This lenghty method is how I would learn Spanish. I'd do one lesson for a whole week! It gets results. Trying to do something fast that is only learned through use and repetition actually wastes time. I'm 47 and to me that is wisdom. I couldn't do this stuff in my early years. I wanted to rock. And for a while the basics worked! But as you age you want to develop and improve.
I like the reminder to change keys while practicing the shapes. I have been doing exactly what you said and just staying in A and paying too much attention to the dots. Gotta love them dots 😅
Nothing beats finding a 3 year old video that makes you laugh with how simple something actually is. Since learning barre chords this connected the bridge of rhythm and lead for me
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver I understand the basic idea of the caged system, it is just that recognising the shape as you move up the fret-board takes a lot of practice, that is why I neglected it for so many years, but I always noticed something familiar when I saw guitarist play, and I always felt that there is a connection with the chords, I just never got down to it seriously before because when I was younger I just wanted to strum chords and sing; singing was the reason I learnt to play the guitar in the first place; some singers never learn to play an instrument because they may have been lucky enough to have someone else around who can accompany them; but it wasn't like that for me so I was full of fire about learning to strum for my self when I was 18to 20 years.
@@carlodonnell146 thanks! I use the CAGED shapes though I don't tend to use the caged names. I find names like D shape of G confusing as do many students. But the concept is important and so helpful
Amazing! 😊 Thank you so much. My books arrive tomorrow and I am so excited. I know all the Pentatonic shapes basically, I just need to learn how to go between the Major and Minor positions. So I have a great base, which needs work LOL.
youre talking about me, that's why I am doing these lessons now; I never completely learned all the shapes, and sometimes I hit wrong notes when I got up to the 12 fret.I find that sometimes it is the fingering that messes things up too; as the frets get smaller you tend to stretch too far and hit the wrong note.
I just take the extended main pentatonic shape and learn the two other slightly altered shapes and you got 99% of it. Eg.. Key of Am/C you got the standard extended Am shape the moved down to D shape on the 6th string and the shape has to be slightly altered cause of E instead of F and moved down to E shape and alter C instead of B. To me there the 3 main shapes of the pentatonic scale. The A and E are the main shapes and are basically the 2 main shapes of yours, and D shape is inbetween same as the roots of fourth string with yours, so I guess a slightly different way to see it, gonna try to merge the two.
So many things! Try learning some licks on these shapes. This video is designed to teach you one lick for each shape: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yBaFXm9kek8.html
You showed the A minor pentatonic on the E string then later showed it further up the neck on the A string. Which do you play if it says the next song is in the key of A?
I've learned the shapes of all 5, but I can't seem to get that soloing sound you have, but I've only been playing 3 weeks. Is there another video to help with that? Thanks
Three weeks is very little time. That's great if you've come even that far. Maybe a next step would be to learn some common licks. Try my Top 10 Favourite Licks: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R7cgcC3aMGk.html
Something I would like to sort out in my mind: Is the MAJ/MIN penta only for improvising or is also used when accompanying a singer? Do you use it all the time no matter what kind of a band you are playing with, country, rock jazz etc?
You can use the pentatonic scales even as a rhythm guitar player but be careful not to get too busy as it might interfere with the singer. Generally speaking we can mix playing chords with short pentatonic licks. That can be a great technique. Especially if you use the pentatonic scale in between the singers vocal lines.
Why is that confusing? I think learning the shapes from Blue has been very helpful to me. I now very much understand the difference between Major and minor pentatonic, and can freely go back & forth! (As long as I'm playing over Major chords, lol.) Thanks, Blue!
