John Mayer Teaches His PENTATONIC EQUATOR Concept with fretLIVE Animations! (Guitar Lesson)

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[@swood07413]

Ok JM is legendary, but who's the intern who had to go back and chart out every single note he played for the animated tab? Hats off to them because that's sick!

[@kane6529]

That would be done by this channel POW music not JM

[@-caleb-7201]

@@kane6529 that’s what he said

[@deandee8082]

pretty sure its software

[@OrymUmenzi]

lol... the intern's name is Algo short for 'Algorithm'

[@michaelwoods3850]

It's a program that converts from his amp to his laptop

[@shanep5121]

That animation is a life changer. That did more for me in 5 minutes that in 35 years of self-study. This is what I've been missing my whole life. When it stopped I was just heartbroken. Where can I see more instructional videos with this type of animation? It was perfection. The best I've ever seen by miles

[@PowMusic]

Awesome! Check out the rest of my channel and my courses!

[@shanep5121]

@@PowMusic i was just there and subscribed and hit the bell. I'm sharing this everywhere.. Do you do this for bass? My daughter plays and she is very new to it.

[@PowMusic]

@@shanep5121 no, not for bass but check out this channel for bass - I helped create those videos with another teacher: kzbin.info/door/OlWBkz7GW5gUCppyvX9Nzg

[@shanep5121]

@@PowMusic of course you did! You are an awesome human. Thanks again.

[@dr.strawberry5773]

respectfully, if in 35 years you havent picked up enough of tools to play by ear, then my friend its time for you to stop resisting sheet music so you can get ur audiation skills up.

[@777ZEETAL]

This animation is pretty sweet. It’s like seeing how a magic trick is done. After you see the animation, the patterns are revealed and with a little practice, the trick seems attainable and not as much a secret.

[@PowMusic]

That’s the goal! Thanks!

[@RestInPeaceX]

@@PowMusic you're the man kudos to you buddy 🤘

[@pikiwiki]

exactly. Easier than trying to imagine the patterns on the fretboard, repeating them over and over. Graphics help

[@ethan_silas]

@@PowMusic sir did you sit and transcribe every single note he played on the graphic of the neck????

[@reservoirfrog1]

I haven’t been playing for the last couple months but this has given me my motivation back!

[@EricRennerYT]

If you play it at half speed it’s your drunk uncle giving you a banger unsolicited guitar lesson.

[@PlumbingBanana]

Holy shit 😂

[@k.t.1641]

Thought this was a dumb comment, but tried it anyways and holy s! 🤣😂

[@EricRennerYT]

@@k.t.1641 I wouldn’t lie to you! 🤣

[@ColinHouston-Luke]

grade a comment... underrated. So true

[@jose-alvez]

Factss

[@Albatrossamongus]

This video was phenomenal until the tab animation just took the afternoon off.

[@guitarware]

I love how not only music theory but more specifically the guitar is just this puzzle that we all and even John Mayer is still trying to figure out and we all share clues with each other in this journey to solve it. This video is brilliant. Thank you for making this. Liked and subbed. Oh yea and the animation is next level detail

[@punkywozza4330]

As EVH famously said "It's Music Theory, Not Music Fact"

[@dr.strawberry5773]

@@punkywozza4330 it is facts, just not rules. i always find myself explaining that music predates music theory just like speaking predates dictionnaries and cooking predates recipes. (i do know the joke that you're making but it needed to be said!)

[@FoxHound-ch1yy]

Aint the internet a beautiful thing =)

[@PepperCain]

“I could play forever and I will.” I respect that.

[@Mikeys-Music]

My favorite thing anyone’s ever said 😂

[@mjt7231]

The John Mayer lessons are amazing. To have someone at his level breakdown how he looks at what he’s doing and how it makes sense in his mind is something you could’ve never been given for free twenty years ago.

[@bojangles6444]

Instructional vhs used to cost a fortune more than movies. Like $100. Now they are all free on KZbin. Even bootleg concerts with terrible quality were more than albums and you were at the liberty of some stranger to send it to you. And movies weren’t as cheap either! People would collect unofficial concert cd’s and tapes- sometimes the tapes were so bad. Some official vhs would be $50 new- especially if it won best picture etc. that was more like 35 years ago lol. I don’t think the nostalgia heads remember this was before best buy and circuit etc city started having price wars to keep all of this stuff affordable. 18 bucks for a cd at the mall..

[@stevesassano5047]

John's Guitar Teacher was Al Ferrante who was Edgar Winters guitar player. He still teacher in Fairfield CT.

[@collinwebster291]

I'm pretty sure his mother was a school teacher.

[@larryhudspeth4072]

I was not surprised to learn John Mayer went to Berklee at age 19!

[@ziblot1235]

What did he breakdown? All II saw was him playing little riffs, and not showing were the frst note was. Thats 30 minutes I wont get back.

[@wardettinger6177]

More is always better and don't stop teaching John we love hearing you play and love the videos 👍👍👍

[@BlueMonk25]

Time to throw my guitar away.

[@morganvi598]

go watch tim henson, you’ll burn it instead

[@shannondosher1270]

Same

[@evilswissy]

hopefully you just gave it to someone who had the dedication and drive to play, because you don't deserve to have a guitar

[@ChrisKAloha]

Because of his playing or the theory?

[@timbarnhart3121]

Better yet…. Time to knock off the rust👍

[@ironicpunishmentdivision4226]

"It's so much fun"...I love that he says that in the lesson. Everyone forgets that's what creating music about. Great job on the editing and animations.

[@autistichead8137]

Really ???? we all play guitar for hours a day because we forgot it’s fun 😂😂 You could have just typed “I perceive myself as superior to everyone else”

[@MulveysMooney]

John is just playing the 5th position of the pentatonic scale. Just learn the 5 positions of pentatonic scale and it will set you free.

[@kjohansen4088]

It unlocks the guitar forever

[@chrisbassartist4344]

Does it help with other modes and scales? I’m Kinda new to guitar

[@AntiquatedApe]

Just learn every position of every scale,every mode,every chord,and every arpeggio,and you'll have complete fretboard mastery 😬

[@kjohansen4088]

@@AntiquatedApe simple 😂

[@AntiquatedApe]

@@kjohansen4088 one weird trick ...

[@bofa83]

His ability to make the minor pentatonic to sound like that always blows me away.

[@changzang8186]

Yea how the hell does he do that

[@rocstarnol]

@@changzang8186 idk it’s crazy

[@kenduffy5397]

YES IT DOES!

[@keithremedy]

@@changzang8186 years of playing... it took me a long time before I actually started being able to play music & had a melodic & vocal style. Where as before I was just playing guitar & playing what I knew whether it be scales or triads & something that just sounds like what you’d hear in music student. John plays the guitar the way you’d listen to a full band with multiple instruments. & that’s something that very few guitar players can do. Also keen to note playing through a crazy clean headroom amp only adds to that. All the right hand attack & dynamics that follow his phrasing is something that’s going to be far far more prevalent with a hand wired amp that’s not going to show as well with A blues jr or katana

[@iinfynitebeats]

you get blown away by a standard way of playing…

[@ctzeninsane]

The lesson itself is gold, but the animation is impossibly good. How the hell did they manage to pull it through? Extremely well done!

[@DaveSwart]

They say everyone learns differently. Well, 25 years after picking up a guitar - FINALLY. THIS my friend. This is how my brain learns best.

[@hfuhruhurr]

Man, those animations are friggin' hot! Probably a PITA to animate but its value is immense. Now that I know something like this exists, anything else is substandard.

[@MOAB-UT]

You probably still cannot play well though.

[@ray.jay.jam21]

I'm more amazed with the animation than the lesson itself haha! Thanks for doing this man!

[@joesanchez9916]

Great lesson! For those that want more, take a dive into the deep end of the CAGED system. That’s exactly what this is. Molly Miller has an excellent master class on this that I’d recommend!

[@marksinner2289]

I just want to thank you for putting and syncing the scale below that was a genius idea. Subbed

[@noelbridgeman99]

The shape below the "equator" is simply Cm pentatonic using a different shape, there are 5 well known shapes for every pentatonic scale situated across the fretboard, not sure why he's associating that shape/scale with Cmaj pent or am I missing something here? The animation is excellent as is the playing, many thanks 👍

[@joshuadevries3459]

Man I’m sitting here wondering why he’s making it so complicated!!

[@andymyers8406]

Yeah, it's simply linking box1 with box 2. Does John Mayer not know the five 'boxes' ?

[@jasonpitre1249]

John Maye doesn’t seem to be suffering from any lack of knowledge. He can play circles around almost anyone, and continues to get better.

[@davedavem]

Major and minor pentatonic scales each have 5 different patterns. Pattern 1 of the minor pentatonic sits 4 frets higher than (the identically shaped) pattern 1 of the major pentatonic. If you want to switch between minor and major and use those patterns, you have to jump back and forth. What he's saying is use pattern 5 of the minor pentatonic, which overlays more closely with that major pentatonic box, so you can stay in the same position but play either scale. TL:DR pattern 5 minor pentatonic and pattern 1 major pentatonic are in the same place.

[@greglambert6199]

@@davedavem And also you can do niftier hammer ons and pull offs one couldn't do with pattern 1 as easily.

[@atarijam]

Not sure what the key takeaway is, maybe I'm missing the point. But I've been doing pattern 5 and pattern 1 since ever to extend the scale. Isn't this what he's doing here?

[@PowMusic]

That’s really it - but also to see the overlay of major pentatonic pattern 1 with minor pentatonic pattern 5 in the same area. And then to just see some of the riffs he plays in all the shapes shown

[@odprjo9016]

@@PowMusic but those are not the same scales… c minor and c major are different. Playing c minor, one position behind the famous position, isn’t the same as playing c major there…

[@EwetoobSucks]

Disliked the whole thing. The 3 screens on top make all of them nothing more than useless. I like John Mayer, but this was just garbage.

[@PowMusic]

@@odprjo9016 Yes not the same scale… But same location…

[@odprjo9016]

@@PowMusic So what is the point of this video? He wanted to show how cool it is to play major and minor while soloing. And then play c minor in two different positions?

[@pancake5146]

I have been playing for 2 years now and feel I have gotten to a decent level however I still don't understand the difference between minor and major pentatonic. All 5 positions are exactly the same. I understand what makes a chord major and what makes it minor, but don't understand how the major and minor pentatonics differ.

[@nicktrierweiler3690]

5 positions folks..... learn them

[@DoctorMcFarlandStudios]

Instead of Equator I have been teaching circle pentatonics for years. Same concept but when introducing the concept to a student I will show them how to go up the first down and then down the second box and then keep circling up and down until they are familiar with the notes. Then you choose the next two boxes and practice those. Eventually you learn the whole fretboard.

[@baimun]

Personally, I’ll admit to struggling with caged or pentatonic around the entire neck, but I do love that “minor bar” and will think in terms of 5th fret A bar, 7th fret B bar, 8th fret C bar, 10th fret D bar, 12th E and 15th G… and work out the rest as we go. Love it…. Thank you #JohnMayer

[@keithklassen5320]

It's so hard for me to believe that someone as virtuousic as Mayer only recently realized that scales have multiple shapes on the fretboard.

[@kevinborchers3522]

I mean a lot of the greats from back in the day (60s/70s) made it a surprising amount of years before realizing what scales, chords they were even playing. Its mind boggling

[@bbloom8796]

Totally agree, sort of blew me away. Surely he wasnt locked into just that one shape with all the solos and rhythm parts he's written. I wonder how he would say he visualizes the board when improvising.

[@peternoble3691]

It’s crazy! I can’t comprehend how they managed it (mostly) without formal training. There must have been a lot of people just discovering shapes independently and sharing the knowledge with each other. I remember Paul McCartney joking that they would hop on the bus and travel across Liverpool to meet a guy who knew Bm. We are so lucky to have a wealth of information at the push of a button!

[@dareelantonio.3056]

@@peternoble3691 when you pick up a guitar and you just play randomly up and down the neck you start to pick up each note and what’s sounds right and doesn’t then you start to learn by ear like most people do and when you realize all the pentatonic scales and shapes really are just one big Scale all-together divided into parts that’s when the magic happens. The more you play you’ll be able differentiate minor from major just by the way the notes sound and how you play them up and down the neck that’s how I learned and when I watch a video on Pentatonic scales and all the shapes it really blows my mind because I play the shapes and I really didn’t know they were part of the Pentatonic because I learned from just playing all day by ear

[@jonathansfv3109]

@@peternoble3691 it’s called incredible talent

[@johnbrasher5156]

HOLY SHIT. I'm not even 3 minutes into this and it's already the best pentatonic video I've ever seen. And I've watched dozens... It's the best explanation, the best graphics, the best everything. How come every YT guitar channel doesn't do it like this? I'm a new sub!

[@dorianpod77]

Well if u have studied some theory you should know this stuff already...

[@waltercapa5265]

I recommend also Scott Paul Johnson videos.

@@dorianpod77 It's not about what you have and haven't studied. We all have access to the same information, it's about what perspective / approach resonates with you most. Someone could study a concept for a long time but it just doesn't stick with them until the content is delivered a certain way, for John (Brasher), it's clearly John (Mayer)'s way lol, and there ain't nothing wrong with that ma friend 🤘🏼

[@bojangles6444]

Honestly it’s not really that helpful. The same notes are down the minor scale lol. It’s good for sliding down that’s about it. Can play a little more legato knowing these notes.

[@bojangles6444]

@ yeah I have listened to countless blues guitarists. Nobody really uses this. If it were ground breaking they would have- once you play it you will be disappointed it’s not as cool as it seems. It’s not a matter of studying theory it’s studying players. Nobody learns to play the blues with theory. You don’t need it for blues- not until you get into jazz. Kinda a dumb argument to make- you don’t study the blues to learn to you just play it. How long can you study pentatonic and 3 chords? It’s about feeling not thinking.

[@georgetebbens3524]

Wow. I've been playing Blues guitar for over 40 years and it NEVER occurred to me to riff on the Blues scale behind the Blues box. I just tried it now. As familiar as I am with all the notes on the fretboard, I found it more than a bit tricky landing on the I, IV, V notes and chord tones in the position below the "equator". Great lesson. I'll be practicing this, for sure. Thanks, kid. I guess you are the real deal after all.

[@OfficialPuvve]

John has been one of the greatest guitarists in the history of our planet for a good 10-15 years now.

[@dommirra5429]

Really???

[@RagggedTrouseredPhilanthropist]

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. How is it possible to play for 40 years and not realise there is more than one place to play the minor pentatonic.

[@paterson90]

Just want to be honest, I already knew this for while, just putting different positions on top of each other. BUT I am no way a great guitar player, so just cause you may know some stuff, does not mean you are that good. Just interesting to think about when we learn about concepts.

[@geoffpatch8255]

Sooo...the way I read this, you're saying that you already knew this concept, and John Mayer knows some stuff, but that doesn't mean he's good? Surely I'm mistaken

[@paterson90]

@@geoffpatch8255 sort of, what I'm saying is just because I may know of something before John Mayer does not make me better. You may know more about certain theory concepts but it's ultimately how you play that matters, and he obviously is a guitar legend that has accomplished so much. I have literally accomplished nothing in comparison haha. Never meant this like I'm better cause definitely am not saying that. What I meant was like it's interesting when we learn about different guitar concepts, obviously he is light years ahead of me at guitar.

[@StephenCameron]

What the hell? Isn't this just literally the 5th pentatonic "box" shape? How did he not already know this? Does he not know the other three shapes (clearly he knows #1 and #5, but does he know #2, #3, and #4?) This is a very strange video, I mean, he was a student of Tomo Fujita, he *has* to know this, he's got to be pulling our leg.

[@davidg5629]

I'm sorry, isn't he just talking about position 5? I'm not seeing the revelation. That diagram thingy is great, tho.

[@brandongratta9040]

I think he might just be showing how to use that position to play lower than position 1 of the key you're in. A lot of newer players may just play up from position 1 and forget about everything lower, which can limit their play range

[@numskul]

It’s a revelation for folks who don’t know what position 5 is. lol. “Is that in the karma shoota?”

[@Piratesteve81]

I just got a guitar lesson from John Mayer. For free. Damn. This sounds sick. This channel is a treasure mine. So glad I found you guys. Keep it up.

[@jjvillafanemusic]

The animations are phenomenal! 👏🏼 May I ask what software you used to make them?

[@Rodrigo_xt8c2]

FretLive

[@cassiusdio6048]

no you may not! 😆 lol

[@soofitnsexy]

NO

[@theoemanuelsson7465]

I’m very familiar with the pentatonic but this actually opened up a new path for me. I feel like I now understand it just a little bit better.

[@clgmafnas]

What a great presentation style with color coded notes and everything! Props man 🤙🏼

[@drgnslyr221]

Never been a fan of his music, but he has a feel for the guitar, few musicians have.

[@EUC_DeathRay]

Great guitarist but his music is shit

[@paulmccabe2966]

Whether you like his music or not (I do), John Mayer is a truly great teacher. Clear and precise.

[@Acujeremy]

I couldn't;t follow what he was trying to say.

[@thepushfitzyify]

@@Acujeremy maybe your not good enough yet lol

[@Acujeremy]

@@thepushfitzyify Or maybe I am beyond finger patterns.

[@thealaskapicker8628]

@@Acujeremy If you were "beyond" finger patterns your understanding of them would be so solid that following what he was saying would be easy

[@Acujeremy]

@@thealaskapicker8628 What I mean is, I don't know the point of what he was trying to say. Why don't you tell me.

[@Jrad117]

Photographic memory, thank you for your knowledge JM appreciate your talent and time.

[@leeburgess9416]

That was a great way to highlight what he’s playing. Well done!!!!

[@edwardmolinary4890]

Same. Great way to illustrate what is being played.

[@BradVOT]

John Mayer is a mix of James Franco and Johnny Depp

[@dontletmebrown]

This is amazing makes what he's talking about so much easier to get my head around, thank you so much!

[@aptmix]

I've always had this in my head when playing but to hear Mayer talk about it with this AMAZING animation...next level. Love the term pentatonic equator, that's so perfect!

[@mcaputto]

All the John Mayer lessons like this. Amazing. Thank you!

[@veshaw.]

out of all the famous guitarist in the world brother John is one of the few who actually takes time to do a guitar lessons for his fans

[@q4991]

Just lately got INTO J. Mayer, (since 'body wonderful?") He is *One* of The *Greats*! It ain't Just pentas, pentas...it's Inspiration, it's Him, only, Totally *Instant Creativity*. SO, i Will return to *Forgetting about Guitar Solos* . i Have 'learned' all the pentas, 10x...i can't even remember That, after a month, it takes Borne 'Inspiration' 'Creativity', to EVER do even a Copy of J.M.! Back to *MY level, again*!!!

[@davidsteinart]

He's really good, I'm shocked that this is a new revelation for him.

[@jazznotes3802]

Shows that even the pros lack theoretical musical knowledge and are still always learning. The only difference is their writing great music with what they actually do know. So what you waiting for? Go write some songs with whatever knowledge you have, now!

[@robrob1596]

I've been looking for transcribed John Mayer videos like this for a couple of years! You should do a whole series on these they really help more than you can believe

[@SticksAandstonesBozo]

This is the hands down best guitar lesson I’ve ever seen. This has totally changed my soloing in 48 hours.

[@GeorgeZimmermen]

Sureee…….

[@PowMusic]

That's awesome to hear. Thank you for sharing!

[@PorkPioneer]

Once you realize you have the ENTIRE neck at your disposal no matter what key you’re in, you can start really working

[@swardmusic]

U should get a guitar teacher!

[@peterliolis5482]

@@PowMusic Often you see people say and then I do this etc ...and learners are saying what!!! slow down with the fret board showing you can follow and hear , one of the best tutorials above,

[@evabrown1511]

This dude went to Berklee and there is NO way he didn't know this shape up until a few years ago?! I went to Music Tech and we had to know pentatonics proficiently before we went on to the second semester....

[@michaelkozma5929]

That guitar animation is incredible! John is playing CAGED shaped system in C pentatonic minor with added pentatonic major in E-Form.

[@pihermoso11]

Wouldn't it be the Eb major penta that is enharmonic with the C minor penta?

[@michaelkozma5929]

@@pihermoso11 Most people get lettered position forms mixed up, the best way to make sense of it is to replace the word E-form with the words (Position 1form Major) which he is playing = C Major pentatonic. Sorry yea, that word (E-form) confuses people. Instead of saying position form C, position form A, etc. etc. You can say Position form 1, position form 2, etc. etc.

[@ziblot1235]

No he isnt. He told you what he was doing. "Key of C" major and minor.

[@davidhallowell3457]

Great lesson…and I love the synced animation. The same notion…that there’s an option ‘toward the bridge’ and another ‘toward the nut’ is, of course, true for all manner of intervals, scales, and riffs…so this lesson has many offshoots for fun discovery.

[@bmann792]

I love it how this is common knowledge and everyone uses this but when John Mayer says it everyone is like oh crap this has changed my life

[@JohnZeeX]

Most don’t get as much out of it as JM does. He takes a basic pattern and makes it sing where most people just manage sound like everyone else.

[@thatsamazin-]

Even John played guitar for years on a high level and never thought of this approach. I don’t think I would call it “common knowledge”. I would just call it a helpful tip.

[@philipmarsh3522]

Right? I honestly thought everyone did this ~ and the other positions as well. Obviously I’ve been focused on the wrong stuff lol.

[@ricoamordavila7496]

So what I'd people know it, it's how to play it so it has soul.. alot of people can't do that. Making it sound good with transitions is not easy

[@TWDay-sy6nq]

"That's not a capo," classic Mayer humor and the kind of subtle stuff that I love in his lyrics.

[@johnadams1101]

“We’ve all done that.” Uhhhh no we haven’t John…we ALL really haven’t. But I love you man and I’ll get as close as I can. SICK!

[@nattyboyo2404]

Crazy that he never saw this until a few years ago. I've probably been playing as long as he has (although not day in day out) and it took me a while to think like this. It's just mad that he plays as well as he does and finds out new things, however simple. He's very humble to be fair.

[@need2knowblue]

The worst guitarist, no feel, no originality, all HOW, no WHY

[@JosephVFitness]

Thank you, John Mayer, always so insightful and clear in your explanations you awesome guitarist. QUESTION: for anyone (I know he's super busy). Where, oh where, can I find that great software that shows what you're playing on a fretboard diagram? SO Handy! Thanks. And, happy holidays y'all! Joseph

[@codewarrior5229]

Please let me know if you find it... Would love to know too!

[@FakingANerve]

@@codewarrior5229 me too. Incredibly helpful.

[@bobbybays]

The graphic is really amazing the way it shows bends and vibrato is rrally cool this video is great

[@rambleon2011]

Would be great if other guitar greats, like Page, Beck, Clapton and Gilmour would give tutorials like Mayer.

[@mrblank-zh1xy]

Mayer is a student of most blues technique and you don't need to study Clapton solo technique if you know the three kings

[@martydibergi5228]

Met bb king after a show about 48 years ago and he spoke with me for 2 hours about how he gets his sound but i was too inexperienced to understand what he meant “ its in the fingers”

[@mrblank-zh1xy]

@@martydibergi5228 I think he meant that the tone comes from the pressure and intonation you put on the strings. BB wasn't a technical player, he was all about the feel.

[@325irish]

Minor pentatonics all day with this dude. He’s SO proficient in that style. Great lesson!

[@MOAB-UT]

Yeah but can you play the major pentatonic scale? Can you play the major scale? Do you know how to go from the major to minor penta in the same tune? Do you know any modes, degrees of the scale and triads all over the neck- the names of each fret all over the fretboard? If not, you have some work to do.

[@kevinmyrick218]

Can you? And are you sure you can?

[@janjansen7983]

@@MOAB-UT i get what you are saying and sure, you are right. The whole point I take away from this video is that you can spice your minor pentatonic up by mirroring another minor penta position to a major penta position. Hence he says ''underground'' playing. If you can master this, sure go learn more, but you can make a lot of nice music with it. Mayer never said to stop learning after this video

[@MOAB-UT]

@@janjansen7983 What he was showing really did not have much to do with Major Penta. Most of his lesson was simply showing position 1 and position 2 of Minor Penta. Nothing more. Below the equator is technically position #1. IF the key is Major, you can start below the equator with your pinky on the root and play position #2 penta. 1-4, 1-3, 1-3, 1-3, 1-4, 1-4. It is really very simple stuff. Simply learn all 5 shapes. Also, be aware, when you are playing major penta, some of the places you find the root will change. The notes are the same (5 out of 7) but the location will change. Not e.g., the A of 5th fret (top and bottom string.) Even if you fret it with your pinky, and THAT location stays the same, other locations will change.

[@dogzillamonster]

Love it! Question, do you recommend software to do those beautiful, seemingly live-time, tabs and notes while you demo'd this?

[@PowMusic]

It’s called fretLIVE made by Pow Music - thanks for checking it out!

[@dogzillamonster]

@@PowMusic Sweet! Is it software that I could buy? Could I get the source code to make it even better for you?

[@codewarrior5229]

I gotta have that software... Brilliant!

[@dogzillamonster]

@@codewarrior5229 Okay, Code Warrior, can we make that happen? Need is the Mother of Invention :)

[@lordohnehelm]

I dont know what he means.. is he trying to tell us that there are 5 pentatonic positions? Well, thank you 😂

[@TheWilliamHoganExperience]

Mayer is always excellent. Your animated diagrams really lay it all out and beautifully compliment his more abstract, obtuse theoretical explanations. Both work together to help players like me reach higher levels of expression with the blues.

[@ZacThomasGuitar]

Imagine changing the guitar world with a single animation. New sub here. How’s everybody doing? Lol

[@haipingplays412]

Years ago i wanted to play the guitar badly. Now i can finally play the guitar badly

[@WhiteCranK]

😂 good one!

[@ZYGTropicals]

I don’t see the big deal? I figured this out years ago while drinking beer and smoking great weed at a friends house!! In my early 20’s. I was staring at a guitar poster on the wall in my buddies room, that had the pentatonic scale up and down the neck. In one crazy moment, it all made sense!! I was astonished at what I was seeing!!!! It all fit like a puzzle! I picked up my guitar after getting home a few hours later and checked out my epiphany, it was amazing and worked perfectly! After that, I was able to completely solo up and down the guitar neck and always know where I was at! Being able to blen minor and major anywhere I wanted to, It was absolute perfection!!!

[@posteraddict]

And then you move the same shape down 4 frets and you've got...gasp!.. the MAJOR pentatonic scale. I tell my students, "I'll double the amount of scale notes you can play in the next five minutes." Always good for a lightbulb moment...

[@jonathansnell-callanen2881]

JM's tone has always been killer. His huge LH allows him to use the thumb over top for the low E string. He also uses the ring finger for most of his hammer/pulls, which has some extra power when compared to most players' pinkies. The micro bending, the (obviously) great instrument with a great setup through a great cabinet, and an effortless picking hand = everything he plays sounds great.

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[@sujayanarula3913]

So nice of John to have made these videos available to everyone, i know it's a lot to expect of him to have supported it with the diagram, thankfully you've made it easier to understand so his efforts don't go wasted, well done! 😊🙏🏽🤩

[@MOAB-UT]

One way or the other, it was sponsored by PRS I am sure. Notice the guitar he is playing?

[@DavoY2K]

At around 3:27 where the 4 is on the B you can pull that up a step and hit the 1 on the E for a great diad then release the 4 and pulloff the b3 to the 1. It gets a lot of miles. Put both of those pentatonic modes together as one. Also try to incorporate some of the other pentatonic modes as well using the root as a starting point. Switching b/t them instead. You can add chord tones and passing tones. Especially the flatted third, fifth, and seventh. Try using triads from the chords all over the modes. Count in numbers from the root so you can relate intervals without letters. I doubt anyone will ever read this so I will give it it's only like. Humility, not conceit.

[@makerphin]

I read it! So many words but I have a lot to learn to understand all of these concepts haha

[@machitect]

wow this is awesome, not just JM, but whoever made this video with the charts. Insane!

[@PowMusic]

Thanks

[@kennethpogue718]

Oooooh thank you, John!!!! This a great breakdown. Was never big into SRV. Think he played a lot of major stuff. Dug a little deeper last night and I think this is what SRV was doing with a lot of the minor sounds.

[@FunkyELF]

I find it amazing (even he says some people will say "duh, we already knew this).... but didn't he go to the Berklee School of Music? Do they not teach the CAGED system there? This is something you figure out within the first couple lessons of CAGED. Just shows, that at any level, there is more to learn or at least different ways to think about stuff.

[@lancelotlink6545]

I was wondering the same thing. I'm sitting here thinking "I know 3 more pentatonic shapes than John Mayer and he still kicks my rear at this thing."

[@eipxen]

I was thinking the same thing, like this guy is obviously a master, so where is he coming to this from? I wonder if he's trying to present it from where a lot of blues players might be coming from, as opposed to like... a more academic angle on the guitar? maybe it's the kind of thing he knew in his head, but didn't really bother thinking about incorporating into his playing

[@c_sparks_1002]

he went to berklee for like a semester I'm pretty sure but yeah, something that an experienced player thinks is advanced, a lesser experienced player could find easy. and vice versa. No ONE right way to learn music.

[@investfluent4143]

How can he be so good and not know anything? I would have assumed that if you are using the pentatonic, you know it all over the fretboard. There are only like 5 shapes. And to think of that as an equator is really just confusing since there are several more equators. The rest of the lesson makes sense about having different physical layout and therefore different sounds in the other positions. Wait until he learns all the four 7th chords and their inversions and their arpeggios.

[@skipneumann1]

I was missing a few of these ways of thinking- I realized I have been utilizing the H&P available in each pattern and being in a different tuning like Albert would make me play another way- always great lessons from you

[@juanexpo]

Incredible work transcribing and making the graphics for this superb lesson. Thanks.

[@joshuacumming4132]

I don’t get it. He’s just saying play the next box down in the minor pentatonic. What am I missing?

[@latchodives]

Not missing anything, I think it’s targeted at people who only use one shape of the pentatonic and move it 3 frets to switch to major. The key point seems to be « here’s another box of the minor pentatonic that you can play and it leads to différents bends and pull off possibilities »

[@SheepWaveMeByeBye]

Some people knew it but never did it. He's talking to those people.

[@latchodives]

@@SheepWaveMeByeBye yes exactly :) I feel like that, I know all my shapes, but I plead guilty of spending most of my time comfortably in shape 1 :)

[@odprjo9016]

@@latchodives playing one shape before is not(!) the same as playing c major. It is playing the same c minor. I also tried to figure out what he is trying to explain and didn’t get it. Learning another pentatonic shape isn’t the same as playing a different key.

[@latchodives]

@@odprjo9016 nobody said that :) He saying that if the 8th fret is the equator, most people play shape 1 of the pentatonic to play c minor (« above the equator ») and move the same shape 3 frets below to play c major pentatonic (« below the equator »). He simply stated that you can also play c minor « below the equator » by playing shape 5 of the pentatonic. That’s really all there is to this video.

[@rogerpercival5486]

Thank you for doing this I memorized the fret board with the circle of 4th and 5ths and until you I have seen no one bring out the fact that the guitar is tuned pentatonic automatically . Open strings Eadgbe is a gab de and playing off of each string playing of of the spine is easy to change to any inversion and play major minor it pentatonic or any other scale

[@jimbeaux4988]

I learned the pentatonic below the equator first. It was actually quite a while before I realized you could also do it above the equator.

[@baldwad]

Exactly !

[@pzuliomaccavellion9711]

I love how John looks like he's totally peakin out on mushrooms, and yet!........plays like a blues elder statesman! Which he literally already is! Lesson from a legend!

[@annonymeandfish]

So this guy, take a video from jhon mayer, puts his filter on, doesn’t check if it works all the way. Then sells his course. Genius

[@josezerpa8177]

What a luxury being able to learn from masters like John Mayer, Snake Sabo and so many others via KZbin! who would've imagine this 30 years ago!

[@austinyun]

Am I fucking high or is he just talking about playing in pos.5? Seriously. Somebody help me out here. Because I have no idea what he's talking about.

[@jdwhitt6999]

Beautifully effective visuals for faster learning! 🙏🏼

[@hugo6314]

Lmao it's the fifth position of the scale, how can you be a professional musician without knowing that ? That's the minimum, what's the next step? "john mayer discovers arpeggios" ?

[@tenzinkunga9860]

had to drop a like because of how good this was

[@PowMusic]

Humbled! 🙏😁🎸

[@StangerCR]

Watching this at half speed really helps you understand his fretboard movements a lot easier, and you’ll also envision what it’s like to get a lesson from JM after he drank a bottle of Jack.

[@_GandalfTheGrey_]

This visualization style with the fretboard and notes being shown is INCREDIBLE for learning. Holy shit. I had none of that when I was learning.

[@goffdroid]

Ive been playing two years ... Its all shapes.. after the minor barre chords outline those notes then the shapes that always connect and follow.. i have to figure out major. I have basic understanding of minor... A minor the chord then the scales..

[@billyclub56]

I am not a fan of His music, but he is my favorite player. Does that make sense?? I love watching him play with the greats. He always shines. Love his Blues playing.

[@ChristianGonzalezCapizzi]

listen to his live albums! one under John Mayer and the other under John Mayer Trio, they're great for any fan of SRV or Hendrix

[@midi1529]

Why did he turn off his fret light fretboard during the video? So he knows his minor pentatonic scale. And the relative major. Whats so special?

[@wallgolfing]

Jesus is King!

[@MVH5150]

True

[@ryanguitargodfrey]

Wow love this perspective. New way of seeing my fret board thank you. I always just find my key and memorize how to go up from there. Thinking about finding the key and using it as an equator and immediately know what's below it is awesome. Also like you said, it's a unique hammer that can't be done in the standard pentatonic we all know and love. What a nice flavor to immediately sprinkle on my playing and feel like I just gained a few XP points in the process. Didn't know you had this channel. This is exactly the kind of advanced lessons I need. New big fan!

[@johnrose6230]

Wow excellent. Been playing guitar over 30 yrs and I only discovered this pentatonic position maybe a year ago, accidentally. Just to add what I found; as well as the ergonomic hammer on and pull off changes which JM mentions, the bends are different too. You bend on the "equator" where you wouldn't usually bend in original position. Sounds cool, I found it to Claptonify my playing a bit.

[@watjuhjo]

I am really curious, and this is not meant in a condescending way at all, but how do you play guitar for 30 years and not know this position? It is literally the first thing I learned on guitar as soon as I started practicing lead and I'm curious as to what other methods people find, if not this, to know what to play on the guitar?

[@johnrose6230]

@@watjuhjo Living life brother! Playing thrash metal and living in a time before youtube existed

[@johnrose6230]

@@watjuhjo this is the first video I've ever seen talking about this position and I thought it worthy of comment as, like I said, I had only recently come across it myself. You know nothing about me or my musical path yet, in an absolutely condescending way, decide to undermine my enthusiasm for sharing my thoughts.

[@watjuhjo]

@@johnrose6230 Forgive my choice of words, I honestly didn’t mean to sound condescending. I’m sure you play loops around me, I’m not that great. I was truthfully curious about how you see the fretboard if not for these positions. Have you made your own positions? Do you play by ear? That’s the kind of thing I meant

[@johnrose6230]

@@watjuhjo no worries and apologies for my retort. I dunno man, it doesn't matter who knows what, it's a personal journey and everyone has the potential to discover new things this is the glory of music. I find jamming with other people and the synergy of that brings me the most joy. But to answer your original question I only really saw the standard pentatonic shape and followed it up the fretboard on the top 2 or 3 strings, it never really occurred to learn it across all of the fretboard. But indeed, it's always just shape recognition for me, and yes...the ears, definitely!

[@BonesDT]

The real secret tip is @5:45 “I could play forever … and I will.”

[@AngelMartinez-qs3cf]

This is absolutely fantastic. I don't know how you did it, with the tabs. But this is great! Thank you for posting this.

[@TheFubit]

Maybe I'm not understanding...but is the equator concept that he's talking about just using the 5th minor pentatonic position more?

[@polymathism7598]

I’ve been playing like this from the beginning. Never thought of it as an equator, just always wanted to connect all of the pentatonic shapes

[@gkniffen]

I know, right? I don’t see what’s so groundbreaking about playing the same intervals/notes in different areas of the neck... 🤷🏼‍♂️😆

[@taz-b5m]

@@gkniffen @Polymathism Thank you both. I've been scratching my head over why people are so amazed by this. Is John Mayer saying he's been playing one shape until two years ago?

[@domagojskrbin8633]

Skill on another level...amazing how nowadays you can get lesson for free from this kind of top musicians...

[@DerFuchsJr]

so basicly he is just showing us minor scale pattern 5 which happens to be in the spot of major pattern 5 :D with a couple of added notes from the major scale

[@mikefowler9407]

great video. didn't think of the M.P.S. like that. Also, why is John Mayer turning into Johnny Depp?