It took me so many years to sus what is being taught here. How lucky are the people that can learn from such a good teacher. An excellent lesson that can save anyone years.
@Hämmingus Yes of course it is great when you work stuff out yourself, i was meaning this could have saved me so much time if I had been shown this way back when.
What a great lesson! It hasn’t been easy doing a solo that makes sense. Sometimes I’ve felt a little embarrassed playing the same old thing around my people. This lesson is going to make a difference in my solos as I keep working on it. Thanks to one of the BEST online guitar teachers.
To ask someone if they are sus is so different than saying have you sussed something out.. To call someone sus is very detrimental but I am sure it is just not knowing English colloquialisms. To answer your question yes have not forgotten even though it took me years before I tumbled.(that means worked it out or twigged)
They should call you Thomas Edison because you have turned on so many light bulbs! This is why you’re such a popular teacher, your ability to get information across to your students is amazing. Please keep it up and thanks for an incredible lesson.
I realize how important it is to know the root notes with the help of CAGED patterns. And I love these "bus lines"🚌 to move up the fretboard 🎸. Great lesson👍
I found this lesson exceptionally clear and focused. You never got off track. You always stuck to the paradigm. The neighborhood model was terrific. The bus line idea was terrific. You showed everything you spoke off without too much extra. I thought this was one of your most well focused and conceived videos yet. The discussion of major and minor and where they can be used was also super clear. Nice job!!
Brian just keeps coming up with these lessons that may on the face of it be theory heavy but are always giving you stuff that you can start using right away to make real music. Minutes after I apply myself to these lessons I’m playing something I’ve never been able to before.
When I started playing I made a basic major 3 chord jam track. I was just playing a scale up and down the neck. At times it sounded good and sometimes not so good. That was over 40 years ago. This video explained what I was hearing. Thank you so much. At 57 years old without any lessons videos like these expand what I have learned. Jamming later. 😀👍
After 11 years of supporting your channel, you still hold my attention, Brian. Your talent is inspiring. Hope we catch up when I get over to the US again some day. Btw, I'll email you again at some point because I have a massive update to share with you. 😉 And it's been a while since we chatted anyway. 🙂 You're looking well, pal.
Oh my goodness. You just help the light turn on over here. It's only burning at about 50 W cuz I only watched, but I'm sure it'll burn brighter once I have my guitar in hand. Thank you!! 00
Thank you, Brian. Perhaps the best guitar lesson on pentatonic I've seen on youtube, how connected it with the chord shapes and used both major and minor scales. Brilliant, you are guitar wizard.
I saw a lot of you tube Videos from guitar teacher, but this is the best one Ive ever saw. I understand ever Thing because He had the best discription. I stay here. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Can't tell you how much I appreciate what you've just shown me in these last 20 min - Splitting the strings up to the top three strings is fantastic ! You've made it sound so easy!
Absolute gold material, thanks Brian! A digestible chunk of theory with immediately obvious usages, especially the "catching the bus" idea to move up and down the neck, which I see as a way to turn simple noodling around into a little solo that "goes somewhere" by either climbing to, or descending back to, the concluding chord. Cheers!
Never imagine 1/4 hr spent here cd take me through from basic chord shapes to soloing. You're such a brilliant instructor who makes easy what others struggle to explain. I wish I had discovered you a decade ago. Subscribed from Malaysia
Great lesson! I can’t wait to get the full version on premium. I find it hugely helpful, as you did here, when you overlay the scale and chord diagrams over the video.
Man you are really good instructor . Its not just the lesson format . But you take time on the bendable strings and your quoted " bus line explanation " are big help to students who want to write and improvise . we all can't be performers.
This lesson really hits for me. It’s like my base lesson for where I am in my guitar ventures. 😊 I still have this stubborn need to always be playing a note or triad constantly, though. ☮️ ❤
Hi Brian, I just wanted to make a comment to compare how I (among many) started learning to what's available now for people. It was either listening to a record play, seeing and hearing someone in person and lastly, a guitar book by Mel Bay or other publishers. The internet has brought many good lessons like yours accessible and easy to understand. Thank you for doing what you have ultimately chose to do! As it's working! 🎸 Tim
Great tutorial! Been plateaued for the last year or so trying to develop lead guitar skillset. This lesson really is a great framework to learn from if you're stuck in intermediate to advanced playing! Light bulb 💡 has went off. Keep em coming!
What an awesome lesson! Everything simplfied to a point that I couldn't fail to understand. Loved the jam track demos as well, made everything so clear and obvious. Thanks Brian!
Thanks a million Brian for your clear and simple explanations. You take it step by step, are detailed helping me out among many others, never rushing it and are always humble. It's exactly what the doctor ordered. Keep up the excellent work. Regards, Eric.
I really enjoy learning from you, you make the theory sink in effectively, i can figure out my way out in identifying the exact notes i want to play, i enjoy your Teaching thank you.
From a new subscriber to your site. I have been watching you for a couple of years now, going away, coming back, a few times until I decided to join the site for the extended lessons. One issue I have always had is "drinking from the fire hose", as you put it last week. But, now, I only use your videos. The trouble I have been having here is, every week you put out something new and interesting, and I jump to that, when in realty, I could (And should) spend weeks digesting everything in ONE of your lessons, take this lesson for instance. There is ALOT here to unpack and understand. It would be great if next weeks lesson was a short review, and than built on this lesson, say, finding and using the 3rds maybe? or how to throw in an arpeggio, but whatever it would be, the idea is that, from lesson to lesson, the lessons are all connected... So we are forced to go over the same extended material and really understand it and build on it as we go from week to week.. Or do you have a group of lessons that build on each other that I should be looking for on your site?
Thank you so very much for such a great tutorial. Your way of teaching is so informative. I've been playing for over 50 years and never knew how to go up and down the neck but I finally understand it. I'll be 74 next month and I consider this one of the best presents I've ever gotten. Going to practice right now. Thank's again. Bill E.
This is fantastic. Thank yo so much. Now, I know why my lead shapes have looked so much different from other players. The neighborhood and bus concept was brilliant!
Would love to see a second version of this, thinking of the neighbourhood shapes as intervals around the root (i.e. 1,2,3,5,6 for major pentatonic) which I know how to find vs. the different scale shapes which I do not have memorized :)
It took me so many years to sus what is being taught here. How lucky are the people that can learn from such a good teacher. An excellent lesson that can save anyone years.
@Hämmingus
Yes of course it is great when you work stuff out yourself, i was meaning this could have saved me so much time if I had been shown this way back when.
What a great lesson! It hasn’t been easy doing a solo that makes sense. Sometimes I’ve felt a little embarrassed playing the same old thing around my people. This lesson is going to make a difference in my solos as I keep working on it. Thanks to one of the BEST online guitar teachers.
A great teacher can make the world of difference in any subject. This ties up so much for me. Connected
U still sus
To ask someone if they are sus is so different than saying have you sussed something out.. To call someone sus is very detrimental but I am sure it is just not knowing English colloquialisms. To answer your question yes have not forgotten even though it took me years before I tumbled.(that means worked it out or twigged)
They should call you Thomas Edison because you have turned on so many light bulbs! This is why you’re such a popular teacher, your ability to get information across to your students is amazing. Please keep it up and thanks for an incredible lesson.
I am a 60 year old beginner and this is the first time someone has explain the guitar and it completely makes sense to me!
why does it matter that you’re 60?
@Stringprodigy why is often irrelevant
I cry happy tears when I’m watching your videos. You’re the best…and I’ve watched a LOT of these types of videos
I realize how important it is to know the root notes with the help of CAGED patterns. And I love these "bus lines"🚌 to move up the fretboard 🎸. Great lesson👍
you don’t need CAGED
Premium member for many years and really grateful 🙋🏻♂️
I found this lesson exceptionally clear and focused. You never got off track. You always stuck to the paradigm. The neighborhood model was terrific. The bus line idea was terrific. You showed everything you spoke off without too much extra. I thought this was one of your most well focused and conceived videos yet. The discussion of major and minor and where they can be used was also super clear. Nice job!!
Wholeheartedly agree… Brian is a tremendous Teacher!
Excellent! “Taking the bus” is key on knowing where to transition!
Brian just keeps coming up with these lessons that may on the face of it be theory heavy but are always giving you stuff that you can start using right away to make real music. Minutes after I apply myself to these lessons I’m playing something I’ve never been able to before.
🎶Looked a lot like Che Guevara. Drove a diesel van.🎶
Wow, that is more than a light coming on! It's like a lightning bolt!
Thank you!
A very elaborate lesson for guitarist wanting to solo, with a key note to watch for, excellent stuff.
When I started playing I made a basic major 3 chord jam track. I was just playing a scale up and down the neck. At times it sounded good and sometimes not so good. That was over 40 years ago.
This video explained what I was hearing. Thank you so much. At 57 years old without any lessons videos like these expand what I have learned.
Jamming later. 😀👍
Cheers Brian I’m glad I’m a premier member great video cheers from Ireland 🇮🇪 Brian
Neighborhoods is a great way to explain it , another great video 👍
After 11 years of supporting your channel, you still hold my attention, Brian. Your talent is inspiring.
Hope we catch up when I get over to the US again some day.
Btw, I'll email you again at some point because I have a massive update to share with you. 😉
And it's been a while since we chatted anyway. 🙂
You're looking well, pal.
Fantastic. Connecting pentatonics to chords shapes, makes so much sense. So easy to understand now.
Oh my goodness. You just help the light turn on over here. It's only burning at about 50 W cuz I only watched, but I'm sure it'll burn brighter once I have my guitar in hand. Thank you!! 00
Thank you, Brian. Perhaps the best guitar lesson on pentatonic I've seen on youtube, how connected it with the chord shapes and used both major and minor scales. Brilliant, you are guitar wizard.
I saw a lot of you tube Videos from guitar teacher, but this is the best one Ive ever saw. I understand ever Thing because He had the best discription. I stay here. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Can't tell you how much I appreciate what you've just shown me in these last 20 min - Splitting the strings up to the top three strings is fantastic ! You've made it sound so easy!
I agree. Brian is a very good teacher.
Such a great lesson Brian. So much to take away and play with and enjoy. Thank you.
Absolutely the best lesson I have ever viewed. Hugh advance with this lesson. Thank you.
Absolute gold material, thanks Brian! A digestible chunk of theory with immediately obvious usages, especially the "catching the bus" idea to move up and down the neck, which I see as a way to turn simple noodling around into a little solo that "goes somewhere" by either climbing to, or descending back to, the concluding chord. Cheers!
Best teaching for using major/minor pentatonics and connecting them! Thanks!
Between this and you triads are the answer video is all everyone needs to catch the bus to improtown ,wonderful lessons sir
Lots of material to work on in this lesson! Thanks for giving us all this awesomeness!
Never imagine 1/4 hr spent here cd take me through from basic chord shapes to soloing. You're such a brilliant instructor who makes easy what others struggle to explain. I wish I had discovered you a decade ago. Subscribed from Malaysia
This is the single most important video out of hundreds of videos I've watched in making sense of improv. Well done Brian
This is so approachable - this will move me forward, Thanks
This video is gold for us newbies to improvisation. Great lesson Brian 👏👏👏
Congrats neighbor!
Great lesson! I can’t wait to get the full version on premium. I find it hugely helpful, as you did here, when you overlay the scale and chord diagrams over the video.
Great lesson. So many great ideas taught in simple concepts!
You’re such a great teacher, thank you!
Clear clear clear. Nice job. Mr Brian's neighborhood.
I have bee n following you for years and other folks to, but no one teaches like you easy showing great techniques thanks thanks am your true fan
Best improvising lesson i ever had thank you
Man you are really good instructor . Its not just the lesson format . But you take time on the bendable strings and your quoted " bus line explanation " are big help to students who want to write and improvise . we all can't be performers.
You're an amazing teacher and guitarist Brian, thank you!
I so needed this lesson. Thank you so much brian.
When we left the other strings alone for this, you got a thumbs 👍 up..😊😊😊😊
Best lesson I’ve ever taken on active melody , Thank Brian !
This has really helped breakdown the rudiments of the 2 pentatonic scales used together.
I like how focused and clear you teach..I have always had a hard time learning, but this is something of a magnifying glass for me...thank you
This lesson really hits for me. It’s like my base lesson for where I am in my guitar ventures. 😊 I still have this stubborn need to always be playing a note or triad constantly, though. ☮️ ❤
SO Good One of the Best teachers on the tube!
Hi Brian, I just wanted to make a comment to compare how I (among many) started learning to what's available now for people. It was either listening to a record play, seeing and hearing someone in person and lastly, a guitar book by Mel Bay or other publishers. The internet has brought many good lessons like yours accessible and easy to understand. Thank you for doing what you have ultimately chose to do! As it's working! 🎸 Tim
You're lessons are always clearly articulated.. .outstanding! Thanks!
Great tutorial! Been plateaued for the last year or so trying to develop lead guitar skillset. This lesson really is a great framework to learn from if you're stuck in intermediate to advanced playing! Light bulb 💡 has went off. Keep em coming!
What an awesome lesson! Everything simplfied to a point that I couldn't fail to understand. Loved the jam track demos as well, made everything so clear and obvious. Thanks Brian!
So Sweet love the simplicity and ease of the teaching thank you
❤
Your videos are just getting better and better. Great lesson. I had fun with this one
This class was a "WOW" moment!
Thanks a million Brian for your clear and simple explanations. You take it step by step, are detailed helping me out among many others, never rushing it and are always humble. It's exactly what the doctor ordered. Keep up the excellent work. Regards, Eric.
it should be a rule for every guitar player to watch your videos. Just mindblowing. I cannot believe what I just learned again, thank you so much!
Really brings things together for me. Great explanation.
Thank you so much for this well-thought-out lesson!
Thanks you sir for this great lesson using the major and minor pentatonic scales
This is the lesson I've been needing
Awesome analogy of using “neighborhoods”. Much easier to grasp. Thanks!
Awesome breakdown using the neighborhoods + get on the bus gus concepts…Thanks!
That guitar class was simply awesome!!! Thanks!!
Wow man.... You just opened up the whole new world to me
I really enjoy learning from you, you make the theory sink in effectively, i can figure out my way out in identifying the exact notes i want to play, i enjoy your Teaching thank you.
I love the idea of taking a bus back and forth to a new easy melodic neighbourhood. Thanks
Cant thank you enough Brian... real talk
This video proves you are a magician (of music).
Just luv all your dedication to helping others w/ such mastery !!!
Wow what a lesson...got to spend a morning putting this together! Thank you 🙏
Brian your content is getting better thats why I subscribe as premium member. I keep saving more and more lessons to come back to!
Thank you Brian I’ll be impressing my friends next week AWESOME lesson
From a new subscriber to your site. I have been watching you for a couple of years now, going away, coming back, a few times until I decided to join the site for the extended lessons. One issue I have always had is "drinking from the fire hose", as you put it last week. But, now, I only use your videos. The trouble I have been having here is, every week you put out something new and interesting, and I jump to that, when in realty, I could (And should) spend weeks digesting everything in ONE of your lessons, take this lesson for instance. There is ALOT here to unpack and understand. It would be great if next weeks lesson was a short review, and than built on this lesson, say, finding and using the 3rds maybe? or how to throw in an arpeggio, but whatever it would be, the idea is that, from lesson to lesson, the lessons are all connected... So we are forced to go over the same extended material and really understand it and build on it as we go from week to week..
Or do you have a group of lessons that build on each other that I should be looking for on your site?
it's all there...don't be lazy....figure it out.
Thank you so very much for such a great tutorial. Your way of teaching is so informative. I've been playing for over 50 years and never knew how to go up and down the neck but I finally understand it. I'll be 74 next month and I consider this one of the best presents I've ever gotten. Going to practice right now. Thank's again. Bill E.
This is an awesome lesson, I'll be playing this one over an over till I can see it in my head👍👍
This guy is hands down the best instructor on TH-cam. Unless you want to be a shredder. Then see Steve Stine
Hello, thanks for this lesson it has really worked for me .keep it up your such a great teacher amd may God bless you.
Awesome lesson Brian, I always learn so much when I watch your tutorials and instruction video! Thank you!
This is one of the best teaching videos on how to cope with changing zones within a scale when soloing...now I think I've got i...thanks!
Absolute gold! Thanks so much Brian!!!! 🎸
Too much fun, thanks. Playin with a feeling.
Extremely valuable insights here. Very helpful, especially with the new CAGED series.
Wow your definitely the BEST at explaining and teaching the guitar. Wish I found your channel earlier. THANK YOU.
I have been looking for this my entire life.
Excellent, excellent lesson Brian. I always love your systematic approach to your teaching. Thank you!
This video helped me tremendously! Thank you for the great video sir!
This guy is father xmas bringing all the gifts thanks Brian you took my blindfold off its tru😇e when the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Sweet as a nut. One of your best lessons. I think it's finally sinking in. Can't thank you enough Brian.
This is an extremely valuable lesson for any serious student of guitar. My opinion.
This lesson is pure gold ✨️ 👌🏻
Really enjoyed it! Best explanation out there!
Excellent lesson, Brian! A real eye-opener for me!
You make it easy to remember. Thanks.
This is brilliant Brian. Thank you so much 🙏
you are a great teacher !
Man. You totally broke down something I’ve been struggling with. For that thank you
This is fantastic. Thank yo so much. Now, I know why my lead shapes have looked so much different from other players. The neighborhood and bus concept was brilliant!
This is very enlightening! Thank you Sir 💡
Would love to see a second version of this, thinking of the neighbourhood shapes as intervals around the root (i.e. 1,2,3,5,6 for major pentatonic) which I know how to find vs. the different scale shapes which I do not have memorized :)
GREAT AWESOME GUITAR LESSONS AND GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS FOR TEACHING THESE GUITAR LESSONS DAILY'S AND YEARS! STAY SAFE'S AND MAHALO AND MUCHO ALOHA'S