This Guitar Lesson Changed Everything For Me

[@misled1664]

This lesson opened my eyes to a whole new fretboard. I just played for an hour after watching this and my solos/leads just dramatically leveled up from this concept. Thank you!

[@seandaniel23]

So cool to hear!!

[@seanc.5310]

This lesson is extremely valuable. I’ve played for 25yrs and when i started thinking linear in intervals instead of just scales it changed my playing. This takes that up a notch and i love it!

[@davidweier]

I am one of those that is struggling to learn the pentatonic scale(s). This is an eye opener and easier to see and understand. Thank you for this video!

[@robertdearden3434]

I watched this lesson a few days ago and had to come back to comment on how much fun this method of the major scale is. I've been having a blast. Perfect for someone like me that was in a rut!!! Thank you

[@mypromisedmyracle]

Your lessons are awesome! thank you for making learning more interesting, honestly feels like a miracle :'))) i've struggled with learning guitar because of how boring theory can feel to me. the way you explain things and the humour you naturally add makes it so much more bearable. you're a wonderful teacher and you seem like a chill dude that i'd want to be friends with too. bless ur soul

[@scottallen5645]

This was a big ah ha moment for me! Thanks so much Sean. I am 53 and just started playing a year ago and your videos have been a godsend. Keep up the great work

[@mrbigg7255]

Fretboard-Unlocked!!! Thanks man for the eye opening lesson!!! Unbelievable how much easier it is to float in and out of the pentatonic positions now-in any key while sounding more musical. Truly mind blowing!!!

[@70mjc]

This is the Holy Grail of guitar fundamentals. Best instruction video yet!

[@BMuscle]

Never seen any of your videos but I must say that I learned a lot from this video. It made more sense to me then pretty much any of the other videos I have watched from other teachers. Appreciate you homie and the effort you put in. 🍻

[@seandaniel23]

Welcome to the party!

[@StumblebumBand]

It’s so great. Now you just need to play it again and again to find out how to make it usual. I loved the concept of using that to connect to the pentatonic shapes we already know. Loving it!

[@StumblebumBand]

I meant musical not usual 😃

[@robray753]

I cannot explain how different I see the guitar after only practicing this for such a short amount of time. As a person who learned guitar from tabs and such - and knew next to no theory... it was daunting trying to get started. Pentatonic, major scales... which should you learn... CAGED... etc. So I tried a bit of each. Nothing really clicked ... but this! This just showed me how to find all the scale notes, across the entire neck... without much effort... in like 10 minutes. How does this video not have more than 2.3k likes? Permanent subscriber.

[@78tag]

I'm sure this video will catch on with the community. Sometimes the word spreads slowly.

[@noahtenshen]

Like math, it's always nice to see another way and how it connects. Reductionism at its best. On a side note, the first thing I learned as a teacher was no matter how well I knew something and spit it out to my students--they didn't know it. So when I heard someone yell, "Slow Down!", it hit me, that I was rattling off what I Knew. They needed a bit to process. So, as much as I love your info, maybe less caffeine-like rushing. Just a thought or observation, not a criticism. Stay Well Groovy One and thanks for another view of the amazing world of a fretboard.

[@gregwales5738]

Fantastic lesson. I switched off after the flat 7th thing just to keep playing the blocks without thinking and noticed the extra pattern between the blocks is also the same on each pair of strings. Look at a major scale chart of the whole fretboard and the link pattern is the same after the 2 patterns Sean showed us. A 4 fret link . Love it. Thank you so much brother. Great out of the box thinking and helps connect all the dots on the fretboard. Peace All.....

[@MarknKC66]

This was an "aha!" lesson for me. Perfect timing in my learning stage. I'm just beginning to try and learn the transitions between Pentatonic boxes on a string by string basis. I had to sit down with a pencil and paper and chart the notes to reinforce it and "see" where the half steps were and why this method works. So much to work on! Thank you! And don't worry, I'm going to give Sweetwater some love. Time to reward my hard work with a new guitar.

[@seandaniel23]

You deserve it!

[@kennethcrowe7961]

I like that way of looking at it. The hardest thing about music theory is to explain a simple idea in a simple way. This guy has done this well. I always looked at it like is my fault you don’t understand music theory. Its the teachers that fail, bc it really is simple ideas. Nicely done. This is valuable also to us know how this lays out already, and i know I’ll catch myself doing this. Best info ive seen in a wile. Nicely done

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much for the kind words!

[@caseyfisher7497]

I just found this video and dang.....I was stuck in the minor pentatonic rut, but after watching this I'm flowing in and out of the major and minor together and making lead sounds I've never been able to. Thanks dude!

[@gerardbrandenbourger5440]

thanks man. you really nailed this lesson. I don’t understand why I never heard of this before. thumbs up.

[@jamesgaetz]

Huge visual breakthrough when you described. "6 strings; 6 pianos". Stay Gold Pony Boy.

[@nicolasmaurin182]

And the 5th one is shifted left (or right…) by one fret !

[@creepingdarth]

Many have said this already but I must as well. WOW... Brilliant concept!! It opened up the fret board for me instantly. Such a fun lesson Sean. I wish I had learned this many years ago. I can't wait to try this in a live setting with my band. Thanks man!!!

[@williamfrench491]

Thanx for the info. I've been out of commission for a while but I'm back and loving it. You'll live forever in my mind as interval boy. I know it was meat as a slur by an unsaid veiwer but it was actually a Boone because it's permanently embellished on my mind. Thanx again interval boy!

[@cotton_mouth70]

Man, that banana joke got me mid sip of water, and I DAMN NEAR DROWNED! Subbed again for the near death experience!

[@RyanHelme420]

Hyped that youre spending the whole month drilling shred guitar. Your lessons are always preferred thank you good sir!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@reverendlee7617]

This is very similar to playing the Bass. Took me a year to figure this out. I may not become the greatest guitarist, but I can now relate the guitar back to the bass. Which I spent 3 -4 playing, before developing hand problems.

[@rickjohnson4537]

Thank you. Best thing I’ve ever seen to help me open the guitar fully. Your a good teacher to. Best wishes. Rick

[@CMQ01]

Great video. You’ve done some awesome videos this year. The videos that were “this is something i learned that really opened up this door”. Good job with pushing yourself to shred too. I remember not that long ago you mentioning, and i’m paraphrasing, “if i don’t get any better at guitar in my life…i’m ok with where i am now”. Good to see you went beyond. Always keep pushin’ man…good stuff.

[@dougsmith8430]

Sean, you are an incredible Guitar Teacher! 🎸 I watch your lessons and they are so good that I can actually understand and use them right away to help me get better! THANK YOU!

[@scottstone1475]

TRYING brother. I can do quit a bit on guitar but still can't put my leads into something that makes me smile. Being able to do runs and trying to figure what sounds good has been impossible for me shapes deff help. I can't dive into your brain pan yet but I'm getting tidbits that make some sense. Keep it up I'll be trying thank you

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks for watching Scott and keep it up!

[@artg7909]

Best instructor I have witnessed si far for newbies and intermiditate players.

[@67er_matze97]

great lesson !! remineded me of what I look at as the tool I found most helpful in my long lasting guitar experience which is a sheet of paper where I have painted guitar fretboards with dots for all notes that belong to a tonality ...and beneath that for the next tonality ...and so on for all important guitar keys. This helped me so much to visualize the fretboard, the modes and to learn to see more than the fingering boxes and step out of the basic fingerings. I've just discovered your channel. Went directly to my favourites and I'll definitely check out more of your content!!

[@matthewearl9824]

I realized this way early in my learning the fretboard, but that doesn't mean he should have. Finding revelations on the guitar at different times and stages is what makes the guitar so fun and interesting. Paul Gilbert says he learns new things all the time and they are from people that have way less time on the instrument including students.

[@paulgordon6949]

Hey thanks man. Your lessons have really been helpful recently!

[@seandaniel23]

Great to hear! Yeah I feel me practicing from a new perspective has helped to articulate things.

[@Fxstdeuce05]

Thank you this and the previous videos were mind opening for the scale approach and a great way to throw in slide playing that makes scale sense.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks! I'm thinking about trying to do some more slide stuff soon.

[@Virtual-Media]

Nice work on the recent video series, truly a revelation of a better understanding the fretboard layout.

[@RTSJamal]

This reminds me of the last few lessons on marty musics channel where his old teacher teaches scales! Thanks adding to it!

[@seandaniel23]

So cool! I haven't checked those out yet but I had a chance to meet him and Marty at Summer NAMM. Both are great dudes.

[@DavePilotCH47]

This is going to take a few watches to wrap my head around this but you’re definitely bringing your A game on this👍🏻👍🏻

[@donindri]

I like the minor mini modes for 3 notes per string, but I see the advantage of using Major mini modes, especially doing them a box at a time. Thanks for posting. Congratulations on 400k, well deserved.

[@AlexanderDekhtyar]

Literally wrote the same comment (-:

[@JNW-we2we]

This is the best way of seeing the fretboard that I have come across. Really helpful for me

[@AlexanderDekhtyar]

On a more serious note - thank you for the lesson. For various reasons I prefer to look at most scales as being minor, and because I am still working on a five fret stretch, I prefer the two string boxes that include a half step. I learned that when playing in Bm, 9-11-12 on D and G strings (and 12-14-15 on B and high E) make for really cool (to my untrained ear) playing. Ditto for Am: take be B, box and move the middle position one fret up - 9-10-12 on D and G. Very much in line with this lesson, but with half steps included in "main boxes" rather than at transition points.

[@davidlegalley1161]

Great lesson with a different perspective. Always a win when I can understand and add a new perspective of the fretboard. Thank you Sean, well done! 👍🏾👍🏻.

[@Bb-M4n]

Weird how sometimes the stars align and it feels like a tutorial is tailor made for you. This is exactly how this felt watching this as I try to break away from the penatonic shapes. Sean - keep these fretboard mastery vids coming

[@seandaniel23]

So glad it helped!

[@gregcharles6528]

Great Stuff Sean!!! I loved it, and a good time was had by ALL!!! 🎸💃🕺🎸

[@dougbennett7881]

Great lesson Sean. Peeling the banana ever so slowly, adding to my fretboard knowledge. And I love Walrus pedals!

[@joncollins7129]

I watch your channel solely for your dorky cold openings. Close second is the fabulous guitar lessons.

[@BillCox-ge1wq]

This works well to get around the neck. Moving down strings along with it. It gets you out of the boxy mess of pentatonics.

[@FetAlfredo]

Man I have to say that your fret markers are trippy as hell!

[@thmmke6926]

My son gave me the walrus 385 for Christmas, this is a very cool and unique great sounding pedal, the like active bass and treble controls give so many sound combos,

[@ranhold1]

Love the video and the help that it gives, as well as the life altering revelation...

[@SlimeyGuitarStrings]

That you need to peel a banana?

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help on all fronts

[@berniarmstrong]

Great complementary video to your previous "three note a string" video. My soloing is coming on by leaps and bounds after this.

[@jamespbrewer]

love this kind of thing…. saving for after work so I can noodle along and focus

[@seandaniel23]

Rock on James!

[@davidwassel1490]

Thank you so much for your different and oh so valuable understanding. For me; how to understand simple to better get what can be complicated. Your approach is great!

[@wiseonelol25]

I just wanna say THANK YOU Sean!!! I'm finally enjoying bananas the right way!!! AND...the guitar lesson was pretty good too!!!!

[@jimandcathep9915]

Thanks Sean, great video and concept - shredding definitely NOT a bad thing. Learning to play fast only helps you play better at "normal" speed.

[@ritesh146]

Man, your guitar’s fret dots are really trippy. I thought my vision was getting blurry.

[@doodoopoo]

why

[@ritesh146]

@@doodoopoo well coz it is not a standard dot that you see on most guitars and circles are intertwined. Also has a white Halo effect.

[@seandaniel23]

Haha, yeah i can see that.

[@guitarman_3693]

i found this lesson facinating & as a "stuck in the min. pent. scale guy" i was super focused on following your fingers with my old eyes(my small phone) & the exotic inlays helped add more "on the fly deciphering" for my noggin to feed on.. lol.. i watched the entire vid the 1st time & the 2nd time i did quick rewinds when needed, then about 1/2way i decided to write it down. the 3rd viewing w/rewinds & i have a mental pic of the "overlapping shapes" that you show in the key of A .. now... im gonna watch 4th time & see if i understand better.... i know nothing about myxlidian(spelled wrong) mode , so i may have to burn a needle thru this vid.. but i need to pick up what your laying down brother... i reached a point a couple years back & didnt play very much & lost my eagerness to even pick up a guitar... i can feel it, im coming back !! thank you sean for the catylist to start up the fire again...

[@rickrutledge7361]

Another point of view. Goody!!!! I learned something snd I’ve been picking these things for sixty five years!

[@TheOrigamiPeople]

Thanks Sean. I’m going straight to an A pulse and practice this two string at a time method

[@rmarriott2]

at first glance, this seems a lot simpler to wrap one's head around when compared to the CAGED method of (basically rote) memorization of the fretboard. i am teaching my son (age 12) to play and i think i will try incorporating this trick into a few lessons to get him "up the fretboard" (outside of "cowboy chords"). tying it into the pentatonic scale for working out solos seems intuitive. he wants to solo "like daddy" but i want him to have the chords down so that i can (later) tie in all of individual notes in the chords he has already learned. and if i cannot explain it to him properly, i can always send him the link to this incredible video. thank you! (did this make any sense? i am on a new pain medication and i really want to rock out some Jimi right now. lol)

[@carluptake5937]

I just left a plateau! THANK YOU!

[@seandaniel23]

Congrats!

[@tman6495]

Great lesson......What are you playing that Music Man guitar through......what a "sweet" tone!

[@FranciscoRuiz-pc5ew]

Thank you for opening this up for me!

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help!

[@sharkman4928]

I played one of those St. Vincent guitars at Sweetwater and I LOVED it!!!!

[@carldyke5725]

I think I understand what you're doing. I'm confused in how to apply it to the Key of "A". Also, how to translate this pattern into other keys. What may help (me) would be "loop" the key of "A" and then apply the pattern to the music/loop. 🤔

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

From the very beginning to the very end, this lesson is bananas…

[@smacker360]

I needed this as I'm one of the 5 box pentatonic guys. This technique broke the rut I was in and has opened up a new way for me to look at the fret board. Talk about taking your playing to the next level, this is it. THANKS!!!!!!! One question: If the key of A starts on the 4th Ie. E F G A making A the root is it the same for all the others? Ie. the key of D would start on G?

[@secularZoo]

The fret markers on your guitar are mesmerizing. It would put me in a trans while playing it (could be a good thing)

[@lamper2]

BUT.... why E as a starting note if you're in the key of A? Why not D or B? for this 3 notes per string thing

[@jcburger733]

Thanks for the guitar lesson that changed everything for you. Appreciated!!!

[@memkeskin14]

Thanks for this … I am a beginner if I’m not mistaken if you start with the relative minor of C … Am then it’s 5th Em then you see a similar pattern but the difference is in the beginning of the scale instead of the end … A BC ….vs EFG ..( Phrygian)

[@PE1978C]

Another blockbuster lesson, Sean!

[@juliodefreitas157]

An absolutely awesome lesson. Thank you for your video ❤❤👍👍

[@sinclairashmanprintmaker3909]

Many thanks Sean! This lesson is very helpful. One question though - I'm struggling to apply it. For example, in the key of A, when I find a fifth (E) on the string, then use the six-note pattern, it's not in key with a backing track in A. It does work if treated like the end of the six-note pattern e.g. jump two frets and then one fret - 2 , 4, 5. Any help would be appreciated Sean.

[@kocherpm]

More than one option for looking at something is nearly always good. I like this 2 string concept quite a bit.

[@dabidibup]

Great! I recently had a similar revelation. The box shapes of Pentat scales are restrictive, once you hit the E or e , you’re done. Cutting them in half and realizing I know the E,A,D (power chords and CAGE) strings pretty good, I can see the G, B, e much better, by which I mean I can combine all top half of the box shapes and just go all the way up and down the neck. Either in double-stops, triads, or solos Shredding became popular because of Guitar Hero, you could only play fast one way. There’s no where else to go if that’s all you want to do.

[@lukesteverything627]

Ah yes. I am self taught and picked up my first guitar just over a 1,000 years ago. Because I didn't know about pentatonics and all that jive I simply found my way around a fretboard by ear. It's more or less exactly how I started out then added various scales later. I've always seen the fretboard as patterns and numbers rather than notes. If you ear tells you where to start the rest falls into place. For a few years I flattened the B string when I played lead, so easy.

[@yordiana6306]

Thank God! I thought I was the only one lol

[@jeffreystewart9809]

Same here! I'm a play by ear bassist transitioning to guitar and this is how I play too! Never knew what I was doing, but I knew it wasnt standard scales.

[@waynecribb4922]

I have heard this said before. How does thinking in numbers help? That has confused me for ever.

[@yordiana6306]

For me it's counting fret distances and forming patterns from it

[@lukesteverything627]

Hi Wayne, this question is probably for Sean but I'll try to explain. Instead of moving up a string like starting on open E then FGABCD.you just remember whole step whole step half step whole step whole step whole step half step. Wherever you start this pattern takes you up and down the notes. If you move from string to string remember that they are tuned 5 steps lower from 1st to 6th except for the B string which is 4 steps from G. So it becomes about numbers not notes 2 frets / 2frets / one fret / two frets / two frets / two frets / one fret. Hope this helps.

[@jmstrlick]

Thank you,. You opened a whole new idea for me.

[@satyrusgrandis4748]

i am 36y old and thank you ... i have start learning alone... you help so much

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help!

[@paulrosenbaum1435]

Hehe - I loved your "don't judge me comment. It's like you knew what I was thinking. But it is a great way of looking at the importance of this!

[@StumblebumBand]

Sean I am learning so much from your incite full lessons. One question I was soloing to a blues in A. For some reason 5,7,9 didn’t sound right , 5,7,8 did. Why is that?

[@michaelgerjets5439]

Ist because These Video is more about major Scales. Blues offen use minor. An first 3 Noten of A minor ar 5 78. But you can learn the minor scales on the same way as shown here.

[@jeremytee2919]

Sounds crazy, but if could go back in time and choose, I'd have started thinking of each string like organ piano rolls. I'd have focused on memorizing the low string hearing and seeing the intervals, and then moved on to the concept you've presented here

[@mabblers]

Great lesson, and love your guitar. Sweeet!

[@leftbehind4030]

Ive been playing around with 3 notes per string for a while its is so much more liberating than sticking to box shapes & increases confidence,thats not to say I dont get lost but it certainly an eye opener & does make you more musical,your almost more inclined to listen to what your playing,it would be interesting if you did dabble in the modes more,as in 3 notes,as I just stick to major & minor & wander will I ever escape them

[@2121toso]

My brain thinks like your brain. So helpful and original.

[@jorgeloera9537]

Hey man if you havent tried a Sire Guitar or Bass, you NEED to. the price should be wayyyy higher. the neck feels so comfortable and it sounds amazing.

[@StarDarkAshes]

But if you’re playing by ear and you know where all the notes are and you never hit a wrong note, you don’t really ever have to think about shapes at all as long as you know the sound you are going for, right?

[@billa6348]

I don’t know about this exercise “revolutionizing” my playing, but it is a drill you can to other scale and arpeggio work. To those asking for “tabs,” use your ears! Play what you hear. This is a simple exercise to use for that. Finally, Sean, I appreciate your stated purpose for this exercise, “To energize your playing,” but it would have been more useful at the beginning of the video. Kudos for energy and “stage presence!”

[@drewdietz2115]

I think this stuff is starting to sink in this ole head!!!! Love it, thanks sir Sean

[@matthewharper9615]

Tell me more about the guitar you're playing. Couldn't read the headstock clearly. Does it say "Mustang"?

[@roguerader]

I really missed the bit that was going to change everything for me!!! can anybody please tell me where is that in the video? I lost 25 minutes, but Sean made some money while I lost time....

[@thisis4ever1]

so recently i’ve been playing like this and i had no idea what i was doing just sounded right and woah now i know where to go. like i need to stop second guessing myself. i get so lazy to learn the fretboard and music theory but it’s pretty easy lowkey

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

I've seen a video of yours, regarding how many youth actually ignore the notes on the neck of the guitar. I couldn't comment, but here I am. I see you were playing a green semi-hollow (D'Angelico?). My point being, I'm just tired seeing so many guitar instructors using Strats, Les Pauls, SGs, etc. Nothing wrong with them. It's just total overkill. Seeing a semi-hollow body in an instructor based video is a most welcoming moment.

[@seandaniel23]

Thank you!!! I love that D’angelico semi. That and the st vincent are my 2 fave

[@entertain4me73]

Powerful lesson! Thank you.

[@78tag]

I got enough of what you said to get the scheme of it. I'll work on it and I'm sure more of what you said will become obvious. Let's face it, I'm here because I am not able to run up and down the neck the way you just did, without getting lost. I think what is going to happen now is, the names of the notes on each string, at each fret, are going to be easier to learn with that piano analogy. I see the keyboard much better in my head than I do the neck of the guitar. Thanks, I will be working on this.

[@KayEl58]

I enjoy playing the pentatonic shapes. I've recently started adding notes other notes, outside of the shape and that definitely sounds more interesting. This new shape is great, I doubt if I'd ever have sussed that out on my own. I need to work on the transition so it doesn't sound like I'm slalom skiiing and then hitting a tree before I gracefully race to the finish line.

[@TheOrigamiPeople]

That’s great Sean,now after we learned all that maybe we can process it better if you showed a little exercise in the key of A major with a looper. You know ,some A chord then a practice routine with those 6 notes on two strings ,the E and B ,the D and G then the E and A .So we can noodle on the theory you gave us.

[@yongchaozhao1437]

I have a question about the Minor shaps. How can we come up with this shap in Minor key. Thank you for your lesson!

[@J.M.Stigner]

it's the same [correct me if im wrong please other YT'ers...] Take F#m as your key and play all the same notes that Sean is playing for the Amaj in this vid [as these are relative Maj/min keys/chords] but, make sure you land on F# notes as you finish your phrasing to help it sound Minor and from that key. Move three frets down from the root note of any Major key to find the relative minor btw

[@daviddamron3619]

Awesome lesson.........but, I wondering if you would do the whole thing over again.........in acoustic. Lol I was so distracted by the electric guitar sounds I keep missing the basic lesson. 😅 Anyways loved the lesson gonna rewatch it. Again.

[@chascapark]

Why was the peniton pantetoni pene the blues scale easier than the rest to memoize memerize remember?

[@trentc7329]

I just realized something while working on this. Every note on the 7th and 9th frets in the key of A major are in the key. Barring all 6 strings is a Minor 11 chord rooted on the E strings, so the 7th and 9th frets are the minor two and three chords of A major. Every note on every string two frets apart is in the same key and the root is the low note on the D string. Even works on a seven string if the low string is tuned to B. As long as you know those two frets for the key you always have a place to go where you can’t mess up too much.

[@dennisshendler5419]

You are an awesome teacher, but since I usually just play chords, I never bothered with Scales, so maybe that's why I struggling to understand this lesson. I would appreciate Any feed back!!

[@57RickH]

Will need to watch this video a few times to be able to apply it to my playing but it will be a KZbin lesson that goes in my Top 25 Essential Guitar instructional videos to refer back to often

[@psb962]

I've been playing for 40 years and this surprised me. I'll be spending hours putting this to work tomorrow.....

[@SirLoinMagroin]

Guitar tuned in fourth's not fifths? Lost me. Only the G to B string in fourth's, in standard E tuning. Confusing. E to A is a fifth and so on until the G to B string relation, then back to a fifth for the B to high E. Where am I going wrong ?