Modern Pentatonic Shapes: BREAK OUT OF THE BOX

[@RobbieBarnby]

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[@oceancrosby4578]

I loved the minor blues scale hack, I've learned the first part....It's awesome and dammed well tricky to play. Thank you for the "HACK".

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[@RobbieBarnby]

That's very kind of you to say, thanks for the lovely comment!

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This is a nice sentiment for sure, but I would argue that gifts have far less to do with musical ability than practice and an intentional mindset.

[@DenisSurette]

It's always a good day when Robbie releases a new video. Thank you for the inspiration to get better on the instrument.

[@luizcadu]

The paradox about the pentatonic is that it is easy to play and to make it sound good when you're beginning, but it is tricky to make it not sound cliché when using it in more complex harmonic contexts or when you expand your musical concepts. Therefore, it's both a basic and an advanced scale. brilliant video, thanks!

[@johnp.johnson1541]

The pentatonic minor never is an advanced scale. It is a minor 7 chord with an add 4. Or you can think of it as a minor 11 with a dropped 2.

[@luizcadu]

@@johnp.johnson1541 watch the video again. Do you really think a beginner would be able to use the pentatonic that way?

[@johnp.johnson1541]

@@luizcadu You commit the fallacy of a straw man. No one said the guitarist is a beginner. A nine-tone scale would be advanced. Is an E9 chord played arpeggio over the neck an advanced chord? Good luck!

[@luizcadu]

@@johnp.johnson1541 Read again. I'm not asking if this guitarist is a beginner (he's obviously brilliant), I'm asking if you think a beginner would be able to use this scale like he does, in this harmonic context and with this choice of intervallic patterns. You're the one who said the pentatonic "never" is advanced, hence the question.

[@johnp.johnson1541]

@@luizcadu No, you read again your own faulty premise. Oh and beginners will watch this video and use the scale exactly as he has presented it. It is a 5-tone scale. It is not advanced. It is what it is. Total permutations of a 5-tone scale with tonic repeated = 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 120. Total permutations of a 9 tone scale with tonic repeated = 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 362,880 Total permutations of chromatic scale with tonic repeated = 11 * 10 * 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 39,916,800 Please, learn. Good luck!

[@basildog007]

Best jazz guitar channel. I've been experimenting with arpeggios and hybrid picking from your following videos, Maj79, MinMaj7, 7#119, -7b59, sus49, diminished, augmented, 713b9... Every color of every mode of every scale, the shape works and it's a perfect tool to visualize your fretboard... Great eye opening material man, can't thank you enough 🙏 👏

[@dagfinnlyngstad]

Thanks!

[@RobbieBarnby]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching.

[@TedBoyRomarino]

Shifting these shapes by half steps, major thirds or even tritones might result in some interesting outside sounds. Loved this lesson. Thank you very much.

[@zinglife10]

This will surely keep me awake for whole night 🌙

[@srwaite7]

Shades of Holdsworth :) Always interesting and challenging, Robbie!

[@RobbieBarnby]

Definitely some Holdsworth inspiration here!

[@SuperBromberg]

Alan comes to one's mind immediately, however don't remember him doing these stretches, is it still legato approach?

[@Chris-w4j]

I really like this method and use it alot. Its a clean way of using all the sus4 and sus 2 soynds of the major/minor pentatonic scale. The whole problem on guitar with being stuck "in a box" is everyone is 1st taught one position and practice that way when really (like every instrument) everything should be practiced using 3 and 4 octave range. On guitar it is alot more complicated and it takes alot of shifting and jumping like those 3nps pentatonics. I try to practice everything using the full range of guitar and it should be taught more to do so. Pentatonic 313's 231313's, 313313's 2nps, 3nps, 4nps The major/minor scale 2 nps, 3nps, 4nps, 343434 Arppegios 212's 213's for example. Wind instruments and piano is just straight up and down. Stringed instruments are completely different. Excellent content!

[@oceancrosby4578]

I was telling a guitar friend that you were playing in two different scale boxes at the same time, which confused him, but yep two boxes it is. Definitively a different twist, at least for me... Now, to integrate these twists and turns into my future guitar playing.

[@edwardjons8684]

Very cool idea - the applications for this are endless. I can see this as a great tool for breaking the usual cliched scalar sound of pentatonics without then falling into the other trap of just playing triad based arpeggios. It immediately sounds like Coltrane on A Love Supreme to me - and played really fast it’s instant Richie Kotzen shred territory. Win win!

[@RobbieBarnby]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the comment!

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I thinkyou're really close to the point, bravo!

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You are great seriously,these lessons should be pay

[@rochberger6303]

Super video.

[@MikeHopperMusic]

Excellent video. I cannot wait to play around with these pentatonic variations!

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Your lessons are great! Greetings from Argentina

[@RobbieBarnby]

Thanks for checking them out! Glad you like them.

[@musicnevinnomyssk]

Это шикарный, удивительный и очень полезный урок, спасибо за новые знания!!!

[@MatteoBidoglia]

Great concept Robbie!

[@1000eyes55]

Thank you so much for leading us to the "think tank" this is totally different approach and concept for the pentatonic shapes how fresh! you are da Man!💯

[@reyesplace1096]

Fascinating

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Excellent teaching! Thanks! Subscribed👍

[@priceandpride]

this sounds so beautiful

[@AdventureGuitar]

Hey man, after some practice with that second position I can play the Simpsons theme pretty good now. Thanks!

[@stereotouch8317]

this is gold! Thanks!

[@devinandrewcollins]

Jerry Bergonzi's book on Pentatonics is a great resource for this skip/step concept in pentatonics. A little hard to pull off on guitar but great for piano and sax. Nice work!

[@leventejuhasz9939]

Thank you Robbie your videos are extremely helpful!!

[@RobbieBarnby]

That's great to hear. Thanks for watching!

[@S2B]

👉 As always, fabulous video with amazing, enlightening content!👌 Thanks Robbie!🙏

[@rhr7799]

Wow!!! Great idea!! Thanks Robbie 👍🎶💯

[@angeljavier9541]

Amazing lesson , pentatonic sound is interesting with these idea.. thanks

[@johnberg1326]

Wonderful lesson - gives an entirely different vibe to the five notes. Thank you! Subscribed!

[@dugknndy]

what a wonderful player… great insights and instruction …

[@mikeking453]

Great lesson. Thanks

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Amazing. Congratulations.

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Thank you so much!

[@RobbieBarnby]

You’re very welcome!

[@pedroguimaraesguitar]

Hey Robbie, thank you so much for your lessons. They really are outside the box! Fresh and inspiring 💪

[@mr.minister5018]

That's a sick new way of constructing arpeggios. I see how useful it would be to practice with this pattern and use it in soloing with different contexts . Thanks!

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Always look forward to your lessons! 🙏🏼

[@Aaronius_Maximus]

Great video as usual Robbie nice to see you again! Absolutely love that guitar of yours! 😁

[@RobbieBarnby]

Thanks a lot!

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Very cool idea, thanks for sharing.

[@RobbieBarnby]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching.

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Thank You:)

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Super, Thanks!!!

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[@Aristotelezz]

I've learned a lot from your video'! Many are a little above my level but also many, like this one, fits me right away. It may take weeks or months to really apply it, to make music from it, but eventually it will. Thanx!

[@GreyHorse019]

Excellent, Thank You 👏 🙏

[@colourtones]

Always excellent content and execution, Robbie. Thank you!

[@RobbieBarnby]

Thanks! My pleasure.

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Amazing video, dude!

[@RobbieBarnby]

Thanks a lot!

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this is gold for bassists

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so talented and good looking to boot - lucky bastard !

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Excellent lesson!! So looking forward to more

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Very smooth like melting ice-creame...♥️♥️♥️

[@coliscanu.musica]

Muuuuuy interesante! Gracias.

[@Cheximus]

1:42 - 1:44 - damn son! Smooth. Oh, and 2:37 - 2:38. Wow. Fantastic videos though. Very well articulated and very useful videos for those of us who just stay within the usual boxes all the time.

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Great professor Robbie,thanks...

[@RobbieBarnby]

Thanks for watching!

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Brilliant work 🔥🔥🔥❤️

[@wtfhb07]

Thank you for this new idea to work on.

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Thx for great inspiration!

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[@hrishchandratre8970]

Great lesson. I’m trying to breakout from normal boxes pentatonic playing and this helped 😀. Keep on going 👍

[@RobbieBarnby]

Thanks a lot! Glad it helped.

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Super vidéo 🎉 merci 🙏

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Amazing! Thank you!

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Amazing stuff!❤

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Came for the lesson. Stayed for the marvellous guitar tone. Ahhhhhhhhhh ...

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Great lesson

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Yes!! 🔥🔑🎸❤️

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Greate stuff! As I remember, Tim Miller talked about it!

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[@RobbieBarnby]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

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The clean sound is coming from that guitar is amazing. Wow! Great lesson as well.

[@RobbieBarnby]

Huge thanks!

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[@bradleystroup1457]

thanks for this video man. this reminds me of that intro lick in Jason Becker's Perpetual Burn. I've been trying to map what would be the other shapes for that so this is extremely helpful

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11:56 - LOL'ed at the random Am11 with synth overdub. thx for keeping it in! (also thx for a killer lesson!)

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