If you download the track, Id love to hear what you play over it! Post on IG or TikTok and tag me @rhettshull rhettshullguitarcourses.com/p/free

@fangtwo

5 ай бұрын

What's the guitar you're playing here? I can't quite make out the headstock....

@RhettShull

5 ай бұрын

Its a Wide Sky P-125, amazing guitar! @@fangtwo

@silcoxone

5 ай бұрын

Very nice guitar!

@mrelmoresmusiclab

5 ай бұрын

This crushes...get yourself a loop of Fmaj7 to Dmin...and then play the F major pentatonic like you guys showed all the way up, but using nothing but octaves. Sounds unreal!!!! When you then start blending some sixth intervals and some of the minor blended, you are really into play for hours straight zone. Thanks for sharing dudes. If you want I would be happy to play over this and share what I mean. You gotta try this too Rhett. Especially those non-traditional style octaves most don't touch.

@pulkitdesai4094

5 ай бұрын

This link is not working.

Rhett!!! Thanks so much for having me. Such a great time.

@RhettShull

5 ай бұрын

You’re the man!

@danielebazzani

5 ай бұрын

As a teacher myself, You are so clear in explaining, which Is great!

Daniel is one of my favourite people to jam with in the whole world and I like hanging with him, drinking quality IPA's even more! Killer player and killer dude.

@RhettShull

5 ай бұрын

He's a great cook too!

@shannondew6822

5 ай бұрын

I have to agree 😁

I’ve been playing guitar for 25 years and this is the first time that I’ve had my mind blown since I learned about the pentatonic scale 24 years ago. After about five minutes of playing these patterns and training my ears to the notes, the baseline to born under a bad sign fell out of my hands, not out of memory, but because I could hear the notes in my head before I started to play them, and instinctively knew how to get to them. Now I can “see” the notes I’m playing in relationship to the root. It’s all right there.

@DanielSeriffMusic

5 ай бұрын

Whoa!! Love that. Thanks for sharing.

@jeremyliem7879

5 ай бұрын

@@DanielSeriffMusic thanks, but it’s all you! I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed that pattern before, or at a minimum just deleted the two extraneous notes from the major/minor scales when thinking in “penta” tonic. It’s like I’ve been wasting brain energy thinking about six strings and twelve notes and this pattern has freed up that space to understand what’s really happening in relation to the root.

Yeahhh!! Love to see Daniel getting this kind of recognition, he’s a great dude and a killer player too

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thansk bud!!

Awesome!! Great to see Daniel here! He's a great teacher and has been THE MAN online discussing the diagonal pentatonic!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks bud!!

George Benson mentioned in an interview that in his first years of playing he couldn't get the speed other players did playing vertically. He found that when he approached the neck horizontally (diagonally) it enabled him to gain speed, and he continued playing that way while working at and finally conquering his issues playing vertically. The end result was not only was he able to play the same licks horizontally as the others did vertically just as quickly (if not faster), but it opened him up to be an even more creative player and travel the entire neck at incredible speeds. What's important is not sticking to one thing or another. What's important is playing in whatever way that makes you feel better about what you hear when you pick up your instrument, so you'll stay motivated enough to conquer your weaknesses.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

There you go

So helpful! Been working on this idea with my students but the 2-3 note patterns is the key to making it clear. Thank you!!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. So glad it was helpful.

Daniel is the man! Worked with him a few years ago and he blew my mind!!! Glad you guys got together!! Keep it up! Joe

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Joe!

Daniel is one of the best! Awesome to see him get this kind of exposure with Rhett.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

My dude!

Seriff another great lesson. Brett that guitar punches in the mix. Great video!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I love love this! Getting out of the pentatonic rut and finding ways to do it.. this is great! Loving that it is so easy to know exactly what part of the scale I'm on just effortlessly.. No matter how long I've played all the pentatonic boxes, I always have to think a bit about the note I'm on. Thank you!!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

going thru the course and its awesome! thanks for putting this out there ds and rs!

Daniel, I want to take a moment to say how much I appreciate the dynamic volume you put on your licks. My mind has been blown by the theory of this lesson alone, but I literally have never heard anyone use attack volume as a technique -- at least not like you. Love the channel Rhett! Keep the dope lessons and biography type videos coming!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Man, that is too kind! Thank you. :)

Rhett, thanks in part to your videos, I picked up the guitar again after 20 years of barely touching one. I forgot more than I expected but it is also coming back at an OK pace. Thanks!

This just gave me a visual representation for the fretboard that I needed. Thanks Daniel and Rhett!!! 🙌🏻

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Too awesome!

Daniel has been a friend of mine for quite a while. That he's a gifted player is obvious. But he's an equally gifted teacher! His ability to take nearly any fretboard fraction and reduce it to simplest terms is just amazing. I've dug Rhett online for several years. Glad to see him and Daniel get together! Like minds. Like personalities!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, Rob!!

love that you have Daniel and know him! Been following him for a while. great player

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Bob!

Rhett your tone is awesome today!!

Rhett, that guitar is still one of the best looking guitars I've ever seen, and it sounds amazing! Great lesson too! This helps a lot!

@brianhackett-jl3hc

5 ай бұрын

What is it? I kept waiting for a shot of the headstock but it didn't happen. I'm guessing something custom? Beautiful.

@SwompyGaming

5 ай бұрын

​​@@brianhackett-jl3hc Im curious as well, looks a bit like a B&G little sister but never seen one in that finish before Edit: rhett responded to someone else, its a wide sky p-125!

Wow loved you two jamming over that track. Helpful video thanks!

I've been soloing like this for years I had no idea this is what it's called. Great video and I'm definitely going to practice this further.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Awesome!

I bought Daniel's "Diagonal Pentatonic Method" and it helped me beyond belief, i thought i had a mental block on learning the neck of the guitar....i can go all over the neck now....almost instinctively....im still amazed. Im 73 three yrs. old and learning the method of Daniel's gave me the desire to keep learning the guitar...Thanks Daniel....all the best....Gary Morse

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Gary!! Thanks so much man. Really appreciate you.

Excellent playing , superb tone , and awesome lesson . I’m gonna be studying this for sure

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Excellent. Thank you

This is AWESOME! What a dope collab ❤❤❤

What a lesson ⭐️ great info on here brilliant- thank you 👍🎶

Daniel your feel is so good! Wow!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I work on it a ton and it really wasn't awesome for a long time. There's some good stuff coming out in our next video on that.

That's so cool! I feel unstuck- love you guys!!!

fantastic lesson. Great playing. Thank you gentlemen!🔥

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the guitarist.

Rhett’s guitar sounds sooo good!

Wow.. his choice of notes is very unique. Great phrasing all around! Look forward to the course.

This is a great video. That was fantastic to play along with.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Awesome.

This is a cool video. A good watch. I stumbled on to playing like this a long time ago. I learned with a minor approach and have always struggled to connect major and minor but this is a good way of doing it without getting lost in the theory of it all and using your ear a little easier. That being said learning theory is cool

Fantastic! Thanks for that guys, really helpful tip!!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

So glad it helped

I watched the first three minutes of this and immediately saw improvement. Thank you!!!

Nice explanation. I've been doing this for decades, but never thought about it with this diagonal image.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Nice!

Great easy to understand system, playing that within a minute! And i just saw Rhett holding my dream guitar, semi with a p90 and a humbucker, plus ultra cool look. WANT!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

The best collab! Y’all rule! Go Daniel! Go Rhett!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks bud!

Dang Rhett, you're tone is on fire in this video!

That 1-2-3, 1-2 thing at 2:50 was taught to me by a guy I was giving lessons to! I had always struggled with boxes and it made so much sense! The guy was a very good player that came in for some theory and he actually showed me one of the more useful things. Totally the missing piece in connecting isolated positions in a fluid and musical way.

That video helped me very much! Thank you!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it

Awesome! thanks guys

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Whatever guitar that is that Rhett is playing, it's a thing of beauty!

@RhettShull

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Its a Wide Sky P-125

@kich16117

5 ай бұрын

I love the tone! What amp are you playing through?

Bro! Forget about the content of the video for a sec! RHETT WHAT IS THAT BEAUTIFUL LP STYLR GUITAR!! Holy s**t that's soo gorgeous!

@davidgangemi3314

5 ай бұрын

Glad Im not the only one who noticed that. hopefully he replies.

@oninofernandez

5 ай бұрын

Also, asking for a friend😁

From one of the camera angles, David’s guitar looks like a Starcaster shape. Got excited for a moment, would love if Fender started producing those again! Bought the Squier version and think it looks amazing.

Great stuff..! I drill all options in the pentatonic scales.. like you said..” Follow the octaves..”.. Thanks guys.!✌🏼

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

I CAN NOT tell you how much ... this is one of the best Rhett lessons Ever! No kidding, this was really a useful overview and just the subtle playing you both did helped drive home the point. No crazy shred just a nice 'here is how to use the skill'. I am an older low level player and I've watched countless hours of useless videos and given the net is a nasty place for commentary I tend to just try and forget about it and move on but I'm going to try and spend YR2024 lettting those folks out there know when something is right and this is right. Nice Job. *going to look up Daniel now.

@drguitar78

5 ай бұрын

couldn't agree more. this is the first time ive even considered paying for online lessons.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Really appreciate that! Thanks so much.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Awesome!!@@drguitar78

This is the guitar power duo the world needs right now!

@jesusislukeskywalker4294

5 ай бұрын

👍🏻 bro the world sure does. i can’t hardly listen to anything in the charts these days.. all auto tune voice fry vocals and over produced mixes.. samples being played backwards . i like all kinds of music though find myself listening to more and more music from what feels like a bygone era. 🙈

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Geoff!

That backing track groove is SICK!

@RhettShull

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

This is the most useful video i have seem here! Nice

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

So glad to hear it!

Way to go Daniel! 👏

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks bud!

Great points and tasty playing guys!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Kerry!

Great lesson and thank you for sharing. So many of us suffer from box myopia and we lose the musicality necessary for impactful playing. Once I get this under my belt, I suspect it is also a great model for incorporating some of those flavor notes from the modes. hey, i might be wrong, but you gotta make mistakes to know what sounds right.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

You are right!

self taught guitarist right here, playing for 25 years...never saw this explained elsewhere so clearly. this explanation just changed my view of the instrument. mind blown.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

So great to hear. Thank you

Super tasty licks in this one!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

Great lesson fellas ❤🎸🤘

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

It's pretty cool hearing you talk about concepts I've used, but never had words for. One of my earlier "breakthroughs" for soloing while sitting in with the old guys I learned with was "octave mapping". That saved me whenever I sat in on tunes in keys I'd never played in. I'm gonna start thinking about this "diagonal pentatonic" thing too. Sounds really cool and helpful for moving around without thinking much.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Very very cool!

Yes, love us some Daniel Seriff!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

My friends!

Great video, I'm already doing a version of the diagonal pentatonic. His explanation sounded way simpler tho, I'm excited to give it a try.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Very cool

Great lesson!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

This is how I learned it and it's now how I teach it! Good stuff!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Very cool

This is GOLD!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

Love this!!! I am one of those "boxy" soloists. These tips are incredibly helpful. I'm definitely going to check out the course.

@DanielSeriffMusic

5 ай бұрын

So glad it's helpful.

@DanielSeriffMusic

5 ай бұрын

So glad it's helpful.

@juanpiantino9182

5 ай бұрын

@@DanielSeriffMusic I purchased the course, and I'm enjoying it very much. Great job, and I will be checking your other courses soon!

This is how I learnt pentatonics, I didn't know what boxes were until after I learnt about CAGED, even now I don't think box 12345 like I see a lot of people doing, I think of the CAGED shape and overly the scale over the chord shapes,

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Nice approach!

Cool I leaned this way as well. Super cool seeing it explained.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Awesome

@matthewmiller3205

4 ай бұрын

I have been playing in this style for 38 years. Lately I have been sprinkling in some Tim Pierce and wow has my playing really opened up..Rhett introduced me to him on his channel..As he did Daniel.. Thanks..

Daniel is one of the best around!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Jordan! Hope all is great for you.

Corey Wong has a solid video with some pentatonic practice drills where you move vertically, diagonally, and horizontally. Been really helpful for me but also has made me a better player as I utilize some different movement s

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Excellent!

Let’s go Daniel! 🤘

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks bud!!

This is similar to what I used to do while learning. I remember going through and finding all the octaves all across the fretboard and then practicing by trying to solo only using 3-4 notes around each octave. Then I’d try to transition to the next octave up or down

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

very cool

This was cool. I do like how those notes outside of the scale sound off across the backing track. It reminds me how it's argued by Miles Davis and others that there are no wrong notes.

Thank you

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

this is how i learned to play the pentatonic scales out of the lead rock scales books from hal leanord when i started playing guitar , my teacher advised me to buy these books 1& 2 ( minor and major )

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Very cool! I actually originally learned the original idea from Marty Schwartz!

A great way to teach guitar, simple and effective.

@DanielSeriffMusic

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Absolute GOLD

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

not to put down any of this content, but this is why the CAGED system truly shines. With CAGED, you are not limited to moving diagonally, you can move in any direction you want, even skipping strings. This kind of content is good if you're trying to sound good in a short amount of time, but I feel that investing the time to learn the CAGED system is far more rewarding and will leave you will fewer gaps in your playing. If you want to really tackle the fretboard with the caged system, go see Guthrie Trapp's content here on youtube.

@DanielSeriffMusic

5 ай бұрын

Love CAGED, but I don't agree. There is no be all, end all, scale system. This is one of the options and when combined with fretboard knowledge, it can be expanded as far as you'd like. CAGED is cool. Guthrie is amazing.

@danielvelazquez18

5 ай бұрын

@@DanielSeriffMusic I agree that CAGED is not the final frontier of guitar knowledge. Once you have learned the basic concepts of CAGED, you should learn intervals + all the notes on the fretboard to truly unlock the power of the CAGED system. and THEN, you have to make sure you know what kinds of sounds you're making (theory). It really all just depends on how far you want to go with the instrument. But as far as improvisation is concerned, one should really do a deep dive into these concepts.

@DanielSeriffMusic

5 ай бұрын

@@danielvelazquez18 We are on the same page! I use these concepts to play all kinds of inside/outside sounds. I love to modify these scales...applying sounds from the modes. I dig caged...I found as you expand this diagonal system, you can bring on those advanced sounds in a really nice way. This particular way allows me to look at the guitar more like a piano since the intervallic structure looks the same across strings. Anyway, thanks for the comment and friendly chat!

@JemmyJems

5 ай бұрын

@@danielvelazquez18are you really trying to teach the teacher right now? 😂

@danielvelazquez18

5 ай бұрын

No, just pointing out that there is a bigger picture to visualizing the fretboard. That doesn't mean that the content in this video is not useful to some players. @@JemmyJems

Great video.

Great!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

omg!!! Not anywhere close to a pro, but I have been doing this for 40 years. Only seen this covered once on KZread, and nowhere near as in depth. It really allows you to move more quickly, AND if you plug notes in the right places, you have your Dorian, blues scale, Major, Mixolydian, whatever, as long as you start in the right place.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely! It's so effective.

It was hard to pay attention to educational content with all of that tone. Great video guys.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

HAhaha. My man!

Daniel getting the recognition he deserves! Oh yeah!!!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

My friend!

I can dig this. I don't know why everyone wants to hate on the box so much though. There are 5 boxes. Use whichever one is efficient for where you are playing on the fretboard with your chords/triads and the voicing/octave you are looking for. I do find his pattern helpful though. Thanks for sharing!

Two excellent players.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

thanks so much

Cool approach! I tend to think of them as arpeggios as well. (Maj6/9) and (Min7/11).

Funny 😂 I've been doing a series on this very method now for a few weeks! Minor only so far. There's a 1, 2, 3 - 1, 2 pattern in pentatonic all across the whole neck. Or if you'd like, 1, 2 - 1, 2, 3 pattern. Great post Rhett!!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Awesome!

Good advice, and it leads to much more musical sounding solos and licks. I must admit I've been playing like this since the 70s. I'm self taught from listening to records, as we all did, it's just how I learned to play. I've been teaching over 40 years and this is a big part of how I teach lead playing and licks too. This and chord tones. But the main thing I want to know from this video is - Brett what is your guitar, I love it?

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Very cool. It's a great approach

Hi Rhett- big fan- appreciate this lesson!! Love your guitar- never saw the headstock- what model guitar is that!! You sound great!

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Wide sky

That Wide Sky Rhett is playing sounds so damn gnarly, holy shit ... feeling some gas

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Danger. haha

@brianpye2733

4 ай бұрын

Man my wife Pepto'd that GAS about 10min later hahaha@@DanielSeriffMusic

cheers,, i know the neck and that fits nicely and is usefull,,

hell yea! the intro jam is great! 😎

@philodonoghue3062

5 ай бұрын

Totally Gives is ol’ git new newbies inspiration and hope hope hope Plus excellent demonstration of method to learn-practice-play

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you @@philodonoghue3062

Yay! 😊

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

When I saw good players playing Pentatonic patterns, they were usually playing diagonal 2-string groupings that could be easily moved an octave, retaining the same fingering, or playing 1-octave BB Boxes.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Definitely agreed

Rhett, What is that guitar, man? It's gorgeous and sounds great!

That is how I learned pentatonic. My teacher had a background playing in the orchestra pit on Broadway so he had a unique approach. I teach my students the same war.

Rhett, what guitar are you playing, looks and sound great!

Nice simple trick, a useful pattern to help new soloists. BTW that single cutaway guitar is gorgeous! What is it?

Great lesson I wish my guitar teacher was as good as you.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Rhett what guitar are you playing? That thing is awesome!

This is a lesson for people who already know what they're teaching.

That backing track slaps

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Very fun one by Rhett and his assistant, Chris.

This method reminds me of how a bass player moves around a neck (because they typically have 2 less strings to use). It’s cool, but I think it may handicap you in terms of some speed runs. But there’s a time and place for every technique. This is still pretty useful info to have.

@DanielSeriffMusic

4 ай бұрын

Works so nicely on the bass