Now I got all the boxes,and some riffs,it is still not music.
live gotten the dozens of material you put out,any suggestions where to go from here?
Lots of great advice as usual.
Here's a couple of things that helped me:
1. The pentatonic is only 5 notes. So when you play a "box" you are playing the 5 notes over a 2 octave range. Plus an extra note.
Try just playing one octave, for example start minor box 1 on the root on the D string and play up to the octave on the high E. Say out loud the scale position as you play each note;
Root, m3rd, 4, 5, m7th, Root.
2. If you have a looper, play in a one chord vamp. For example a few bars of A7. Or use this
YouTube A7 vamp . Listen to how each note sounds.
3. Use a 12 bar blues backing track to play the root of each chord. Listen for the chord changes and practice your rhythm.
4. Using the same track, hum a few notes over and over until you get something that sounds good with the track. Then work out playing those notes using the same rhythm that you hummed.
HTH,
Tim