This is one of the most IMPORTANT lessons on youtube. 20 mins of mind blowing knowledge.

I've always felt like your lessons were just above my play grade but I would watch anyway. Sometimes down the road something might click with me. Today you really connected the dots with seeing the CAGED chord in the pentatonic scale. Being melodic just became an obtainable option. Thank you

You are the best at explaining the important things. I watched hundreds of videos on the subject and none of them were as clear; most guys on KZfaq show off in order to sell something; you are the opposite plus you have a genuine positive energy... Love your channel.

This is by far the best lesson on how the CAGED system works, blended with scales

5:15 you hit the nail on the head here. Incredible how easy it is once you use the CAGED system to see how your favourite guitar player chooses the licks they play. Very good lesson!

Sweet Jesus papa the light has indeed come on for me thank you

Awesome lesson!! Very clear and understandable. Learning the cage system is paramount. Thanks bro🤗

It's taken me 3.5 years of noodling to understand what your talking about. This just put me one step closer. Been watching your videos since I started back up learning.

Wow. AMAZING video! The way you explained Arpeggios/CAGED and how they link to Pentatonic scales is so clear. Thanks for this video Bret! I agree with a previous comment: 20 mins of mind blowing knowledge!

Brett, This lesson is huge! I play Sax 40 years + and just picked up Guitar and this channel is insanely helpful

This really helps me break things down so I can understand and start breaking away from running up an down scales hoping to make something sound good.

Thank you for this great video. I have been watching " how to play guitar solo videos" for years, but never could understand the concept until now. Look forward to more of yours. You are a great teacher.

This lesson really clicked for me. I've been working with Triad shapes and this has helped me to visualize those shapes and find new ways to move through them! Thanks for sharing.

The way you explained is so clearly and slowly. Thank you for awesome lesson!

Your videos are helpful, Mr Papa! I've been a song player on the guitar for about twenty years. During the pandemic, I started learning scales and the caged system. I now have a firm understanding of how the scales all connect and why they are what they are. You help translate that understanding into music!

I'm so grateful for KZfaq guitar teachers, specifically like you. I can play the Hendrix style licks now after practicing it for a couple hours! Thanks for providing the last puzzle piece for my fretboard realization!! I'd love to see more intermediate concepts/playing styles to help me expand my understanding and repertoire.

Your pedal contest brought me here, your approach & method changed my thinking, been working on caged and for a short time, watch many videos try to pick up more, THANKX IM ABOUT TO TRANSITION AGAIN & LEVEL UP!! SELF TAUGHT AND GETTING STRONGER

I've been noodling in and out of the First (Minor)/ Fifth (Major) position of the pentatonic scale for a few months now; trying to map things out, focus on the landing on root notes, but I felt like I hit a wall. I started searching and it lead me to the world of arpeggios. I could see somewhat on how that could apply but it wasn't clear until I stumbled upon your video. This will help me find more notes outside of the pentatonic scale that I could use, to sound better within the progression of the song. Thank you

So many people on the comments saying they have finally seen the light and I am one of them now. Man, I can´t thank you enough.

The only helpful instructor on KZfaq. (For me). And that says a lot bc I’ve watched soooo many teaching videos. Tx!!!!

Learning English with you I find it hard to make the most of the class. But you are a great teacher. I congratulate him

Been playing for years and this has helped me so much. I’ve been stuck in the standard pentatonic. Thanks stache you’re the best been watching you for years learnt most of my Jimi stuff from you!!

I can honestly say I’ve progressed further watching your videos than anyone else on KZfaq, and I’ve been watching for a few years now, when ever I’m in a rut I try something new and I’m now learning caged and triads to help my scales sound more melodic, and yet again papastache has pulled it out the bag, keep up the great work, and keep on rocking \m/.

I know my pentatonics all over the neck but didn't know about transferring chord shapes with that mindset. You just blew my mind! I'm gonna go jam. Thanks!

yes! I feel the same way everyone else thanking you for the lightbulb moment! and what sucks is it happened on a long drive to work and I'm itching to get my hands on a geetar! thanks again!

Thank you so much for this lesson! I have struggled to make sense of playing scales over chords for a very long time. This video had made complete sense of everything. You have a great way of delivering a point across unlike the other 3 videos I've watched. Thanks!

Thanks. I've seen this concept before but didn't understand. Now I get it! That's a big thing. Suddenly I see how chord shapes relate to some of the pentatonic patterns and how you can add parts of the chords (arpeggios) to the pentatonics. You said it just right for me to finally hear it!

Hands down one of the best instructors around, transparent musicianship. Thanks man 👍🏼

I'm still trying to grasp this completely. Your explanation helps me see this clearer. Never give up... Thanks 👍

I’ve heard this exact lesson so many times before, but I’ve never seen or heard this explained like this nor this well. Excellent, thank you!!!🙏

Holy hump. Mind-blown to say the least. This video is one of the best I have ever seen. The amount of concept followed by practical samples is exactly what is helpful to be able to understand the why of how things work, which allows me to understand and modify to suit my own playing preferences. Extremely well done, sir.

Very good. A player speaking to players. Perfect vid.

Some beautiful sounds coming from your fingers. I love your lessons chap, and always learn something

Wow I’ve been playing for many years and today the light came on

I learn a lot of scales, chord,how to arpegiate and don't know how I can solo melodicly but now i know how to solo. thank so much, Papastache.

The best guitar teacher on the internet, by far. Thank you SO much Brett!

That is a beautiful strat man, thanks for the lesson too

GOAT TEACHER. killer teaching. congrats from brazil

You remind me to somebody who play guitar like you when I started learning to play guitar sometimes in 1990. He moved house to another town before I completed the whole lesson he taught me. After he left I stopped to play melodically. Instead I was more into shredding and went like a speed demon when it came to soloing. Now everything has changed. I put musical aspects forward and do soloing for what it is called for - and what you do in the video is taking me to further musical exploration. Good Job.

Finally someone showing the connection between the caged chords and the scale that goes with each chord.

Great advice from a great player and dude. I learned it years ago but I've learned something from Brett watching this that I didn't really think about before. Very grateful for the share.

I remember years ago watching your lesson on Red House and getting past the intro and quitting because I thought it was just too complex. Many years later, I'm only now really getting into music theory and guitar theory and I'm having a blast! Learning scales was fine and good but you really helped me put all these scales to use! Thanks from a long time viewer in South Africa! 😁🙌

I’ve finally taken off with my melodic journey!!! Thanks man!

Wow, thank you so much for this! As a female artist, I always wanted to try solos and this helped a lot in understanding where to start!

Finally!!..A proper musical channel with proper musical lessons! Subscribed

I love this vid. I already am a pianist and am very familiar with scales and arpeggios, inversions, number system, etc but I appreciate how you do an amazing job covering the basic fundamentals while also helping us with the fretboard and caged shapes etc it really is a great pace you use to teach and don't waste any time on anything while also properly explaining things. Its great for anyone whether you are new to the instrument or new to soloing or just starting off learning music. This is the vid is great for anyone learning the guitar. Great and efficient vid

Love this! Great teacher Bret

this has helped alot in understanding how 2 use the shapes in the caged approach... now to try and apply it to these old fingers... thanx Brett !!

Thank you so much. This sounds great. I love Southern Rock

this clearly articulates and outlines what i've been trying to do but get lost doing

Your the best my friend. I love the way you explain the guitar lesson. There is a lot of years of explanation and understanding in that.

Hey Brett, I've been playing all my life, so I'm pretty far past this stuff - but I do want to say after watching this video that you have done a really exceptional job of explaining it in ways a beginner should easily grasp. You're a natural teacher, man. Well done, good on ya, and best wishes for the future. OH, btw - experienced or not, I'm jealous of your GORGEOUS tone on this video!!! Dude!!! Could you explain it (the amp design, setup, etc)? Students, sit up straight! This guy is great teacher! (full disclaimer: I have no idea who Brett is, I just stumbled on this video)

Brett ,thanks so much for free lessons! So nice to have intermediate lessons ,very helpful, thanks Brett.Merci pour la belle leçon . à bientôt.

You might make a video on how every pentatonic scale has its own associated chord. How the Am pentatonic scale is associated with the G chord and so on. I ran with what you pointed out in your video, so I took it to the Nth degree and thought it should help me to remember my Pentatonic scales better.

I am sure this will help in my phrasing. I get this theory and instead of trying to make scales melodic, this worked right away. Can't say thank you enough. I subbed. You got my attention !

Thank you Pappa. I already knew your videos but now I returned to them heavily. You know how to rock. And by the way. love you guitar sound. I intend to replace my bridge humbucker in my HSS strat for a weaker ( clearer one) just because I watched the video about your gear. Awesome sound.

This video was like a key to a huge door in my understanding of the guitar. Many thanks.

Wow Papa, you explain things very clearly. Thank you for your insight, I feel less in the dark tonally in a progression after listening to you :) You're one of the best communicators of real world guitar application I've seen over the years. I wish you lived closer, than across the Pacific Ocean. I don't understand why someone would down thumb this video?

Thanks heaps for this Brett. I've seen enough youtube videos to grasp the CAGED system, which have been very helpful, but your style of delivery and your demonstration here really galvanised the concept for me. Looking forward to commiting my fingers this way, and to viewing more of your content. If it helps, I was led to your videos through Tim Pierce's channel, which I came to via Rick Beato. Liked and subscribed. Thanks again. Ben

This is what I've been looking for! A lot of information out there on the CAGED system but this one shows how to use it. Thank you!

Dude, I cannot thank you enough, this lesson was such an epiphany to me. HUGE thanks from Costa Rica!!!! Love your playing!

this was very helpful. as I've always been in shredder mode and always wondered how these guys think when playing a bluesy idea and it's coming together and making me sound more mature in my licks . I like this approach .and the video you made with Tim pierce helped as well when he explains how he thinks when playing this way . very cool

Hey Brett ... thanks for this lesson and the 3 free lessons. Every time I check out one of your lessons, another door opens for me and the things other great guitarists seem to do so effortlessly suddenly lose their mystery and complexity thanks to your comprehensive, humorous and totally engaging delivery of their secrets. Just something, if you ever run out of ideas for your next video … I have noticed in many of your lessons, not to mention the 4 courses I own of yours, you do some incredibly tasteful ascending pentatonic runs … not the note sequence repetition stuff but the chromatic, string skipping, stacking with blues notes and major 3rd's stuff (boy was that a mouthful). I would love to see a full lesson on this if you get a chance … have a great festive season mate! Cheers, Aussie Mark

YOUR BEST LESSON.THANKS !!!!

Wow, this consolidates so much of the stuff i've been learning the past months into one fun & practical framework... Thx papa!

Thank you Brett I'm starting to understand it now slowly. Your a fantastic teacher 👏

Best explanation ever!! Thank you!!..

Brett Papa you are a legend

Brett. another hammer on the nail. thank you.

very good. love this lesson. knew most but still found something new. thanks a lot.

Brett....this is gonna sound like a blues song 😂 I woke up this morning...(dah dah duh dah dum!) 😂 I’ve played for 37 years, and I’ve only just realised I’ve been doing the CAGED method by ear!! Today it was like someone turned the light on ....i can see it! Kinda spooky I’ve been doing it by ear and shapes, I’m sure with this mornings new found knowledge when i get my ass outta bed I’m a better guitarist today onwards....thanks dude I’ve seen the light! 😂......great tutorial Sir (came here from Tim Pierce) have a great day 👍🇬🇧

Two decades of rock guitar and linear modal shredding under my belt, but before this video ended tons of blues songs I’ve heard but never played or understood just fell off my fretboard from what Brett just explained.

Very useful! "Chord shapes within the scale" is a key idea. And oh damn that is some sweet tone...

Brett I love all your lessons you are an excellent teacher/player and with a great sense of humor. Keep up the great work

Wow this one is absolutely great for soloing.I love it! Thanks Papastache

Great lesson. A lot learned in a short amount of time. Thanks for posting this lesson.

blew my mind today. its all coming together.

What a awesome lesson . I love Brett Papa's vibe . such a great player and awesome person .

Brett... Brilliant think I'm on the cus of finally how it all works and plays together... Thank you 🤘

The caged system has de-mystified the fretboard a lot for me. This particular video tho really helped.A big peice of the puzzle just clicked in place... mmm very satisfied. Thx.

My playing has improved so much after watching your videos. The Caged system has really helped and Done wonders for me. Thanks Man 🎸🤘🏻

It's good to have this explained, great stuff

Bad ass instruction. Thanks!!!

That..made a lot of things fall into place that I just could not get to fit together before. When you talked about the arpeggios - a hell of a lot of stuff clicked. Lovely playing and damn cool guitar too :) Thank you.

You really have to think hard when playing like this!! These lessons help a lot. It's neat when you start to see how things connect, like how the C shape shares notes with the D shape. I like the way you suggested mixing it up. Just throwing in a few target notes from chord shapes mixed with my regular scale noodling helps a lot. Thanks...

Well........that was just awesome. Thanks!

If you require a guitar tutor with panache...think of Papastache. Informative and no nonsense. ✌️😎

Brett, Can you please share some details about that gorgeous Strat? Pickups? Origin? Builder? I want to know all about it! Like, do you ever leave it unattended and if so where/when????

Greatness. Thanks.

I concur. Great lesson and really fun teaching style. Excellent!

Fantastic Brett! Been looking for this synthesis for a while. Now I can move forward in learning lead. Been a lot of various parts until now. I know the chords and the Pentatonics and some licks, but the licks were like floating pieces of knowledge, not landing anywhere. So the CAGED shapes put to a root in the Pentatonic allows that CAGED chord to be articulated on key. And the licks now can be selected which fit the chord place. Lick-on-Chord-on-Key. Well done sir!

What an awesome guitar lesson, this has opened doors for me. so appreciated!

Such a great lesson.

Very good 👍 video... Superb .....it helped me a lot. Highly recommend it to all the viewers

It all just made sense thankyou!!!

Great food for thought... Thanks for sharing.

Love all your videos! These are helping me so much with improvising solos, thank you so much!

Love this man ...teaches me something every time ... plays superbly Teaches even better cool cool cool .... thanks Bret awesome

Dude your lessons take me to the next level. Who? Could possibly put a thumbs down 👎 on your videos? Who?

Gold. Thank you.