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- Extended Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale by Shawn Bradshaw : a great place to look at! lots of information in few words!
- JustinGuitar.com has a lot of information on scales.
Pentatonic scale
General notes and tips:- Be sure to learn the root of the scale (red notes). This is very important to learning to correctly use this scale. You may want to end your phrases on the root to start with. Ending on the root will always sound good, while ending on other notes may or may not sound good depending on the situation. The root is your anchor. [1]
- Of course knowing the names of the notes on the neck is very important to being able to effectively improvise. If you don't know that the 2nd string, 10th fret is an A, then you will not be able jump to that mini position and improvise. To often guitar players know the names of the notes on the 5th and 6th string, and know where to start the scale. But they have to go through the whole scale in order to get to the higher strings. Therefore their solos are predictable, starting on the 6th string, and moving to the 1st.[1]
Extended pentatonic:
Once you have become comfortable improvising with the basic minor pentatonic scale on the guitar, it is time to extend the range of your note possibilities.
Use your 3rd finger to shift positions on the way up.
One of the things that makes this scale a great one for improvisation is that you can play in 3 octaves, using exactly the same fingering for each octave. Think of these as minor pentatonic "mini positions".
The Minor Pentatonic Blues Scale ("Blue notes" added to the minor pentatonic)
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