This Concept Changed my Lead Guitar Playing
Summary
TLDRIn this instructional video, the speaker addresses a common challenge faced by intermediate guitar players: feeling confined to box-shaped pentatonic scales. To overcome this, the concept of 'super positions' is introduced, which involves combining multiple pentatonic positions into larger shapes, expanding the fretboard visualization and note options. The video offers practice techniques such as diagonal patterns to enhance scale visualization and improvisation skills, ultimately leading to more creative and varied guitar solos.
Takeaways
- 🎸 Learning scales in box shapes is common among intermediate guitar players.
- 🚧 Players often feel stuck within these box shapes, limiting their playing options.
- 🎶 The minor pentatonic scale is a frequently learned box shape, but it confines players to linear playing.
- 🔄 To break free, the concept of 'Super positions' of the minor pentatonic scale is introduced.
- 🛠 Combining multiple pentatonic positions creates larger boxes, expanding the fretboard visualization.
- 🔄 Repeating notes are a natural part of these larger scales, and they're okay to include.
- 👂 Ear training is important, but so is visualizing scales on the fretboard.
- 📊 A practice technique involves playing diagonal patterns across strings to enhance scale visualization.
- 🎵 Expanding the scale to four notes per string increases the fretboard range for improvisation.
- 💡 This approach leads to more angular and wider interval playing, enhancing solos and phrasing.
- 📘 Tabs and practice exercises for these super positions are available for channel members.
Q & A
What is the main challenge that intermediate guitar players face according to the script?
-The main challenge is feeling stuck in 'boxes' or limited fretboard positions when playing scales, which restricts their note choices and playing options.
What is the common way guitar players learn scales as mentioned in the script?
-They learn scales in box shapes or positions along the fretboard, particularly the pentatonic scales.
Why does the script suggest that intermediate players feel confined to these 'boxes'?
-They feel confined because they don't feel comfortable playing outside these learned positions, limiting their improvisation and soloing abilities.
What is the concept of 'Super Positions' introduced in the script?
-'Super Positions' involve combining multiple pentatonic scale positions into a larger, single position to expand the fretboard area a player can visualize and play.
How does the script suggest practicing the Super Positions of the minor pentatonic scale?
-By practicing them as if they are single pentatonic shapes, extending the scale's shape, and visualizing more of the fretboard.
What is the purpose of practicing diagonal patterns with the scales as suggested in the script?
-The purpose is to force visual scale recognition rather than relying solely on the ear, enhancing fretboard knowledge.
How does the script recommend expanding the Super Positions further?
-By adding more positions to the existing Super Position, turning a three-note-per-string scale into a four-note-per-string scale, for example.
What benefits does the script claim come from visualizing larger fretboard areas during soloing?
-It allows for wider interval playing, more freedom in phrasing, and a larger selection of notes to choose from.
What additional resources are offered for those interested in learning more about Super Positions?
-Tabs for Super Positions and practice exercises are available for channel members, and one-on-one online guitar lessons are also offered.
What is the significance of the B minor pentatonic scale in the context of the script?
-It serves as the primary example to demonstrate the concept of Super Positions and how to expand playing beyond the basic scale shapes.
How does the script suggest intermediate players can improve their improvisation skills?
-By learning to visualize scales across larger areas of the fretboard and practicing techniques that enhance this visualization.
Outlines
🎸 Overcoming the 'Box' Mentality in Guitar Playing
The speaker discusses a common challenge faced by intermediate guitar players who have learned scales in box shapes across the fretboard. They explain how players often feel confined to these shapes, limiting their note choices and phrasing. The focus is on the minor pentatonic scale, which is commonly learned and used. The speaker suggests a method to break free from these limitations by combining different pentatonic positions into a 'super position' that spans a larger area of the fretboard. This approach allows for more creative and varied playing by expanding the visual and physical range of notes available during solos. A practical example is given by combining the first position of B minor pentatonic with the next position starting on D, creating a three-note-per-string super position. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of visualizing scales on the fretboard rather than relying solely on ear training.
🛤️ Expanding Scale Visualization with Super Positions
Building on the concept of super positions, the speaker introduces a practice technique to further expand the guitar player's scale visualization. They demonstrate how to play notes diagonally across different strings, which helps in seeing the scales more clearly on the fretboard. The speaker then shows how to expand the three-note-per-string scale to a four-note-per-string scale by adding another position before the main B minor pentatonic shape. This results in an 8 or 9 fret distance visualization of the scale, significantly increasing the fretboard area that can be used for improvisation. The speaker provides an example of how this expanded scale can be used in improvisation, highlighting the wider intervals and more expressive phrasing that become possible. They also mention the availability of tabs and practice exercises for channel members and offer one-on-one online guitar lessons for those interested.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Intermediate guitar players
💡Box shapes
💡Pentatonic scale
💡Fretboard
💡Note choice
💡Phrasing
💡Super positions
💡Fret
💡Visualization
💡Diagonal pattern
💡Legato
💡Hybrid picking
Highlights
Intermediate guitar players often feel stuck playing scales in box shapes.
Learning scales in box shapes can limit a player's note choice and playing options.
The common minor pentatonic scale is often the first shape learned by guitar players.
Feeling confined to these scales can hinder a player's ability to explore the fretboard.
Introducing 'Super positions' of the minor pentatonic scale to break free from box shapes.
Super positions are created by combining existing pentatonic positions into larger shapes.
Practicing super positions can help visualize the fretboard more effectively.
Diagonal pattern practice helps in scale visualization and reduces reliance on ear.
Expanding from a three-note to a four-note per string scale increases fretboard options.
Super positions allow for wider interval playing and more freedom in phrasing.
Legato and hybrid picking techniques complement the super position approach.
Tabs and practice exercises for super positions are available for channel members.
The instructor offers one-on-one online Skype guitar lessons.
Channel membership provides access to exclusive content and lessons.
Improvisation using super positions results in a more dynamic and varied sound.
The video concludes with an improvisation example using the B minor pentatonic super position.
The video encourages viewers to explore and practice super positions for guitar playing.
Transcripts
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I think among a lot of intermediate
guitar players there's kind of a a big
hurdle that everyone has to go through
especially if you learn scales the way
that I did one of the common ways to
learn scales is in these box shapes
there's different positions along the
fretboard and usually guitar players
will learn the pentatonic shapes kind of
across the fretboard and the thing that
everyone falls into is that you feel
like you're just kind of stuck in these
boxes I know I felt this way
and it does affect your playing the
common one that most people know how to
play is like the main minor pentatonic
shape so I'm in B minor and I'm going to
play the
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shape guitar players learn this and then
you know you're playing guitar solo and
you feel like you just that's the only
place you can go you don't feel
comfortable going underneath it or above
it anywhere else on the neck you're kind
of stuck in these boxes and then maybe
you learned some other boxes so you
learn the one
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after but you're still just kind of
confined to these little like four fret
spaces one of the um downsides of this
is that your note choice is limited and
your
phrasing and playing options are limited
for
example you kind of get stuck playing
all these very linear
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like which is cool but you know maybe
you want to play something a bit more
angular and with wider intervals so
that's kind of what I want to talk about
today doing this thing that I call Super
positions of the minor pentatonic scale
so essentially what it is is creating
bigger boxes from these pre-existing
boxes so you don't really have to learn
anything new it's more about just
thinking of these positions maybe a
little differently let's take a very
simple example of this so I'm going to
take the first pentatonic box of B minor
the one starting on B
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and let's take the pentatonic shape
starting on the next note which is a
d which goes like
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this now the concept is that we're going
to combine both of these positions into
a single position there will be
repeating notes that's okay there's
repeating notes all over the guitar so
so we're going to play this as a single
three note per string pentatonic superp
position so slowly it's going to sound
like
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this the idea is to practice this as if
it's a single pentatonic shape I'm
taking the shape of the pentatonic scale
and extending it so now I have more of
the fretboard that I'm visualizing and
notes that I have to choose from another
thing that I've noticed intermediate
guitar players tend to do is when
they're learning these scales and
playing them and practicing they're
using a lot of their ear rather than
knowledge of the fretboard for example
when you play all this stuff in order so
I'm playing the notes in order it's very
easy to just use your ear to be like oh
I need to go a half step up or a whole
step up it's good that you can use your
ear to hear that but I think it's also
important that you're able to visualize
scales on the fretboard and using your
ear is a hard way to do that so I have a
few practice techniques to work on these
combined pentatonic boxes scale
visualization the first one I call like
a diagonal pattern instead of playing
three notes on the same
string I'm going to play three notes on
three separate strings in a diagonal way
so what I'm playing is the first note on
the first
string the second note on the second
string and then your third note is going
to be the third note on the following
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string so I'm getting these notes
from that superp position scale and then
I'm just spreading them out diagonally
and then now you just take this and then
you go down the strings so it's going to
sound like
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this and then you go the other
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direction the point of this is that it
forces you to visually see your scales
rather than purely relying on your ear
when you're playing them in order I
don't want to have to play the scale in
order to play the scale you know the
next step of this would be to take this
idea and expand it further so now I'm
going to take I have this
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position which is a three note per
string scale and I'm going to turn this
into a four note per string scale so I'm
going to add the position before the
main B minor pentatonic shape so the
position before sounds like
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this and now if I play these three
positions together as a single superp
position it's going to sound like this
so it's four notes per string
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and now instead of only
visualizing four Frets of a scale or
even a six fret distance of the B minor
ponic scale I have an 8 fret or even
nine fret distance that I'm memorizing
of this scale that I'm visualizing all
at once so I have this entire amount of
the fretboard that I have to choose from
when improvising and soloing so here's
like an example of how this could sound
so I'm just going to improvise and I'm
going to use the super position of the B
minor pentatonic scale and you're going
to hear it's a lot of wider interval
playing I do a lot of Legato and hybrid
picking and so that also really lends
itself to this style it just kind of
frees your
phrasing and playing
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so I have the tabs for a few of these
super positions and a few different
practice exercises available if you are
a channel member so if you're interested
in that kind of thing you can uh check
out the channel membership there's also
a bunch of previous live streams that
you can view and a couple member only
videos I'm also currently giving
one-on-one guitar lesson lesons so if
you're interested in having a one-on-one
online Skype guitar lesson um we can
chat about whatever you'd like I offer
four lesson bundles or single lessons uh
you can check that out there's a link in
the description yeah anyways I hope you
guys enjoyed this quick little video and
uh I'll catch you guys later bye
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