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Hi. I am a huge fan of your lessons and really click with the way you look at things. I am particularly fascinated (my wife would say obsessed) with relating everything (pentatonic patterns, fill licks, riffs) to CAGED CHORD SHAPES. The way I am approaching it, I play an E-shaped bar chord, for example, and then think, what is the MAJOR pentatonic pattern (and associated filler licks) under my fingers when in the E-shaped bar chord, and what is the MINOR pentatonic pattern under my fingers (and associated filler licks) the same E-shaped bar chord. Then I do the same for each of the CAGED shapes.
While I can find lots of separate lessons that answer my questions, I cannot find any that specifically break it out this way with all the information amalgamated by CAGED shapes. I find lessons that teach relative majors and minors, or teach patterns in a key, but many instructors use terms like “A Major pattern 3” to mean different things. For example, in the E bar chord shape, I recognize that the minor pentatonic is pattern 1, but then when it comes to the major pentatonic under that same bar chord, some instructors also call it Pattern 1 while others call it Pattern 5.
I am trying to learn “what is everything under my fingers when I am in a CAGED shape? Which major pentatonic pattern and associated filler licks, and which minor pentatonic pattern and associated filler licks, are associated with the E bar chord shape? Then same question while in the A bar chord shape etc.
Do you have any suggested lessons which look at it this way, and if not, would you consider such a 5 part video lesson:
1) Everything you need to know about whats under your fingers in the E bar chord shape
a. Minor pentatonic pattern 1
b. Major pentatonic pattern __ (still trying to figure this out- I call it the House of Blues shape, but different instructors label it different pattern numbers, which is part of the confusion)
c. Common licks and riffs (major, minor, mixed)2) Everything you need to know about whats under your fingers in the E bar chord shape
etc etc
Thaks for listening and keep up the great work. Stay safe!
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