Break Out of the Pentatonic Box Like This

Adding that extra note above really makes the Pentatonics sing and opens up some beautiful melodic possibilities. 😎

Thank you sir

Dude that intro is FIRE!!! Can't believe you were able to make those standard patterns so different.

I'm a sucker for a good pentatonic lesson. Thanks, John.

Lesson Mondays are always a favorite!😊

Great job! Thank you, JC!

Great playing as always and a beautiful finish on that guitar.

I pickup my Katana go today! Going to try this out, thanks for the lesson! Cheers John! 😁🎸🔥🤜🤛

It's so beautyfull to play like that😊

Love this. I want to start doing some legato & was wondering about where to start. Seems this is the place 😁

As well as phrasing across diagonally through the stacked patterns of pentatonics, a good exercise is playing against a track in a major key, by playing lines across stacks of pentatonics beginning on a minor pentatonic, but ending on a major pentatonic. You can also switch back and forth ( while still playing diagonally) between major and minor shapes. This doesn't work so well the other way (ie agianst a minor backing), but you can throw fragments of pent's that are major to add tension before a chord change, ( and you can do the same the other way around ; adding fragments of minor pent's in a major backing to introduce similar kinds of wind-up into a third resolved chord change.A fun way to start doing this is simply to shift whatever pattern you're playing on up or down a few frets on the neck and play the same licks. Eventually you can focus on combining that process, with sort of the opposite, switching in and out of major and minor without shifting positions ( which requires different finerings for the same licks, but you can balance use of either extreme or equal amounts of each approach ( switching between major/minor pent's) to create discrete phrases that are figures and statements, or running continuous flowing lines that swing between the two. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! I'm still swinging away at that system 60 years later, and since have figured out how the same thing works for major scales and modes, but II'm still figuring it out as I go rather than out of books,( I got what little I actually understand about theory, not having played piano because of how awefully it was taught.. trying to trach you theory at the same time as physically operating the instrument,) from the dusty back columns of Guitar Player magazine in the early 80's! It was usually late Sunday afternoon when I read this stuff, so whenever I think of theory, I csn smell dinner cooking. Thanks for going into Pentatonics further, but don't stop there because there is so much more to enjoy while working on lines from less notes in the scale, so instead of trying to think too much, which makes your playing actually sound more pedantic, you're freer to switch off from worrying about the form, and you can focus on the creative inspired side of the brsin. It's more natural to learn the simplest things that you can first actually comfortably wield, so that your mind is free to channel inspiration. Later you can take what you've developed into doing something similar with major scales and modes. It's the same as how a bsby learns to speak, not by being given lessons in what are nouns and verbs or how to construct sentences, but by fun and experimentation with sounds that are recognised or remembered ( by ear!), later when the child can navigate thru the basic hurdles of life it gets taught reading and writing, and basic grammar ( speach theory) etc years after he or she has been intuitively communicating -BY EAR-! It's the natural way to learn but we don't teach people guitar ( and definitely not piano) this way which DRIVES ME MAD! Too bad life is the way it is. Sounded nice weaving lines in the intro.👍

Way cool John!

As always nice lesson and explain thank you 🙏

If you put that intro piece on sale as a backing track, I will buy it.

DIAGONAL PENTATONICS!!

That little urge to play cliffs of dover lol

I'm close behind! Great video as always John, nicely explained and easy to follow....btw, which of your gorgeous presets are you using here?!

9:05 That’s what my girl said

Break out of boxes by working diagonally.

is that a custom guitar? who made it? <3