Ascending Pentatonic Guitar Scales

Video Transcript

"So, if you're using an electric guitar to learn on, you might want to consider the fact that your twelfth fret isn't really the end of everything, that you can go past the twelfth, the thirteenth, and anything's going to be an octave. So this is the E, this is your F, and this is your G. So say you were soloing in G major over here right. Well we know the G major pentatonic. What if we wanted to use this now to get up to this octave of the G, which would be three frets beyond the twelfth fret, just as the G here is three frets beyond the low E string. Well watch, we can use an ascending pentatonic. The third fret, we move our first finger up to the fifth, the seventh, first finger plays the fifth of the A, seventh of A, fifth of the D, seventh of the D, now at the ninth. We use the seventh and the ninth of the G, the eighth and the tenth with our second and fourth finger. Seventh and the tenth here. And now we're ready to jump up to E, and if we play E minor here, pentatonic or the whole scale, we have the relative minor of the G major, and we can just go up to G from here. So watch."