Pentatonic Adaptations | Live MasterClass with Andy Wood

Each week we offer our students a Livestream Q&A where they get to deep dive into all things music with an expert in the craft.

This week we had world-renowned, Andy Wood blow our minds with a variety of practical tips and exercises you can use to expand your view and usage of pentatonics.

If you don't know Andy, he is recognized as part of the forefront of this generation’s top influential guitarists.

Currently touring as a solo guitarist and mandolinist along with working on a host of additional musical projects, Andy is also performing live with his own band promoting CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TRUTH AND A LIE, the double album which showcases his vast musical influences and abilities.

Andy has toured professionally with a wide range of acts, including most recently Gary Allan, LOCASH, Rascal Flatts, Scott Stapp, and Sebastian Bach. Looking for an outlet for styles other than hard rock, Andy also released his debut solo album A DISCONCERTING AMALGAM. This instrumental record covers a broad range of genres including fusion, rock, metal, and acoustic bluegrass. Andy Wood is known for blurring the lines of preconceived genres.

This is just a small excerpt from the class but it's filled with tips that will really help you design an exercise to improve the technique and add some diversity to your practice.

If you enjoyed this, drop a comment below and let us know.

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[JR-tpgd]

It's like I've been stuck in a dreary room for years and years and Andy's just opened the door and said, "Hey, there's a world out here! - Come and see." Thank you! 🙏🏽

[Carlos_AyalaJr]

By far one of the best guitarist and most well-versed. So deeply inspired to play!!!

[michaeledwards]

wow, thank you so much ANDY. you have really opened my eyes to looking at the fret board in a whole new light, you are incredible !!!!

[johnvansmirren]

Andy is the bridge we all been waiting for to get to that next level. Such an inspiration to get back into practice/playing like we did when we first started.

[BertWald-wppz]

So good. I analyze my own playing looking for the rules behind what naturally comes out. These Andy Wood videos seem in sync with the ideas I am trying to explore and articulate. I have come to the idea that great players (alas not me!) build technique out of their musicality not the other way round. First comes the music then the technique and Andy has it. These videos are like hanging out with a player who will help you understand your own path not just copy theirs. Brilliant.😊

[bobeverett]

Just want to say, I discovered Andy via surfing YouTube for anything guitar. I’m 62 yrs old and have hit more plateaus than I can count and have been on one for quite a while now. This video along with several additional videos by Andy totally crushed my plateau and opened the door to a whole arena accessible options that I couldn’t grasp from other videos. Great teacher!

[jitsroller]

My God I'm applying this and improving immediately. This came at the right time. Thanks Andy!

[martymooney]

Just stumbled on this channel from the Billy Strings interview so I looked around and found this lesson i must say one of the best if not THE best lesson on how to navigate these type concepts he shared a wealth of knowledge on that one great content guys 🤘🤘✌️🖖

[straydog]

Andy how u teach is the bomb"" bro, the best 👍👍👍👍

[bigtsshackfestival]

Andy is so modest about being a world class bad ass and one of the most innovative music thinkers in the world. Makes me feel good I got his compressor pedal shipped to my house today. Suhr wood shop comp. really bad ass pedal. I had a fat general on my board that got kicked off for the wood shed. I never in a million thought I would be bumping that pedal off at anytime. Thanks Andy !!! Half the price too

[russellharper]

What a great teacher! He even describes, to a tee, everything we go through to economise our playing using barres. I had to laugh and say yes, this really happens! :)

[albandunford]

2 years later an i keep coming back to this lesson. Huge thanks Andy

[lafaverp]

Andy Wood! Where have you been all my life? I only learned about you because my buddy just bought a Suhr "Andy Wood" guitar. You have become from favorite player and teacher.

[Zekroft]

Man, I don't even know what to say. Just amazing from start to finish!

[triclone]

To me, looking a my holes playing, this is the most productive class I ever seen. I watch a lot of YT videos, but this one is very valuable. Andy, you have a gift playing and teaching. Quite different, transparent, sincere. Thank you!

[hearpalhere]

There is a wealth of information in this lesson and I'm only 11 minutes in. I'll definitely be back for repeated viewings, thank you for posting this! You've got a new subscriber too.

[etuoo]

That's one of the most enlightening lessons ever Andy!!

[JonKaneshiroGuitar]

Man, every time he does something EJ style it makes me want to play. The tone is so spot on! And it’s crazy because he can get that through any one of his guitars.

Andy, what’s the formula for that EJ lead sound? I’m going through a kemper😉

[corpcoup]

Dude, you deserve way more likes. You have an awesome instructional approach and you do an exceptional job of explaining all you do, making it easy to understand how to apply it to our own playing.

[donald-parker]

When I learned to play lead (1973 or so) there was no internet, no YouTube - just your ears. So with no real instruction, and just copying what I heard, I learned pentatonic scales (of course, I had no idea they were called that until many years later). But I always learned patterns that went up and down the neck - never a box shape in a certain position. Somehow I got it in my head that "the goal" was to always play notes 2 frets apart. The only way to do that is to keep shifting position up and down the neck at the same time as going from lower strings to higher strings. It was a few years later I started using the traditional box positions and doing note bending when I started trying to copy Johnny Winter. Another fun fact - I had no idea there were choices of string gauges for years. The guitar I bought had heavy strings with a wound g string. I was in utter awe of the way Johnny could bend notes. When I discovered light gauge strings it was like a whole new universe. Seems funny today, but back then everything you learned was by word of mouth (which slowed me down a lot cause I didn't know any other guitar players🙂)