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Video Chapters
00:00 Scale for Beginners: Why and How
00:30 E Minor Pentatonic Scale – Picking for beginners
00:50 How to play the E Minor Pentatonic Scale
02:27 E Minor Pentatonic Scale – Slow Playthrough
03:26 Getting Started With Scales – Extra Tips for Beginners
04:16 Learning Scales Tip 1 – Memorize the Shape!
04:55 Learning Scales Tip 2 – Play it slow!
06:36 Learning Scales Tip 3 – Metronome
07:57 Practicing scales as a beginner
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Here hang on a minute, I know this video is old but I hope someone answers me cos I'm totally lost.
I can just about read tab but where does it say play an "OPEN" note? All I see is 3 222 33 all in open. It's been a long day and I think my brain has died.
Thank you. Very clear instructions.
This is hard lol but it feels like a really good exercise
I just started playing, found your channels, and signed up for your basic course. I greatly appreciate your teachings. Thank you!
I can’t be the only one that hears the intro to Apple Pen when he does the E minor pentatonic scale in reverse
Thank you Justin, after a long break from the guitar it’s good to know there’s always a way back with your help 🥹
Beautiful. Thank you. Your video was recommended to me.
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Tapping your foot is your own metronome??? Speed up or slow down. 👍. Love your videos. Just leart that guitar is tuned to the Em pentatonic scale
I’ve been playing since I was 16 getting all the chords down to a t and just now starting to try and get into licks for playing the blues and this man has given me a key that turned something on and I began to play e chord while riffing with this scale and good lord almighty I did the same thing when my cousin taught me the a minor scale but I found this one so much simpler to do
Thank you ❤
Best !! Easy to understand all
I finally figured out that the Position 1 pattern is the same for all the natural notes.
Patterns😋
you need to do it without looking at the guitar?
I always learned from ultimate guitar scales coming back to guitar noe is like driving in Europe
And now I realise I'm playing this scale when I'm playing the opening solo of Wish you Were Here!
You talking so much
Guys do not have finger nails oh my god
amazing video once again!!!!!!
Your teaching has progressed my understanding of music more in a few weeks then I have been able do to don my own for years. Thank you.
"Envisioning the shapes" or however he said it is a great way to think about it. I do this with chords so it makes sense to do the same with scales. It's about time after 25 years of messing around that I work on some fundamentals!
Thank you.
How is this gonna help me play NIRVANA
Been over several scale lessons and this is the only one I can understand, yes challenging for sure, but after 4 years of playing guitar, I think it's finally time to learn this!! THANKS!! 😊
Great lesson!!!
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You are a awesome teacher
Love the videos. I played in highschool at my church and am now returning 14 years later. Much of my muscle memory is still there and this is an amazing refresher for me to drill on the mental side.
too much talk! show the scale over and over …..stop talking!
Hey justin hoping to see you go over scales or point me in the right direction towards scales. I was told to practice them i like all music and jazz sound is what like
Justin the man, simple, concise, calm
This scale doesn't have the F# or a C in it and I don't understand why. Can you explain?
I'm not a new player but I took some time off from playing and have come back.
Even the SUPER EASY stuff is interesting to go back to because it's helped me realize things I learned wrong from the start that I need to improve as I get back into playing more seriously. Thank you so much for these videos.
Thanks
Really appreciate this lesson ! Another step up that ladder 💥
Really you're a great teacher. Practice makes man perfect truely said.
Can I ask why we start with the open string? Can it be played the other way or would that not be the correct scale?
dude you became old…
Link Wray – Rumble is a good song to practice this
This was relatively easy without the metronome but once you put on a metronome, forcing yourself to stay on beat even at 80 BPM, it all goes out the window and doing it perfectly from start to finish is shockingly hard.
This too easy a caveman can do it