Shawn Lane - Pentatonic Lesson Part 2 of 2

The end of this pentatonic lesson from Shawn. He is showing how he might ascend the neck from position to position.

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[smkonwater23]

Everytime I see Shawn Lane or Buckethead play, I feel like they are in the Olympics, and i am in the Special Olympics. :(

[eric1love]

LOL! OMG, gotta love how he's just sittin there layin' down the law! We're not worthy, we're not worthy, BAM!

[adios73]

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[AllanHendrix]

If you watch his right hand closely at 1:17 you can see that he starts each group with a downstroke. That means you need to play two downstrokes together which requires you to skip a string to begin the next group (d,u,d,u,d - d,u,d,u,d ...). I'm trying it this way, but also with economy type picking by making the first two notes of each group downstrokes (d,d,u,d,u - d,d,u,d,u ...)

[SEMICHUCK]

it seems 3rd and 5th position require a slight alteration in the fingering. I'm just practicing ascending pentatonic scales 1 position at a time.

[emanhacker]

@istillbowlverywell lol i kinda agree he did that on purpose hes amazing and lessofaless be cool that was a very honest statement

[lessofaless]

@istillbowlverywell

Uncalled for mate :)

[flowerFOG]

@aliensporebomb yeah i know, i've never seen anthing like that done by anyone else. my hands are kind of large and the only way i can even attempt it is to take a different approach to the way i hold the guitar or the way my hand holds the guitar. its kinda like how when you see someones fingers start to slant pointing up the neck when they're playing at the bottom. i realized that the only way i can do a crazy streach is to reverse that and tyr to get my fingers to slant pointing down the neck

[aliensporebomb]

@flowerFOG I have an easier time creating a pivot point between my first and second finger and the pinky to create really fast licks but I think I just have to break it down. The weird thing about is that it seems that half of his hand is really close together and the other half really widely spread. That mix is the hard one. Yep, gotta keep working.

[flowerFOG]

@aliensporebomb if you just keep stretching and just forcing your hands to get as close to the positions as they can, eventually you get a superhuman hand. i practice stretches alot and now my fingering hand is silghtly bigger than my picking hand. i try keeping index finger (one) on the second fret and pinky (four) on the seventh. physical limitations must be surpassed!

[Fluffypopcicle]

@Whyrendog

shawn lane had arthritis dude... and he still played stuff like this.

[sjdss]

BEST! guitarist ever!. MEMPHIS invented rock!