Practising pentatonic scales on guitar
November 25th, 2009
Quite some time I am playing the guitar. I have an acoustic and electric one (a black Ibanez EXR-170 for those interested). A friend of mine recommended practicing pentatonic scales. I looked up some link and started practising, this improved my guitar solo skills for sure. Here are the links I found:
Overview of the pentatonic scales:
- all five positions used in pentatonic scales
- some more theory about pentatonic scales
- chord finder which does support looking up pentatonic scales
- list with full penatonic scales in tab
Backing music which can be used to practise solos
Video Tutorial
Ibanez EXR-170
Wow nice research and practicing! Do you know all the pentatonic block positions on the neck yet? That will really help you rip out a shredding solo all the way over the neck
I’m practicing the different scales now, maybe we’ll cover those next time, looking forward to it!
Currently only playing Position 1 and practising the scale as shown in the video tutorial. I still need to figure out how to use the positions when playing in a key.
So if I let say play in key of C to know where to grap Position 1 for example.