.
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16:41 just learning this would help you be better by 200%
I think there is another whole dimension to pentatonics that somehow I have never seen discussed and that is about the relationship to chords. Actually a singe pentatonic shape has two chords in it -say the root and the relative minor. The minor pentatonic is actually just a minor seventh arpeggio with an added fourth. In many styles of music like country you will see the pentatonic shifted up four degree at chord four or five degrees to chord five. In this way you can cover six of the seven chords of the major scale. Then you need a trick for chord 7/ dominant 7 sounds. The reason this shifting is possible is that the five notes of the pentatonic omit the two notes that would be modified to rotate the key one step clockwise or anti-clockwise in the cycle of fifths. I think of this as having key ambiguity on the fourth and fifth degree of the scale. You hear it in boogie woogie all the time as rifts shift with chords. Next over chord IV in a major key you often hear a change to a minor pentatonic in the same key to pick up the notes of the chord. In fact each pentatonic shape changes just one note with respect to the shape two inversions away so there is enormous tolerance for swapping shapes in one position. Often one note will be out of key. Say I want a dominant 7th sounding pentatonic, I can get the flat seven in the minor pentatonic but slipping in a passing major 3rd Chuck Berry Style. This blues use of pentatonics is incredibly rich. Also blues tolerates substitution of nearby pentatonic shapes because it is ok to slip in notes in passing that are not strictly in key as colour. The blues is made for this. There is a whole other discussion about minor scales - getting the raised 6 and 7 degrees - but too much for here. I love Eric Johnson but people now copy him too much and I dislike the machine like aspect that can come out of mimicking this style too literally. I am more interested in the blues nuances so important to players like Jeff Beck.
Rick, if you'll be in Salzburg (assuming...maybe?) about the Mozart video, PLEASE take the ti.e to visit Hallstatt. Totally worth it. Have a nice time in Europe!
Let us know when you're performing in Viena, be cool to see you.
Wow man! So stoked! actually just wrote a new ‘note’ type of riff-connecting the bottom of the 2nd and third positions with these scales.. it’s kinda loose but in harmony and I would say a cross between Pigs In Zen and Whores-Jane’s Addiction-
Dave will always be my absolute favorite guitar player-I have so many live bootlegs of Jane’s from their heyday and I swear he is just flawless-the live in Chicago 1988 has got to be one of their best shows captured live-I’ve had it on cd since 91-92..Perry’s high voice mixed with Dave’s composed “leads” just one of a kind guitar player that never got the recognition he deserves..I think
Don’t know if you caught them but if you did you know about Dave thank you for these lessons Rick -so glad I found your channel-have a great reunion gig and stay safe in your travels God Bless
watching at 50% speed to get some details right and just loving the lesson and how drunk you sound like. Learning and having fun.
Beethoven and Mozart. Not an expert but I really have got all their albums. Looking forward to seeing that video.
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Interesting, watching later but it's a Sunday so ... happy Sunday everyone!
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What signal path are you using @23:20 mark..? It is so similar to Vinnie Moore's tone from his Time Odyssey era. It has just the right gain and clarity in the mids. Perfect.
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Hello Rick. I am a hobby musician, but I now some people who studied music at the University (mozarteum) in salzburg. I can ask some people if you want.
Great lesson wow factor 100%...RocknRollflat5
Question:
Rick, regarding the Major Scale, given that the Lydian Mode is considered the brightest mode, and that the Locrian Mode is considered the darkest, when played parallel is there any significance to the fact that the Augmented 4th and the Diminished 5th both give these modes their brightness and darkness respectively, but are also in fact the same note?
Interesting stuff, but I'd have been happier with the root note highlighted as E rather than The G.... Just sayin'
Hi from the uk, really enjoy seeing someone run around a guitar neck so freely and intuitively - great stuff! 🎉👍🏿😊🎸
First let me say I think you, your content, your interviews, everything you put out is the pinnacle of your domain. I am a huge fan and grateful for all you do. With that in mind my comment is I think using a G major pentatonic diagram when you're talking about Em could be confusing for those that most need this information. I know they are the same notes but for someone who is trying to make sense of the, at first overwhelming logic of music, showing the blue root on the third fret of the sixth string in second position when the root should be E and not G just thickens the cloud of frustration instead of providing clarity. Surely you have a Em pentatonic diagram in your bag of tricks showing the root as E in every position. Not trying to be a smart ass, or draw attention to myself, just a simple opinion.
Frankly, its really counterproductive for someone like myself. I was watching and immediately went to comments to see if I wasnt crazy ...
You´re not a smart ass - It seemed to me that "the wrong diagam must have been shown". The concept of root notes is very important and the experts know it. I am sure this charismatic gentleman has a lot to teach us about music and guitars, but from a beginners perspective this didn´t start out well at all.
@@TheBukester Haha, same here!
@@tomask.3983Kind of would be nice if he read the comments and replied. The dude cranks out so much content, free content, that it's hard to complain.
At the end of your show, everyone in the band should step up to the microphone and say "like that!"
For different flavors, use the 3 pentatonics in each scale. For E Dorian, these are E minor, B minor and F# minor. Running patterns in each of these pentatonics over a E minor 7th chord, gives a nice way to float a pattern to different feelings.
Kinda intrigued by this comment. Can you elaborate a bit more?
This concept is explained in great detail in both my Beato Book Interactive and my Quick Lessons Pro
@@bryanharvey916 Rick’s video highlighted adding the 9th (2nd) and 13th (6th) for melodic color. One way to accomplish this, and give motion to the melody, is play a pattern in the Eminor penta, then play the same pattern in the B minor penta. This exchanges the 9th of E minor(F#) for the 3rd(G), the two pentatonics are otherwise identical. And/or, play the same pattern in the F# minor penta, which exchanges the F# for the G and the C# for the D, in E minor. This gives a kind of floating aspect above the Eminor chord, without actually leaving the key.
Rick’s Beato book goes into this as well. (I LOVE this book!) All modes built off the major scale contain 3 pentatonics in this way, which means one can move freely between them to emphasize the different colors of each of the tones in the mode you are in.
One ear exercise I spent a lot of time on, when I first started investigating modes, is to sustain the root of the mode, and play each of the tones in the mode over it, individually. Listening intently! I often spent 1/2 hour just playing long notes in this way (as a saxophonist, this helped my tone as well). This really locked in the sound of that mode for me, as I grokked the feeling of each note vs. the root. It’s all about feeling and color - after all, “mode” and “mood” are really the same word.
@@RickBeatohi Rick I already have the beginners course. If get the bundle. Am I just buying it again?
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You taught Remedial Ear Training Class at IC? Was that the afterhours class you taught to the majors and whoever else wanted to show up in 87. That's a year before I got to IC.....or is this code for the guitar ensemble class you taught. I was blown away by the level of ear training in the guitar ensemble class. Still working on what you showed us!
2 steps forward, one step back, up & down the major scale all positions. Pinky dexterity separates the pro’s from the Joe’s.
If you watch live Jimmy Page, he doesn’t use his pinky as much as you would think.
Yet he can perform blistering, thoughtful solos that will make you weep instantly
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I have the exact issue you described. I’ve been a drummer for 42 years and now I’m learning guitar. I’m struggling with connecting the modes and positions.
Your basic ear training for beginner sounds more interesting to me. How we can develop this skill to recognize the music note interval being played by various instruments as a amateur musician.