A Better Way to Learn Pentatonic Scales - Stop Doing that Sh*t!!! 

Thank you Troy! I’ve been playing on and off for 15 years and I think I learned more from this video than I have in the last several years. Just ordered your Metal Rhythm and Metal Lead I and II books. Wish I had them when I started playing!

Great video, Sir! Sounds a lot like what EVH often did... I got your "Speed Mechanics..." book and CD a long time ago, and I still use many of those licks and ideas. You're a VERY GOOD teacher!

Another Gold lesson by the master teacher !

Listen to this guy boys & girls! This really works and will get you sounding great!

Great Teaching!! Thanks a lot !

Fantastic way to break out of the pentatonic rut. Thanks for sharing!

I've always loved the look on a student's face when they first see those box fingering patterns. I always kept the possibilities for after they had memorized the patterns . . . then brought this exact idea up; mostly to destroy their "vertical" restrictions. You've explained this SO WELL, TROY! I'll always refer new players to you, your videos, and your educational works. - Larry Roush, Retired Professor of Guitar, and creator of one of the state of Ohio's first Rock Ensembles. University Of Rio Grande (OH)

A car racer went into guitar playing, ivè been listening to Troy since i was in college, great teacher

What a brilliant way to view the fretboard!

What a GENIUS! Super useful!

Thank you. Sound simple, but not always obvious and figure out for this. Thank you... for making that point so emphatically! So simple and very useful.

Hi Troy! Thank you for this great lesson. I salutes you from San Luis, Argentina.

Amazing lesson, pentatonics seem so much more accessible immediately and I love how you're think across the fretboard rather than up and down. You can use this to build licks you can place in any shape which is so cool

oh wow nice lesson, it never even occurred to me to practice scales horizontally instead of vertically. Seeing the pentatonic just in these few shapes also makes it a lot easier to learn.. Fantastic Troy! Thank you so much.

I'm going to experiment on this and apply it on improvisations. Thanks again, Troy for this great tip. 👍🤘👌

Thanks soo much!

You have taught me to love more my free time, thanks Troy.

This is great thank you. Often we get stuck with the usual phrasing. This helps a lot!

Nice new way to approach it. Going to give this a try.

Great video as always. Thanks for sharing the wisdom 🙂

Brilliant lesson, as usual. The best video on RU-vid to learn pentatonics and improve fretboard mastering. Thank you, Troy!

This is what I need. Thank you, sir.

new subs. saw your post in facebook. thanks for sharing

That's amazing. I have never looked at the penatonic scale like that before.

Great insight thankyou!

This advice along worth a million bucks, thank you sir!

Oh wow, troy is making YT content again. You have a lot of catching up to do but it will be worth it. I still have your The Sound & Story DVD Troy. Great stuff.

One of the best tutorials

So glad I don't have a clue about any of these boxes he's talking about and just play anywhere I want freely.

thanks a lot it was very useful!!

Great lesson for us...

Great information Master...

i love the way you teach .. and i love this topic ..

Thanks Troy. the simplest and most effective things explained well. Luckily you are now more present here on YT. Your videos remove the junk of other YTgtr channels

Thanks Troy, I'm really enjoying your videos. You explain things so clearly, thank you! 😎👌🤘

Very interesting gives me something to do . You are awesome Oh wow I finally got to understand the fretboard. I know now I must know the fretboard real well to be able to connect everything. I am so freaking happy 😊 I have only 2months learning from utube. I just brought my first electric guitar 🎸 😀

I bought your book from guitar center when I was probably 15 years old Speed mechanics for lead guitar. I remember listening to the CD of you playing "flight of the bumblebee" and thinking to myself "wow, I suck at guitar" 😂😂😂😂 It's cool being able to see your videos now days, that was many many moons ago.

I don't wanna die so i just subscribed. This is very helpful btw, thank you!

Thanks bro, it a way this reminds me of the CAGED system but for pentatonic

Eye opening! 🤘❤

i know very well about the techniques.👍

🤯 Master Troy, you blew my mind yet again. Lately I've been having so many of these Eureka moments, I love it. I had one yesterday too watching Michael Angelo Batio's live stream about pentatonics. I knew about major scales and their relative natural minors but it never occurred to me that the same applies to the pentatonic scales too. I felt like an absolute genius and a dope at the same time when I finally realised it, and for not seeing it before. And I was also one of those people who got stuck in a vertical box....until now. Now I know how to bust my way out. Thank you. P.S the solo at the end of this video is an absolute killer. Is there a more complete version of it with tabs?

Thanks,For sharing Troy I'm the one your Fans God bless Full Support your Channel

Hey, VH 1 was ALL 98% first box of the minor pentatonic minor. No joke! Great lesson though. I used to practice a bunch of those groups with hammer ons and pull offs and SLIDES. I never paid much attention to slides until I started using it on the world's most abused slide..5th fret to 3rd fret ( D to C ) on the A string with the minor pentatonic. Hahah \m/ Keep up the killer videos!

Saludos master!

It sort of sounds like that many of us by learning it all solely by boxes (not refuting the importance of studying the boxes btw), have inadvertently created road blocks/speed breakers that impede the flow of free movement between positions. Compounded by the fact that by nature, we are creatures of habit so we go down the familiar and look for those as we travel down a particular road, even if it takes us to the opposite of where we want to go. Therefore this insight from you here on this issue has clarified why it is elusive at times to get this flow between positions.

i think i must subscribe to the channel i am not a metal fan but the ting you teach is can be used in bluse and Rock to

I guess that most musicians, even after exploring all these possibilities, will focus on a few patterns that work best for them 🤘. This is what we observe, even among many professional musicians.

Hey Troy, Great lesson, as always. But, where can I get those Tee shirts? They're very clever and hilarious.

Mr. Stetina, do you have this lesson in PDF format?

I didn't learn vertical pentatonics. So how do I start the horizontal approach shown here? Still learning those vertical boxes before, right? Or how do I know which notes belong to a specific minor pentatonic? Thanks in advance :)

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do you have the action set low on that guitar?

Damn that guitar tone is pretty juicy

Got a question! Are you able to play the guitar without the pent? I don't think it's possible because it has one forms in all music

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Learning the 5 positions is the wrong way to go in the first place. It's easy for teachers, but doesn't play out for students. Start with triads (actual playable versions; not CAGED shapes), then add the "universal" color tones (Maj:2&6/min4&b7), then the rest of the scale notes and chromatics. And learn them by key.

Dose this applicable to all major and minor pentatonic scales?

Can you able to reveal your guitar pedals?

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Greta teacher

Good for picking patterns but if you're freely improvising I would just use your ears to guide you. It's the same 2 shapes repeated ad finitum.