Most guitar players learn the pentatonic scale (at least one fingering of it) very early on. In your first couple of guitar lessons, you could learn a pentatonic scale, and almost instantly be able to play “Sunshine Of Your Love,” “Paranoid,” “Blue Sky,” and plenty of other great music.

The good news is that, as you advance as a guitar player, you don’t have to leave the pentatonics behind. With the standard 5 fingerings of the pentatonic as a framework, we can build upon them to create major scales, all of the modes, and even jazzier and more progressive sounds too.

Each lesson in this series is short (most are between 5 & 10 minutes), and many have PDF documents available to help guide your practice.

Here are the lessons that you will find in this series.
Please note this is an ongoing process, and some lessons are not linked yet.
New lessons will be added as I create them:

• #1: Introduction and Overview
• #2: Mapping the Fretboard (Major Pentatonics as an extension of the CAGED system)
• #3: Sample Licks in the Major Pentatonic
• #4: The The Major Blues Scale
• #5. Chromatic embellishments in the Major Pentatonic
• #6: Sample licks in the Major Pent. with Chromaticism
• #7: Converting to the Minor Pentatonic
• #8: Sample licks in the Minor Pentatonic

More parts coming soon…