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Hey, BIDGETS! My name is flagpole today. Once again, happy Pride everyone, just wanted to let you guys know that. Hey guys, Future Frederick here.  I forgot to say this in the video, and I'm really mad. But don't forget, I now have Pride merch. We have hats, hoodies, pins, but I don't have that on me right now.  I asked you guys on Twitter for some Pride video ideas.  Now, I know I paint on this channel. Never has my canvas been my face before. I've done a little bit of makeup, like some foundation, concealer, mascara, just like a tad. And you guys expect me to make a clear Pride flag on my face. I don't know why you want to see a fail video. But the people have spoken. Thank you so much for recommending this. I'm so grateful for an audience that wants my skin to break out.  By the way, I'll leave the link to this in the description if you want to try this yourself. Sorry, I just took a look at the camera and realized that I looked white. Deepest apologies if you could not tell, I was in fact Asian. This costs, I think, like under $20. It comes in 12 shades and a bunch of these stencils. And instantly you know these are for children. Oh my God, it's winter time. Oh, it's spring. Oh my God, animal lover. Ooh, oh, actually, I'll keep this one. It's for gays. I'm one with nature. So yeah, one out of the five stencils I'll keep. The other four, I don't know if this came with instruction because I opened this like a week ago. So I probably threw them out knowing me. But since one doesn't Asian take the time to read instructions, right? When we bake, we bake with our eyes. This comes with three. I'm gonna be honest right now. I don't know what I was expecting, but these are not good quality. I'm not a professional painter, but just feeling these, you know they'll fall off. There's gonna be some hairbrushes on your face after a few minutes, which is okay. Like for $20, you get all of this stuff. It was 4.5 stars on Amazon. So I'm hoping it's not an oil spill. I have oily skin and I use an oil-based base paint last time. Let's just say I was scared to show my face to the public. But for the sake of the video, I will use these just because all the other paint brushes I've used have been in, you know, toxic chemicals that could probably harm my skin and give me cancer knowing them. Because you read off of these, this product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Why am I doing this again? Why did I let you guys do this? I blame you. I also have some gay stickers that we might use later. So, let's get started. This is worth every penny. If you want to buy it, I'll link that to... Okay, so I know I bought water-soluble paint. I'm gonna get a spray bottle first before we do anything. All right, found a spray bottle and let's just see what colors we're gonna use today. Every paintball has its own capsule, but I'm looking at this and kind of concerned. There's like some spots on here that I don't understand why they're there. Like it's not just me, right? You see that? You see that? It's on some of them. This one too. I don't think it's bacteria. Uh, at least I hope it's not because I'm not a scientist and I don't know what this looks like. I did leave this in the sun, so I'm just thinking in my mind that maybe the sun's UV rays are so powerful that it just... Made spots.  Whatever.  Because that stuff costs money. Costs cash money, okay? Green. Something I don't have a lot of because I'm going to college. Okay, so let me zoom you in a little bit. It's nice and personal. Okay, she's a little shiny. I told you I had oily skin, but I want to first map out all the colors I'm gonna use. So we're gonna go ROYGBIV, and I don't know why they didn't choose to make it in the rainbow construct. It's a really random setup, don't you think?  So, let's get started. I'm just gonna spray the red a little bit, get it wet. And by the way, everything else is capsult, so it doesn't get wet while we're doing this. So I'm taking the really plastic brush. I'm gonna use my phone for this, not the camera. I just want to see like one, two, three, four, five, six. I'm gonna stop it right there. See that? That's gonna be a marker for us. All right, let me paint the whole line across now. Hmm, it's not straight. Fitting. Let's just go down the line first to make sure they're all even. Orange is next, so I'm gonna try to keep this the same length, put it right there. Oh God, how am I gonna put this around my eye? Okay, we'll figure that out along the way. I need a real mirror, so give me a second. When I say this is the biggest mirror I have, it's the biggest. Look, it doesn't even cover my whole face. Wow, that looks terrible, hold on. I'm accustomed to a flat canvas, so this is a big step out of my comfort zone. So that much, that much. I'm gonna go like right here. Looking good. By the way, this is a lot of paint. I don't know how I'm ever gonna use this all up. You want more face painting videos, let me know. So I think I'm gonna go right above my cupid's bow. I have to paint my lips. Hold on. Okay, we're good. I do not want people to know I have really chapped lips, but what doesn't matter? There's no one to kiss them with. Sorry, that was very angsty. I'm calm. Blue goes to here. Dang. These are pigmented. If you ever wanted high coverage foundation that isn't tan or the traditional colors, use face paint, okay? All right, there's some extra blue on here, so I'm gonna need, I'm way too lazy, I'm sorry. Purple is last, oh wait, why am I even painting this then? Hold on. It's a little too close for my comfort. But yeah, I don't need to line the purple, so I'm just gonna put as much as I can right here. All right, so we're good. Everything has been outlined. Now we're gonna take this brush and paint in the rest. I have no idea if this is non-toxic to the eyes. We're gonna find out pretty soon, so let's go back to red. So it's not that pigmented as I wanted it to be. Slaver this all over. Okay, my hair is getting in the way. I just need to tie it all up.  You can't see this, but I'm like a telepathy. So while I'm doing this, I want to answer some questions about, you know, my sexuality, because I do get a lot of comments from you guys, especially younger people, who have questions about LGBT things. Oh, it's like tightening my face. Ooh, face mask. I came out in October of my ninth grade year, so freshman year, but I knew I was gay since third grade because I always envisioned myself with a boy and a girl. And I would be like, yeah, girls are pretty, but I rather kiss a boy. It's just something that you don't really think too much about.   You know, it's just not something you have to think about. It's just kind of like in your mind. There's also getting into my hair, but it's water soluble, so I don't mind. So I came out in ninth grade to my best friend, Eliza. It was on a bus and she was really supportive of it. Then when I came out to the rest of my friends, they all just said like, oh, I knew already, Frederick. But once again, everyone is supportive. At the time I lived in South Carolina, which is really weird because you wouldn't expect the South to be, you know, gay friendly. But at least in my area, they were because I lived in Charleston. That's more the Democratic part of it. It's also the fact that I'm kind of delusional. So like homophobic comments probably didn't even go through my ear. Now, people often ask me, how did you come out? Or like, I'm gay and I really want to come out, but I don't know how. So any tips? The thing is I don't want to tell someone how to come out because they don't feel right trying to give the right way of coming out. Because there is really no right way. Everyone has a different experience and I just feel wrong trying to take your coming out experience away from you. Because everyone should know that you don't come out for someone else. They come out for themselves. So I don't want to do that to you. I will, however, tell you that you shouldn't rush it. Do when you're ready. Know the consequences that could happen. Watch like 5,000 coming out videos on YouTube. They're everywhere. And this sounds sad, but you should prepare for the worst. I'm going to wash this out, by the way, so I'll be right back. So if you ever expect me to tell you like how exactly to come out, just know that I'm not going to do that to you. I'd rather you be mentally prepared than physically prepared to like make a rainbow cake or know what to say because it doesn't really matter about that. What matters most is how you feel doing it. Everyone is allowed to be scared to do it obviously, but you want to be comfortable saying it and not feel pressured yet. Hope that makes sense. Anyways, I'm almost done with the red. I'm putting a second layer on just because I want that pigment. But first impressions of this paint is pretty good. It is a little drying, but I really like that. Anything that isn't oil based, I prefer. Now, do I cover my brows or not? Is it even possible for me to cover my brows? I don't know. We'll try it out. We'll see. But I don't expect much from, yeah, yeah, I would not expect paint to be able to cover a brow. You know, maybe instead of covering it, we make them really dark. Let me do that because there is black face paint in there and I can use that later. Okay, so I'm going to just paint around my brow for the time being. Yeah, not really exciting to cover my whole eye with this. But I said I'd paint my face a rainbow, which means I must not leave any skin unpainted. This orange is also really close to my skin tone. So that is not helping because I need it to pop more. All right, so I'm going to go in. Oh, that's very close to my eye.  That's good news. Get that inner corner. Okay, I got there. I got there.  Okay, so for once in my life, my monolid eye is being useful because I don't have to paint directly on my wherever you put eyeliner. I don't have to paint there. So I'm protecting my eye a little bit at least. I'm doing a second layer of the orange now. Okay, so my opinion on the orange remains the same. It's not that pigmented. I wonder if using a sponge is easier. I'm not going to try that today. All right, orange is done.  Let's move on to yellow. For those of you who don't know, yellow is actually my favorite color at the moment. So this better be the prettiest yellow I've ever seen or else I'm going to be very mad. I have to go under my waterline. Oh my God. Oh, it's a good yellow. I'm very passionate about this color. It just really makes me mad sometimes when people think that green yellows are a good color. No, no, don't do that. It looks like puke. It's not a cute look, so just don't do it.  Is that an ice cream truck? Excuse me, I'm busy. Under eyes very... I always get uncomfortable there because... Well, first of all, it feels terrible.  You're basically asking to gouge out your eye. I'm also scared for the eye bags because if this is actually as drying as it is, it's almost a little crusty already at 17 years old. This is also very hard to make sure that these lines are straight. I love stretching out my under eye. I just love pulling on that sensitive skin. This is also very hard to make sure that the lines are straight because of the contours of my face.  Y'all are going to make a fool out of me on Twitter.   Alright, so I'm going in with my Morphe F84 69 420. Please pay me 70k thousand for this video. And I'm going under my eye just because we want this to be a little more pigmented. Ow!   I just gotta remember how to be doing this for the gaze. I'm doing this for the gaze. Y'all better be grateful. Y'all better be gayful and grateful that I'm doing this video. Okay, I honestly have to know now.  This is my mini beauty blender. Her name is Stacy. I got it from Urban Outfitters if anyone is curious. Alright, so I'm going to go back to the red because that should be dry now. I'm also not worried about the paint getting on the beauty blender just because it's water soluble. I'll wash it in hot water. Calm your tits. We're just going to stamp this on to see if we can't get a little more full coverage. Let me test it on my arm to see if it's doing anything. Hmm, at least it's showing up somewhere. A few minutes later. So I don't think this is doing anything. I'm going to try the orange next. Also that washed out really fast. There we go. That is what I'm looking for. I'm just going to go in with the yellow next. Wait, gotta look up. Honestly, at this point, I feel like it's taking off more product than this putting on. So beauty blender idea. Oh, I just dropped it into the... Fuck, guys. I dropped it in there. I just think it's the brush that I'm using because it's not a good quality brush. So I'm going to take this that I have not used before. I'm going to try one more time. And I want to see if I can't fix this yellow because it's just not pigmented. Like, come on, we need you yellow. Well, I will admit this is much faster with a bigger brush. Something about this yellow just doesn't want to layer with me. And I don't know what I did to deserve that. I've only been kind to you. I've raised you for many months and this is what you're going to do to me. Okay, I think that's a little bit better. Also, that's a little too low. I need to wipe that off. Just wet the brush and go over that part just to erase some of it off. Because I don't need that energy in my life. It honestly worked way better than I expected and I'm looking like a really bad sunset. That's what I'm looking like. Okay, I'll add more layers if I have to to the yellow, but we got to move on now. Moving on to green.  Why is that so much more full coverage? Okay, so pro tip. Don't put too much water. You don't want it to be water. You want it to be a little bit more thick. That is what gets you the full coverage. Yes. Do I got my ears too? That's not part of my face. Never mind. Oh, I think that was too much. Oh, well. Looks like I have to add more yellow again. What is a green character? Because I'm really starting to feel some type of way like the green chew still Christmas. I feel like a leprechaun who just found a pop of gold at the end of the rainbow. Like orange made me feel like the Lorax. Yellow made me feel like myself. I'm starting to evolve into different types of characters now. But that being said, where are the red characters at? I can't think of any right now. Let me know. Like what shows and movies have there been characters that are pure red besides like Steven Universe? That doesn't count. I'm talking about a whole group of people who are all red. I need avatar in red version. Thank you very much. Okay, we're going to go back to the yellow one more time. This went from a nice pink to a brown. Okay, yellow is going to be a mess. I'm going to let that dried fully. When I'm done with purple, I'll go back to it. And now it's time to go into the blue. I'm ready to turn into avatar. So blue-tiful. Yeah. You can unsubscribe after that comment. I don't know why you would watch me after this. I covered my lips like really quickly. And I just got it on my neck a little bit. Oh well. Not part of the face. I want to see what looks like it might just block out my top lip. Put it on like lipstick, everyone. Oh shoot, it's starting to lean a little bit. I don't fix that. Yeah, so I need more blue on this side, more green on this side. Oh damn, this blue is so pigmented. Y'all complaining about blue eyeshadows? Just try this. It looks like the blooming group. Oh my god. I don't want to taste it. I'm not going to taste it. So we're going to go back into the green a little bit. Get this part down. So I needed more on this side. That did not cover it at all. Hold on. Let's dry this off now. See it's always green.  That is why green is my least favorite color to this day. My pores are crying right now. I can hear them. Okay, purple. We're almost there. Hold on, wait. Let me just close my eyes for now. Flag. I'm only on a flag back there. Let's see purple. Don't let me down. This purple is cute. But I wish it was a little darker. Okay, we're going to do one more layer of purple and that should be it. And I guess we're done. All you have to do is add some finishing touches to it. I'm sorry. I love doing that face to people. Ready, ready, ready? Oh, Frederick, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thank you for asking. I look like a snap track filter. Honestly. Hold on. Let me take a picture of this because this is hilarious right now. I did it. I did that. Actually, no, I said I would make my eyebrows really black. So we're going to do that right now. Now, how pigmented is it black? Oh, I do not have room to mess up here. Oh, she's very thick. That's not my natural brow. But what is natural on my face right now? We're allowed to be as dramatic as we want. All right, I'm done. Actually, I'm not done. I'm not done yet. Are my stickers? Where? Oh, there they are. So now I'm done. All right. I did the job. Gay. Are we twinning? Oh my God. That's weird. These are actually the same colors. God, I did it. Well, that is all I have for you guys today. Hey, guys. Future Frederick back again. I forgot to say this at the end of the video, which I'm editing right now, by the way. But I did say it. But I did say I would mention one of your coming out stories that you gave to me through Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter. I encourage other people to come out and be themselves because I believe that you should be prideful during Pride Month, obviously. But I want you to be comfortable in your own skin. So if you feel like you want to come out through the internet at first, just get a feel of what it's like. Leave a comment down below because a lot of you guys, like, y'all made it clear that my community is LGBT. I did not expect that many people. But with that being said, I'm now going to talk about this person who I'm not going to say or reveal their username for the sake of privacy reasons. We're going to read their coming out story. I came out to my best friend through a song I composed and she was just laughing and supportive. Love her. And I came out to my parents by waiting until they were asleep and wrote a message about how I was pansexual. But that didn't change me and how I love them. And in the morning, they both came into my room separately, crying and telling me they love me. I'm grateful to have such a supportive family. I've got a huge family. So even though I came out about three years ago, I still have questions and some people still haven't caught on somehow. But I'm yet to be ill-treated. I'm so lucky to have such a loving I can't read. I'm so lucky to have such a loving and accepting family. And this is the picture she wanted to send me. Looking cute with a yellow flower, I approve. However, I'm taking off two points because you spelled accepting wrong. Grammar police, guys. Thank you so much for sharing your story with me and everyone else on the internet. Alright, I'm out. If you enjoyed, give it a like. Leave a comment down below about what private video you want me to do next. Pray for my skin. Please. Buy Pride merch. Be prideful. Subscribe for more videos every Saturday slash Sunday. And as always, I love you guys and everything is less than three.  Why are you still watching?


Happy Wednesday, everybody. Another beautiful morning. Week has been great. Good.  Now he went way in there. Way in there. My tow rope can't even reach that far. So he's gotta get a tow truck out there. The roads are, the roads going to be taking it easy. Feeling there's gonna be more people in the ditch because like I said yesterday, in the morning seems to be when people are the most aggressive. What's this guy doing? Well, it's not a good place to pull over unless it's an emergency, but I hope you got, well, I hope you don't got an emergency, but I hope you got a good reason to pull over there like that. That is slippery. I would say don't pull over on the shoulder.  It's slippery out here and like this, all some icy patches pop up. If people aren't paying very close attention, they hit these icy spots and they'll start spinning all over the highway very quickly. So hopefully there's no big accidents this morning. I hope everybody's paying attention. We've had two days of practice in driving in snow now already for April. Snow that fell was very wet and very sticky, causing this to happen. It's just pretty much packing into solid ice on the highways.  But at least he's salting some of the road. He's out there across the whole thing, but maybe that's not how they do it. I don't know, I'm not a salt truck driver. Taylor this morning and head up to Arbor. And from my experience, it's always worse up there. Hopefully today we can officially say that Arbor is not as bad as Steinbach weather-wise, but I'm not really counting on being able to say that. But we'll see, we'll see. At least I get a nice long drive up north this morning. It'll be a good day. Be in my nice warm cab. There's Bill, we've got to pull out my truck. He sees me here. Is it out here already? Everyone else's truck here. Oh no, it's still over there, it's still stuck. All right, we gotta go and get the old girl unstuck. Good. If you watched yesterday's video, you'll know. There she is, just gonna need a little bit of a tug this morning. Oh, that's a deep snowdrift, I'm gonna go around this way. Don't really feel, oh, there's a deep snowdrift on this side too. But it's all full of snow first thing in the morning. There's no, I guess there's no better way to start off the morning than that. Let's get her warmed up. It's an adventure, always an adventure. Got my stuff for the day, including my winter jacket. Seems I need this thing more than I realized. So, all our stuff in here now. I guess I should put my seatbelt on to cross the lot. Thank God for Bill. Always in a good mood. Joking around. You can make a stressful morning, not so stressful. There's actually two bills here. There's a bill who works in the office. He drives that nice, clean Chevy I was talking to you about last week. Always has his vehicles clean every day. I've never seen his vehicle dirty. I'll refer to him as office bill. And then there's Bill out here in the yard. He's the yard manager. I'll call him yard bill. Both great guys, I like both of them a lot. It's gonna be a roll tight again. 605 instead of Stepdick. What's this trailer here? This is 546, just to our left. And 414 DTR, that's a Stepdick. Neither of these are the one I'm supposed to take. Searching, I see another one over there. I should know these trailers at the back of my hand already. I'm the roll type guy. The numbers, I should start memorizing them. This is 412 DTLR. I should really start memorizing what they look like and their trailer numbers so that I can spot them across the yard and tell you what trailer number it is. I'm gonna start putting some energy into that because I'm, like I said, I'm the roll type guy. I should know which trailer is which just by looking at them. And up here, one of them has got to be my 605. But this is the loaded lineup. I thought it was supposed to be empty. It's 411 and there's 605. The second one. If it's loaded, why would it be here if it's empty? Gotta be careful, it's just pretty slippery. I've had my balance tested twice already. Just about, bet it, twice. So we'll walk like a penguin, very, very carefully. Okay, we'll just waddle along. Penguins got it right. They know how to walk on the ice. Anyway, okay, check all the tires here. We have a tri axle with lift axle in the back. The axle is up. That's good. All the tires on this side are filled with air. I love it when that happens. What's this doing here? Oh, it's probably to stop that from flapping. Okay, let's grab that. And hook it on here. There you go. See, I guess that's still gonna flap. Is there anywhere else we can hook that on to? Okay, well, oh, this trailer, that's right, K. Let's remember, it's 605 that has the wires crossed. It's still okay that the inside ones are the signals and the outside ones are the brake lights. As long as they're on each side, it still tells everybody behind me what I'm doing. It's just, I'm pretty sure that that's supposed to be wired differently, but I don't know. What does it mean to be, to say it's supposed to be done a certain way? I don't really know. This one was just done different. That's all I have. Mud flaps are in place. I like these things. They stop the mud flap from flapping up so that I can be certain I'm not gonna be throwing rocks at people. This axle doesn't look like it's lifted up yet. Oh yeah, just barely. Just barely, it's just the angle we're at here. It'll lift up higher once we get on flat ground. Just making sure that they're filled with air. Not checking pressure or anything right now. I'm gonna get it out of this spot here because this is all water. Can't do much here. We've got a little bit of freight in here right now. And that freight that we have in here is going to Florida.  That was close. Can I get through here? Oh man, everywhere I go. Nothing worse than a booter first thing in the morning. Ah, we're gonna go quickly. Quickly, quickly, quickly, at the pink one. Okay, man, what was I saying? Okay, this freight in here is going to Florida. I'm not sure exactly where in Florida. Maybe it says on here, where is it going? Wesley Chapel, Florida. That's where this stuff's going. We picked it up here in Manitoba. It's going all the way down there to the land of palm trees and freedom. Good for it, I'm happy for it. The rest of this trailer, we're filling up with similar freight and it's going to Mississippi. Just as good. Both of them are probably much better climates at this point. I doubt they have any snow there. And I'm gonna really hope that the snow from here doesn't follow the freight there for you guys. Okay, I wouldn't wish that on you. Okay, I'm all about sharing, it's caring, but I'll keep the snow here this time. Just this time, okay?  Next time I might send someone. Ice roads, north of Winnipeg, north perimeter. If you're familiar with Winnipeg, this is between McPhilips and Road 90. The next interchange, I'm going north of Highway 7. If you're not familiar with the area, just north of Winnipeg, onto Civics. There's snow like this, let's say in Georgia or Florida. Everything was shut down. Here, this is another day, this is just Manitoba. Do you understand why we ask you? Why did you, why would you come here? What are you doing here? I was born here. What's your excuse?  Oh, behind me wasn't ready for it. It wasn't ready for it. I wish I could have a camera behind my truck. I almost took out this little car that's coming past me on the left, who obviously isn't even fazed by the fact he almost died, he's still giving her. There he goes. Hand it to Winnipeggers. They may drive like mad men and crazy people on the ice and snow, but I don't care if you put yourself in the ditch. But I do care if you take out a family in a van or something on the way in, you know? Or if you take me out with you. How much snow, little did we know. Tuesday and Wednesday were coming. They would make Monday look like a cakewalk. Jeer ice. I hope the scale is closed. They have a scale just up here. They better have it closed. Cause that would just be rude. I'm already dealing with all of this out here and now you're gonna pull me into the scale. That's just rude. Now let's quickly get past these flashing lights on this side, or the lights that do flash when it's almost, get past the sign before they start flashing. This Petro-Canada here in Arberg. I thought I had to fix the air compressor that had unscrewed itself. The hose, the air compressor itself was fine, but the hose unscrewed itself, fixed that up. Today I had to fix something else. My washer fluid nozzles or the line must have gotten plugged. Cause about 15 minutes before I got to town here, it stopped spraying washer fluid onto my windshield. I thought that I was out. That's weird, I haven't used that much and I checked it this morning and it was full. I pulled in here and grabbed fuel right away. Well, I was trying to figure this out. It was still more than half full, so that wasn't the problem. And I heard the pump running, so I located the washer fluid pump. I found out that it was still pumping good. So that must mean that there was a blockage of the line from the pump to the wipers because both wipers weren't working. And I have winter washer fluid in there so it shouldn't have frozen, but you never know. So I just disconnected the hose, blew into it, that seemed to have fixed it. The simple things, right? Call the shop. Hey, my washer fluid isn't working, eh? Just for them to do what I did and I haven't fixed it in less than two minutes. That'd be embarrassing. Washer fluid again, must have been something in there. Maybe a tiny little bit of the washer fluid froze, but that's weird because it should be good down to minus 40 and it's only minus three today. So that shouldn't have been a problem, something maybe a piece of dirt, I don't know. An hour's fine again. Keep dreading the ride back with no washer fluid. That would have been interesting. But, Britt and I have our final IUI appointment at our fertility clinic tomorrow. So I won't be in at work for tomorrow or at least the morning, but it'll probably turn into the whole day because our appointments are spread out throughout the day. I have one at eight, one at 10.30 and now I just realized we have another one at 2 p.m. All in Winnipeg. We'll be sitting tomorrow. I was just gonna get him to fix it tomorrow then, but no need to call the shop. Trucker Josh fixed it himself. I'm somewhat of a mechanic. By somewhat, I mean that I can fill the washer fluid and unplug the lines and also screw on an airline hose. Not bad if I say so myself. I better watch out, they're gonna start asking me to work in the shop on the weekends. Well, which way are you going, bud? Which way are you going? Nobody? Okay, hold on, oh, now you get a, okay bud. I take the turn super wide to get around him because he won't back up and he didn't have his turn signal on and I didn't know which way he was going. And as I take the turn super wide, he goes the opposite direction that I thought he was going. My friends, that is what your signals are for. To signal me, to tell me which direction you're going. They're not for you, but I guess I digress. It doesn't matter how much we talk about signals. Message will never get out. And it's good news, it's a message of good news. Out of great joy. Turn signals. Well, we're gonna skip forward a little bit here. We're already back at the yard. Nothing too exciting to show you during loading. It was pretty much the same as other times I've showed you. I don't like to repeat myself over and over too many times, but this is what we loaded. This was already in the truck. I don't know who loaded that, I didn't do that. This is what I loaded today. This is these two pieces here. And these pieces are going to, where are you going? Hazelhurst, Mississippi. I'll tell you what, I might just tag along. I wish, eh? It was very simple, very simple. I had to wait a while to get loaded because there's trucks in front of me, but once I was there, open the cover, maybe 20 minutes when we were out of there, and I drove all the way back already. Roads were much better in the afternoon. The morning were terrible, but they did get a lot better throughout the day. So now I believe we're done.  I'm happy with this day to day. This one trip, I didn't really have to get too, too deep into the snow.  All right, let's go home. Trucks are just parked all over the place. One over there, one over there, one over there, one over there. Wherever we can find solid ground, because everything is so soft right now. So I parked mine off to the left over here. That's mine. Right beside my old one. Had a little bit of a soft spot there. Even my pickup is sinking in. Yeah, well, at least most of the snow was melted already. All right, you're looking around. It's pretty warm outside. It wants two degrees outside right now. Give it a few days, all this snow will be gone again. That will be in the clear. And I think that time it'll be for good. I think that time is gonna be for summer. But, I just remembered, we have had snow on May long weekend before. Not this much, but I better keep my mouth shut. Anything could happen. They haven't seen me yet, but they know I'm here. Let me announce my arrival. Oh, I missed you too much. I missed you too. You're busting. You guys are terrible at howling today. He knows not to put his paws on me. Put your paws on me. I'll put my paws on you. I'll put my paws on you. You may have figured out already, Brit's not home. That's how I get home when I get home alone. She said it works still. So let's take these guys outside, shall we? Let's see what the yard looks like. Is it getting kind of soggy out there? All right guys, a lot of the snow melted. So it's a little bit better than it was yesterday. You guys ready? Come on. I'm on. One more. Oh, there he is. There he is. I'll go all the way in the yard. All the way in the yard. No peeing up here by the patio furniture. Chase him back here. Oh, and we got sheer ice here again. Like usual. You get him. Get him. Get him. Get him. Oh, I don't know what I was trying to do there. Oh. Okay, Diesel, that's not what I meant. Diesel, stop. That's not what I meant. Thanks for watching guys. Thanks very much. Thanks for watching the video. So you left your snot on there. You left your nose stuff on there. There. Sorry about that. Thanks for watching the videos. You guys are great. Don't forget to like. Can I go now? Okay. He wanted to be a part of the vlog, so. Commander, you wanna say something? No, nothing? Chevy, you wanna say something? You wanna say something? They're right here. They're right here, say something. No?  Okay. Why are you lurking out there, Commander? Making me nervous. Breathing down my neck while I'm trying to edit here. Anyways, thanks for watching today. Don't forget guys, give the video a thumbs up below if you can for me. If you wanna help out the channel, that's awesome. If you wanna share this as well too, that's an even bigger way to help the channel. But just by clicking that thumbs up down there, it helps with the YouTube algorithms and helps me out a lot. We'll see you tomorrow. Hopefully, hopefully there'll be less snow when we get up. We'll see.


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Guitar and Excel. Pentatonic scale fret 5 intervals. Get ready and don't fret. Remember, the board's totally fretted already, so you need to be the calm one in the relationship. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay because we basically built this from a blank worksheet, but did so in prior presentations. So if you want to build this from a blank worksheet, you may want to begin back there. However, you don't necessarily need access to this workbook. If looking at this from a music theory standpoint, because we'll simply use it as a tool to map out the fretboard, give us the notes scale chords that we're focused in on. If you do have access to this workbook, though, there's currently 10 tabs down below. We've got a bunch of these example tabs. We've got the OG Orange tab. We have the Practice tab. The OG Orange tab representing the original worksheet we put together in a prior presentation. It now acting as the starting point going forward, mapping out the entire fretboard, giving us our entire musical alphabet and letters and numbers and combining them together. Having a key that can be adjusted with this green note, which will adjust the key of the worksheets on the right hand side, which provide us the notes in the key, the chord constructions from the notes in the key, and some interval information up top. We then wanted to look at the key of C and think about the chord constructions within the key of C. We started, of course, with the one chord that being the C major chord. We mapped it out first in open position, mapping out the one three five, discussed it in detail. We went to the four chord because that's the other major chord. We mapped it out in open position. We went then to the five chord, the G chord, same thing. Back up to the minor chords. The D chords did the same thing. Then we went to the E minor, did the same thing. Then the six chord, the A minor, same thing. And finally, the diminished. We didn't skip it. We looked at the diminished as well. And then now we're going to the middle of the fretboard, journeying up to the middle. Now that we've got some idea of everything that's going on in open position, not necessarily from a scale standpoint, but rather from the chord constructions, which if you put them all together, which will give you, in essence, the scale, a major scale, which would look something like this. And now we're going to look at the scale starting in the middle of the fretboard, and we're trying to expand out from a scale standpoint in the middle of the fretboard and connect that in to our other learnings in the chord shapes. So last time we discussed the most popular pentatonic scale, which usually often you don't have to play it, by the way, in fret five, but that's probably the most popular place to start to learn the position. One of the beautiful things about the position, just as with the chords, is that they're movable. So we can move them. We'll talk about doing that later. I want to start learning it in the middle of the guitar in fret five, because that's going to link in beautifully to our chords that we learned on the left. And everything that we have learned, then we can tie it together. And when we tie it all together, we're basically putting together the entire map of the fretboard in one key. And then we can, of course, think about how we can shift that whole fretboard thing, because the beauty of the fretboard is it's symmetrical. We have the capacity to do that. This time I want to look more about the intervals. Now, a lot of times when people learn these shapes, they don't talk about the intervals as much because we like to just kind of learn the shape from a natural fingering standpoint, and then we might target particular notes within it. But the intervals are really useful because they actually allow us to see these shapes, not as just kind of nebulous shapes, but as the scale that are in the shape form. The reason it's difficult to see the scale in this kind of shape is because when we visualize a scale, we usually visualize it, say, on like a piano type of layout. Or, if you're looking at the fretboard, we visualize the scale on one string, and we can apply it. I'm going to go to the OG tab. We can apply out this pattern of whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. If you imagine a piano, that's the pattern in the key of C where the black notes are going to be the half step. So if you play just the white notes, then you're going to be in the key of C because this pattern is what is mapped out on a piano that way. Obviously, if you change to any other key, it gets confusing on the piano because now the shapes will be different even though this pattern will be the same. On the guitar, the beauty of the guitar is that the shapes will be the same as you move up the neck. You're not going to have to change the form shapes, and so that symmetry is good, but it also means that sometimes we lose the capacity to visualize the scale pattern just in a linear format, which is easy to do on, say, a piano, or it's pretty easy to do on one string of the guitar. If we map out a scale on one string of the guitar, then it's similar to the piano, and we could start on any note and do the whole steps and the half steps on each of the strings. So then the question is going to be, well, if I'm looking at this pattern, what does it mean to go, say, from the 8 here back to or from this E string on the C to this string for the D? When I'm thinking about it in terms of the distance so that I can kind of see the pattern in this box format rather than simply in a linear type of format across one string. Okay, so that's what I'm going to get into a little bit. Remember that to get into this, we have to understand some of these different numbering conventions and the intervals which aren't confusing in and of themselves. They're only confusing because we tend to mix them all together and we have a lot of terminology that I want to kind of dive into a little bit at this point and a little bit more detail. So for example, we have to name the actual notes themselves. We could do that with letters. We could do that with numbers. We have to name a numbering convention for the notes that are in the scale that we're in, seven notes in the scale. We might use a Roman numeral numbering system in order to give us a level of meaning beyond just the notes in the scale, also providing whether it's going to be a major chord construction or a minor chord construction. We then have the actual name of the notes in a position with relation to the actual chord we're playing, the 135 being names that are tying to the first note in the chord that we're playing. We can go all the way up to 13 here and then we can also think about the actual intervals, the actual distance between notes. That's what these are up top. Now to get an idea for this, let's go back to the OG tab over here and remember our musical alphabet. So our musical alphabet, there's only 12 notes in the musical alphabet, but we have those sharps and flats that make it confusing. So if I try to memorize it, I can't sing the alphabet, right? If I'm going up, I usually use sharps, A, A sharp, B, C, C sharp, D, D sharp, E, F, F sharp, G, G sharp, back to A. If I'm going back, we would generally use the flats, A flat, G, G flat, F, E, E flat, D, D flat, C, B, B flat, A. And the reason we use the sharps and flats that way, just to keep that in mind, is that we don't want to have two Bs next to each other. So we want to have a different letter and we can do that by alternating in essence the sharps and flats. Also remember that when you're sharpening something or flattening something as a verb, that means sharpening, you're moving it up a step, flatting, you're moving it down a step. Now it's easy for us to use the musical alphabet if we just number the notes. So this is what I'm pushing to do, to number the notes. That's going to help us to think of the intervals. You don't have to do it. You can watch this without doing that. But I still think it would be useful to memorize as long as you memorize all this other stuff. So on A is a 1, the A sharp or B flat is a 2, the B is a 3, the C is a 4, the C sharp or D flat is a 5, the D is a 6, the D sharp or E flat is a 7, the E is an 8, the F is a 9, the E sharp or G flat is a 10, the G is an 11, the G sharp or A flat being 12, only 12 notes. Why is that helpful? Because I can count up, I can count back very easily and I can look at the intervals very easily. Now I want to emphasize this interval thing because we have all these different naming conventions for naming the intervals. So once I go back on over here, we can see that all these different naming conventions are basically naming what a distance is. So I want to try to break that down and it's easier to do that with just the numbers, right? Before we do that though, we also then come up with the creation of the notes in the scale. There's only 7 out of the 12. How do we do that? We use the formula of whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. How do we use that formula? That's beyond the scope of the lecture. We're going to take that as a priori. That's just the formula. So if we apply it then 4 plus 2 is 6, 6 is a D. 6 plus 2 is 8, 8 is an E. 8 plus 1 is 9, 9 is an F. 9 plus 2 is 11, 11 is a G. 11 plus 2 is 12 and then back to 1 because there's only 12 notes in the musical alphabet. We go around it. It's like a circle. You can imagine it like a circle. It just keeps repeating. The snake is eating its own tail or whatever if that analogy works. Then we're back to a 1. 1 plus 2 is 3. A 3 is a B. 3 plus 1 is 4 and 4 is a C and now we're repeated. These are the 7 notes in the alphabet that's making our notes over here. So now we have 7 out of 12 notes over here in our musical alphabet. Now the next thing that might be useful to see is to see the intervals between the strings. So we go from an E to an A to a D to a G to a B to an E. Now if you look this up most people are going to say that that distance, they're going to say that that distance is a fourth or a major fourth. Which is kind of confusing to most people because, again, like when I hear that for a long time I was going like, well what does that mean to be a fourth? Because if I look at this, I'm saying if this is an E to an A to a D to a G to a B to an E, it's like okay, if I started an E, I'm imagining a top string, a low E, and I'm trying to get up to an A, what does a fourth mean? Is there a fraction? Is it like 8 out of 12 or something like that that they're talking about? Or maybe they're trying to say that it's like we only are using the key of C. So there's no sharps and flats and then I'm talking like we're going from an E and then we go up to an E, F, G, so F, G, A, but then that only works if you actually start on the E. So now you're starting on the E, E, F, G, A, and then I get to the A, that kind of works, but that's not really the distance of three notes, you're counting the note that you started on, right? And so I think what's actually happening, and if I try to say, well what's the actual distance? Well if I go to an A and I use my math and A is a 1 and I say, well I went from 8, 8 up to 9, 10, 11, 12, back around the horn to 1, it's 5, there's a distance of 5 actual notes. So what are you talking about that it's a fourth, right? These are the questions that come up with these intervals. So for example if I take 8, if I see E is an 8 and I add 5 to it, I get 13, right? It took 5 steps up, there's only 12 notes in the musical alphabet so I can subtract 12, that gets me to the 1 which is an A. Or you can start it at a 1 and subtract minus the 8, that gets you to 7, there's 12 notes in the musical alphabet so I'm going to say plus 12, it gets you to 5. So the distance between these in terms of absolute notes is going to be 5. So I think what's happening with the fourth convention is they're using this convention over here where you're saying you're numbering based on as though the first item or the first note is the first note in the scale or in your chord. Like you would label a C major chord for example. So we know that the 1 is just going to be the 1 and then which is really no interval because we're looking at the distance from it as a C and then the 3, how far away is the 3? Well if it's a major chord construction, the 3 is going to be 4 notes away. Now that 4 notes away, remember like when I say it's a major third, it means that it's a whole step or a half step or 4 notes away, right? And then if I say it's a fifth, that means that it's 5 notes away. So then the question is what does it mean to be a fourth? Because we skip the fourth, right? We don't use the fourth because we go to the 1, we go to the 3, we go to the 5 because when we construct a chord we use every other note and we went from the 1 to the 3 to the 5, we skip the 4. So why are you using that term? Because I don't get to that 4 until I go around the horn again, right? I'm on the 5 and then I go to the 7 and then I have to go around again which gets me to the 9 and then I go around again to get to the 11. So the 4 seems to me is that it's equivalent to the 11th if you're using that kind of measuring term, right? And the 11th, if you're talking about a major 11th in position 1, here's a 9, an F minus 4, that's 5 notes away. 9 minus 4. So do you see how kind of confusing that is when you're telling most people that if that's the convention we're using, it's a fourth away, most people are not thinking, okay well that must mean that you're talking about the measuring convention of as though I'm building a chord from the first note away and then you're using a fourth which I never actually use because we don't usually build fourths which is equivalent to the 11th which most people don't talk about in the first place which would be the fourth as though I built it off of the fourth, okay? Do you see what I mean on these measuring things? So I'm going to try to use an analogy and I know I'm exaggerating this but this would be kind of like saying I have 10 fingers, right? I have 10 fingers and there's only 12 notes in the musical alphabet. You can think about it the same way that I'm trying to get from one finger to the other finger. I'm trying to go from my pinky up to my pointer finger. How far is that? Well how would you count? It's 1, 2, 3 fingers away. You start here 1, 2, 3 fingers away. That's how far it is. You wouldn't really start saying well you know it's like a whole step and a half step which I can also call like a major you know a minor third distance away, right? Like why do you need to do that? It's only you only have 10 fingers like you could use the same convention of it's one finger away and this is what I kind of want to stress. I'm just all I'm trying to point out here is that any of these measuring conventions that you hear you can break down similar to just basically distances and standard units of one note away. Another analogy just to try to... a ruler, right? A ruler. It has 12 notes on it. It's basically or 12 inches on it. It's basically the same thing as the musical alphabet. Whenever we're using these measuring conventions we're basically using a unit of distance we're naming the original point and then seeing how many points away is it in terms of notes, right? So if we say that one inch for example there's 12 inches in a ruler. If we say that one inch is like one note away, half step, then that's all you really need because there's only 12 of them, right? I mean so this would be like what we have here with the music system would be kind of like similar to some like tenured academic egghead insisting that we can't just use the inches here. We have to come up with other units of measure so they decided to come in and take the 12 inches and come up with a new name for every combination of inches within the 12 inches. And I know I'm being a little unfair here but just I think I'm just trying to hammer the point here home that we're really just talking about 12 inches or 12 steps, right? Like you can imagine them coming in and saying well we need to stop just using inches we need to have what I call a whole step and you're like well what is a whole step? And he's like well that in essence it's like two inches and it's like well why do we need two inches? He's like well we have to have, we can't just use a half step we have to have a whole step and it's like do we really need a whole step? Because I mean it's not like we have a problem of measuring tools not being sufficient like we're trying to measure a football field compared to measure like the distance between galaxies or something in which case we need like yardsticks versus light years or something like there's only 12 inches but then you're like okay whatever he's really insistent he likes his new term his new thing so it's like okay we'll call it I don't get it but whatever we'll call it a whole step and then he's like now we need to have a minor third and you're like well what is a minor third? Well minor third is a combination of a whole step and a half step and you're like well what is that that's just three inches that's just it's like yeah it's three inches but it's a combo of the whole step and a half step and you're like well that's ridiculous but you've already accepted now not just to use inches so you're like okay whatever I guess it can't do much more damage than the other confusion of having a whole step in the first but then he's like now you have to have the compliment if you accept that there's a half step and a whole step you have to have the major third too which is like two whole steps and you're like but that's only four that's four inches do you need to call that a major why don't you just call it four and they're like you have to just like okay I give up and then of course you have a fifth well what does a fifth mean? a fifth means seven inches and it's like okay what does it mean to have to have like a diminished fifth well that means like you had seven inches minus one so that's six inches why don't you just call it six inches and they're like well that doesn't sound as cool as a diminished fifth now does it right and if you had an augmented that's like fifth then it's like seven inches plus that's eight inches you see what I mean so I'm not and I know I'm being overly unfair because there's meaning to saying something is a fifth or seventh because it kind of names the position and it's related chord and stuff and I get that I know I'm being unfair but I'm just kind of drilling the point home here that anytime you see like one of these interval terms that we're talking about the question you want to ask is what is the starting point that you're starting at and give it to me in inches in our case half steps and notes how many notes away is it from that starting point and I think that'll clarify a lot of it'll allow you to see these intervals much more easily and it'll allow you to see what is happening with these naming conventions I mean honestly it's kind of like if you were driving down the basketball court and you threw up a shot towards the hoop and then the basketball magically changed it like an American football and someone caught it in the end zone and you scored a touchdown getting six points instead of two points that you would have gotten in the basketball game why because it's a game changer it's a game changer I mean honestly just one more analogy because this measuring system would be like going to the doctor you go to the doctor and he wants to see how long your foot is he wants to see how long your foot is and he pulls out his magical measuring stick and you're like well that looks like a foot stick doctor and he's like no it's not a ruler it's not a ruler this is a magical medical measuring stick and then he you're like okay I don't presume to know the arts of doctories so I'll take your word for it and he puts the stick next to your foot and he tells you that your foot happens to be like two major thirds, a minor third plus a half step long and you're like wow that's the magic of medicine that's amazing and then a week later you get the nerve to ask the doctor could you give it to me I know I'm a stupid doctor but could you give it to me just in inches and he's like yeah it's about 12 inches and you're like well why don't you tell me my foot isn't 12 that's just an example but you're like why don't you tell me that the first I've been on Google trying to figure out how long my foot is based on it being being you know two major thirds a minor third, a half step long right so you see what I mean it's like if you start mixing these measures up it's like you're not comparing apples to apples anymore you're comparing like apples to boogers right and although there's a lot of similarities you can't put them all in the same basket as if they're the same because there's differences like some people don't even like to taste the apples you know so in any case that's going to be the point my point is that the distance between these two is actually in total terms going to be five units away except for the distance between these two and you can measure that with just your math if you number the notes so you've got the E to the A and if I go from an A to a D we're going to say okay I can go from a six minus the one that's five notes away so that makes sense because you're going to go an A is a one and then two three four five six right okay that makes sense and then I'm going to a D to it to a G so we've got eleven minus six and that's going to be five right so six seven eight nine ten eleven that makes sense here's the weird one though then you're going like from a three minus the eleven gets you to a negative eight whenever I hit a negative I'm going to say plus twelve and I get to four it's only four notes away and that's because you have that that difference between these two strings which results in all the strangeness differences that's the only one you have a difference on though because if I go to three or eight eight minus three then I get back to the five distance between these two so they all are five notes away except for that last one so what does that mean well if I go up to my fret board here if I go like on my guitar and I'm saying well that's an E and I go five strings up one two three four five then I'm out in A and that A is the same A here as we have down here see how that's actually useful so now I'm saying okay that makes sense why does that make sense because this string the second string is five notes up meaning if I count it up this way one two three four five then I have the same position as this string on the nut or if I see the string on the bottom I can count up and go one two three four five and then up one string to get to the same note so that's see how that is actually useful and you can do that of course on this string here we could say okay this is a this is an A to get to the D it's five notes away so if I started on the nut one two three four five so now that's five strings up that's the same as the next note down which is a D or if I was on the D I can go one two three four five notes up and then up one and there's another D so you can see the pattern is there if you saw it as if you got confused with that four thing you're not going to see the pattern because you're not realizing that it's actually five the thing is is five notes away now if you go you can also just to take that idea a little bit further you can also say well if these notes in the musical alphabet are in a circle just like we did the circle of the seven notes in the scale but if we did that for all the notes in the musical alphabet all of these notes in the musical alphabet and we just made a circle out of them not these notes where are my notes these notes over here then you can imagine the circle just infinitely going around in a loop right which means that if you're saying that it's five notes away one way then it's going to be twelve because there's twelve notes minus five or seven notes away the other way if I started in the middle of my fret board and I looked at the E right there if I go five notes up from there this is just starting over so this is the fret board two times over right or like a fret board that was twice as long if I go five notes up one two three four five I get to the A which is the equivalent of the string below and if I went seven notes back then I would get to an A right one two three four five six seven so I get to the seven notes back right because you're seeing it as like a circle and I hope you see how these like intervals actually are useful right that helps you to kind of see you know what is happening here so then I can have it go backwards and if I'm going to the bottom string and I'm going up to the top string you know if it was then it's going to be a seven no distance or so like if I'm going from the E down I'm going down like in pitch to a B then I can take the second one this three right here three minus eight gives me a negative five plus twelve and we get to seven right and then here's the funny interval between these two so I can take the eleven minus three and you get to an eight because that's the fun and if I go to it and this is back to the normal one if I go from eleven to a D I'm going to go from six minus eleven negative five plus twelve gets you to a seven distance here if I take the one minus six plus twelve I get to a seven distance here and then if I go from an eight minus one I get to a seven distance here so if you're going from this string up you have five basically five note distance intervals and if you're going from this string in pitch which is the highest string and going down in pitch then you have the seven intervals why because seven plus five is twelve ok so that's going to be the general idea how does that help us when I'm doing the fingering on this side so now we can start to look at our pentatonic scale and we can say that if we start on the A here you could walk it through as though you're in the key of A minor which is what we've been looking at before or you can try to say I'm going to look at it first in the key of C right so if I take my C let's do that first and I'm right here and let's say we start our shape there then we're going to go from the C to a D so now we're going to go C to a D now usually a C to a D would be a four to a six right that's a whole step or two notes so usually you would think it falls on the same string it would be going up here two strings up but I want to stay in this fingering position so I'm instead going to go down here to this string so now I'm going from a four to a six and so you can so you can see like how does that work well if that was if I went two strings up this way I would end up at a D but I don't want to go that way instead I want to come back down here what's the interval between these two strings it's one two three four five and up one here's a D here's a D so what's happening here is I'm in this four position shape and when I want to go up one more whole step two notes up from a four to a six two notes up I could go up here or I can drop down down one fret and four frets back and you see what you see with that so that's the equivalent of going up another whole step so now that's we're dropping down to the string because of that distance between the strings and then we're going from a six to an eight so a six to an eight is two notes up so that's why boom boom two notes up and then we're going from an eight to I'm skipping the F now I'm skipping this note notice that's a half step that's what we're skipping when we do the pentatonic versus the major in essence there are no half steps in the pentatonic those are the ones that are removed and that's why you only have this space and then or the two spaces the long and the short so we'll see that when we get to the when we get to the major and so then we go back down to the G down here so that interval is going to be eight nine ten eleven right so we got three notes down to the G and I'll analyze that more when we get to the major but if I go to the G G to the A it goes up to twelve around the horn to one so it's two notes away to there and then I'm going from an A to a C so we're going from an A to a C notice that when we go from we're going from an A to a C so I got lost there for a second I'm skipping notice what we're skipping is the B right we're skipping that B which would be right here and one way you can think about that in terms of this shape notice what you do not what you would have in this shape if you pick that B up would be three strings on the pentatonic shape so that's another thing that we're not doing on the pentatonic shape we're not having two notes right next to each other a half step away and we're not just one note away right and we're not having three strings on one fret we only have two two notes on each string generally so then we're going to go down to the C so there's back to the C and you can see that we have repeated now because we started on a C so now we've gone through the scale we've gone all the way through the scale if you play this out it'll sound kind of like you're getting back home to when you go here and then you can run through the scale again in the upper register so now we're going from C to a D so once again that's going to be a whole step a whole step up or two notes up and then we're going from a D to an E so now we're going back to this E down here now this is that funny interval because we're going between these two strings remember these two strings were only four notes away from each other so if I was up at this D here and I'm going to an E it's two notes away so I could go D two notes away would be up here outside the position and that would be and if I did that that would be then my E but instead I'm going from my D down to here now those two notes are both E's so then the question is well how many frets up is it this is one two three four frets up instead of five and up one that's where that difference in the relationship is instead of five frets up it's four frets up so the difference between these two strings when I'm trying to go from here to the string down to go to a whole step notice I'm not starting from my pinky position but instead I'm starting from my ring finger position stopping down to the next string on my pointer finger because of the difference in the intervals basically between those two strings and then we've got the long distances down here going from the E we're skipping the F again because we don't want that half step so the half step has been removed and then we've got the long distance going to the G and then we go from the G to the A so when I go from a G that's going to be a whole step or two notes so if I was here I can go two notes up to here but instead this is the normal just the normal position if I want to go a whole step up I can go from my pinky position and these four frets to the next string down to the floor with my pointer position and that's why that that interval works well and the distances between the strings are basically five notes there so in other words if I took this string up here as a G and I went up to there there's an A and this is an A so what's the distance between those two this A is one, two, three, four, five notes this way and up one same distance between those two so if I'm out here instead of going up to here to get to the next whole step down and four strings back which is perfect hand position to go from my pinky position back to my pointer position down here and then again we've got that long stretch up to the C so I know that was a tedious kind of explanation but a lot of people find it difficult to see the scale on the guitar we learn the shape but we don't even really think about the scale because again we're just learning the shape which is fun to do but for the scale it's easier to see on a piano which is laid out on like one string would be similar to be laying out on one string so but if we learn this interval we can start to say well what does it mean when I'm going from this pinky position down here well usually that means if I'm going pinky to pointer it would be equivalent for me going one whole step up this way so instead of going one whole step up this way I'm going from pinky to pointer except when you're down between these two strings in which case it would be going from ring finger to pointer on the next string that would be a whole step because of the difference between that interval