For this chapter we will be considering minor pentatonic only. Hendrix, clapton, trower, page, jeff beck, and more. In this lesson you will be learning some ways to use the pentatonic scale in a solo. Designed with the a dorian mode in mind, these licks will sound great in an a minor pentatonic context. Download theory supplements, midi files, chord changes and full notefornote transcriptions of every lesson. There are 5 licks for each of the 5 minor pentatonic scale shapes shown below.
Jazz guitar licks did you know there are many different types of pentatonic scales than the common minor and major. Australian virtuoso chris brooks likes using shapes like this. One that can be opened with guitar pro 6, and one with guitar pro 5. Copy them, rip them apart, turn them around and make them your own. These repeating patternslike those in figures ab, 14ab and 15ab typically involve working between no more than a couple of strings and using bends and hammeronspulloffs in manic fashion. Several typical pentatonic blues licks will be used as a starting point to develop your knowledge of the pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scales group themselves nicely by the number of black keys they use there are six allwhitekey pentatonic scales, three major and three minor, then two major and two minor pentatonic scales with just one black piano key, another four scales with two black keys, and so on. 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 to grips with these 5 scale shapes. Pdf e book lead guitar licks lesson pentatonic scales rock. The root notes a in these examples are circled so that you can learn their locations.
Pentatonic blues licks 15 pattern 3 in a click graphic to play audio deactivate arrows on your keyboard for page navigation with alt k. Guitar pentatonic scales the 3 types of pentatonic scales. In addition to the licks, i talk a lot about how to play these licks in a 12 bar blues. This first file shows you the first licks that i play at the start and the picking. This lesson, in addition to showing you the licks with all the tabs, breaks down the theory behind the scales used in a 12 bar blues. 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. The e minor pentatonic scale the e minor blues scale. Here are 100 rock guitar licks and scalesoverchord ideas that coincide with the materials presented. Work these lines in different keys, add them to your solos, and write out your own licks using the same concepts when ready. The pentatonic super highway okay, its not so much a road as it is a pathway through a scale you probably already know, the majorminor pentatonic scale. In this lesson, i show 20 licks that combine the major and minor pentatonic scales.
This jazz guitar method comes with 25 audio files and 2 audio backing tracks. But at the core of solos that are truly rocking youll almost always find minor pentatonic smear licks stealing the show. Easy soloing guitar coach notes open position position 1 the scale the eminor pentatonic scale in the open position position 1. All the notes are taken from pattern 1 of the d minor pentatonic scale, and its really just a slight. The pentatonic scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. Please consider these notes in the following harmonic contexts. C minor pentatonic scales 5 fingerings from practice jazz guitar on youtube. Link to dedicated page for the minor pentatonic scale.
King, he is the master of maximising guitar licks and particularly blues guitar licks. These skills can then be carried forward to future grades, and the creative concepts can be transferred to the other 4 positions of the minor pentatonic scales, and also for the 5 major pentatonic scales. A jimmy pageinspired pentatonic lick anyone can play guitar. Therefore theyre gonna trigger other types of emotions in the listener and influence you to play a little bit differentlystill in the same key but a little differently. Combining the pentatonic scale 3 licks with tab pdf youtube. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other.
You dont want to recite lines in your solos, though at first thats ok. Typical pentatonic blues licks welcome to lesson 3 of the pentatonic scale, pentatonic blues licks. Link to guitar pro tab file of the minor pentatonic scale. Rock blues licks scales and applications in pdf ebook format shipped to you on a plain nonlabeled cd for you to label any way you wish. When playing the a minor pentatonic scale, youll only ever need to use two fingers per string. These minor pentatonic scale exercises are especially useful for anyone studying for their rockschool or rgt grade 34 electric guitar exams. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. The minor pentatonic scale interval pattern is 1 b3 4 5 b7 whereas the major pentatonic scale formula is 1 2 3 5 6. Classic guitar licks teaches a technique for memorizing licks, and even more important, recalling licks while improvising.
In this lesson youll learn the one scale that is responsible for about 95% of all the blues licks you hear the minor pentatonic and minor blues scale. Well it all depends on where you start the pattern. E pentatonic mostly lick that connects 3 pentatonic boxes. In blues, these include the flatted 5th augmented 4th, the minor 3rd in a major or dominant context, and the minor 7th. Difference between major pentatonic and minor pentatonic. Normal slow this lick looks like it should be in a minor pentatonic but its really the 3rd pattern in e minor pentatonic with once again the addition of the 9th for color and contrast. I tried to create these licks to really emphasize those comfort zones in each of these positions, he explains. Combining the pentatonic scale 3 licks with tab pdf. Mastering pentatonic scales 25 jazz guitar licks pdf.
Major pentatonic licks for guitar fundamental changes music. We start up in the 3rd pentatonic box and work backwards through pattern two down to pattern 1. Language sitemap guitars licks pentatonic blues 15. To grab your copy of this great app, simply click on the image above. We have included patterns for the e pentatonic and natural minor scales to help. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the scales in all keys.
This printable ebook method in pdf format provides 49 jazz solo transcriptions of the greatest jazz musicians of all times with tabs. If you were to play this scale on the 8th fret it would be a c minor pentatonic scale consisting of the five notes c, eb, f, g, and bb. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. Why the minor pentatonic scale is not the best option to use am pentatonic scale box position lets start with questioning the good old minor pentatonic scale. Cminor pentatonic scales sample lesson practicejazzguitar. You might be wondering the difference between the the major and minor pentatonic scales. All of the licks are written in the key of e minor, so that you can easily master them in this popular key. This jazz guitar method is an ebook available as a pdf with standard notation, guitar tabs, diagrams, analysis, audio files and backing tracks. Link to pdf file of all 5 positions of the minor pentatonic scale. As the e minor pentatonic e g a b d phrases in figure 1ab illustrate, blues licks are typically inflected with frethand pitch bends, frethand vibrato, and legato moves like hammerons and pulloffs. Figure 1a applies this concept to the g minor pentatonic scale. Jun 12, 2009 guitar video lesson by stephane lucarelli.
In this video lesson, i show you an example of a lick in e that connects three pentatonic box patterns on the fretboard into one flowing lick. If you are just starting out in blues you should definitely check out this video. Pentatonic licks 15 pattern 3 for electric guitar solos. The major and relative minor pentatonic scale pairs. This is a bluesy sounding scale that is used in thousands of blues and rock classics. Many intermediate guitarists get stuck playing only this scale over a dominant blues. Dorian pentatonic blues bass line ideas guitar pro zip file mp3 jam track. The secret to why minor pentatonic scales are so useful. Heres a blues in a jam track you can use to practice. The trick here is to practice the patterns lots before you try and move it around.
If you want to download a free ebook of 15 ii valt i licks then subscribe to my newsletter. The second shows you all 6 patterns i show you in the lessons. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A minor pentatonicblues scale weeping willow guitar. These repeating patternslike those in figures ab, 14ab and 15ab typically involve working between no more than a couple of strings and using bends and hammeronspulloffs in. The pentatonic scale is a major scale excluding the 4th and 7th degrees. For this lesson, david created five licks in a g minor pentatonic context using the five positions. So, each of these licks start on the minor pentatonic scale, and ends on notes that go well with the b chord. 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. Mar 12, 2010 the pentatonic scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock.
Click on the image below and click full screen button to expand to high quality minor pentatonic scale tab and notation. Each lick has a corresponding audio example which is available. Jun 04, 2014 the pentatonic super highway okay, its not so much a road as it is a pathway through a scale you probably already know, the majorminor pentatonic scale. Many great solos were played with just 1 simple or easy guitar lick which varies throughout for the solo. Pentatonic and blues scales covers the essential guitar theory for the minor pentatonic scale, major pentatonic scale and the blues scale and highlights the characteristics of each scale with useful licks and exercises. This minor pentatonic scales ebook is a compilation of 9 years of preparation work teaching guitar to a wide range of abilities. In these 3 licks i hope it will change how you view the pentatonic scale and most of all give you ideas. Learn how to escape the tight, often limiting confines of box scale patterns. Each individual lesson depending on what is covered has either, sheet music often with tabs but not always as a pdf file, a audio mp3, the written lesson, and a video video lesson and sheet music often with tabs but not always as a pdf file.
The major pentatonic scale is a wonderful, simple way to add colour to your blues playing. You can use this program to improvise lead guitar solos for rock, metal or blues. Compare these scales c major pentatonic and a minor pentatonic with the c major and a minor scales, respectively. Much like moveable bar chords this scale can be moved up and. They have only two chord tones in common, the root 1 and the fifth 5. The most important of these are both major and minor pentatonic. As you will learn, these patterns can be transferred to all keys. This printable pdf ebook method proposes some soloing ideas using only pentatonic scales through 25 easy jazz guitar lines with tabs and standard notation. Played over a 12 bar blues, there are not many ways you can mess this up.
Pentatonic licks are a key characteristic of authenticsounding blues. The pentatonic scales group themselves nicely by the number of black keys they use there are six allwhitekey pentatonic scales, three major and three minor, then two major and two minor pentatonic scales with just one black piano key, another four scales with two black keys, and so. The major pentatonic scale has the 5 notes of the major scale. Premium learning minor pentatonic scales pdf ebook. Major pentatonic licks for guitar fundamental changes. Major pentatonic scales in open position closed mobile major pentatonic scales forms horizontal. Here are three exercises showing how the minor pentatonic scale can be used in a major 2 5 1 progression in the first example you will play d minor pentatonic scale over the ii chord dm7. My concern is with content and quality of educational material not fancy labels and pretty pictures.
Join pianogroove pro to access all downloads and learning resources. Guitar pentatonic scales the 3 types of pentatonic. Licks in the licks chapter you learn 5 classic pentatonic lines over various chords. Playing the scale in this way removes the large stretches and organizes the notes in a way that is easy to grip, slide and bend. There are three ways youll want to learn your major pentatonic scale forms. 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. The 3 blues licks are free and for you to use in your own improvisation. The great part about these licks is that david started with the heart of some of these classic riffs, and then molded them into something different and truly refreshing from the blues licks were so accustomed to. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading 25 major pentatonic scale licks for blues guitar. Download a highquality, printable pdf of the lick here. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and high quality.