Pentatonic Scale Deep Dive

You may feel like the pentatonic scale is going nowhere for you. That's actually not the scale's fault. We need to understand how the scale works in order to make it sound good.

These three drills are essential to building that knowledge, and once you have this type of control, your playing with start to become more musical VERY quickly.

00:00 Introduction
02:24 Lesson
12:04 Wrap Up

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Thanks for watching!
Chris

[joeurbanowski]

Thanks Chris..! It always seems like you’re reading my mind.. Seems like this is a perfect time for me to work my pentatonics.. but in a musical way as you said.. I’ve been learning songs by ear.. and this is definitely gonna help…🙏🏻

[waynegram]

CHRIS, you can do the same lesson but do the drills on phrases that stick the landing on the 3rd or 5th instead of the root. This changes the Scale gravity notes leading back to either the 3rd or 5th. When making phrases landing on the 3rd or 5th, I'm guessing its called 3rd tonality or 5th tonality? David Gilmour uses both often avoids landing on the root because he is going for a different tonality. Peter Green often lands his phrasing on the M6 to sound sweeter, again not sure if this is called M6 tonality in phrasing. Try to make a phrasing 101 lesson.

[kdavis]

Mahalo Chris! You always provide inspiration for me!

[desireechavez]

Came from the “Circle of Fifths” videos from marty’s channel and your way of teaching really has been helping out!!

[chrispeleshenko]

Love the idea of finding the scale gravity in each pattern, which gives you the freedom to get out of the pattern.

[nerad]

I never thought about finding the root note in all strings and realizing the pattern is the same . So simple yet easy to understand

[ToddSmith]

This is exactly at my skill level right now. I know the pentatonic scales, I can hear where the roots are, and I'm trying to play along to blues backing tracks while sticking the landing for each chord change. So I would love for this to be the first in a series of videos that gets progressively harder.

[Owl-qhrh]

Been doing last weeks sequencing all week. Im amazed how quickly its stuck! So im going to chuck this one in my routine this week! Thank you Chris! Rock on!!! 💥✨🎸😎

[JohnBradt-GuitarMan]

Thank You Chris
For some reason it’s always easier for me to learn on one string first 😎🎸🎶☮️

[guitarlamar]

Here comes Marty “did somebody say pentatonic?!” 😅

[ToddSmith]

So for the 1-4-5 blues, my strategy has been to play the scale for the chord I'm on. For example in A, when it goes to the 4/D, I hit a D and then play the scale for D where that D I found is the root note. Same for E, switch to the scale where the E I landed on is the root. I use the pattern closest to where I already am. It sounds right. Is there anything technically wrong with doing that?

[ThenberSangma]

Can I play this in different keys please

[atmccready]

Had no idea u can go linear or use different positions or landmarks

[danfranks]

The title on your video says Pentatonic scale deep dive. When you get into it, it's the minor Pentatonic.