Advanced Pentatonics Lessons 41-45

Advanced Pentatonic Lesson 41

This is a bitchin’ riff. It’s slappy, and it’s happy.

It’s fairly easy. It uses a few common double-stops in the E and A Position areas, and open strings to give it it’s sound.

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Advanced Pentatonic Lesson 42

This is a swampy double-stop vamp. Played fast it sound like fiery country lick. Played at a moderate tempo gives a kind John Fogerty sound.

I play this lick without a pick. I use my 2^nd and 3^rd fingers for the higher notes and kind of pull the strings upward when I pluck them. Then I use my thumb for the low E string.

To get a handle on this, start playing it by omitting the low open E string. Just concentrate on the higher strings. Once you have that down, add in the low E string. Just play it the low open E string as it feels comfortable for you. That’s my best advice.

The audio is played fast, then slow, then it repeats just the turn around lick a few times really slow.

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Advanced Pentatonic Lesson 43

This is kind of based on some Eric Johnson or Steve Vai type of Pentatonic moves.

It’s a simple E Minor Pentatonic scale but we’re looking at the scale horizontally as opposed to vertically as many players are taught.

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Advanced Pentaonic Lesson 44

This is a bad ass riff.

Tailored after SRV, it also shows how similar his style was to a lot of John Fogerty. There a ton of pullin’, hammerin’, bendin’, and stylin’ in this one. Try and make it just roll off your fingers. Thinking it terms of sloppy technique will make the sound better as opposed to precise playing, just slap those strings with your pick.

Also, try playing this with slides instead of bends. You’ll be tearin’ it up!

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Advanced Pentatonic Lesson 45

This is a funky stoner rock type riff.

You’ll see that it moves Dominant 7 chords around until it lands into double-stops out of the E Super-Imposed scale (Dorian and Mixolydian scales) where there is no chord (implying a E7 chords though).

To solo over this, play the Super-Imposed scale for each individual chord. It’ll get you moving through things like never before, if you try and keep up with the chords.

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