You ask, "The Best Pentatonic Exercise"? and I answer a resounding "YES"! I have seen many lessons on pentatonic scales but you are the first person who showed how they're linked together and one leads into the other. Thanks for the "Ahah" moment. Thanks, Jules!

I’ve been playing for 2 years and you’re the first person to explain it in ways I can understand..thanks

Thank you for the very basics instructions for the 5 positions and pattern breakdown. Makes playing the scales much easier.

This is the best lesson for learning the 5 positions… cuts right to it and ties it all together! Thank you Jules well done!

Exactly what I’ve needed! Your teaching is top notch. Greatly appreciated

A great exercise, very well explained. The pace and repetition make it easy to follow and I'm learning a lot as I practise it. I am trying to say the names of the notes out loud as I play them to internalise the notes on the fretboard. Thanks Jules.

My skill in connecting the 5 shapes has made a HUGE leap forward after a week of doing this exercise in multiple keys. Thanks!

@JulesGuitar

4 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Great to hear it works

Thanks, Jules! This is a really terrific way to learn the positions, which I’ve struggled with. As I’ve worked through it, I find it useful to double pick the root notes as you come across them. Really helps you hear the tonal center of each shape. This also forces a change in picking direction in some spots - like you go from down picking on the index finger notes to up picking once you hit the root note. What a great exercise - thanks for the detailed video!

@MotorcityBart

2 ай бұрын

The suggestion you added in your comment was great. I thought it was helpful with your ear also listening for the root note and double picking it.

I like your teaching. It is understandable and the repetition is very helpful.

I had to watch the video upside down and it worked😂

@lamper2

17 күн бұрын

That makes no sense- Well, yes he really should indicate the top string is the thick E string but unlike many who show E sixth string on the bottom and you have to picture yourself lying down feet in the air behind the pictorial, he has it right here.if you watched this video upside down, you are lost because the 1st string would be on top.

You have a very good teaching technique. Thank you for your uploads.

This is fantastic Jules! Thank you very much. You make learning the guitar so much easier the way you present your videos 😀👍🏻

This has been a game changer for me, as a relatively new player. Much easier and more natural way to play and link the five position. Thanks😎

Absolutely tremendous lesson...the best lesson on the pentatonic position workout I have ever seen . You are outstanding. Cheers from COLORADO USA . Gary

@jasonvaughan5128

4 ай бұрын

Totally agree. Been looking for something like this for ages.

Brilliant once again, Jules. Outstanding teaching and showing us your techniques. You have made myself and no doubt many others better guitarist. Thanks to you. 👍

Another excellent lesson Jules, very well explained and easy to follow and learn 😊

This channel is GOLD! Found it because it popped up in my recommendeds, and I’ve had “Light Bulb Moment” after “Light Bulb Moment” ever since. Totally wipes away the intimidation of the fretboard!

I cant even tell you how much this just helped me. Theory has been whipping my @ss and this helped a ton.

i would have to say jules, that with all the guitar instructors on youtube, i seem to connect with your teaching style and enjoy your lessons . inspirational and motivating to practice more with direction of where i want to go on guitar. thank you.

This is great, absolutely brilliant. First class lesson - Thanks👍

Really good summery of the pentatonic positions. You rock Jules!

I have been struggling to connect the positions for a while now. Your instruction here was easy to follow and learn. I simply transcribed to my notepad and have it down as needed. I have liked and subscribed so that I can learn some techniques too. My thanks for posting and I'm looking forward to many more of your lessons.

I was just Telling/Asking The Universe. I need a guitar instructor. I want to learn Scales, And Postions, Notes. So I can do a Daily Practice to Cultivate my Skills. Fantastic Jewels. ⭐️ And I love Your Fretboard diagrams. I could do this for Months. Thank You ! ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️🌞

This is excellent, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks

Amazing lesson! Thank you

0:56 chart gives the most valuable information I've NEVER seen any other teacher give!

Great video. Big THANKX man

Thanks for basic but great exercise…. No one has done this… warm up perfection…. We needed this

Good teacher ❤

Excellent stuff, Jules

Excellent video!

Another great lesson 👍

Great lesson. Thanks.

Another cracking lesson!

Thanks Jules!

great ! thank you so much ! there is a lot in it !

thank you for this!

Many positions to play in different chords. Excellent Tutorial.

Thanks for breaking it down!

Thanks Jules very cool 💯🙏

I was away from playing guitar for many years due to bad circumstances and decided to start all over again. Since i had already learned many of these things years back i should be able to progress pretty quick to get back to where i once was when i played for 8 hours a day. I have noticed it is more that my muscle memory suffered than theory. I still remember all the notes on the board and the scales and modes but my hands do not respond as precise as i would like them to.

Great video. If you know the 1st position from years ago, like me, getting a hold of the other 4 is not that hard. Getting the shapes memorised in a week is not far fetched.

Thank you! I know these positions fairly well. Never played them up, down and over all the way up the neck. Will be practicing.

I never heard about the CAGED connection. Thanks.

PRO TIP - if the speed Jules is playing is to fast for you to keep up, do what I do and slow the playback speed to match your speed. It really helps. Thanks for another great lesson Jules.

@williamb3323

4 ай бұрын

nice Sean, thanks

Brilliant as usual

Perhaps the most important lesson ever!!

Great teaching.

Useful as usual.

thanks man just beginning and got 1 to 5 pentatonic scales in 2 hours. great teaching

I’m a retired educator and have learned that many people are “visual learners”. For those students, every time there is a disconnect between how they look at things versus how they’re shown by the instructor, comprehension drops. As these comments suggest, however, even visual learners “see” from a different perspective. These vids and fret images are both oriented the same, which is helpful. For viewers who visualize the notes from the guitarist point of view, you might try watching yourself in a mirror or on screen so you see three images that are all oriented the same. Watching your fingers will still be out of synch, but this might help your brain make the connection more easily.

Thank you!

That’s a good example of pentatonic scale up the neck 😮👍🏽☮️❤️✨

With regard to the diagram being upside down because tabs are done to look how you see them while holding the guitar, this is done to appear how it would looking at someone playing a guitar, which we are. Presumably so it matches what we see his fingers doing. I don't think it's upside down.

You just taught me the caged system where no other teacher could explain it previously on KZread. I thought the caged system was chord shapes up and down the neck....C chord up and down the neck, and then a chord moved up and g chord shape....it was so easy the way you explained it.

Thanks!

Great sharing. 🎉❤

Works good for me!!!

this is awesome, and why as much as it drives us nuts with the algorithm, it can work. guess what im working on? and now, a day after you've posted this, ive found you, and your excellent video! liked and subscribed!! thank you so much!!

bravo brother

Gonna give it a whirl! Cheers!!😃

I’ll give it a go!

Great❤

Would help if explained how to strike the strings with right hand, beautiful guitar by the way

Thanks for this guide❤‍🩹

I agree with what everyone else is saying! Thanks!

Please make guitar solo from pentatonik scale

You are a good teacher, the only problem i have is the neck is facing the wrong way for me and i cant seem to follow it.

@user-hk2fe3lt6u

3 ай бұрын

Goddam it. WHO tf decided having the nut to the right was the way to go---when most players are right-handed?! Scott Johnson, Andrew Clarke, and now Jules. THIS SUX.

Isn’t this just the caged system? Scott Paul Johnson has great videos on this.

what note backing track works for this?

Wait. I just got all messed up. I'm new and just got used to looking at guitar tabs being upside down. On a guitar tab, the top string is actually the high E, then the next string is the B, then G, then D, then A, then low E. But I'm to the 1:21 mark and am I right that this tab makes the top string be the LOW E??? If so, are all scale tabs this way? I don't understand why they're flipped...

Jules, is it necessary to practice within these 5 shapes or can I also practice by adding a few more shapes?

@itisinickt

Ай бұрын

if you practice any other shapes your guitar will break

I like how you broke this tute into sections. Well done. Strategic success. Easy to recall + practice one position at a time before recalling + practicing all together.

❤

Thanks for the lesson. What is the bpm for the backing track?

@JulesGuitar

4 ай бұрын

75 iirc

@ek19751

4 ай бұрын

@@JulesGuitar thanks

for those needing it upside down... take a screenshot then rotate pic 180°. 😊

really espectacular al you teach ...thanks from Argentina!!

Help in transposing please

I can go the Pentatonic up and down the neck with no problem yet I can't use it musically because all I do is play it up and down 🥴

So far I’m great at doing this in a minor across the shapes. I still tend to get lost if I switch the key.

👍👍🎸🎸

give a lessonon how they're linked or connected

Really great video! However the fretboard diagram being upside down makes it really difficult without watching the video upside down

@user-hk2fe3lt6u

3 ай бұрын

Goddam it. WHO tf decided having the nut to the right was the way to go---when most players are right-handed?! Scott Johnson, Andrew Clarke, and now Jules. THIS SUX.

@midwestguitarist

3 ай бұрын

@@user-hk2fe3lt6uIt seems like it's that way on purpose and then they invite you to their patreon for the correct view in a PDF. Pretty annoying. There are some chrome extensions out there that let you flip the view of the video though, if that helps! Or just take a screenshot and rotate it.

I love the lessons, but the fret board graphics being upside down and backwards really messes with my head.....

The image of the fretboard is upside down. It's perfect for your viewpoint there but not the viewer.

@markjohnson1588

4 ай бұрын

Now you know 2 ways to read it

@user-hk2fe3lt6u

3 ай бұрын

Goddam it. WHO tf decided having the nut to the right was the way to go---when most players are right-handed?! Scott Johnson, Andrew Clarke, and now Jules. THIS SUX.

Had a very bad episodr of ocd attack. That i felt like banging the wall.

Great explanations but the fretboard should be turned 180 degrees to be as seen by your students on their instrument. It makes the lesson uselessly difficult to follow because you have to reverse the fretboard in your mind as you play along the video.

@user-hk2fe3lt6u

3 ай бұрын

Goddam it. WHO tf decided having the nut to the right was the way to go---when most players are right-handed?! Scott Johnson, Andrew Clarke, and now Jules. THIS SUX.

C major pentatonic = A minor pentatonic

If one more asshole says, "Game Changer" I'm going to scream!

Your chart is upside-down and backwards

@SJ-xp7zi

4 ай бұрын

I struggle with that, too! I can see trying to mimic our view of HIS guitar, but since charts are always from the guitarist's POV, it requires an unnecessary step of mental processing. Hard when you're trying to focus on that actual content.

The direction of your on screen fret board seems unnatural to me, and causes big me confusion. I can see the lowest notes to the right side of the screen but the direction should be the opposite for it to make sense. Fret one should start at the left side of the on screen fretboard - just like on my guitar.

@igordragoslav9672

4 ай бұрын

True but its easy to understand for me..

@Delzona

4 ай бұрын

Maybe you didn’t notice, but the screen fretboard is the same as what he’s playing on guitar, so it makes sense. Just as you are watching him play (or anyone play for that matter) you wouldn’t expect them to flip their guitar over to a lefty position so it mirrors your position. Rock on 🤘

@davorgolik7873

4 ай бұрын

​@@igordragoslav9672 at first also happens to me, but on the screen there is no usual diagram as given in the books, but Jules guitar fretboard zoomed as you see it. This is whole thing.

@paparufus4125

4 ай бұрын

Backwards to me as well. When you watch a player your brain turns it around as if you were playing. Not so much with a fretboard diagram. For our brains it should be as we would be playing. We don't want the added step. Guitar is hard enough without the reversal! Love you as an instructor but.......

@johnconway6833

4 ай бұрын

He has the diagrammatic fret board aligned with his real fret board. To me it would be stupid to have them starting at opposite ends.

If i stand behind my screen and look down at it this works fine. 😂

Great teaching but that fret diagram is messing up my brain hemispheres

Your screen is backwards making it very difficult to see the fret board right

Goddam it. WHO tf decided having the nut to the right was the way to go---when most players are right-handed?! Scott Johnson, Andrew Clarke, and now Jules. THIS SUX.

Wrong,the most important would be to start with undersactanding Interval ,A;B;C,D,E;F;G, and natural minor....pentatonic is the easy shit for the lazy

Dudes got his tabs upside down and backwards lol. Why did you lay it out like this my man ?

What?! "Five positions"?! Say what?! Shapes?! Say what?! There are 66 tones from the first 11 frets on 6 strings. Thus there are 66 tones from which to start pentatonic minor scales. There is only one way EVER to play a pentatonic minor scale starting from the tonic: You start by playing a m3, then followed by two M2, followed by a m3.

@jackfromthe60s

4 ай бұрын

What???

@johnp.johnson1541

4 ай бұрын

@@jackfromthe60s Oh so you don't know about intervals? Intervals re the fundamental building blocks of music.

@jackfromthe60s

4 ай бұрын

@@johnp.johnson1541 Yeah, I understand them. Now explain to me how the "only one way" to play the minor penta is to start on the m3.

@johnp.johnson1541

4 ай бұрын

@@jackfromthe60s From where did you learn that? You did not from my comment. One starts on the tonic. The next tone played creates a m3 interval. Good luck playing "gotcha" game in the future. Alas, there is no consolation prize this time for you.

@mikedisd3

4 ай бұрын

A beginner won't learn anything from what you just said. Practise the shapes.

Go practice and quit crying😢

Thanks!