Fingering when moving between boxes

Hi Lee,

thanks a lot for the very inspirational little book on pentatonic scale fluency. I really dig your writing style.

I am trying to break out of box 1, and have a question on what Fingers to use when „changing box“. Take, for instance exercise 1 on page 16, moving from Box 1 to 5 and back again. I would play 1st string 5th fret with the index finger, slide down to fret 3, where however I would usually use the middle finger for fret 3 in box 5. Of course I can now trivially use the pinky for fret 5 2nd string and then have adjusted to a „normal“ fingering for box 5. is that the right thing to do and strive for and the right way to think about it, or is this entirely case dependent?

another example for the same question is exercise 6 page 18, which to me seems more difficult: using normal fingering for box 2 i would use the middle finger on 2nd string 8th fret, then slide down to 5th fret. Then I would use the pinky to reach 3rd string 7th fret, then change from middle to index to play again 2nd string 5th fret.

So I guess my question in the various exercises is: after sliding up or down, should I more or less adjust unusual fingering to standard fingering for the box I am in now, or should I free myself from thinking box fingering and adjust case by case?

Maybe you could explain given the examples?

Thanks a lot, greetings from Munich, Germany

Thomas