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Guitar Lesson: How To Use The A-minor Pentatonic Scale In The First Position

When you learn to improvise you have most highest and then back again.
likely come across various guitar scales. 2. Use correct left hand fingerings. That
But, how do you practice guitar scales in means that you play the notes on the
order to use them in your playing? In first fret with your left hand index
this lesson you will learn how to make finger, the notes on the second fret with
music of scales! your middle finger and the notes on the
What is a pentatonic scale? third fret with your ring finger.
A common major scale consists of seven 3. Play small sequences using only a few
notes. A C-major scale for example have of the notes in the scale. For example:
these seven notes: 05 35 04 24 04 35 05 or:
C D E F G A B 23 12 32 01 31 12 23
The note after the B is a C and the scale 4. Work on creating melodies using the
starts over again in another octave. A scale. This will help you understand
pentatonic scale consists of five notes. where the notes you hear in your head are
In a pentatonic C-major scale the notes F on the fretboard and also make your
and B are omitted. This makes for less pentatonic improvisations more musical
collisions between scale notes and notes and enjoyable for yourself and your
in the chords used. In other words, you prospective audience.
can use a pentatonic scale together with 5. Improvise together with chords. As you
more chords. work with the A-minor pentatonic scale
The A-minor pentatonic scale you can use chords to make the guitar
This scale consists of the five notes A C solo improvisations more interesting.
D E G Here are two chords that you can use
If we play these notes in the first together with the notes:
position on the guitar you will have the A-minor: 05 24 23 12 01
following sequence of notes: D-major: 04 23 32 21
05 35 04 24 03 23 As your probably remember, the first
The first number tells you which fret to number indicates the fret and the second
press down. The second number indicates number the string to play. When you play
which string to play. 05 means that you the chords you can strum them from the
play the open fifth string, that is, lowest sounding string to the first
without pressing down a fret. The first string. For example, strum the A-minor
string is the bottom string when you chord and improvise a few notes using the
play. pentatonic scale. Then play the D-major
We will now play the A-minor pentatonic chord and continue to improvise. Play the
scale in the first position of your A-minor chord again and continue in this
guitar. The whole scale from the sixth to way.
the first string will look like this: Improvisation is a form of composition
06 36 05 35 04 24 03 23 12 31 01 31 and the musical value depends on how well
In this scale sequence you will find the we know where the notes are on the fret,
note A in two positions. That is, on the how focused we are in the creative
fifth open string and on the second fret process, how well we have mastered
third string. patterns and licks that are building
What can you do with this scale? blocks that can be used to create music,
1. First I suggest that you commit this our feelings and many more elements in
scale to memory and that you practice the musical process.
playing it from the lowest note to the




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