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Closing Thought – Effort and Progress
(^) Pentatonic scales are a big tool in your guitar playing tool belt. It’s not the only way to approach soloing, but it
is definitely one of the most characteristic ways twith them because they are worth the effort. Thesehat guitar players use. I would encourage you to g pentatonic scale and patterns give you a frameworket familiar to
begin training your ear for soloing which we will bcontinues. If you have ever dreamed of being able egin to be concentrating more and more on as the coto understand and play all over the neck, then here is a tool urse
to get you there. Yes, it is going to take some efto do it. That’s why it’s easier to own an iPod thfort. If guitar playing were easy then everyone woan a Grammy. uld be able
Tips for Successful Learning
- Learn the Forms First. Get these five pentatonic forms underneath your fingers. Learn the finger patterns
of them. A good way to learn these scales is to tashift it up a half step and play it again. Continue working your way up the neck until you run out ofke one form and play it ascending and then descendi neck to play the ng. Then
form in and then come back down. Do that for a fewand down the neck for a couple of days but keep wor days and then take the next pentatonic form and woking on the 1st form as well. Keep doing this until you have rk it up
focused on all of the forms. Then start putting thuntil you are visualizing them as five units in the same key. em together by playing one form then the next one in the same key - Speed Will Only Come After You Know the Patterns. Don’t try to play fast until you know the
forms or you will forever be hitting a brick wall ipentatonic forms is better than two hours of just tn your playing. Fifteen minutes of focused, slow prying to play as fast as you can through them but kractice on the eep messing
up. Speed will come as you develop the muscle memory needed to play the pentatonic patterns confidently. - Solo Using the Notes of the Scale, not the Scale Itpatterns as letters and words that you are going to use to say what you want to say musically. Just pself. Think of these scales and finger laying through
the finger patterns will not make a good solo. Speon a note in the middle of the form or try to skip around on the notes. Try to create a melodic idea nd some time being creative with them. Experiment and develop it. with starting
That’s what soloing is all about. - You can play all of the pentatonic forms ascending & descending. Memorize them. Play
them in various keys. - You can connect the various pentatonic forms up and down the neck of the
guitar. - You can play the common pentatonic patterns on pages 64-65 of the lesson
book at 100 bpm.