Bust Through the Pentatonic Positions
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- The pentatonic scale can be played in 5 different positions on the fretboard, each with it's own fingering challenges, and each starting and ending on a different note.
This can make integrating the scale holistically pretty difficult.
Here's a much easier way...
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02:40 Lesson
13:14 Wrap Up
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This channel and Fret Science are such wonderful resources. Thank you!
Powerful stuff as always. Thanks Chris
Very cool Chris..! Just like all of your tutorials this one brings me closer to my relationship with the fretboard… and isn’t that just what we’re all looking for..? Thanks Boss..! See ya in the Studio…👀🙏🏻❤️
Thanks Chris! 😊
Love this Chris!! Mahalo!!
Another great lesson. I need to do this more!
Ha! we all do right?
Thanks Tim, for everything!
So simple yet so effective. I've felt stuck in position one because it's so easy to comprehend. I tried learning the other positions through rote memorization, but it just never stuck. Having the same simple musical lick be the guide into each new position is just plain brilliant. Can't wait to try this.
Take your time with this...the amount of gold in here is insane, but it takes a bit to harvest! Keep me posted!
The idea of "tagging" different positions in terms of the same lick is an excellent idea. Thanks
Of course! This idea is a great vehicle for attaining fretboard knowledge.
Hi Chris,
Love the content in this video, making guitar easy to understand is the way to go, l will be tuned in for more good ideas, just learning to improvise, this lesson I can see will be a great help for me,
All the best,
Howard 👍
So glad this one landed well for you! Thanks Howard.
thanks for this lesson
Another great video, great exercise to build muscle memory. Also really enjoying the environment in the studio “ so much support from fellow note chasers “. Thanks for all you do Chris👍😎👍
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for all your support Bubba~
Super!Thanks!
This Is a lesson that shows that Cris Is a real AND awesome teacher
Thanks, Andy! I appreciate that.
You explain things so well Chris, I actually already had this down technically but I find the way in which you explain the system of the guitars patterns can bring new things to light, I try not to let things that are further back in the past be less than important to me than things now, as is sometimes the habit of our brains I think so I'm always open to go back certain ideas and concepts, it's excellent revision if anything!
That’s great to hear, thanks for the comment, Jimbob, and I’m so glad you’re enjoying the channel
Im very comfortable flying through all pentatonic positions but I am definitely going to try this.
Thanks
I can play all 7 positions of the diatonic but still struggling after the 3rd Pentatonic position, video was a huge help thanks 😅😅😂
Yeah, mapping scales can take a bit. I've got a few videos in the playlists here on Major and Pentatonic, they might be helpful too. Each one takes the same scale and looks at it from a different solution angle...everyone thinks a little differently.
Glad you enjoyed this one, Joseph!
This is a great lesson, because it teaches you to play the notes, and not just the frets/patterns.
Right on, glad you enjoyed this one, Mike!
@@curiousguitaristI enjoy them all, Chris. Best lessons I’ve used in decades of playing.
@@mike5177 that means a lot to me, thanks.
Great lesson. I've been practicing when I can. I just need to learn how to let the chords breath so I can get a "riff" or a little picking to accent what I'm playing.
CHRIS, David Gilmour often will resolve on the 5th chord tone which gives it a darker tonality, I'm guessing this is called a pentatonic inversion when resolving on the 5th chord tone instead of the root. What I'm saying is you play pentatonic positions resolving on the 5th chord tone instead of the root. I'm guessing this would be called pentatonic 2nd inversions?
Great idea I'll try that now
@@kashakasmith3893 I think its called pentatonic inversions when you resolve on the 3rd or 5th instead of the root note. Clapton Cream era should also often resolve on the 5th to get that eerie dark tonality.
Another great lesson in under 15 minutes. Just a note that the “equator” is so important that it’s the reason why standard tuning has major third exception. In the “connected positions” it’s also surprising how easy it is to tickle the major third incidental on the minor pentatonic as well as the flat fifth blues note. Man I’ve wasted a lot of time going up and down those pentatonic boxes. Your lesson hopefully saves others from the same waste.
I enjoyed it all...the 5 positions were a bit of a slog, but that set me up really well to do this type of thing on top too.
Thanks for the comment!
Cool. I like the bend and the vibrato on the last two strings of each pentatonic. Show us some blues licks at each of the positions. Thanks.
Great suggestion!
Great video, thanks and helpful. I think i can see a Marty Swartz, swartzinator pedal in the background.
Indeed you do! Marty gifted a set of his pedals to me a while back. I use the looper as well.
I pulled the drive pedal recently due to space and another drive pedal I'm currently loving (The Nobels), but yeah, that's his pedal there!
Blue..tiful. Thanks 🎉 so much.
You’re welcome 😊
Just sitting here enjoying a day off and getting more tracking excercises in!
I'd like to see some lessons about using a Looper (I have a Boss RC-5) to create jam tracks and how to play along with them. I'm almost ready to join, but I need to see the Sheet music in white on black since I have low vision. Thanks.
All the TABs I do are black on white. I'll see if there's an easy way to convert them. But I'd probably have to do it a-la-carte as I have hundreds of TABs done at this point.
I'll look into a looper video...I do not use my looper very often so I'm not qualified to do anything in depth.
Another of those little facts i never even knew about.
This one really had a huge impact on my soloing capability.
Loved the lesson as always, Chris! Have you ever done a pentatonic lesson on accenting the major thirds in a 1-4-5 and through the changes? I’m just scratching the surface on it so I’m still pretty much lost 🤷♂️
When you chase the major thirds on a I IV V you need to change scales for each chord, but you can easily just add/replace those notes to the pentatonic scale as the chords change.
@@curiousguitarist I think I understand that. But, isn’t it generally speaking more musical when a player either changes the scale or arpeggios with the movement of the chords?
@@mattprince9204 absolutely, that’s actually what I was trying to convey…but I’m a bit tired tonight. Outlining the thirds is always a winner, but that one scale can’t do it all. That’s what I was trying to say :)
@@curiousguitarist Thanks Bro! I’m criticizing your lesson just trying to figure out this crazy ass instrument. Your lessons are always super tight and enlightening, Dude. Thanks again 🎸👌
@@mattprince9204 of course!
Big light bulb moment ! Thanks
My pleasure, that's the best comment for me to read! Keeps me motivated.
Yup. That works. Also you can just make up whatever lick you want using the same ideas. A bend a slide a hammer on a vibrato. Thanks fellow
You are so welcome!
If you're new to this, do try to incorporate the root of the scale as the start at least, that makes finding the riff a bit easier.
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What guitar are you using in the video?
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That is a K-line Springfield, and it is the best Strat-type I’ve ever owned, and I currently also own two Fender custom shop strats as well. The K-line really tops them all
@@curiousguitarist Dude it's a great guitar
Thanks for the information
In the first phrase method you have to know the location of root notes on each string, correct?
Yup! Correct!
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Very cool
I’m gonna bust hard through these pentatonic scales
8:46 - Why on earth do I keep thinking of Credence Clearwater Revival’s “Run Through The Jungle” when you repeat that pentatonic phrase?
That's basically the same phrase :)
Nice catch!
The Equator = Dom7sus2sus4 chord? This chord is often used in classic rock when lifting off your ring finger & pinky finger just only playing the equator chord.
That chord would contain the minor third
@@curiousguitarist I see these Equator chords used often in classic 70s rock and early 80s rock. If you barre at the 5th fret as the Equator using A as the Root note the Equator chord is ADGCE 1-4-b7-b3-5 so its a minor7sus4 chord. If you barre at the 5th fret as the Equator using D as the Root note the Equator chord is DGCEA 1-4-b7-2-5 so its sus2sus4b7 chord?
@@waynegram8907 if you barre it with the E string root it will always be the same… R 4 b7 b3 5 R
@@curiousguitarist yes which is Minor7sus4 chord?
@@waynegram8907 With the 7 in there, this would be called a Min11. You can't really have the 3 and a suspension at the same time. The function of "suspension" is to REPLACE the third.
Hope that helps