So you've learned your five individual pentatonic patterns. Now let's talk about how to practice them. You're going to practice the pentatonic patterns, just like I showed you in the lecture that talks about how to practice major scales. To recap, first learn each individual pentatonic pattern. Second, play each pattern around the circle of fifths. Third, pick a key and play all five patterns in that one key.

Fourth, go around the circle of fifths, playing all five positions for each key. The main idea I wanted to focus on in this lecture is the way that I taught myself to see the pentatonic patterns up and down the neck. To teach this practice exercise, I'm going to use the key of G and choosing the key of G because the first position is near the bottom end of the neck, and you'll be able to see how each pattern connects starting from the first position. So the idea for this exercise is your Going to play the four pentatonic notes on strings five and six. From position one through position five going up the neck, I suggest you play each position four times to give you time to see the notes in the next position. Now let's take a look at this exercise on the guitar.

So this exercise is going to start on G major position one, and the first four pentatonic notes in that position on strings five and six are 1235. So what you want to do is play those four times. And as you're doing that, you want to think of what are the notes in position number two, it will be right here going 2356 by play those four times, as I'm playing these four times, I'm thinking about what are the what is position number three look like? So up here it goes. 3561 I play that four times. Then I go up here to position number four and I have 5612.

Then I go up to position number five, I would have 6123. And then I usually go up and do position one again the 1235. So if I was to do that again would look like and I would also go back down, I would go, probably, instead of playing going up the nose, I would come back down. position number 5432. back down to position number one. I think this exercise will really help you be able to go up and down the neck especially on those two sets of strings. Next, we're going to do that exercise on strings four and five.

Going up the neck on strings four and five is going to look like we're gonna start here, these four notes. This is 3561. That's position number one. And position number two, we're going to have 5612. Now you might see me if I'm going up and down, I might switch to these my first and third finger this would be proper fingering This is probably what I would do most of the time, improper fingering. Just what I find more comfortable.

So for position number two we're doing, we're doing 5612. For position number three, we're going to go 61234 position number four, we're going to go 1235. For position number five, it's going to be 2356. My Good morning, back to position one, it's gonna be 3561. Come back That was that exercise on strings four and five. Now let's do the exercise on strings three and four.

For strings three and four. In position number one, we're going to start here with 6123. Then we go to position number two and we're going to do 1235. position number three, it's going to be 2356 position number four, it's going to be a b 3561. Lesson number five Going to be 5612. Going back to position number one, it's going to be 6123. go through that again. This one to this 345 position back to one.

Coming back back down to one. That was that exercise on strings three and four. And now strings two and three. Okay, this exercise on strings two and three. We're going to start right here in position number one and we're going to play 2356. Then we're going to go to position number two, and we're going to play b 3561.

Then we're going to go up to position number three, and it's going to be b 5612. We're going to position number four and it's going to be 6123. Then we're going up to position number five here, it's going to be 1235. And we're going back to position number one where it's going to be 2356 I'm doing this position a little slower because I think this is the hardest set of strings to get down. So one more time, it's going to look like this. And then of course, you can go back down, and that was this exercise on strings two and three.

And now let's do the last set of strings one and two. proposition number one. We're going to start here and we're going to play 5612. Let me get a position number. We're going to play 6123 we're gonna go up here to position number three, we're gonna play 1235. Then position number four, we're going to play 2356.

Then we when we go up here to position number five, we are going to be playing 3561. And when we go back up here to position number one, we're going back to 5612. So I would play each one of those four times and I would go up the neck and then back down the neck. Now, I was suggesting that you do each each pattern four times but you don't have to do four times. Feel free to start challenging yourself and think Can I do it in three times And then then move to two. And then the ultimate is only one time.

Obviously, that's a lot harder because you have to really be able to see the patterns quickly. So that's just some fun different ways to approach the exercise. The point of this exercise is that you will learn how to move up and down the neck with the pentatonic pattern. This exercise will make it a lot easier to flow into different patterns. This will also help you see where the major scale and the chord tones are on the neck. These different exercises take a while to get down.

So just take it slow and be patient with your progress. I suggest putting on some major backing tracks from YouTube and have a blast soloing over them.