5 levels of the pentatonic scale - Zero to Hero

[@rafa_guitar]

Rob, it is truly a pleasure to travel with you on each of your amazing lessons, reaffirming our knowledge and gaining a lot of new insights. The quality of what you offer at all levels: musical, performance, graphic, educational, humor and good vibes, etc. is impressive. Thank you so much for your dedication, time and sharing!

[@QJamTracks]

What a wonderful and motivating comment! Thank you!

[@ericliu8202]

謝謝！

[@NickSergeev]

Super clear explanation! Thank you!

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you Nick! I appreciate it!

[@t2dev]

Thanks!

[@QJamTracks]

THANKS!! Really appreciate this!

[@alkaliforever9051]

It's honestly because of you I am where I am today with guitar. Thank you so much!!!

[@QJamTracks]

Wow... I'm honered but it's too much credit. It is you that is learning and playing. You owe it to yourself!

[@alkaliforever9051]

@@QJamTracks Thank you, just keep up the great work your doing here!

[@rallypojken]

He's one of a kind! So good.,generous!

[@GeneralTHC]

EXCELLENT LESSON right here!

[@marcinbreczko4777]

I just want to thank you again, Sir, for being so generous with your knowledge presented in such a guitar-friendly way. All the best from Poland!

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks!

[@marcjdt5796]

Simply awesome. Many thanks from France !

[@QJamTracks]

Merci!

[@MT-zv3ie]

I've been playing for 25 years but you changed my playing forever. I feel like I just got handed sacred knowledge. You've connected the dots in a way that seems so simple and obvious now, or crystal clear. Thank you sensei!

[@H23-z6p]

The example at 17:50 is so good

[@asrafulhaque3598]

I m just blasting ❤. What a variation of Pentatonic!!!!!!🎉

[@barabbasrift8874]

Love this video

[@Kirk1914]

Excellent

[@kennethbogle4359]

A beautiful guitar sound you get

[@christianpucciarelli]

Yours are among if not the best content about guitar in the whole yt ecosystem

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you!

[@rezahasheminia7927]

Perfect! Thank you so much for such a useful clip. ❤

[@cancelbubble6535]

Fantastic video.

[@electrikstream]

Excellent material. Am getting your ebooklets.

[@denisblack9897]

This is the most important lesson of my life, no kidding! when major 6th segment started i was "wait wait wait, i didn't yet fully integrate the stuff before" - first time i'm so dead serious about learning Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm such an idiot to have it in my "Watch later" playlist for more than a month!

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

and another great post. thank you.

[@kane6529]

I love the superimposing the minor of the major 2nd to get Dorian! I wish there was a guide for all the modal sounds other than Lydian and Dorian that you showed us

[@Chris-w4j]

There are lessons about super imposing pentatonic scales Gm pent over Am = Phrygian Gm pent over C = Mixolydian is another good one. Just remember for every mode there are 3 possible pentatonic scales. A Phrygian= Gm/Am/Dm pents A Minor = Am/Dm/Em pents A Dorian= Em/Am/Bm pents Relative majors APhry=Cmix Amin=Cmaj Ador=Clyd Out of the 3 possible maj/minpents for each Mode there's just 1 that is not shared for phry and dor (mix and lyd) It's the strongest. Locrian, there 3 major/minor pentatonics that can be super imposed A locrian =Gm/Cm/Dm pents So Cm pentatonic over A locrian would be the strongest. Most people just use an altered pentatonic like 1 b3 b5 b6 b7 (a mode of dominant pent 1 2 3 5 b7) I like 1 b3 4 b5 b7 since it's just one note away from minor pentatonic (Minor pent b5) it's a mode of the (kumoi scale 1 2 b3 4 6)

[@craigfouche]

Your theory is top notch as well as your execution there of. I really enjoy your style of teaching and your content Rob. Thank you so much for what your share and the efforts that goes into each and every episode! 🎸🎸🎸

[@QJamTracks]

Thank you Craig!

[@MercutioUK2006]

Brilliant information - and if you want even more on the same topic, Scott Henderson covers further pentatonic substitutions on his first video if you can find it. Thanks :)

[@mauriciogambini]

Thanks for this great lesson !

[@henok58]

This guy 👏👏👏👏

[@BlackCatFriday]

It was very helpful. Thanks man

[@warwanwusic]

can you make a video about the hirajoshi scale and other japanese scales

[@QJamTracks]

Hi. I made a video about that scale and other ethnic exotic Pentatonic scales not long ago. Please check my channel and you'll find it there :)

[@t0lsi]

wow im suprised you only have 70k subs. very high quality video, thanks!

[@jimdep6542]

Very well explained and demonstrated ! Thank you ! BTW, that's a beautiful guitar. I've seen them before, but this is the first time I've seen one used in a lesson format. I'm a lefty, so I will keep a look out for a lefty model I can afford.

[@QJamTracks]

It's a Steve Vai signature. a Ibanez JEM 7VBK. You can find "junior" versions that are very affordable. So look for left-hand JEM junior.

[@jimdep6542]

@@QJamTracks Much appreciated. When I saw the neck design, it reminded me of neck on a double necked guitar I saw John McLaughlin use back in the mid 70's. What difference(s) does the JEM junior model have.....just offhand ? I can look it up, but wondering if you know.

[@thomasarneson4511]

I'm a piano player but this is very interesting. Your style I would call smooth jazz, but it is very cool. Good video, reminds me of pentatonic techniques. Smooth or hard, it's all good.

[@magicslayer81]

great job

[@Damianate]

I am super amazed how great is that, thank you! All perfectly explained, but there is one thing I don't understand, why are using A# while superimposing E minor pentatonic over Am progression around 18:13 second?

[@krudler406]

more tasty ideas, thanks Rob!

[@DragisaBoca]

First comment! Super excited to hear your thoughts sensei!

[@MOAB-UT]

I know my penta scales and felt pretty good about it...then I played live with a student at a guitar conservatory program. Wow. He made me look bad. Yes, penta is great to start, but there are levels to this folks. I have been playing a long time too but fell very short of this guys skills. He explained a bit too me during our jam session. He was proficient with tracing out each individual chord, running different scales and modes for each. His in depth knowledge of harmony and tonal centers, modes and degrees of the scale made him sound like a pro vs. this Joe...and I am a pentatonic master! LOL I can play it fast, jump between Major and Minor Penta, when appropriate, in all 5 positions, backwards and forwards, in the dark. I know my blue notes and root notes in each of the 5 shapes. That allowed me to hang with him, but my playing was nothing compared to this guy. We were jamming and people took video...of him, not me. He knew about arpeggios, he knew where to find triads all across the neck and then selected voicings and runs that matched each chord...while I was playing it. He literally picked up on songs I was playing- that he never played in about 10 seconds- then he sounded better than me. His foundation was that strong. Songs that took me a week to learn. It was humbling and impressive at the same time. He knew Jazz, Latin, Rock, Modern, Improvisational, Blues- you name it. So yes, get your pentatonics down but just know there is a big world out there. You probably won't get there through YTbe. Get instruction with a Berklee grad is my advice. One that sounds good and plays what you want to learn.

[@blue_serpent]

Great video as always! Is there maybe a chance you can do a video of a fundamentals* roadmap on what to learn in sequential order? Pretty hard to self-learn guitar on the internet without a roadmap. A lot of teachers say that learning depends on individual goal but I believe that fundamentals* should be the same until the intermediate level - then specialize later on the advance level.

[@QJamTracks]

That's a good one. I want to make such a list, but couldn't find the time yet. But it's in the pen...

[@blue_serpent]

@@QJamTracks Thank you so much!!!

[@blann1]

Great video! But I couldn't find the e-book?

[@QJamTracks]

The ebook is not ready yet...

[@lewy7601]

May I ask which HeadRush speaker do you use? Is that 12" or 8" speaker?

[@QJamTracks]

That's the 12"

[@radiozelaza]

Major pentatonic did not originate exclusively in East Asia, it was used in every corner of the prehistoric world - Native Americans, Slavs and other people had their oldest chants in major pentatonic

[@Conanthebarbiturate]

At 2:52 why does it go C D EG? Isn’t it C D EF?

[@QJamTracks]

Yes that should be: CDEFGABC and obviously not CDEGGABC :)

[@kjellbratt6301]

C maj 7 is the same as C penta Major?

[@QJamTracks]

Cmaj7 is a chord (C-e-g-b) and C major pentatonic is a scale (c-d-e-g-a).

[@daisolokh8212]

❤❤❤❤❤🎉

[@chrisrosencrans]

Anytime I think of musical terminology it's either in your voice or the dude from MusicTheoryForGuitar lol

[@johnp.johnson1541]

Adding a M3 or M6 to a pentatonic scale creates a new, six tone scale. Does it not?

[@QJamTracks]

Yes it becomes a hexatonic scale.

[@pmizzl12]

I always tell my friends jazz is just blues that went to college

[@Chris-w4j]

Gm pent over Am = phrygian Gm pent over C = mixolydian

[@danielmadet9159]

Great explanation which open doors....

[@Christopher_Samaan]

i still stink at this guitar playing, i'm not even gonna front. but i need to try to keep up with how you're playing.

[@MrSpanky2001]

This was confusing.

[@petekassulke3730]

'Promo sm'

[@BobYourell]

A bonehead like me needs something to help me memorize and get comfortable with this, so mnemonics are in order, no? How's this imagination trick? For the minor pentatonic based on the 5th: Move 3 to 2 (9). For Am: Move C to B. Based on 4th: Move 5 to 6 (13). For Am: Move E to F. Based on 2nd: Move 3 to 2 AND 7 to 6(maj). For Am: C to B AND G to F#. (And if you use 3rd in Am, you try C# instead.) And then there's… Every Big Groupie Deserves An Expresso (common tuning) Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Burgers (sharps) Birds Eat All Donuts, Gulls Can Fly (flats)

[@vinmangob8555]

lol been playing on and off for 30 years, not even level 1, not lol.

[@QJamTracks]

It will come to you!

[@Illumignostic]

this is literally all of the boomer cvliches that no one anywhere should ever play, ever again.

[@JB19504]

Rob, Just bought the e-book. This kind of stuff is just what I have been looking for. Hopefully, it will meet my expectations. If it does (and your video sure did), I will buy the rest of them. I have been looking to get to the next level and seen a million videos, but yours struck a "chord". Please excuse the pun!

[@Gregorypeckory]

Really cool lessons from a guy who is from the Sean Connery school of pronouncing "s" words like "sh" words! The name ish Tonic...Penta Tonic!

[@QJamTracks]

Hahaha it is isn't it ;)

[@zaidanaldzakir2008]

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