An Easy Guitar Solo in the Major Pentatonic Scale (Key of E)

To download the tab and jam track for this lesson, be sure to visit http://www.activemelody.com - This lesson is a continuation of our look at understanding the major and minor pentatonic scales and how they work together. In this lesson you'll learn a very basic lead part that has several repetitive licks, which allows you to hear how the same lick can be repeated even though the chords underneath may be changing.

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[PowerTwang]

Great lesson.

[activemelody]

@PowerTwang I understand what you're saying. And explain all of this on a blog post on my website. Basically these videos were added over a year ago - and for over a year and a half everything WAS free. I had to start charging though because of unforeseen popularity (good problem to have right?). Anyway, these videos on YouTube are the primary source for how people discover ActiveMelody and so if I pull them down and edit - I'll lose my rank. It was never my intention to mislead.

[MrPrestonWeezer]

Love Telocasters, but I'm an sg guy.

[activemelody]

@MrPrestonWeezer Can't beat the SG tone that's for sure. Classic rock and roll.

[activemelody]

@margovallen wait, so I'm sweet? :)

[justin20111000]

how often do you polish that baby

[activemelody]

@justin20111000 Never once :)

[eddie2744]

luv ur guitar <3

[ghshelton]

I know I heard in your video we could download the Jam track for free, but I tried to do so and it asked me to pay $5 for a premium account. I think you deserve to be paid, but don't tell people they can download it for free.

[Antiks72]

@MrPrestonWeezer everytime i see an sg I think of acdc.

[boleynali]

looks like you dropped your guitar into a vat of polish.;-)

[dclan86]

@georgeisupset Yes in fact, one of my favorite scales to use is a super scale (this is just my name for it) which consists of the major blues and minor blues scale combined. Its a great sounding scale.

[georgeisupset]

@Horaciow14 probably E A B

[georgeisupset]

Is it possible to blend the major & minor scale in one solo?

Ex: play 1st bar in e major then 2nd bar in e minor? Or would it work to change to minor scale when the backing chord goes to A?

Any help would be great.