Scales & Tales - Pentatonic Mastery (Part Two)

Here's the next Scales & Tales lesson with the second look at the pentatonic scale and how to move away from "the box" and become more comfortable navigating the fretboard overall.
The pentatonic scale is very useful and common in music, but it's pretty easy to find yourself stuck in a rut or the pentatonic "box." This lesson features a number of strategies to help you break from the box and begin moving around the fretboard with ease and conviction.
It also reveals some challenging sequences to help you memorize the positions, the pentatonic "highway," linking octaves across the fretboard, and more!
This lesson is more challenging than the previous installment in this series so take your time working through both lessons before moving ahead.
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[@DaveTaste]

One of the only real teachers on KZbin. Thanks Dave.

[@stevet.4974]

I'm kinda scared about the Pentatonic Highway, cause I dunno maybe it leads to Bon Scott at the gates of Hell and you have to play Night Prowler for all eternity as flames whip around your legs?? David man, the amount of killer material you make available for free is astonishing. Your lessons... they open the fingers and the mind. Pentatonic Highway.... to know what it actually is and then realize everyone of the big time hard rock players used it all over the place, everywhere... that's priceless.

[@JohnnyGuitarRocks]

I realized that these are late night lessons but I hope it's okay that I'm watching them first thing in the morning! I really appreciate your content, super insightful!

[@LateNightLessons]

Hahaha! You can watch/enjoy these videos at any time of day. : ) \m/ ROCK ON \m/

[@austinthompson0917]

Dude! you are an absolute GOD SEND! You're passion for guitarists themselves truly inspires me. I'm addicted to you're videos. THANK YOU AND PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING!

[@millerjeff]

Great job. You've given me so many things I can do that are musical and still learning and developing. Appreciate your teaching.

[@JimWinstrand]

man you're a great teacher!

[@joshuamarks1129]

Your videos are all tremendous, thanks! I suggest that the most valuable shape/sound connection to discover and explore is relationship between G minor Pentatonic and G major Pentatonic (plus the blue notes from each) because the dominant 7th chord is essentially the sound of American music in a nut shell: blues, rock, gospel, jazz, country, pop all play with the nuances of shifting back and forth between major and minor tonalities. Classical music is typically even more overt with the "Picardy 3rd" device.

[@paulmoran8530]

Brilliant! Thank you again

[@MAntisLew1]

Awesomeness! These are great lessons to understand minor pentatonic.👌

[@JUGGERNAUT-66]

You are awesome man, I wish that I could take lessons from you but can't afford anything ... Thanks for your videos man 👍

[@tonyspada2744]

Nice work you're doing Dave! Your method is quite similar to what I teach in my private lessons and master classes with rock and fusion guitarists. You teach with care !🎸🎼🎵

[@stevengrinold3203]

Hey Tony! I've recently discovered Dave. Great player and channel

[@dell982]

been watching so many different guitar teaching vids, yours is absolutely the best. somehow u get through to me lol Great ideas on this series to get these down

[@breathtimebreath4934]

Totally agree!!!!!!!!

[@breathtimebreath4934]

AWESOME!!!!!

[@johndavies4317]

Hi David, this was a great vid, my favourite minor pentertonic is Em or Gmaj, depending on how you look at it.

[@noonecaresaboutu6783]

this is gold david, thank you, i have my work cut out for me

[@JF-xx5kn]

Great lesson, thank you!

[@LateNightLessons]

Thank YOU! : ) Stay tuned for more lessons and stuff!

[@stringbender11672]

Right! Loved how you connected multiple box shapes to work together. Great lesson, bro 🤘😎👍

[@LateNightLessons]

Thank you again and for watching! : ) \m/ ROCK ON \m/

[@donaldmccoy49]

Can I play 'devil's advocate' and ask for the 5 MAJOR pentatonic shapes in a lesson? I can only image the savageness of your explanation!!! PLEASE SIR!!???

[@fabghassem]

💯

[@MAntisLew1]

Do you have a guitar theory playlist?

[@masterman6537]

Hi David I just wanted to tell you that you have helped me so much with my guitar playing even though I’ve been playing for a long time I’ve been suffering with osteoarthritis and I just recently had surgery on my wrist and thumb and your exercises have gotten me some much-needed strength keep rockin. Mike Please check out my band Wicked Maraya

[@FrankSpeer66]

Here's an example of something that screwed me up for a long time... If you're using the A minor pentatonic scale to play over a CM chord the b5 in the A minor (Eb) pentatonic is NOT the b5 (Blue Note) of C major, but the b3 of CM which actually CLASHES with the major third in the C major chord. Things like this happen CONSTANTLY if you're thinking of A minor as C major but confusing the intervals of the A minor pentatonic scale for the intervalic layout of the C major scale. I think many guitar players fall into this trap and wonder why things aren't sounding great. While the notes of the A minor pentatonic scale are THE SAME as the notes of the C major scale the VISUALIZATION, or LAYOUT of the intervals for CM are very different when using the A minor Pentatonic scale rather than the C major pentatonic. So someone using the A minor pentatonic to play over a CM chord and then flatting the 5 THINKS they are getting the BLUE note of C major but in reality they are getting the blue note of A minor. Perhaps a video clarifying this would be very helpful for your viewers. A Minor Pentatonic as it relates to C Major... A = 6th of CM - Root of Am C = Root of CM - b3 of Am D = 2 (9) of CM - 4th of Am E = 3rd of CM - 5th of Am G = 5th of CM - b7 of Am Another quick example of this... I love the sound of the F note when I'm using the A minor pentatonic to play in the key of C. In the key of C major this is the 4th but in the key of A minor it is the b6. So someone may hit the fourth interval of the A minor pentatonic THINKING they're playing the fourth in C major but would be mistaken. Of course YOU understand the problems this can cause not only in one's understanding theory but also in mistaken tonalities. I guess the main way of summing this up would be the danger of mistaking the root note of A minor as the root note of C major.

[@DaveTaste]

Innit.

[@christopherhickman3579]

So where in the lessons would I head next or am I waiting for pentatonic mastery part 3 lol

[@christopherhickman3579]

Nvm I found minor scale mastery 👍🏼