Ok let me go get my guitar as these lessons are super easy. I have been looking and searching constantly for that tutor that will deliver conscise and with authenticity. You definitely have the qualities of a guitar teacher and i applaud you. I believe that a whole world of soloing is opened infront of me. Thank you sir
THIS is the Rosetta Stone I've been looking for. I'd been noodling in a couple of these positions for years without a proper understanding of how they are linked together. Beautifully done, easy to understand. THANK YOU!
Jules, you videos have helped me a lot. Thank you for sharing you knowledge. I have been playing rhythm all my life, and now that I'm old I'm learning to play lead. You really are a good teacher.
After watching countless videos on how to solo I more or less figured this out on my own but this is the first time I was able to actually understand how to connect all the patterns seamlessly and musically. Thanks!
Exactly what I needed. Thank you. This simple lesson is enough to make anybody become a decent guitar lead player. Just adjust for the different harmonic minor and such; add come chords, and you're done.
I accidentally came across your video and so simple how you made me see how the transition of the same shape link together traveling up and down the scale, looks like. Thanks for sharing and I learnt 100% more in one video than watching other videos online. That says heaps honestly. For four years My learning sounded mechanical and boring. Now you have given me renewed drive to be where I need to be. Thank you.
Dear Brother Jewels , Your Videos Are getting Better, Better, Better!!! I love the illustration, your Fretboard Diagram Looks Amazing, So Easy to See, Practice. I Love the Whole Fretboard Display. Your Colors, Images are Fresh and Vivid. Keep Showing The Scales And Chords Just like your doing here. Fantastic All The Way. Thank You !!! 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🕺🏼✨️🙂
Excellent lesson. I remember seeing a video of a young Eric Clapton being interview. Clapton had his guitar in his lap and played some single note runs. He played the A minor pentatonic scale position 1 and he used the 2+3 slides demonstrated in this video.
I like your teaching method , very simple and a lot of fun learning from you. The diagram and scale pattern demonstration that you displayed onscreen is what i like most. Excellent video and very uniques. Thanks for sharing this tutorial.
Very nice lesson, Jules! To add a bit of theory context, the 2/3 pattern here begin on the 5th degree of the C major scale, being G, and the 3/2 pattern begins on the root of the C major scale, being C. Since C is the relative major of A minor, I just think of the five pentatonic box patterns in C/Am as being numbered 6,1,2,3,5 (if you are starting on the 5th fret of the 6th string), with the corresponding CAGED shapes of these boxes being G,E,D,C,A. Name your box patterns after the degree of the major scale they start on, and both E strings will be guide markers to let you know exactly where you are at all times, making it easy to skip over patterns if you want to. Instead, many guitar teachers call the first pattern "Box 1" (I suppose after the A minor root), but then they call the next pattern after that "Box 2", when that one starts on the major root, which makes no sense. Marrying the box number with actual music theory leverages your knowledge of the fretboard.
Thanks Jules. Your lessons are clear, concise and understandable. You make putting these concepts into practice easy. Awesome channel, awesome teacher, awesome guitarist. ✌️&❤
So fun. I've randomly found some of these easy transitions...but you showing them as patterns all the way up and down does 2 things: 1 - makes me wonder how much better i'd be if i knew this earlier. 2 - makes me happy i found some of them and have been using them (almost like a good friend).
These lessons are great. I don’t have any problem at all viewing the fretboard from this perspective but I think I’m in the minority judging by the other comments.
I made the same comment as you in a previous video from Jules. The videos are presented as if I had called to his house for tuition and they have that same no nonsense feel without any egotistical shredding etc. Keep going Jules you are hitting all the right spots for me.❤❤
It took me a minute to get used to the upside down fret diagram, but you used it to match the orientation of the guitar, so I think it was actually a smart move. You are teaching the right things. Nice video.
Good stuff. It took me many years ago to put it all together as you show. Those double stops are game changers and the beginning to playing to the chord.
Wow! I play the first "diagonal" pentatonic pattern already but I haven't seen the other patterns incorporated like that. Totally opens up so much more. Looking forward to playing around with them.
Hi Jules, once again you are just a great guitar!! You help me a lot to make solos all over the neck with your clear without "rimram" explanation. For me you are the guy and keep up the good work because with your approach of the fretboard things are a lot easier for me to understand! Thanks a lot Jules!! Cheers & regards, Ron🎸🎼😃
Wow this is genius! I've been doing the 5 note shape in a lot of my leads because it sounds natural and works so well. I didn't realize you could link them on different strings. You just gave me something stellar to practice and incorporate into my leads and improvisational playing. Cheers mate!
Hey Jules, thank you for making your lessons simple. Easy to follow and it has helped me with solos. I’ve been a rhythm player most of my guitar playing. Started working on solos and your videos have been the most helpful for me. Thanks again!!
This is THE video I was looking for! I had already started playing with the 2+3 and the BB Box, but this is now connecting everything. Amazing video, thanks for this.
Jules - I really dig your instruction. This lesson is very good on a few levels. Pure gold. To me, this method meshes very well with CAGED as the pattern takes you right into and through most of the chords along the way. I dig your caged tutorials as well as your diagrams as I do not like or use TAB at all.
I got a lot more out of this video than I anticipated. Thank you very much, your method of presentation on this topic really helped me conceptually put together these different patters in relation to each other. Now all I need is a video on how to best drill these exercises and commit them to muscle memory and then figure out how apply them to different keys, and also practice different licks within the different positions to build my "vocabulary"
This is an outstanding lesson! Thanks you much! One tiny suggestion (and I hate opinions that I didn't ask for, lol...sorry!) But in the future please consider making the neck diagrams reverse and upside down from what is seen here. Then it would match both standard and tab notations. Again thanks! Subbed!
One of the best explanations I’ve seen of these concepts especially the 2+3 and 3+2. Worth noting you can manipulate to 2+3 does a 1,3,4,5,b7 type combo etc. Thank
Hi Jules! Your lesson is incredible and you play very well. Your explanations helped me a lot and you gained another subscriber. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Brazil.
I don't know yet ! Hopefully after a million tries I will. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 😊I will be saving this precious info for future reference.
When you start a "How to Solo all over the Neck for Lefties" , that is when I will join your Patreon. You are the only teacher on TH-cam that I can easily understand and who's video's don't put me to sleep. But your upside down tabs requires too many ink to print out and reprint with correct string orientation.
Jules what a fantastic lesson!! thank you very much , offcourse I have subscribed to your channel , what an eyeopener this video is, admiration and respect from the Netherlands Europe.
Caged is way too complex. The five fingerings of the C major scale is all you need. Because you are changing your guitar to a piano with white keys. Within the C major scale are all scales you will need. For example a mixolydian is simply D Major from another root. Dorian aswell. And suddenly you can play in every scale and you can even play the changes without thinking about it. A minor for example is within the C major scale. This helped me a lot and was the best thing I've ever learned.
I get what you are saying but is there any resource or video you can share that's showing what you mean particularly on the modes? Or maybe an expanded explanation on that part? Appreciate it!
This is very beneficial. The thing others should know is this method is effective for pattern based learning. Not theoretical learning. For example CAGED shows the arpeggios you need to create melodies and follow chords better. This method is kind of like a lick, eventually it’ll get terribly boring, but it’s a great addition to CAGED and not a replacement
People make guitar soloing out to be harder than it has to be with cage sytems, and your 3 and 2 vertical system. NO ONE thought this way back in the day. Eddie Van Halen to Wes Montgomery to everyone in between NEVER thought this way. They soloed up and down the guitar neck freely because of ONE THING...... CHORDS. All the greats saw chord shapes on the guitar neck and soloed around them. That is why especially jazz musicians can guitar solo freely and not working that the key of the song is changing, and that they may be playing against chords from other keys. it didn't matter because they visually saw chord shapes and played notes off those shapes. They NEVER thought in terms of scales. They thought in terms of chord shapes NOT SCALES.
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Ok let me go get my guitar as these lessons are super easy. I have been looking and searching constantly for that tutor that will deliver conscise and with authenticity. You definitely have the qualities of a guitar teacher and i applaud you. I believe that a whole world of soloing is opened infront of me. Thank you sir
THIS is the Rosetta Stone I've been looking for. I'd been noodling in a couple of these positions for years without a proper understanding of how they are linked together.
Beautifully done, easy to understand. THANK YOU!
Jules, you videos have helped me a lot. Thank you for sharing you knowledge. I have been playing rhythm all my life, and now that I'm old I'm learning to play lead. You really are a good teacher.
After watching countless videos on how to solo I more or less figured this out on my own but this is the first time I was able to actually understand how to connect all the patterns seamlessly and musically. Thanks!
Love the simplicity with which you teach.
Just discoverd you Jules...LUCKY ME! So clear, concise and easy to understand...
Every time dude. You deliver.
Nobody ask these negative minded people for their opinions…I find Jules lessons very enlightening …Thanks Jules keep up the good work !!!
I can do more new stuff after one of your lessons Jules, than any other teacher out there. Thank you!
Absolutely eye opening and mind blowing! The entire guitar neck, covered 🤯. I recommend your videos to all of my friends.
Beautiful simple and easy for a 78 year old like me. The whole ball of wax. Thanks Jules. I can even see clearly and follow your finger moves.
Exactly what I needed. Thank you. This simple lesson is enough to make anybody become a decent guitar lead player. Just adjust for the different harmonic minor and such; add come chords, and you're done.
I accidentally came across your video and so simple how you made me see how the transition of the same shape link together traveling up and down the scale, looks like. Thanks for sharing and I learnt 100% more in one video than watching other videos online. That says heaps honestly. For four years My learning sounded mechanical and boring. Now you have given me renewed drive to be where I need to be. Thank you.
Wow, thank you. This video helps me take a big step into using scales instead of just practicing them and waiting for the magic to happen.
Your videos are the best guitar instructional videos around.
Dear Brother Jewels ,
Your Videos Are getting Better, Better, Better!!!
I love the illustration, your Fretboard Diagram
Looks Amazing, So Easy to See, Practice. I Love the
Whole Fretboard Display. Your Colors, Images are
Fresh and Vivid. Keep Showing The Scales And Chords
Just like your doing here. Fantastic All The Way.
Thank You !!! 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🕺🏼✨️🙂
I have been using this for over four decades now, a great way to move from one position to another pentatonically.
You are the best teacher that I follow. Wonderful useful lessons to have fun playing.
One of the best explanations of scales, soloing. ❤
I like your videos without all the boring small talk so many "TH-cam" personalities. Jules you're good at keeping it real and to the point
Totally agree
This simple, no nonsense approach is really opening my theory hating eyes. Haha. Well done, Sir. Appreciate your work. Cheers from Wisconsin.
At the age of 56 learning to play guitar, seeing your concise way of teaching , how to go all over the neck. Wishes for more videos.
Excellent lesson. I remember seeing a video of a young Eric Clapton being interview. Clapton had his guitar in his lap and played some single note runs. He played the A minor pentatonic scale position 1 and he used the 2+3 slides demonstrated in this video.
Possibly the best channel on guitar tips and method I've run across, I've absorbed a lot. A very great teacher. Thanks!
Every time I watch one of your videos, it increases my understanding of the fretboard. Thank you
I like your teaching method , very simple and a lot of fun learning from you. The diagram and scale pattern demonstration that you displayed onscreen is what i like most. Excellent video and very uniques. Thanks for sharing this tutorial.
Very nice lesson, Jules! To add a bit of theory context, the 2/3 pattern here begin on the 5th degree of the C major scale, being G, and the 3/2 pattern begins on the root of the C major scale, being C. Since C is the relative major of A minor, I just think of the five pentatonic box patterns in C/Am as being numbered 6,1,2,3,5 (if you are starting on the 5th fret of the 6th string), with the corresponding CAGED shapes of these boxes being G,E,D,C,A. Name your box patterns after the degree of the major scale they start on, and both E strings will be guide markers to let you know exactly where you are at all times, making it easy to skip over patterns if you want to. Instead, many guitar teachers call the first pattern "Box 1" (I suppose after the A minor root), but then they call the next pattern after that "Box 2", when that one starts on the major root, which makes no sense. Marrying the box number with actual music theory leverages your knowledge of the fretboard.
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Thanks Jules. Your lessons are clear, concise and understandable. You make putting these concepts into practice easy. Awesome channel, awesome teacher, awesome guitarist. ✌️&❤
So fun. I've randomly found some of these easy transitions...but you showing them as patterns all the way up and down does 2 things: 1 - makes me wonder how much better i'd be if i knew this earlier. 2 - makes me happy i found some of them and have been using them (almost like a good friend).
These lessons are great. I don’t have any problem at all viewing the fretboard from this perspective but I think I’m in the minority judging by the other comments.
Same here. I actually prefer it this way
I made the same comment as you in a previous video from Jules. The videos are presented as if I had called to his house for tuition and they have that same no nonsense feel without any egotistical shredding etc. Keep going Jules you are hitting all the right spots for me.❤❤
This is gold. Thanks Jules.
Very well done video, even better playing!! 🎉🎉🎉
It took me a minute to get used to the upside down fret diagram, but you used it to match the orientation of the guitar, so I think it was actually a smart move. You are teaching the right things. Nice video.
Also the bass strings are thicker which makes it more interactive
The best video on learning soloing. You made it perfectly understandable. Subscribed because of your awesome teaching style. Thanks!
Very easy and SO informative. I am trying to learn the fret board and this just opened alot of it for me.
Been using the sliding pentatonics for 50 years. They work.
Good stuff. It took me many years ago to put it all together as you show. Those double stops are game changers and the beginning to playing to the chord.
Your lessons are always packed with such great, condensed, useful material. Thanks 👍
This is the best video I have ever seen on how to use the pentatonic scale to solo. Amazing work! That was so clear.
Wow! I play the first "diagonal" pentatonic pattern already but I haven't seen the other patterns incorporated like that. Totally opens up so much more. Looking forward to playing around with them.
Probably the best presentation of concept I have seen!
Hi Jules, once again you are just a great guitar!! You help me a lot to make solos all over the neck with your clear without "rimram" explanation. For me you are the guy and keep up the good work because with your approach of the fretboard things are a lot easier for me to understand! Thanks a lot Jules!! Cheers & regards, Ron🎸🎼😃
Awesome lesson man. Ive found this pattern when I was starting to solo, as a way to move from the same place in the neck to other patterns.
Wow this is genius! I've been doing the 5 note shape in a lot of my leads because it sounds natural and works so well. I didn't realize you could link them on different strings. You just gave me something stellar to practice and incorporate into my leads and improvisational playing. Cheers mate!
Really a great lesson. I love this channel! Fantastic stuff.
Cool to see this reengaged in 2023. I picked this up from Green Note's "Improvising Rock Guitar" - 1973 - Rock Scales pp 22 - 25
Hey Jules, thank you for making your lessons simple. Easy to follow and it has helped me with solos. I’ve been a rhythm player most of my guitar playing. Started working on solos and your videos have been the most helpful for me. Thanks again!!
Cheers Kevin, great to know it's helping!
One of the best guitar channel I've ever seen, great job man!!
This is THE video I was looking for! I had already started playing with the 2+3 and the BB Box, but this is now connecting everything. Amazing video, thanks for this.
Excellent guitar fretboard concept presentation. A beautiful jewel to put in my little bag. Thanks and good luck.
Absolute magic, so well done on this tutorial and thank you, fabulous playing!
Amazing tutorial. Thanks for sharing. Excellent.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks for connecting it all together for me, up until now it’s all been luck how I get there but not knowing the basics of this technique!
Jules - I really dig your instruction. This lesson is very good on a few levels. Pure gold. To me, this method meshes very well with CAGED as the pattern takes you right into and through most of the chords along the way. I dig your caged tutorials as well as your diagrams as I do not like or use TAB at all.
I got a lot more out of this video than I anticipated. Thank you very much, your method of presentation on this topic really helped me conceptually put together these different patters in relation to each other. Now all I need is a video on how to best drill these exercises and commit them to muscle memory and then figure out how apply them to different keys, and also practice different licks within the different positions to build my "vocabulary"
Amazing i can't stop watching your lessons
Perfect diagrams, perfect lesson!
This is an outstanding lesson! Thanks you much! One tiny suggestion (and I hate opinions that I didn't ask for, lol...sorry!) But in the future please consider making the neck diagrams reverse and upside down from what is seen here. Then it would match both standard and tab notations. Again thanks! Subbed!
Great video. You explain everything so simply and clearly. Thank you!
this is presented very clearly and easy to understand,, thank you
Finally, a video that really helps!
As a left handed player i love your backwards fretboard diagram
I became a subscriber today. Great approach. You make it clear and easy peasy
One of the best explanations I’ve seen of these concepts especially the 2+3 and 3+2. Worth noting you can manipulate to 2+3 does a 1,3,4,5,b7 type combo etc. Thank
That guitar is gorgeous!
These are a gold mine.
Well done fantastic lesson
Hi Jules! Your lesson is incredible and you play very well. Your explanations helped me a lot and you gained another subscriber. Thanks a lot.
Greetings from Brazil.
Thank you! Such excellent instruction 👍
A very inspired and inspiring tutorial. Thanks very much.
What a great short little lesson. Subscribed.
I don't know yet ! Hopefully after a million tries I will. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 😊I will be saving this precious info for future reference.
When you start a "How to Solo all over the Neck for Lefties" , that is when
I will join your Patreon. You are the only teacher on TH-cam that I can easily understand and who's video's don't put me to sleep. But your upside down tabs requires too many ink to print out and reprint with correct string orientation.
Excellent tutorial Jules!
Fantastic bud amazing guitar lessons god bless you.
You are a very good teacher. 👏🏼
It’s the caged system extended.
Every component is part of its own “cage”
This was a ha ha moment great lesson Jules, a great teacher and an awesome player. Thank you so much.
Incredible tutorial! Thank you so much.
Absolutely phenomenal lesson, Jules. Beautiful concepts perfectly presented. Wow. Sub'd!
Jules what a fantastic lesson!! thank you very much , offcourse I have subscribed to your channel , what an eyeopener this video is, admiration and respect from the Netherlands Europe.
In jazz we call this the sliding pentatonic scale which can also be used in Major, Minor, Major Blues Minor Blues pentatonic.
Very impressive to see your guitar might bro . Thanks for sharing. Always like your playing skills. Cheers.
Super lesson Jules!
Wow , great lesson and playing , big thanks
Caged is way too complex. The five fingerings of the C major scale is all you need. Because you are changing your guitar to a piano with white keys. Within the C major scale are all scales you will need. For example a mixolydian is simply D Major from another root. Dorian aswell. And suddenly you can play in every scale and you can even play the changes without thinking about it. A minor for example is within the C major scale. This helped me a lot and was the best thing I've ever learned.
I get what you are saying but is there any resource or video you can share that's showing what you mean particularly on the modes? Or maybe an expanded explanation on that part? Appreciate it!
Fantastic Jules! Very helpful, thanks!
My first Time to love guitar ❤
This is very beneficial. The thing others should know is this method is effective for pattern based learning. Not theoretical learning. For example CAGED shows the arpeggios you need to create melodies and follow chords better. This method is kind of like a lick, eventually it’ll get terribly boring, but it’s a great addition to CAGED and not a replacement
Good one Jules, many thanks - Mark
Great lesson! Thanks for sharing. 🤘🕊❤️🤘
Just discovered your videos........thanks for what you do!!!!!
Pure Gold!!!❤
I really enjoyed this so I subscribed.. :)
Great lesson thank you 🙏 😊
Great lesson.
Good job sir
Brilliant so sharing
Great info. Many thanks.
People make guitar soloing out to be harder than it has to be with cage sytems, and your 3 and 2 vertical system. NO ONE thought this way back in the day. Eddie Van Halen to Wes Montgomery to everyone in between NEVER thought this way. They soloed up and down the guitar neck freely because of ONE THING...... CHORDS. All the greats saw chord shapes on the guitar neck and soloed around them. That is why especially jazz musicians can guitar solo freely and not working that the key of the song is changing, and that they may be playing against chords from other keys. it didn't matter because they visually saw chord shapes and played notes off those shapes. They NEVER thought in terms of scales. They thought in terms of chord shapes NOT SCALES.