Pentatonic sucks, play this instead

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  • @BrandonDeon
    @BrandonDeon  2 месяца назад +26

    52 Week Guitar Player is currently closed for enrollment until mid-September. Sign up to the waiting list to be among the first in line. We will only be accepting 100 new students: brandondeon.com/survey-page2

    • @madster01
      @madster01 2 месяца назад +7

      Congrats dude! Brandon hearted your comment!

    • @DayoTVMCC
      @DayoTVMCC 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@madster01 ayo mr g minor

    • @ScoobyDoo-kt9pv
      @ScoobyDoo-kt9pv 2 месяца назад

      I liked the unrelated pentatonic shapes solo best - perhaps you should combine both like a normal person then it would really be best.
      Isn’t that what people do?

    • @wyattkingsbury1141
      @wyattkingsbury1141 2 месяца назад

      Is there an age limit

    • @ScoobyDoo-kt9pv
      @ScoobyDoo-kt9pv 2 месяца назад

      I thought this was more than a couple weeks ago
      But I found it helpful.
      I’m a pretty good guitarist already because of natural talent soloing and writing music that I personally think needs to be heard it is better than what’s out there.
      But … I relied on natural talent too much.
      As everyone does - and it’s important to focus on theory.
      Exercises like this are extremely helpful.
      I actually like the pentatonic shapes after it got out of the lower beat and the fifth best.
      But targeting appregio chord tones
      It’s necessary to harmonize
      And it creates movement
      And helps tell a story.
      I am a funny guy and change the scales in a weird way to get weird sounds.
      But anyway nothing wrong with good exercises.
      I’d like to focus on the fifth, which, would also seem pretty easy too since that is also an unchanging element between major and minor.

  • @notbatman27
    @notbatman27 2 месяца назад +290

    for every like this comment gets i will practice guitar for 10 minutes

    • @chinchirap
      @chinchirap 2 месяца назад +1

      do it.

    • @ZaidoDayz
      @ZaidoDayz 2 месяца назад +18

      practice 7,6 hours NOW or else you're on CIGARETTES

    • @maxwellblakely7952
      @maxwellblakely7952 2 месяца назад +5

      Why don’t you just practice ?

    • @Caraaleatorio1468
      @Caraaleatorio1468 2 месяца назад

      Have fun!

    • @IamBoge
      @IamBoge 12 дней назад

      2900/60 dude you got like 48 hours of practicing get to it

  • @aa23music
    @aa23music 2 месяца назад +40

    bro hearted his own message

  • @aarondsilva992
    @aarondsilva992 2 месяца назад +28

    Brandon, hear me out.
    A great example for this is the solo of Sultan of Swings by Mark Knopler. He only played chord tones and shapes the entire time, and made one of the best solos under the sun. Thats a perfect example for this and since ive always looked at learning solos differently, always tryna find something theoretical.

    • @Renav21
      @Renav21 2 месяца назад +1

      The first solo?

  • @adamekcar
    @adamekcar 2 месяца назад +9

    "Tell me which sounds better?" - plays all amazing solos.
    Me: "Fuck you......." 😂

  • @squilliamfancyson5313
    @squilliamfancyson5313 2 месяца назад +7

    Man, he said pentatonic sounds bad but it sounded so good when he does it.

  • @coyote8427
    @coyote8427 2 месяца назад +42

    can’t even play the pentatonic well coz i’m scared of brandon yelling at me about it

    • @daltongosvenor4922
      @daltongosvenor4922 2 месяца назад +6

      Brandon would yell at you for not trying, not trying and failing

    • @neal_laugman
      @neal_laugman 2 месяца назад +1

      😵 😂😂

    • @fond_of_ue2921
      @fond_of_ue2921 2 месяца назад

      Comfortably numb is actually just the Bm pentatonic dw

  • @axxenm
    @axxenm 2 месяца назад +26

    that pentatonic solo didn't sound to bad to me

  • @isopod9350
    @isopod9350 2 месяца назад +5

    Love this man so much, his shorts were a real help last year when I started playing but now these videos are just a whole other level. Thank you Brandon

  • @derrick9702
    @derrick9702 2 месяца назад +3

    they all sounded good

  • @aaronjaehutcheson
    @aaronjaehutcheson 2 месяца назад +4

    And so begins the fun times

  • @ak2010utube
    @ak2010utube 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks. Very helpful and clearly explained that I actually understood what you was talking about for a change.

  • @t0lsi
    @t0lsi 2 месяца назад +6

    every like this comment gets i will practice 20 minutes so i beat the other guy in the comments

  • @billrobinson9295
    @billrobinson9295 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow. Older dude here getting back into guitar after years and that is the simplest and coolest explanation I have ever seen. I have had issues with working arpeggios into my improvising but this just blew my eyes wide open.
    Thank you!

  • @Ttrillace
    @Ttrillace 2 месяца назад

    Really grateful for these tips, this change timing could not have been any more perfect, happened exactly when I started to learn how to solo.. 🙏

  • @lenpiotoxix9160
    @lenpiotoxix9160 2 месяца назад

    Great video, keep going the way you want to bro you're a great teacher for a lot of us 👌

  • @SneedBass
    @SneedBass 2 месяца назад

    Thanks Brandon you've taught me a thing or 2 or 3. I've definitely fallen into soloing using pentatonics. Lately I've branched out with leading notes and chord tones. I'm pretty critical about my own playing, I'm not a perfectionist. Sometimes I leave some imperfections in my songs as it feels a little more raw. I'm completely self taught in every instrument I play: bass, guitar, mandolin, keys, ukulele. I'm basically a one man band, but if I ever find people to play with, I want to be well rounded and can play what's needed. Watching your shorts and videos has given me more tools I can incorporate. So I want to thank you for these compact little lessons.

  • @mabblers
    @mabblers 2 месяца назад

    Great lesson

  • @ahmedaliqureshi8105
    @ahmedaliqureshi8105 2 месяца назад

    this is great information

  • @howpe8100
    @howpe8100 2 месяца назад +1

    came to me just in time for a change

  • @blackrosekeating
    @blackrosekeating 2 месяца назад

    Brandon, you're an awesome player. I really enjoy listening to the 30 second long snippets of music you play in your videos. It must be all the fookin cigarettes you don't smoke or something. Do you have original music posted anywhere?

  • @kagenotatsumaki
    @kagenotatsumaki 2 месяца назад +1

    Is it bad that I like the targeted 3rd and simple pentatonic shapes best? Lol

  • @JRJigsawyer
    @JRJigsawyer 2 месяца назад

    Honestly my takeaway was "oh shit, i should just follow a similar formula when Im soloing and target the same chord tone one time through the progression, then go to the next the next time through, and at some point just pentatonic it up one of the pass throughs..." Great way to give your solo some movement and variation! But i like the way he taught to focus on one area of the neck at a time, also helps with learning chords everywhere along the neck so you dont have to move way up and way down for a change and sound like someone on cigarettes! Better voice leading this way too, even if Im not good at it I understand the goal.

  • @ryanfox6260
    @ryanfox6260 2 месяца назад +1

    They all have their place. One annoyance I have is this push by internet guitarists to focus on the third, all the time. They think it's like the holy grail to always hit the 3rd. In reality, just play what sounds best. When I'm coming up with vocal melodies I don't think of thirds or roots, I just sing what sound good. And if you transcribe vocal melodies, you're going to get a mix all the time. Pentatonic runs sound cool interspersed as a way to get away form the chord tone sound, making it all the better when you do hit a chord tone (roots are't just for noobs!)

  • @aa23music
    @aa23music 2 месяца назад

    helpful

  • @mikayalfaisal
    @mikayalfaisal 2 месяца назад +1

    But they all sound good 😭

  • @flappybird4128
    @flappybird4128 2 месяца назад

    targeting the 3rd sounds very jazzy and targeting the 5th sounds metal so in the end depends on what you play tbh

  • @Guitarboy761
    @Guitarboy761 2 месяца назад +2

    How to fast legato?

  • @elevensacrifices9715
    @elevensacrifices9715 2 месяца назад

    are you using gate pedal to avoid hum and buzz while playing tele with distortion? or is there some other way? teach me sensei

  • @8tonystark8
    @8tonystark8 2 месяца назад

    0:05 can someone tell where dafok this sound comes from? It's in every yt video in recent times

  • @tanjusar114
    @tanjusar114 2 месяца назад

    old good penta of course...

  • @bsparks
    @bsparks 2 месяца назад

    I think using the 3rds sounds best, most emotion heavy solo. The pentatonic one is more noodly and atonal/random feeling. Root is kind of boring and 5th is okay.

  • @carltripodi2211
    @carltripodi2211 2 месяца назад

    I prefer pentatonic scales because I play Stoner Doom & Sludge Metal.

  • @rafter_man
    @rafter_man 2 месяца назад

    If Cobra Kai was a guitar teacher

  • @prav777
    @prav777 2 месяца назад

    now just leave !! lolol
    we will man

  • @zTwig
    @zTwig 2 месяца назад

    Am I the only one that liked the pentatonic solo the most lol

  • @jo_h8168
    @jo_h8168 Месяц назад

    I only play e minor

  • @nine9whitepony526
    @nine9whitepony526 2 месяца назад +1

    Hahaha you're giving away info that the other RUclipsrs don't want people to know.

  • @madster01
    @madster01 2 месяца назад +1

    Hello beaches! It’s day 84 of telling Brandon to play A minor

  • @Lucas-dm7xo
    @Lucas-dm7xo 2 месяца назад +3

    Womp womp

    • @marcelszekowski315
      @marcelszekowski315 2 месяца назад +1

      average pentatonic mouth breather

    • @Lucas-dm7xo
      @Lucas-dm7xo 2 месяца назад

      @@marcelszekowski315 uhhh… I’ve moved on I use harmonic minor now

  • @ekomefortune7381
    @ekomefortune7381 2 месяца назад

    DAY 2 of asking Brandon to explain relative minor theory

  • @theafterman5903
    @theafterman5903 2 месяца назад

    Brandon,
    I'm old and come from a time when we thought cigarettes were cool so my brain is irreparably fucked.
    I understand conceptually what you are doing here, but the idea that i could do it myself seems like a combination of hilarious and unrealistic.
    Do a video on what to learn if you ACTUALLY suck at guitar, rather than "RUclips GEN Z savant suck" at guitar.
    Thanks in advance,