Connecting Scales for Improvising on Guitar / Soloing

Connecting scales when guitar soloing & improvising on guitar is tricky business. We can get stuck in scale positions. This lesson is about connecting scales when improvising on guitar.

Weekly Lesson #84

LESSON CONTENT OUTLINE WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS:
0:00 - Guitar playing
0:06 - About this lesson & channel
1:16 - Five Scale Forms of A Minor Pentatonic
2:44 - Connecting Scales & Switching positions
3:36 - Tip #1: Know where the roots are
4:50 - Every root is part of two scale forms
8:36 - Improvising while connecting scales
11:26 - Tip #2: Identify and know the problem
11:51 - Tip #3: Switch up the order of the notes
12:39 - Conclusion, outro & Free PDF

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LESSON DESCRIPTION:
Okay, I'm not a fan of "hacks" when it comes to guitar soloing.
But I do want to show you a little perspective trick for how we can work on connecting scales when improvising on guitar.
I recently created several lessons on how to map out and practice various types of scales.
But once we learn our scale positions we often find ourselves "stuck" in those shapes when improvising on guitar.
There's a way to get past that, seamlessly connecting scales, when working on guitar soloing.
Which is exactly what I teach and demonstrate in this week's lesson video.

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I hope you enjoyed this lesson about improvising on guitar, soloing, and connecting scales and that you found it beneficial. Let me know what you thought in the comments. Thanks! :)
- Jared

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[duncanmitchell]

"When you're practicing one thing just practice one thing." An obvious statement that I feel like a LOT of us miss. I've been practicing music for going on 11 years and when he said that it STILL opened my eyes to something I've been missing

[williamschultz]

Your left hand technique puts a big smile on my face.
Four fingers, four frets all the way up the neck.

[TruthGuitar]

Your ability to share your thoughts is unmatched by anyone man! Great Lesson! Love the new intro

[NoopDawg]

This was very helpful. I had always used the shapes as a framework but then the music theory was a separate thing. So I thought of the shapes as more of a crutch. Now I see that by knowing the locations of the root, I can build on these shapes and get a better understanding of what I am doing. So simple but I just didn't think to focus on practicing it!

[jigsawwolf]

this literally opened my mind up it’s insane you’re insane dude thank you so much😭💜

[sparkspark]

When I was a novice player and discovered this, and explained it to all my friends who could really play...they said bs. Funny all these years later to hear someone else explain it and prove I was right. I look forward to more of your stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[ranman]

Dude, you opened me up like a fish. You conceded the dots. I knew i was onto something. Thank you thank you.

[JonFrumTheFirst]

Why is it that so few Youtube guitar teachers talk about this? I don't understand it. If you watch them play, they're obviously moving between positions, but they never talk about how they're doing it.
Once I learned to find the roots, I moved on to shifting up and down from position to position on all six strings.

[MustafaBaabad]

I agree with you; "Practice makes perfect only when the practice is being done in systematic way with proper goal". Thank you very much Chief. My eyes always caught with your monotyre cycle. I am amaze that you can use it. Cheers from Indonesia.

[davidparkes]

So simple but so effective great teacher thankyou

[uj]

As an intermediate classical/fingetstyle guitarist who gets stumped by soloing/improvising, this was an excellent lesson. I would be incorporating this in my practice. Thank you so much for your hard work, you truly have a wonderful knack for teaching.

[benbush]

Your instructions and method is top tier, thank you for your time and explanations. This is a place to learn guitar. Excellent!

[gernblenstein]

Brilliant lesson, brother! You’re breaking down that full fretboard pattern into logical positional arpeggio constituents. Very, very useful lesson and can be applied to all the scales. This makes the pentatonic fun! We’ll done.

[outinacornfield]

Superb! Many thanks for the methodical, articulate, learner-friendly lesson and outstanding guitar tone!

[ldmqxqt]

This man is a genius and has done more for my progress than all other channels combined. Why doesnt anyone else give us the basics that may be hard work but we really need to progress. The only channel that is like real lessons and not gimmicks. The best lessons online to truly progress. Thanks so much. You are the best, coolest, the real thing.
I owe all my life long dream of progress to you.

[Ken-Sho]

This is so helpful Jared, thank you so much. This lesson really clicked with me. Excited to see much more similar ones or an extension to this. Thanks again!

[ThatRandomGuyOnYT]

This is the video i was looking for years now

[lovatfraser]

This is great Jared, exactly what I needed thank you !

[robgray]

Really great video this Guy is a great teacher

[geraldmichael.]

Thanks more Jared the guitorist, Yaa this video Marked well of my beginning