Plini Shows You How to Repurpose Your Pentatonic Scales!

In this episode of Prog-gnosis, Plini shows you how to take your standard pentatonic scales and repurpose them in different contexts to help allude to different harmonies and create fresh sounds.

[@uchihahikaku1630]

That's plini of information

[@XoAudi0xideoX]

Omg, I know this is so simple, but dang had me laughing so hard!!!

[@raulalejandromunozaraya3878]

Hahahahaha

[@0paii]

you win this time! haha

[@spridle]

You guys are pathetic whimps of men.

[@GregorizZ]

@@spridle Yes, laughter is pathetic! Real men write angry comments online

[@cosmic_v]

Plini is such a great teacher. He explains things in such a calm way & it all makes more sense. Plus I love how he always looks like he just rolled out of bed.

[@Rahul_1.618]

Wow, how many more episodes of Plini are you guys holding out on us? lol

[@DennisTeti]

Rahul Basu seriously

[@Flonkation]

Rahul Basu second that

[@MrDmadness]

I third this... they are bleeding them out slowly./..... too slowly.. more plini !!!! :D

[@JeremyHookMusic]

I believe Guitar World film series of 4 or 5 at a time.

[@joelcoool]

#sixseasonsandamovie

[@ryanlyle9201]

Studying Plini's music and watching him become so big is a weird feeling. Like watching your friend become your dad. Daddy Plini.

[@johnnysully2689]

Daddy Plini 😂

[@mooncrysta]

He's a Daddy alright. 😏

[@SeriousPoo]

The guy’s chill is as epic as his playing. Would have loved having him as a teacher when I was starting out.

[@jacquescheminade9672]

Penatatonic? Never heard about this type of pasta

[@DennisTeti]

Jacques Cheminade I thought it was vodka mix

[@nortonacosta3592]

its a kind of sauce, not a pasta

[@MickZarco]

It's vegemite.

[@JustinNogle]

I look forward to implementing these tips very soon. Amazing that I can take such ingrained patterns and boxes and inject such new life into them with ease. Thank you!

[@MrDmadness]

does anybody else love the fact that plini can play basically nothing and still sound amazing, not that a pentatonic is not interesting, but plini, plini izes it and makes takes it to a whole new level... love this guy .

[@mooncrysta]

Plinizies. I'm gonna start using this word from now on.

[@aalegge]

P E N A T A T A N O N A T I C S

[@zuiaht9389]

was searching for this comment

[@gussouzamarcondes]

Making it really short: pick a random chord and A-pentatonic it

[@cris931609]

Penatatonics C:

[@chrisglass4350]

Why am I suddenly stoned?

[@markg2861]

Plini doesn't smoke weed :)

[@TheWaveFiles]

Penatatonics.The pasta scale.

[@saintshaggy1372]

I can hear guthrie and plink talk for hours

[@johnvincent1823]

Plini. Doesn't belong in the same sentence as Guthrie

[@saintshaggy1372]

John vincent I don't mean to say in the sense of technical ability but in the sense of their actual way and voice of speaking... They are so relaxed and calm when they explain things. I just like the sound of his voice. Of course Guthrie is a god. (Well a god amongst gods). Heck, I wouldn't place plini anywhere near joe sattriani or Steve vai even, Guthrie is another dimension! Plini is really great. But Guthrie is the supreme

[@johnvincent1823]

Plini is a Kenny G Wannabe who never grew out of his metalcore phase

[@saintshaggy1372]

John vincent lol

[@MrDmadness]

a wannabe ?? you cant be serious. also, how many guitar players do you know that compare their ability's like a sporting event ? really, different styles and different inspirations, one does not have to be "better" than another. plini is awesome, Ive seen him play and hes very chill, he even let his backup guitar player lead some of the solos he usually does and communicates a lot with his bandmates when he plays. When they play a show it doesnt look like work at all, it look s like a guy hanging out with his friends having a great time and making great music.

[@shitmandood]

If I didn't know better, I'd swear Plini never changes his wardrobe & the hairstyle is always exactly the same.

[@LONGname46]

2 years later, outfit same, just longer hair now lol

[@shitmandood]

@@LONGname46 lol!

[@tommyfriedrich9258]

Is that a Chorus effect with delay? Beautiful

[@tobaccorich]

Nice piece o wood

[@QuirkyFactos]

Just woke up on the side of the street, feelin not in the mood but have an online class to teach. That's Plini.

[@TomTobin67]

I like how ace Frehley does the pentatonics.

[@tonyred520]

Badly?

[@MoonWalkerTexsRanger]

Anthonym shots fired 😂

[@markopolo2224]

god bless him

[@andym28]

I find aussies/kiwis to be great teachers. Very straight forward.

[@uchihahikaku1630]

We're simple folks mate

[@chuckyinges]

I love that pentacostic scale

[@music-collective]

I love pentatonic. Great info, Plini.

[@jeshuaedwardsmusic5322]

when plini talks about noodling around a riff

[@dingohaus]

So helpful. So, so, totally helpful.

[@ShaaneOh]

2:36 ok pls make a shoegaze album

[@A5Hdude]

3:50...strange foot hand 🤣

[@jaynorton8191]

Wow it does look like a foot!💀👣

[@an_38kitkashyap]

😱

[@cazziebb1707]

Wow - Super chops

[@seanthomasmusic]

Plini has this air like he's amused people are talking to him sometimes.

[@hazanko5875]

It was entertaining to hear him call that off-pair of notes "disgusting." Even he looked like he was getting away with something when he said it.

[@The_Musical_Cartograph]

I can't wait to learn the penatatonic scale !

[@uy.studios]

Is he talking about different pentatonic patterns and not only the first pattern?

[@MichaelWilson-ri9pn]

Very nice

[@wenjacklow]

How long are his fingers

[@RudyAyoub]

FlashCE about 4 inches Source: i met him

[@MrDmadness]

yeah, hand wise his hands are not abnormal really, he just has a lot of dexterity

[@kaneskelly]

Ask your sister

[@caseylockwood5512]

Dude his pinky is nuts though, look how long that sucker is

[@ichalmeong7071]

0:19 PPAP

[@cazziebb1707]

What great chops!

[@zeppelinmexicano]

Repurpose to modes! Haha, just kidding. Love that Strandberg, dude. Damn, and a big picture of Jimmy, you can't go wrong. That dude can write. I'm sure you've heard Ten Years Gone and such, just from another realm.

[@eigenbroetler321]

I really liked this lesson, thanks for the mag column and video! One question: why are all references to regular notes when he's really flatted?

[@MoonWalkerTexsRanger]

I strongly suggest you to think intervals instead of notes!

[@AchingGibbon450]

Tldr: it’s easier to conceptualise when you’re playing when you’re used to e standard tuning if you don’t think about everything being flatted It’s just one of those things a lot of guitarists do, I do it as well if I’m playing in lowered tunings. I can’t speak for everyone but I myself find it easier to conceptualise everything in e standard even if the strings are tuned lower because I did the bulk of my learning in e standard and the relative intervals between the strings are all the same, I always end up tripping over myself mentally if I think about every note being flatted. If I just think about everything in e standard then I still think about and play everything as I normally would, it just comes out of the guitar sounding lower but I don’t have to think about it any differently. This kind of thinking doesn’t apply to alternate tunings like drop d where the intervals between the strings are different but it helps for standard tunings other than e

[@eigenbroetler321]

@@AchingGibbon450 Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. I guess I would have assumed those schooled in music theory would refer to the proper key, but I almost always see it in the key of E (including Guitar Word tabs). I am not far schooled in music theory but I do tend to reference the actual note/root/chord when I do discuss with other people.

[@blacky3ard]

Penatatonic, nice.

[@davidtilling2614]

Is this the guy from the Ant-man movies?

[@Ghandjaloodah]

😄

[@Sadowsky46]

With a little finger like this everything is easy 😀

[@Mop_v21]

Penatatonic?

[@unnamed8008]

At first I thought this was John Mayer video but then I realize the guitar 😂

[@dubr3662]

+ Keep teaching, wow! +

[@siddharthagupta8788]

Damn Plini!

[@thelukester999]

there is a mode for that. i can't remember what the mode is.

[@KevisaVivose]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's Lydian. Or maybe Mixo-lydian?

[@saliciakeyz]

Some of my favorite moments in life are when I accidentally end up in disgusting but really cool musical situations.

[@trialbystone2532]

"Penatatonics" in the thumbnail

[@Cestariarts]

Came to see PENATATONICS, only had pentatonics...

[@LORDBRTV1D30]

Ok quick question wtf is penatatonics

[@pablocous1312]

Sinforoso 5 note scale, root + M2 + M3 + P5 + M6.

[@ZalvaTionZ]

A type of pasta.

[@scissornaut]

His god damn alien fingers almost look like they have an extra joint between his PIP and DIP joints.

[@entropyembrace3844]

sorry this might sound really daft, but how is he playing the F major chord on the third fret? if the root is on the E or the A string then doesnt he have to play it from the 1st of the 9th fret respectively? maybe this would be easier if i wasnt high right now

[@ethanprescott4683]

Drop d tuning boi

[@ethanprescott4683]

David Sim I'm answering the original question which was how he was playing an f chord on the third fret. The questioner assumed it was standard tuning thus "if the root is on the E or the A string then doesn't he have to play it from the 1st or the 9th fret respectively?" You are correct in the notes that make up an fmaj7 chord, but that however doesn't inform the original question how he is able to for a few shape on the third fret. :)

[@ethanprescott4683]

David Sim sure

[@charliebowen5071]

How long are your fingers!!?

[@TheJessovski]

i like to pretend i know what he is saying

[@Kurtster600]

there's nothing groundbreaking about anything he said

[@isaachimself]

Is he tuned a half step down

[@legendfpv]

yes

[@alexanderjosmith]

is he tuned to drop D?

[@MrDmadness]

in this video, yes... he is droning the d ( usually in standard an E ) and playing the pentatonic below it using standard tuning. You see this when he talks about " D " and then drones the low string as im sure you are referencing. I will note that i only watched it once so my observation assumes some things ( did not look at the fret notes below the dropped E string ) your observation that the lowest string is tuned to open D is correct. :)

[@GauravKhuranaxy]

I think so too specially when he referred to that chord being F maj7 when actually the position looked like a G major in standard tuning

[@maxxkarma]

Plintatonics

[@rollacoastaride1937]

what is a guitar?

[@vixenvendettaofficial]

Thumbs up!! =)

[@RudyAyoub]

Vixen Vendetta i see you everywhere

[@MateoBakija]

It seems like his adrenaline level is so low by the way he speaks.

[@VictorZamanian]

Drugs.

[@mjt11860]

i really think he needs to slow down. too much caffeine.

[@TheGuitarifier]

I think you have the wrong idea about what "adrenaline" is and the purpose it serves.

[@retrorewind6042]

@@VictorZamanian i highly doubt that

[@csieg123]

He probably doesn't feel like his life is in danger, soooo... That makes sense

[@skinny0ne]

Omg you have a skeleton hands. No wonder you’re so good!

[@isawansedie]

Plintatonic scale

[@piotrwojtaszek4295]

2:47 he's grabbing F on an open tuning. Haha how are you going to do that with that finger on- hey what's your pinky doing- OH MY GOD

[@johnnysully2689]

I think Plini used Drop Db at this point, I could be wrong though

[@adityarao5721]

i guess hes talking about superimposition of pentatonics

[@jeremydiehl6272]

Plinitonics

[@SerenadeRhythms24]

V-neck not djenty enough!

[@psychoticundead]

A min pentatonic over Bbmaj7. You're welcome.

[@jeshuaedwards3788]

Danny Anaya that's one that tosin does in one of his master classes, defs worth a look

[@mercho_music]

PENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICSPENATATONICS :3

[@dakrisis]

I never knew I even had penatatonics ...

[@MrMattorge]

What guitar is that?!?!

[@RyanJamesODonnell]

matthew orge its a Strandberg Plini Boden OS I believe

[@Gusramosferreira]

What is the guitar tuning?

[@MrDmadness]

Drop D .

[@Gusramosferreira]

MrDmadness thank you

[@MrDmadness]

:)

[@diavo.]

his hair is like einstein's hair.

[@anirudhganesh]

but the thumb nail says penatatonic not pentatonic. pls change it guitar world

[@VocasoGK]

The typo at the thumbnail make this video clickbaity

[@AjaxJP]

I wanna know what's on his effects loop for the second part of the video That chorus sound is the tits

[@cast390]

Great lesson ,but I hate headless guitars.

[@diegojimenez6983]

cast390 hahahahaja and who cares?

[@rookd1137]

Plini=Daddy

[@rbpcuus]

+1

[@Lithuania8634]

Oh I thought that was a young Paul Masvidale

[@MrDmadness]

Plini is awesome, but Textures off of cynic - focus was the song that started my journey down instrumental music... also the first guy i ever saw playing a headless guitar. :)

[@HAIRYBIKER777]

Ease up on the rim lighting. Nobody needs an ear halo.

[@RudyAyoub]

Nick Williamson haha i actually like that

[@HAIRYBIKER777]

Fair enough mate!

[@TheGuitarifier]

What a weird complaint lmao

[@Owtyg23]

@@RudyAyoub Haha I love finding you in random parts of youtube because it ruins my day!

[@jonnyquest8774]

I would love that guitar a lot more if it had a head stock on it. It looks unfinished.

[@dwightlewis3519]

jonnyQuest that's the way it's meant to be. If it had a headstock, it would neck dive like crazy due to how small the body is. I do think it would look cool with the Music Man headstock though.

[@jonnyquest8774]

That makes sense, it would be top heavy and unbalanced with a headstock on it. I love the body shape. Kind of reminds me of Reb Beach's guitar: goo.gl/images/gLXboS

[@MrDmadness]

you either love or hate headless, I used to hate them but they have grown on me some.. i still do prefer a headstock though... personally.

[@snehasisgoswami7614]

Pentatonic scale doesnt sound intriguing in progressive stuff... but somehow David Gilmour or even Alex Lifeson for that matter make pentatonic scale work wonders in prog music. At least to my ears. I dnt knw.

[@MrChairDrums]

Why plini face look like pewdiepie ?

[@HorribleMuttonChops]

PENANATONICS are almost as cool as pentatonics.

[@medicinemann8844]

spider crawler modes swamp with effects...just play Merry Christmas...

[@legendfpv]

what?

[@kennymorgan9142]

Penatatonic? Must be a quality video.

[@RudyAyoub]

lmao

[@facumoulin]

penatatonic.

[@sanfords]

Wow! That was disgusting but really cool!

[@powersv2]

like the elon musk of playing guitar

[@capitandelespacio]

What's a Plini? Some kind of teen pop star?

[@nethbt]

The world famous Plini... Lol... Bring back Alex Skolnick!

[@MrDmadness]

why even douche out a douchey comment like this on a plini video? are you dense ? \

[@legendfpv]

@@johnvincent1823 proof?

[@lowbatt3235]

gay

[@legendfpv]

Nobody asked you to announce your sexual orientation.

[@elementsofphysicalreality]

I like Plini. I own some of his albums and watched this video, and others. But his mindset is wrong. He thinks his progressive influences outshine the influences that he started out with. Nothing will ever beat jazz and the blues. Don’t overthink it. Jam. New age guitar players don’t know how to jam.

[@Ryan_Perrin]

I don't like hearing you play the pentatonic. Don't do that ever again

[@deansutherland6506]

disgusting lol

[@ChrisJones-zp4px]

There’s more go in a morgue 😴 most uninteresting guy on earth