Avoid the Pentatonic Scale in Your Solos [3 STEPS]

[@2fishes-q5h]

At a very young age, forced to learn how to play the piano. When I quit I taught myself to play guitar. I knew scales. The pentatonic scale didn't sound right to me... so I learned chords from a Joe Pass chord book, and always played rhythm. With this free easy lesson Joscho showed me how to improvise my own solos... priceless! Thnx so much Maestro!

[@genesises]

Joscho is so incredible I feel I improve at playing just by watching him!

[@arkalonalan]

@genesises He is among the very best of the very best guitar players on planet earth 🌍🌎

[@lotumonstret]

You’re always a sure inspiration, Mr Stephan! Enjoy your day 🇸🇪

[@brianbrino4310]

Joscho really interesting the use of two fingers! Thank you solo much!

[@erichnussbaum]

Eine tolle Lektion in 5 Minuten! Pures Gold! Danke!

[@Amourtendresse]

Vous parlez couramment deux langues, moi une seule le français..et je ne joue pas de la guitare, mais j'adore vous voir et vous écouter jouer.Votre talent est reconnu et salué par tous avec juste raison. Et là j'ai remarqué vos belles mains aux ongles soignés 👍 Bonne continuation dans votre art, vous nous faites du bien Joscho 🙏❤️✨

[@BrettPenza]

Joscho, interesting that you recommend two fingers Ala Django. Yet, also noted that you can easily play with all fingers too! Love the simple, no nonsense approach to improv. Great stuff.

[@paulmulroe5913]

Fantastic lesson....you enlightened my playing with this......please do more🙏 You are a true artist on the guitar.....thank you !

[@acreguy3156]

Thanks, Joscho!! I'm a piano player and have always based my Blues, Jazz, Country, and R&B solos on the major and minor pentatonic scales. It's so easy to get stale using them all the time. I think you're saying I can still use those but also explore the techniques you provide in this video. Many thanks again!!

[@abgonzalez5459]

Good stuff! Joscho already a legend!! Great job

[@philjohnson7160]

Good solid stuff from one of my favorite players. Thanks, Joscho.

[@alisoninchausti1080]

Excellent lesson, thank you!

[@sergioandresvahos281]

Just as Django imitated and copied the hand movements of his favorite musicians, Joscho Stephan is my great role model. I'm not great musician but, I would like to play like him and learn his hand movements. His sound is highly technical but full of soul.

[@xxbstpagexx]

Brilliantly simple! Thank you.

[@alextinu8841]

Mr. Joscho, you are are a great teacher! Cheers!

[@JoschoStephan]

Many thanks!

[@indianared]

Very practical !

[@AloisFestenberger]

Dziekuje, Spasiba, Dankeschön Joscho ❤

[@ne33graba]

great lesson! many thanks!

[@mastermollica2669]

Beautiful lesson. Practical and nice to see how Django probably did it.

[@johnsrabe]

Good stuff and a simple FUN concept. Good for hacks like me and good players. And once you start trying this, you can hear it, and then do it without thinking.

[@carrollgarvin2136]

I wish I had the time to follow Joscho and his instructions! CG

[@alexandrsherbakov9878]

Vielen Dank Stefan.

[@andrejgregoric1324]

Thanks.

[@longtalljay]

I've always known these concepts, but in your hands they become really musical!

[@ElmoresGuitarsInc]

Great little lesson...I don't use a pick so I'll never get the attack but Flamenco thumb is close 👍🙂

[@billregan1981]

Very useful lesson!

[@sjl-nb1kw]

Hey Joscho! Love your playing! I just got a Dupont VRB petit bouche and was wondering if you could do a video on things like what is a good string action/guitar setup and what kinds of strings/picks, etc... are typically used for this style. Keep up the great playing!

[@JoschoStephan]

Thanks! I am looking forward of doing something like this soon!

[@JoJo-cy4tb]

ur a good teacher

[@J-gp2el]

Ha! It seems so easy when Joscho is talking about it that if I played the guitar I’d surely use it 😁

[@mariano3760]

Bravo.! Ti aspettiamo ancora nuovamente a Roma.

[@marsvinbob]

Joscho you are great helps~~~!!!!!! tnx a lot for your lessons!!!!

[@guitarlots]

Great tips

[@AndrewFriedberg]

tattooing this to inside of eyelids

[@pecavulic7399]

Thank You! Gypsi guitar ole

[@homonnaizsolt]

topnotch lesson Joscho.

[@ovenkloven]

Top Danke❤

[@corybarnes2341]

I used to really focus on trying to avoid using the pentatonic scale in my solos, but a study of Larry Carlton's playing led me to realize I just didn't realize how many pentatonic scales are available to be used and how many more interesting ways they can be used.

[@vladimirlebedenko2226]

Chromatisms damn, so easy, yet never thought about it. Thanks for the lesson!

[@ethanskalsky3963]

may the algorithm bless thee

[@wed2w]

3:53 from movie Sound of Music!

[@marioguerreroneyra7591]

Genial !!!

[@rvmusictv0122]

🙏❤️ thank you

[@TruthSurge]

Not avoid, LEARN how to use it properly. EVERY great guitar solo employs one or more of the 5 pentatonic shapes. The first 7 notes of the solo to Bohemian Rhapsody use the basic, standard, first position pentatonic shape. I could list 100 other classic rock, metal, blues hits that also use pentatonic shapes. The key is to not play them in an obviously up or down manner or in a worn out manner (unless you're doing an old blues tune). Learn the positions. Learn what the intervals sound like in those positions. Then you can use them by also adding in one or two extra notes or even MORE using chromatics. good luck everyone.

[@playtheblues]

Great ideas - well taught!

[@ThePsychedelicBowser]

Would be cool if you cover a black sabbath song..by choice..they are super jazzy bluesy..you already will know..

[@arkalonalan]

A method of escaping pentatonic prison and hammer-on hell

[@jurajmecko1241]

😀❤️👌

[@mathiasmas]

30 years of noodling in the pentatonic blues-scale: wish me luck! 😂

[@K22channel]

👍

[@petedavid5127]

The pentatonic scale is probably the most important scale of all.

[@pbasswil]

The principle is simple: You play the kind of melody you, yourself, like to hear. Great improvisors cultivate the ability to create beautiful melody in their minds; and THEN they convert it into hand movements on the fretboard. Folks who get stuck on pentatonic scales are the ones that let their finger habits (rather than their musical minds) dictate the melodies they play. So you practice: First think of a melody (or steal ones you like from recordings); _then_ figure out how to play it. This translation gets faster & faster, the more you do it.

[@gadymarcus2362]

Bello/Magnifico.🙏✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️👑

[@murrayatuptown353]

👋™

[@tangobayus]

The pentatonic scale is the cause of more boring solos than any other part of guitar technique.

[@unwrought9757]

Do not ever use the pentatonic scale unless you are Antonin Dvorak.

[@tlb2732]

No thanks! I happen to enjoy soloing in the 1st, 2nd, and 5th positions of the minor pentatonic scale. I also love positions 1, 2, and 3 when working in major pentatonic. Your music and your videos remind me of walking through a glass art exhibit. While it is beautiful, I can't touch or connect with any of it. I feel out of place and uncomfortable around it and want to get away from it. And that guitar is much the same.

[@Gerguzalbutzelnikoskech]

These are the words of someone who's stopped learning.

[@tlb2732]

@@Gerguzalbutzelnikoskech Wrong again... I'll be 61 in a couple of weeks and have been a performing musician for 44 years. I've continued learning since day 1 and since retiring 4 years ago from a career as a telephone lineman, I'm like a boy again, but with many years of life experience. I currently play in two 3 piece classic rock cover bands. I also have a solo acoustic show and perform regularly in church. I have more hunger to learn than ever and more free time than ever with which to do it. And I continually learn from each musical endeavor and spend much time exploring new resources. That's how I landed on your video.

[@johnsrabe]

Who are you looking at in those shots where you’re not looking at the camera? Angele Merkel? A cigarette girl? A life-sized photo of Tommy Emmanuel?

[@jysmtl]

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[@martinopinto6323]

Like if the pentatonic is shit

[@Freelaughter420]

LMAO all your playing is full of pentatonics and repetitive

[@SKarlaArt]

I think you laughed your brain out, cause you sound like an idiot