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Move across all 5 minor pentatonic positions by targeting the root note. Guitar Lesson – ML155

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to easily find all 5 patterns (positions) of the Minor Pentatonic scale, by targeting a single note! The root note.

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  1. kennard r says

    November 6, 2026 at 7:53 pm

    Great lesson for me!

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  2. Mike R says

    November 6, 2026 at 8:16 pm

    Very useful lesson. Let’s do the major pentatonic also. You always make a lot out of something simple. That’s an art in itself.

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  3. Michael Krailo says

    November 6, 2026 at 8:31 pm

    Great free lesson Brian. This one is going to work well with that single string picking exercise I put in the members helping members forum. You’ll get this down in no time. I’m thinking about bar #7 16th note run in pattern #3. Bar both 1st and 2nd string at the 8th fret to make that lick a tad bit easier to manage. I’ve been looping that lick like mad as soon as this lesson came out.

    I love the whole hand pattern slide review on transitioning to different patterns. That’s what we need. Repetition.

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  4. Jeff H says

    November 6, 2026 at 8:36 pm

    Great lesson. I love this concept.

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  5. Nelson V says

    November 6, 2026 at 9:17 pm

    Another light bulb goes on. Great lesson!

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  6. Shawn M says

    November 6, 2026 at 10:21 pm

    Wow! So easy to understand, it’s really awesome how you explain these concepts in a way that just makes sense to me. Love the Clapton vibe in this solo as well!

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  7. daniel M says

    November 6, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    Loved it!

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  8. Olivier P says

    November 7, 2026 at 4:33 am

    A really good tip. Nice lesson.

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  9. Thaddeus W says

    November 7, 2026 at 5:23 am

    This simple idea has made a significant in my playing.

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  10. JohnStrat says

    November 7, 2026 at 6:22 am

    Hi Brian,
    Yes it’s as you say for some of us. I was half way there but you have turned the light up many thanks.
    JohnStrat

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  11. charjo says

    November 7, 2026 at 8:11 am

    Brian, in spite of not worrying about the chord changes you have a remarkable way of finding a chord tone at the chord change. G root on the Gm, C root on the Cm, b7 on the Dm and then b7 and 5 of the C7.
    It really is an important part of why this sounds good.

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    • houliAK says

      November 7, 2026 at 9:39 am

      Thanks for pointing that out. I was looking at that also.

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  12. Malcolm M says

    November 7, 2026 at 8:28 am

    Great lesson Brian. Lots of useful information

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  13. houliAK says

    November 7, 2026 at 10:18 am

    Nice review and some good licks to help my lick vocabulary. Specifically, the Pattern 3 lick at measure 7. Watching the video break down, I found practicing using my “ring finger stretch” (for 3 frets) instead of my pinky is a good practice for me.

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  14. William C says

    November 7, 2026 at 10:21 am

    Significant “light bulb moment” as you like to say. Really great Brian, thank you.

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