In case you're as lost as I was while watching this, here’s what I was able to cobble together in terms of which frets are involved as you work your way up the neck. (You’re on your own for the back-and-forth parts of each sequence.) B string: 0-1-3 E string: 0-2-3 B string: 1-3-5 E string: 2-3-5 B string: 3-5-7 E string: 3-5-7 B string: 5-7-8 E string: 5-7-8 B string: 7-8-10 E string: 7-8-10 B string: 8-10-12 E string: 8-10-12 B string: 10-12-13 E string: 10-12-14 B string: 12-13-15 E string: 12-14-15

@rrees1230

Жыл бұрын

B string: 0-1-3 E string: 0-1-3 B string: 4-5-7 E string: 4-5-7 B string: 8-9-11 E string: 8-9-11 B string: 12-13-15 E string: 12-13-15 Down the fretboard is not presented here by me.. but it is the reversed direction. "Sean" verbally mentioned a Scale of G...My observation is different. Doesn't match. I feel this mental exercise still has some benefit... But you have to talk yourself into it. I'm not qualified based on what's presented. Yes, I made a diagram... and paid attention to the video at different speeds and frozen time slots....which helped me. A good experience, all in all. 11/15/22. ron

@anthonystark5412

Жыл бұрын

@@rrees1230 It's in the key of G, mate, not the scale of G. Jack's notes are pretty much on the money.

@wlovett4

Жыл бұрын

Could one say: a six note walk up the G major scale; three notes per string; over two strings; starting on the open B and E string; retreating and advancing the last three notes before advancing to the next note in the scale? Understanding it is easier than describing it. Playing it is another story but that’s the game in a nut shell.

@rrees1230

Жыл бұрын

@@wlovett4 >> Hi! My best guess might be this: Playing the E and B strings has to be a Big Pain in the Butt. A pattern may serve us better then all sorts of music theory for these top two strings. There's NO real reason to lock in a ROCK SOLID and sacred reason other then Muscle memory and EAR tuning. So my efforts were aimed at making a pattern that is symmetrical. So I followed what I interpreted from what was presented from SEAN DANIEL offering as best I could and this was a pattern that basically is 4 loops going up the fretboard and 4 loops going down the fretboard. This allows for 12 notes per string using the exact same frets in either direction ... loop-de, loop-de, loop-de, loop-de throw a U_TURN and go back to the Zero (open)nut fret. Ron: 01/08/2023

@MyKindaBar

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Jack for enumerating the string notes for this video.... I am a 70+ year old newbie and thought a year ago to attempt to learn guitar on my own (at first).... if I thought if I could adapt to learning, I'll follow on later with instructor led assistance... I've had my guitar a year now, and lately thought of either giving it away or hanging it on the wall, attaching a DML speaker to it and playing music thru my entertainment equipment.... discovering video has given me some inspiration to keep going..... for 3 days now I have been using your enumeration and discovering I can learn finger control and play some pleasant sounds... thank you for publishing your enumeration... it has been very helpful to me....

I’m pretty much retired, I try to play every day. I don’t allow many days to pass without picking up my guitar. I’ll be working this into my practice routine. Thanks for a great lesson!

@gl3nnx

Жыл бұрын

did you see speed result

@stoicnotsad

Жыл бұрын

@@gl3nnx did you?

@gl3nnx

Жыл бұрын

@@stoicnotsadi havent try thats why i am asking this commenter so i wont waste time lols

@stoicnotsad

Жыл бұрын

@@gl3nnx it's very beneficial because it makes your fingers ready for triads shapes, playing melodies, scale shapes it's a 100% go exercise

Hey Sean, personally I think this is one of the best intermediate lesson's you've delivered in a while. The incremental improvement I've felt in a week of dipping into this lesson from 'confused look on my face' not being able to do it to getting the forwards under my fingers, to slowing the video to 0.25 to copy the backwards and slowly speeding that up has really sorted me out and now I feel stoked for making and seeing and feeling some improvement. Anything to shift my playing along a notch after nearly 30 years of playing is always a bonus, you're a legend, a scholar and a gentleman, good on you bro, glad you survived the hurricane. Thanks a million, wishing you well as ever my man, Rob

Sean, great lesson, the exercise has improved my dexterity …. And made me so much more aware of fret/scale intervals. As an ‘over 70’ learner, a fun skill builder. 😊

Thanks to gentleman who posted the breakdown of sequence scale. 👍

After several of your videos, I place you towards the top of a long list of instructors. Love your style of teaching.

Great lesson Thanks Sean!! Also thanks for taking it all the way and not just showing the first few frets and expecting us to figure out what is next. Several online lessons from other teachers sometimes do that

Sean, this is a great exercise! Already planning to practice it on all the string pairs.

I like exercised like this that are built around scales but keep it musical. Keep it coming.

Love this exercise. Spent the last 2 days just playing the forward way to get it under my fingers. Was worried about the reverse but just had a go and it came really quickly. Very fun to play, just trying to build the speed up slowly now.

I really like the intent of this! Will incorporate into my routine! Thanks for sharing Sean!

I am starting this practice from now. Thank you so much for sharing💐

I've been calling out the scale degrees while doing your wonderful exercise. One more layer on the onion then playing harmonized thirds up and down the same string set. Super helpful. Thanks Sean

Thank you Sean that is a brilliant lesson. It suddenly makes sense. Great to practice. Please do a lesson bringing in more strings!

Hey Sean great video. Could you do a vid on the same type of exercise using all the strings. Unlike a lot of people I love doing exercises, like you said it's cathartic...Thanks

This is a really good exercise and once you master it in the key of G it will be nice to try it in other keys! Thank you Sean!

Thanks for the cool exercise. Appreciated!!

I have watched many good videos on learning the major scale up and down the fretboard, this for me is the best, certainly for lead players, really gets it under your fingers , more power to you. Thanks,From a grateful amateur

Thanks this is a great intro to get me back to learning how to play. I was in a band in HS and haven't played since then as I let life dictate to me.

Makes a lot of sense...thank you!

Thank you Sean! I’m just getting started again after years of not practicing and this has been very helpful and encouraging!!

Did some of Tomo's patterns and its true...I'm 60...been tinkering for 50 years...'drills' do magic to your muscle memory, etc. ..and your playing improves...add some jazz chords too. Gotta love YT!!

Fantastic lesson.

beautiful exercise and good sound as well... good job 👍👌

Glad I discovered you. This was very helpful and challenging but after 2 days beginning to get it pretty good. After 1 month who knows. Also listened to octave notes with scales. Pretty cool. I’m gonna become a guitar player yet. Who knows, they may make a big star out of me

Thank you for this drill. I already feel some connections being made in my music-brain.

Cool helpful exercise. Thank u. Also rocking the bed hair 🤘

This is very helpful. I already know music inside & out (jazz degree in saxophone), but guitar is new to me. Appreciate the lessons that assume a certain level of musical knowlede.

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help out!

Sean, had no idea what i'd be doing today at 10:57 pm, but here we are, aren't we 🤫🙌

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Best use of time!

Thank you for the exercise! Exactly what I like and need (-:

Definitely going to try this!

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Good luck Sam!

I extended the lower (1st shape) walkdown to end on low G. Very Cool! Sets me up for any path!

It made it easier for me to figure out if I stopped trying to memorize a pattern and just used the notes of the G scale. That way you know when you are on B, its only a single fret ahead to C, when you are on F# its a single fret ahead to get back to G. You are only playing notes in the key of G. This makes this a great exercise for both fingering, learning the scale patterns and remembering where notes are. Great exercise, my hand hurts but my head is buzzing!

Sean thank you so much. If I heard 'Pentatonic', along with, "so we start on..." one more time, I might have imploded. Us intermediate players get lost too often. Either we're being shown the pentatonic scale for the billionth time, or it's some impossible Satriani lick. This is just perfect. When you add in the strict alternate picking, it's very challenging but entirely possible. You are exercising your Maj scale knowledge across adjacent strings, exercising your ability to use different interval fingerings across adjacent strings, and of course the alternate picking aspect. This is serious guitar weight-lifting right here. Thank you sir!

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Let me know how it goes!!

@m2svirtual384

Жыл бұрын

@@seandaniel23 It's funny you ask... this is going beyond well! I spend a lot of time in 1st and 4th position pentatonic boxes. I can watch this exercise pass through those boxes. That allows me to connect those boxes in a new way, and new things = good! It's like a new freeway system between each position. By seeing the exercise before and after each box, it lets me orientate them based on those boxes, and then I can instantly play either Maj or Min versions of the exercise. Which then instantly becomes musical rather than an exercise. My favorite backing tracker just released a track in C#m. I was instantly soloing over it with these patterns. Just awesome my man!

@m2svirtual384

Жыл бұрын

More gifts. Finger tap through these exercise shapes. Fret hand alternates between 2 of the exercise notes while the pick hand taps out the others. Utilize the open string(s) when they are in the key you are playing in. This is a box of chocolates. The more you play it, the more you begin to see....

Good drill. My first day, and I find myself breaking into the theme song from "Deliverance. "

No joke, doing this every day for a week revolutionised my guitar playing. I've been playing for 25 years and was a good rhythm player, knew all the chords, played in semi-pro bands for years, but I couldn't play any lead because I didn't TRULY understand the fretboard properly or how the strings really related to each other. I just got lost past about fret 5, even though I knew all my barre chords all over the neck etc, because I was only ever looking at the bass string and how the barre pattern built FROM that string. Thanks so much for this lesson. I'm finally progressing past a plateau that I've been kind of stuck at for ages, and its giving me 1000% more motivation and value from other lessons. I also pretty quickly realised that this same pattern could be used on any string pair (except G and B together of course) and its helped me identify patterns all over the fretboard when noodling around that I've never seen before. As someone who has some kind of mental block learning scales, well done for teaching me a musical-sounding pattern that manages to stick in my head! Would love to have a minor scale version of this starting from the same open position (yeah I could work it out myself of course, but if you're looking for an idea for another video, I'd really appreciate one on this topic)

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

That's so cool you actually did it! I'll try and do a minor one asap!

3 days in and its changed everything - THANK YOU!!!!!!!

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

So glad to hear it!

bravo..thanks for the exercise. i can do going forward, going back is getting my brain in a crunch...

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

I believe!

@chevychick537

2 ай бұрын

This is how I feel. It’s so flipping frustrating. Not gonna quit though. (Maybe cry but not quit). lol

Great exercise

Love this video & Elixyr strings

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

we Ryde!

Thanks Sean:)

Sean, this is awesome man thanks so much, except I like to take it all the way up the neck and then back down over and over again until I get sick of it. It was really easy to learn and I noticed that when you reach the top there is no reason to do the top one twice and then turn back, I just go to the top one and then on my way back down and same at the bottom just up and down and up and down I love it thanks again Sean 😮

Thanks very nice lesson.

Great instructional video. I'll practice it as soon as i pick up my guitar.Try Ernie Ball Paradigm strings... My favorite! Not coated like Elixir's, but very supple, instantly comfortable, and great sounding!

Thanks Sean, my 10 year old grandson loves practicing this one. 🎶🎶

Very tough exercise for me. Will probably have to watch this and practice for a few weeks or maybe a month. Cool exercise. I saw guy doing a similar exercise but with Am.

Elixir strings last years and sound great - whenever I buy a new guitar and I have way way too many I just immediately put on my elixir’s and know they will still sound great a couple of years from now - ok I don’t gig and am a bedroom recording player but I still play a fair bit. Great lesson too

@cliffschannel2521

Жыл бұрын

I run Elixir's on my Ovation and my Taylor . They might last a couple weeks . The G string Is always the first to go . I play pretty hard and bend alot and the G string windings open up a bit ant I dont like that feeling so thats when I change Them . I had the fretboard leveled and polished on the Ovation and it doesnt eat as many strings . Elixirs are 18 bucks a set so it gets expensive .

I love you, man. You're awesome. You speak my language with your humor and teaching. This has helped me a lot.

Thanks looking forward to Haring more from you.

I only put Elixir strings on my favorite guitar that I play the most. Two reasons: they help eliminate string squeak when sliding, and they last a long time.

Hey Sean // shouldn't this lesson include the next pivot note as they can be written down making the exercise much easier to find? Thanks in advance

Only person I can learn from. Thanks for teaching at good speed. Sheww

That extra dot on your fretboard had me all frazzled up

So nice sir

You're on. i just learned the pattern and practiced it for about 20 minutes. i will do so daily and report back after a week! thanks!

@kazzz2765

Жыл бұрын

how did it go?

@doctorr2

Жыл бұрын

@@kazzz2765 I wouldn't say it 'transformed' my playing, but it was a definitely a good exercise. I feel it improved my understanding of the fretboard and I've continued to build on the drill, add the D string. I'd recommend going for it.

@Dinglebeardedlady

Жыл бұрын

​@@doctorr2 Did you mean G string?

@doctorr2

Жыл бұрын

@@Dinglebeardedlady yes lol

I wasn't done accidentally hit something but anyway I wanted to say even though I haven't paid anyone as a teacher for me it's thanks to people like you that I have been making a lot of progress lately I really appreciate you and what you do thank you there is no doubt in my mind that this lesson is going to take me to a new place so thank you my friend!!

really good one, i'm on it first thing tomorrow. Me UK.

Any advise on what i should practice next after I am done with this exercise?

So the B & e strings are the same fret for every major and minor chord in the key, except for the pesky diminished 7 chord. I guess I already knew that, but this is really helpful way to see it and use it.

Sean, Great video!! I was watching at half speed it is hysterical, my wife saw me watching and asked if you were ok! I told you were working thru some things. I finally got the pattern and love it. Belly laugher at .5 speed but is like playing with buds 40 years ago. Keep up the good works. Thanks Richard

@shiftists5187

Жыл бұрын

Ha Ha, had to do the same to catch the sequence.

Helped me figure out “Summertime” by Big Brother & Holding Co.!

Do like the three notes per string and the sets of three for practicing this exercise.

Pretty Guitar

Name of the guitar brand? Looks and sounds beautiful

try this one, same 6 notes, B C D E F# G but play just first 3 notes then 3 again from the 2nd note, then 3 again from the 3rd note and so forth to G, move up to next pattern. and do it backwards. strick alternate picking

Day two, Ok it works, brilliant, however, did you turn grey in Erin?

nice guitar

Hi Sean! Would this work on a ukulele? I guess I would be in the Peoples key of C!!?

Great lesson God bless the people's key

In fact its a horizontal scale rather then the 3 vertical scales. Usefull!

After the open 1, 3, open 2, 3, when you say backwards is it all those 6 backwards, 3, 2, open, 3,1,open?? Or something else?

I like it! What do you do with it?

Are there tabs for this? I understand better with tabs to go along with the video. Great lesson!

@teerakkiss

Жыл бұрын

did Sean ever give you the tab,, I need it too

@billyboy804

Жыл бұрын

No

@nathanp9449

Жыл бұрын

get a notebook and pen, tab it out yourself, helps to memorise it writing it out! then you have 1 notebook of all your drills, songs, etc....

@teerakkiss

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanp9449 you are right,, i started doing that

@nathanp9449

Жыл бұрын

@@teerakkiss those school teachers were onto something! I'm up to my 3rd book now, full of mostly Metallica and iron maiden songs...and an easy reference to go back to down the track! Even if tabs are available I still write it out myself...

You have turned Green and wheres the Irish Mandolin? ( Mandola) and are they tuned in 5ths?.

How do you say that this is the key of G? Noob here. As you are staring this from 3rd fret b string should it be D? as the first finger is on D note? If you could elaborate it a bit please that would be very much helpful. Thanks

is there some place i can get the tab for this..pleasee

I don't kow what it means but doing this i realised i knew instinctively where the intervals were.

🔥

Good exercise. Similar the scale exercises of Metal Method.

Sean do you have a pdf that we can use to practice this pattern? JJDeHoyos

Yo, Sean! (new subscriber)

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Ayyyy welcome to the party!

Also do it on the other two string pairs(3&4. 5&6)

@joeyoutlaw7854

Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget 2&3 and 4&5!

Nice

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

;)

I'd like to add a shout out to @JackBailey for enumerating the string notes below...... I copied and pasted his enumeration on to larger paper and read from it as I learn your practices.... for a 70+ newbie myself, I have found his enumeration to be very helpful to me to keep going and not giving up........ Mr Sean Daniel.... for your newbie KZread lessons.... can you add some enumeration to your beginners lessons ... .. although your explanations were very helpful...... and thank you.... I find learning by "painting by the numbers" easier to learn than by learning by notes alone.... (I recall the 80's all girl band, "The Go-Go's" learned by "painting by the numbers"......)

awesome lesson...I might actually take the challenge! Amazing hotel room! I hope someone else is paying for it!!!

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Haha it's actually a friend's apartment!

Me: "Hey! Took me a whole day, but I finally got that pattern down! Yay! Thank you, Sean! " Sean: 13:00 Me: "Oh, motherf...!!! ... ... 🙄FINE!"

So playing in 3/4, or 6/8, would help?

Yeah knowing what to expect with your ear on the strings is so valuable. I would say 90 plus percent of the wrong notes I've got in my life revolve around what this can correct.

Yes! He said “The Peoples Key!”

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Take a drink!

7 Days… Starting tonight after work… OK, here we go!

@seandaniel23

Жыл бұрын

Let me know how it goes!

@dougsmith8430

Жыл бұрын

I definitely will!, Thank you!

I’m sure you’ve been asked but, what have you got against tab representation of what your doing! I’m new to guitar & have difficulty periodically following you.

Excellent, also If you gives the Names to the Notes in G-Scale, like “ Ga Ma Pa Da Ni Sa, Ni Da Pa Da Ni Saa” :::: then Ma Pa Da Ni Sa Ri, Sa Ni Da Ni Sa Ri ::: then Pa Da Ni Sa Ri Ga Ri Sa Ni Sa Ri Gaa :::Ascendings and Descendings like “S N D P, M G M P, D P M G” or “Do Re Me Fa So La Ti Do” it would be better 😮👍

Elixir my favorite strings...

Even though you don’t want us to think that way, do you find yourself thinking the note names as you do this?

mine too

🎸

Restrung! Don't hurt my language feelings! String, strung, strung. Run, ran, run. Go, went, gone. All different, all lovely.

Jesus...can i get some tabs?

What a gorgeous guitar!!! It was so nice just had to look them, D'Angelico, up. What an incredible line up of both acoustic & electric guitars they have I especially loved the Semo-Hollow body guitars.

Great n super sr. im from india yr subscriber