COOL PENTATONIC TRICK EVERY GUITAR PLAYER SHOULD KNOW - PART 1

[Music] hi guys Howard here with a cool major pentatonic trick that you can apply to your playing very quickly and very easily and get some really cool melodic sounds going okay so this is in the styles of say Dicky Bets with the Almond Brothers maybe Robbie Robertson with the band George Harrison with the Beatles of course and maybe even a little uh Gilmore and Jeff Beck thrown in for color okay so uh this is how it works uh we're dealing with the major pentatonic scale so we're talking about playing over major chords in particular okay so uh let's say we've got three really easy chords like a g and then a c add n you can play just a regular C if you want but I like that sound to a d right uh those three chords can be found together in some fashion or other in numerous songs right so you could just strum those chords out you know do it campfire [Music] [Applause] [Music] version and of course that would sound sound perfectly fine and especially if someone was singing that would be a nice simple accompaniment okay but let's say you'd like to do something a little bit more maybe play some melodic lines or licks in between the chords maybe in between a vocal or just as soloing ideas because this is great for that as well okay so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to play a little something using those three basic chords and then we'll break down exactly what I did where I got the information from and you'll see just how easy it is for yourself okay I'm going to add a little bit extra in there just to keep it interesting and spice it up a little bit but uh that just makes it more fun right so here we [Music] go [Music] so let's take a look at what I played first we have a G chord of course and what you want to do is spot that root note which is the third fret on the sixth string this is a G major pentatonic scale and it's the perfect accompanyment to that chord so we play the third fret the fifth fret and the the seventh fret so we play three Notes 3 5 7 now on the next string the a string we play five to 7 two notes so the basic pattern is three notes then two notes then it will be three notes again and two notes three notes and two notes so we play 35 s on the sixth string then five to seven on the a string then we go to the D string at the fifth fret and we play three notes again so we will play 5 79 and then on the next string the G string we play s to N9 two notes so it's the exact same pattern just repeating itself an octave higher three notes two notes three notes two notes and to complete the picture even though I didn't use it all the way to the 12th fret we would go to the eighth fret on the B string because of the way the guitar is tuned but we would still play three notes 8 10 12 and then 10 to 12 on the first E string so again it's the same pattern over and over again 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 and of course playing it in reverse can be really advantageous as [Music] well and that is a most excellent scale to accompany that G major chord okay so now let's get into what I played exactly you can see it up on the tab but I'll play it nice and [Music] slow so you can see just by adding some slides and some hammer on uh it gives a little flavor right all of a sudden it sounds pretty musical so let me explain what I did at the end so let me do the lick again [Music] now what I did there is I laid my second finger down on the eighth fret on the B string so now I have a double stop between the G string and the B string seventh fret on the G eighth fret on the B string I slid up a whole step and back and you'll notice that all of those notes the seven and the eight and the nine and the 10 they are all part of that scale they are right inside that scale then I laid my ring finger down on the ninth fret on the D string that makes a G chord that's an inverted G chord so that's a neat little trick as well okay so we [Music] have and then we went to the C at n and it's the same idea exact same idea you spot the root note of the chord which is in this case is the third fret on the uh a string and it's the same scale 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 the only difference is the B string right because of the way the guitar is tuned but it's still so that's 3 5 S on the a string 5 to 7 on the D string then 5 7 9 on the G string that's the three notes and then 8 to 10 on the B string two notes and then of course we're only dealing with five strings so it's 1 2 3 8 10 12 on the first string so that's the scale pattern off of the a [Music] string so that's going to be a really good scale to accompany that c chord okay so let's break that one down and show you exactly what I played it starts out the same way and then what I did is I'm barring across the D and the g strings at the fifth fret which puts you right inside a C major bar chord and then I'm going to do a hammer on so what you want to do is make sure that your your Technique is really solid like your finger is as straight as possible and when you do the hammer you're going to need your thumb back behind the neck a little bit bit you want to hammer with the very tip of your ring finger because we're not hammering both strings we're not doing that we're just doing classic style right okay so you want to make sure that you're on the tip of this finger and you can clear that g [Music] string all right you can see that on the tab hopefully then what we do is essentially we play it an octave higher very similar okay so what I did there you might want to use your second finger for this as I slid on the G string from seven to 9 and then it's the same idea this time we're barring across the first E string and the B string at the eighth fret and you can see I'm doing the same hammer on it's not both strings just the B [Music] string so we have you can see I use my third finger so that works as well all right again nice and [Music] slow so I came back after the hammer on resting it at the eighth fret and then slide from 9 to seven on the G string [Music] okay very nice against that c chord now a little bit of information about that okay if you take a look at this that's a C major Triad right 10th on the D string nine on the G and then eight and eight on the B and the E so once you know that if you know what the chord is for instance if you had a G chord and you're thinking of a g Triad you can do the same IA or that's pretty cool as well kind of Hendrix sounding and then go to the fifth fret on the G string and you can bring all the strings in if you want to or just two and then drop it to four so you're going but with all those notes ringing together so in the same respect if you had an a chord right just a little uh cool little trick to uh add into the mix here so what we have so far then is [Music] this right and then we head back to the G chord and this is where I threw in something a little bit extra and I'll explain this as well what I played was this very kind of David Gilmore or Dicky Betts or as I say Robbie Robertson as well okay so what I'm doing there uh is I'm visualizing a simple D shape okay so you know you got a D chord here and the root note is that third fret on the B string that's a d note so of course this would be an e this would be an f and this would be a g the chord we're looking at right and we all know that trick of adding the pinky to the D chord [Music] right that's all I'm thinking about here I'm thinking [Music] about so I'm taking that idea and playing it as individual notes and then down here that's simply the octave we have c b g d c c b g d c b g three octaves and that's a great thing that you can always play against a major chord as well [Music] right so that's another additional little cool trick that you can add to the major [Music] pentatonic so now we have all together [Music] and then we went to the D chord and I simply played a couple of strums and then it's the same idea we want to find a D major pentatonic scale now this will be on the a string at the fifth fret and it'll look just like the c major pentatonic that we did right because we're starting on the fifth string so it's 579 there's your three notes then 79 there's your two notes then on the G string of course 7 91 three notes 10 to 12 on the B string two notes and then 10 12 14 on the first E string so we [Music] have okay and I didn't play uh nearly that much of the scale all I played was [Music] this and I'll explain that okay so it starts out the exact same way you can see it on the tab but uh just nice and slowly so that's exactly what we did off of C right but it's got a different upside to it so to speak [Music] so this is the same idea what I was just talking about if you look at a d [Music] chord right it's the same notes so that's another thing that you can keep in mind a cool little trick if you've got a d uh major bar [Music] chord or with those fingers right and actually if you take a D major bar chord and you invert it I'm barring across the seventh fret essentially the first four strings or if you want to grab all five that's fine as well and then with my ring finger I'm playing the ninth fret on the a string which puts the major third of the chord into the uh low end of it and then you can do cool things like that but more on that later okay so again this is what I played nice and slow [Music] and I slid from that ninth fret to the seventh [Music] fret okay and then we moved back to the C [Music] chord okay so it's the same idea uh from the cad9 we played right now what I did right away there is I slid grabbed the bar right away strike it again and slide it back and forth these are fourths again right and all of those notes are within the scale that we're working [Music] with seventh fret on the a string back to the double stop then back to the a string 75 nice and slow we have and then finally sliding from five to seven and back on the uh sixth string and I played a little something extra at the end you can see that on the tab these are double stops uh once again and I'll be doing a more extensive video specifically on double stops in the very near future here so there you go a cool little major pentatonic trick that you can add to your playing pretty easily and now you know how it works if you've got a chord whatever it happens to be a c chord if you got a G chord uh the patterns are tried and true okay so I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you get a lot out of it and uh as always all the best to everyone if you've enjoyed the video and you haven't subscribed please take a moment to do that and that way you'll know when I post new videos and also if you want to support the channel simply become a member a lot of people ask me how do I support the channel just become a member right just click the join button uh from the homepage there are below any video that you're watching and uh that helps support the channel a little bit okay so anyway we'll see you guys soon uh again all the best to everyone and I'll see you in the next video 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Length: 17min 13sec (1033 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 17 2024