Scales & Tales - Pentatonic Puzzles (Part Two)

Here's the next episode of Scales & Tales with the second installment of the Pentatonic Puzzles series. The pentatonic scale is one of the most useful and common musical scales on the planet - from pop, rock, metal, blues, jazz, funk, country, and more, this scale has been around the block more than a six-year-old with a new bicycle. While it's easy to work with pentatonic scales, it's also quite common to feel like you're trapped in a box and unable to create new ideas using this "old" or simple information.

This lesson focuses on opening-up the sound of this tired scale and provides a number of new approaches, sequences, techniques, and left-field ideas that will help you become reacquainted with this used-and-abused musical tool and notice some different ways of getting around the fretboard and creating new licks and ideas in general.

This one's all about being creative and finding new ways of playing something you're more than likely very familiar with, so it's always good to challenge yourself and see what you can create using a simple scale that everyone from Hendrix, Clapton, Van Halen, "Dimebag," Satriani, Buckethead, and more have explored this basic five-note selection of notes extensively, and there are countless things you can learn from diving-in and really try to create some new ideas, licks, phrases, approaches, and more.

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