Ultimate Pentatonic Scale Guide [Every Essential Shape!]

Tutorial on the essential pentatonic scale shapes (Minor/Major/CAGED etc).

Full Access Patreon Subscribers can download:
- Full PDF Guide with explanations, diagrams and TABS for every shape
- TABs and Backing Tracks for all Solos featured

Full videos for the solos feature can be viewed as follows:

[luapsel]

This man probably isn't HALF as old as ME, but he's one of the Best guitar teachers I've ever seen on YouTube and I've seen a LOT, believe me! Someone asked, "Yeah, this is Great, but HOW do you take this information and make music with it?." Well, I don't know quite how to SAY this, so I'll try the only way I CAN... Improvisations come from TWO places... Your Musical "Soul", The Sounds you hear in your HEAD that you would LOVE to express, and the SECOND place is your EXPERIENCE, the YEARS of beating up your fingers, of learning and playing scales and chords and licks and riffs, and LISTENING!.. To your Favorites, but ALSO to OTHERS, OUTSIDE your favorite genre, or favorite players... LISTEN AND LEARN FROM ALL GUITARISTS!!
If you TRULY have ALL of those scale positions "under your fingers", meaning you've PRACTICED them SO many Times, that you can DO it with your eyes closed, and without even THINKING about it.. if you KNOW all of those notes, and more IMPORTANTLY, your FINGERS know where all those notes are, then after THAT, my friend, it's ALL just improvisation... You have to LISTEN to ENOUGH BB King, and Lightnin' Hopkins, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, (or whatever blues artists you like), you have to have HEARD and Listened to enough Blues to HAVE those intervals, those solos, in your MEMORY and in your Soul..! I guess you have to FEEL the Blues if you REALLY want to be a GOOD Blues improviser! SAME THING, with ROCK or Jazz or ANYTHING!... You can LEARN where EVERY note on the neck IS, and you can practice Hard enough, to build up superhuman SPEED... But, do you WANT to sound like Yngwie Malmsteen playing the Blues?.. I DON'T... I'd LOVE to sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan, on a HOT night... And Eric Johnson, with his big interval jumps... And throw in something from the MASTER, Johann Sebastian Bach, with his Counterpoint melodies, moving in opposing directions!... I guess you have to FEEL something like the blues, to get the type of bends that David Gilmour pulls off!... HE is a PERFECT example... The Man HAS NEVER, probably COULD Never, play a Solo, with the SPEED of Steve Vai... But I wouldn't CARE, if I could play with just HALF the FEEL of a David Gilmour SOLO!... LISTEN... and PLAY....
Repeat and Rinse, till your fingers are sore... then REPEAT some MORE, until your calluses are too TOUGH, to get sore!.... THAT'S ALL MY 50 Years of Guitar Wisdom, wrapped up in ONE paragraph!... My GIFT to the World of my Brothers, guitar players!

[cbaranovic]

Jules this is an exceptional lesson. Just one suggestion. Let everyone know that moving the minor positions back 3 frets gives you the same fingering but a major scale

[jameswaters]

You are absolutely correct about the diagram of the fret board being shown incorrectly and confusing. I, and others have pointed this out before, and it is never corrected.

I wish Jules would listen to subscribers and show diagrams correctly for the many viewers that see his videos.

Jules is one of the best if not the best instructor on YouTube. I have learned a great deal from him as I am sure the vast collective of his viewers/subscribers.

Please listen to your subscribers, Jules.

[stanparchaiski]

We’ve all seen these 5 pentatonic shapes before and most of us drag our feet to learn all the shapes in every key. However, this is a refreshingly better way to learn these important concepts and move us out of our practice ruts. Great lesson. Thanks for posting.

[jamieb]

Jules Ive watched this several times over the past few months and your explanation of this makes complete sense to me. I really like the way you explain concepts. Thank you 🙏 👍

[JHENDRIXROCS]

I have been playing guitar for years and Jules is on the Mount Rushmore of YouTube guitar teachers! Probably the BEST comprehensive pentatonic scale lesson I have seen on YouTube! Excellent teacher! He will definitely take your playing to the next level!

[JunkYour]

I’m telling ya we are all connected. I was just thinking about all these ways of playing the pentatonic and you pump out this great video on it! Thanks!

[mickh]

Thanks, Jules. It is just exceptional how you present your videos and your clear, precise instruction. 🎸👍

[geeinski]

You are an amazing teacher. I was in need of all of this information. Put into one place and you nailed it perfectly!!!!

[elkhornslough]

Wow! Jules, you are truly the best IMHO. You teach with such clarity. Thank you!

[mk]

Best Pentatonic scale video ever. BOOK MARKED!

[flamencoprof]

I can't read music, but I'm pleased to say that I figured out the 2, 3 pattern when I was about 18 in the late 60s.I called it "twos and threes". It is simple to move it back and forth on the fretboard, to suit any key, and works with minor and major tunes.

[kwantao]

That was so well done, I have never had it presented quite like this before.

[karjur]

Great lesson, the 2 + 3 thing is really simple and effective..

[trichromatic]

I don’t know why people are complaining so much about the diagram he is using. Yeah it’s flipped but it doesn’t matter he’s still pressing the correct notes and it’s easy to follow honestly well done video

[davebowman]

A long time ago I learned what you csll "the 3 + 2 diagonal". Person showing it said "here's something Hendrix used a lot". Ofcourse its one og the most generic and usable patterns out tgere, but that that triggered me Hendrix bait hooked me and I've been relying heavily on it ever since.

Thanks for putting a good name on it!

[stephengreen]

Excellent way of tutorials for inspiring guitar players. So much can be taken from your lessons. Gr8 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[ninjamonk]

I have been playing for years and this is the best explanation and example I have come across 👍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[-RDBRN-]

This is an absolutely amazing video! I can not express how thankful I am, honestly. 🎉❤🎉 Thank you so much Sir 🙏🙏🙏

[optimus_rhymes]

The Telly, is and sounds beautiful. Great video!