(Guitar playing). Okay, the first thing that we are going to do as far as learning lead guitar is tackle E minor, pentatonics scales. Now the word pentatonics sounds is like going to be really high prow, but actually what means is is five tones. Penta is Greek for five, tonic is tones. So it just means five notes because what you have in a penatonics scale is five separate tones. In the case of the E minor pentatonics scale, it is E (guitar demo), that is called the root note. That is why it is called an E minor pentatonics scale because you are starting on an E. This is very important, remember that term. Root note, it is going to determine what your leads scale is called.
So we have E, we go up three frets, we have G. Again, I want you to pay attention to the relationship between these notes. Then we have A, (guitar demo), you go up two frets to B, D, two frets up to E (guitar demo). Five separate tones E, G, A, B, D and then back again to E pentatonics scale.
Now I am going to do a false scale all the way across the neck. We start with E, we go up three frets to G, A, B, D, E. Now, we keeps going to G, A, B, D, E. And then we are going to add anther G up here and then we are going to walk back down now, (guitar demo).
Okay, now you notice when your first fraction in the scale, I am using the old finger for a fret method if you are playing the third fret. Try to use your third finger, if you are using the second fret, try to use your second finger. Now that, when you are actually in the hit of battle may change. You are going to be using your first finger here sometime. Your second finger here, but for the sake of practicing the scale, tries to use that thin thing. And when you start practicing the scale, practice it very slowly, the common mistake when you are first starting to play lead you hear Anges Young, you want to play like Anges Young because she plays fast.
Make sure that you are playing the note clearly, (guitar demo). Nice and clean, slow, slower than you think you should be playing it. Just take your time because you hear somebody that has been practicing something too fast and what happens, they do not depress the note all the way. And you get that horrible clunky, clunky stuff going on. And remember you are bringing your fingers like a computer. It is garbage in, garbage out. If you practice garbage, you are going to play garbage music.
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