This simple square pattern gives you both major & minor pentatonic lead options-Guitar Lesson EP489 

Brian’s enthusiasm shows through in every video. He seems genuinely excited to present the material.

Many of your lessons are worth the price of a yearly membership, and this is one of them. A real gold mine on this one.

You are a natural-born teacher with perfect clarity in your explanations!

I have been playing guitar since I was 9 years old, I have Never seen this kind of great teaching in simplicity as what Brian has shown us here. Absolutely fantastic job Brian, thank you for your time , energy, & knowledge of the guitar fret board. I am 71 years young now and still learning. God bless you Brain, & thanks again for all your lessons, I believe I may head over to your home page & join up for some extra material. Lol 😆

Fantastic lesson Bryan. Really a simple way to improvise. So useful. Also appreciate the fact your videos don’t show any annoying RU-vid ads!!!!!!

I hadn't picked my guitar up in years, until watching your videos a couple of weeks ago. Thank you.

As a newcomer to soloing, can I just say "Thank you" Brian for explaing this in a way that is simple to use, and sounds great. And thanks for not skipping over the small details that others might know. I get a lot out of these lessons.

You make it easy for an old man to improve, thanks

Great use of graphics to show scales. Tremendously useful teaching tool

You have fulfilled your life's work

Yer my favorite teacher. love the new guitar

Really a big help. Thanks! Can’t believe I’m just now learning this stuff

Some people teach and some are teachers. Man you're a teacher. I've seen similar things on RU-vid many times but you went a step further and was much easier for me to get it. Thanks for your time. I had to sub. Looking forward to much more.

Good basic pentatonic box theory, that we can practice with! Thank you Brian !👍

hands down the most useful teacher ever. where were you 20 years ago when I started playing I have learnt more in the last six months since I found your lessons than I learned in the previous 19 years. and I love that guitar. thanks Brian.

One of the first things that occurred to me as you explained the major and minor box locations was that you could do a 'call' in major and 'respond' in minor. You could do this alone or while swapping licks with another player. Very cool, as usual, Brian.

You have the some of the best guitar lessons out there! Your approach to instruction is very thorough yet simple to understand. I’m learning a ton! I’ll be joining your website membership and look forward to many more great tutorials. BTW… some day you should walk us through that impressive wall of vinyls that are behind you. I bet there’s some gems in that collection! Keep it up!

One of the best lessons for soloing... thank you so much

His course is awesome.... I only signed up two months ago and managed to complete his "basic training" modules and now I can comfortably run basic solo lines over any key..... the membership is surprisingly affordable given the amount of content available. Just to put into perspective I would have paid the same amount of money for only 3 face to face lessons in uk. Highly recommend ACTIVE MELODY.....

Hello Brian, been following you for years now. A classic simple way to move round the pentatonics family, gives me more belief in myself to play tunes, thank you so much, keep up the brilliant work😀😀😀👍

Mind boggling, and very well explained! Super clear, and finally something that looks like I can and will integrate into my playing. Thanks a lot!!

Awesome class. It was good to see that just breaking a little piece of the scales iis enough to have fun

One great lesson after another! He's fast paced but that's ok. You get a lot of information in a short time and, unlike an in-person lesson, you can back it up and watch again until you get it. Good stuff!

Fantastic. I’ve been piecing this together with more sections of caged system. This is much simpler and sounds much better. Thank you.

the Einstein of the pentatonic scales, Mr Brian

Thank you Brian, this lesson had a real light bulb moment for me, I appreciate it, when you went down three strings, and went from the major pentatonic’box’ to the minor pentatonic.

Great lesson, gave me food for thought for sure, thanks.

Interesting to see all those "hidden in plain sight " squares, and how useful they are. Great work Brian.

Thanks for this lesson; it's 'guitar-life' changing. You're doing well 👍

Another great lesson. I've said it before, I'll say it again: I wish I had Active Melody and RU-vid when I was coming up. I might actually be a good guitar player! Oh well, better late than never. Thanks, Brian! AM is worth every penny! P.S.- I'm definitely going to check out Wide Sky Guitars!

I literally learned more in this one video than hours of others.

Great lessons in you channel man!!! Complementing this with daily practice and private lessons is gold.

Simply the coolest lesson I've seen in a minute. You're greatly helping the guitar simpletons like me.

So much to work with from this simple example of M/m pent boxes! Thx Brian

😂 thank you sooo much I’ve been trying to go from minor to major but but my riffs would not work your box method just opened it up I’m having a blast Thank you!!!

Genius. Simple but a lot to work with, especially getting the whole and half bends over the right interval 1,4 or 5. Best lesson. You could solo over any song when playing with others.

Congratulations on the beautiful guitar, great sound and a great player/teacher Thanks for the many inspirations and lessons.

Hi there - this has been a real 'breakthrough' video for me, as a 20-year beginner looking to expand my knowledge / abilities through improvisation, and having watched hundreds of youtube videos that never quite crack it. There are lots of videos that are very theoretical, purely practical, superficial hacks, or just plain confusing in relation to minor / major / pentatonic / soloing principles etc. But this has a perfect balance of all those things in a way that is immediately useable. Thank you, I'm now a subscriber!

Great Lesson. Highly appreciate your time.

Yup! Clean & clear! I hear BB King all day in this lesson. My TBI fights my guitar progress often, but not on this lesson, YAHOO!!! Thanks man.

Repetition is the key to higher learning..Love to hear reminders constantly. Pinky major, index minor..

I think this is my favorite lesson yet. Best back track style and great tips. Thanks Brian.

Every time I watch one of your lessons, I always get something. BTW lusting after your new guitar. I don't have a P90 guitar and that one looks and sounds perfect.

I sure am learning now! I have to say You are at the top with me.

Very informative, and simple FUN…isn’t that what it’s supposed to be !

You're a great teacher!

Your tidbits of information are so great! After seeing your videos or your Instagram clips, I'm always motivated to pick up my guitar :)

That's a wealth of info... Thanks!!!

Again, great eye-opening lesson. Thanks!

Bryan, this was really great, enjoy your stuff so much... God Bless...

Eye opener, and very well explained. Thanks again, Brian!

I love the looks of this guitar. Smaller body with F holes, and no cutaway reminds me of a violin, but I can't afford this one.😞

Love it! Great sounding guitar. Thank you for your time & info. I'm self taught. I started at 9 yrs old & I will be 69 yrs old in a couple of months. I play everyday, & you have helped me.

I love your creative way of undertand guitar playing. You hit it out of the ballpark with this lesson

That was one of your best lessons, thank you!

Thank you Brian! A very fun lesson! I'm really glad you put this together in such an accessible way. I love these "tips" you give that are geared perfectly for anybody who needs a little success in their playing. I've been stuck noodling for a while and needed something I could manage that will also encourage me to be creative. This hits the nail on the head!

I love your teaching style . Organized and patient.

I’ve played the square box for a while now. It makes it easy to sound more advanced. I didn’t know about the playing in the key I just knew it worked and I didn’t have worry so much about chord changes. Thanks for the lesson!!!

Thanks Brian, very well articulated and another way to look at the fretboard. Great lesson!

This was great! Thank You Sir

Such a beautiful and great sounding guitar!!! 👍🙏 Very useful these square patterns🎸

YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!

Love this video, try and watch all your videos. Keep up the good work. THANKS

Beautiful lesson

Thank you for sharing your experience. This was one of the most helpful videos I’ve seen in a long time.

Been playing guitar forever and still learned a lot from this lesson. Thanks!

Great Stuff Brian, love these videos

I love this lesson! thank you so much!!

I really appreciate these lessons!

Thank you Brian. This makes me understand the simplicity of switching minor and major scales. And hitting the transitional notes will make big difference in my playing. All these years, I’ve always wondered how these guitarists 😮come up with these cool riffs. It seemed too complicated for me to learn

FANFRIGGINTASTIC!

Makes So much sense, thanks!

Simple and powerful!!!

this is a great lesson !!!

Woah, really cool. I almost feel like this is one of your best lessons on the pentatonic scale at least that I have watched. Your enthusiasm shows particularly with this video, which I interpret as a sign that you also are convinced of this method, and how it comes together. Really like how this complements previous beginner videos on that box and triangle. This brings it together for me. I really like the visual shapes approach, really makes it accessible for me. Also like the demonstration of full and half bends, and where to place them. The root note as an anchor was a revelation to me, how major and minor pentatonic are connected, didn't realize that before. Now I just need to figure out what notes distinguish major and minor, and where the critical ones are, e.g. the third, fifth, flat seven, minor third, which corner of box and triangle, then i think I'll have it figured out so I can play major and minor pent intelligently. Also striking to me was to hear major and minor right after each other like call and response, inspires typical blues lick. So cool. Definitely going to try and use that. The bends, like I said, really inspiring. I am a beginner with blues, have classical background and am using your channel to get ideas and widen my repertoire. Great work, really enjoy the videos and your particular approach.

love your lessons.

Excellent lesson. Great teacher.

Somewhere beyond excellent!

Brilliant tuition. Thank-you.

Awesome lesson once again, thanks Brian.

I always enjoy your videos. Keep them coming!

Excellent and simple to understand

Needed this one, thx.

I'm watching this over and over again. This lesson put limitations on, but then shows other areas that use the same box... and why. This is forcing me to use various techniques that I ignore when I use the major scale because I can simply just go to the note instead of bending it. And, finding what notes to bend wasn't successful until now. Thanks.😊

Another great lesson Brian🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for this lesson the pentatonic scales and boxes sound and makes more sense!

What a great lesson.

Outstanding lesson. Thank

Brilliant lesson. It's making me understand more about scales. Thanks.

Great Lesson. I really got it! Thanks

You are a very important tutor

Great lesson. Easy to understand

2nd on this being one of your best videos! And that P125, whoa, first thing I noticed and couldn't keep my eyes/ears off of it. Checked his site for specs, absolutely fantastic!

hey thanks! that really clicked for me! cheers

This was a fantastic lesson,thank you

beautiful lesson, beautiful guitar

ALL RIGHT ! - Just WHOA, '"ALL RIGHT'" !!!

Cracking lesson as always Brian, something to take away for all of us as usual.

So much sound and variety out of those few notes.

Great video! Concise