E minor Pentatonic scale

http://www.dolphinstreet.com/guitar_lessons/minor_penatonic_patterns/
Get to know the pentatonic scale by practicing a simple pattern.

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• pentatonic
• scale
• guitar
• lesson
• boxes
• pattern

[oldskoolmatix1]

hey RunOut, if youve played with all these great guitarists and studied under a good jazz musician, then why are you even watching a basic scale video in the first place?

[bre4dfish]

The high end pick ups might cost more than the guitar, just save up for a better guitar

[Palomablanca1978]

minor pentatonic thats the only scale you need to know

[altermann1ify]

@Soldier1287 I started playing guitar 3 months ago, myself. I'm self taught too! I also like playing Metallica (or at least trying to play it :)

[chemoman1]

@Soldier1287 Of course it's more fun, but try to improvise a good solo to one of your favorite tunes...and you got a problem. Sure it's cool to play the song like the original artist, but then you begin to crave adding alittle touch of originality to it. It's like drawing, you start doing life drawing, then you stat drawing kickass dragons, not the other way around (not a rule by any means but it's the more efficient method)

[Soldier1287]

I played guitar for over a year now. I am totally self taught. I learned some chords and Then i taught myself how to pick and started learning songs like Metallica.

But I never learned scales.

I tried once, but it's so boring and all the videos do is make me sleepy.

It's more fun playing songs

[BoundInChains]

@kumhuiguitargirl Ill do that (not that I haven't done that already ). but thanks again. The 'boxes' are what baffles me each time :)

[BoundInChains]

@kumhuiguitargirl hmm thanks just wanna confirm before I let out a sigh of relief; so EACH and EVERY fret follows a scale pattern that is identical?

[BoundInChains]

SO HELP ME OUT HERE. I am quite familiar with the blues scale in A now, ya the one that starts at the 5th fret. So, if I move up or down the guitar neck, on any fret, the PATTERN should be the same is it?

[mcpancakes]

and if it's not obvious, major scales and chords is noticeably 'happier' sounded than minor. in addition to these two variants (major: maj 3rd, perfect 5th; minor: min 3rd, perfect 5th), there are diminished scales and chords. these contain minor thirds and diminished (lowered a half step) fifths. for example, a C diminished triad [fancy word for root, third, and fifth degree of the scale] would contain the notes C, Eb, and Gb.

[mcpancakes]

I'd say the solfeige benefits vocalists more than other musicians (this is my opinion). It's an extra 'something' to learn, where as to a beginner, I think A, B, C, etc., is more direct and easily to swallow, so to speak. And as for major/minor distinction: a scale or chord (a chord is just a collection of notes picked out of a scale) is maj/min if it's third degree is a major third (four semitones above the root) or a minor third (three half steps above the root). hope this clears things up.

[lundstah]

lol, he's probably from Sweden, not New York :p