How To Use Pentatonics.

As a musician and a guitar player, it is essential to not only know how to use the pentatonic scales but to know the music hacks to elicit different sounds. This lesson takes a look at the fundamentals of the scale and introduces some advanced ideas.

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[hitesh_blues]

Thank you LGW and Suke. Your lessons have helped open a new dimension for me. Everything seems to comes together; the chords, the scales, and, the arpeggios. These are the best practical music theory+improvisation lessons on YouTube :)

[panosgiatropoulos]

Nothing new here for anyone who has been playing for a considerable amount of time, but if you think about it, this video is unique on youtube and priceless for beginners seeing as all this stuff has never really been presented so well and so clearly in one comprehensive video, great job!

[antnmrtnviii]

Lesson are mind opening. Suke's a great teacher and musician no doubt. I've only watched 2 of his lesson's so far and it took me out of that rut i've been stucked in for years. This is so great.

[randywhite]

I like how you explained the correlation between pentatonic and chords and a bit of theory, taking the mystery out of theory and how it all works together great lesson thanks.

[johnculligansongs]

Bravo! Best explanation I have ever heard on pentatonics and how to use them. And I've watched a lot of videos.

[nigelpayne]

Brilliant lesson for me! Thanks Suke for explaining how everything works on guitar music. A minor seems to me a good place to start 5th fret pentatonic scale and go back to it when feeling a bit lost when playing. Hope I'm right saying that. Thanks again Suke.👍

[theband]

Hi, Ive just found your channel, and the clarity of approach is great - short topic broken down into simple language. And without the shredding alot of tutorial channels seem to put in at the intro!!! Im 61, have played in bands and know a bit of theory and scales etc and in as much as you inspire me to develop, I just cant find the time - or just get off my butt! I work, get home and I just want to relax... maybe you could do a topic of inspiring us to find the time, be less lazy.... I must start to do at least 10 mins of something a day.... Cheers, Glenn

[kurtrightmyer]

This is the best video I've seen for explaining how to use chord tones in soloing.

[xCal]

You have just lifted the fretboard fog that has been covering my eyes for years!! Thank you

[dag]

I saw you play at a bar in Florida called Sliders around 25 years ago or so with your band Schleigho. I bought a cd and even though it wasn't exactly my favorite kind of music I thought you were one of the best guitar players I had ever seen. I think we had a brief discussion before your set when you were cleaning your guitar or something and I asked if anyone in the band was into Gentle Giant and you shook your head and said that people ask you that all the time but that you didn't know anything about Gentle Giant at all or had never even really heard them. I hope I'm remembering this correctly. It was a great show and I still think back to all the great bands on that circuit that I saw play at Sliders.

[willabestorms]

A++... Well spoken and thoughtful... A great instructor commands great students...

[philjames]

Thank-you for this lesson Suke .... recently subscribed too your channel, and absolutely stoked with the quality of the tutorials!!

[rexbenemerito]

The best lesson to watch in YT. Sir, you are the best. Thanks.

[sebstera]

Very good video ! love it ! for me as a beginner and want to LEARN the music theory and need someone to explain the differences this was AMAZING! thank you !

[FirstLast-nnbj]

Very interesting1! The major/minor chord-scale relationship very cool!

[VintageTubeTone]

This is a truly excellent discussion. The latter portion on modes of the major scale is quite advanced, but nicely explained. To expand on your points for anyone that didn't completely follow, in addition to the relative major and minor scales, you can find all the other modes, Dorian, Ionian, Mixolydian by starting on various notes of the major scale (or relative minor). In this case, it would be the full scale, meaning the major pentatonic, plus the fourth and sixth. So using this same position on the neck and using all the same notes of the full C major scale, if started on the fifth tone, G, you have the G Mixolydian scale. If started on the 2nd tone of the C major scale, D, it becomes the D Dorian scale. And if started on the 6th or A, you have the A minor scale, as referenced in the video. Therefore, if you know the full major scale (or full minor) you can find all the other modes in every key from a simple scale that you already know. This is why the first step to break out of playing pentatonic scales is to think in terms of full scales (major or minor) from which you are omitting notes for the pentatonic.

[jjlbridge]

Your a good teacher. Thanks for sharing.

[quynguyen-qnmo]

Thank Suke, I love your instruction very much

[mattmueller]

This lesson FUCHS. Great stuff as always!

[MrSpanky]

This tutorial has helped make me a better harmonica player.