- All right, so we did the major pentatonic scales,…sliding around the fret board.…Now let's try the same thing with minor pentatonic scales.…So, let's look at this in the key of A.…Let's start out here for A minor pentatonic.…There's your next root.…Let's just stay with those notes…and see if you can make some music out of it.…Let's try this next example, here we go.…
One, two, three, four.…All right, now let's try that same idea,…sliding around the minor pentatonic scale…through the multiple octaves that…go diagonally across the fret board.…So, here we go, let's start of of A.…Then starting on our next A.…
And then starting on our next A.…So, there we just have those octaves,…those As, and we're just connecting the dots.…Let's check out The Shifty Shuffle…which uses this minor pentatonic sliding idea.…Here we go.…One, two, three, four.…
All right, now you can transpose that…pentatonic sliding idea just simply…by moving it up or down on the fret board.…Let's check it out how you play this in E.…So, the same concept is that you'd start here,…
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1/13/2017- Flatpicking arpeggios
- Tuning with harmonics
- Bending strings and vibrato
- Creating a monster funk groove
- Blurring the line between rhythm and lead
- Mapping the fretboard in boxes
- Getting creative with open strings
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome33s
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1. New Colors and Textures
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Flatpicking arpeggios2m 19s
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Suspended chords6m 29s
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Add9 chords2m 4s
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Harmonics6m 7s
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Tuning with harmonics1m 42s
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Slides3m
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Bending strings and vibrato7m 16s
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2. New Grooves and Styles
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Acoustic funk strumming4m 40s
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A taste of swing6m 51s
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The grooves of New Orleans2m 54s
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Delta blues4m 53s
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3. Pentatonic Possibilities
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4. Mapping the Fretboard in Boxes
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5. Harmony
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Major triads up the neck6m 27s
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Minor triads up the neck1m 48s
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Triads in reggae1m 3s
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Double stops5m 43s
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6. Introducing Alternate Tunings
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Drop D tuning2m 53s
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Double drop D tuning3m 35s
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Open G tuning4m 44s
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Open D tuning5m 8s
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Conclusion
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Conclusion and credits2m 22s
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Video: The minor pentatonic sliding fingering