Country Guitar Lesson - 5 EASY Recipes For Improvisation With The Pentatonic Scale

There are so many ways to use the pentatonic scale, so I decided to make a video with some ideas that I use and that help me organize my soloing so that I'm not just doing the same thing over and over. This is also a good way to absorb the different sounds you can get out of the major and minor pentatonic scales. The Backing track progression (in Nashville number system) is:
1 1 4 4 1 1 5 5 1 1 4 4 1 5 11.
I hope you have fun experimenting with these ideas!

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[marcinbreczko]

Very important lesson, Sir! It's vital to distinguish between all these flavours in a solo - it's a great way of ordering ideas and giving them meaning and direction. Thanks!

[justinwood]

Very cool, I've been wanting to learn something new and I believe I came to the right place. Thanks for the awesome content, and great sounds.

[kulishekkulda]

Oh man thank you much, using of the pentatonics and mixing of them to fit with chords that is what I have been struggling for many years, now it is much more clear thanks to your short explanation.🙏🙏🙏
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Many thnx Matheo

[aubreygrandy]

Carol Kaye said something like, it’s easy, you only have to play the notes that work. This makes sense to me more and more all the time.

[evangecanteri]

Cada dia mais te admiro parabéns lindo

[keeponrockin]

It's very easy to understand, and if you apply it, your expression will expand even further. I appreciate your kind lecture. Thank you. And I have a request. I want to be able to play fast phrases. I would like to see videos of daily practice and various phrases.

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[elvisalexandre]

excellent tips, thank you very much for the video✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

[HughJengine]

Another great lesson!
I'm busy transcribing your country improvising #7 video at 75% speed (thats as fast as I can do it, 😅) and lots of ideas you mention are in that solo. Loving your work and learning loads, so much to get through cheers Matheus!🙏

[chriszacherl]

great lesson. thanks!
would be great if you posted a vid every now and then of you playing live with a band.

[donivanthompson]

First of all, I enjoy your lessons- very informative and helpful. Second, I’m a country guitarist also and I try to create my own leads. I can pick up sounds with my ears better than my eyes. So, teach me how to be a guitar thinker more than a guitar player.! I don’t want to overplay but also don’t want to over think. Thanks in advance

[BlackRaven]

Fantastic lesson as always! I love the content you're already doing, but could you ever do a tutorial on the verse licks in "Thanks A lot" by Ernest Tubb? I'm an intermediate guitar player my wife and I are working on this song. I'm trying to figure out all the lead parts. You're an incredible player! Thank you so much for your amazing lessons!

[jonathanavery]

Wow, awesome lesson. Over the four and five chord, I reckon you could also use the Gm pentatonic and Am pentatonic. Would you ever do that Matteus?

[davidpenwell]

Solo and lead with the chord patterns from the caged system. That's like all country music is besides techniques of chicken pickin and a ton of double stops. Everything else is literally working off the chord shapes in the caged system. Country music is the easiest music to make. Obviously to make it great you still need great musicians and writing. But you get my point. It's easier to make a chord progression, over dub up the next with the same chords but in different shapes, solo over those exact same patterns with the chord notes. Put some triad or or double stop 2 note chicken pickin and random bends.. country music.

[guitarplayer]

how come nobody plays clean anymore? is everyone hiding behind overdrive?

[monicashuart-lshw]

I completely disagree with davidpinwell3432, as a hired gun guitarist for forty years country guitar playing is much more intricate than other johndras.

[taprobinson]

I take it David you’re not a professional musician no genre of music is simple every one of them can take a lifetime to almost master try playing a simple piece of music ie 3 chords then listen to Bb King Tommy Emanuel or Brent mason and see how not simple it is