Category: Pentatonics for Guitar

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How to Break Out of the Pentatonic Rut

May 9, 2019by Pentatonics for Guitar, Playing Guitar

Here are some things you can try with Pentatonics:

* Spend more time playing up and down the strings rather than across the strings.
* Pick every note instead of typical hammer pull licks.
* Avoid bends. Use slides instead.
* Avoid triplet patterns. Instead think in groups of 4, 5 and 6
* Think…

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About Pentatonic Scales

March 18, 2019by Pentatonics for Guitar, Playing Guitar

There are five interlocking patterns that are usually taught for the pentatonic scale. Each of those 5 patterns line up along side each other to cover the entire fingerboard with one scale.

A minor pentatonic = A C D E G

Anywhere you find those notes on the fingerboard, it’s the A minor pentatonic scale. If…

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