Fundamentals of Guitar - (page 16) Pentatonic and Diatonic

[@philcassel]

Love the singing and smile at 12:07. Great lesson!

[@ap3beats444]

Miles! Just found your book and it’s fascinating. I feel like this type of knowledge will bring me closer to that buckethead style I’ve been chasing for a couple years now!

[@smatlanta1]

I bought your book 2 years ago and when I got it I looked through it and it fried my brain too much. I never looked at it since. BUT, now for the first time I've discovered these videos. You're an awesome teacher! Now I can't wait to go back to your book and take advantage of all the wisdom in it. I hope, if you have not done it already, you will do a series of online lessons like these videos. I just bought your My Music Masterclass lesson, but now I need more, more, more from you! Maybe more My Music Masterclass lessons or some TrueFire would be great! Of course more on your channel is also always welcome! I see you started posting on this channel 12 years ago (!), but sometimes it can take many years to become an "overnight success", right? LOL Thanks, Miles.

[@milesokazaki]

Thanks so much, I'm glad you're digging it, even with the delayed effect. My Music Masterclass stuff has more to do with playing standards, while this stuff is a little more esoteric. Visit my website and you'll find plenty to stay busy with.

[@smatlanta1]

@@milesokazaki Well I can't get away from loving to keep trying to improvise better over Standards, so I hope you haven't abandoned any love you may have had in the past for teaching that stuff. But in the meantime, I also love your teaching of what I'll call Mastery of the guitar. I get the same feeling from listening to you talk about "basics" as I do when I hear Barry Harris talk about "basics". "Basics", when explored, can be so advanced, can't they? LOL I've been playing a long time, yet I still am learning from your take on things like How to tune a guitar, how to pick and why to finger the scales in a certain way. You have an awesome logic to your teaching that gets to the root (no pun intended) of these concepts.

[@ThomasBerglundGuitar]

Very good and solid lesson!

[@lindsayblack766]

Hi Miles, thanks for the videos, love the book,the best out there in my opinion. The new “Advancing Guitarist”in it’s importance. I have a question, what do you think about the learning of all 12 major scales in one fixed position as per the Modern Method for Guitar system. I always struggle with the question of whether it’s necessary to teach my students with this method to understand the fretboard. The way you lay it out just seems so much simpler and more efficient.

[@milesokazaki]

I just learn 5 keys in one position. So 12 keys takes two positions plus a bit of the 3rd. But I’m not familiar with this modern Method. I’m more inclined to go ancient

[@lindsayblack766]

@@milesokazaki thanks for the reply. It’s William Leavitt’s book I’m referring to, Berklee Modern Method for Guitar, which teaches being able to play all 12 keys in one position (6 fret span with finger stretches and no shifting at all). My opinion is maybe just beneficial for sight reading.

[@gclement90]

On your book do you write it in n tabs also

[@milesokazaki]

I don’t have tab in it, I don’t find it very useful. But there are fretboard diagrams for anything ambiguous

[@gclement90]

Miles Okazaki I brought your book 2 weeks ago From eBay I still waiting for it

[@gclement90]

Miles Okazaki can you come up with a Dvd as a music class how to improvise Will nice to have