Rob Schumann: In this second segment, we will look at a new position of the minor pentatonic in blues scale. We had previously looked at this one which is the one that most people start with, when they start playing lead. This is the A minor pentatonic and here is the corresponding blues scale.
So now we will take the same a note, but we will be going back in this region behind the fifth fret to fill in the minor pentatonic in the blues scale here. So that fingering will look like this, and you will notice that if I play those scales together. They have the same notes in them. So that was the minor pentatonic, you will notice that I started on the fifth fret; even though we have another note in the scale pattern that's on the third. The fifth is the root, that's the A.
So when we are practicing a scale it's always a good idea to start on the root, because it gives us a feeling of the tonality of the scale and also it helps you remember where the reference is to the root and how that applies to the original scale form that you are in and how it compares.
So a good way to practice it is to start on the root, go all the way up, all the way back down, then hit the lower notes and then come back up to the root note. So that was our minor pentatonic and here is the corresponding blues scale. Now one real important advantage of this is that different lick work better in certain forms. For example, up in this original form that we had, here is fifth of the scale, this is an E note and one thing that's consentingly cool is to really work this fifth, a flat five and the four and then do a kind of a bending lick.
But it's kind of hard to play that very fast because I am on a different string here. I am on the second string going down to the third string, and this form down here, I have got this E note right here that I started on in this form. Now I am doing it with my third finger. I have got that flat five right here, on the fourth fret and the fourth, the D note on the third fret, right next to each other.
Then I can grab the flat three right here, on the fifth fret and then here is the one, A. So I can do lick that would be impossible for me to do in this position. Very easily, just by doing pull-offs in this position. And so we could be soloing in our normal position and then jump back just to do that lick here, and so that gets us to where we are actually changing position and starting to move around the neck.
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Rob Schumann: So let's start with an A major chord. So the first, actually the first four bars are really A and then A major chord in the fifth position, my first thing is bar across the top two strings -- .
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