Love your teaching style, man! Equal parts cerebral, spiritual, and thought provoking. You have great delivery, and I feel like I'm actually engaging with you in person.
I for some time thought the pentatonic scale was a lazy guitarist’s way to sound good, or at least not sound bad. Then, I started transcribing other instrumentalist’s solos (sax, trumpet, piano) and began to realize all soloists use pentatonics in all kinds of creative ways. I then fully embraced “pentacism”.
Now that I think about it, we delved into cultural Asian music back when I studied music in school. Most of them used pentatonic or septatonic scale systems. It’s really eye opening now how the pentatonic scale is so influential not just in western music but throughout the world
Pentatonics are only boring/lazy when the harmony is stationary or if it let's you use the same one during the whole solo and you play it up and down or with the same cliché licks
This is the second presentation of yours I watched. I find you and the materials you present very interesting. The passion you exhibit for music and guitar are evident, making the viewing experience more enjoyable I have more presentations from you I need to watch. Thank you!
Rotem, love these ideas,---thank you. I've been working on something I'd like to share,---playing the form alternating between the lower and higher notes of the 2-notes-per-string version of the pentatonic, but only playing one note per string. For example, the ascending version of the Am in the 5th fret would be, A-E-G-D-E-C; the decend A-G-C-A-D-C. I sweep pick both forms, and of course use all 5 positions of the scale. Hope everyone can make use of this idea...
Great vid once again Rotem. I would love to hear about your daily music/practice routine and how it fits into your day to day tasks. When during the day to you practice scales? When do you do work on writing songs? This is just something I have been thinking about as I have gotten really into guitar this last year.
Fantastic lesson! Taking the basic pentatonic at face value is often thought of as beginner, or easy. With a bit of imagination tons of juicy ideas present themselves! Thank you!
Well Franco is my favourite African guitarist and this starts tapping into his approach, especially on his treatment of the Bolero sound. Very cool, thanks. Give Franco a spin, the minor stuff.
The huge sound of Coltrane, Maccoy and later on Kurt Rosenwinkel. Pentatonic is also natural instinct of human being. I don’t like blues but I admire pentatonic.
Man this is really cool, thank you! Classical guitarist here. I'm super up for learning more jazz, but always feel quite overwhelmed by a lot of theoretical content and how to practice it usefully. This seems like just place to dive in! Love the sounds
Dive in fully a few years from now you’ll see the water isn’t that deep. And you’ll be more oriented and what you think is hard and overwhelming now will look like baby music to you. Keep evolving to your max!
@@OM-md6ki and after years, relearning those baby things is so refreshing sometimes, because we're often go so far that we forget where we ever were and so it seems like a new place when we come back, like rediscovering some of these simple pentatonic pleasures.
nice lesson thanks. I've been suck with a couple of doubles top shapes in box 1 and 2 and was always interested in 3NPS pentatonics so thx for sharing. I'm struggling with such wide stretches for that atm though.
This guy can make a loop while playing the chromatic scale. AND IT STILL SOUNDS AWESOME. There are some amazing gems in the video. I am thankful for the TH-cam algorithms for suggesting this and thank Rotem for making it.
LOL - I disrespected and judged all Blues players for using and overusing the pentatonic... *until I heard Plini...* his brilliant phrasing to intersperse Pentatonic lines into his extended chord progression blows my mind. I realized, it's not a failing of other musicians, nor the scale itself (being simple) it's how it's being used or misused that offends me most.
An interesting clip to check out here on YT is Bobby Darin performing Bridge Over Trouble Water live in the 70s just a few months before his untimely death. Darin was able to play several instruments but this performance featured him playing a harmonica solo over the bridge while the back up singers sang the part. Darin accidentally picks up the wrong harp and tries to make it work but then just shrugs his shoulders walks back over to the piano and grabs the right one and continues on without missing a beat. He of course knew that he would pass away as a young person, and for him there didn't seem to be such a thing as a mistake. Pretty awesome. Thanks for all your videos and Happy New Year Cheers
fine & dandy if you're stuck on the blues & since YOUR scale choice is a A Minor Pentatonic. EVERYTHING...you show is going to sound BLUESY and i'm NOT into the BLUES..
I have a question. When it is said that the strings are a 4th apart ( top 4 strings) this is not true as EADGBE is not a scale where note associations occur such as 3rd, 4th,5th, etc. But even so the interval on the top 4 strings are 5 semitones= 5 steps, not 4. The notes are in E minor but completely out of sequence.And not P5 either as WWHWWWH does not apply. What is happening here?
the three note per string pattern really helps in seeing the pentatonic not just as 5 individual boxes and knowing how to move between them, but it helps tremendously in breaking out of the "box thinking". will definitely use that more in my playing. thank you so much for these insights Rotem!
Thank you so much Rotem... i play acoustic guitar, for a bit over 30 years now, but I really didn't push into growth until a few years ago. I play on our worship team at our church so I have been very encouraged to learn more about music and such. I don't know much about scales or lead but I love finding new ways to play the chords which has lead me to finding some beautiful jazzy type voicings. I want to explore scales and triads and such as part of those voices and I think I'm going to sign up for your Patreon. It may be a month or so before I do, gotta clear my table so I can concentrate but thank you for this great lesson. I look forward to learning more! As for mistakes, I love that you left that in the video. It's so encouraging to see people deal with mistakes in such a positive manner, so I'll share my recent mistake lol Sunday morning service, we were doing a song that we have done several times before. But, we changed the key several times trying to get it in a similar key to the other songs we were playing for a good continuous sound. Well, cue the mistake lol I made several note changes to my notes but didn't make the final one. The song started out with a good solid acoustic guitar progression to set the pace and rhythm of the song and I full on sold it.... in the wrong key lol the team looked at me odd, scrambled around a few seconds and I had to call it... into the mic I go lol "sorry guys, wrong key :D" sometimes you just gotta own it, laugh it off, and make the correction lol live audience AND live stream *head in hands* lol
Great lesson, Rotem! Did someone win the D'angelico? I was told I was in the short list but I've been sick a while and missed out on who won that beautiful guitar. My 3 note per string legate sucks, and this reminded me to practice! Thanks as always!
Heya Rotem, Just want you to know how thankful I am for you, your journey and sharing your journey with Us, Me.... You talk to my soul Brother, much love from Australia,
2:39 The way you played those single notes are magnificent. I’ve never heard someone can make a ascending scale sound so beautiful! And your dynamic, it’s just… it must take years of work. Love your playing, cheers.
Great video, there is a lot of homework here. But one question about your guitar.I’m a fender mustang fan and have one and a Jaguar. I’m curious what is yours. Thanks JS.
What's your new year's resolution??
To learn more Jazz
To practice moreee. ✨
Try to learn theory on the guitar and piano :)
Depends what key I'm in 😁😁🤣🤣
to find out and get into jazz as i know nothing of it.
Love your teaching style, man! Equal parts cerebral, spiritual, and thought provoking. You have great delivery, and I feel like I'm actually engaging with you in person.
I for some time thought the pentatonic scale was a lazy guitarist’s way to sound good, or at least not sound bad. Then, I started transcribing other instrumentalist’s solos (sax, trumpet, piano) and began to realize all soloists use pentatonics in all kinds of creative ways. I then fully embraced “pentacism”.
Couldn't agree more, it's kind of the backbone of Western music. The Pentatonic is always present lurking underneath regardless of scale.
Now that I think about it, we delved into cultural Asian music back when I studied music in school. Most of them used pentatonic or septatonic scale systems. It’s really eye opening now how the pentatonic scale is so influential not just in western music but throughout the world
Pentatonics are only boring/lazy when the harmony is stationary or if it let's you use the same one during the whole solo and you play it up and down or with the same cliché licks
I had this EXACT same revelation, only it was when transcribing vocals.
We should spread the new Pentacostal to the masses
Never have I seen someone play a single note with so much feeling !!
check out pink floyd. David Gilmour just makes his guitar singing using the pentatonic
This is the second presentation of yours I watched. I find you and the materials you present very interesting. The passion you exhibit for music and guitar are evident, making the viewing experience more enjoyable I have more presentations from you I need to watch. Thank you!
Thank you! Your genuine love for music is inspiring, infectious and appreciated.
I love how Insightful your tutorials are
Wow it's just opening my eyes on this
Really?! Did I?!
2 notes at the same time is a new concept to me. Thanks for teaching it
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Worth the view just for the “making and excepting mistakes” moment!
Rotem, love these ideas,---thank you. I've been working on something I'd like to share,---playing the form alternating between the lower and higher notes of the 2-notes-per-string version of the pentatonic, but only playing one note per string. For example, the ascending version of the Am in the 5th fret would be, A-E-G-D-E-C; the decend A-G-C-A-D-C. I sweep pick both forms, and of course use all 5 positions of the scale. Hope everyone can make use of this idea...
Just discovered your lessons. I have been playing for a long time, and really appreciate your skills, music, and way of teaching. Thanks
you make it sound so nice, never thought about playing the pentatonic scale like that I will have a go see what I can do with it.
love your videos please don't stop
I'll try!
Great vid once again Rotem.
I would love to hear about your daily music/practice routine and how it fits into your day to day tasks. When during the day to you practice scales? When do you do work on writing songs?
This is just something I have been thinking about as I have gotten really into guitar this last year.
Ill try to share that soon
You remind me of my teacher. AC.
Thank you for all the lessons. That pentatonic harmony sounds lovely.
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Fantastic lesson! Taking the basic pentatonic at face value is often thought of as beginner, or easy. With a bit of imagination tons of juicy ideas present themselves! Thank you!
Well Franco is my favourite African guitarist and this starts tapping into his approach, especially on his treatment of the Bolero sound. Very cool, thanks. Give Franco a spin, the minor stuff.
2:52 thanks for this wonderful advice for 2022
I napped through this video. So here i am checking it out again.
I'm hearing Dire Straits' first album in your playing, especially on those dropping bends.
Definitely picked up on the Mark Knopfler tone he had going.
happy new year - great video. have just left work, so my new year's resolution is to explore and practise and make music!
That is a great one. 🔥
Duo Sonics and Mustangs look so nice, i want oneeee
Great new ideas! Thanks man.
The huge sound of Coltrane, Maccoy and later on Kurt Rosenwinkel. Pentatonic is also natural instinct of human being. I don’t like blues but I admire pentatonic.
Man this is really cool, thank you! Classical guitarist here. I'm super up for learning more jazz, but always feel quite overwhelmed by a lot of theoretical content and how to practice it usefully. This seems like just place to dive in! Love the sounds
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Dive in fully a few years from now you’ll see the water isn’t that deep. And you’ll be more oriented and what you think is hard and overwhelming now will look like baby music to you. Keep evolving to your max!
@@OM-md6ki and after years, relearning those baby things is so refreshing sometimes, because we're often go so far that we forget where we ever were and so it seems like a new place when we come back, like rediscovering some of these simple pentatonic pleasures.
Self- taught intermediate pop and rock guitarist here… where should I start with classical training? Any books or channels you’d recommend?
Scott henderson pentatonic secrets video is killer
this is a fantastic lesson been playing pentatnics for literally years and this is a great way to think about them helped alot thank you :)
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nice lesson thanks. I've been suck with a couple of doubles top shapes in box 1 and 2 and was always interested in 3NPS pentatonics so thx for sharing. I'm struggling with such wide stretches for that atm though.
happy new year Rotem. So so grateful to have discovered your channel.❣️ 💕 💞
Happy new year :)
Nice lesson my friend thank you!
Great hints, thanks a lot!
Man, You are amazing. Great teacher. Subscribed.!!
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Thank you Jesse Tyler Ferguson, i loved you in modern family❤️
Thanks bro...god bless you and all around
Thank you brother!
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You remind me of Paul Davids so much!!
I did not know Jesse Tyler Ferguson Plays the guitar
New subscriber love from india❤
This video enlightens me that I know nothing about how to practice pentatonic scales after learning guitar for 20 years.
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This guy can make a loop while playing the chromatic scale. AND IT STILL SOUNDS AWESOME.
There are some amazing gems in the video. I am thankful for the TH-cam algorithms for suggesting this and thank Rotem for making it.
Are you the one who acts in Mothern Family?
LOL - I disrespected and judged all Blues players for using and overusing the pentatonic... *until I heard Plini...* his brilliant phrasing to intersperse Pentatonic lines into his extended chord progression blows my mind. I realized, it's not a failing of other musicians, nor the scale itself (being simple) it's how it's being used or misused that offends me most.
Disrespecting all blues players for using pentatonic is like disrespecting impressionist painters because they realized blurred images
@@davidebernardini536 I really always felt it was a music for simpletons. I am wrong I know this
Love Plini. Great dude too
Are you using a Blue Chip pick? also, love the lesson! Level 6 and 7 were my favorite and very useful!
What in the paul davis is this...
Love it tho
...your guitar is a little too down...
An interesting clip to check out here on YT is Bobby Darin performing Bridge Over Trouble Water live in the 70s just a few months before his untimely death. Darin was able to play several instruments but this performance featured him playing a harmonica solo over the bridge while the back up singers sang the part. Darin accidentally picks up the wrong harp and tries to make it work but then just shrugs his shoulders walks back over to the piano and grabs the right one and continues on without missing a beat. He of course knew that he would pass away as a young person, and for him there didn't seem to be such a thing as a mistake. Pretty awesome. Thanks for all your videos and Happy New Year
Cheers
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Nice work!
Thanks Yoav
i got some nice ideas, thank you. I'm not sure how playing it slow is both level 9 AND 10!! How did that deserve TWO levels?!! 😂😂
This video shows what you can do with a pentatonic box when you start thinking outside the... well, box. 🙂
Thank you, Rotem!
underrated
You talk to much! Get to the pt,
Rotem you are boosting the sales of Freeze Pedal lol
Lol!
Holy crap, mod fam guy plays
fine & dandy if you're stuck on the blues & since YOUR scale choice is a A Minor Pentatonic. EVERYTHING...you show is going to sound BLUESY and i'm NOT into the BLUES..
I have a question.
When it is said that the strings are a 4th apart ( top 4 strings) this is not true as EADGBE is not a scale where note associations occur such as 3rd, 4th,5th, etc. But even so the interval on the top 4 strings are 5 semitones= 5 steps, not 4. The notes are in E minor but completely out of sequence.And not P5 either as WWHWWWH does not apply.
What is happening here?
You’re a great teacher man! The way you articulate yourself really feels like I’m there. You’ll definitely continue to be successful on this platform
Level 9 e 10 is missing
Super interesting. The Big Arp is next level. Loving these fresh ideas! Thank you.
the three note per string pattern really helps in seeing the pentatonic not just as 5 individual boxes and knowing how to move between them, but it helps tremendously in breaking out of the "box thinking". will definitely use that more in my playing. thank you so much for these insights Rotem!
You forgot level 100 where you´re shredding pentatonic licks with your heavy metal band while being drunk af :D
Thank you so much Rotem... i play acoustic guitar, for a bit over 30 years now, but I really didn't push into growth until a few years ago. I play on our worship team at our church so I have been very encouraged to learn more about music and such. I don't know much about scales or lead but I love finding new ways to play the chords which has lead me to finding some beautiful jazzy type voicings. I want to explore scales and triads and such as part of those voices and I think I'm going to sign up for your Patreon. It may be a month or so before I do, gotta clear my table so I can concentrate but thank you for this great lesson. I look forward to learning more!
As for mistakes, I love that you left that in the video. It's so encouraging to see people deal with mistakes in such a positive manner, so I'll share my recent mistake lol Sunday morning service, we were doing a song that we have done several times before. But, we changed the key several times trying to get it in a similar key to the other songs we were playing for a good continuous sound. Well, cue the mistake lol I made several note changes to my notes but didn't make the final one. The song started out with a good solid acoustic guitar progression to set the pace and rhythm of the song and I full on sold it.... in the wrong key lol the team looked at me odd, scrambled around a few seconds and I had to call it... into the mic I go lol "sorry guys, wrong key :D" sometimes you just gotta own it, laugh it off, and make the correction lol live audience AND live stream *head in hands* lol
amazing
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awesome
Disrespecting the pentatonic major or minor is dumb, but even dumber is disrespecting the relative major scale which contains both.
Awesome master! Which kind of pick do you use? Dunlop Jazz3?
Anyone else actually really dig the Bb that you called 'mistake' haha, thought it actually sounded pretty cool!
I might be wrong but it Seems that what Rotam is showing is not what’s actually written in the partition
4.04min
Am I alone thinking so ?
Peace
Breath of fresh air, thanks. Would love to know more about your morning routine
By the way, I checked the ALBUM. So Peacefull. Thanks for my calm mood)))
Amazing video, loved this approach to study this scale. Looking forward to playing it in my Cuatro. Greetings from Puerto Rico brother.
I've never been interested in the pentatonic scale until now (respect for you). Now I'm on my way. TY
Thanks so much I'm so excited to hear lesson you share, your passion for playing and teaching shines on every level!! Yes senshei!!
Oh, oh wrong spelling , sensei. Lol 😆
Thanks Phillip!! 🙏
dude, that was cool! I never thought about the pentatonic in this kind of way :O thank you very much :D
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That Step 6 got really close to Discipline by King Crimson
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Great lesson, Rotem! Did someone win the D'angelico? I was told I was in the short list but I've been sick a while and missed out on who won that beautiful guitar.
My 3 note per string legate sucks, and this reminded me to practice! Thanks as always!
Yea someone from the Nederland won it!
Level 11: Pentatonic tapping, like Alexi Laiho
it looks like the video fast forwards when you play the licks :')
5:03 the loop is killer!
Level 6 is my personal best, phenomenal way of re-arranging the pentatonic scale
Hello 2022! Make music with beautiful guitars.
Hello 2022! ❤️
What model of Fender guitar is? Thanks
Great Lesson ! Thank you! What Guitar & Amp are you playing if I may ask …
It's a fender duo sonic & using DV mark here
What amp are you using? It sounds brilliant
Where did that cream duo sonic come from never seen that finish
Heya Rotem, Just want you to know how thankful I am for you, your journey and sharing your journey with Us, Me....
You talk to my soul Brother, much love from Australia,
the pentatonics in the style of eric johnson were missing
This really cool. What kind of fender is that?
This dude is amazing, an Israeli guitar hero
Refreshing point of view! thanks
You play amazing! Thank you for this!
Thanks Adir!!
9:41 Mistake? You're mistaken.
2:39 The way you played those single notes are magnificent. I’ve never heard someone can make a ascending scale sound so beautiful! And your dynamic, it’s just… it must take years of work. Love your playing, cheers.
Pentatonic scales helped most to teach me how to find notes across the fretboard. Opens up a world of possibility imo.
Level 11: pentatonic modes?
man, i don't have words to describe your class, it's fantastic, really reallt thx bro.
When I first saw and played the pentatonic scale I thought it was really, then I heard SRV…😮💨
11:03 THAT groove. The melody🥺
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Is there a specific name for this style? I'd love to find more about how to get that backing track style sound
@@TheCrustiCroc the backing track is r&b/neo soulish
Great video, there is a lot of homework here. But one question about your guitar.I’m a fender mustang fan and have one and a Jaguar. I’m curious what is yours. Thanks JS.
I love you, regards from tel aviv!
happy new year! Still listening to your latest album all the time🤌🏻
Thank you!! Happy new year!!