Stop Playing Pentatonic Boxes — Navigate the Fretboard Instead

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This lesson explores a pentatonic fretboard navigation pattern that breaks you out of box thinking and forces a deeper understanding of the guitar neck.

At first, it feels counterintuitive — almost like an optical illusion on the fretboard. As you move down the neck toward the headstock, the notes actually ascend. When you travel up the neck toward the bridge, the notes descend. This reversal challenges how most guitarists visualize scales and positions.

Once you adapt, this approach becomes a powerful way to connect pentatonic shapes, improve fretboard awareness, and move freely across the guitar neck without relying on boxed patterns.

If you want to escape pentatonic boxes, improve your lead guitar phrasing, and truly understand how notes connect across the fretboard, this lesson will rewire how you see the neck.

All Parts so far:
Part 1:    • Why Guitar Soloing Feels Confusing (And Ho...  
Part 2:    • This Fretboard Idea Changes Everything Abo...  
Part 3:    • I Learned the Entire Fretboard Using Only ...  
Part 4:    • Connect Every Pentatonic Shape on the Guit...  
Part 5:    • Stop Memorizing Guitar Modes — Learn All 7...  
Part 6:    • The Pentatonic Breakthrough: Escape the Bo...  


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0:00 - intro
0:14 - review
1:27 - expanding from 3 regions to 5
1:47 - moving back and up
2:20 - explaining the pattern
3:10 - reverse diagonal
4:10 - example
4:36 - explainging/reviewing the pattern
5:06 - review and practice notes