Blues Guitar Lesson: Major Pentonic Blues Licks

Hey! This is Joe with Learning Guitar Now and this little video, I’m going to show you how to use some major pentatonic combined with minor pentatonic blues licks for a standard tuning guitar. So anyway, the minor pentatonic scale on E 12th fret. You probably know that scale already, that’s minor. If you move that back three frets, we have a major pentatonic. 9th fret, 9, 12, 9, 11, 9, 11, 9, 12, 9, 12 and that’s a major pentatonic. So we can do a bunch of cool licks from that scale. Blend them in with the minor pentatonic. So, what easy little lick here, music about rakes and a lot of heavy to give the sound, so we’re going to beat the 11th fret like this. It’s a major guitar lick and a 12 fret bend. [Demonstration] So you just kind of blend these two together. You have all your standard major licks. [Demonstration] And then you hop up there to the 12th fret and blend in those licks. So you have this position, move up three frets and you get that sound. So it’s cool to blend those two together. [Demonstration] That’s kind of like the BB King just in a different place though he don’t really use that but he uses the same notes in different position. These are major pentatonic and a couple of notes you got 12, 11, 10, 9, and you can do some really cool stuff. So you just have to know how to put the extra notes in there where it can sound good. [Demonstration] Go up three frets and bend 15 to play a minor pentatonic. [Demonstration] So I’m just adding major and minor pentatonic together, major, minor, both positions. [Demonstration] Major, move up to minor. [Demonstration] And now move up so you can just blend it in back and forth major. Make 9, 12, 9 blend up 11, then that’s the same like three frets minor. Same thing and then you can have certain note to make a major and minor, and this sounds really cool with the jump back and forth between a major sound and a minor sound. There’s a bunch of cool licks. If you have that heavy rock in the break here, it’s really Steven Ray kind of sound. [Demonstration] Let’s jump in back and forth between the two different positions, major, minor. [Demonstration] Minor, major. [Demonstration] This really vibrato is the crap out of these notes. [Demonstration] Really Eric Clapton like except a little bit more attack. [Demonstration] You got 10, 11, 12 and just let those bends kind of gradually go up and then that was the minor 15. [Demonstration] All right, so that is how you can blend a major pentatonic with a minor pentatonic. And that’s all for this lesson. And take out learningguitarnow.com for more guitar lessons and videos, and we’ll see you next time.