From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
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The minor pentatonic sliding fingering
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
The minor pentatonic sliding fingering
- 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…
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