Best instructional video I have come across in a while! Immediate thumbs up! I just felt myself level up, and now I got some work to do to level up even more. Thank you sos much!
I agree. I have TH-cam searched for 2 years every week for hours at a time. Ry is my go to channel for learning. The videos are super easy and thorough, connecting all the different techniques so you understand WHY it’s all connected….from triads, to chords, to scales, to positions and patterns, all related to CAGED, positions, string sets AND most importantly, ALL in the same sitting. There’s no jumping around with partial information….the light bulbs are continuously turning on with each explanation. I feel like I’ve been getting hundreds of miscellaneous puzzle pieces, and then, after watching just a couple of videos from Ry, I see exactly what the finished puzzle is going to look like and before I even finish the puzzle, I can practically figure out what is going to come next in the puzzle. So simple to follow. I am so extremely excited about practicing every day because I know that with his videos, I am going to advance every time I watch a video, and not just a little bit, a lot. What a great teacher in my opinion.
I've learnt more watching this at work than I have in the previous 17 years, thank you! I hope to find more videos expanding on this, as well as other things I've neglected when I get home
@Rynaylorguitar very much so! If you ever get the chance I'd love to see how each position could be linked in a more musical way? So far I'm just learning them for muscle memory and to get the 1473625 pattern memorised so it all sounds a bit stale when I try to use it!
I’ve purchased several of your courses. This video is so well taught with great visuals like your other material. Learning a lot from you. Keep it coming. Thanks Ryan.
This is precisely what I was hoping to find; concise information that I can analyze for patterns. From that "Grand Unification Pattern" dude, I got the finger shapes of: WW=X, HW=Y, WH=Z with the patterns always formatted like this (3NPS): X [x3] - Y [x2] - Z [x2] || Rules: move up a fret when shifting from X to Y, move up a fret when shifting from 4th to 5th string. With this video, it's essentially strapped nos jets to my understanding so I can really start crunching the fretboard. A massive thank you.
Definitely Ry you are the best tutor I’ve come across so far. You explain clearly and sequentially, your media content and books are great. Well done, to me No.1 youtube guitar educator.
@@edwardmifsud5935 Everything chord related is in 'The Chord Book: Volume 1'. CAGED Clarity will be valuable for soloing if you've not yet studied the CAGED system. That is covered in-depth in my 'GUITAR BLUEPRINT' video course 🙏🏻
I'm grateful that I came came across this video. I have the the major scale shapes for the different 3nps positions memorized and needed a way to memorize the root/tonic/1 for it and the ascending 4ths pattern is such a great way to familiarize with the scale degrees further. I love the idea of calling out the scale degrees as you ascend through the scale for the first fretting finger for the string through each position.
i watched this video, got the step 1 quite quickly. your explanation was great. i'm already sounding way more melodic and less 'scale' like. this specific video has helped me break out of the box. thank you so much for this video.
That was an extremely well thought out and taught lesson! Thank you! I can see how since less experienced players may have gotten lost towards the end but they'll get it.
thank you for this video, so well explained, i had been struggling for quite some time on this topic, getting lost on the fretboard, and this was great help!
Fantastic job on the video. This one unlocked a whole new way of thinking about the fretboard. I've practiced tons of CAGED but this 3 note per string approach is amazing!
Well…I don’t know where to start 🤷🏼♂️‼️…‼️, I’m a soon to be 70y/o man,- trying to fulfill a childhood DREAM… !!! And driving my wife crazy in the process ‼️She has listened to me “TRYING” to learn how to do, … EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHOWED IN THIS VIDEO ‼️ I think I’ve watched , just about everything I could find on TH-cam- “How to play the guitar” , or “Learn to Play the Guitar the “EASY” way- & - FAST ‼️‼️‼️🙄 ! …… WOW…She has SUFFERED ‼️…But today I had your video pop-up while I was watching-(😝, get this) , “HOW TO MEMORIZE THE FRETBOARD IN 10min.” HaHaHa-!! Sooo- I took a look at the video lesson , and wanted to let you know that….(“you probably won’t ever see this”) 🤷🏼♂️, …but I learned more about the process in YOUR VIDEO… then I have in all the others- combined !! I don’t know what it was/is , but that video lit a little flame in my little brain and FINALLY , I began making some sense of how everything really relates to something else ‼️😳🙄 AND … you can’t take any shortcuts … lots of time , dedication , and work ! Pleeeezzzz-🙏 , to anyone who might read this … I AM NOT… saying that the other videos I have seen haven’t been a waste of time and I have learned something from them all and , I’m thankful for them all. You all put a lot of time and money and efforts into making a video that may help someone else!! So , thanks to you all !!! I stopped and got my guitar and tried to do what was on the video , … all-be-it very slow and missed notes … my wife heard it and came and asked- “was that YOU , or the video? She watched while I tried again… saying-“ that sounds much better than me trying to do it MY WAY” !!! So , thank you again and I also found out how to find you… & the other newer/older , lessons you have to offer . Most of all I found out there is NO , fast/easy way TO LEARN !!!!!! I’m sorry this is a longer comment than it should be , I just had to leave my thoughts. Please keep doing more videos sharing your VAST knowledge of this long journey , most all ”GOOD GUITARISTS “, must have had to go through at some point in time !!! Keep up your expert knowledge coming …! Thanks again…RICHARD (my wife thanks you too!!!!)
Thank you so much for your comment Richard. You made my day. These videos take countless hours and, after staring at them for so long, I start to wonder whether they make any sense! I’m so pleased that this has helped you 🙏🏼
@@Rynaylorguitar Incidentally, since my initial comment, I’ve purchased nearly all of the course material and am STOKED. It is notches above most online content, IMHO of course, and is simply an incredible blend of graphics, dialogue, tips, consolidation of different but related concepts, etc, etc. Thanks for your efforts and to all who read this, check out the website! And no, I have in NO way been asked to endorse the content, website, or anything else related.
When I first watched the video, it was pretty confusing, and I couldn't wrap my head around how it worked. Then I saw the F major example, and it all sort of clicked and I had to rewatch the whole video. I'm definitely going to give this a shot! I was also wondering, is there any way to translate this method for the minor scale, or are there any easy references for the patterns in the minor scale?
Thanks Ry - Really liked this, and it has opened up a new way of thinking for me. You mentioned in the video that this is a pattern, and not a mode. Yet (for example) pattern 2, starting on the 2nd note will be the Dorian pattern, and the D-Dorian scale. Could you clarify what you meant there?
@@jonm691 we get too attached to a particular scale pattern being a mode. The thing to remember is that any of the seven scale patterns can be any of the seven modes if you treat a different note as the Root. The modes exist all over the fretboard, not simply in 3NPS patterns with the Root as the starting note. Hope that makes sense.
@@Rynaylorguitar Thanks - that makes complete sense. I never considered the usual Dorian pattern to be a different mode before if it was in a different location
I wish that when I first learned this 30 years ago it had also been explained to my that these are all also modes and additionally it is essentially the relative minor. In this case A minor. Ry, can you explain this in depth?
It’s any of the seven major scale modes. The trick is being confident on exactly where the Root note is (and the additional major or minor chord tones) 🙏🏻
So are the 7 positions shown actually the 7 mode positions 3 notes per string? Sorry. I was late to the party - by a year! But I found it. Great stuff!
Hey Ry, I can wrap my head around the pattern/sequence, but I am not grasping what tells me when to shift? Is that just down to memorization and muscle memory? Or is it knowing the root location and the intervals that are occurring?
Great question. It’s a little of both to be honest. If you’re referring to the six-string patterns I would recommend spending more time with the string pair groupings and be very clear on which 6-note pattern goes with which scale degree. How that helps 🙏🏻
At minute 3:00 you write "REMEMBER A WHOLE STEP HIGHER IS 3 FRETS LOWER ON THE STRING BELOW" but if you look at the B String. Are you not going from note "2" 3 halfsteps towards the third note(4) on the 6fret? Which is not a whole step. A wholestep is always 2 half steps. I get what you are saying regarding the 3 halfsteps on the high E-String. But isn't the information on the B-string wrong?
I don't have this particular topic covered in a book yet unfortunately, but I do have all the tabs and fretboard charts available to download on my Patreon page 🙏🏻
Help support the channel and get tabs and detailed fretboard charts on my Patreon page - bit.ly/3uBEEOF
this is probably the most useful guitar lesson i watched..
Amazing!
Best instructional video I have come across in a while!
Immediate thumbs up!
I just felt myself level up, and now I got some work to do to level up even more.
Thank you sos much!
This is by far the best explanation and visuals i have come across! amazing ❤️🔥
Wow, thank you!
I agree. I have TH-cam searched for 2 years every week for hours at a time. Ry is my go to channel for learning. The videos are super easy and thorough, connecting all the different techniques so you understand WHY it’s all connected….from triads, to chords, to scales, to positions and patterns, all related to CAGED, positions, string sets AND most importantly, ALL in the same sitting. There’s no jumping around with partial information….the light bulbs are continuously turning on with each explanation. I feel like I’ve been getting hundreds of miscellaneous puzzle pieces, and then, after watching just a couple of videos from Ry, I see exactly what the finished puzzle is going to look like and before I even finish the puzzle, I can practically figure out what is going to come next in the puzzle. So simple to follow. I am so extremely excited about practicing every day because I know that with his videos, I am going to advance every time I watch a video, and not just a little bit, a lot. What a great teacher in my opinion.
Thanks, this video has gotten me out of a guitar rut and has completely opened up the entire fretboard for me.
Thank you!
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
Your videos are gold my friend, thank u for doing all this to spread this information to us...
I've learnt more watching this at work than I have in the previous 17 years, thank you! I hope to find more videos expanding on this, as well as other things I've neglected when I get home
Glad it was helpful!
@Rynaylorguitar very much so!
If you ever get the chance I'd love to see how each position could be linked in a more musical way? So far I'm just learning them for muscle memory and to get the 1473625 pattern memorised so it all sounds a bit stale when I try to use it!
I’ve purchased several of your courses. This video is so well taught with great visuals like your other material. Learning a lot from you. Keep it coming. Thanks Ryan.
amazing video! I always somehow forget these, this video was so nicely done and easy to use to practice along.
I’m speachless 😮🎉 this is hands down divinely inspired!!❤
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
One of the best lesson videos I've ever watched on TH-cam
Wow, thank you so much 🙏🏻
Easily layed out . Written and played at same . Nice !! Makes one learn faster and understand better.
Great to hear. Thanks 🙏🏻
This is precisely what I was hoping to find; concise information that I can analyze for patterns. From that "Grand Unification Pattern" dude, I got the finger shapes of: WW=X, HW=Y, WH=Z with the patterns always formatted like this (3NPS): X [x3] - Y [x2] - Z [x2] || Rules: move up a fret when shifting from X to Y, move up a fret when shifting from 4th to 5th string. With this video, it's essentially strapped nos jets to my understanding so I can really start crunching the fretboard. A massive thank you.
Exactly the same as the X, Y, and Z patterns of the "building the better guitar scale series. Good work.
this video is excellent. some of the best content on YT.
most underrated guitar lesson
Perfect lesson!
Thanks! 😃
Definitely Ry you are the best tutor I’ve come across so far. You explain clearly and sequentially, your media content and books are great. Well done, to me No.1 youtube guitar educator.
Awesome! Thank you!
@@Rynaylorguitar I am interested in getting one of your books. Which do you suggest for soloing and varying chord voicing?
@@edwardmifsud5935 Everything chord related is in 'The Chord Book: Volume 1'. CAGED Clarity will be valuable for soloing if you've not yet studied the CAGED system. That is covered in-depth in my 'GUITAR BLUEPRINT' video course 🙏🏻
I'm grateful that I came came across this video. I have the the major scale shapes for the different 3nps positions memorized and needed a way to memorize the root/tonic/1 for it and the ascending 4ths pattern is such a great way to familiarize with the scale degrees further.
I love the idea of calling out the scale degrees as you ascend through the scale for the first fretting finger for the string through each position.
You're very welcome! 🙏🏻
You're very welcome! 🙏🏻
i watched this video, got the step 1 quite quickly. your explanation was great. i'm already sounding way more melodic and less 'scale' like. this specific video has helped me break out of the box. thank you so much for this video.
Glad it helped!
*Very interesting sharing!👍🛎 Wish you health and success!*
That was an extremely well thought out and taught lesson! Thank you!
I can see how since less experienced players may have gotten lost towards the end but they'll get it.
Glad it was helpful!
Love this video. Will you have more visual pattern videos like this or more advanced? It’s the best!
Thank you for the great lesson
I understand this now...thank you!
Awesome!
thank you for this video, so well explained, i had been struggling for quite some time on this topic, getting lost on the fretboard, and this was great help!
Glad it helped!
Excellent video! Very relevant and important for anyone trying to break out of the box. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Hi Ry, what a very good and cristal clear lesson is this one. Thank you for this one!! Cheers, Ron
Thanks Ron. I appreciate your comment.
This video was insanely good! Thanks man, you rock!
Awesome! Thank you 🙏🏻
Very good teaching
Thanks!
Awesome video and lesson.
Thanks! 😃
what a great video thank you so much. Totally enjoy this. Greeting all the way from Belize 🇧🇿
Great to hear. Thanks Leon 🙏🏻
@@Rynaylorguitar you're welcome
So cool! And so helpful! Thank you!
Awesome!
Fantastic job on the video. This one unlocked a whole new way of thinking about the fretboard. I've practiced tons of CAGED but this 3 note per string approach is amazing!
Glad it helped!
This is awesome! Thank you for this amazing video!
You bet!
Well…I don’t know where to start 🤷🏼♂️‼️…‼️,
I’m a soon to be 70y/o man,- trying to fulfill a childhood DREAM… !!! And driving my wife crazy in the process ‼️She has listened to me “TRYING” to learn how to do, … EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHOWED IN THIS VIDEO ‼️
I think I’ve watched , just about everything I could find on TH-cam- “How to play the guitar” , or “Learn to Play the Guitar the “EASY” way- & - FAST ‼️‼️‼️🙄 !
…… WOW…She has SUFFERED ‼️…But today I had your video pop-up while I was watching-(😝, get this) ,
“HOW TO MEMORIZE THE FRETBOARD IN 10min.” HaHaHa-!!
Sooo- I took a look at the video lesson , and wanted to let you know that….(“you probably won’t ever see this”) 🤷🏼♂️,
…but I learned more about the process in YOUR VIDEO… then I have in all the others- combined !!
I don’t know what it was/is , but that video lit a little flame in my little brain and FINALLY , I began making some sense of how everything really relates to something else ‼️😳🙄
AND … you can’t take any shortcuts … lots of time , dedication , and work !
Pleeeezzzz-🙏 , to anyone who might read this … I AM NOT… saying that the other videos I have seen haven’t been a waste of time and I have learned something from them all and , I’m thankful for them all. You all put a lot of time and money and efforts into making a video that may help someone else!! So , thanks to you all !!!
I stopped and got my guitar and tried to do what was on the video ,
… all-be-it very slow and missed notes … my wife heard it and came and asked- “was that YOU , or the video? She watched while I tried again… saying-“ that sounds much better than me trying to do it MY WAY” !!!
So , thank you again and I also found out how to find you… & the other newer/older , lessons you have to offer .
Most of all I found out there is NO , fast/easy way TO LEARN !!!!!!
I’m sorry this is a longer comment than it should be , I just had to leave my thoughts.
Please keep doing more videos sharing your VAST knowledge of this long journey , most all ”GOOD GUITARISTS “, must have had to go through at some point in time !!!
Keep up your expert knowledge coming …!
Thanks again…RICHARD (my wife thanks you too!!!!)
Thank you so much for your comment Richard. You made my day. These videos take countless hours and, after staring at them for so long, I start to wonder whether they make any sense! I’m so pleased that this has helped you 🙏🏼
Wow, brilliant! I’m so happy I discovered your channel. I immediately joined your Patreon can’t get enough.
Thanks so much for your support Patrick 🙏🏻
@@Rynaylorguitar Incidentally, since my initial comment, I’ve purchased nearly all of the course material and am STOKED. It is notches above most online content, IMHO of course, and is simply an incredible blend of graphics, dialogue, tips, consolidation of different but related concepts, etc, etc. Thanks for your efforts and to all who read this, check out the website! And no, I have in NO way been asked to endorse the content, website, or anything else related.
Very amazing.
When I first watched the video, it was pretty confusing, and I couldn't wrap my head around how it worked. Then I saw the F major example, and it all sort of clicked and I had to rewatch the whole video. I'm definitely going to give this a shot! I was also wondering, is there any way to translate this method for the minor scale, or are there any easy references for the patterns in the minor scale?
thanks a lot
Brilliant
Thanks!
Holy hell. Glad I found this before I started just memorizing a bunch of patterns.
Thanks Ry - Really liked this, and it has opened up a new way of thinking for me. You mentioned in the video that this is a pattern, and not a mode. Yet (for example) pattern 2, starting on the 2nd note will be the Dorian pattern, and the D-Dorian scale. Could you clarify what you meant there?
@@jonm691 we get too attached to a particular scale pattern being a mode. The thing to remember is that any of the seven scale patterns can be any of the seven modes if you treat a different note as the Root. The modes exist all over the fretboard, not simply in 3NPS patterns with the Root as the starting note. Hope that makes sense.
@@Rynaylorguitar Thanks - that makes complete sense. I never considered the usual Dorian pattern to be a different mode before if it was in a different location
If only chords were also that easy...
Thanks Man!
New subs here!
Is this all kind of linked to the Grand Unification Scheme Ry?
Nice
Thanks!
@Ry Naylor Guitar, great video!
On my system, I denote it like this:
ww=M (major trichord) (and M-, M+ for harmonic modes)
wh=m (minor trichord)
hw=h ((phrigian trichord, m-)
[ 1M_2m_3h_4M_5M_6m_7h ] - one string, (I, ii , iii, IV, V, vi , viio ) - chords
[ 7h, 3h, 6m, 2m, 5M, 1M, 4M,, ] - position (3nps) [7-loc, 3-phr, 6-aeo, 2-dor, 5-mix, 1-ion, 4-lyd,, ] - modes
[ 7h, 3h, 6m, 2m, 5S ; ] or [ 5S; 7h, 3h, 6m, 2m,] - CAGED system
[ 7h, 3h_4M,, ] - diagonal (like Satriani)
[7h_1m, 4m,, ] - diagonal (like Malmsteen)
[ 1M,,, 5s, ] - diagonal major pentatonic .
and so on...
👍🏻
Hey I would love a guitar tutorial to Dekker celebrate the small things or maybe oktober
Could the different patterns help coincide with the different modes of the major scale as well?
They can do, but I'd be careful with thinking about them in this way. You can get stuck in the thought that a mode is a specific scale pattern.
@@Rynaylorguitar thanks for the advice!
Can you do a guitar tutorial of the song Dont know why by Norah Jones
Great video... I will be implementing this in my practice routine! thank you
Great. Thanks Chris 🙏🏻
I wish that when I first learned this 30 years ago it had also been explained to my that these are all also modes and additionally it is essentially the relative minor. In this case A minor. Ry, can you explain this in depth?
It’s any of the seven major scale modes. The trick is being confident on exactly where the Root note is (and the additional major or minor chord tones) 🙏🏻
So are the 7 positions shown actually the 7 mode positions 3 notes per string? Sorry. I was late to the party - by a year! But I found it. Great stuff!
Welcome! You can label these scale patterns by the seven modes of the major scale.
Hey Ry, I can wrap my head around the pattern/sequence, but I am not grasping what tells me when to shift? Is that just down to memorization and muscle memory? Or is it knowing the root location and the intervals that are occurring?
Great question. It’s a little of both to be honest. If you’re referring to the six-string patterns I would recommend spending more time with the string pair groupings and be very clear on which 6-note pattern goes with which scale degree. How that helps 🙏🏻
At minute 3:00 you write "REMEMBER A WHOLE STEP HIGHER IS 3 FRETS LOWER ON THE STRING BELOW" but if you look at the B String. Are you not going from note "2" 3 halfsteps towards the third note(4) on the 6fret? Which is not a whole step. A wholestep is always 2 half steps. I get what you are saying regarding the 3 halfsteps on the high E-String. But isn't the information on the B-string wrong?
Look again and you'll see the dotted line linking the 4 to the 5 which is the whole step.
How do the numbers help us remember where to go?
The numbers tell you which 3-note fingering pattern to use. It’s all there in the video.
@@Rynaylorguitar Ahhh okay, thanks Ryan !
Quite Well explained but completly lost me at halfway through
Rinse, repeat!
Rinse, repeat!
Rinse, repeat!
Rinse, repeat!
Rinse, repeat!
Just a question, in which book would I find this? I want to buy one, need your advice in regard. Thanks
I don't have this particular topic covered in a book yet unfortunately, but I do have all the tabs and fretboard charts available to download on my Patreon page 🙏🏻
I learnt the patterns and shifting from Michael Pillitieres' series here on YT but the ascending fourths addition is golden! 😮
Can someone please explain how to know to shift without looking at the scale pattern?
Comes with practice 🙏🏻
Harmonic Minor ios a bbbb to learn
Sounds like FRETJAM!
I'll take that as a compliment!
Holy shit!
*Standing Ovation*
🙏🏻
Ive done this but named the pattern with letters like x,yand z
💎✨👌
If you have IQ under 15 and can only memorize instead of thinking, this method is definitely for you.
I've had a good ear for over 60 years, and sometimes it's what I need..Aloha
Too fast for me to grasp it
No problem. You can always watch it as many times as you need.