Danny Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Hello again, everyone! I hope yesterday's refresher was simple, but served as a good reminder of our pentatonic scale. Honestly, the issue of our pentatonic scale always sounding like an exercise vs. music is something I hear far too often. Here's a quick video to get your brain and hands going on ways to take that simple scale and begin making music with it. Try some of these ideas out yourself, mix up the note order, and just have fun with it. As for tomorrow, we'll take these refreshers and turn up the volume a bit. Get ready for an awesome ADVANCED lesson on taking your pentatonic to the next level. Until then, enjoy! Here's the backing track! Thanks and I'll see you tomorrow, Dan Williams PS - I've attached the tabs from yesterday's scale as well! A. pentatonic.pdf 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Soukup Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Good stuff to work with. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay R. Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Love it!!! It's amazing what you can do with box one regular and blues. Great backing track!!! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daelightful Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Love the backing track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalB Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Yea! Rock on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Very cool. Enjoyed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul McMullin Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 All right! Much fun. Please sir, can we have some more? 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karins Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Lots of fun! Lights going off. Many thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Spillman Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 9 hours ago, Danny said: Hello again, everyone! I hope yesterday's refresher was simple, but served as a good reminder of our pentatonic scale. Honestly, the issue of our pentatonic scale always sounding like an exercise vs. music is something I hear far too often. Here's a quick video to get your brain and hands going on ways to take that simple scale and begin making music with it. Try some of these ideas out yourself, mix up the note order, and just have fun with it. As for tomorrow, we'll take these refreshers and turn up the volume a bit. Get ready for an awesome ADVANCED lesson on taking your pentatonic to the next level. Until then, enjoy! Here's the backing track! Thanks and I'll see you tomorrow, Dan Williams PS - I've attached the tabs from yesterday's scale as well! A. pentatonic.pdf 37.01 kB · 31 downloads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Spillman Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Thanks Dan. I really appreciate the tips. Trying to copy the language will be a challenge no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Long Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Thank you Danny! Pure and simple soulful Blues - does not get much better than this at 9:00 PM around here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Hendrix Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Danny ,Sounds so good make your skin crawl and Soul trimmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesymood Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 10 hours ago, Danny said: Hello again, everyone! I hope yesterday's refresher was simple, but served as a good reminder of our pentatonic scale. Honestly, the issue of our pentatonic scale always sounding like an exercise vs. music is something I hear far too often. Here's a quick video to get your brain and hands going on ways to take that simple scale and begin making music with it. Try some of these ideas out yourself, mix up the note order, and just have fun with it. As for tomorrow, we'll take these refreshers and turn up the volume a bit. Get ready for an awesome ADVANCED lesson on taking your pentatonic to the next level. Until then, enjoy! Here's the backing track! Thanks and I'll see you tomorrow, Dan Williams PS - I've attached the tabs from yesterday's scale as well! A. pentatonic.pdf 37.01 kB · 40 downloads Great to see an example of how much flavour you can get with just the first box of the A minor pentatonic scale. Thanks very much Dan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Slight improvement, I'm waiting for something I don't know. Maybe tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yves Cadieux Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 🤞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris777 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 I have a question on bending notes. If I am playing in a pentatonic scale and i want to bend a note (call it my destination note), should I: a) Play my destination note and bend it up out-of-scale then release back in-scale again b) Play an out-of-scale note one semi-tone below my in-scale, destination note, and bend it up into that correct note c) Choose an in-scale note 2 semitones below my destination note and bend it up 2 semitones into that note. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Bryan Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Great examples of what the scale can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikael Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Greast track, just found out using pentatonic ex A-minor for playing C-majorsongs. Sounds pretty cool in my ears. Must tell you all that this old trasher,60 years old, really really feel renarcable progression day by day. It's a kind of magic to me because I've not got an inch better for say 25 years. And it's not about scales, moods, frases and so,all that I'm very familliar with,but it's about the thinking around guitaring. I'm bit for bit putting all these fragments together and even getting some selfconfiedence. It's so funny,nice and enjoying playing right now. Thanks for new inputs. Blessings from Sweden. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYO Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Nice video but that cord is distracting how about running it behind you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROGER CLARK Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Hey can you send yesterdays stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROGER CLARK Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 I like the info where can I get more of your back tracks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny B Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 First class was okay, looking for something new in this second class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Kearney Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Good fun, Starting to sound better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneuhaus1 Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 On 2/1/2022 at 10:34 PM, Chris777 said: I have a question on bending notes. If I am playing in a pentatonic scale and i want to bend a note (call it my destination note), should I: a) Play my destination note and bend it up out-of-scale then release back in-scale again b) Play an out-of-scale note one semi-tone below my in-scale, destination note, and bend it up into that correct note c) Choose an in-scale note 2 semitones below my destination note and bend it up 2 semitones into that note. ? Yes. Then, come up with d) through z). Keep the ones you like, and put down the ones you don't. Anything goes. Use your ears... They'll tell you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Gay Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Not only was this very informative, BUT, I just happen to be working on some BB King licks, and the bending was one of the things I wanted to improve on. Your video shows a clear scenario in how to approach the bend and it was very helpful to me. And that Backing track is the bomb. So much fun. Thank You PS - I was looking at that exact PRS, I ended up purchasing a "Transparent Blue" Standard SE. Great guitars. Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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