Lexicon Reverb Sounds - Guitar

Here I am going to show you how to play the pentatonic scale in the first position in the key of E. So let us start with a highest note here, the G note. This is how we play it. Then playing descending from the highest note to the lowest and then I play it up. And this is an example to a little pattern that you can use to practice playing this pentatonic scale in this position. So you can go like this. I hope you could see what I am doing there. I was playing of course open stings but the same pattern repeats. These are four notes from the lowest to the highest to lowest. Open string, 2nd fret on B string and open B string. And then it starts over from the notes when I started on this one.

So that means next time I start, I am going to start an open E then play it. As soon as I start on the open E last time, I am going to start over on this note because there is the next one in the pentatonic scale in the top. Play the four notes again and then I am going to start over since I started here last time. I am going to start on the next note from there down which should be the open B string. And the next note there would be the A note. So the same patterns are repeating. And you can do the opposite way.

So after you learn to play that pattern and the scale in this position, then you move up to the second position which would be up here. Starting from here on the G note, look at the finger that I am using also. That is important so no one will have your hand full like this. Because it is very hard to play smooth and control so avoid moving your hand up and down. Instead, use your fingers to do the work for you. That is why I am starting with this little finger, the middle finger and the smallest finger. Then you can play the same pattern as we did before. Okay, and that note moving up to the next position would be here. Start on this note on the 7th fret and the pattern would be and so on.

Okay the next position, I am going to start up here. And the pattern would sound again. And the last position is up here on the 12th fret. And then we will start over again at the 4th position. So that is the same thing as we did here but except we had open string. So it is the same notes but the theme here is going too different because we are using all the strings here, then up here. That open string, I have to play with this note and this finger here on the 4th fret. That was the pattern. Again, a little quicker but the same idea applies so you can get hang on that pattern or you just keep practicing it then all these different position.

So then, the next thing you want to do is to try to tie this together. For example, you had no idea. Just play the notes and go upwards but you would go through different positions so you would not get stuck in one position you hold by because that is not the point with these positions. That is just to motorize oneself with how to lay the notes right there but you would not want to be tied to one position when you go through. Use the whole, make it throw on, it does not matter. That just helps you and that type of playing has help you be certain of where the notes are in the scale.



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