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"Learn The Pentatonic Guitar Scale -- The Only Guitar Scale You Need To Play Tons Of Killer Solos In Less Time!"

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Stop avoiding guitar scales! The pentatonic guitar scale is the easiest scale for guitar -- learn it first! It only takes a few seconds to memorize easy pentatonic scale patterns, then it's off to dynamic guitar solos!

By learning and memorizing your pentatonic forms, you gain the benefits of:

• Building muscle memory for achieving speed
• Developing a better understanding of your guitar fretboard
• Master the basics of beginner guitar solos

...your building blocks to countless well-known guitar solos!

The Pentatonic guitar scale -- Scales made easy!

Frustrated with guitar scales? Not any more! The pentatonic guitar scale is scales made easy -- If you can play two notes on a string, you can play any of the pentatonic forms today!

Here's why...

They pentatonic forms go up and down the strings using only two notes per string...

...that's just two fingers per string...only two frets per string!

See? Much less to memorize!

Let's look at the word itself: "pentatonic." What does it really mean?

The word pentatonic is really two words put together -- "penta" and "tonic." penta meaning 5 (of something, think pentagon) and tonic meaning notes in music.

What does all this mean for us? Well, the pentatonic guitar scale is literally a 5-note scale, going up and down the neck repeating just 5 notes! That's why it's so easy to memorize...

OK, enough tech-talk. Let's learn the pentatonic scale patterns now!

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Pentatonic scale patterns -- one size fits all!

Let's go ahead and learn the pentatonic guitar scale below. Make sure you memorize it!

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"Here is a tip: use only the indicated fingering below the tabs!

1 = index, 2 = middle, 3 = ring, 4 = pinky!"

How many pentatonic forms do you need to learn? Just one! By learning one pentatonic scale pattern, you will know them all. Here's why...

Guitar scales are all movable. Memorize one of the pentatonic scale patterns, and you can change the sound simply by moving up or down a few frets.

Why would you want to do this? All songs have a certain set of chord changes that give them a particular sound. To match your guitar scale to the chords, you have to play the scale pattern in the correct location on the neck.

Here's how to find the correct location:

Simply match the first note of your pentatonic guitar scale to the "key" of the song. Are you in the key of 'a minor'? Your scale is the same as above -- your index finger starts on the sixth string, fifth fret...

Why? Because that note is an 'A' note and matches the name of the key.

Let's try another. Let's say your song is in the key of 'b minor.' Where would you start your scale? Right! On the seventh fret of the sixth string! Like this:

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Let's recap: for minor sounding keys, simply start the scale pattern on the note that matches the name of the key. 'A minor' starts on 'A'. 'B minor' starts on 'B'. One more fret would give us 'c minor' -- that's the eighth fret on the sixth string. Like this:

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That's all fine and dandy, you say, but all that stuff is only true for minor sounding keys. How do we play the pentatonic forms in major keys? Keys where the chord structure is mainly major sounding chords?

The Major pentatonic scale -- you already know it!

Ready for some fretboard magic? Take your minor sounding pentatonic pattern you just memorized. Now, shift it down (towards the nut) by three frets. Voila! It's now major!

Remember our 'a minor' example? Where your first note is the fifth fret on the sixth string? That's right, the 'A' note...

Now, move that same pentatonic guitar scale down to the second fret, like this:

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Now we have a "major pentatonic scale" fit for the key of 'A Major'! It's THAT easy...

How do you play the 'B' Major pentatonic scale? What about the C Major form?

That's right! Just down three frets from the original...here are their tabs back to back:

B Major Pentatonic Scale:

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C Major Pentatonic Scale:

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Pentatonic blues scale -- add one note for extra taste

We are not done yet! I have a surprise: you can add one new note to any of the pentatonic forms and come up with a whole new sound!

It's called the "pentatonic blues scale."

...and it's made by adding the "blue" note to our familiar pentatonic guitar scale. The note will appear twice as you climb the scale up and down the strings. Here is our brand new scale. Memorize this one too!

Hint: the "blue" note is marked with accent marks.

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