This is lesson #2 in this series. Click here for lesson #1 We are just learning how to play in some of the more commonly used parts of the fretboard...each of these lessons work over an A blues or A7 chord. Here is the backing track to jam with: http://www.markweinguitarlessons.com...ineShuffle.mp3 Click here for a printable version of this lesson. ...
In this lesson we are going to deconstruct some of our favorite "cliche" pentatonic licks to give us a better sense of what is happening melodically when we play these ideas. Hopefully by removing the bends from the licks we can have a better sense of what musical idea we are trying to play when we DO bend. Many of my "newer" student soloists forget that a bend is just a way of getting from one pitch to another. For a "tune up" lesson on bending click here ...
This week we are going to put some of our Major Pentatonic ideas together by learning a solo. I play in a rock band called "Felt", and I am using for an example a solo that I recorded for a song called "Codependence Day" from our debut CD "Desert Center" (Here's a plug for the album:You can find Desert Center on iTunes or on CDBaby.com). We are in the key of Bb major, which is a departure from our usual key of A (now that we have spent some time seeing how this stuff works ...
This week we are going to get a littler farther into the Major Pentatonic scale. The first thing I want to do is talk about the difference between the Major scale (or Diatonic Major scale) and the Major Pentatonic scale. Without getting too far into scale theory, I want you to play the Major scale in the first measure of the music below. The second measure is a Major Pentatonic scale, which is just the major scale without the fourth and seventh notes. This is the scale that we have been ...
Welcome to my second lesson on the Major Pentatonic scale! I was going to drill the other 4 positions of the scale, but I figured that you can print the music out and just repeat the process from previous scale lessons...so here they are: http://www.markweinguitarlessons.com...onicScale2.pdf This week we are look at playing the Major Pentatonic in a more "Lateral" fashion. If you just learn the box patterns this scale can be difficult to be musical with. The scale ...
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