Minor pentatonic scale is simply pure magic

I've been playing guitar most of my life so coming from that world pentatonic scales are deeply ingrained in me and my improvisational fluency. I always wanted to learn cello so picked that up a little over a year ago. After getting comfortable with the fingering of all my major and minor scales (it wasn't too hard since I already knew how to construct them from a theory standpoint), it's time to hit those pentatonics which will be super fun for improvising to songs I like on my cello! Don't know why I hadn't thought to do this, but your suggestions of going up and down from different notes as well as doing them in 4 note chunks is literally what my guitar teacher had me doing years ago - head smack! The 4 note chunk is cool because it is also a convenient way to practice bowing technique with string crossings. I was just messing around with the Am pentatonic and tried such bowing patterns: all notes detache, 4 notes slurred, 2 notes slurred + 2 notes staccato (and reverse), 3 notes triplet slurred + 1 note tenuto, any and all of the above alternating short/long dotted notes - the possibilities are endless! I find it an easy way to tackle those techniques since the pentatonic sound is so familiar to me - and fun to play. Great channel, I look forward to hanging around as a guitarist turned "classical" string player :)

Thank you Christian for this nice education. I am using a lot of improvisation in country, folk and pop music and they some time do not understand how is possible. I anytime say " I play from heart with harmony and God". Say hallo from Czech Republic.

Hello, Im looking into purchasing an electric pretty soon and I really like the look of your instrument. Just wanted to know if you had any reccomendations for places that i can look for a quality instrument (with a little bit of style) I appreciate everything you're doing on this channel and its definitely helped me out. thanks!

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Christian is that a Yamaha electric violin your playing .

no love for viola?

I think you meant "sequences".... and it's funny because I totally roasted you for eliminating this simple scale from your improvisation tutorial. You came at improvisation about ten different ways but you never touched on the Pentatonic scale or "modes" except that you did mention a harmonic minor as part as a "fit" for a particular chord change. Here's the thing: If you happen to (also) be a guitar player and you are extremely familiar with your "blues" sound.. that means flatted 5ths, 7ths and raised 3rds... among your 6ths and 9ths, etc... well, all you really have to do (instead of the black key E flat key trick) just match the notes on your guitar. Hopefully you know some music theory. This way, not only do you understand how these scales and modes all fit together in one big puzzle, but your 'ear' will also tell you where you should be. You could simply use an electronic tuner (two actually) and place one on your guitar and one on your violin. Find the notes that way. Make sure you understand your 1.4.5 blues rhythms and your 12 bar blues and then go to town. If you want to take it one step further and have a little more fun, use an amp that has a variety of background presets and either mimic the notes there, slowly, one at a time... and then jam. A Spider amp 6 is great for this. One more step that isn't being mentioned here but should be obvious... the teacher here has an electric violin. If you REALLY want to go to town, get the 'right' pickup (not some $20 resonating, feedbacking Amazon POS) get a good pickup that is good with directional sound, and amplify your violin also. You can layer your melodies and learn your fingerboard just as well as you know your fretboard. Not my tutorial, why don't I make my own, etc.,etc.,??? ~ I don't have that kind of time, but I'm sure the teacher here will agree with my scenarios....but he might not be happy that I roasted him on his improv tutorial so I'm gonna run over there and delete the comments. Pentatonic is where its at, but you have to know your music theory. Know where all of your flatted 5ths are gonna be. Remember, when you are jamming with a blues band, you can emulate ALL of the instruments (cept for maybe the drums...debatable) You can emulate a Harmonica, electric guitar, sax, piano...vocal melodies...whatever. This is what is so cool about violins, not to mention the extreme slides (without a whammy bar or an Octave pedal)......I'm still searching for that badazz blues tutorial for the violin. People are just too reserved... almost like they are in a conservatory waiting for their Baroque, Classical teachers to write them up for their blasphemy and disobedience to all the rules.

I'm really not trying to give you a hard time, but by saying "I'm going to teach you EVERY inversion of the scale"... this statement is entirely UNTRUE...unless you have another video tutorial somewhere. Like I said in my first comment, these are "diatonic sequences, based on the Pentatonic scale" but why would you make people think that ONE sequence would be EVERY "inversion" when the fact of the matter is, there are literally HUNDREDS of variations of sequences for that scale? Broken seconds, thirds, fourths, etc, etc, Octave displacements, running the scale up the length of each string, running the scale up the length of ALL strings reverse 6ths, 5ths, etc., etc... it literally NEVER ends. I'm not sure if this is just a partial tutorial of another much larger and more comprehensive tutorial or if you really believe that those are "inversions??" Six notes down starting from the top, next note, six notes down, five notes up, next note 6 down, 4 up.... I'm telling you... there is no end to what you can do with melodic sequences. I don't care what scale it is. It could be a diminished scale, a harmonic minor scale, a mode (like the 5th mode) of the Harmonic minor scale with diminished laid over the top....I guess I'll go to you video page and see if this is just a tiny clip of something much more comprehensive. Really not trying to upset or to anger, but this is just simple misinformation. The Pentatonic Scale as you played it is 'something' and is correct, but the sequence you chose ... it is only ONE of MANY possibilities. I'm repeating myself because I've seen your other videos. You obviously know this. I suppose the difficulty I have is in your terminology. An "inversion" to me would be a chord that has been re-arranged... and a variation on a melodic scale would be considered a sequence, and I would try to keep things simple, but once you've gotten those 'simple' sequences down and part of your repertoire, it's time to start getting creative......