NEW Pentatonic Scale Boxes MUG! You can't drink Yorkshire tea out of a PDF! Look at it, gaze upon your milky brew inside and learn your pentatonics on the outside! This accompanies lesson 67 in my book It's available on my Shopify store right now! rickysguitar.myshopify.com/products/pentatonics-3-2-pattern-lesson-11oz-ceramic-mug
I have been a "cowboy" chord strummer for almost 30 years and now trying to learn soloing. This was such a demystifying explanation for me (after countless other videos) and gave me the aha moment I needed! Your video helped me sort the confusion that has made me put it off for some time now. Thank you so much!
The absolute best video on Pentatonic’s. Should be required viewing for anyone wanting to learn the patterns. As usual, Ricky de-mystifies confusing guitar concepts and gives us the tools to make our guitar journey fun. We’ll done!!!
Fantastic! I love that the root note always sits in the same place in the sets and pairs. Also, for some reason box 4 has never stuck for me, but now I can see it. Perfect!
WOW, After all my years of playing Ricky still continues to bring the Aha moments! Something this simple but now I always know where my root notes fall in each pattern. This is Gold, thanks Ricky!
JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON,ONTARIO, CANADA 🇨🇦 THE PATTERNS STAY THE SAME, BUT RICK HAS SHOWN ALL 5 BOXES IN THE KEY OF A. IF IT WAS IN E, THAN YOU NEED TO TARGET THE E ROOT.... FROM ONE GUITARIST TO ANOTHER 🇨🇦✌️🙏☮️🌎🙏🍀🎸🎤🎵🍀🙏SECOND HAND LION ♌️
Thank you for assembling these version and then breaking down. I’ve only been playing a few year so much of this was Greek. However you made it very accessible for me to be able to learn and play.
Ricky is trully THE Guitar Guru on the Internet. He is so sincere and passionate about his craft that he doesn't leave any stones unturned. You can see he is constantly thinking new ways and approaches to make things simple with no fluff unlike some others.
You're brain works in the same weird way as mine! 😄 I came up with this exact way of looking at the pentatonics back when my instructor was teaching me this. I tried to explain it to him but he didn't want to listen. After that I just used it in silence. The only difference from you is I call the two shapes "boxes" (string set) and "beams" (string pair). The major and minor roots are always reliably where you expect them on the two shapes. Sweet! Another really cool observation that initially helped me transition from one pattern to the next was seeing the "helix spiral" movement of the beams. First you have the beam starting on the low E string in the C Shape (A rooted pattern) then spiraling to the middle (A Shape or G rooted), then to the high E string edge of the fretboard (G Shape or E rooted), back around to "near" the bass edge (E Shape or D rooted) and finally to near the treble edge (D Shape or B rooted). The other cool observation is that the beam only gets distorted by the B string in the D Shape making it much easier to see as you move from one shape to the next. Having a diagram with these beams highlighted clearly reveals this helix and is much clearer than this wordy description. This was really as revolutionary for me to see this helix movement as it was the boxes and beams themselves. Very cool! Hope that makes sense. Thank you for sharing this and for taking the time to explain it!
This video is a game changer! I'm a new player (few months), just working on the first couple pentatonic shapes, was about to expand to all of them. Saw this video right as I was about to just pound through and jam the info into my head the hard way. After this video, I'm pleasantly cruising up and down the fretboard, I know where all the roots are without having to think or count. It's like the pentatonic patterns were just downloaded straight to my brain. This is hands down the most helpful video I've come across in my journey so far. Thank you!
Great video Ricky. I understand the pentatonics now. Just don’t know how to improvise and stuck running up and down the scales. Need some basics on this.
Another great lesson Ricky. Just been on Amazon an bought two of your books, Got one with tab pages in, save me scrubbing my own. Always enjoy your lessons, been a subscriber since you started. Keep up the great work. 🤟🎸
Thanks Ricky, I love this one, I keep going over your beginner lessons to pick up all these little tricks, despite playing for 15 years. I've just realised this works for the blues scale as well, the blues notes are always in the same place on the square! I've been trying to remember where the blues notes are for years!
Ricky, I really appreciate your teaching style. You do such a good job to break it down in an enjoyable way. I just received your book in the mail and it appears to to be very easy on the eyes and brain so I look forward to digesting it all
Ka-Ching baby! I had resolved to memorize the root note positions years ago, but my brain wouldn’t accept it. With Your visualization and naming “stories”, it slipped in like a key to a lock. Amazing how a different visualization can work like a lock key! I’m subbed, forever thank you ComisKEY
One nice thing is also expanding this with different major and minor scales as u can see in other videos, but one thing that u should deepen more in my opinion is: how to connect elevator triangles with square and rectangles? I mean if I'm improvising and i found myself on a note, i can see square and rectangle but in wich triangle am i? I mean for example i understood that when i search with my index on the B string the 5th of the root, i found the 90 degrees rectangle and so on, right?
This is great stuff Ricky! This video on using the string set patterns 3 and 2 combined with the caged octaves is what opened up the fretboard for me. I am now able to navigate the entire fretboard and play anywhere. Also, it has helped me from playing these notes in a sequential order and avoid sounding like I'm playing a scale. The smaller scale chunks(string set patterns) have helped my improvisation and helped me create melodic motifs and phrases while playing. You can also use these string set patterns to create other scales by adding notes to them. So you can move from pentatonic to blues to major and minor scales simply by adding extra notes to the pattern.
Ricky. Thanks so much for all these cool and super informative lessons!!!! I bought and HIGHLY RECOMMEND your book. You make learning and playing guitar incredibly fun.
I found those patterns by ear, and can play them really fast, but now I have no idea where are the root notes, and what note pattern I'm playing. This is very helpful.
Wow...very cool...very cool. As usual it starts with mathematics and geometric patterns and relationshops which, although very cool on their own, makes mè wonder how the heck that helps me on guitar...but then at the end it all comes together. WELL DONE. Thanks SO MUCH!!!!. PS: the only improvement I'd suggest to the video would be to show the respective box pattern graphic when you switch the video over to the fretboard as it'd be nice to see the graphic sumultaneously as you play the shape on the neck. Thanks sgain.
This is great. I learned the idea from another video, but this one really shows the application. Another useful way to think about it is that the whole pattern rotates by 2 strings down and goes right (or left, if you are play left handed) 2 frets as you go from one box to the next. I relate it to CAGED a bit differently though. CAGED uses major chords and this is minor pentatonic. So I relate the 5 box patterns to 5 minor or minor 7th chords so 1 is Em or Em7, 2 is Dm or Dm7, 3 is Bm7 (you could play Bm if you mute the G string), 4 is Am or Am7, and 5 is Gm or Gm7. Acronym: EDBAG. If you think about major pentatonic, then you can get GEDCA, which is CAGED, but rotated in a different way than it is in the video.
Ricky, great video. Would I be right in thinking that if I shift the root to the other end of the string in the root rectangle and box, I’d have the major pentatonic shapes too?
On the thin bottom right note of the string pair yes. In the group of 3 the root note switches as well. I’m not going to spoon feed you the answer where it is. Work it out and comment back. The only clue I’ll give you is “g shaped octave”… 🎓 homework 🤘
Did you also notice that there is a 5-1-b3 triad perfectly inscribed in the minor pentatonic 3 string box and a 3-5-1 inscribed in the major pentatonic 3 string box? I just saw that.
I've been playing for about 20 years. Did tons of theory in school and tried to learn to improvise and solo with minimal success. Gave it up for years when I stagnated. I've recently been back into it working on my lead guitar. This has completely blown my mind and has just unlocked something I was unable to visualize. I'm going back to the root notes/CAGED. This is a game changer for me. Thank you!
😅talk about a light bulb moment I can even find the light switches ,this just a A minor right .,how do I find the E minor stupid question I know but if you don’t know ,you don’t know r🎸🎶
Ricky, so if I look at this from a Major perspective the root tadpole moves in the string set of 3 to the third row top and in the string pair the root tadpole moves to the bottom of the second row, correct?
Another great lesson, Ricky! Since the root appears in both the 3-string and 2-string shapes, is memorizing the pentatonic boxes really necessary? If the guitarist can find the root notes, can’t he/ she just use the 3- and 2- shapes and forget about the pentatonic boxes?
if you can find the root notes and use the 2 and 3 shapes, you're in a better position than memorising the shapes as a whole. it would also mean you could play the boxes using the 2 and 3 shapes anyways.
Love your lessons Ricky, the PDF link was NOT the one for this lesson it ended up being Major Pentatonic rectangle. Would really like this PDF if possible.
@@rickysguitar I wasn't. Just hit the key and it came out that way. Sorry. Didn't think it was important. But can you just change the root Note in these boxes to make it for major? Does it still work?
Another great lesson from a true teacher. I create art and I would like to share it with you?. I need your email?. thank you for your amazing lessons and may God bless you and your family. greatings from Toronto.
NEW Pentatonic Scale Boxes MUG!
You can't drink Yorkshire tea out of a PDF! Look at it, gaze upon your milky brew inside and learn your pentatonics on the outside!
This accompanies lesson 67 in my book
It's available on my Shopify store right now!
rickysguitar.myshopify.com/products/pentatonics-3-2-pattern-lesson-11oz-ceramic-mug
I have been a "cowboy" chord strummer for almost 30 years and now trying to learn soloing. This was such a demystifying explanation for me (after countless other videos) and gave me the aha moment I needed! Your video helped me sort the confusion that has made me put it off for some time now. Thank you so much!
I think i need to watch this about 50 times !
A lot of light bulbs started turning on with this lesson. Thanks for sharing.
The absolute best video on Pentatonic’s. Should be required viewing for anyone wanting to learn the patterns. As usual, Ricky de-mystifies confusing guitar concepts and gives us the tools to make our guitar journey fun. We’ll done!!!
Fantastic! I love that the root note always sits in the same place in the sets and pairs. Also, for some reason box 4 has never stuck for me, but now I can see it. Perfect!
Ricky is in my top 5 teachers! I love seeing ideas written out.
Same here. I discovered him a few weeks ago. He explains things very eloquently.
WOW, After all my years of playing Ricky still continues to bring the Aha moments! Something this simple but now I always know where my root notes fall in each pattern. This is Gold, thanks Ricky!
JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON,ONTARIO, CANADA 🇨🇦 THE PATTERNS STAY THE SAME, BUT RICK HAS SHOWN ALL 5 BOXES IN THE KEY OF A. IF IT WAS IN E, THAN YOU NEED TO TARGET THE E ROOT....
FROM ONE GUITARIST TO ANOTHER 🇨🇦✌️🙏☮️🌎🙏🍀🎸🎤🎵🍀🙏SECOND HAND LION ♌️
No no no this is pure platinum thank you
Ricky, I'm from Kentucky but this lesson is Bloody Good!
Thank you for assembling these version and then breaking down. I’ve only been playing a few year so much of this was Greek. However you made it very accessible for me to be able to learn and play.
Really appreciate this lesson ! Thanks Ricky !
Ricky is trully THE Guitar Guru on the Internet. He is so sincere and passionate about his craft that he doesn't leave any stones unturned. You can see he is constantly thinking new ways and approaches to make things simple with no fluff unlike some others.
I have been watching your videos one afternoon. Made more progress than in year before that. Absolute genius.
גאוני. Genius. All of TrueFire does not come close to your lessons when it comes to Theory. Thank you so much dear Ricky!!!!
Pretty sure Ricky's a wizard. Nothing else adequately explains this magic.
You're brain works in the same weird way as mine! 😄 I came up with this exact way of looking at the pentatonics back when my instructor was teaching me this. I tried to explain it to him but he didn't want to listen. After that I just used it in silence. The only difference from you is I call the two shapes "boxes" (string set) and "beams" (string pair). The major and minor roots are always reliably where you expect them on the two shapes. Sweet!
Another really cool observation that initially helped me transition from one pattern to the next was seeing the "helix spiral" movement of the beams. First you have the beam starting on the low E string in the C Shape (A rooted pattern) then spiraling to the middle (A Shape or G rooted), then to the high E string edge of the fretboard (G Shape or E rooted), back around to "near" the bass edge (E Shape or D rooted) and finally to near the treble edge (D Shape or B rooted).
The other cool observation is that the beam only gets distorted by the B string in the D Shape making it much easier to see as you move from one shape to the next. Having a diagram with these beams highlighted clearly reveals this helix and is much clearer than this wordy description. This was really as revolutionary for me to see this helix movement as it was the boxes and beams themselves. Very cool!
Hope that makes sense.
Thank you for sharing this and for taking the time to explain it!
This video is a game changer! I'm a new player (few months), just working on the first couple pentatonic shapes, was about to expand to all of them. Saw this video right as I was about to just pound through and jam the info into my head the hard way. After this video, I'm pleasantly cruising up and down the fretboard, I know where all the roots are without having to think or count. It's like the pentatonic patterns were just downloaded straight to my brain. This is hands down the most helpful video I've come across in my journey so far. Thank you!
Great video Ricky. I understand the pentatonics now. Just don’t know how to improvise and stuck running up and down the scales. Need some basics on this.
Got some cool exercise’s coming soon on the channel addressing that!
Another great lesson Ricky. Just been on Amazon an bought two of your books, Got one with tab pages in, save me scrubbing my own. Always enjoy your lessons, been a subscriber since you started. Keep up the great work. 🤟🎸
Thanks for your support and for buying my books too. Much appreciated, JB.
Thanks Ricky ....Always enjoy your lessons !! 😃
Thanks Ricky, I love this one, I keep going over your beginner lessons to pick up all these little tricks, despite playing for 15 years.
I've just realised this works for the blues scale as well, the blues notes are always in the same place on the square! I've been trying to remember where the blues notes are for years!
You are genius. This lesson is amazing.
This is the best explanation I've seen for these patterns.
These are really awesome videos! Really finding them helpful!
Sir you are a life saver, you were born for this.
Ricky, I really appreciate your teaching style. You do such a good job to break it down in an enjoyable way. I just received your book in the mail and it appears to to be very easy on the eyes and brain so I look forward to digesting it all
This is the best explanation of these Patterns that I have ever seen ❤
Ka-Ching baby! I had resolved to memorize the root note positions years ago, but my brain wouldn’t accept it. With Your visualization and naming “stories”, it slipped in like a key to a lock. Amazing how a different visualization can work like a lock key! I’m subbed, forever thank you ComisKEY
Thanks very much for this Ricky! Really useful way of visualising pentatonics and always knowing where the root is for that musical answer!
Now we need one of these Trick videos for the full Diatonic scale!
One nice thing is also expanding this with different major and minor scales as u can see in other videos, but one thing that u should deepen more in my opinion is: how to connect elevator triangles with square and rectangles? I mean if I'm improvising and i found myself on a note, i can see square and rectangle but in wich triangle am i? I mean for example i understood that when i search with my index on the B string the 5th of the root, i found the 90 degrees rectangle and so on, right?
Ricky is great at making it simple by breaking it down. I love it!!
WOW! I was working on Pentatonic scales this weekend, and this was another eye opener for me! Great lesson Ricky! 🎉
Have you checked out my latest video? It’s the next one after this. th-cam.com/video/rgBFALzqjhY/w-d-xo.html
Truly a wonderful key that unlocked secrets for me much thanks for sharing and not being selfish
This is great stuff Ricky! This video on using the string set patterns 3 and 2 combined with the caged octaves is what opened up the fretboard for me. I am now able to navigate the entire fretboard and play anywhere. Also, it has helped me from playing these notes in a sequential order and avoid sounding like I'm playing a scale. The smaller scale chunks(string set patterns) have helped my improvisation and helped me create melodic motifs and phrases while playing. You can also use these string set patterns to create other scales by adding notes to them. So you can move from pentatonic to blues to major and minor scales simply by adding extra notes to the pattern.
If you like this video you might dig this as well This Trick Helped Me Nail Major And minor Pentatonics
th-cam.com/video/os_MDBDdYSY/w-d-xo.html
Saved to my favorites playlist. Well done and thanks Ricky!!!
Stoked to read that Robert! More on this topic coming soon!
Great lesson, Ricky!! The way you explain this really speaks to me. Will buy your book to support what you do. 👍👏👏👏
I really appreciate your support, thank you.
What the heck?!? Why does no one talk about this. Very helpful - thanks!!
This is pure genius.
Outstanding presentation. Thank you for making it so easy to understand!
Loved this,the felt tips highlighted it well I know what I’m doing tomorrow
FANTASTIC! Thank You Ricky!
Thank you Ricky.
Thank you very much! So well presented.. Helpful for sure. Did I say Thanks a bunch?
Awesome. A revelation! Now do the Major scale, please.
Already did it..kind of th-cam.com/video/os_MDBDdYSY/w-d-xo.html
GOLDEN! Thanks Ricky!
Ricky. Thanks so much for all these cool and super informative lessons!!!! I bought and HIGHLY RECOMMEND your book. You make learning and playing guitar incredibly fun.
You are a good teacher. Thanks
This suddenly makes sense, thanks for the video, and all the other great content. Edited to say have now purchased your ebook.
Thank you for watching my videos and buying my eBook :)
I found those patterns by ear, and can play them really fast, but now I have no idea where are the root notes, and what note pattern I'm playing. This is very helpful.
Amazing lesson, thankyou 🙏
That was an awesome explanation. Bravo!!! Subscribed and liked.
🤯 Great lesson!
Ricky, G shape shows Major Root would be at the top right of the smaller box shapes (or top right third short rectangle). Yes?
It would indeed. You might dig this lesson as I talk about Major th-cam.com/video/rgBFALzqjhY/w-d-xo.html
Wow...very cool...very cool. As usual it starts with mathematics and geometric patterns and relationshops which, although very cool on their own, makes mè wonder how the heck that helps me on guitar...but then at the end it all comes together. WELL DONE. Thanks SO MUCH!!!!. PS: the only improvement I'd suggest to the video would be to show the respective box pattern graphic when you switch the video over to the fretboard as it'd be nice to see the graphic sumultaneously as you play the shape on the neck. Thanks sgain.
JUST/BRILL its time to practise,cheers K.
I find that it seems to be resolving on the C-NOTE too?
This is great. I learned the idea from another video, but this one really shows the application. Another useful way to think about it is that the whole pattern rotates by 2 strings down and goes right (or left, if you are play left handed) 2 frets as you go from one box to the next. I relate it to CAGED a bit differently though. CAGED uses major chords and this is minor pentatonic. So I relate the 5 box patterns to 5 minor or minor 7th chords so 1 is Em or Em7, 2 is Dm or Dm7, 3 is Bm7 (you could play Bm if you mute the G string), 4 is Am or Am7, and 5 is Gm or Gm7. Acronym: EDBAG. If you think about major pentatonic, then you can get GEDCA, which is CAGED, but rotated in a different way than it is in the video.
Ricky, great video. Would I be right in thinking that if I shift the root to the other end of the string in the root rectangle and box, I’d have the major pentatonic shapes too?
On the thin bottom right note of the string pair yes. In the group of 3 the root note switches as well. I’m not going to spoon feed you the answer where it is. Work it out and comment back. The only clue I’ll give you is “g shaped octave”… 🎓 homework 🤘
Did you also notice that there is a 5-1-b3 triad perfectly inscribed in the minor pentatonic 3 string box and a 3-5-1 inscribed in the major pentatonic 3 string box? I just saw that.
I've been playing for about 20 years. Did tons of theory in school and tried to learn to improvise and solo with minimal success.
Gave it up for years when I stagnated. I've recently been back into it working on my lead guitar.
This has completely blown my mind and has just unlocked something I was unable to visualize.
I'm going back to the root notes/CAGED. This is a game changer for me.
Thank you!
Thank you.
Thanks!
Thanks Joseph, much appreciated.
Haha us Americans pronounce it as 'Tamber' you pronounce it 'Tambra' Love your lessons Ricky Thanks so much!!!
😅talk about a light bulb moment I can even find the light switches ,this just a A minor right .,how do I find the E minor stupid question I know but if you don’t know ,you don’t know r🎸🎶
ricky is the best! i almost got this :D
Ricky, so if I look at this from a Major perspective the root tadpole moves in the string set of 3 to the third row top and in the string pair the root tadpole moves to the bottom of the second row, correct?
By Jove! He's got it!
Another great lesson, Ricky! Since the root appears in both the 3-string and 2-string shapes, is memorizing the pentatonic boxes really necessary? If the guitarist can find the root notes, can’t he/ she just use the 3- and 2- shapes and forget about the pentatonic boxes?
if you can find the root notes and use the 2 and 3 shapes, you're in a better position than memorising the shapes as a whole. it would also mean you could play the boxes using the 2 and 3 shapes anyways.
@@lysdexiar31 That’s what it seems like to me, too. I’m struggling to find a way to quickly see the roots up and down the neck, though.
Are String sets 3 and 2 being on the first fret of the guitar?
Oh thats why after " playing guitar " for 55 years i never really could map out the fretboard in my " spacial mind " ,,,, 😊😊😊😊
Fantastic lesson. That is all minor, correct? If I start with box 1 on the 2nd fret i got major. Is that correct?
correct, you will need to memorise the root note position for the 2 different shapes as a different spot, but the concept is the same
Love your lessons Ricky, the PDF link was NOT the one for this lesson it ended up being Major Pentatonic rectangle. Would really like this PDF if possible.
Thank you, light bulb moment for me.
So just add missing notes and you can play major scales all over too? Am I right? Just thinking out loud. ❤
That’s a follow up video! But yes 👍
@@rickysguitar great thanks and I guess if I'm thinking like you that's a good thing
Are you gonna do another book Ricky?
Absolutely! I’ve already started on my “ultimate pentatonic workbook”. It’s got some secret stuff in there I’ll be sharing here on TH-cam!
I think of Box 5 as the Top Hat.
Haha I think I’m on the verge of something clicking in my brain. Thanks
Did this few years ago..
And the audio was awful. So I redid it!
Wow
Ricky the pdf link is not working.
Ah! Check again. I added https to the URL. All working now
Thank you!
These are MINOR PENTA. RIGHT?
Why are you shouting?
@@rickysguitar I wasn't. Just hit the key and it came out that way. Sorry. Didn't think it was important. But can you just change the root Note in these boxes to make it for major? Does it still work?
What is this sorcery!!!!
Very clear music lesson, but i think the PDF joined isn't the right one ...
You're correct! Thanks for letting me know. Try the link again rickysguitar.com/freepdfs?contact.pdf=pdf146
Aha!!!!
I sense there is something going on here, but my brain has failed me once again.
Why is a root note important I still don't understand
You lot are a lot smarter than thee then… lost in about two sentences sadly…
Do you know your box 1 minor pentatonic? th-cam.com/video/NPifjIzDGdU/w-d-xo.html
This explains how its composed: th-cam.com/users/livev7D2_pOwceg
@@rickysguitar I shall give it a try, thanks ….
Another great lesson from a true teacher. I create art and I would like to share it with you?. I need your email?. thank you for your amazing lessons and may God bless you and your family. greatings from Toronto.