In this fourth segment we will be looking at the minor pentatonic and blues scale, key of A, starting on the twelfth fret of the fifth string. We had previously looked at the blues scale starting on the seventh fret, so that filled in the seventh to tenth fret. So, now we will be filling in the span back from the twelfth fret on the fifth string. So our A minor pentatonic will look like this.
Once again, you could refer to these tab pages to really get a good look at the fingerings. Once again, I am going to the lower notes and then coming back up to the root. Then we add the flat five in for the blues scale, one more time.
The other cool thing is once you start getting multiple forms of these scales, you end up with a really good workout and warm up everyday when you start practicing. So, for instance, you sit down with your guitar, you start on this low A and you just start running these blues scales.
And you have really got a pretty good warm up, especially for your right hand with the alternate picking and also it just gives you a good idea of how those really interact as you go up the neck. So, this position that we just looked at can be a little bit awkward the first time people learn it, because it's got some unfamiliar fingerings and some position shifts. But despite that initial awkwardness, it does have some really good advantages. We had looked at the concept down in this lower position where we had the flat five, the five to five, five to four, being able to do that, figured it much more easily than we could in this position.
Up here we can do the same thing, we have the five, flat five and four. We can do it much more easily and octave up. Same concept. Another cool thing about this position is that, I have got a flat three right here, that I can do some cool bends on, and make some rifts up a little higher. A rift is just a repeated musical idea and this really is impossible in any of those lower forms. So I could play something like -- and so I really have some neat ideas and some good notes at my disposal. So we will finish up, by filling in the rest of the positions and look at, how to span the entire neck with our blues scale in our next segment.
This is Hound Dog as performed by Elvis Presley in the 1950s and as far as the strumming pattern that you could play, you just want to accept the one and may be the end after two, so you get something like this. Starting with the first fret across strings one and two at the first fret, second thing on the second fret of the third string. So that's a little part of an F chord there.
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