Major Pentatonic Guitar Licks Lesson

Learn the secret shortcut to playing the Major Pentatonic! Lesson covers the theory of repurposing the relative minor pentatonic; it then teaches how the 5 Pentatonic Box positions relates to the main 5 chord shapes which is a great introduction to the CAGED system of navigating the fretboard. The lesson concludes with an example solo for you to learn which shows a practical application of the theory being taught. This includes 8 great sounding Major Pentatonic licks. There is tab and a backing track to accompany the lesson.

The lesson is not aimed at the absolute beginner: it assumes you already know the 5 main chords: C, A, G, E, D and you know the minor pentatonic and it's box positions. If you don't know this already, then please check out the previous video in this series.

This is the second in a series of videos exploring the Pentatonic scale. This video is aimed at taking you from a beginner towards an intermediate player by getting you to be comfortable repurposing the minor pentatonic scale in order to play over a major chord progression. The next in the series will look at playing mixing the Major and Minor pentatonic scales together in blues. After that we then move into far more advanced uses of the pentatonic scale.

If you would like a copy of the tab, then just email me at marcellison75@gmail.com and I'll reply with the tab attached. In the email, please tell the email that you want the tab for "G Major Pentatonic".

For the example solo, I was thinking Em pentatonic and using plenty of double stops wherever I could find them, as I always think these sound great over the underlying major chord progression. Here's some notes about the individual licks:
Lick 1 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 5. Start with a double stop and end on the G note (b3 of Em pentatonic) as that's our underlying root note.

Lick 2 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 1 at 12th fret. This is a classic blues lick that I ripped off Clapton. Again focusing around that G note.

Lick 3 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 2. Repeating bending double stop.

Lick 4 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 2.

Lick 5 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 2. Classic repeating rock lick.

Lick 6 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 2 into Box Position 1. This is a descending double stop licks that starts in box position 2 and ends in box position 1.

Lick 7 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 1 into Box Position 2. Cliched blues/rock pentatonic lick. Starts in Box 1 and moves into Box 2

Lick 8 - Em Pentatonic Box Position 1. Nice little bendy pentatonic lick to end the example, which finishes on the G root note.

The important links:

The example solo is over a G Major backing track which is available here:
   • Guitar jam track in G  

The previous lesson in the 'Pentatonic like a Pro!' series is here:
   • 5 positions of Minor Pentatonic - play ove...  
It describes how to learn the Minor Pentatonic scale over the whole neck and gives an example solo to learn.

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