Chords for Fastest Way To Move Up And Down The Guitar Neck!

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_ [G] _ _ _ [A] Okay, what's up you guys?
[G#] Marty Schwartz here with Marty Music.
[C] Thank you for checking this video out.
I've got what I think is the fastest way to play up and down the whole neck and then where
to take it from there.
So we're going to zoom in, break it down.
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Let's do it.
Alright, from my experience, here is the fastest way to be able to solo up and down the entire
neck and that is a great goal to have, I think.
So we're going to take the key of A, we're going to do minor pentatonic.
So step one, the E rooted minor pentatonic scale.
Get it down.
Get some muscle memory with it.
And know the roots to begin with.
Know the root that you're plugging in.
So A minor pentatonic.
I find A on the E string and I play this shape.
[Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _
[A] _ _ [B] So I get that down.
_ [C] Then I learn that same scale but from the position where its root is now on the A string
because it should be in a much farther away spot of the guitar.
And it's not too hard to learn in that order.
So you got the E root, minor pentatonic, key of A.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [G] Now the A rooted one [Am] for A happens to
be on the 12th fret.
I like to plug it in with the root even though we have a shape here on the E string, the
A string is here.
_ [Em] _
_ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [F]
All of this is step by step broken down in my lead guitar solo bundle at martymusic.com.
But here it is right here right now.
_ _ [C] _ That's the A root shape for the minor [A] pentatonic.
_ _ I also have a free course at martymusic.com which are the five shapes of the pentatonic.
Just for reference.
So you have the E root A minor pentatonic [D] and _ _ _ _ [A] then the A rooted A minor pentatonic.
[E] 12, 12, 15, 12, 14, 12, 14, 13, 15, 12, 15.
And then you'd have 12, 15 on the low E.
[A] _ [C] But it feels resolved at that note right there.
_ [Am] _ _ [C#] _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ So I would get those down.
I mean not necessarily playing tons of great solos but those are the two spots.
Practice them over jam tracks.
Get a couple licks from them.
Do what you can.
But then what you do is you learn what are called the extended scales of those two positions.
And then you're pretty much covering the entire neck.
Yeah there's a few gaps to fill after that.
But this starts you being able to flow up and down the entire neck.
So the E rooted pentatonic we still visualize it.
But only using our index and ring finger we're going to play its extended _ pentatonic scale.
I had an awesome guitar teacher that showed me this a long time ago.
And it was the number one thing that helped me take off.
So visualize the root.
And then you would have this.
This is the extended.
Remember only index and ring finger.
3, [D] 5, 3, 5, slide to 7.
[E] Now you're in that first position that you should already know.
_ _ And then 5, 7, 5, 7 but slide up to 9.
_ _ And then you would [D] have 8, 10, [A#] 8, 10.
And then backwards.
[Am] _
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] And then when you get to that 10 you can slide that up to 12.
[Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [A] _ Look at how much ground I cover with that.
It's all whole steps with the index and ring finger. _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm]
That's pretty cool.
We went all the way from the third fret all the way up to the 12th fret with that
like kind of two step device there.
All right.
So then you would do the same thing with the A rooted.
It's got a fantastic extension.
Once again only the index and ring finger.
And it looks like this.
The root's still here on the 12 of the A.
But you have 10, [G] 12, 10, 12, [Fm] [Bm] 10, 12.
Nice little box.
What's interesting is it's the exact same thing, same notes and everything as this.
_ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ So little things repeat all over the place.
Just about plugging them in and learning them in the right order.
So root's there.
But we have 10, 12, 10, 12, 10, 12 slide to 14 on the D.
_ [E] _ And then 12, 14 [A] on the G.
And then 13, 15 on the B.
[Bm] And then we slide that up a whole step to the 17.
_ And then you would have 15, 17 on the high E.
[B] _
And here's what's so cool about that.
You just ended on the E root again.
So the octave of that first position.
So if I were to just see, oh, it's the exact same as the E root minor pentatonic.
Just way up here an octave up. _ _ _
_ So I literally made it to the second to the last fret. _
And made it as low as the third fret.
So between both of those, you've got once again,
the regular minor pentatonic E [D] shape, _ _ _ [A]
which can be played and extended out like this.
_ _ _ [Em] _
Then you'd have the A rooted minor [A] pentatonic. _ _ _
_ _ And then it's extensions. _ _ _
_ And then you're back at the starting point. _ _
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