I cannot thank you enough for showing me this< Ive been playing for 40 plus yrs and although I knew the licks, I never knew what I was playing. This "Connected the dots" for me. after forty friggin years
You, my friend are on the top of my list of favorite RUclips guitar teachers for several reasons, starting with your approach to each video lesson. Clearly and quickly outlined and then carefully and fully explained follow through. Thank you!❤️🎸🎵
Still not clear to me how after all the RUclips channels covering the same curriculum over the years, there could be room for the best one to emerge. The breaking down, the sequencing, the logic behind the methods, there's just not a word wasted! BM has a book on chord strumming and another on playing the minor pentatonic scale, guys, grab 'em! He has monetized the channel, so if books or ebooks are not your thing, we can still do the right thing financially for this great content and click on the Thanks button. I've done it twice, and nope, not connected in any way, just a bedroom player in another country.
So who would have imagined that my 2 favorite guitar channels would be Canadian? This one and Ted Woodford. Ted is a luthier who does all sorts of difficult repairs. The common factor is the calm, no nonsense delivery of the knowledge. "Satisfying" as Ted might say.😄
Blue, I watched this video once and thought, ok, yea. It was still in my history, so, I watched it again today. It was much clearer this time. So I’m giving you another 👍. Thank you
This is why all my life I saw professional guitar player on TV or concerts, but by lookig at their hands I couldn't tell which scales were they playing. So they have been constantly changing scale shape. This is an aha moment for me. Thanks
All the classes I have watched you have put on you tube have been excellent I am now addicted to them. My wife told me she was going to die and come back reincarnated as a guitar so I would give her some attention. I could be coming dangerously close to having to lay by my dish again. You know, doghouse and all that stuff.
i taught myself the Major penta scales, then had to go back and learn minors, lol. cause really that's all the youtube lessons i found. luckily i now know it, so bonus ( teaching myself thru vids )
Good morning Blue. I watched this when you were doing your weekly marathon last year . I've watched it again and I must say it's a piece of gold. Thanks a lot for the time and effort you put into these episodes. ❤
In the last few months I have decided being able to play songs wasnt enough. I wanted to know more about structure or theory. The resources available such as YOU, LoG, Sean D, Marty, etc are making my eyes open. This very lesson made the link to specific chords and scales so much more obvious and easier to understand! I am amazed. Immediately I was able to play along with songs that had baffled me for years. Just merely ending a run on the little finger as the root as opposed to the pointer, F'ing amazing. Thank you!
I have watched many, many RUclips videos on Major and Minor Pentatonics, but this tutorial is the best I have seen. Thinking about it after watching, it is so obvious that the barred E and and A chord shapes have scales underneath them, but I just never made the connection on how to easily use that knowledge before. My playing has actually improved in the last 15 minutes - Amazing and many thanks GuitarLessonsVancouver!
Thank you for this video. No matter what I did when I used to play the Major Scale. I would always end up sounding like I was playing Bluegrass. Now I have the opportunity to sound a little bit different than before. Sometimes that's all you may need to get re-inspired. So thank you very much.
This one is really helping me start to connect/visualize different scale positions for a given chord! Would you happen to have a video that goes over which notes in a scale are generally the ones you would want to bend? I find myself going along nicely on a lead and essentially guessing on which notes/strings to add a bend- sometimes it’s the right one, sometimes it’s definitely not the right note to be bending.
I haven't done a full video on that but I do have that in my Soloing Like a Pro books. I talk about it briefly in my Six Steps video here on YT. On Patreon we are doing the best places to bend for each shape in our Six Steps series. That YT video is here ruclips.net/video/2Qravkx4KeI/видео.htmlsi=qED5PDnWfC6Z75Bc
Thanks, Blue! This is very helpful and memorable. In fact, this is more helpful than any other method I've tried! It leads me back & forth from scale-chord-scale. I now have the Major pentatonic scales down, along with their bar chord shapes! (for E and A string roots.) I can jam by myself, or practice licks, practice improvising (or "ad-lib" 'ing) and so forth. It's great practice for where I am. 👌 👍 Next I'll work in other chord shapes (like G and C/D from CAGED). 🤪 THEN I get to start working on minor chords....)
Bought your book! Hands down the best teacher on youtube for intermediate guitarists. There are loads for beginners but ive found it difficult to get that step further over the years. You're making sense of it all now. Thank you sir !
Please, please, please don't stop these amazing eye-opening lessons after a year! There are a LOT of great YT guitar teachers, but man, you have jumped to the top of my list! So, so good. I look forward to each week's lesson with great anticipation!
Great stuff. Just watched a couple of these videos and I think they are great. I am seeing the fretboard, seeing the connections, feeling the creative juices flowing like its all new again, I was stuck. Thank you for what you.
Great lesson. I really like the way your teaching reinforces previous ideas and is so straightforward and clear. I have been working through your soloing book and it too is excellent. Keep teaching, you are great!
Thanks Tom, I do have this other video that touches on that ...ruclips.net/video/K9QdVkZIxAo/видео.html though I will be expanding on all this over time in future videos
Hi Blue another fabulous lesson here thank you, and another cameo by the puppy who always seems to want to steal the show! Love how you are connecting the lessons now. Still can’t make the actual licks themselves sounds anything like yours though. (Just sounds like I am going up and down the scale). Maybe time for a specific lesson on how you make those so amazing and so musical. Thanks again, always look forward to Saturday morning lesson time!
Thanks S Y. The musicality will come when the scales are easy to play. And the more of these tricks you learn like this one: ruclips.net/video/GT-LSqGweeM/видео.html
This is so amazing. As an intermediate guitar player I always struggle because I try to implemenent complex theory I have learned when I improvise. But this is most of the time just too complicated for practical use when jaming, improvising, noodling - which is what I spend most of my time with. Your lessons really give me some easy tools to pull of those tricks as if I would totally know what I theoretically do over chord changes and stuff, but my brain is not overloaded while playing - and therefore can focus more on the music, my bandmates and last but not least, fun! Thank you so much. Keep on telling us exactly that stuff!
Your channel has very practical, useful and really good sounding ideas very easy to remember or consolidate what we already know, I appreciate a lot discovering your channel Blue Morris, thanks!
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Lynrd Skyrnd gets the attention, but for my money the Alllaman Bros are THE original Southern Rock band. Those jams are just mind blowing.
Tnx for this video as a beginner now i know.. how its fast to find the key using pentatonic. The only one i problem is i didint know how to make the easy melodic licks for all genre. Can you make a video for that?
Well what can l say another great lesson delivered again . So glad l subscribed Really mind blowing Light bulbs moment ✨️ Thank you so much keep them coming Can't wait to go and pick up my guitar and practice this concept
This was a light-bulb moment type of lesson for me. I like how you have nicknames for the shapes ( easy shape and symmetrical shape). Do you have names for the other remaining shapes? I come from a place where I call them pattern 1 and pattern 5 but that's in reference to minor pentatonic. Then when in a major mindset the #'s shift so it can get confusing. I like just thinking about the chord and then giving the shape a name. Great lesson.
That's a good point you have about numbering then ... might not as useful when switching your mindframe from min to major. My names describe the way they look which I found useful for communicating with students. I have easy shape, extension, shape 3, funny B string, symmetrical. I don't seem to have a name for shape 3 😁 you could name it whatever works for you.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver I was trying to think of a shape and then I realized, your name was perfect. 3 works well and is a helpful reminder of what the shape is. You have 3 strings in a row that have the same pattern ( the E, A, and D string, respectively. Then for the G and B string, you have a distance of 3 frets for both. So 3 is ingenious !
Thanks Helmut! The first book has just started selling well this year, probably because of the success of these videos. Hoping to have time to write book 2 this year.
Thx so much, good explanation and great stuff. But please explain , why i have to use different major pentatonik for the different I,IV,V chords instead of only one (i) in the minor pentatonik , which i can also play over major chords 🎉
Good question, you do not need to change scales. You can continue using the major pentatonic of the root chord, but then you would be missing out on some really cool sounds 😎
Hey dude I've got that exact Les Paul and LOVE IT! I use it with an AC30 and it sounds so good to me. I've got a little video on my channel using it to play some Allman Brothers if you want to check it out. People that are sleeping on the Tribute series are REALLY missing out!
Hmm that's an interesting point though major pentatonic can so easily be moved over different major chords. Either way, I think we should have both ready at hand 😀
Good stuff! Just wondering, other than having less notes to learn and having simpler patterns, is there any any advantage to playing pentatonics vs the full major or minor scales? Musically speaking, for example? I can imagine that with minor pentatonic we could say we a leaving out "less important" notes (i.e. 2 and 6) but with major we seem to be skipping fairly significant notes (4 and 7).
Main advantage is simply that it is the sound of rock, blues, country etc. We could play the full scales, but it doesn't sound the same, and it's more difficult. And, pentatonic is like an Arpeggio because of its simplicity it can be moved to the other major chords on the key like in this video. Can't do that with full major, we would have to play the 7 note mode for each chord.
Good question. RUclips isn't that great for creating things in an order. I'm going to make a playlist on my channel and put the videos in an order. Also my book is in a good order ☺️ www.bluemorris.com/shop
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver I just realized what was confusing me was that you can do the A major P towards the bridge, using shape 5 or you can play the same towards the nut using shape 4. The same notes, different shape.
Thank you .. Actually I learned the natural major scale and pentatonic in relation to the 5 caged chord positions.. and the minor pentatonic.. The problem is that for the natural minor scale I only use the relative major scale with the six being the one ( root) and the relative major root being minor third of course.. this works fine for me but I kinda miss the intervallic function apart from these tow notes in the minor context .. I am thinking of re- learning the minor scale from scratch as a three note per string and not the five cage positions .. What do suggest for me ?
Personally I don't play the 3 note per string system, but it's also good of course. The 5 shapes as I teach them is most common. Maybe knowing both is good?
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Thank you for the reply. I mean should I learn the natural minor scale from scratch or otherwise my suggestions are: 1/ add the missing notes to the minor pentatonic 2/ just use the relative minor major concept that I am already using .. Your advice helps a lot..
@@hottamanful If you are playing jazz, then the full 7-scales are a must. But honestly, if you are playing rock and all its variants, the pentatonics are what we play 95% of the time. So I don't teach the 7-note scales that much, only when students get pretty darn good at pentatonic, and even after that point I focus on Dorian mode or Mixolydian mode -- so it's still not the natural minor scale. Natural minor just isn't in a lot of songs in these genres.
Thanks for watching! You can find out more about my books from: www.bluemorris.com/shop
You are with out a doubt one of the best guitar teachers on RUclips. We’re very lucky to have you. Thanks!
Thank you! Much appreciated 👍🎸
Agree!
Agreed!!
I cannot thank you enough for showing me this< Ive been playing for 40 plus yrs and although I knew the licks, I never knew what I was playing. This "Connected the dots" for me. after forty friggin years
Great to hear! Lots more like this video on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Every once in a while I find a new teacher on youtube and make another leap. You are helping me make the leap. Thank you!
Great to hear thank you! More coming soon!
You, my friend are on the top of my list of favorite RUclips guitar teachers for several reasons, starting with your approach to each video lesson. Clearly and quickly outlined and then carefully and fully explained follow through. Thank you!❤️🎸🎵
Thank you very much! Lots more coming in the new and lots more on our Patreon if you haven't already tried that www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Lightbulb moment!
Glad to hear it!
Some people have a true ability to be a great teacher and you sir are one of them…Thanks and cheers from the Okanogan😊
Thanks for the great feedback Dennis!!
You are an awesome teacher....im 62 years young.
Thanks for watching and the great feedback. Lots more coming to this channel.
Still not clear to me how after all the RUclips channels covering the same curriculum over the years, there could be room for the best one to emerge.
The breaking down, the sequencing, the logic behind the methods, there's just not a word wasted!
BM has a book on chord strumming and another on playing the minor pentatonic scale, guys, grab 'em!
He has monetized the channel, so if books or ebooks are not your thing, we can still do the right thing financially for this great content and click on the Thanks button.
I've done it twice, and nope, not connected in any way, just a bedroom player in another country.
Thanks Ian! Really appreciate it!!
At last its making sense. Thanks blue.
Great to hear, thanks Steve!
Totally agree with you Major is the first scale must to learn.
Cool thanks 😀
Wow 😲😳😮I just taken one giant leap 😮
Great to hear. Thanks for watching 👍
Amazing ... 🤘my favorite guitar channel on RUclips !!
Thanks A P !!!!😎
I look forward to every new lesson from you. You have a great way of simplifying everything . Keep them coming
Thanks for your support Henry!
So who would have imagined that my 2 favorite guitar channels would be Canadian?
This one and Ted Woodford.
Ted is a luthier who does all sorts of difficult repairs.
The common factor is the calm, no nonsense delivery of the knowledge.
"Satisfying" as Ted might say.😄
Awesome thanks Johnny X!
Just the best, I would never have known this,if not for this particular video
Thank you! Glad to hear it. Lots more lessons like this on my channel.
Right on .... I can do this!!
😎 cool thanks for watching David!
Excellent video. Got it too. I can put this into practice right away. Much thanks.
Cool thanks for watching 😎
love this ! greetings from Holland...Europe.....
Thank you very much!
Nice my friend. Your tips are just really easy to understands and apply. Please keep up the good work!🙏
Thank you so much 👍
Really helpful. First class
Thanks Kirk!
I stumbled on your channel by accident today, and I found an excellent guitar teacher😁You just got a new subscriber.
Cool, welcome to the channel! Lots more coming.
Thanks!
Thanks for the extra support Henry!!!
Blue, I watched this video once and thought, ok, yea. It was still in my history, so, I watched it again today. It was much clearer this time. So I’m giving you another 👍. Thank you
Awesome! Thanks for coming back to it 😀
This is why all my life I saw professional guitar player on TV or concerts, but by lookig at their hands I couldn't tell which scales were they playing. So they have been constantly changing scale shape. This is an aha moment for me. Thanks
That happens for sure. Depending in the genre too. Some genres change scales more frequently.
Great lesson, I was so impressed I ordered your book on Amazon.
Cool thanks 😊 let me know if you have any questions about the book
All the classes I have watched you have put on you tube have been excellent I am now addicted to them. My wife told me she was going to die and come back reincarnated as a guitar so I would give her some attention. I could be coming dangerously close to having to lay by my dish again. You know, doghouse and all that stuff.
Thank-you! Glad it's helping to inspire you to play guitar more. Apologies to your wife 🤣
Amazing am getting something new here as a beginner
Great, to hear thanks. Lots more coming to this channel
Hello Blue Morris,
I am a new subscriber.
Great thanks for subscribing!
fine info many thanks from holland
Thanks Folkert! Lots more coming!
The high quality of your lessons led me to order your book. Great expectations on it!
Thanks Jack!! Let me know if you have any questions about the book!
i taught myself the Major penta scales, then had to go back and learn minors, lol.
cause really that's all the youtube lessons i found. luckily i now know it, so bonus
( teaching myself thru vids )
That's cool you ended up doing it in that order then.
Great video, very clear instructions. The major pentatonic always reminds me in Dicky Betts playing.
Thanks Colin! Sure does, 👍
Another cracking lesson there Blue, thanks! Some real light bulb moments for me in there. Really pleased to see those subs going up.
Thanks again Will!! 🎸👍
You’re criminally underrated. Newer channel? That’s the smartest explanation I’ve ever seen. Thank you so much.
Thanks Stephen!! Much appreciated 👍
Great teaching method! Just had one of those moments we all get. "Ahhhh, so now it makes sense". Thank you.
Wonderful thanks Todd!
This is a truly beautiful eureka explanation of how roots, chords and scales are connected across the fretboard many, many thanks.
Glad to hear it! Lots more lessons on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Schwierige Dinge einfach zu erklären ist nicht leicht. Ich lerne viel aus jedem Video. Danke und Grüße aus Berlin.
Thanks Rene!!
Freaking awesome lesson Blue Morris. Thank you...!
Thanks Joseph!!
Another great video, Blue.
Good morning Blue. I watched this when you were doing your weekly marathon last year . I've watched it again and I must say it's a piece of gold. Thanks a lot for the time and effort you put into these episodes. ❤
Thank you! Glad it's helping. At first I thought you meant I ran a marathon. 🤣
In the last few months I have decided being able to play songs wasnt enough. I wanted to know more about structure or theory. The resources available such as YOU, LoG, Sean D, Marty, etc are making my eyes open. This very lesson made the link to specific chords and scales so much more obvious and easier to understand! I am amazed. Immediately I was able to play along with songs that had baffled me for years. Just merely ending a run on the little finger as the root as opposed to the pointer, F'ing amazing. Thank you!
Awesome! Glad to hear it! Thanks for posting!
Wow man! Thank you kindly for a major breakthrough moment lesson. Great work, nicely done!
Just the kik in the knob I needed lol
Thanks for watching and commenting Shawn!
I have watched many, many RUclips videos on Major and Minor Pentatonics, but this tutorial is the best I have seen. Thinking about it after watching, it is so obvious that the barred E and and A chord shapes have scales underneath them, but I just never made the connection on how to easily use that knowledge before. My playing has actually improved in the last 15 minutes - Amazing and many thanks GuitarLessonsVancouver!
Cool! Glad I could help!!
that was awesome
Thanks Jason!
Thank you for this video. No matter what I did when I used to play the Major Scale. I would always end up sounding like I was playing Bluegrass. Now I have the opportunity to sound a little bit different than before. Sometimes that's all you may need to get re-inspired. So thank you very much.
Cool that's interesting to hear. I can see how that could happen. Glad that helped
Rather than ask “what would Bill Murray do “?
Let Us ask “What would Blue Morris do”….
Cause this guy is the best
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That's it! I ordered your book and I know it will be spectacular.
Wonderful thank you! Let me know if you have any questions about the book.
@GuitarLessonsVancouver Got it last night. It looks well structured and has lots of great info. Thank you for your offer.
Helpful, easy...brilliant!
Thanks David!!
I agree that you are one of the best guitar teachers on you tube. Fantastic job
Thank you very much, Jeff!
I have done the work. FAN. Thank you as I now got a new way to think as I grow into chords. Looking Forward
Thanks Matt! Nice work! It's worth it.
Just subscribed. So useful. Gives me a month of stuff to practice. Will be in Vancouver in September for holidays. 😊
Welcome! Thanks for subscribing. September is usually good weather here. Probably good timing.
Another fantastic lesson. Thanks!!
Thanks again!
Terrific great teacher
Thanks again!
Thanks Blue… yet another fantastic lesson!
Thanks Doug!!
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Really learning a lot through your lessons!… helping me to become more creative!
This one is really helping me start to connect/visualize different scale positions for a given chord! Would you happen to have a video that goes over which notes in a scale are generally the ones you would want to bend? I find myself going along nicely on a lead and essentially guessing on which notes/strings to add a bend- sometimes it’s the right one, sometimes it’s definitely not the right note to be bending.
I haven't done a full video on that but I do have that in my Soloing Like a Pro books. I talk about it briefly in my Six Steps video here on YT. On Patreon we are doing the best places to bend for each shape in our Six Steps series. That YT video is here ruclips.net/video/2Qravkx4KeI/видео.htmlsi=qED5PDnWfC6Z75Bc
Really great lesson thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching 🎸
Thanks, Blue!
This is very helpful and memorable.
In fact, this is more helpful than any other method I've tried! It leads me back & forth from scale-chord-scale.
I now have the Major pentatonic scales down, along with their bar chord shapes! (for E and A string roots.)
I can jam by myself, or practice licks, practice improvising (or "ad-lib" 'ing) and so forth. It's great practice for where I am. 👌 👍
Next I'll work in other chord shapes (like G and C/D from CAGED).
🤪
THEN I get to start working on minor chords....)
Great work! Major pentatonic is so useful. And sounds like you have a good plan. Keep it up!
Bought your book! Hands down the best teacher on youtube for intermediate guitarists. There are loads for beginners but ive found it difficult to get that step further over the years. You're making sense of it all now. Thank you sir !
Thank you. That's great to hear!
I liked this.
👍 thanks for watching!
Wow, that was genuinely awesome
Thanks G Thomson!
Awesome! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Please, please, please don't stop these amazing eye-opening lessons after a year! There are a LOT of great YT guitar teachers, but man, you have jumped to the top of my list! So, so good. I look forward to each week's lesson with great anticipation!
Thanks Gary! I'm excited about the next three videos which I have already filmed and edited. Really appreciate your great feedback!
Great stuff. Just watched a couple of these videos and I think they are great. I am seeing the fretboard, seeing the connections, feeling the creative juices flowing like its all new again, I was stuck. Thank you for what you.
Glad I could help. Lots more coming.
Love the vid, bought the book. Thanks.
Awesome! Thank you!
Excellent lesson, thanks for sharing
Thanks Marvin!
Great lesson. I really like the way your teaching reinforces previous ideas and is so straightforward and clear. I have been working through your soloing book and it too is excellent. Keep teaching, you are great!
Awesome thanks Brian
That was like a god mode hack into major key soloing, would love to see you extend this into how to best incorporate minor pent into it
Thanks Tom, I do have this other video that touches on that ...ruclips.net/video/K9QdVkZIxAo/видео.html though I will be expanding on all this over time in future videos
Hi Blue another fabulous lesson here thank you, and another cameo by the puppy who always seems to want to steal the show! Love how you are connecting the lessons now. Still can’t make the actual licks themselves sounds anything like yours though. (Just sounds like I am going up and down the scale). Maybe time for a specific lesson on how you make those so amazing and so musical. Thanks again, always look forward to Saturday morning lesson time!
Thanks S Y. The musicality will come when the scales are easy to play. And the more of these tricks you learn like this one: ruclips.net/video/GT-LSqGweeM/видео.html
Really nice lesson here. Thank you. :)
Glad you liked it!
This is so amazing. As an intermediate guitar player I always struggle because I try to implemenent complex theory I have learned when I improvise. But this is most of the time just too complicated for practical use when jaming, improvising, noodling - which is what I spend most of my time with. Your lessons really give me some easy tools to pull of those tricks as if I would totally know what I theoretically do over chord changes and stuff, but my brain is not overloaded while playing - and therefore can focus more on the music, my bandmates and last but not least, fun! Thank you so much. Keep on telling us exactly that stuff!
Great to hear thanks! Lots more coming to this channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Nice one Blue...thanks!
Thanks RB!
Belle leçon d’économie de mouvement de la main 😊
Merci!!
What a great lessing! 😃
Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Great lesson! Super helpful.
Cool thanks for watching!!
Your channel has very practical, useful and really good sounding ideas very easy to remember or consolidate what we already know, I appreciate a lot discovering your channel Blue Morris, thanks!
Thank you very much!
Finally some one explained the caged system
Thanks for watching 👍
Fantastic lesson..... thanks! You are a very good teacher, player and person!
Thanks Bernie!
Another outstanding lesson. Great work Blue!
Thanks Jim!!
The Allman Brothers (or more precisely Dickie Betts) turned a lot of people on to the power of mixing the pentatonic major and minor scales.
Yeah man, I love their music 🎵
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Lynrd Skyrnd gets the attention, but for my money the Alllaman Bros are THE original Southern Rock band.
Those jams are just mind blowing.
Tnx for this video as a beginner now i know.. how its fast to find the key using pentatonic. The only one i problem is i didint know how to make the easy melodic licks for all genre. Can you make a video for that?
Thanks for watching. I will be doing lots of videos on licks over time, including in the context of major pentatonic 😀
Your videos help me so much, thank you!
You are so welcome!
Well what can l say another great lesson delivered again .
So glad l subscribed
Really mind blowing
Light bulbs moment ✨️
Thank you so much keep them coming
Can't wait to go and pick up my guitar and practice this concept
Cool, thanks Akin Kent! Glad to have you as a subscriber!!
This was a light-bulb moment type of lesson for me. I like how you have nicknames for the shapes ( easy shape and symmetrical shape). Do you have names for the other remaining shapes?
I come from a place where I call them pattern 1 and pattern 5 but that's in reference to minor pentatonic. Then when in a major mindset the #'s shift so it can get confusing. I like just thinking about the chord and then giving the shape a name. Great lesson.
That's a good point you have about numbering then ... might not as useful when switching your mindframe from min to major. My names describe the way they look which I found useful for communicating with students. I have easy shape, extension, shape 3, funny B string, symmetrical. I don't seem to have a name for shape 3 😁 you could name it whatever works for you.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver I was trying to think of a shape and then I realized, your name was perfect. 3 works well and is a helpful reminder of what the shape is. You have 3 strings in a row that have the same pattern ( the E, A, and D string, respectively. Then for the G and B string, you have a distance of 3 frets for both. So 3 is ingenious !
@@marcelgaryjames That's a good point, the name "Shape 3" still works just fine :)
Sunburst Les Paul!
Heck ya!
When is Book 2 coming??? We’ve been waiting a few years…🤔😬 Great lesson!!!
Hi, sorry I know. If only I had more time. I'll try to do it later this year. Thanks!
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver thanks Blue!!! 😂 Half joking there, but I’ll be looking for it when it comes out! Keep up the great work!
Great lesson Blue! When are you going to release your book Soloing concepts Part 2?
Thanks Helmut! The first book has just started selling well this year, probably because of the success of these videos. Hoping to have time to write book 2 this year.
Just got book one brill
Cool, thanks Kevin! I started working on Book 2 this week.
Thx so much, good explanation and great stuff. But please explain , why i have to use different major pentatonik for the different I,IV,V chords instead of only one (i) in the minor pentatonik , which i can also play over major chords 🎉
Good question, you do not need to change scales. You can continue using the major pentatonic of the root chord, but then you would be missing out on some really cool sounds 😎
Hey dude I've got that exact Les Paul and LOVE IT! I use it with an AC30 and it sounds so good to me. I've got a little video on my channel using it to play some Allman Brothers if you want to check it out. People that are sleeping on the Tribute series are REALLY missing out!
Thanks I agree, I really like that LP, feels great, sounds great.
Have you, or will you produce a video similar to this one using the minor format? Thank you.
That's a good idea thanks, I'll put that on the list...👍
Because I can often play minor over major, but not play major over a minor key.
So the minor works in more situations.
Hmm that's an interesting point though major pentatonic can so easily be moved over different major chords. Either way, I think we should have both ready at hand 😀
Good stuff! Just wondering, other than having less notes to learn and having simpler patterns, is there any any advantage to playing pentatonics vs the full major or minor scales? Musically speaking, for example? I can imagine that with minor pentatonic we could say we a leaving out "less important" notes (i.e. 2 and 6) but with major we seem to be skipping fairly significant notes (4 and 7).
Main advantage is simply that it is the sound of rock, blues, country etc. We could play the full scales, but it doesn't sound the same, and it's more difficult. And, pentatonic is like an Arpeggio because of its simplicity it can be moved to the other major chords on the key like in this video. Can't do that with full major, we would have to play the 7 note mode for each chord.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Cool, thanks so much!
Click click click. Brain neurons putting it all together. Great stuff!
Haha nice thanks!
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You’re awesome.. whats the order i need to learn all this shish?
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What about minor chords? Would you do the same thing but play the minor pent of the chords key?
I keep on mixing up the major and minor shapes cause minor shape 1 is the same as major the shape for the relative chord.
They are indeed, though that can also be rather handy 😉
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver I just realized what was confusing me was that you can do the A major P towards the bridge, using shape 5 or you can play the same towards the nut using shape 4. The same notes, different shape.
Thank you ..
Actually I learned the natural major scale and pentatonic in relation to the 5 caged chord positions.. and the minor pentatonic..
The problem is that for the natural minor scale I only use the relative major scale with the six being the one ( root) and the relative major root being minor third of course.. this works fine for me but I kinda miss the intervallic function apart from these tow notes in the minor context ..
I am thinking of re- learning the minor scale from scratch as a three note per string and not the five cage positions ..
What do suggest for me ?
Personally I don't play the 3 note per string system, but it's also good of course. The 5 shapes as I teach them is most common. Maybe knowing both is good?
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Thank you for the reply.
I mean should I learn the natural minor scale from scratch or otherwise my suggestions are:
1/ add the missing notes to the minor pentatonic
2/ just use the relative minor major concept that I am already using ..
Your advice helps a lot..
@@hottamanful If you are playing jazz, then the full 7-scales are a must. But honestly, if you are playing rock and all its variants, the pentatonics are what we play 95% of the time. So I don't teach the 7-note scales that much, only when students get pretty darn good at pentatonic, and even after that point I focus on Dorian mode or Mixolydian mode -- so it's still not the natural minor scale. Natural minor just isn't in a lot of songs in these genres.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver thank you sir
I it because of Em pentatonic all open strings