In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn an Eric Clapton style blues lead that primarily uses the Major Pentatonic scale (with a few minor pentatonic licks). The jam track for this lesson is provided by Quist! If you like this jam track, be sure to check out Quist's social media accounts below: YouTube channel - full of classy sounding backing tracks by going here Spotify - Stream Quist backing tracks by going here Instagram - Featuring some of Quist's amazing guitar work by going here … [Read more...]
Using the Major Pentatonic scale to play “Go Tell It On The Mountain” on guitar – Lesson EP544
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the Christmas song, "Go Tell It On The Mountain" by using the Major Pentatonic Scale. … [Read more...]
Blending the Major & Minor Pentatonic scales in 3 ZONES on the fretboard – Guitar Lesson – EP530
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to go back and forth between the major and minor pentatonic scales using a single note as an anchor. You'll learn this in 3 zones (or regions) of the fretboard. … [Read more...]
Improvise a soulful blues lead using the major & minor pentatonic scales – Guitar Lesson EP481
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise a soulful blues lead using the major and minor pentatonic scales (and mixing in a few arpeggios). … [Read more...]
Major Pentatonic Blues – Play this “Call & Response” blues composition by yourself – Guitar Lesson EP472
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a "call & response" blues composition that you can play by yourself (no jam track) that uses the Major Pentatonic Scale licks. … [Read more...]
Ideas for mixing the major & minor pentatonic scales. – Guitar Lesson EP437
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to mix the major and minor pentatonic scales to play the blues while learning this composition that you can play by yourself on guitar. … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Guide to the Pentatonic Scales – EP436
In this week's guitar lesson (more like a course), you'll learn everything there is to know about the pentatonic scales, where they come from, how they sound, when and how to use them. This lesson has 4 stand-alone composition practice songs, as well as 4 practice songs that you can play with jam tracks. Also includes the PDF files of the pentatonic patterns (the standard version and my 3 pattern version). … [Read more...]
Dickey Betts style lead – Major Pentatonic Scale – EP404
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how add a note to the major pentatonic scale to get that classic Dickey Betts sound. Classic Dickey Betts style lead including harmonies and triplets. … [Read more...]
Using Minor and Major Pentatonic Scales in the Blues – Blues Guitar Lesson EP368
In this week's guitar lesson, I'll explain how to easily find the minor and major pentatonic scales, and how to connect those scales to basic chord shapes. You'll then learn a stand-alone blues composition that uses both of these scales so you can understand how they relate to the blues. … [Read more...]
Blues Phrasing Mini-Series (2 of 3) Mixing the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales – EP312
This is Part 2 (of 3) of a blues phrasing mini-series for guitar. If you've ever struggled with not knowing what to do with all of the scales and information that you've learned for guitar, this mini-series will be perfect for you. It's designed to give you some essential tools to get you improvising right away. This lesson focuses on combining the major and minor pentatonic scales so that they can be played in the same area, as opposed to 2 separate areas on the neck like we learned in the … [Read more...]
