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Robert, I just watched the replay. Many thanks for the super informative video with lots of good sounding examples - I love your Les Paul 😍.

That is definitely a video that I will use as a basis for my exercises. And thanks for all the lesson files.

Yes, I got the concept: how to use the minor pentatonic scale only as a subset of the major scale and how  the minor blues scale is "embedded" with the blue note – and how all happens in one spot of the fretboard. 

Robert, you asked us, how difficult this approach is. I can only answer that your explanations are so good, but if I don’t practice it, I will always have difficulties.

And so far, I haven’t invested enough time to really internalize the approach, I really hope that your video inspires me to keep going 👍.

Thanks a lot,

Birgit

Thanks Birgit, did you mean the 335?

I wasn't sure how this would be received. I didn't get any feedback in the live comment section and that makes me wonder if I was unclear or boring. 🙂 

Of course I meant your beautiful 335, sorry!

In my opinion, you have presented a very concise connection between major scale, minor pentatonic and blues scale. You try to make us see the big picture 👍.

You arranged the improvisation examples so that we could clearly hear the differences between the individual scales. That helps a lot - and presented with the wonderful sound of your 335.

And you keep emphasizing how fundamental it is for improvising to learn the scales over the entire fretboard! You cannot repeat that enough – so that I  - and certainly many others - can finally start practicing it on a regular basis!!!

Thanks again for your commitment,

Birgit

Robert,

I'm sorry I missed the actual live feed.  I had to watch it later in the evening.  This was a really good lesson.  A great way to see all notes/scales in all the pentatonic positions. I have repeatedly played through it each night since.  I am beginning to see the neck as one pattern and not five and targeting the first, fourth and fifth scales inside each position is opening up new ideas over the entire neck.

Thanks!

Geppetto

@robert First off, sorry for the delayed response.  Secondly, let me assure you that you were neither unclear or boring.  It was a great, very educational lesson.   I didn't comment because I had to hurry to get a grandson to a drum lesson.  I'm not sure why others didn't in the live comments.  Perhaps because it was a fairly deep subject.  There was a lot of information there.  And anytime you start talking about relative scales, or any theory, people start "fogging over"! 🤣 

It was a very helpful lesson and appreciated.  And I would really like to know that solo you were playing when you where talking about the "blue" note.  Beautiful!  Maybe I should some day try to transcribe that! 😎  

Thanks Ron! Glad to hear it!