@sclay after some patience. It seems that’s true and would go nicely in some settings. I am very new to this and when something changes from what I am learning my brain hits a wall hehe
If your brain ‘hits a wall’, thats a good thing, seriously.
It means its noticed something, and working its way through the problem; a breakthrough is imminent.
All the best.
Cheers, Shane
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@LeeMB @Andrewjm - great idea! If you can take a minute and submit on our Feedback hub: https://www.justinguitar.com/feedback! It’s best way for our team to see student requests 
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This thread is probably dead but I’ll try asking… when doing this, are you actually supposed to look at your strings/frets to see what you’re doing, or should you be able to do it purely on muscle memory? Cus I just started doing this and if I look down I can do it slowly relatively okay, but when I try to do it without looking I have absolutely no idea of what I’m doing. Like I’ll fret the incorrect frets and pick the incorrect strings all.the.time… Do I start with looking at the strings first and then try without it, or do I just force myself to get it right without looking straight from the start?
Looking when first learning is fine. The the idea is to get the scale under your fingers so you don’t have to look. This pattern of the E minor Pentatoic scale is easily used when playing chords for fills and runs. So if your singing and playing you don’t want to be looking or even thinking about where the notes are.
Just take you time to get it right but also practice not looking once you know the scale and can play it correctly every time.
Theres nothing worse than trying to relearn a scale.
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OK so I can figure out the notes on the E minor pentatonic scale, but how can you figure them out going backwards by using the scale? It doesn’t make sense by counting the notes backwards.
Usually, the lowest line does not designate the fingers to use. But for the but the E minor pentatonic scale, they are the same!
Can someone explain this to me? And where’s this video playthrough, I suppose it’s the lesson’s video itself?
In this case in open position the TAB fret numbers will be the same as the fingers.
1st finger in fret 1
2nd finger in fret 2
3rd finger in fret 3
This is only the case for scales in the open position.
Yes
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Thank you, although I have no idea what open position means 
maybe something to do with the open strings sound? 
Yes. Open position means when any of the notes in a scale or a chord include open strings.
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