I use the Pentatonic Plus scale. The pentatonic, plus whatever else sounds good to me….lol

Once I learned the difference of major / minor pentatonic , chords of a key , CAGED and that the major pentatonic positions literally fit around all those diff shapes , it was a game changer to start playing more melodically and not just playing single notes. Makes u sound like u know what ur doing 😂 love this stuff

After I finally let myself understand "There are no wrong notes you just gotta use the right perspective." It changed my world in and out of music. As above, So below. Thank you Rhett!

This is one of the best, to the point instruction I have seen. So many great songs played on this exact blueprint. Thanks man

As someone who is in that weird beginner-intermediate no mans land, this was a great video to learn a wider perspective of what's happening within the songs we love to listen to. thank you!

Good to see the educational content - the mix of teaching and demonstration is great.

Thanks for this Rhett; I started playing again during the pandemic after a ~20 year hiatus, and figured out a lot of this myself, but it's good to go more in-depth with you, and you lay it out cleanly and concisely.

Thanks for summarizing the old pentatonic theme so compactly again. But, the most important thing is the rhythm, the groove, the feeling when and where a note is played.

Tried this. Really love when learning something new just clicks and is explained simply and changes your sound and how you play almost immediately. Thanks for this one man.

Brilliant tutorial, Rhett. And so many great licks too! Thanks. Will definitely check out the course.

This was a very good lesson. Explained exceptionally well and the follow along was great. Thank you and keep this style lesson coming regularly. I need it.

Impressed younare so wise beyond your years jedi the force is strong in knowledge and content enrichment of my soul Brother.

Definitely an essential lesson. I rember years ago playing around with the minor pentatonic shapes and adding different notes to it.

The thing I always found quite funny about theory was you start with minor pentatonic with 5 notes you can use, then say b5 for blues, then Maj 3 for a mixolydian sound, perhaps the 2 & 6 for natural minor, then harmonic and melodic, Phrygian and Dorian flavours then before you know if you've justified all 12 notes as passing tones 😂👍 Then you come full circle and start thinking in intervals and targeting chord tones using triads and inversions and stop thinking in scales anyway. 😂

Wish I'd had this lesson right after I learned all the minor shapes. It took me quite a while to figure out I could play the relative minor for the major and that was only after I learned the circle of 5ths. This lesson would have saved me many hours of thought. That being said, all those hours were needed anyway. Great lesson!!!!

What a beautiful primer lesson. I’ve been learning tons from you over the past few years and now I’ve reached that place of my own mastery where I’ve begun to turn around and teach other people. That space of trying to illuminate the basics, such that they can transition you from the terra incognita of the early fretboard into a traveler across a well worn map of grooves that are the frets of that old friend, the knotty guitar neck. Your pedagogy is sound. Thanks for always being an inspiration.

I really do dig your approach to all this. Usually my head is swimming with the theory talk but you manage to keep it on the ground floor thankyou

It’s crazy how versatile pentatonics are. They really are the perfect jumping off point for guitar as an instrument.

Rhett, I knew this when I played piano years and years ago, but this just blew my mind with the relative major and minor scales on guitar and how they are the same. Thanks for all the educational work you do, keep it up! Also enjoying your slide guitar course atm.

Nice fresh ink! And, this was one juicy lesson! I really like this format. There is always so much to digest, this was a nice balance. This video is worth watching more than once!

Great explanation of all this. Great job Rhett !

Great practical explanation with examples. Very nice.

Thanks Rhett. That was a great ear opening lesson.

Great Video Rhett. It's really interesting how simple notes can add a little spice to your solos and catch the attention of the audience. You just need to know how to use and practice to make it natural while you're playing. Great content man.

Great Lesson! Really learned and enjoyed it!

Thank you for making a video about this!

Oh man, this started right on my level and went so much beyond... gonna have to watch and play along a couple of times. Thanks for sharing, and keep up the great work!

This actually made me understand how the CAGED box shapes work together. Missed that in all the CAGED instructions I've seen over the last couple years.

Thanks for the lesson and the PDF.

Great lesson, Rhett!

Dude that bridge pickup sounds so good. I have the hardest time getting that not-so-pokey but still aggressive sound out of that pickup

Really love what you are doing here ,man. I have played guitar for a long long time now. Never really played this kind of music before. But watching You play and seeing how really beautiful and melodic you play , I'm in to give this a spin. Thanks again.

Such a great video. Thanks so much, Rhett!

Holy shit that was one of the best guitar lesson ever! Please do that to all the modes (phrygian, mixolydian,…) and how we can use and connect them with the minor and major pentatonic shapes please!

Great lesson and great tone. Thanks

Now this is why I love this channel, I had no clue about relative major and minor scales that is so cool

Always a pleasure Rhett! Like me and my dad said back when you were in Utrecht with Roofman, you really inspire :)

Hey Rhett this was an awesome lesson you gave. Now if I could remember it all. Love the material and appreciate the knowledge. Already do some of this but really didn’t know what I was actually doing other than playing by ear

Awesome lesson thanks Rhett. When I started playing there were two songs that made me notice something that sounded “different” which of course turned out to be that they were playing major, not minor, pentatonic. The first was call me the breeze by lynyrd skynyrd. Other was live version of sweet home Alabama (from the live at the fox album), with its solos in many different positions. Loved learning those songs.

thx. it's nice to have such systematic refresh...

Great lesson. Nothing like the sound of a Strat = so vocal & expressive.

One of your best videos in a while, this will help Josh with his tone, SICK BURN

Great video Rhett (as always) - IMO, the most valuable 16 minutes for a beginning player.

Love your work Rhett. Always learn something new and interesting, even if I have to watch your videos over and over because I get sidetracked and start jamming after the first two tricks I learn.😆

Thank you for the informative content, my friend.

That lesson was an absolute pleasure to watch and listen to. Thank you very much. I'm off to pick up my guitar...👍

Excellent video. Well explained.

Great lesson, Rhett.

Great Video Rhett, Thanks

very nice - thank you, Rhett!

Nice! Well explained, thanks!

Great video.. very helpful, thanks.

Great lesson, Love ur tone too mate, sounds great 🤩

One of your best videos, Rhett!

my hack approach has always been that if it's a rock-n-roll song I play the pentatonic shapes starting from the root, but if the song's a ballad, I play it off the relative minor. Learning how to play each chord in at least a few different places on the neck starts to really make it all make sense as well.

Thanks ,great explanation

Really useful tips here. Thanks for this!

Great episode. Thanks.

Very good video, this format is winner, for me. Thanks, Rhett ! By the way, love the ink !

Finally someone who teaches fretboard theory. You have no idea how long I’ve been looking for a concise video that teaches this exact relative major and minor thing. Thanks so much, Rhett.

Best explanation of these scales on KZfaq!

Nicely done, sir!

Thanks Rhett !!! Great stuff here

Excellent video Rhett.

The Pentatonic trick every pros use yeah !! Liked Minor fifth , root fifth and third fifth every notes that's had people's played Am , B7 , C add9 and also G/B .

Wuauu Amazing Class!! thank you for sharing, Gracias Cristian T.

Thank for being so informative. 🤩🎸🎸🎸

Thanks - great lesson

Thank you Rhett 🤘

Pentatonic was one of the first things I was shown on the guitar :) I didn't even know what it was for a few years...

Solid gold lesson. Just noticed the new ink too, looks rad!

Great video!

Clear lesson!

Good stuff Rhett

I wasn't sure if I was going to learn anything by watching this, but I stayed for Rhett's tasty blues riffing. Great tones, man.

Thanks Rhett great video might check out your course thanks again Brian Ireland 🇮🇪🎸🎸

Relative Minor!! I finally know the name for this! I'm self taught and severely lack music theory knowledge, and I've asked friends before if they know why some progressions lend themselves to this "secret other solo box that's 4 frets away and still works, but with a totally different vibe" and I never got this answer. Now I have a name to a face. Thanks!

Nice job very clear

This may be the best explanation of this ive ever seen. Definitely gonna have to buy a couple lessons now. 👍👍

nice work Rhett

When I first learned this it honestly opened up so many more ideas, which is wild because it's all the same notes

good stuff Rhett

Great video! Clearly explained & demonstrated. Nice job Rhett!!

I think the pentatonic works so well because our human brains like the simplicity and home base feeling it gives. However, all the flavors and colors added are what make up the complex variations that keep the music interesting.

FANTASTIC!

Nice lesson. Awsome guitar too. Shabbat guitars rock. Keep it up. 👍

thank you! this video just unlocked some guitar juju for me

Thanks a lot Rhett. That was amazing. Yepp, I do know a lot of this stuff already, but you brought it into a different kind of context. And you are a briliant teacher.

Great vid Rhett!

Very detailed video!

Thank you for the content, and understandable view, still ahead of my knowledge but, inspires me to learn more, nice tattoo. Cheers.

You're a great teacher

Great video man!

There is an easy way to explain in general the move from major to relative minor: Every time you want to move to the relative minor, just go to the minor 6th chord of your key. Learning your diatonic chords and knowing the I-ii-iii-IV-V-vi-vii° is important. And focusing on the number if the notes in scales rather than the letters makes it much easier to apply in every scale. Your major 3rd can be any note, so the easiest way is to remember just where the major 3rd is in relation to the root. That's how Tom Quayle does it, it's a really good tip.

Love the shirt!!!!!

Great video, very digestible. I've been doing my best to become more than a strum-along guitar player lately, and I've found it funny that you can buy big books of chords and scales and learn all the notes up and down the fretboard... but playing most pop music, from the origins of rock and roll to current, is pentatonic scales and passing notes.

Rhett, don't want to take away from this AMAZING content, but when are you gonna let us in on this new tattoo? We're here for the content + YOU. Thanks for creating and cultivating this community!

THANK YOU!!!!!

Hi Rhett, awesome video! Great lesson, excellent job! 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻 I really appreciate you breaking these details down and making them so simple and easy to understand / apply. This for me was pretty much everything I’ve ever wanted to know about playing lead or soloing, it was very helpful. Quick question - By using all the different extra tones or different scale degrees, flats, sharps, etc., do you in effect end up playing the different Modes of the major scale? I imagine so, because the modes are basically just different from each other by just one small change either flat / sharp in each successive mode, right? Hopefully I’m making the right musical connections in my understanding 😆😆 Thanks again! 🙏🏻 Also side note, I love your playing style on your leads / solos when you’re playing in a band setting 👍🏻👍🏻🎸🎸

Rhett, it would be great to get some info about your signal chain each vid. The tone you are getting out of a Strat bridge pickup is amazing.