in this next clip I'm going to be combining major and minor pentatonic scales to work my way up the fretboard and make a very interesting solo that kind of weaves between major and minor and blues and country it's a sound we've heard a lot in classic rock so I'm going to play a little solo like that and I'm going to kind of show you what I was thinking the chord progression is a 787 which is one of those kind of bluesy vamps that's this major but you could get away with but after a while you'll feel stuck and so this lesson was a way that I've observed all my heroes your Jimi Hendrix's Jimmy Page's Eric Clapton's and and others kind of connect major pentatonic and minor pentatonic Freddy Kings okay all the great blues lead guitar players connect it across the neck so if I'm in a I started in my relative minor of a my F sharp blues just kind of your Skynyrd zone really so I was thinking this scale I think I started with something of that ilk again it doesn't matter too much because this is more about the overall like what I was thinking while I was doing it I think I did yeah bending that for there and that has that very specific sound that kind of warm Allman Brothers some of micktaylor stuff to has has that major pentatonic because that in that scenario is a major and then just to kind of set our ears as I move my way up the neck I play some blues licks some standard a which is that's going to be from our a blues scale so yeah I went from major pentatonic to blues and then I stayed in blues and went to the lil blues extension box which a lot of us have have seen or learn it always lives just a little bit beyond the the pinky note of a pentatonic minor the key is to realize that this is the anchor point that 10th fret is the a and you know my favorite blues guitar players Freddie King he's super adept at work those bends get the most articulation you can out of them and not often are you gonna bend that a sometimes people make the mistake they're thinking blues equals Bend any note but it's kind of weird to bend that one that has kind of a trippy kind of quality depending on the song it might work but usually you wouldn't Bend the root note of a blues so that's all still blues there so I've worked my way across the fretboard I'm at the tenth fret now the Freddie King I'll call it Freddie King box but it's the Blues extension connects seamlessly to the BB King box and so that way you know if the Freddie King box was these little was at eights and tents this one is tens and twelves and also that eleven there and yeah you can do that one again there's our a so technically that's another major pentatonic so it went major pentatonic minor pentatonic minor pentatonic and then major pentatonic again and yeah all my favourite guitar players are really good in these zones here this little standard Freddie King extender and then seamlessly and that has that again that kind of happy country quality so it's like yeah as you're moving up the fretboard it doesn't just sound like you know you know it doesn't sound like a frank gambali shred video from the 80s which actually I watched some of those they're really fun but it kind of you're moving stru and you're bending the ear it's kind of being unpredictable between happy and sad country and dark and I don't know it's just more interesting so you have some I think some of the licks I used I did like a Big Bend on that 12 there's a lot around that one I mean BB King like made his whole career around that BB King box and I think I did this cool like country trick where I do that that's a great trick if you don't know the 12 goes up and then the next connector isn't our isn't isn't our major pentatonic again it is the oft forgotten root five minor pentatonic one of the most useful yes one of the most useful scales that a lot of people forget that they know or never learn they we learn our minor pentatonic or blues and we're like okay that's cool but root five you anything you learn on guitar you want to learn root six and root five any any scale arpeggio chord anything so this one you know if you did it the steam positioning this one is in this air Clapton solo too while my guitar gently weeps by Beatles is all out of this one something like that and it's been a while since I practicing I think I actually kind of copped some of his licks from that in this in this little demonstration so yeah I came from there and I was like oh wait a second minor pentatonic again so I saw those two nose they're my 15s so I could connect them and I think you know depending on which take I end up putting in in front of this i usually do out of that I might get to that 15 there because that's G bending up to my tonic a pretty triumphant sound so let me review the connectors a major pentatonic and again notice I'm not trying to play a whole scale I'm just thinking of like what licks do I know over here then I connect to my standard minor pentatonic like I want to go up higher okay there's my Freddie King Bach's BB King Bach's the root five minor pentatonic and I think the rest of I'm just messing around but to me yeah thinking in terms of like not you know I did learn to practice my minor pentatonic all the way up the neck but these aren't mix these are just scales and it just if you practice only scales you come out playing only scales so always try and find where the art is where the phrases are where the cool notes are where the bends are where where the stuff is that that sounds cool because you can I just think you can actually end up wasting too much time just pointlessly practising scales rather than thinking in terms of licks that connect up the fretboard I guess that's why I was trying to get across with this I do have tabs available for any of my lessons that you see on my youtube channel you can just hit me up at my email I'll be more than happy to help you out with your guitar studies or gear questions or tone questions or things like that but I hope that that is fun and helpful for you thanks so much for watching