Speed up your Guitar Progress with the Pareto Principle 

Thank you! I appreciate the words 😀

He's absolutely fantastic.

Glad to hear it Ken! Thanks for watching!

All credit goes to Brian for his fantastic channel! Except for the miniscule part I will claim for making the request. 😊

I had the same exact question coming out of the last video. I even started trying to figure it all out on my own today. Then I see this video and Brian comes right out and says it’s a waste of time lol. I’m still going to go through the exercise and figure it out.

Thank you!

Thanks Mike! I appreciate you following along with my vids!

​@@zombieguitarI highly recommend you to others along with your program.

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Hey I appreciate the words! I'm glad to hear that the site has been helpful for you. Thank you for using it! 😀

Took a minute to work it out, But I got what you were talking about👍

@@matthewperry6506 oh okay...sorry about that then! I understand now that you are talking about the "switching pentatonics" or the "3 pentatonics" approach. That is certainly a valid approach for sure, and I've done lesson vids on it before...but it's not my personal favorite method. I personally prefer to think "one scale and target chord tones", which is what I was talking about in this video. Here's an older video about the "3 pentatonics" approach. I believe I just used pentatonic box #1 for each of the 3 pentatonics, whereas you are talking about lumping it all together into one small fretboard area. It's the same idea though: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jNubvZbZ9k0.html

He’s got the AC on his pointer and pinky

I'm always fighting outside noise. I found that the only best time to record videos is at 4 am in the morning 🤣. Thanks for the suggestions!

@@BriarFleet I see what you did there!

@@BriarFleet if he's in the A minor box 1 he sure does 🤣

@@zombieguitar yw man keep rocking it! Same here with outside noise since farm was broke into and neighbors started threatening to jump me and steal my stuff. (Bratty young adults, they're "gangsters" whos parents have cattle lol) The fan and surveillance cameras monitor in the studio help ignore the riff raff outside. Occasionally ill fire off a few rounds and tell ppl to f off when they get out of hand drunk over there, but usually the fans drown them out.

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@@Ahmed-kv4up yes there is that shape available too, but it's easier to recognize that the ii and iii chords are always found in the same shape, separated by a whole step...and this applies to all positions!

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Thank you Larry, much appreciated!

Thanks Max! It's not on there yet, but it will be by the end of the week.

I'm actually going to do a vid in response to this question next week. "Blues theory" is a bit different of an approach then what we are talking about here, but even in blues you will find that box #1 and #4 are the ones that are used most often. In order to expand a bit for more "diagonal" playing, people usually add the "upper and lower extensions" to each box pattern. The upper extension is a little piece of box #2 and the lower extension is a little piece of box #5. I will go over all of this in the next vid!

@@zombieguitar thank you for the response, sounds good, you da man! I think we'll all forgive the noise if you have to turn on the AC next time. We're at 115F in Central Valley Cali. I feel ya.

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I highly recommend not using CAGED names to label "positions". There are pentatonic positions, and then there are CAGED chord shapes. Using CAGED names to label positions is the root cause of the confusion with the CAGED system. The reason why is explained here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x2Mb2U-0FUA.htmlsi=1Rucb9WXIUwPDiGG

@@zombieguitar Thanks for the video. Man, you have just a fantastic way of explaining everything. This is why I bought your courses in the past (it's a lot of material and I haven't go through everything yet). For the longest time, I have linked the pentatonic scale to the CAGED system. It has helped me very good in the sense that can solo over the entire fretboard. But based on your explanation, I see that I'm missing the $1M in the safe. Thanks for sharing all this this knowledge to us.

Yes that is exactly right. Here's an older lesson on diminished chords (it's super old so the quality sucks, but it will still give you the shapes you need). The video link takes you right to the spot in the video where the shape is used ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7ytTmKeSVXQ.html

@@zombieguitar So (In the key of A major) the root of the 7 chord is G#? And I could play the diminished chord like this e|---4--- (high E string) B|---4--- (B string) G|---5--- (G string) D|---------- A|-------- E|--------- The notes played are: G# (on the 4th fret of the high E string), B (on the 4th fret of the B string), D (on the 5th fret of the G string). ??

@@zombieguitar Buy the way, these old ones are classic. These are the no funny stuff focused videos that got me started on you years (And years) go..... Love them..