How To FIND THE MELODY Inside a Major Pentatonic Scale. Guitar Lesson

A few weeks back I released a video about finding melody in the Minor Pentatonic located here: • How To ACTUALLY CREATE...
Here we are using the same ideas and discovering what each interval can do for your playing and improvisation.👉 I want to Practice With You!
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I have watched alot of your videos but this one has to be one of your best. I am going to be re watching this many times, first I have to keep working on my shapes. im old and slow. btw, you get a well deserved like dude.

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I've avoided playing major pentatonic scales for years because they never sound right over the chord progression. Now I know why! You've really opened some doors for me with this lesson. At last I can understand why Lynrd Skynrd etc sound so upbeat using the majors. Marvellous stuff, thanks a ton!

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Yep - this guy is great. This lesson also helps with Allman Brothers and Dickey Betts’s solos…and The Stones recorded a ton of songs in BMajor and Keef and Mick Taylor both played their solos in BMajor pent - great stuff!

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Always good to hear the teacher play by example. Thanks for breaking the pattern down and showing how the intervals interact with each other.

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The sixth is good for a bitter sweet bend...Roland J Gutierrez from Magdalena New Mexico USA 🇺🇸

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I've been working on incorporating major phrasing so I don't lean so heavily on the minor, and your lesson did such a terrific job of breaking it down. This is really the best understanding I've gotten of it. Thanks!

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This was a great lesson! The simple assignment of responsibilities to each of the notes in the major pentatonic makes the creation of clean sounding riffs so easy. It also explains why so many of my major moves went wrong. I'm looking forward to your Patreon lessons where you take this one step further moving from a single chord vamp to a two chord pattern.

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This is a great step to get the best out of the pentatonic. Thanks a lot.

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Excellent. Please continue lesson on and talk about moving to the 4 and 5 chords with the maj penta.

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good stuff. You keep hammering into my head that there is no way around knowing your shapes AND the positions of the notes within. Thank you.

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Never knew that "My Girl" riff was the Major Pentatonic!

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Landing on the thirds sounded like the Allman Brothers. Nice...

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this is the best pentatonic video I've ever seen. This is the recipe for flavour, emotion and feeling.

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Keep playing clean.. you have a very Jerry Garcia feel/vibe which is super nice! Great video!

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This video was SO helpful to me - one of the MOST helpful to me I've watched of yours and I've watched a lot. And get a lot from! You're one of my faves for guitar lessons. You explained the difference between the 1st in the minor and the 6th in the major, which was a concept I knew but your explanation was a game-changer, to use a terrible cliche. So this was HUGE. When you played and went "home" to the 6th --that's what I sound like and exactly what I'm trying to solve for, learning how to make a pentatonic sound like the pros.

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You learn something everyday thank you!

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Awesome, loved the clean tone! Just such a good lesson, I’m an A minor fan but might be moving to the majors and B looks fun

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Great lesson on understanding the science behind the solo, thanks for posting this very helpful vid for we beginners to quickly jumpstart our learning curve.

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Unbelievable results!!

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I’ve watched so many videos on learning to play the major pentatonic and for some reason this one has stuck the most. Thank you for the solid lesson! I always struggled with this scale bc I was not thinking about my landing notes and didn’t pay attention to the chord tones.

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This lesson is so darn good, I almost wept! Thanks again Ian....

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Great analogy. Put in your time.

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Holy smokes this helped me more then anything so far.

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The metaphors and nicknames you give these mini-points are genius! I hear the terms in my mind as I fly around looking where to go, and the results are showing! Thank you! 🙏🏼 The Spy vs. Spy reference was awesome, lol.. I had a subscription 😉👍🏼

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This a great lesson, indeed. After having trying to progress with my guitar skills for so long, never getting my arms really around why some progressions sound well and others not, this lesson provides such a rich source of understanding the pentatonic scale and the single notes and their role. Thanks for this video!

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Utterly fantastic lesson.

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Best lesson ever knowing the filling what each note does for your soloists was a light flashing in my brain 💡🧠 ✨....Roland J Gutierrez from Magdalena New Mexico USA 🇺🇸

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Love your videos, thanks Stich!

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and finally it seems like i'm going to make some sense of the pentatonic scale that i have been learning for about 7 years....thanks man

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Great timing. I’ve been trying to use the major pentatonic more over the course of the last few days.

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Your lessons are awesome. This was great basic info.

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One of the best lessons ....

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Another great lesson. Thank you!

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I've said it and I'll say it again the metaphor master! CEO of the major pentatonic. Love it!

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I'm so happy you talked about landing on the sixth in a major pentatonic and why it happens so much. I've always hated playing major pentatonics because of how it would sound, and now I realise exactly why that is! Muscle memory truly is your best friend and worst enemy. Great video, Stich. You have a habit of articulating things that often get missed in the KZbin guitar world.

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I like this lesson, very helpful. Thanks Ian.

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Thank you, I really appreciated the way you defined purpose for all five pentatonic tones. Got a love that southern music.

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Awesome explanations. Thanks!

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I wish other instructors talked in terms of intervals like this and explained the role of those intervals. Patterns and boxes without that context leave me cold. Nice job

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Pentatonic master! I really want to listen the solo again and again. Addicting melodies! You thaught me caged and many.... Stitch method, two thumbs up!

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Excellent lesson! I "ruin the Major pentatonic" all the time by landing on the 6 - due to learning the minor pentatonic first. By the way, I've gotten into Major pentatonic because I'm learning to play Rockabilly and your playing here sounds nothing like what I want to play but the concepts hold true and you've helped me tremendously. Thank you.

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My mind is blown! Concepts that others could not or would not explain-you lay it all out in easy to understand golden stringed nuggets of information. Keep up the fantastic videos:)