A Major Pentatonic Scale

Major Pentatonic Scales Part 2 - A Major Pentatonic Scale

If you've read the first article G Major Pentatonic Scale, I don't need to explain the difference between major and minor pentatonics scales and moving the minor scale three frets down the fret board. I'm just going to quickly show you the scale diagrams and tabs for the A Major pentatonic scale.

G Minor Pentatonic Scale

Minor Pentatonic Scales Part 2 - G Pentatonic Minor Scale

If you've practiced playing the E Minor pentatonic scale in the previous lesson, Minor Pentatonic Scale, you should be starting to get familiar with it. What I'm going to do now is very quickly show you the G Minor pentatonic scale. I'll show you the tabs and fretboard diagrams for the five positions.

A Minor Pentatonic Scale

Minor Pentatonic Scales Part 3 - A Pentatonic Minor Scale

If you've been practising the E Minor and G Minor pentatonic scales from the previous lessons, you should know them quite well now. I'm not going to show you all the scales, you should be able to work them out for yourself now. What I am going to do is quickly show you the tabs and fretboard diagrams for the A Minor pentatonic scale.

Riff Master Pro

Riff Master Pro Review

The biggest problem when you're trying to learn a new guitar solo is that you're not Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or Eric Clapton, or whoever's solo it is that you're trying to play. Even if you've got the guitar tab in front of you, you just can't get it right.

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If you're learning the solo from guitar tab, you're playing the right notes but it still doesn't sound right when you're playing along to the music. If you're learning to play it by ear, you just can't seem to pick out all the notes, especially if it's one of those lightning fast guitar solos.

Riff Master Pro is software that you install on your computer and it lets you slow down music without changing the pitch so that you can play along to it, perfect it, and speed it up gradually, until you've got it mastered at full speed.

If you're as old as me and tried doing this with vinyl records you'll know it doesn't work too well. You can slow down a 45 rpm single to 33 1/3 rpm but the pitch changes. I could even slow down 33 1/3 long play records to 16 rpm (not that I've ever seen a 16 rpm record).

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Slowing the song down but keeping the pitch correct will help you transcribe or tab tunes if you learn them by ear. It will also help you get them spot on if you learn them from tabs or sheet music. It doesn't just work for the guitar, you can use this for any instrument.

Riff Master Pro has a 10 day free trial - well worth trying it out.
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Why Learn Guitar Scales?

How Learning Scales On The Guitar Can Make You A Better Guitar Player

One very basic reason is that practicing guitar scales helps to improve finger strength and co-ordination and your overall technique. Learning guitar scales will also improve your playing speed and help you to improvise and play riffs and solos. Many guitar solos you hear are formed from them.