LEAD GUITAR // Best 4 Notes To Learn

foreign [Music] we will take a simple four note box and learn how it can help us connect and memorize the entire fretboard I know that's a bold statement but I really believe you can do this [Music] connecting these four note boxes will give us confidence to play up and down the fretboard and change pentatonic positions foreign let's get these four notes under our fingers today I want to teach you as if you were right here with me one on one we're using the B minor pentatonic scale for these examples today but we will focus on a four note box within that B minor pentatonic scale this four no box would be a b d e five seven five seven the same four notes would be here a b d e 7979 one more box right up here a b d e 10 12 10 12. so that four no box is in three different positions of the B minor scale right there but the B minor pentatonic scale is a five note scale Penta meaning five notes so we are using four of those notes in this little box here the other note is F sharp [Music] so check this out slide up to the F sharp note use the Box slide up to the F sharp use the Box use the Box now that is all the notes in the minor penet B minor pentatonic scale right there but almost all guitar players use the blue note when they use the pentatonic scale check this out with the Box we already learned slide up we're just add adding in between the E and the F sharp note we're adding that chromatic note [Music] foreign this is a powerful scale [Music] it covers a lot of ground it sounds bluesy and I love it I use it all the time like this really pay attention to this if there's anything you take away from this lesson it is this scale the extended scale with that blue note is so powerful it's it's how a lot of Blues and rock solos were built just using that scale with that little slide great stuff here stay with me later in the video I'm going to break down some of these lick ideas using these Concepts and if this lesson is helpful hit that like button I really appreciate it and I thank you for all your support so we're covering a lot of territory with this scale right here that we've already done and if I'm moving too fast just pause the video make sure you can flow through the scale you know smoothly [Music] but let's take it further we have the box these four notes a b d and e how about here open a B open D and then to the E and slide up to the F sharp [Music] still the same thing one more time up here [Music] so if we want to spread these ideas across the entire fretboard I'd like to really use the root note as the guide this B note got the B here [Music] that b note is all over the place memorize that it's so important that's how you can build this this four note box from that root note B you know where there's a root note you can make that box foreign [Music] I really focus on that root note all the time you don't always have to play it but it really gives you some confidence in a place to go always have a home base so using the root note as a guide [Music] B note [Music] B note right there fourth fret of the G string and you're playing another position of the B minor pentatonic and again I will leave a link in the description for all the B minor pentatonic positions and the B minor extended scale [Music] and there's that little box up there [Music] playing off the root note [Music] coming up shortly I will break down some of these licks just really right now focusing on this root note [Music] thank you I'm doing all that focusing on that root note so how can this four note box help us with memorizing the fretboard check this out we know that this is a b note here in the seventh fret of the E string and this box a b d and e and then we know if we slide up from the e is enough sharp always [Music] and again [Music] a b d e f sharp one more time a b d e F sharp always that little box you those are the same notes every time sliding up to the F sharp [Music] now you just played the five notes of that pentatonic scale you played them in a little different way than you used to but a great way to really start memorizing is take a position that's familiar to you and for most of us it's the first position B minor pentatonic scale right here in in the root notes are right here locked into the seventh fret [Music] if you focus on the notes memorizing the notes you use all the time you will expand from there and you'll take this to another position you'll start memorizing those and before you know it you'll start putting these things together to really because you don't want to try to force yourself to to do this all at once to start at the end and memorize it's not fun for one thing it's a lot of people fail because it's it's too much we need to have fun as we're doing it and I'm really doing it this way in a familiar part of the neck is it's fun because you're starting to make connections and just things start to make sense to you and we can really look at this first position as home base when we when we play these four note boxes and I love doing it this way because it creates movement within that pentatonic scale instead of staying in one box but still this is home basis first position [Music] but you always know at your fingertips you have this note here [Music] and go back to your friend the first position but these boxes are right at your fingertips also once you get used to these where these notes are then you start looking at the notes and the chords you're using and you hear people talking about playing with chord tones and this is it you need to know the notes on the fretboard along with the notes of the chords and just taking the B minor chord for example we have a b d and F sharp make up a B minor chord and these notes are all over the the fretboard but let's take it within a familiar position and and use it use it in our playing use those notes [Music] those same notes we just use the b d f sharp in a different order but there's still a B minor chord [Music] foreign it's very powerful because you're going to have confidence to play over chords and just the licks that you know you're going to know how how they were built [Music] I will leave a link in the description for this awesome backing track I used in the intro so looking at the chords and the progression B minor foreign [Music] G [Music] F sharp seven [Music] thank you [Music] so breaking down a few of these lick ideas in B minor pentatonic right away as it goes to the B minor sliding up to that F sharp note sounds great it's pulling off and sliding up basically been doing a little climb up the minor pentatonic and then we're at the a chord so group of four so on the upstroke hit that note that F sharp note again a little half sweep because I'm continuing up this is a great way to add speed to your playing also foreign just two groups of four with that half sweep that's actually five notes with the sweep so hammering on from the D note to the E then sliding up to the e then just sliding up it's a great way to end it then it's going to go to the G chord then we slide up to this B note we're at that box again [Music] right in this little box frame here really focusing on this root note it's a b note it's actually part of the G chord and then as it goes to the F sharp seven chord [Music] this is a great lick I love this lick sounds like uh Billy Gibbons ZZ Top so hit the note twice [Music] so you're sliding up to the 17th fret that's striking the 14th three times [Music] then then walking down though with that blue note [Music] 15 will be on the B string this D note [Music] then what ending up at that root note again because you're back at the B minor chord so then we're back in the first position of the B minor pentatonic bending a whole tone up here in the 10th fret actually bending to a b note foreign make sure you got your tone right [Music] then I'm actually hitting that b note there that little half half note chromatic blue note then hitting the E note in the ninth fret it's a just part of the a chord [Music] then hesitating and it's going to go to the G chord but you can still use this lick but I'm landing on the D chord now or D note for the G chord [Music] then it's going to go to the F sharp seven one more time and it's sliding up to that it's actually a C sharp note in the 11th fret of the D string this is a this is a real good one so striking the B note pulling off and hammering back on when sliding up [Music] that sounds like a famous solo a little piece of it see if you can guess that then back to the B minor wow this is the most fun I've had in a long time doing a video Lesson as I was showing you guys some of this stuff it just really took me back to when I had a few players I really never took formal lessons but just had people show me pieces of what I just showed you and and if you keep working at this stuff they're going to connect and make sense to you and you're going to create your own solos you're going to play from the heart because you'll have the confidence in the notes you're playing and and just don't take any shortcuts really work at some of this stuff and you won't regret taking the time to do it the key is to have fun with this instrument we've been blessed with let me know if the lesson was helpful thanks for taking the time to hang out with me today we'll see you soon

Channel: Rustys Guitar

Views: 310,268

Keywords: lead guitar, lead guitar lessons, lead guitar exercises intermediate, lead guitar techiniques, solo with 4 notes, rustys guitar, learn the fretboard, best intermediate guitar lessons, how to play lead guitar, learn lead guitar, improve lead guitar, rustys guitar do this everyday, lead guitar techniques, easiest way to learn the fretboard, how to solo guitar over chord changes, how to improve your lead guitar playing, Learn 4 notes to solo guitar, Lead guitar 4 notes

Id: SJnOZpvSbM8

Length: 17min 10sec (1030 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023