Scales & Tales - Pentatonic Puzzles

Here's the next episode of Scales & Tales with 'Pentatonic Puzzles.'
I haven't created a Scales & Tales lesson since last year, but I've been wanting to return to this series and beef up the content/material available on the channel.
This episode focuses on targeting pentatonic scales in a musical and approachable way, as we're hitting all five positions of the scale along the fretboard and noticing how they connect along the neck, much like pieces of a puzzle.
Once you start to visualize and see how you can arrange the notes from this common and useful scale on the neck, you can begin creating an assortment of licks, phrases, and melodic ideas that utilize this type of thinking and layout of fingerings on the neck of the guitar.
After you've worked through the material in this lesson, you should explore other keys, string groups, melodic phrases, movements, fingerings, and much more. This will give you more to explore and work through, not to mention the likelihood that you'll unlock and create a mountain of useful licks, phrases, and ideas along the way.
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[@gregcastdrywall1645]

One of the greatest pentatonic lessons I've heard on KZbin!!

[@SrdjanPavlovic11080]

I believe that this is the best guitar channel on You Tube - and if I could choose only one guitar channel for subscription, this would be the ONE. David Brewster has best mix of fundamentals, technical exercises, chords, riffs, licks, lead parts... I wish I had this information when I start playing guitar 20 years ago. My teachers were very bad in explaining, and they were always in bad mood, inpatient and full of themselves. It is very rare that someone who has this level of guitar playing is so good in 2 other things: being excellent teacher and being down to earth and humble.

[@HarlanHarvey76]

This was an amazingly simple but powerful lesson! Thanks Dave!

[@christopherhickman3579]

Another killer lesson from the brooster YEaaaaaaahhhhhh !!! You know he ain’t gonna dieeeeyieeeeee!!!

[@LZMAmzelle]

You just made me put on a Alice records lol

[@BluesInSeattle]

Dude. This is really cool. Im starting to think you have the best guitar lessons on KZbin. Plus you totally are a doppelganger for the drummer in my band and since we can't rehearse right now, I'll hang with you.

[@MrRudd-vv7cz]

Very good guitar player, teacher, tone, and approach.... Thank you for your amazing work

[@josearalat]

No one has made the pentatonic scale sound so awesome!!!

[@AmericanMonster]

You are one of the best teachers on YT. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@MarkBreton]

This has really helped me out, and I have only tried to tackle two sequences. Thanks so much for your always applicable, fun, and hard lessons. I grow a lot from the content.

[@Blue_3rd]

Excellent, Dave! ✌️🎸

[@jasonyltan7672]

I like the way you explained it, played it once or twice to reinforce the hearing - really great teaching there and it works for me really well.

[@funkfan1751]

Thanks so much for this information as I have been starting to look at sequences and using the 3 + 2 and 2 + 3 forms and this information really helps cover the whole neck.

[@Aja-nt]

Great great approach to learning the pentatonic scale and its various patterns. It puts understanding the scale into usable bite sized chunks. Dweezil Zappa also uses this same method to map out and learn the fretboard.

[@1photoradical]

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

[@bryanmannoia8410]

Excellent lesson! Dweezil Zappa taught a similar concept of splitting the boxes into 2 string sets. It literally changed my view of the fretboard overnight. you take the idea even further, with a number of ways to ascend and descend the fretboard. the tapping idea looks cool, sounded great. despite not tapping, I might have to incorporate that. thanks for your time.

[@MrEarltron]

Great ideas and explanations here!

[@robindavis726]

This is so helpful. I have been working on getting the two string sequences on the various string sets. It is great to have your examples on how to mix and match them. It is easy to get stuck just playing them bottom to top or vice versa. Of course, when learning them ya kind of gotta take that approach (at least I need to with my limited spatial abilities). But your lesson is timely since I have enough of the map implanted that I can start playing around with interesting patterns. Your instruction is just at the right level for the intermediate guitarist.

[@finaljesus]

i wish you had you aa a teacher i absolutely love the way you teach thank you for the lessons

[@germanandreagiri3079]

That was awesome! Really interesting ideas

[@uncleremus5046]

Your theory lessons RULE 🍺’SKI!!🤘 My teacher called that hopscotching, we did it with modes also.

[@devilslide01]

Great stuff like this is just one reason to subscribe .how have I been playing 34 years and still suck? I didn’t have a guy opening my mind to cool sequences from the pentatonic! Thanks!

[@michaelferguson4086]

I feel the same. Been playing forever and still suck. This was a good breakdown

[@simonrourke1978]

Brilliant lesson, actually enjoyed learning scales by following your method and using different techniques too! Thank you.

[@wulfenii64]

It's always cool playing with G. Not only can you find cool licks using the D and G strings but you can find interesting rhythms in that area using the same strings.

[@bertgetner9397]

Great lesson! Love the Rush album on the wall. Thanks!

[@davidkessler2604]

Great lesson. Thank you! I have subscribed.

[@Guitarmadme]

Lovin these types of informational lesson that you do..that I can incorporate into my own playing. 🎸. Many thanks 🎸 🇬🇧 👍

[@PatrickAllen]

Just discovered your channel! love the vibe! your remind me of Andy Aledort, who is an awesome teacher! he has these lessons on how the Allman Brothers used the pentatonic

[@tasosdiaforetico7377]

Excellent teaching as always man really cool and smooth playing. Clearly Uve played fair few years. I'll teach few students of mine today these ideas mixing it with wee bit of Dorian

[@Snostrebla1]

Great lesson 👍

[@davidknight8219]

Thank you really enjoyed the lesson

[@scott121681]

Tip top quality Mr. Brewster!

[@wakinginfinity]

Awesome!

[@vinski19]

New sub here, thanks for these lessons. I really like your teaching and playing style...reminds me of Guthrie. Cheers

[@taomacbass1]

Love it!

[@joshuasydnee]

Great lesson David 👍🎸🤟

[@billwelshsf]

Man, that was one hell of a great lesson.

[@GeoffSweet]

The new loaded pickguard soothes my OCD. Lol.

[@jeffjolliereticulatedpytho5962]

Great lesson

[@georgew.morrowiii118]

Interesting take on a pentatonic lesson

[@angeldusted1577]

God I wish you lived near me. You’re an amazing teacher and I would love to be your student. You explain everything so easy.

[@fearlessfrankie6479]

Great idea Dave.I have try it in different keys! BTW your new pick guard sounds wicked!

[@samchase1295]

That was so cool

[@pickboy7]

Great lesson Dave!

[@tomdutra977]

Time for me to roll up my sleeves and have some fun. Much respect Brewha...

[@juliusaitken]

Great!

[@stringbender11672]

Yeah bro that was a good one. One of those boxes in G really spoke to me. Thanx 4 that!!! Damn i love youtube👍👍😂😂😂😂🤘🤘

[@michaelsteven1090]

Great lesson.. I wish for a lesson on hybrid picking techniques/practice..

[@sidvicioux]

there's a new sheriff in town. baddest cat on the net.

[@V8LC100]

7:10 - hybrid picking is new to me - do you use the pick only for the D string and your 2nd finger for picking/ plucking the G string? Thanks

[@daveydumpling]

Didn’t realise you were as good as this ! :)

[@timkritzer134]

Sweet!

[@looty2244]

invaluable

[@donnievick3076]

How often do you change the LP frame by the picks?

[@V8LC100]

How did you learn all the note names of the fretboard?

[@bryanmannoia8410]

say 'em and play 'em until you have them down. believe me, it will happen if you put in the time.

[@gregcastdrywall1645]

I love Rush ❤️

[@choochoochooseyou]

Surely I'd still have to learn the fretboard to know where the other Ds and Gs are.

[@christopherhickman3579]

Can you make a video on the diatonic scale I learned it cause zakk wylde said to in a DVD and he showed all the positions and stuff but I wanna know more and I’m moving to doing with it what you’ve shown me to do with pentatonics like just riding to strings all the way through the neck I just want some more information about it i guess from your perspective

[@christopherhickman3579]

Two strings *

[@timothy5974]

Nice lesson. Thank you, but I have an issue. I’m not good with minor keys but I have to ask this about the key of Gmajor. GABCDEF#. How many pentatonic Major and minor pentatonic scales are there diatonically in Gmajor key? The I 4 5 are major chords🤓 ,so is this 3 major pentatonics and 2,3,6 are minor chords giving us 3 minor pentatonic scales? I get the 5 shapes for each but this is all the same notes. 😑 ugh. Hope you don’t mind asking. Thank you for all your lessons.

[@stevechevell7153]

There's only one major pentatonic in g. Major. It's just 5 Notes of that scale played all over the neck in 5 positions making 1 big scale. Easier to learn 5 boxes in chunks but its all one thing. The relative minor of G major pent. is E minor. Pentatonic . Same notes as G major pentatonic played in 5 positions . 1 big scale. Theyre Both are same . Every major key has 5 note pentatonic version missing 2 of the notes. Hope this helps

[@Wargasm644]

Badass

[@christopherhickman3579]

im a little confused what comes first the tap or the fretted notes ?? anybody help a brotha out here?

[@sm1557]

I love your lessons but is there any way you could bump your voice level up a notch?