Originally Posted by: bounceeSo I get confused when I try to watch videos about soloing and people start talking about ie Bminor pentatonic and the various positions.[/quote]

There are 5 standard pentatonic scale "boxes" or shapes. The term "position" in guitar usually refers to the lowest fret used in any given situation. That often causes confusion because some guitar instructors (or websites!) use the terms interchangeably.

I explain the boxes & the logical reasons for the shapes & locations in this tutorial.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=296

Originally Posted by: bounceeI can't seem to get them to stick into memory, and next time people talk about position I go blank, except first postion. I know A minor got the root on 5th fret sixth string and so on. But I can't seem to find a way to memorize the various positions.

That's just a matter of repetition. You have to play & use them until you have committed them to memory & they are second nature.

You do that by practicing them a lot. I have tutorials on that too!

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=722

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=185

[quote=bouncee]But in order to get this to stick in my brain I think I need to understand why thepostions have different numbers and what those numbers imply.

In short, you can play the same note in more than one place on the guitar. So some of the notes overlap in various places. Combine that with the scale intervals & the nature of the guitar tuning & you get the pentatonic shapes. Check out the tutorials I linked above!

Hope this helps!