The Best Pentatonic Exercise? [Master All 5 Positions] 

You ask, "The Best Pentatonic Exercise"? and I answer a resounding "YES"! I have seen many lessons on pentatonic scales but you are the first person who showed how they're linked together and one leads into the other. Thanks for the "Ahah" moment. Thanks, Jules!

0:56 chart gives the most valuable information I've NEVER seen any other teacher give!

My skill in connecting the 5 shapes has made a HUGE leap forward after a week of doing this exercise in multiple keys. Thanks!

Exactly what I’ve needed! Your teaching is top notch. Greatly appreciated

I like your teaching. It is understandable and the repetition is very helpful.

You have a very good teaching technique. Thank you for your uploads.

Another excellent lesson Jules, very well explained and easy to follow and learn 😊

I’ve been playing for 2 years and you’re the first person to explain it in ways I can understand..thanks

A great exercise, very well explained. The pace and repetition make it easy to follow and I'm learning a lot as I practise it. I am trying to say the names of the notes out loud as I play them to internalise the notes on the fretboard. Thanks Jules.

Thank you for the very basics instructions for the 5 positions and pattern breakdown. Makes playing the scales much easier.

This is the best lesson for learning the 5 positions… cuts right to it and ties it all together! Thank you Jules well done!

Thanks, Jules! This is a really terrific way to learn the positions, which I’ve struggled with. As I’ve worked through it, I find it useful to double pick the root notes as you come across them. Really helps you hear the tonal center of each shape. This also forces a change in picking direction in some spots - like you go from down picking on the index finger notes to up picking once you hit the root note. What a great exercise - thanks for the detailed video!

I have been struggling to connect the positions for a while now. Your instruction here was easy to follow and learn. I simply transcribed to my notepad and have it down as needed. I have liked and subscribed so that I can learn some techniques too. My thanks for posting and I'm looking forward to many more of your lessons.

Really good summery of the pentatonic positions. You rock Jules!

This is fantastic Jules! Thank you very much. You make learning the guitar so much easier the way you present your videos 😀👍🏻

This is great, absolutely brilliant. First class lesson - Thanks👍

Brilliant once again, Jules. Outstanding teaching and showing us your techniques. You have made myself and no doubt many others better guitarist. Thanks to you. 👍

This channel is GOLD! Found it because it popped up in my recommendeds, and I’ve had “Light Bulb Moment” after “Light Bulb Moment” ever since. Totally wipes away the intimidation of the fretboard!

I was just Telling/Asking The Universe. I need a guitar instructor. I want to learn Scales, And Postions, Notes. So I can do a Daily Practice to Cultivate my Skills. Fantastic Jewels. ⭐️ And I love Your Fretboard diagrams. I could do this for Months. Thank You ! ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️🌞

I had to watch the video upside down and it worked😂

Absolutely tremendous lesson...the best lesson on the pentatonic position workout I have ever seen . You are outstanding. Cheers from COLORADO USA . Gary

Thanks for this guide❤‍🩹

I cant even tell you how much this just helped me. Theory has been whipping my @ss and this helped a ton.

This has been a game changer for me, as a relatively new player. Much easier and more natural way to play and link the five position. Thanks😎

Good teacher ❤

Many positions to play in different chords. Excellent Tutorial.

This is excellent, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks

great ! thank you so much ! there is a lot in it !

Thanks Jules!

i would have to say jules, that with all the guitar instructors on youtube, i seem to connect with your teaching style and enjoy your lessons . inspirational and motivating to practice more with direction of where i want to go on guitar. thank you.

I was away from playing guitar for many years due to bad circumstances and decided to start all over again. Since i had already learned many of these things years back i should be able to progress pretty quick to get back to where i once was when i played for 8 hours a day. I have noticed it is more that my muscle memory suffered than theory. I still remember all the notes on the board and the scales and modes but my hands do not respond as precise as i would like them to.

I never heard about the CAGED connection. Thanks.

Great video. Big THANKX man

Amazing lesson! Thank you

Excellent stuff, Jules

Great lesson. Thanks.

Thanks for basic but great exercise…. No one has done this… warm up perfection…. We needed this

PRO TIP - if the speed Jules is playing is to fast for you to keep up, do what I do and slow the playback speed to match your speed. It really helps. Thanks for another great lesson Jules.

Another cracking lesson!

Another great lesson 👍

Brilliant as usual

Excellent video!

Perhaps the most important lesson ever!!

thanks man just beginning and got 1 to 5 pentatonic scales in 2 hours. great teaching

Thank you! I know these positions fairly well. Never played them up, down and over all the way up the neck. Will be practicing.

Great teaching.

Thanks for breaking it down!

Great video. If you know the 1st position from years ago, like me, getting a hold of the other 4 is not that hard. Getting the shapes memorised in a week is not far fetched.

thank you for this!

Thanks Jules very cool 💯🙏

Thank you!

You just taught me the caged system where no other teacher could explain it previously on RU-vid. I thought the caged system was chord shapes up and down the neck....C chord up and down the neck, and then a chord moved up and g chord shape....it was so easy the way you explained it.

That’s a good example of pentatonic scale up the neck 😮👍🏽☮️❤️✨

Useful as usual.

this is awesome, and why as much as it drives us nuts with the algorithm, it can work. guess what im working on? and now, a day after you've posted this, ive found you, and your excellent video! liked and subscribed!! thank you so much!!

I’ll give it a go!

Thanks!

Gonna give it a whirl! Cheers!!😃

With regard to the diagram being upside down because tabs are done to look how you see them while holding the guitar, this is done to appear how it would looking at someone playing a guitar, which we are. Presumably so it matches what we see his fingers doing. I don't think it's upside down.

Works good for me!!!

Great sharing. 🎉❤

bravo brother

I’m a retired educator and have learned that many people are “visual learners”. For those students, every time there is a disconnect between how they look at things versus how they’re shown by the instructor, comprehension drops. As these comments suggest, however, even visual learners “see” from a different perspective. These vids and fret images are both oriented the same, which is helpful. For viewers who visualize the notes from the guitarist point of view, you might try watching yourself in a mirror or on screen so you see three images that are all oriented the same. Watching your fingers will still be out of synch, but this might help your brain make the connection more easily.

Would help if explained how to strike the strings with right hand, beautiful guitar by the way

I agree with what everyone else is saying! Thanks!

Great❤

Please make guitar solo from pentatonik scale

You are a good teacher, the only problem i have is the neck is facing the wrong way for me and i cant seem to follow it.

Isn’t this just the caged system? Scott Paul Johnson has great videos on this.

I like how you broke this tute into sections. Well done. Strategic success. Easy to recall + practice one position at a time before recalling + practicing all together.

Wait. I just got all messed up. I'm new and just got used to looking at guitar tabs being upside down. On a guitar tab, the top string is actually the high E, then the next string is the B, then G, then D, then A, then low E. But I'm to the 1:21 mark and am I right that this tab makes the top string be the LOW E??? If so, are all scale tabs this way? I don't understand why they're flipped...

So far I’m great at doing this in a minor across the shapes. I still tend to get lost if I switch the key.

Jules, is it necessary to practice within these 5 shapes or can I also practice by adding a few more shapes?

what note backing track works for this?

Thanks for the lesson. What is the bpm for the backing track?

I can go the Pentatonic up and down the neck with no problem yet I can't use it musically because all I do is play it up and down 🥴

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for those needing it upside down... take a screenshot then rotate pic 180°. 😊

Help in transposing please

give a lessonon how they're linked or connected

Really great video! However the fretboard diagram being upside down makes it really difficult without watching the video upside down

The image of the fretboard is upside down. It's perfect for your viewpoint there but not the viewer.

I love the lessons, but the fret board graphics being upside down and backwards really messes with my head.....

Had a very bad episodr of ocd attack. That i felt like banging the wall.

C major pentatonic = A minor pentatonic

Great explanations but the fretboard should be turned 180 degrees to be as seen by your students on their instrument. It makes the lesson uselessly difficult to follow because you have to reverse the fretboard in your mind as you play along the video.

If one more asshole says, "Game Changer" I'm going to scream!

really espectacular al you teach ...thanks from Argentina!!

The direction of your on screen fret board seems unnatural to me, and causes big me confusion. I can see the lowest notes to the right side of the screen but the direction should be the opposite for it to make sense. Fret one should start at the left side of the on screen fretboard - just like on my guitar.

Your chart is upside-down and backwards

Your screen is backwards making it very difficult to see the fret board right

If i stand behind my screen and look down at it this works fine. 😂

Great teaching but that fret diagram is messing up my brain hemispheres

Dudes got his tabs upside down and backwards lol. Why did you lay it out like this my man ?

What?! "Five positions"?! Say what?! Shapes?! Say what?! There are 66 tones from the first 11 frets on 6 strings. Thus there are 66 tones from which to start pentatonic minor scales. There is only one way EVER to play a pentatonic minor scale starting from the tonic: You start by playing a m3, then followed by two M2, followed by a m3.

Goddam it. WHO tf decided having the nut to the right was the way to go---when most players are right-handed?! Scott Johnson, Andrew Clarke, and now Jules. THIS SUX.

Go practice and quit crying😢

Wrong,the most important would be to start with undersactanding Interval ,A;B;C,D,E;F;G, and natural minor....pentatonic is the easy shit for the lazy

Thanks!