Pentatonic Scale Fluency: Learn How to Play the Minor Pentatonic Scale Effortlessly Anywhere on the Fretboard

Author: Lee Nichols
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091253322
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
How to Master the Pentatonic Scale Using the Whole Fretboard Flying up and down the guitar neck is easy when you know how. You just have to know how to join the dots. This skill isn't exclusive to the chosen few and you don't need any special talents or be lucky enough to be born gifted. There are no tricks, no secrets and no gimmicks. If you can play the common chords and you've already messed around with the pentatonic Box 1 pattern then you've already done the hard part; it's time to move on and own the minor pentatonic scale ... just about the most important scale to master in rock, blues, pop and many other genres. Once you crack this one important scale, the rest will become even easier once you learn the basic concept of joining scales and notes all over the guitar's fretboard. This book will show you how. Learn how to connect all the minor pentatonic positions throughout the fretboard. Keep your focus simple. Examples are all in A minor so that you can achieve results fast. Learn how to break the scale positions down and piece them back together to make them usable Includes diagrams and easy TAB exercises. Links to download audio examples for the exercises. Links to download a practice / jam along track in each of the twelve keys. Although the contents of this book are quite straightforward, it's not recommended for absolute beginners. You should be able to play the common open and bar chords and preferably have at least some experience with the minor pentatonic scale to get the most out of it. Warning: Some practice will be required. This book does not include magic tricks or gimmicks, only things that actually work.

Master Pentatonic Scales for Guitar in 14 Days!

Author: Troy Nelson
Publisher: Troy Nelson Music
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Book Description
Learn to play amazing guitar solos all over the guitar neck with Master Pentatonic Scales for Guitar in 14 Days—an amazing guitar scales book. Pentatonic scales for guitar are the basis for almost anything you'll ever want to learn and master. They will be the foundation for all of the great playing you dream of doing yourself. If your guitar licks are stuck in a vertical box and you’re bored with the guitar solos you play, this book will help you bust out and soar all over the guitar neck to play horizontally, as well. I’m going to tell you a secret: those great guitar players you love; mastering pentatonic scales is a huge reason why they are so great. They have learned how to effortlessly link pentatonic scales together along any string and glide between positions. They never run out of soloing options because they never have to wonder where to go next. Learning the guitar pentatonic scales in this book will put you on the road to having unlimited soloing tools in your toolbox! Grab this pentatonic guitar book and gain total fretboard freedom when you master unique guitar licks hiding in both the major and minor pentatonic scales. What you learn in this book is how to play scales musically by using easy-to-read tab to play thoughtfully designed exercises. BONUS: Questions during practice? Contact us from our website and we will happily answer any questions. That’s right! Every Troy Nelson Music book includes direct access to help, whether it’s about an exercise in the book or questions about the audio files. We want to help you! Master Pentatonic Scales for Guitar in 14 Days will teach you the 5 box patterns and 2 extended patterns of the major pentatonic and minor pentatonic scales, as well as their relative blues scales. Playing the exercises in this guitar scales book will teach you to: Play the scales more “musically” Connect the patterns across the entire fretboard Use patterns to create licks for soloing Master pentatonic scale fluency And so much more! Inside this scales book, you will find guitar lessons packed with guitar tab and explanations for: Scale Patterns Exercises Arpeggios Techniques Lead Licks Major and Minor Blues Scales Connecting the Patterns Read it! Hear it! Play it! Music examples are presented in notes and tab. This practical, step-by-step guide to pentatonic scales for guitarists includes quick-and-easy access to audio tracks via download or streaming—right from troynelsonmusic.com. No signup required! REMEMBER: Free access to instant streaming or audio downloads from Troy’s website is included. From the author of over 30+ guitar lesson books Master Pentatonic Scales for Guitar in 14 Days is written how Troy Nelson would want to learn major and minor pentatonic scales if he was starting from scratch, in his signature, tried-and-true, sound-great-right-away style. Troy has written more than 30 books for the guitar and edited more than 100 others.

Alternative Pentatonics

Author: Graham Tippett
Publisher: Graham Tippett
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
I actually wrote this book as a practice guide for myself because I wanted a way to get different and outside sounds using pentatonic scales, as well as to improve my chops and have a huge variety of new sounds at my fingertips to play over the chords you see 90% of the time such as major/major7, minor/minor7, and dominant chords, among others. As well as being a scales book Alternative Pentatonics is also a method to practice improvising over common chords using uncommon groups of five notes. Five notes are somewhere between an arpeggio and a scale, as well as being the ideal number of notes to craft some really nice phrasing (in my opinion), as I’m sure you realized when you first learned your minor pentatonic scale and started jamming over a 12-bar blues. This book contains 28 new pentatonic scales divided into chord types so that you’ll know exactly what chords you can use them over. For the intermediate player: this book will give you plenty of new and interesting options for playing over common chords and force you out of standard pentatonic scales and/or the major scale modes. For the more advanced player: this book could be more about exploring possibilities than learning scale patterns; in fact, I would suggest that advanced players avoid even remembering the patterns in this book. Instead, they can be used to explore the improvisational terrain and find new sounds, then filed away in your subconscious and allowed to seep into your playing while you’re in the throes of improvisation. So, if you’re stuck in a soloing rut or are looking for new sounds, outside sounds, exotic sounds, or even a few downright weird sounds, this is the book for you.

Beyond Pentatonics

Author: Graham Tippett
Publisher: Graham Tippett
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
A lot of students ask me how they can take their improvisation skills to the next level and move beyond pentatonic scales and into modes and arpeggios. My response is to tell them not to abandon pentatonic scales in favor of modes and other soloing devices, but to use them as a springboard and a solid foundation from which to expand their harmonic awareness. If you play rock, blues and even jazz, you’ll be using pentatonic scales for the rest of your life, so there’s no need to discard them! In this book, we’ll be using the much-loved minor pentatonic scale as the basis for learning and having a quick way to access the modes of the major scale, as well as the basic seventh chord arpeggios. This means that when you go to improvise, you'll have a vast array of options with which to go beyond pentatonic soloing. Work through this book daily and I guarantee you a smooth and painless transition from pentatonics to incorporating modes and arpeggios into your playing.

Guitar Fretboard Fluency

Author: Joseph Alexander
Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com
ISBN: 9781789330618
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Fretboard fluency trains your ears and brain to be in charge of your fingers while also developing your internal 'dictionary' of creative, melodic approaches.

Connecting Pentatonic Patterns

Author: Tom Kolb
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1480390313
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
(Guitar Educational). If you've been finding yourself trapped in the pentatonic box, then Connecting Pentatonic Patterns is for you! This hands-on instructional book with audio offers examples for guitar players of all levels, from beginner to advanced. The only prerequisites are a basic understanding of the minor pentatonic scale and a desire to expand your fretboard horizons. Study this book faithfully, and soon you'll be soloing all over the neck with the greatest of ease. Includes audio demonstrations of every example in the book, plus jam tracks for practicing!

Guitar Hacks

Author: Graham Tippett
Publisher: Graham Tippett
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
3NPS (three-note-per-string) scales, as used by legions of guitarists but popularized mainly by Joe Satriani, are one of the most efficient ways to navigate the fretboard and get your scales down IF you follow the guidelines in this book. As the name suggests, a 3NPS scale is any scale that contains three notes on each string, and as you'll see in this eBook, this makes for a very consistent way to map out scales on the guitar fretboard. What we’ve done here is revamped the 3NPS scale system and turned it into an incredibly effective means to learn a wide variety of scales all over the fretboard by streamlining the number of patterns, as well as the picking system. This is not a scale theory book, and contains no pentatonic scales. This is a quick and dirty (and very effective) method for learning 3NPS scales all over the fretboard; something to work on in the woodshed. It will improve your picking technique and speed. It does not require a great amount of thinking as you only need to learn two picking patterns, which is really one in two directions, and only three scale patterns instead of the usual seven per scale.

Scale Fluency

Author: Graham Tippett
Publisher: Graham Tippett
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Scale Fluency – Pentatonics will give you the complete picture for any pentatonic scale across the entire guitar neck. In essence, it’s a practice method that ties all those loose ends together that you may have picked up from other scale systems such as the CAGED and/or the incomplete ‘five shapes’ approach. It will also bring to life any scale theory you’ve learned as you’ll start to see the big picture, rather than unrelated bits of information that lead to many gray areas on the neck. This book, as well as being a complete scales practice method, presents a subtle but deeper take on pentatonic scales that most guitarists overlook. For the beginning to intermediate guitarist, pentatonic scales provide a very effective springboard into soloing, but what tends to happen is that these players quickly become tired of the scale and feel they have to move on to something else like modes to play better solos. This is not the case as what they should do is look deeper into the structure of the pentatonic scale and approach it in a more melodic way, which is what we’ll do in this book. You’ll see the pentatonic major and minor scales, which are really one entity, as they relate to chords and keys, and you’ll hear and see those famous five patterns in an entirely different way. With consistent practice the combination of logical horizontal and vertical patterns will allow you to improvise using pentatonic scales in a more satisfying, confident, and melodic way.

Guitar Scales

Author: Joseph Alexander
Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com
ISBN: 9781789332063
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
Are you tired of being stuck in Minor Pentatonic Prison? Are you ready to break out and access the whole guitar neck... to release your inner virtuoso? Is it time for you to learn the secrets of powerful, melodic pentatonic guitar solos...

Pentatonic and Blues Scales for Guitar

Author: Rob Silver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781502941855
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
This guide maps out various Pentatonic and Blues Scales including: THE MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE, THE MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALE, THE MINOR BLUES SCALE, THE MAJOR BLUES SCALE, THE VOODOO BLUES SCALE, THE INDIAN PENTATONIC SCALE, THE DOMINANT PENTATONIC SCALE, and THE DORIAN PENTATONIC SCALE for you on 6 string guitar in standard tuning.I've also included some bonus material for the shredders out there, 3 note per string pentatonic shapes, three octave 3 note string pentatonic shapes and three octave 3 note per string blues scales.Each scale or mode is mapped out all over the neck, and in all positions to let you play with any scale in any key anywhere on the guitar neck.The scales have been mapped out showing all the relative intervals in each pattern making it much easier for you apply the information to your playing by putting the dots in a harmonic context.