Rob Schumann: The subject of this tutorial is playing our blues and minor pentatonic scales and covering positions all over the neck and this becomes very important as you get into lead playing to be able play in different regions at the neck, play licks that use higher notes and some of them use lower notes with the same scale. When people first get started, what they don't realize a lot of times is that when they see somebody just flying all over the neck in most instances, they are playing one scale.
They are just playing different positions of it and connecting those positions with licks that work in those particular regions of the neck. So the position of the minor pentatonic that most people are familiar with is this one. And so since that's based on the fifth fret, this is in the key of A. So it's an A minor pentatonic and then when we throw a flat five in, we get the A blues scale.
So that's what most people are familiar with. We can also play that up in octave here on the seventeenth fret and then the blues scale and there are actually players that you will see, where those are at the only two positions of the blues scale in minor pentatonic that they know.
And so they will be playing some type of blues solo, and they will be in that position and then they will quickly go up here and play something that's much higher. It will be pretty much the same stuff because it's the same shape. It will just be up in octave. So, of course, there is a whole span of notes in here and this is actually a great sounding region of the guitar neck where we can play other things if we are familiar with those shapes.
So the first key that we will be applying in our next few segments, is taking the A notes. Since in this case, we are in the key of A and finding those blues scales at minor pentatonic and other positions. So using this lick that we started on, we can go and use that as the same root note and play an A minor pentatonic in blues scale that goes from the fifth fret below on the necks. So we have a region in here between the ninth and the fifth fret.
But there is another A here on the seventh fret of the fourth string. We can build the scales in that region also and that will cover the area up from the seventh fret. There is an A here on the fifth string, twelfth fret and if we go back in this direction towards the ninth, we have those scales covering the region from the twelfth to the ninth fret in this box.
Then taking that same note and going this way, we can cover the region from the twelfth fret to the fifteenth fret. Now we get up to this octave of this original node. We can go between basically the fourteenth fret and the seventeenth fret and then we will be back up on our octave shape once again so that you can see, how that covers the whole neck. So we will cover those actual fingerings in our next segments.
Ryan Newell: Hello everyone! My name is Ryan Newell. I play guitar in the band Sister Hazel. This would be a G core and you just drum down and then arpeggiate back up. And the last banish is --
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