Mr. Barnby, you are an outrageously skilled guitarist and a very good teacher. I know this is an older video, but thank you for putting out so much content for free for recovering metal heads like me lol
I will vote now for him as Worlds BEST Guitar Instructor and I have been playing 35 years , you sir are an Unreal Great Guitarist and I Know what Im talking about .
The paradox about the pentatonic is that it is easy to play and to make it sound good when you're beginning, but it is tricky to make it not sound cliché when using it in more complex harmonic contexts or when you expand your musical concepts. Therefore, it's both a basic and an advanced scale. brilliant video, thanks!
@@luizcadu You commit the fallacy of a straw man. No one said the guitarist is a beginner. A nine-tone scale would be advanced. Is an E9 chord played arpeggio over the neck an advanced chord? Good luck!
@@johnp.johnson1541 Read again. I'm not asking if this guitarist is a beginner (he's obviously brilliant), I'm asking if you think a beginner would be able to use this scale like he does, in this harmonic context and with this choice of intervallic patterns. You're the one who said the pentatonic "never" is advanced, hence the question.
@@luizcadu No, you read again your own faulty premise. Oh and beginners will watch this video and use the scale exactly as he has presented it. It is a 5-tone scale. It is not advanced. It is what it is. Total permutations of a 5-tone scale with tonic repeated = 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 120. Total permutations of a 9 tone scale with tonic repeated = 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 362,880 Total permutations of chromatic scale with tonic repeated = 11 * 10 * 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 39,916,800 Please, learn. Good luck!
Best jazz guitar channel. I've been experimenting with arpeggios and hybrid picking from your following videos, Maj79, MinMaj7, 7#119, -7b59, sus49, diminished, augmented, 713b9... Every color of every mode of every scale, the shape works and it's a perfect tool to visualize your fretboard... Great eye opening material man, can't thank you enough 🙏 👏
Shifting these shapes by half steps, major thirds or even tritones might result in some interesting outside sounds. Loved this lesson. Thank you very much.
Very cool idea - the applications for this are endless. I can see this as a great tool for breaking the usual cliched scalar sound of pentatonics without then falling into the other trap of just playing triad based arpeggios. It immediately sounds like Coltrane on A Love Supreme to me - and played really fast it’s instant Richie Kotzen shred territory. Win win!
Jerry Bergonzi's book on Pentatonics is a great resource for this skip/step concept in pentatonics. A little hard to pull off on guitar but great for piano and sax. Nice work!
That's a sick new way of constructing arpeggios. I see how useful it would be to practice with this pattern and use it in soloing with different contexts . Thanks!
Thank you so much for leading us to the "think tank" this is totally different approach and concept for the pentatonic shapes how fresh! you are da Man!💯
I really like this method and use it alot. Its a clean way of using all the sus4 and sus 2 soynds of the major/minor pentatonic scale. The whole problem on guitar with being stuck "in a box" is everyone is 1st taught one position and practice that way when really (like every instrument) everything should be practiced using 3 and 4 octave range. On guitar it is alot more complicated and it takes alot of shifting and jumping like those 3nps pentatonics. I try to practice everything using the full range of guitar and it should be taught more to do so. Pentatonic 313's 231313's, 313313's 2nps, 3nps, 4nps The major/minor scale 2 nps, 3nps, 4nps, 343434 Arppegios 212's 213's for example. Wind instruments and piano is just straight up and down. Stringed instruments are completely different. Excellent content!
1:42 - 1:44 - damn son! Smooth. Oh, and 2:37 - 2:38. Wow. Fantastic videos though. Very well articulated and very useful videos for those of us who just stay within the usual boxes all the time.
What a killer take away!! Fascinating!!🤝💯🤟💥another ammunition, im gonna keep /add on my guitar metal skill repertoire.thanks mate,.&more power to ur high quality way of teaching.."ur a master"🤟💥
Objectively, this Dude has matinee idol looks and PLAYS all that damn guitar! Seriously???? Its not fair! I’m green with envy!!! lol. I tipped his PayPal. Get ready to enjoy while feeling frustrated is all I can tell you. I haven’t felt like this since I got that George Benson video some years ago. lol. Robbie is the real deal.
I was telling a guitar friend that you were playing in two different scale boxes at the same time, which confused him, but yep two boxes it is. Definitively a different twist, at least for me... Now, to integrate these twists and turns into my future guitar playing.
I've learned a lot from your video'! Many are a little above my level but also many, like this one, fits me right away. It may take weeks or months to really apply it, to make music from it, but eventually it will. Thanx!
thanks for this video man. this reminds me of that intro lick in Jason Becker's Perpetual Burn. I've been trying to map what would be the other shapes for that so this is extremely helpful
Excellent and very exciting potentials for cool ways to update the pentatonics. I thought at first you were doing alternate picking of pentatonic modes with 3 notes per string.
Nice Work! How about demonstrating this concept over a 1-4-5, 12 bar blues, in Am? It would be fun, and educational! I’m already subscribed, and wish you the best! 👍🎸✌️😎
This is actually brilliant. I have been stuck for years at the point where I/ve added the blues note to the pentatonic and then I kind of play a hybrid natural minor plain major scale (since they're the same shapes as the natural minor scale patterns) over things to kind of get out of box playing, but I need something like this. Thanks!
Great approach! Sounds to a little bit Allan Holdsworthish... ! Love it! Thanks for sharing! Something else to practise, practise, practise! Cheers DimiZ
Yes, saw Holdsworth at point blank range in the early 80's on an unmarked Stienberger neck. I didn't understand the first thing about what I was seeing or hearing that day😆
looking forward to the video discussing imposing pentatonics for different sounds....I've watched Rick Beato's videos on this, and others, and am interested in your thoughts/discussion...thank you for the great video!
Brilliant video, mate. I really appreciate you took the idea and developed the concept around it so that your viewers can experiment on their own. I see so many TH-cam videos that only focus on "the licks" or, the complete opposite, very advanced jazz theory. Subscribed! 🤓🎸
Thanks for watching! A full PDF for all the ideas in every position is available on my Patreon ► www.patreon.com/robbiebarnby
I loved the minor blues scale hack, I've learned the first part....It's awesome and dammed well tricky to play. Thank you for the "HACK".
Amazing Robbie…you’re truly gifted
Interested.
God sometimes gives us a gift to shine light on our fret board. Robbie Barnby is such a gift and blessing. Thank you!
Sir
This is a nice sentiment for sure, but I would argue that gifts have far less to do with musical ability than practice and an intentional mindset.
Mr. Barnby, you are an outrageously skilled guitarist and a very good teacher. I know this is an older video, but thank you for putting out so much content for free for recovering metal heads like me lol
That's very kind of you to say, thanks for the lovely comment!
I will vote now for him as Worlds BEST Guitar Instructor and I have been playing 35 years , you sir are an Unreal Great Guitarist and I Know what Im talking about .
It's always a good day when Robbie releases a new video. Thank you for the inspiration to get better on the instrument.
The paradox about the pentatonic is that it is easy to play and to make it sound good when you're beginning, but it is tricky to make it not sound cliché when using it in more complex harmonic contexts or when you expand your musical concepts. Therefore, it's both a basic and an advanced scale. brilliant video, thanks!
The pentatonic minor never is an advanced scale.
It is a minor 7 chord with an add 4. Or you can think of it as a minor 11 with a dropped 2.
@@johnp.johnson1541 watch the video again. Do you really think a beginner would be able to use the pentatonic that way?
@@luizcadu You commit the fallacy of a straw man. No one said the guitarist is a beginner.
A nine-tone scale would be advanced.
Is an E9 chord played arpeggio over the neck an advanced chord?
Good luck!
@@johnp.johnson1541 Read again. I'm not asking if this guitarist is a beginner (he's obviously brilliant), I'm asking if you think a beginner would be able to use this scale like he does, in this harmonic context and with this choice of intervallic patterns. You're the one who said the pentatonic "never" is advanced, hence the question.
@@luizcadu No, you read again your own faulty premise.
Oh and beginners will watch this video and use the scale exactly as he has presented it.
It is a 5-tone scale. It is not advanced. It is what it is.
Total permutations of a 5-tone scale with tonic repeated = 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 120.
Total permutations of a 9 tone scale with tonic repeated = 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 362,880
Total permutations of chromatic scale with tonic repeated = 11 * 10 * 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 39,916,800
Please, learn.
Good luck!
Best jazz guitar channel. I've been experimenting with arpeggios and hybrid picking from your following videos, Maj79, MinMaj7, 7#119, -7b59, sus49, diminished, augmented, 713b9... Every color of every mode of every scale, the shape works and it's a perfect tool to visualize your fretboard... Great eye opening material man, can't thank you enough 🙏 👏
Thanks!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching.
Shifting these shapes by half steps, major thirds or even tritones might result in some interesting outside sounds. Loved this lesson. Thank you very much.
Shades of Holdsworth :) Always interesting and challenging, Robbie!
Definitely some Holdsworth inspiration here!
Alan comes to one's mind immediately, however don't remember him doing these stretches, is it still legato approach?
Very cool idea - the applications for this are endless. I can see this as a great tool for breaking the usual cliched scalar sound of pentatonics without then falling into the other trap of just playing triad based arpeggios.
It immediately sounds like Coltrane on A Love Supreme to me - and played really fast it’s instant Richie Kotzen shred territory. Win win!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the comment!
I thinkyou're really close to the point, bravo!
Jerry Bergonzi's book on Pentatonics is a great resource for this skip/step concept in pentatonics. A little hard to pull off on guitar but great for piano and sax. Nice work!
Excellent teaching! Thanks! Subscribed👍
Hey man, after some practice with that second position I can play the Simpsons theme pretty good now. Thanks!
That's a sick new way of constructing arpeggios. I see how useful it would be to practice with this pattern and use it in soloing with different contexts . Thanks!
Thank you so much for leading us to the "think tank" this is totally different approach and concept for the pentatonic shapes how fresh! you are da Man!💯
Excellent video. I cannot wait to play around with these pentatonic variations!
I really like this method and use it alot. Its a clean way of using all the sus4 and sus 2 soynds of the major/minor pentatonic scale. The whole problem on guitar with being stuck "in a box" is everyone is 1st taught one position and practice that way when really (like every instrument) everything should be practiced using 3 and 4 octave range.
On guitar it is alot more complicated and it takes alot of shifting and jumping like those 3nps pentatonics.
I try to practice everything using the full range of guitar and it should be taught more to do so.
Pentatonic 313's 231313's, 313313's 2nps, 3nps, 4nps
The major/minor scale
2 nps, 3nps, 4nps, 343434
Arppegios 212's 213's for example.
Wind instruments and piano is just straight up and down. Stringed instruments are completely different.
Excellent content!
Your lessons are great! Greetings from Argentina
Thanks for checking them out! Glad you like them.
This will surely keep me awake for whole night 🌙
Great concept Robbie!
1:42 - 1:44 - damn son! Smooth.
Oh, and 2:37 - 2:38. Wow.
Fantastic videos though. Very well articulated and very useful videos for those of us who just stay within the usual boxes all the time.
Wonderful lesson - gives an entirely different vibe to the five notes. Thank you! Subscribed!
What a killer take away!! Fascinating!!🤝💯🤟💥another ammunition, im gonna keep /add on my guitar metal skill repertoire.thanks mate,.&more power to ur high quality way of teaching.."ur a master"🤟💥
Hey Robbie, thank you so much for your lessons. They really are outside the box! Fresh and inspiring 💪
Objectively, this Dude has matinee idol looks and PLAYS all that damn guitar! Seriously???? Its not fair! I’m green with envy!!! lol. I tipped his PayPal. Get ready to enjoy while feeling frustrated is all I can tell you. I haven’t felt like this since I got that George Benson video some years ago. lol. Robbie is the real deal.
I was telling a guitar friend that you were playing in two different scale boxes at the same time, which confused him, but yep two boxes it is. Definitively a different twist, at least for me... Now, to integrate these twists and turns into my future guitar playing.
11:56 - LOL'ed at the random Am11 with synth overdub. thx for keeping it in! (also thx for a killer lesson!)
👉 As always, fabulous video with amazing, enlightening content!👌 Thanks Robbie!🙏
You are great seriously,these lessons should be pay
I've learned a lot from your video'! Many are a little above my level but also many, like this one, fits me right away. It may take weeks or months to really apply it, to make music from it, but eventually it will. Thanx!
Great video, flawless playing and easy-to-understand instructions. Thanks for your efforts! I just subscribed.
Amazing lesson , pentatonic sound is interesting with these idea.. thanks
what a wonderful player… great insights and instruction …
Wow!!! Great idea!!
Thanks Robbie 👍🎶💯
Thank you Robbie your videos are extremely helpful!!
That's great to hear. Thanks for watching!
Great video as usual Robbie nice to see you again! Absolutely love that guitar of yours! 😁
Thanks a lot!
Это шикарный, удивительный и очень полезный урок, спасибо за новые знания!!!
The best TH-cam Channel ❤️
this sounds so beautiful
so talented and good looking to boot - lucky bastard !
Always look forward to your lessons! 🙏🏼
Very cool idea, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching.
Great lesson. I’m trying to breakout from normal boxes pentatonic playing and this helped 😀. Keep on going 👍
Thanks a lot! Glad it helped.
this is gold! Thanks!
Always excellent content and execution, Robbie. Thank you!
Thanks! My pleasure.
Greate stuff! As I remember, Tim Miller talked about it!
thanks for this video man. this reminds me of that intro lick in Jason Becker's Perpetual Burn. I've been trying to map what would be the other shapes for that so this is extremely helpful
I fu.....g LOVE IT!!!! Woooow!!!
Thank you🤗💙
Amazing video, dude!
Thanks a lot!
Having ordinary size hands, I could probably nail that A-D on the E string on a child-size guitar.
Great professor Robbie,thanks...
Thanks for watching!
Excellent lesson!! So looking forward to more
Great lesson. Thanks
Amazing. Congratulations.
Thank you for this new idea to work on.
Super video.
Very smooth like melting ice-creame...♥️♥️♥️
Any picking technique tips on how to get this speed? Just start slow and work up with a metronome I suppose. Fantastic content. Thank you.
bruv this is on par with jens larson for my guitar learnings. no faff, nice lad, good info. keep it up bruv
Have a look at Dylan Torrance too. These guys are all so talented...
Thank you so much!
You’re very welcome!
Came for the lesson. Stayed for the marvellous guitar tone. Ahhhhhhhhhh ...
Nice Channel,
Thank-you Sir.
Dang. Silky smooth and great idea
Amazing playing bro
Fascinating
best lick lesson i ever had
theory is great, skills are amazing,
Excellent and very exciting potentials for cool ways to update the pentatonics. I thought at first you were doing alternate picking of pentatonic modes with 3 notes per string.
Wow! This is a gem! Nice discovery! Thanks for sharing and making us better.
Excellent, Thank You 👏 🙏
Thx for great inspiration!
This is trully amazing.
Nice Work! How about demonstrating this concept over a 1-4-5, 12 bar blues, in Am? It would be fun, and educational! I’m already subscribed, and wish you the best! 👍🎸✌️😎
Muuuuuy interesante! Gracias.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Brilliant work 🔥🔥🔥❤️
Amazing stuff!❤
this is gold for bassists
The clean sound is coming from that guitar is amazing. Wow! Great lesson as well.
Huge thanks!
Hella good lesson super creative use of pentatonics
Hope all is well brother!
Thanks to share with us.
Thats beautiful!
Amazing! Thank you!
Thank You:)
Super, Thanks!!!
This is actually brilliant. I have been stuck for years at the point where I/ve added the blues note to the pentatonic and then I kind of play a hybrid natural minor plain major scale (since they're the same shapes as the natural minor scale patterns) over things to kind of get out of box playing, but I need something like this. Thanks!
Cool. Now I need to increase the length of my fingers in order to reach the frets xD
Great approach! Sounds to a little bit Allan Holdsworthish... ! Love it! Thanks for sharing! Something else to practise, practise, practise! Cheers DimiZ
Yes, saw Holdsworth at point blank range in the early 80's on an unmarked Stienberger neck. I didn't understand the first thing about what I was seeing or hearing that day😆
Amazing content, like always! Please keep doing it!
i wish i could start again with these vids
looking forward to the video discussing imposing pentatonics for different sounds....I've watched Rick Beato's videos on this, and others, and am interested in your thoughts/discussion...thank you for the great video!
He's Back!
Great lesson
you're a great player, i will try this, thanks its not easy though
That's very helpful thanks,it sounds like you've got buzz on some of your frets on your E 6th string.
super cool dude!
Brilliant video, mate. I really appreciate you took the idea and developed the concept around it so that your viewers can experiment on their own. I see so many TH-cam videos that only focus on "the licks" or, the complete opposite, very advanced jazz theory. Subscribed! 🤓🎸
Great lesson! 👏👏👏
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Super vidéo 🎉 merci 🙏