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In this lesson I’m not going to necessarily show you how to play a particular solo, but more importantly give you a brief overview of how solos are created. I demonstrate both the major and the minor (blues scale) pentatonic scales in this lesson – assuming we’re in the key of E. Now this lesson is by no means meant to be super comprehensive and give you all the different positions for these scales, but this will give you a good overview and show how these 2 scales can work together. I’m going to be putting out a VERY comprehensive course on this in the near future that explains everything you’ll need to know to be able to play lead guitar so be on the lookout for that!
Major and Minor Pentatonic Scale
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I just started learning how to play guitar and this is the coolest thing ever!!!
I never imagined I would be able to play solos (not great ones) this soon!!
Thank you so much for posting this !!!!
I am having an absolute blast !!!
@goodkray - Awesome! I’m glad to hear that you’re figuring it out. I’m trying to simplify the entire process of learning to play lead.. too often the instructional materials that are out there are totally over complicated, and once you narrow it down and cut out all of the “noise”, you find that it’s really not that difficult, so stay tuned, more lessons are are their way 🙂
Great!! Looking forward to viewing your future lessons. You are a great teacher!
I’ve played guitar for 7 years but never figured out how to play scales.. thanks to you I’m starting and it’s really cool!! Thanks a lot Brian!!
@marylao90 - Awesome! Glad it’s starting to make sense. Scales can be very intimidating at first glance but when you break them down you find that they aren’t that difficult to understand. Keep practicing along with the jam tracks and listening to other artists to see how they approach playing a solo. Look around for Albert King material on YouTube, he’s a great one to learn from because the guitar licks he uses aren’t terribly complicated.
Thanks for your teaching style. You are very easy to understand and I “get” what you say. Very easy to follow and build from. Can’t thank you enough. I don’t read music or play from tabs. Self taught. I can learn lots from you. Plus I really like the backing track. A bonus for sure.
Tim S.
Hi Brian,
Thank you.. I’ve been playing for 15 years and I just can’t build a convincing solo! this helped me a lot.. you see I just grew tired of all the heavy distortion-double humbucker stuff.. and I’ve been saving up for a nice Telecaster and finally learn blues.. I’ve searched around the net, bought scale charts and tried to memorize (blues) scales but I end up staring at notes on paper.. but your videos helped me visualize and make it easy for us to be like our guitar heroes.. Hope you will post more tutorials.. Thank you.
- D
Hi Brian,
I’m a 69 year old returnee to blues/rock after about 45 years playing classical guitar on and off. Your lessons about the pentatonic scales have been a great help to me, as has the other ’ lessons ‘. Keep’em coming.
Many thanks,
Keith
Hi Brian,
Further to my comment on the 22nd, under your guidance I have beem practising solos using the pentatonic scales. Whilst they work well using your backing track E D A, when I try it with a conventional 12 bar blues, let’s say A D E7, using the pentatonic minor is fine, but I can’t seem to integrate the pentatonic major very succesfully. Apart from being a crap guitarist, what am I doing wrong??
Brian,
Excellent theory on sliding from the minor pentatonic scale to the major pentatonic. I could never figure out how or when to do that and you made so simple….just outstanding!!!
You have a great website and easy to understand material, I will spread the word…love the good sounding free jam tracks.
Do you have any comments on amps, setting, and or pedals to get those great tones??????
Bluesman59
Hi Brian,
I’ve cracked it!! I was trying to change from one to the other, always starting on the root. Why I didn’t see this originally I can’t say, but the penny finally dropped. I am used to reading the music, and am finding soloing without the music quite a challenge, but one I am enjoying.
Brilliant website. keep it coming.
Hi Brian, i’ve been learning the pentatonic scales for quite awhile but your lesson has really opened it up for me. I’m still a little confused though, wonder if you could help. I’ve been playing with the minor pentatonic but always using the relative minor of the Key of the song to play. For example a song in G, ill use the E minor pentatonic. However i realised from your videos that this is actually the major pentatonic ? And also, does the minor pentatonic scale starting with the key of E work only on songs with the keys E D A ? (doesnt seem to work on songs with 4 chords)
Thanks for all the help Brian ! You rock.
Super! This video has really helped me with my focus on the essentials for getting productive with blues.
Thanks
hello Brian I been playing for a while now but never had the time r just didnt take the time to do it right now I want to just a little problem whats a good chord to use between the major and minor chord if u r going from one to another
This lesson is an AHA! moment in my playing man thanks alot. I always wondered how to do that and why it works and its cuz the relative major/minor is 3 notes apart. Between your lesson and studying a little theory behind Im drueling over how much fun im going to seeing what I come up with as I solo. Im going to practice that and cant wait to internalize it. Thanks again!
Keep it coming Brian great site
Hi Brian Love the site..I am at the “what now ” stage on soloing. I have learnt the 5 pentatonic boxes ,major and minor but all my solo`s sound like scales, I start my solo`s in major then go to minor but still no good,maybe I try and use too many notes but when I start I want to be off.I cant wait for your new course..please keep me informed
your a great teacher
Jonboy……..
Hi Brian,
I’m 66 and getting back to the guitar. I admit I’m confused. I thought if you in key of C and moved down three frets you’re now in relative minor to the key of C which is A. I’m having trouble getting my head around the major/minor pentatonic of say key by moving down three frets. Like I said, I’ve a head problem. Please keep up the good work, really enjoy the lessons and the way you present them.
Harley
Hi brian
You have just given me a big peice of the puzzle with this lesson I am blown away with what just clicked in my brain.I have surfed the internet for ages looking at all the styles etc.you have just taken my playing up 3 levels..I also am a fan of the kings albert and bb.. I found this site and mate you are the best straight forward easy to understand teacher out there. thank you very much . ray brewer sydney australia
Hello Brian
Thanks for the good lesson. on switching from the major to the minor scales. I have a question. What if you wanted to play a D minor pen tonic starting on the A string on the fifth fret? What would the shape be?
Ray C
I like the way you teach, you make if very easy to learn. It’s made a big different in the way that I am playing.
I have been playing guitar for 45yrs am I am an awesome rhythm player. I never could grasp the whole ‘lead’ or ‘solo’ schtick until now. Less than a week after joining AM and watching your lessons, I can play with the tracks and really make it sound like it should. You and this site are awesome and I am spreading the word! Many blessings to you and thanks!
Tolly
Brian I am age 67 and have taken lessons for several years and thanks for teaching in a way that makes sense to me about improvising and all the teachers I have had a n watched just complicate it .
Thanks and I am a true fan of your lessons and look forward to more of them .
Gil
You start on the 1st string on the pentatonic scale I assume that you can start on the 6th string as well??
Gil
I wish i would have found you along time ago. you and me think the same have something to say NOT something to show.Thas the way i play so thanks for a great lesson your a graet teacher. keep up the great work. your the best.
what i dont really understand is that your showing us the E major and E minor pentatonic scales which means we are playing in the key of E. however the chords in the backing track are E D A which are really the key of A how is this working?
Hi Brian,
I’ve been “trying” to play guitar for the past 15 years (I’m 26) and in 30 minutes on your website I’ve learned more than I ever did…
Super cool website!
Thanks a lot!
Matt
Hey Brian, can’t say enough that has already been said. You are keeping me committed to playing the Blues. Love Albert King and BB, and Buddy Guy isn’t to shabby either. Watchin Quinn Sullivan on YOU Tube did intimidate me at first but he is a prodigy and playing for 5+ years. I’ve been playing only 1 month, but can’t get enough of the blues. Watching your lessons is giving me a ff heads up start. I’m watching you and gaining ground. Thanks Brian….
Brian,
Kudos to you. I was aware of the pentatonics and the 3 fret drop to major penta, but this lesson has for the first time clearly illustrated this idea. Your approach to instruction is very clear and the lessons are ideas which form a solid basis for guitar. Thank you!
Robert
Hi. I’m new to the site, just signed on tonight. Just looked at this lesson and, sure it works. However, an alternative would be to stay where you are at the 12th and play box 2 of the minor pentatonic, this is also the Major and gives students another pattern to learn. You may put it into a video to help explain it. Hope it helps.
Outstanding lesson Brian. You are without a doubt one of the better guitar teachers online. You take your time, you are thorough, and your explanations and demonstrations are very clear and easy to understand. I appreciate you very much. Thanks again.
I gave this a try, simply playing the box through during the jam track. TY that was a lot of fun!
I am blown away by your approch to guitar lessons. To have this much time and talent brought to me FREE is unbelievable. I kept expecting some kind of catch, but it never happened. In todays economy it’s almost unheard of, without a lot of commercials on selling the real thing on there DVD’S. Keep it up as long as you can, and good luck. I have enjoyed, and learned more in the last three days than my lessons from a teacher, or my DVD’S. Thanks again. Richard (MIKE) Michael
You are a wonderful guitar teacher! This helped me so much in understanding these scales! Now I’ll be able to do a lot of cool blues solos for my Jazz Band class. Thanks! Thanks also for the free tablature too.
Great lesson Brian, mixing the two scales sound really awesome, specially on this backtrack, sound southern rock and bring back some memories
yes ‘ve got the blues !!!!
Thanks a lot
Cheers
Brian,
Thank you so much for the no-nonsense approach you have of teaching
music…I’ve learned the notes on the fretboard in a couple of days,because
I’ve had five years of piano lessons, but your teaching minor and major
pentatonic scales in ten minutes takes the cake! Thank you so much for your
time and devotion!……………..
i just burned all of my complicated guitar books. These lessons are amazing. Thanks, Brian.
Brian
First visit today and what an eye opener. I have been playing just chords forever in a worship band but need to move toward being able to do some simple leads. Bought (almost) new toys - Taylor T5 and a Strat and some confusing boxes! - but no idea where to start. Someone asked same question a while back.I.e. how do I determine where to start with a lead - in which pentatonic scale - when faced with the different keysthat the music comes in? E.g a worship set will have songs in the key of G, F, E, Eb… Welcome any advice (as will the congregation!)!
This is so great, I have had a hunger to learn the guitar for so long and now I am on my way. I just bought a Morrell Acoustic and I’m loving it. I don’t want to be on stage, just to play for myself and at my church. But I wanted to do it well. What you are providing and the skill you have is a wonderful gift for persons such as myself. Thank you soooo much!!!
God bless you,
C D Johnson
Hi Johnb,
Once you learn the pantatonic scale it can be played in any key. E.G. When you learn box 1, you can play over any chord in any key. This is what makes the scale so great. All you need to do then is memorize the notes on string 6 and you are ready to play box one lead in any key. Hope this helps, RLMichael
Brian,I am a new member and am really enjoying your lessons.The pentatonic scales have opened up a whole new world to me. I enjoy country and gospel music. The Chet Atkins lesson was great. I am looking forward to the more comprehensive course on the pentatonic scale coming out in the near future.I can hardly wait to get started.
The backing track seems to be gone. Too bad.
Excellent lesson- I just discovered this site and I’m really happy I did. Your teaching method is clear and thorough. The change from minor to major pentatonic by sliding the pattern three frets is absolutely amazing. I have never seen this presented at any of the many sites or books I have searched for knowledge. I will now study this on my keyboard and guitar to learn why this works. I’m a technical type and need to understand why things work the way they do.
Now, if I could just learn how to create blues phrases, I’d could really enjoy my guitar study.
Thanks again Brian for a very cool lesson. After watching this, I immediately had a lot more fun when noodling to Blues backing tracks. Adding the major pentatonic to the minor pentatonic was a revelation to me - and so EASY!
Added to that, I enjoyed your Albert King lesson which opened up a few more notes to me in the upper end of the scale. At this rate, I could easily be mistaken for a real guitarist. (if you don’t look to closely…)
Still got a few of your lessons to work on, but looking forwards to your next Premium lesson.
Pete.
I can switch between happy solo and tortured solo! After all this time!! You explain it so well!! Reading all these other posts – there’s a general consensus … you have the gift. Thanks again.
These riffs are similar to some other popular tune. It sounds like CCR or uncle cracker, even perhaps a kid rock cover. What did you base it off of? Can someone chime in here?
@floody - honestly, this wasn’t based off any particular song.. just licks that I have floating in my head. I like CCR (and all of John Fogerty’s stuff) so might be an influence there… but I’ve never listened to Uncle Cracker or Kid Rock so it definitely didn’t come from either of them.
this is one of my favorite!
Brian, is there any way i could get the tableture to the riff you played, I am new to guitar, I have already downloaded the backing track and used this lesson to improvise and make cool sounds,
but not as nice as you play here…
The tab to the scale is above. Unfortunately I don’t have tabs for the licks. I was just sort of making them up. But looking at the scale (boundaries) you should be able to mimic them fairly easily.
ok, well Im just a very beginner , but this lesson alone has proved to be very valuable,
next Im doing BB King Lesson, thanks for the nice lessons.
All I can say is…God bless you! LOL! Thanks!
I want to thank you for your explanation of the major and minor pentatonic scales and soloing. Just started playing guitar over a year ago, after taking a buyout offer from the company I worked for, and this opened my eyes to playing over the backing tracks that I have on my recently purchased Fender G-DEC.
a buyout offer eh? Does that mean you got to retire early?
Hey Brian
I don’t like to use the word retire!!!! I just took advantage of an opportunity and there are not many good paying jobs available right now, so the guitar has become an important part of my daily routine. It keeps me busy and I really have developed a passion for it, but unfortunately, my ability is lagging. But I keep playing hoping to reach higher levels. So I really appreciate your lessons and all the other guitar teachers on the web.
Thanks Again!!
I was in second grade when Santa brought me my first guitar. Two years of wishing and hoping finally paid off! Within a year started a girl band we call the “No Names”. I sang and played rhythm in my 20’s in a college town then hardly played at all for 15 years! Started playing again regularly weekends with three ex rockers and promised myself to never get too busy for music.
I am 55 now and I know I am playing below my ability.I always felt like I was missing they key to understanding my hand/ear/fretboard coordination.. 5 minutes with this lesson today……it was just what I was looking for . I took my guitar out to our yacht club and tried it out after 3 minutes of actual practice. no one believed me when I said I couldn’t do that this morning. We are starting up a regular jam session and I will definitely pass this one on.especially to some of our beginners. Thanks you really are a wonderful teacher.
I’ve been playing guitar for years… seriously it’s been way too long to remember (a few decades at least)! I’ve been a rhythm player for all this time and thought I could just get by with learning a bunch of chords and working on my strumming techniques. And I wasn’t that bad, I played in some decent bands over the years but all the music I’ve ever played had to be rehearsed, planned out and parts memorized prior to practices and gigs. A few months ago for the heck of it I finally gave in and thought I’d try and learn some scales. I’ve since memorized all the pentatonic and major scale positions. All of a sudden guitar playing and music for that matter has really started to make sense. This lesson has also been very helpful in helping to understand the concept of mixing major with minor! By far the best $5 I’ve spent in a long time! Thanks so much for the great lessons Brian!
Now I’m kicking myself for not having worked on learning scales a long, long time ago.
G’day Brian,
I’ve been banging away on guitars for most of my life but my lead was always limited to playing a reasonably simple melody line. I’ve always been interested in the pentatonic scale but never made much sense out of it for playing lead. However, I just shelled out my five bucks to get access to your tablature and jam tracks for your major and minor pentatonic course videos that I’ve watched up on Youtube and I must admit I’m having a blast with just his first one. Hopefully, at a young 69 I still have a few years left to master the pentatonic.
Keep those videos coming.
Don White
Grateful We’re Not Dead
Awesome Dan - and you’ve still got plenty of time to learn and have fun with it! Enjoy
do you sharge 5dollars a lesson or is it a one time fee for all lessons??
Hey Brian great teaching man you are the best
@walter - right now it’s $5 (one time fee) for all lessons 🙂
Hi Brian Found your site a few months back and i have to say you make it so easy for us all to learn from you. I like your no nonsence approach.
After 8 years of messing around on guitar and trying out all sort’s of video’s and tutorials i finally have a place to call home 😉
Today i have paid my $5 and find Active Melody to be a valuable place to hang out and learn.
Im 42 years old and passionate about guitar & thats why im here.
You have already took my playing to another level & the video’s are great. Keep up the good work my friend & thankyou.
Hey Brian, this really is a great lesson my friend! I knew these scales before I came here but with a little additional knowledge you have given me , I am now able to juice up my solos much more and even my wife said I sounded quite “bluesy”. Thank you for your very easy to follow instruction. Dr Paul UK.
Dam it cant I get a tab on your improvised guitar playing !
I know I should be figuring it out myself but at beginner level
it all seems too fast. Anyone out there can give me pointers.
I will give it to fiver see if they can do it
I’m new here aswell, and there as so many things that i didn’t know!
Thanks Brian!
Hi Brian , thanks for the great range of lessons.One question on pentatonics confuses me,I take an A major Pent move it up three frets it becomes an A minor pent ? correct ! if you agree with the logic then why does it look exactly like C Major Pent.Thanks if you are able to clarify it would help no end.
@Solidtop - You have it somewhat backwards. An A MINOR pentatonic scale (the root fret being the 5th fret), to get to the A MAJOR pentatonic scale you would slide everything DOWN 3 frets (by down I mean towards the head). Which would then be an a Major but also an F# Minor Pentatonic scale 🙂
Thanks for the clarification, i could not see the woods for the trees !!!!
i guess its also a cool way to find the relative minor of any major key.
Start on any fret and make that your Major key root note.
Then count down the neck three frets towards the tuning pegs
and you will have that keys relative minor.
Hi Brian, love all of your stuff, really developing my skills now. Just signed up and have started to download the tab and jam tracks which are great.
What I wanted to ask you was, you say you only know 2 of the pentatonic scales but I notice from your other vids that you go outside of these scales. Are you just simply playing the same notes but obviously on different parts of the neck?
love the site and am really grateful for your inputs.
Dr Guy, UK.
Hey Dr Guy - I’m still using those 2 scales.. but playing them in different keys. So if you play the same pattern up or down the neck, you’re essentially just switching the key that you’re playing in. Same 2 scales though.
I have not picked up the guitar in over 35 years. Within two months, thanks to your lessons, I am already playing better than I was when I first started.
Hi Brian, great stuff man
What I can’t figure out is the G tone.
In the E Pentatonic scale is G (bar 15)
All the notes in the A,D,E chords are the same so it makes sence that you can play the pattern but there is this G as there is a G# in all the chords. Can you explain how this works
I love this lesson….but I would like to have the tab for what you are playing with the jam track…not the scales (I know them) but the melody you have made up to go with the jam track. It would give me more info and (I hope) will help me develop my own. Thanks….love the site!
Judy
I realize this lesson is a few years old, but it is very helpful. I think I understand the ‘shapes’ of the major and minor scale. How does this relate to the ‘5 shapes’ or the ‘caged system’ I see others posting about in other guitar lesson sites.
Hi Brian. I’ve been playing the guitar on and off for about 2 years now. To be honest I’d reached a point where learning a tune or a specific part of a tune was all well and good but equally frustrating because it was limited. A few weeks back I decided to learn some scales; which included the E minor pentatonic scale, to free up my playing a bit. Anyways a couple of days ago I stumbled across your minor/major pentatonic scale lesson which tied in with what I was doing and now I feel like everything’s coming together and I’m finally heading towards being able to just randomly noodle away. Really good lessons and site. Really like your concise style as well, nice work!
What gauge are you using that you van do bends and vibrato so easily?
Hi Brian. You stat in the video that the minor pentatonic scale is the same as the blues scale but strictly this is not correct. The blues scale has the added blues note i.e. the flat 5
I do enjoy your videos which I have recently discovered
Wow - this one lesson alone is worth the price of admission. For many years (and a small library of Blues Guitar books) I’ve not been able to piece together all of this information. Thanks for filling in so many holes in my understanding of the blues.
Wow nothing compares to these lessons. I have learned so much. Thank you very much.
After not playing for 45 years, I picked up the guitar again,and was starting to hit a wall in my soloing. I played mostly rhythm back then.This short lesson on how to easily find the major pentatonic scale for a specific key feels like an AH-HAH moment for me. Thanks for making it so simple. Tim
Yes this helps alot for my solo stuff Im starting to make. Your backing tracks help too.
Is there a way to search for all the lessons of the major and minor pentatonic stuff.
If you are using the major pentatonic scale can you use the other patterns as well of just pattern 1?
Hi Brian ,
I’m 70 years old . I started learning Guitar long time ago in my hometown in Vietnam when I was in High School . I feel great and make great progress from listening to your lesson.
Thanks
Hi Brian,
I have the same question as nitwit posted on April 26, 2011:
“What i don’t really understand is that your showing us the E major and E minor pentatonic scales which means we are playing in the key of E. however the chords in the backing track are E D A which are really the key of A how is this working?”
I’m hoping you still read the comments for these early lessons. Thanks for this site, it’s been great.
@Arian - hopefully this answers your question: https://www.activemelody.com/lessons/free_lesson_content/guitar-solo-tip-you-dont-have-to-change-scales-when-the-chords-change
This is a copy of a comment I’ve just made in YT in respect of this lesson:
Thanks Brian. One question: how do you add pattern 2 (for instance) to the minor and major pentatonic scales?
In the video example, the minor pentatonic scale for E was @ fret 12 to 15. Does that mean that pattern 2 would go from 15 to 17 (for the minor scale)?
And would it go from 12 to 14 for the major pentatonic scale?
(I’m subscribed to your site already, but I check your youtube channel every now and then to check lessons that I may have missed). Does my question make sense?
Could you perhaps do a video extension for this lesson showing us how you use 2 or more patterns for a given key?
In the video example, the minor pentatonic scale for E was @ fret 12 to 15. Does that mean that pattern 2 would go from 15 to 17 (for the minor scale)?
Yes
And would it go from 12 to 14 for the major pentatonic scale?
Yes
The penny dropped!
Thanks, Brian!
Hey Brian , it’s Les here from Australia , man i just wanted to say thank you for such a great lesson , i have been playing around with the pentatonic scales for ages , but you put it across so much more easily to understand , & i just wanted to know about the flatted notes in the minor scale , have we got a lesson on here that points out those other blue notes , but thank you for this lesson Brian , will practice the vibrato & the bends now with more purpose & enjoyment , & i hope to be jammin soon at our blues club ,many thanks Brian .
Thanks Brian,
At age 55 I’m actually playing a solo…at last!
I’m thrilled!
Bless ya man!!
Hi Brian,
First of all I want to thank you for the lessons. I have been playing for some time now and all this time I though music theory is to boring and I just wanted to play. After signing up to your lessons and learning some theory it blew me away what the possibilities are. But I have two questions:
First question: I use the minor pentatonic scale for some time now. I use this scale for soloing over minor and mayor blues progressions. Now its time to use the mayor and minor pentatonic scale, but when I use a mayor pentatonic over a minor blues progression it does not sound right (when I use minor pentatonic over mayor blues, it sounds good). Can I only use mayor pentatonic when the blues progression is mayor? Could you give me more information about the minor and mayor scales in a relation to the blues progression.
Second question: In the video you say we are in the key of E, while the chords are E, D and A. Isn’t it in the key of A because A is the 1 chord, D is the 4th chord and E is the 5 chord? When I hear a song I connect it to the 1,4 and 5 system to determine in which key it is. Is this right?
Thanks in advance.
Greetings for Amsterdam and keep up to good work.
Be sure to check out EP130 on mixing the major and minor pentatonic scales.. that should help you quite a bit with understanding the relationship between those scales and how to use them (just do a search for EP130).
As for your second question, the song is in the key of E but had a D chord thrown in (which is confusing), but if you try and play an a major scale over this progression, you’ll hear that it doesn’t work at all… but then listen to the E major scale and you’ll hear that it does work over every chord.
Brian;
Love the haunting sound!
I want to ask you about a comment you made in the video where you said in passing that Pentatonic and Blues scales were the “same thing”. Please clarify your meaning, as my understanding is that the Blues scales (two scales, in fact, Blues scale type A and Blues scale type B) have six notes rather than five. For example, in the E Blues scale type B the Bb is added, and the A Blues scale type B the D# is added. The type A would also have a sixth note added. Please correct my understanding in this regard, as it will aid my understanding of scales if I am wrong about this.
zagergutarman – you are correct! There is technically 6 notes in the blues scale and only 5 in the minor pentatonic. I was not accurate in stating that in this video. I always have considered the minor pentatonic the blues scale – oh yeah, and there’s that extra little note you can work in if you want – probably not good for instruction though and something I no longer do 🙂
Great Jam-Track ..so much soul in this !
Greetz from germany !
Hi, ive just joined up having found this lesson YouTube. Is there anywhere on the website advising how to setup an amp for the blues sound. I have an Epihone Les Paul Pro top Plus and an Orange Crush Pro 60 amp. Thanks.
Lesson: Understanding The Major and the Minor (Blues) Pentatonic Scales – LEG024 –I continue to try and break the code on guitar. Absolutely love this lesson at time 07:47 in the video. That gives me motivation and makes me want to play!!! Man I love that sound. I admit, I sometimes get over whelmed with information and books, etc and end up accomplishing nothing. This is the only lesson that I continue to come back to.
Thanks and please keep up the good work,
Good job guys. I am a 3 month electric guitar biginer and this video was the first one witch got to me. Like I understood the essence of the video. With you’re lessons and my monthly subscription I will be able to get to some great results. Thank you.
Hi Brian,
Again, thanks for this lesson. I never thought I could solo with any grace. One freaking lesson from your site and I actually feel I created music!!! I do have the first of many questions though…Do you ever post the pdf of the chords to the backing tracks? You had mentioned in one of your youtube lessons that hitting the root note when the chord comes around is a good thing to do. I thought, if I could learn how to play the rhythm, it would help me figure out when to play the root.
Again THANK YOU!!!
My favorite, feel like i’m actually playing music. Thank you
Been playing for years by ear… basically for myself. Nice lesson, I like your style.
Hi Brian.
Do you, by any chance, have backing tracks for this exercise for the pattern in every key? The chord progression is really inspiring and it would be great to have a version relative to other keys?
Hi. Cool lesson. Is there a tab available? Thanks