Yet this approach is only one of the many possible ways we can use and if overused it may appear to the listener that you play the same solo in every song. For the majority of slashs rock playing he is using the minor pentatonic. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from slashs blues b all at the discogs marketplace. Dec 21, 2017 the pentatonic scale consists of five notes. Sep 26, 2018 before combining them, i remember first learning to solo over the standard 145 blues progression, and my teacher at the time gave me a quick trick for alternating between the minor and major pentatonic solos. Pentatonic scales pdf and instructional video guitar alliance. Minor pentatonic scale and blues scale on the bass. Its a great scale because its fairly easy to play which makes it a perfect beginner scale for soloing, but it also has the functionality to develop, expand, and improve your skills. This is an easy 48 bar long solo, over a typical standard blues shuffle, played in the key of a. 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. Using minor and major pentatonic together effectively minor and major pentatonic work great together in major keys and can say a lot more than if you were to just use one scale. The result is a scale that has 6 notes instead of the 5 in a regular pentatonic scale.
Slashs playing seems to be very influenced by the blues and blues guitar playing techniques, and this lick is an example of something that he might use to create tension neither note is a chord tone over the c. Lets check out which intervals make up these scales, and what that equates to in c. 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. Five pentatonic licks in pattern 3 for electric guitar solos in the styles blues, rock and pop with music notes, tab tablature and sound. So, in a nutshell, minor pentatonic works over minor key progressions in exactly the same way natural minor does, but it also works over those 3 chord i iv v major key blues chord progressions. Below is a download link for the pentatonic scale pdf. Pentatonic blues licks must know minor pentatonic licks. For this chapter we will be considering minor pentatonic only. Now its time to use the mayor and minor pentatonic scale, but when i use a mayor pentatonic over a minor blues progression it does not sound right when i use minor pentatonic over mayor blues, it sounds good. On this page there are easy to follow tabs along with audio at three different speeds. Im teaching you about how slash uses the harmonic minor scale in combination with minor pentatonic and blues scales to create interesting. Progress to an advanced level of guitar playing in todays video, im teaching you about how slash uses the harmonic min. The blues scale is very closely related to the minor pentatonic scale, and is used unsurprisingly in blues. Then we will try another section of the scale on the 1st and 2nd strings.
Use the minor pentatonic for the sections on the 1 and the major pentatonic for the sections on the 4, and alternate back in. There are several varieties but here were just looking at the two most common. Think of a blues scale as functioning in the same way, and for use in the same situations as a minor pentatonic scale with the same root note. The most important of these are both major and minor pentatonic. Chord progressions for minor pentatonic soloing guitarhabits. Music theory the minor pentatonic scale receives its name because it contains five. Linking parallel major and minor pentatonic patterns will take your. Minor pentatonic scale phrasing lesson metronome online. The solo is not hard to play, because there arent any fast passages in there. These 5 notes sound great when you play them over any standard blues rock chord progression. The picking hand uses hybrid picking in this example. 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. We all know that using the minor pentatonic scale sounds bloody marvellous when taking a blues solo, but there are times when using that scale alone doesnt quite cut it. Many intermediate guitarists get stuck playing only this scale over a dominant blues.
Youll notice this one is used quite a bit by stevie ray vaughan. To hear each pattern check out the e pentatonic blues scale tab page. Using the minor pentatonic scale to improvise over blues chords is the approach that almost every beginner blues guitar student learns. Use this pattern when youre channeling carlos santana or slash. A pentatonic scale is, as the name suggests, a five note scale. What is the difference between a pentatonic scale and a blues. E pentatonic blues guitar scales all guitar chords. For the blues in f use the f minor pentatonic scale only. It is also widely used in all genres of music for solos, melodies, riffs, etc. I use this scale for soloing over minor and mayor blues progressions. Using minor and major pentatonic together effectively.
Blues improvisation with the minor pentatonic scale is the easiest improvisation possible, for you use only the one scale for the entire blues chord progression. As always, commit the pattern to memory because we will be using the pentatonic scale, the blues scale, and the mixolydian mode in the next. For the blues in c use the c minor pentatonic scale only. Req aud bootlegs of slashs snakepit, slashs blues ball. The effect of this is that we highlight certain intervals against a chord, giving character to our note selection. Feb 10, 2016 this is an easy 48 bar long solo, over a typical standard blues shuffle, played in the key of a. I use the minor pentatonic scale for some time now. Majorminor pentatonic blues soloing anyone can play guitar. Acoustic blues guitar lesson extended blues pentatonic scale. This video is about the nightrain solo and how slash often changes pentatonic scale with each chord to give his sol. Actually, our first lick is from the blues scale, which is just the minor pentatonic with an extra note added the flatted fifth. In this lesson well tackle another standard blues use lick used by most blues guitarists.
It is called the blue note, and its the chromatic note between degrees 4 and 5 for minor, or 2 and 3 for major pentatonic. Although various hemitonic pentatonic scales might be called minor, the term is most commonly applied to the relative minor pentatonic derived from the major pentatonic, using scale tones 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the natural minor scale. Its a great tool to have in the toolbox and well explore it. 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. Majorminor pentatonic scale licks inspired by slash of. Major pentatonic, the upbeat counterpart to the minor pentatonic scale, is the unique sound behind many of your favorite guitar solos. For the blues in g use the g minor pentatonic scale only.
In a previous lesson, i introduced the major pentatonic scale and gave an example of its use in creating walking bass lines over a blues chord progression. Understanding the major and the minor blues pentatonic. This will teach you first off what the minor pentatonic scale is, and secondly teach you how to find out where to put it on the fretboard to solo. Get slashs blues ball setlists view them, share them, discuss them with other slashs blues ball fans for free on.
E pentatonic blues scale free pentatonic blues scales. What is the difference between a pentatonic scale and a. These 5 notes are derived directly from the major scale. Parallel major and minor pentatonic balance well against each other in. A breakdown of the style and techniques of the best guitarist of the 80s, 90s and 00s slash. The pentatonic blues scale is a great tool for blues guitar and rock guitar soloing and improvising. How to play like slash slash course lesson 11 what. Scale degrees contained in the minor pentatonic scale are as follows. There are two pentatonic scales, major pentatonic and minor pentatonic. Pentatonic licks 15 pattern 3 for electric guitar solos in. Learn all 5 patterns of the e pentatonic blues scale and learn to play blues guitar. Soloing with the minor pentatonic scale guitar lessons. Shapes of the blues minor pentatonic scale i know theres a huge amount of scales and musical theory you have to learn and commit to memory. Sometimes its fun to change scales when you change chords.
This course will familiarize you with the five positions of the minor pentatonic scale while helping you gain the tools to create music. Mastering scales is just one aspect of playing guitar its the application of those scales through playing music that really makes a guitarist great. If you are a blues player that wants to go beyond the pentatonic, this lesson is for you. The only difference is that the shape 2 is played up the octave. Slashs pentatonic secrets changing scale with each.
Real to reel with slash featuring myles kennedy and. Viele ubersetzte beispielsatze mit minor pentatonic deutschenglisch worterbuch. The major pentatonic scale cant be played the same way as the minor, mainly because it doesnt resolve similarly. This lesson will help you build licks that move smoothly between the two scales, in a blues context but you can use what you learn in any style. Theres a mysterious extra something you hear in the solos of many of the blues greats clapton, green, bb. How to play like slash slash course lesson 11 what scales. Oct 21, 2014 pentatonic substitution is the process of superimposing the minor pentatonic scale over an alternative degree of an underlying chord in a given progression. When slash talks about the rock scale, he is simply referring to the minor pentatonic shape. One caution is that a minor blues using minor chords doesnt seem to play as well is the major pentatonic or blues scale. See how all the other notes not highlighted in blue make up the first position minor pentatonic.
You need to play the scale up and down, with a metronome if you can and try to make every note clean and strong. This week we are going to learn a simple device to help you build coherent phrases with the pentatonic or blues scales. Switching between these scales is an essential part of blues soloing. The band, which comprised lead guitarist slash, lead. The pentatonic scale is a 5 note scale that is widely used in rock, blues, country, and other genres. Slash is fluent across the neck using all 5 pentatonic shapes, so if you arent then this is the. How to modify the minor pentatonic scale to create. Starting with a typical twelve bar blues form we are going to use two concepts. The pentatonic scale is use primarily used for soloing. May 12, 2019 the minor pentatonic scale is the most used scale for soloing and it is used in a wide variety of music styles like pop, rock, country, metal, blues and more. 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. Minor pentatonic cdr, compilation, unofficial release album cover more images edit release sell this item.
Pentatonics vs blues scales effective music practice. The minor pentatonic and the blues scales are very similar in musical effect with the blues scale achieving a little chromatic smoothness that the minor pentatonic scale simply can not. The blues scale is derived from the minor pentatonic scale. Scale pentatonic blues 1,b3,4,b5,5,b7 fullth pattern root note e guitar tuning. We are going to use just a small section of the scale in a minor pentatonic on the 3rd and 4th strings, and play small 3 and 4 note ideas. Our next example figure 4 is based on the blues scale, but instead of. The blues players often ad an attitional passing note to the pentatonic scale which is technically known as a flattened 5th that means an extra note in between notes 3 and 4 of the pentatonic scale. A blues that uses major chords i, iv, v will work with either the blues scale or the minor pentatonic. Luckily for you, things are relatively easy here since you can easily derive the blues scale from the minor pentatonic simply be adding a flatted fifth to the scale patterns. Slash s blues ball 1997 5 28 mama kin hall, boston, ma minor pentatonic slash s blues ball 1997 6 21 london docklands arena, london, england slash s blues ball 1997 11 4 house of blues, new orleands slash s snakepit 1999 4 6 the cowboy boogie, anaheim, ca slash s snakepit. This scale gives you a re far more melodic sound than the minor pentatonic and is therefore very often used for the first solo, followed by the more intense and aggressive second or third solos in slash tracks. Thats a typical rock and roll progression over which minor pentatonic would typically be used as well as extended blues guitar scales. It is also from the a minor pentatonic scale, but can be used over an a major or a minor blues.
The 5 pentatonic scales in the key of g minor are shown below, but if you havent get. The first scale most people learn on guitar is the minor pentatonic scale. How to play blues using the minor pentatonic scale youtube. Explore releases from slashs blues b all at discogs. We will take you through how he uses major pentatonics, full scales and blues scales. Simply put, the minor pentatonic scale is made up of 5 notes.
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