The major pentatonic is easy to learn if you already know the minor pentatonic scale. More than 44 exercises to develop speed and accuracy with pdf attachments. Its available on a pc or mac and there is a ipad, iphone and android app ready to go. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player. Here are a couple of licks very similar to what well be doing in down to the station. In this lesson, we outline the chords in an a major 12 bar blues with riffs created from the minor pentatonic scale. Pentatonic blues licks must know minor pentatonic licks. There is a major pentatonic scale and a minor pentatonic scale. No matter what chord is being played in the progression you play the same scale or mode over each chord you are. We have included patterns for the e pentatonic and natural minor scales to help. Apr 12, 2011 50 rock guitar licks you need to know.
We arent always inspired to come up with new and fresh ideas, so guitar licks are like an emergency reservoir for your soloing jam sessions. Easy soloing guitar coach notes open position position 1 the scale the eminor pentatonic scale in the open position position 1. Most guitar players are familiar with the minor pentatonic box 1, but what some may not know is that you can use this identical box played a down a minor 3rd or 4 frets down from the tonic note on 6th string to get major pentatonic. Pentatonic scales pdf and instructional video guitar alliance. The pentatonic scale was also a favorite of the great jazz fusion guitarist, john mclaughlin, and two of the licks in this article are based on phrases he regularly played in his improvisations. Now if we just played up and down the scale, things would get dull quickly, so ive created my own licks to solo with for the song using the notes from the a minor pentatonic scale pattern above. Even if you already use the dorian mode in your playing, using pentatonic shapes to play dorian licks will give you a new approach to use in your solos. The dorian modal scale has a distinctive sound that can add interest to a solo. March 20, 2017 lrt033 doublestop riff licks, riffs, and tricks february 28, 2017 lrt032 iivi modal lick licks, riffs, and tricks. Several typical pentatonic blues licks will be used as a starting point to develop your knowledge of the pentatonic scale. In addition, all of these licks are from the same basic pentatonic pattern. Pentatonic licks 15 pattern 3 for electric guitar solos in.
Pentatonic and modal guitar lick for soloing in the style pop. Five pentatonic licks in pattern 3 for electric guitar solos in the styles blues, rock and pop with music notes, tab tablature and sound. In this lesson you will be learning some ways to use the pentatonic scale in a solo. So if you were using this to improvise, those are some other notes that you might try playing around with as you solo. Jun 19, 2019 the most common pentatonic scale is the pentatonic minor scale, the scale that weve been discussing throughout this page.
A jimmy pageinspired pentatonic lick anyone can play guitar. The 14 most common and usable guitar scales printable and ready to use 1. All of the licks are written in the key of e minor, so that you can easily master them in this popular key. You could play these licks over a iivv blues progression where a7 is the i chord, d7 iv chord and e7 v chord. The free pdf download is located directly below each video demonstrating the lick. The minor pentatonic scale by paul tauterouff the minor pentatonic scale is one of the most commonly scales used in rock, blues, country and jazz music. Pentatonic power the 5 boxes the individual boxes below show the optimal fingerings for each form. The guitar major scale is happy upbeat and useful in a variety of styles of music. Its a fast descending pattern played using a combination of picked and slurred notes.
Combining minor and major pentatonic scales guitarhabits. Take a peek inside by clicking on the excerpt to the right. This means that many of the same principles can be applied to righthand licks. Heres the link to get the downloads mentioned in the video. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to master. Pentatonic scale4, play the shapes found in the exercises, but replace the written notes with the notes of your chos en scale.
You will notice that the major pentatonic scale contains the primary notes of the i6 chord voicing we have explored in previous lessons. Youll find 50 allpurpose pentatonic licks to be generous. Home licks, riffs, and tricks lrt023 pentatonic blues solo lrt023 pentatonic blues solo. Your a real grandmaster of pentatonic i love the pentatonics licks.
You can find some licks in my licks, riffs, and tricks section. If youre not familiar with the major pentatonic scale, it may be a good idea to check out that lesson first then return here to learn its minor counterpart. Here is the list of the printable pdf methods with audio files available for download. All except that note on the 8th fret of the 1st string. If you listen to popular music, youve heard the pentatonic scale. This is normal, because the notes are positioned differently in the minor pentatonic scale then in the major pentatonic scale. Aug 07, 2015 now lets combine the notes of the minor pentatonic and major pentatonic scale and create some soloing ideas. Styles run the gamut from straightforward bluesrock cliche licks, licks in the style of some of our favorite guitarists, to some fairly unorthodox ideas. Tabs, fingerings, box patterns, licks, pdf and more. The musical styles that use the major pentatonic are country, blues, fusion, jazz and rock. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. It is a warm contrast to the minor pentatonic blues scale and is often used right next to the minor pentatonic to suddenly lift a solo into a happier, major territory. Pentatonic scales pdf and instructional video the pentatonic scale is a 5 note scale that is widely used in rock, blues, country, and other genres.
I like to connect all of these short guitar licks into long phrases. Advanced pentatonic ideas you need for fusion and jazz. Many country guitar licks make use of bends on the 2nd string. When played at a slow to mid tempo it would sound at home in a blues or classic rockstyle solo.
This lick comes mostly out of a g major pentatonic scale in the 7th position. Repeating phrases up or down a half tone is a very common thing in modal jazz. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. Must know minor penatonic lick plus the 5 pentatonic. We are simply shifting the same scale to different places on the neck. Advanced pentatonic ideas you need for fusion and jazz guitar the sound of the pentatonic scale is often associated with certain genres like rock, blues, country and western, but it certainly has its place within modern jazz and fusion as well.
After trying many ways of teaching scales to students and moving them on to improvising and soloing, i have developed this exercise ebook to really get. Jazz guitar licks pdf methods with audio files online. In the fourth bar the phrase is repeated up a half tone. How to play the minor and major blues scales with solo examples. Minor pentatonic scales to introduce a novice guitar player to the world of rock music requires that he learn a series of scales, which we can call the tools of the trade. These 5 licks use only notes from the minor pentatonic, and incorporate string bending as most blues licks do. Major pentatonic licks for guitar fundamental changes music.
Minor pentatonic scale licks in all positions guitar. Pentatonic and modal guitar lick for soloing in the style. Or maybe you feel like you are playing the same stagnate licks again and again. The root notes a in these examples are circled so that you can learn their locations. Pentatonic patterns for improvisation sample preparatory exercises below is an example of what i call pentatonic exercise 1 in the key of c major. It is a warm contrast to the minor pentatonicblues scale and is often used right next to the minor pentatonic to suddenly lift a solo into a happier, major territory. Intro to major pentatonic soloing 9 major pentatonic licks.
You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. Download a highquality, printable pdf of the lick here. Neoclassical, pdf printers printer driver guitar arpeggios, pentatonic blues. The best players in these genres dont exclusively rely on the pentatonic scale, and some of them. Clicking here and on the image below will open a pdf file of the guitar major scale chart that prints nicely. Pentatonic scales are a key feature of the mccoy tyner style. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lessons notation. To remedy that, david wallimann has come up with five pentatonic licks that can help you memorize all the pentatonic positions along the fretboard.
Iivi lick based on pentatonicsengesp sub pentatonic. The most important of these are both major and minor pentatonic. In this exercise we play our major pentatonic scale over the entire range of our instrument up and back down again. Jul 22, 2014 hi guys welcome back to another lesson. Well, sure, i wish i knew or was taught it 40 years ago. Dorian mode pentatonic licks a new approach to modal. Well, the minor pentatonic scale gets its name from penta meaning. Must know minor penatonic lick plus the 5 pentatonic scale shapes pdf.
Major pentatonic licks for guitar fundamental changes. The thing with music is those comfortable spotslike that bend you might do on the third string in the first positionis always gonna result in that particular interval being bent, and. For this chapter we will be considering minor pentatonic only. A four note a minor pentatonic guitar lick guitar couch lessons. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. As its name implies, the minor pentatonic scale is made of five notes penta means five and tonic means notes. Learn 3 great minor pentatonic blues guitar licks in the styles of masters like jimi hendrix, stevie ray vaughan, jimmy page, eric clapton and others. Zakk wylde, advanced, heavy, fast, pentatonic, licks, madness, killer, alternate pickingby. And this pattern is going to be our focus of study for this course. May 26, 2017 a nother short a minor pentatonic guitar lick. Though they share the same last name, these two scales sound completely different. Typical pentatonic blues licks welcome to lesson 3 of the pentatonic scale, pentatonic blues licks. Mccoy tyner mccoy tynerstyle pentatonics for piano riff. Audio recordings of each lick are also available below.
James is not only one of todays top go to guitarists, hes also a passionate educator with an insatiable appetite for researching musical styles, studying the fretboard masters within those styles, and then generously sharing that knowledge with other students of guitar. On this lesson i have five licks using the g minor pentatonic scale in the five positions. Here are some free pdfs used to supplement my free video lessons. Do to a dropbox issue sadly most of these tabs are no longer available. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and.
These five licks will help you memorize all the pentatonic. Check out my free video lessons on my free lessons page. Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. The pentatonic is an ideal scale for the beginner and experienced pro alike because it only has two notes per string. If you want to download a free ebook of 15 ii valt i licks then subscribe to my newsletter.
Free pentatonic scale patterns downloads for saxophone easy pentatonic lick for saxophone the concept i focus on the most here at bettersax. That way, you can build a solid skeleton for your guitar solo. As you will learn, these patterns can be transferred to all keys. If you need additional help with learning the pentatonic licks, ask your private lesson guitar teacher for clarification. The diamond shows the major root and the open circle shows the minor root. How to play more advanced blues guitar solos antony reynaert. This hourglass shape fits neatly inside the pentatonic box so its a quick way to start to mixing it with your favorite pentatonic blues licks. Pentatonic scales contain five notes, which is how it gets its name penta5, tonic tones. The awesome part is that they contain the same note intervals with. Apr 06, 2015 this lesson is an introduction to the major pentatonic scale and its basic soloing application.
Major pentatonic guitar scale learn all five positions. Jerry reed, ray flacke, brent mason, and brad paisley, to name just a few. A minor pentatonicblues scale weeping willow guitar. Once you are familiar with the intervallic characteristics of the scale, it should be very easy to play in any key. After all, nothing says rock and roll like a killer pentatonic lick. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Major and minor blues scales guitar tab and essential licks. The scales are shown here below first as sheet music and tabs, and then scale. Premium learning minor pentatonic scales pdf ebook. The fingering for box 3 can vary when you shift between the 2nd and 3rd strings in either direction. Fast pentatonic picking licks lesson guitar masterclass.
I will no longer refer to the c major pentatonic scale. By playing these licks, your fingers and ears will get used to playing lead guitar fairly quickly. Pentatonic guitar magic how to use the simple pentatonic scale to solo over chords from blues to rock tojazz. Theyre all very very common licks that youll find most blues players using, so you want to put these in your bag right away.
A jimmy pageinspired pentatonic lick this lick will provide a really versatile and greatsounding addition to your rock vocabulary. This lick will provide a really versatile and greatsounding addition to your rock vocabulary. The e minor pentatonic scale blues guitar unleashed. There is a lot of discussion about the glory of the caged system. Learn the guitar scale shape these pentatonic blues licks come from,how to play them and pick up loads of performance and playing tips to help you take your. This simple 5 note pattern derived from the mixolydian mode is a great way to get started using the scale quickly. Were looking at a descending sequence of three notes, transposed to each potential starting note from the minor pentatonic. This minor pentatonic scales ebook is a compilation of 9 years of preparation work teaching guitar to a wide range of abilities. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. Actually, our first lick is from the blues scale, which is just the minor pentatonic with an extra note added the flatted fifth. Learn how to use this essential scale, with two hardrock riff tabs and. The first three bars are a pure c minor pentatonic scale played in a pattern. Easy jazz licks how to use the pentatonic scale jens larsen.
Also learn how to easily adjust this pattern to play over a complete 12 bar blues. The five pentatonic forms since there are five notes in a pentatonic scale, there are five different forms that we can use to play the scale if we start on each different note. In this lesson ill introduce the major pentatonic scale notes using the familiar minor pentatonic box down a minor 3rd from the tonic second position in a. Learn a complete blues solo based on the pentatonic scale, written and recorded by francesco cagnacci. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. Lrt023 pentatonic blues solo pdf rhythm riff and backing. Discover the shortcut to playing minor pentatonic scales. If youre having trouble, try each lick individually before putting it together. These are the five forms of a c major pentatonic scale or an a minor pentatonic scale. The two licks below use notes of both minor and major pentatonic scales. Ill outline the minor pentatonic scale associated with each chord change and then demonstrate the riff pulled from each scale.
About a month ago, i posted a lesson on how to play pentatonic scales. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 in this lesson. When the player wants to lighten things up, the major pentatonic is the scale of choice. Guitar scales printable charts of the most commonly used. Learn the major and minor pentatonic scales, their patterns, when to use them, and why theyre the scale shortcut. There are other pentatonic scales including the pentatonic major scale, but as weve found, when most guitarists talk about the pentatonic scale, they mean the pentatonic minor scale. The illustration below has the a minor pentatonic scale illustrated. To grab your copy of this great app, simply click on the image above. The major pentatonic scale is a wonderful, simple way to add colour to your blues playing. You will learn pentatonic scale, pentatonic blues scale and technical exercises to develop guitar licks and speed.
In this case, we begin each line with one of three related licks in 5th position, then use a different position of the major pentatonic sound in each line to answer. Lrt023 pentatonic blues solo rhythm part notation pdf. Super sorry for this as you can imagine im also bummed out because the tabs took me many hours to create. Combining the pentatonic scale 3 licks with tab pdf. Play what relates to all this means you solo with the same scale or same mode over all the chords. Schwartz teaches for guitar jamz a minor pentatonic licks for you. Use my search bar to find exactly what youre looking for. Well learn how to extend the blues and pentatonic scales out past the open position to cover some of the other licks in down to the station. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading 25 major pentatonic scale licks for blues guitar. It includes a practice solo in a major with 9 licks that are all broken down.
This is my first lesson, im going to go in depth of how amazing the pentatonic minor and blues scale can be. Thnx david, this is exactly what i need for trying to expand my pentatonic skills ivan milenkovic 15th october 2008. This is the root note fret position for the a minor pentatonic scale. Pentatonic blues lick pattern 3, pattern 4, pattern 5, pattern 1, pattern 2, modal lick aeolian, locrian, ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian a lick is a short musical phrase which forms a useful element for improvising a guitar solo in the style of blues, rock and pop. Learn your major pentatonic scale and practice pentatonic exercise 1 in all 12 keys. In these 3 licks i hope it will change how you view the pentatonic scale and most of all give you ideas of your own. Just remember, once you learn the am pentatonic positions, converting them to c major pentatonic will be easy since they share the same notes. These are not lessons, but supplements to my lessons. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3.
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