How To QUICKLY LEARN The FRETBOARD

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back in Rochester New York so my very first lesson with him he said ok we're gonna learn the guitar neck I want you to remember these remember these five positions ok all right so we're gonna start in G major so okay he said there's two elements to this there's the the outer structure of this which is going to be pentatonic and thank you tone ah toe nose toe no City there's the outer structure which will be pentatonic and then the inner structure is going to be modes or scales but 5 positions and it's going to be based off 2 five positions of the pentatonic scale so we started here in G major right and we played G major pentatonic now that pentatonic works on a G major chord you know it could be straight G major I just played a g6 okay and inside that scale is the G major is the G Major scale okay the second position is based off the second position of the G major pentatonic scale which is this if I go back here then you can see more even more easily how it works but so move up to the second scale here's the pentatonic scale okay okay so I'm here [Music] now this is not the Caged system this is really the scale system and out of this position we play this fingering [Music] but Tom would always have me continue on [Music] Tyler thank you so much so this is really the Dorian scale but it's all the notes that are contained within this so he would have me go up and down each scale position I'd go pentatonic first then I do the position does the major scale finger in the position so it'd be like this and I go to the next position [Music] then I move up to the next position on B's at the third note of the pentatonic scale and I would learn this pentatonic position all this is in my B Ottawa okay you might recognize it for an E minor chord so if you have an E minor chord or G major chord so if I played an E minor chord here [Music] okay so there's your that's that position well there's also a scale in this position [Music] okay so here's the pentatonic scale [Music] okay the next position here is off the fifth off the note D okay we're not even to the main position that most of you know but this is what we would call position four if you're talking about G major right one two three four and it's this a case is off of D okay so that position that could be used for a D major [Music] and you can do the then you do the scale notes from the G Major scale here mana tannic [Music] somebody says pattern in position is confusing people it's confusing you don't speak for everyone okay when I say position for that's the fourth position one two three four its fourth position of the pentatonic scale this is the fifth position there's five notes in the scale so that means that there are five patterns every scale has the same number of patterns that it does note numbers but because there are two half-steps in this scale two of this two of the scales are really in the same position you don't have to move that's why it's easier to just memorize the five I used to call it the five positions of the major scale not the seven positions so this is this was a far easier way to learn this and to master the fingerboard okay so then we get up to this position and this is the position that you know [Music] you usually call that position one of the minor pentatonic and then the scale that's in this position is this this would be your a Aeolian scale right up to this note and the reason that Tom showed me this way is that if I did because I did it out of the pentatonic scale positions I learned where those extra notes were so I always filled in those notes thank you so much John I always filled in the notes in between the entire pentatonic position this one starts here so I I finished the scale so the last note of the scale could go up to here right okay and then that's all you do when you go to the next position [Music] next position then you're back up to here okay so those five positions of the pentatonic scale show you the outline of all the notes of the major scale that really is the quickest way to learn where all the notes are then you have where all the Triads and seventh chords are in each position that's the next thing that you learn now there's all the you know it all depends on how completely you want to learn this the way that I would learn this stuff is I would pick two chords and I would record it on a you record on a looper I would record on a cassette player because of when I learned and I would go between I take a key let's say G major and then maybe go to B flat major something like that right so I'd go I'd practice G major and that come down G major I'm sorry B flat major so I'm going up G major I did it that that way you can hear it better I went up to the B flat so G major okay then I'd say okay what about B major and G major and E major so I go to the closest position I got to say okay where is a major near here so I go like this okay so one up I went up G major I came down a major I'm gonna go up emajor I'm gonna come down G major and go up a major so I'm gonna get here and then go to this next note and begin in next scale so place okay so there there's my transition [Music] thank you John appreciate that let's say you go between really Thank You Evan John appreciate that so then if you try to go a tritone okay so tritone would be go from G major to D flat major okay then it's then you got to start thinking okay well what notes are in D flat major here okay so then I'm gonna go up here and I'm gonna find my D flat major I could go this way oh you go like this [Music] okay I came down D flat major I love that Scott I see Scott and heroin I don't play but I enjoyed learning from my videos how where do we start from scratch that's where I would start actually I would literally start with those five positions of the pentatonic scale and then learn all the notes of the major scale to fill in there the next thing you do is you learn the Triads in those positions I would start with one four five and learn those so I would do a G major C major D major G okay these also work for bass all of these work for bass you just do the bottom four strings all this stuff is in my Beato book it's very simple to learn like I said I learned the neck in three days and and and Tom would just test me on it he'd have me play he'd say okay started in position one of the G major scale starting position three of the G Major scale and I'd be like okay and then he told me to go to a different scale okay and I'd see you say okay I want you go to D major [Music] okay so I went from G major the D major and this was allowed me to be able to change keys it also allowed me to learn things I remember when Frampton Comes Alive came out when I was figuring out the solos like when do you feel like we do which was a huge song the first year I came that I played guitar and Peter Frampton on their song lines on my face there's some really sophisticated solo lines on it and that end do you feel do you feel like we do and I immediately learned when he did he did some licks like this so it's let's see so when he would do these lines like that so he's using the Dorian scale and he's using the blues scale and I knew that because I knew that position okay and I love it cuz you combined the blues scale with a Dorian scale I love that sound [Music] and I'm even Jerry Garcia did stuff like that Dickey Betts and Duane Allman did stuff like that so I'm getting that pentatonic Tom Schultz did that Thank You Phil appreciate that but using the Dorian scale Sean thank you Brian thank you amazing bloomfield to all those guys did that terry calf did that they all combine those they use that they use the minor blue scale they use the major and then they use the mixolydian with that [Music] right in the year [Music] right prince2 there you go all of that is in there and by knowing those positions I knew the neck instantly one week I knew the neck I knew all the scales all I did was was learn those five positions and then all the what we call the fill-in notes which happened to be them and he didn't teach me modes because he knew the modes are too confusing for a beginner so I immediately knew the neck I knew how to play in any key and switch to other keys but I wasn't confused with modes if I if he had thrown modes in there I would have been oh man I don't know what this is but her modes I don't understand that no he just said learn the five positions of the pentatonic scale and the five positions of the major scale and that's it he didn't say minor scale nothing and then once I learned those five positions then he added the Blues note each time okay so then I went through each scale fingering and he added the Blues note the Blue Note okay so it would be you know obviously here and I was like okay I got that and then here [Music] and as soon as I knew that that flat five then here right I guarantee you ride PayPal's working on my site Aaron you want help ride out there so all those right on [Music] so all right that gives you all the blues notes there that way as soon as I heard those kind of licks on piano or guitar you know then I knew where those things were thank you Mike so much appreciate that so that's it I mean those are that that's the quickest way to learn the fingerboard right there is to take those five positions of the major scale get then learn those right each position you can just start just with those and then you do all the fill-in notes so on and so forth there you go HK so check out my video with air and on blues guitar licks with piano stuff yeah I didn't get to a piano licks piano blues licks and blues licks for piano on guitar I did a video a long time ago a few couple years ago and I did that kind of stuff where that's more like what you do on the piano that's really what wes montgomery those kind of things I love that that's up you gotta know where they are you gotta know where those notes are in order to do that right so it's not just you I mean really knowing how to get between those positions and then eventually you start and then then he would have me go and play between each position so I go up one area of the guitar and you see how long I could go without making a mistake right [Music] [Applause] I made a mistake there and then they make me start over [Applause] [Music] you notice I use different fingerings there on that that's one thing that the reason I use that 3:1 is to go between the two positions okay so that I would do that I would start combining the positions that way or he also had me do that which I thought was really really great right so I play that this position and I would go and slide up to that the note that is the next note in that position then I go here I go right and that really really helped me work between the positions ok hummingbird how does this apply with different drop to use I dropped to your drop B well those are definitely different things you have to learn different positions for those I don't suggest that I say when you do drop D and drop B things you have to it's a completely different vocabulary that's why I wouldn't soloing in those things just kind of screws everything up that's why you don't hear a lot of soloing well typically people solo that have dropped D songs for example will solo thank you ople s - thank you so much is how you say that typically you'll have one person that is playing in standard tuning or drop tuning but with all the strings tuned like a normal guitar and then you'll have your guy that will be playing your drop tuning if you're doing drop D or something like that if you have a drop D [Music] I'm playing you know killing in the name and I'm playing my I have to change my position like that right and I'd be like would be there so it's a little bit trickier [Music] anyways tell all your friends about this subscribe to my Instagram I'm trying to hit a hundred thousand followers on Instagram I have a completely different thing that I do in 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Length: 32min 16sec (1936 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 02 2019