This SNEAKY TRICK Guitar Heroes use Changed my playing completely! 

Thanks, Mark! I'm 66 so those licks are well embeded in my memory, yet I never even attempted them because "I'm not good enough." Now that time is on my side since retiring wouldn't you know arthritis slows me down? At least now, thanks to you, I can slow these down and roll them into a nice bluesy number. Awesome!

Thx Mark , I’m 68 and played for decades and always wanted to feel comfortable playing theses same licks . Ya rocked it. Great video and classes too .❤ love Billy .

Mark, nice lesson … you do a good job. One comment … the lick you mention was Ace Freeley’s (sp?), I first heard in a Blues Magoos song, We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet … I’m betting Ace copped it from that …. Not that that’s a bad thing … we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before!

Love your warm enthusiasm and clear explanation.

Love your lessons Mark, they are chock full of goodness and straight to the point as well! Rock on!

Nice lesson Mark. Loved the breakdown

You have a terrific presentation style. I love that you break things down to a simple level and make this music accessible. Keep it up please!

Wow! Perfect timing! I was just about to look at some Ace licks this morning, particularly that one. Thanks!

Firebird pickups in place of the Mini- hums. That’s awesome, I love their brightness.

yeah this video is definitely food for thought... I remember those zepplin licks

This is awesome! Thanks!

Excellent Mark! Thank you

Wow! For the first time in 25 years, somebody finally showed me the secret sauce. I knew there had to be one out there, but my guitar teacher keeps telling me there are no shortcuts. That was great!

Brilliant mark thank you

I had trouble with getting the exact timing on the GTBT riff until I heard you explain the La Grange riff a time ago. That was the key to finally getting the GT BT timing.......it was excellent to see you compare here.

A very well explained video on the techniques employed.

Your extremely taletned hope i get there someday.

That Ace pattern you showed us has been the backbone of my lead playing since before KISS even formed. I forget where I first heard it . . maybe on a Johnny Winter album, I dunno. Recently I was listening to some Mahogany Rush live videos and wishing I could play like Frank, when suddenly I was watching him playing my licks, only much more professionally and with more pizzazz. Then I heard some more of his songs that had more of the licks I knew and loved to use being rattled off nonchalantly by the master himself. I couldn't believe it. Ted Nugent called those staple riffs and licks "Rock'n'Roll rituals" . . and I guess they are. I mean: here we have two guitarists, one in Canada and the other in Australia, who have never listened to each other's music, using the same foundation licks in their playing and improvisations. Incidentally, I was forced into unwilling retirement due to a mystery injury/ailment/condition at just around the same time that Frank also had to retire from live appearances due to his own debilitating problem . . which he won't reveal, and that's fine . . we don't need to know what it is exactly to pray for him. I wrote to him at that time to express a fan's condolence and to let him know I'd be praying for him, and to my immense surprise, Frank replied to me! That was the beginning of a lengthy back and forth between Frank and me. He told me he's a Christian and, like me, he's awaiting on The Lord to make things better. We're roughly the same age, with me turning 70 a couple of months ago and Frank turning 70 later this year. I fear time is not on our side, but with God all things are possible. R.L. Burnside wasn't discovered until age 73, so there's always hope for down the line.

Mark, love your lessons/content, thanks.

Great lesson Mark! Some of my favorite guitarists, and some of my favorite licks… your Lessons always seem to give insight and make me a better player, thanks for all you do!

Great lesson! Always love something new to work on and put into my playing. Thanks Mark! 🙏🏼✌🏻

Another great vid!

The list of solos this pattern has been used in is endless. This was one of the first patterns I learned over 40 years ago that really helped my soloing capability and I still use it. Check out how Michael Schenker uses it for his solos on the songs "Dance Your Life Away" and the 2nd solo in "Mother Mary" from UFO's "Force It" album.

Fantastic lesson Mark. Love the examples used. Killer execution on all of them Well Played!! 👏👏👏👋🖤🦋🖤

Thanks ❤

Your videos are so great and informative !! Thank you !!!

Many thanks, excelente

Thanx!

You have the right attitude , and it really is a great explaination by you, for how to make 1 scale pattern work to your advantage, all over the fretboard. My only added advice to those learning this for the first time, would be this is basic stuff that is just the tip of the iceburg as far as what you can do with a guitar!

Can't thank you enough for the clever tricks! Very nice...

My uncle, my first teacher, taught me these at the same time he showed me what he called the rock and roll scale, the minor pentatonic. That was 57 years ago, I still use them every time I play. I'm all about the way Mark teaches guitar, he reminds me of my uncle.

The licks and positions everyone and their grandma plays 😉. Thanks for showing even more folks how to use them 🤣. I dig your lessons.

Ty for all of your videos. They all unlocked my speed. Fact. Ty bro

These tricks are so sneaky that it's not immediately obvious that patterns 1 & 3 are really just 2 ways of seeing the same sequence. Add an extra C and A on the first string before starting pattern 3 and you'll see you end up playing the exact same notes! Thanks, Mark!

Super video

I remember when I first got the patterns... it was so cool, and it did change my playing, to the good at the time... it is easy to get idiom bound in these, however. So I would simply suggest that those who get into these make a real practice of listening for what you hear in your head first to come from your fingers second... like singing or talking. So you're playing sounds, not shapes. Just what I've experienced. ... lol, would have saved me a bit of time if I'd had RU-vid back then... good, concise video :)

Nice mini's on that goldtop. Nice to know Jimmy played tele on that lick.

Kiss "Love Gun" solo was actually stole from the "Blues Magoos" But still an amazing solo concept. Very cool lesson. Thanks for all your time teaching killer guitar concepts. You Rock!" Peace.. Joe

I've got the same guitar, Les Paul Studio with mini humbuckers, which i love. Unfortunately, i don't have the same chops! Yet!! Enjoy your straightforward method. Thanks again. Alex

This is pretty cool you forgot Flirting With Disaster it's a cool run as well exactly what you're saying this was a cool video a lot of the younger guys will be able to take off now

Thanks Mark, greet lesson. By the way, I worked with an Ed Zabel for 25 years. He was a Jem a really good guy amazing comedy storyteller and great friend

That’s a good one Mark , I’ll be playing around with it for sure. I’m also intrigued by your friends paneling in the basement 🤭

Good shit there mark! Excellent approach to getting busy with my phrasing, without a lot of fretboard travel, unless I want it Thanks!

I would love to know the counting on the first lick! Anyone? Thank you Mark Z!

Liking the fretboard graphics Mark....

Godsmack has one like that.

Thanks for the vid. Been playing for 50+ years but I never paid much attention to Jimmy Page and that type of pentatonic speed licks. (My loss!) I have a criticism/suggestion: I think you describe the sequences in a misleading way. When writing down sequences (jazz books are chock full of em) it's usual to label notes as being part of a starting sequence as the ones BEFORE the repetition starts. So, you describe Sequence 1 as a "2-string pattern", Seq 2 as a "2-note pattern", and Seq 3 as a "3-note pattern descending on the scale". That doesn't tell us much. They're ALL 2-str and 2/3-note patterns. What matters is how many notes are played . Sequence 1 could could be more usefully called a "6-note sequence that descends a scale degree from the last note in the sequence with each repetition". Pardon my long-winded description! How about just "a 6-note sequence. Transpose as desired." The fact that it's a scale degree is actually neither here nor there. What matters to us guitar players, and our brains & fingers, is that these patterns are constructed by playing a sequence of notes on 2 adjacent strings and then repeating that sequence moved down a string pair. The most useful piece of info that you leave out IS guitar-specific: in all 3 cases the sequence is repeated with the fingering moved down (over, toward the low E) a string pair. Another advantage of thinking of the sequences as defined by the number of notes it contains is that it then becomes a simple matter to create new ones by changing the number of STRINGS you move over and in WHICH DIRECTION. So, you could start a pattern on, say, strings 4&5 and then play it moved UP (across, toward the high E str) to strings 3&4. And so on. Or SKIP a string pair: how about start on str 1&2 then jump to 4&5. OR: move a pattern up 1 fret chromatically each time. WHOOAAHHH!!! JAZZ!! Sure, some of the results of these random changes may sound like monkeys typing but you're bound to come up with something useful or, dare I say it, NEW! Your Sequences 1 & 3 are 6-note sequences. Seq 2 is a 4-note sequence. That's all a guy needs to know. He/she (sorry, I'm old) can then move it over/under/sideways/down as desired... Hope this helps someone...

I always feel like a phony using these scales, because it's used by so many people. I love it when people side step into an alternative scales briefly before bouncing back into the scales we've come to accept as being a classic sound. Does anyone have any interesting alternative scale to learn that fit well with the minor pentatonic? Thank you for the video, you teach really well and the graphics are exactly what it needed. My daughter is upstairs noodling to what you've just taught her! 🙌

A repeating triad in a particular place..🙂

The "Calling Elvis" break.

GREAT Lesson Great Teacher Thanks I have to admit though I really did thing you were Peter Billingsley AKA Ralphie from the movie A Christmas Story 👍

I wouldn’t classify this as shredding at all. That said, it’s remarkable how many guitarists never truly mastered such a basic technique. It’s undeniably an essential phrase to know, especially given its prevalence in '70s and '80s rock. In my opinion, the only guitarist who elevated this beyond ‘beginner-level’ was Randy Rhoads, particularly in songs like 'Mr. Crowley,' where he absolutely blistered it. Rhoads bridged the gap between players like Frehley and Page-who, frankly, were not strong technical players and would be considered subpar by today’s standards-and the bona fide shredders of the '80s. That’s not to completely discredit those older guys; for instance, Page was an incredible musician overall and was a master of most important thing of all: writing original material. And there were plenty of talented players from his era who didn’t get anything close to the recognition they deserved. You can turn on classic rock radio and hear them any day.

Im not addvactly sure where the last pattern came from but I learned patterns of 3 and stacking notes from a guitar book I got when I was a kid and it was from the mid 60s, but I've been using them in my playing in one form or another most of my playing life 😎, great job teaching

There's a similar pattern in Good Times Bad Times... and the solo in Diary of a Madman both towards the end of their solos..see if you recognize it!

I don't think your Love Gun solo is correct but I could be wrong. I was in a tribute band and as I recall I hit the same notes without such a wide spread.

Great job thank you. 😂

Is there an official term for this trick? For example there are terms like double stops, intervals and things like that. Does this technique have a name?

your teaching on the last lick left me hanging trying to figure the rest since you sped up, so I'm totally lost on the 3rd lick since I'm just learning, you did say you would show it all, just saying

I thought the "sneaky trick" was going to be their ultra thin strings.... starting at .08. Wrong I was. 16th note acending and decending runs in box one is the 'sneaky' sneaky.

The first one sounds like part of the Solo in Godzilla Blue Oyster Cult

That Ace Freely lick was ripped clean off from Thin Lizzy. A song called Emerald.

I am 71. REMEMBER WATCHING THE NEW YARDBIRDS AT THE PORTLAND CIVIC THEATER . That night robert plant announced theitr new name,led zepplin.vannila fudge was headliner.they never opened for anyone after that

Mark, you are such a sweet guy. I love your teaching style. There are so many guitar teachers that are just A-Holes.

Mark, thanks so much for your content! One gear question for you: in your LP Goldtop, are those mini-hb or Fireburd pickups? I put Firebirds in my Epi LP Deuxe!

Love Gun is the only one i got 😂

Scales are core

That said, I'll distance from this.

Dude, I still trip up on the basic pentatonic run at the start of the solo for Stairway to Heaven. I’m about ready to throw myself down my steps. It’s like my fingers trip over themselves and freeze up.

👍I Love that you do a _Demo Overview_ BEFORE you dive into any details. Watching some YTber drone on about endless details without FIRST giving the intended purpose sucks 100% - I'll unsub due to the waste of my time. Show the main reason/point of the video First, then do the details✅

Eeeeeeeeeexcellet as usual nice choice ace copied Jimmy blah blah everybody copied somebody on saw acet twice as a guitarist once as a customer did not like his manager but he more than made up for it he was spectacular as a person and as a superstar

I have no idea what's going on, ha. Music theory is a foreign language.

Those aren’t “licks”, they’re “drills”

How? Because he is Jimmy Page

Rudimentary stuff. As soon as people have got their fingers and their brains working together they should get out of the "box patterns", it's a dead end.🥱