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The First Lesson: The Pentatonic Scale

In order to get down into this blog, we are going to study about the Pentatonic Scale. The Pentatonic Scale is one of the most useful and common scales used for soloing. The name “Pentatonic” comes from the Greek “Penta” meaning 5 and “Tonic” meaning tone. So as you can notice this scale makes use of just five notes, all the other notes are just repeated an octave higher. The pentatonic scale has two variations, the Major pentatonic and the Minor pentatonic. Every scale has its own sound, for example the Major has a country or country rock flavor, while the Minor has a dark sound. This makes the pentatonic scale one the most useful scales when learning the art of soloing.

It is important for you to know the pattern of this scale. If you want to be a lead guitarrist, you can create your solos based on this scale, as I have stated before. You can go all over the fretboard using the same pattern creating a wide variety of sound wich will sound outstanding; this scale is used in all music styles and your songs will be better if they have more than just chords. So learn the patterns, all of them. It is a huge challenge but it worths the try! Knowing the patterns will increase your playing skills.