How to Embellish the Pentatonic Scale Part 1/2

Right now, we are going to take a look at adding some major thirds and a flat fifth to our standard pentatonic box, just to add some color.

So we are going to take base slow blues turnaround, and throw on some licks that are mostly based in that A Minor Pentatonic Box, but then throwing out some major thirds from each of the chords and then we are going to throwing out a flat fifth just a kind of spice it up a little bit.

So our three chords, we are going to have E7, D7 and A7, and this is the Blues and A, and again we are going to be playing that pentatonic box 1 4, 1 3, 1 3, 1 3, 1 4, 1 4, from the fifth fret here, A Pentatonic Minor. Here it is. We are going to start out with D7 or -- excuse me E7. And over top of that I will just start out with the standard pentatonic lick. It works every time. Then we are going to go here to the D7.

Now, here is where we are going to want to throw in maybe a major third here just to try it out with. The major third here form this D7 is F sharp here, which occurs here at the seventh fret of the second string, and it also occurs here at the fourth fret of fourth string. So it's just one fret offset from the form. So if you wanted to get it there at the fourth fret of the fourth string, you can just slide down to it, and then if you want to grab it here on the seventh fret of the second string, just grab it with your third finger. So we already had our lick over E7.

Then sliding with the third and second finger, sliding from the fourteenth fret and the thirteenth fret of strings three and two. We start with the fourteenth fret on the third string and you are going to bend up a half step.


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