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Hey everybody this is Bob from musicstorelive.com. Today, we're taking a look at the Minor Pentatonic
Scale. So, this scale, you hear it all the time, people are bending all over the place
with it, and doing all kinds of fun stuff with it, but, if you don't have it under your
hands yet then you have a whole lot of stuff just to play with just by learning this scale.
Its a 5 notes scale and it incorporates, let's see, here we are in the key of A, the 1, the
minor 3rd, 4, 5 and a flattened 7 and then you're back to A, to the 1. For those who
are not using a numeric system to talk about scales at this point, I'm taking about A,
C, D, E and G and then your back to A. A, C, D, E and G. So, I'm just gonna show you
how to get that going on your guitar. Here we are, 5th fret, 8th fret, 5th fret, 7th
fret, 5th fret, 7th fret going to the next octave 5th fret, 7th fret, 5th fret, 8th fret,
and 5th fret again on the high E string and then there's the 8 fret on that sting as well,
its also part of the scale. Now, the scale runs all over the guitar neck but right now,
we're just taking about that 1 position.
Its a great place to start but eventually after you get it under your fingers and you
know a little bit comfortable with it, you're gonna want start stretching it out and also
spend some time skipping notes in the scale, don't worry so much about just playing the
scale, get into the middle of it and then see if you can skip a note. And lastly, after
you've done that and you're comfortable with it, you can start taking a few steps at bending
from one note to the next. Like right here, to go from this note to that note is... you
can play each note one at a time or you can try bending so if you haven't bend any string
on a the guitar that's gonna be a new thing but, if you have, you start giving that a
try, go on from one note to the next by bending the string.
Alright, that's the Minor Pentatonic Scale. I hope it was helpful. And we will see you
next time.