Help! I’m in a pentatonic box and can’t get out!
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Here it is, the next step in my plan for fretboard domination!!!
Except I need your help.
Now for getting out of the box, I'm looking for a good DVD or book on pentatonic / blues scales and licks. I know the theory, and I'm not completely in the box, but my ideas are stale. What I need is some good material that shows how all of it can be put together, so as to effortless and smoothly move around the entire fretboard. I'm open for suggestions here as I have not found a thing yet to help me with this. I'll just start getting the muscle memory happening by playing the scales but any guidance is appreciated.
Has anyone got any suggestions on material that is really good here?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qw03-3gFg
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It starts with the boxes, but goes on from there (and there are two sequel books) - what I like best is the example sheet music (and CD track) for each section, which is always something more than simple scales.
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Like, say you get an Albert King CD. Pick a song, figure out they key (that way you know what pentatonic scale to use), then hum licks and parts of solos in your head, and try to find some of the most obvious notes in the pentatonic scale.
The goal really is to internalize each scale note in you and know where to go when you hear a lick in your head. That's the beauty of the pentatonic scale, that you can depart from any of its notes and come right back. Each note has its little branch of places to go. So, when you know in your blood what each note sounds like, you free yourself up with the scale and just run with it.
Like, for example, you should know where the flat 7ths are in the pentatonic scale, since that note is one of the scale's most go-to notes. Stuff like that.
The pentatonic scale is way too fun, also very rhythmically inclined. Schweet.
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