Solo all over the Neck [in 10 Minutes]!

If you've ever looked for Hy to

solo

across the

neck

, then you've no doubt come across the five-position cage system, but as someone who likes classic rock and blues, it's very hard for me to think Some of my favorite musicians are really thinking about caged, they play, so in this video I'm going to show you what the pros are really doing to get around the

neck

, listen to this

solo

, see how freely I can move and then I'll show you the patterns that You really need to master the fretboard and key to move fluidly around the neck as this is a combination of vertical and diagonal patterns, as you see not all cage positions are the same, some are more useful than others because of how they fall the notes under the fingers. and just as you're used to building bar chords from the E minor and A minor shapes, the E minor and minor pentatonic shapes are also the most important for soloing, so we'll take those as our pillars and then we will use diagonal patterns to connect between them stay with me and by the end of this video you will know how to join the entire neck without missing a single note, so let's start with the shape of E minor and this is the classic first position pentatonic that fits directly around that.

Barre string in the shape of E minor, so we are in the key of A minor here starting at the 5th fret and it will look like this now, although most of you will already know this, it is worth reminding ourselves why this is a shape so important in the first place. it gives you all these notes on the same fret, which is really useful for playing two strings at once, like with these hammers on double stops, then on the top two strings we get this perfect fourth, which is the backbone of so many blue star licks and then thirdly, the big bends fall on our strongest third finger here, like this Big Bend up to the root note on the B string and what I call the universal pentatonic band here on the G string, so listen to the first part of the solo again and see how I put these concepts into action.

Now let's look at our first diagonal pattern that will allow us to transition to the neck. Here we'll call it diagonal 2+ 3, but you may also hear it called pan pentatonic or simply five notes. pentatonic because this little pattern contains all five notes and then it replicates itself as we go up the neck, so let's start a note below the root here at the third fret, this G note on the low E and then go up two frets to the root of an that is our first group of two notes, then we go to the a string for a group of three frets, three fives and then we slide up to seven, so we have g a c d e.

You will find that this little sliding technique here is essential to allow you to change positions. So that's our basic pattern two notes plus three notes, then we can replicate this exact same pattern an octave higher on the D and G strings, so far we have 1 2 1 2 3 and now you see with this slide that we are perfect. perfectly positioned to start again on the 5th fret of the D string with 1 2 and then up to the G string 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 now these are the exact same notes an octave higher, so we have G to C E and then again g to c d and then once we get to here the ninth sprad on the G string, we can go up an octave again.

We need to go to the 8th fret just because of the way the B string is tuned, that's where we find our next G and we get G A. so 1 2 and then up to the high e 1 2 3 c d e g a c d e so all together g a c d e g a c d e g a c d e lower octave octave up half an octave now this takes us up to the 12th fret where we'll encounter another pattern in a moment, but first just take Note how this diagonal approach cuts through our original E minor pentatonic shape.

See, we're going to go right over that, which means it works perfectly in conjunction with it as it helps us move up and down the mast, now one of the nice things about this 2 plus 3 way is that it always we get the big Universal curve on our strongest third finger and then the microtonal Blues curve on our index finger and since it's a repeating shape, we can use it to play the same licks in different octaves backwards. to the solo and see how I go down through the diagonal with variations on essentially the same lick and then run up to play these higher registers of the neck, so now we've seen how the diagonal approach takes us up to the 12th fret here we can find another pentatonic position in the form of A minor, so just when we find our bar minor chord here we can build a pentatonic scale here that looks like this.

If you look at classical solos, you will find that the form is very common, esp. On these higher strings, while it's not as easy as the E minor form because the lowest note is not the root and we don't get all of those notes as the same trio, there are some incredibly useful things about this minor form first. place. We can do a full Bend on the highest note here, at the 15th fret in high E, which will take us up to our root note of a. Now this is very useful, especially for starting and ending LS, then we also get the universal pentatonic band here on the 50 15 frets on the B string try playing this in conjunction with the 15 on the high string and find some blue between notes that makes a really cool sound, then we have this little situation on the G and B strings where we can easily align one finger per fret across these notes, so I have those two notes on the B string, but then this note here on the G string fits really well in the middle which is really comfortable for this type of lick and then of course the classic that type of lick. where again we have it lined up nicely with one finger per fret for the solo again and let's see how I put this minor position to work so that now we can go from the E minor position across the diagonal to the A minor position, but what?

What about going back up? Well, there is another diagnosis. We can use the 3 + 2, so with our previous diagonal we start with the two, which was G and a, followed by the three c, d and e. Now what we're going to do is activate this. its head, so the three come first followed by the two, so these will be our first three notes c, d and e, but we're not going to play them here, we're going to move them down to the low E string, so we need to get to the 8th fret where the C is so we have C D and then we slide up to e so those are our three 1 2 3 and then they will both be on the string at the 10th fret and 12th fret fret G and a so we have 1 2 3 1 2 o c d e g a now from here the twelfth fret on the a string we are perfectly positioned to start again with a c on the tenth fret on the D string with 1 2 3 1 2 c d e g a and then again on the B string, we only need to jump one fret here because of the way it's tuned with c d e e g a so Al together, so that's the 3 + 2 diagonal that goes across the neck and look once again, it goes right above our pentatonic shape minor and We step in and out of that position, now this diagonal takes us up to the 17th fret, where we again find our E minor pentatonic shape that we started with, so this comes full circle back to the E position minor and allows us to play solo. right at this end of the guitar to complete the solo, watch me send this diagonal 3 plus 2 and then close with some classic licks in the E minor position.

I hope you have been helpful. There's a download with all the patterns and The Complete Solo Diet on my patreon if you're interested, but for now thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.