In this lesson, we'll continue exploring the major and minor pentatonic scales and we take a look at a simple guitar lead played in the major pentatonic scale in the key of E. This lead part is fairly simple and contains several licks that you'll notice repeat themselves over and over again. I thought it was important to show that you can repeat the same lick and it will work, even though the chords are changing. It really stresses how just about anything you do within the major pentatonic … [Read more...]
How To Create a Solo Using Only 3 Notes – Using Both Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales – LEG023
This lesson is really just a continuation of the overview of the major and minor pentatonic scales which I did previously. I intentionally don't point out any specific note for note solos in this lesson because I'm trying to keep the focus on dynamics, in fact I've stripped the solos down to only three notes in both the major and minor pentatonic scales to show that you can have a decent sounding guitar solo without going nuts, by simply playing notes that sound good. That involves adding the … [Read more...]
Understanding The Major and the Minor (Blues) Pentatonic Scales – LEG024
In this lesson I'm not going to necessarily show you how to play a particular solo, but more importantly give you a brief overview of how solos are created. I demonstrate both the major and the minor (blues scale) pentatonic scales in this lesson - assuming we're in the key of E. Now this lesson is by no means meant to be super comprehensive and give you all the different positions for these scales, but this will give you a good overview and show how these 2 scales can work together. I'm going … [Read more...]
