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How to Play Minor Pentatonic Scales for Electric Guitar Solos

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Summary: Learn how to play minor pentatonic scales for an electric guitar solo in this free online music lesson video.

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John Armstrong John Armstrong has been teaching guitar at Keller Music for over 15 years now. He has played with countless musicians over the years, and in bands ranging fro... read more

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How to Play Minor Pentatonic Scales for Electric Guitar Solos

Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com, I’m a professional guitar instructor and today I’ll be going over some of the basic rudiments of playing the lead guitar or soloing. Now another type of minor scale that we can use and really typically use a lot in addition to or as a replacement for the natural minor scale is the minor pentatonic scale basically because it subtracts your second and your sixth notes from the natural minor scale. Your second and your sixth tones aren’t really tones, they’re not strong soloing tones anyway so that’s why this scale works out so good, for example here is an A-natural minor scale… Subtracting my second and the sixth I come up with an A-minor pentatonic scale, penta meaning five… Extending that up a little bit over two octaves I come over…and there it is in its root position starting and ending on the A-note but if I was to play it starting and ending on its second note I come up with another pattern, a different pattern starting and ending on a C-note, still resolving to A-minor though. Starting and ending on its third note or its D-note, another pattern, a different placement, same resolution back to A…starting and ending on its fourth note an E-note…and starting and ending on its fifth note or a G-note… Now these can also be used to solo over the relative major which will be the key of C-major, so not only are these minor pentatonic scales used for a solo in a key of A-minor but also to solo over the key of C-major or when soloing over a blues progression you can really use the minor pentatonic in either the major or the minor key.

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