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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow (B.B King inspired) lead in the key of F using the major pentatonic scale. I’ll give you several tips for incorporating major pentatonic scale licks into your solos when you improvise.
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Hi Brian,
This looks like a great lesson. I have been trying to use the Major pentatonic scale more but have had difficulty blending it over the 4 chord and the 5 chord. I suspect this lesson will shed some light on this problem for me. Thank you.
Jim
More great stuff. Lesson 238 is a bit beyond my skills and has been frustrating me. This is a bit more my level I think. Thanks so much.
Another poor fella in the right hands 😉 ..BTW another gem ! Thanks Brian
Sounds like a cool lesson to me. I have wanted to get the major pent underway so thanks.
johnstrat
Thanks for another great blues lesson to build on Brian! I love the major blues scale ala BB King . This will be a great lesson to practice his style of vibrato. BTW my vote goes to last week’s grey background . Nice guitar find!
Thanks for a great lesson. The guitar sounds and looks great- I’m not sure how anybody could let that go for that price, surely they’d know to price it higher. Anyway, what a find!
This one is fun..
interested in the backing track as well
Another great lesson. Hockin Custom Guitars is in Chapel Hill, TN. He has a website
When I watched this video, I thought that new guitar you were playing might be the cutaway version of that more expensive Israeli guitar you have recently been using.
Larry
could you please spell the name of the guitar producer one more time? hawkin ?
regards
helmut
Love it!! Thanks Brian
Another great lesson Brian. And a great reminder that really thoughtful, soulful phrasing can render such beautiful results without having to rely on overly challenging technique. Such a pleasure to play this song. Great job! As always. THANK YOU.
Thanks Brian,
I love the way you break everything down with the Penta Scales
Thanks
Ray
Great lesson. Prefer the lighter background on your video presentations but it’s the lesson content that counts! Thanks Brian.
Slow Blues-another favorite!🎶
BACK IN BLACK !
Great lesson once again Brian
The old dark background is so much better than the light background…. Thanks
Sorry Brian missed last weeks lesson the GREY background is fine as well just not the bright WHITE one this follows my earlier comment about BLACK background Thanks again.
I think you should post the chord positions you can do on the song with the tab. That would be really helpful.
Ah – a delta blues piece in the key of F, according to your website, this is the first composition in the key of F. Love it! It’s very much like something from Tab Benoit. Especially the backing track! Would love more like this one! Thanks!
Good ear – this was inspired directly from Tab Benoit!
This was another great lesson. Really appreciate the way you tie the licks to chord shapes, helps me navigate the fret board. Thanks for sharing you knowledge
Nice lesson. For me your Major Pentatonic Blues lessons always have a lot of great takeaways. Stradlin’ Frets is also a great name for a band.
a little tad of Eddie Jones?
Great lesson Brian! Glad you are doing major pentatonic scale and I appreciate you explaining how to find the different patterns, its all starting to make sense. Sweet sound please do more of these lessons with Major Pentatonic. Thanks.
Dear Brian, You’re a gifted teacher. I’ve learned a lot.
Three things would help me:
When you show a pattern or a lick, please identify the key notes: “ This sounds good because it’s a fifth and minor third bent to a major together”; “This is where the root is in this pattern”, etc. Then I can begin to identify sounds.
I get the three fret relationship between major and minor pentatonics, but why does it hold? I don’t get it. Has to be related to tuning.
Finally, relate the five postions to the CAGED system.
Thanks. It’s a privilege to learn from you.
As always thank you for bringing a wonderful community of friends together. More power to you Brian.
Just a thought. It seems to me after you post a lesson there is frequently enough a request for a walk through re the chords and rhythm arrangement. Why not make it a regular segment. Would round out the lesson and the experience. In the end making us better players. Thanks Brian.
When Friday comes to a close and I finally publish a lesson each week – I collapse from exhaustion. You’d be surprised how much energy goes into these each week. Staring at a blank canvas each Monday knowing that you have to 1) write, 2) record, 3) edit, 4) upload each week… that includes writing and recording MP3 jam tracks, creating the tablature, the on-screen tab viewer, and answering support emails – while marketing on social media in the middle of it all. I agree it would be great to include the rhythm and the chord arrangements, bass parts, keyboard, etc each week in addition – but I don’t have the facilities at this point. It’s not that I just overlooked that – it’s just that there are only so many hours in a day
I believe you man,lol..I can’t imagine but hoping you are making good with this worldwide ..establishment?
I think its ok Brian, I mean, I know I start worki g on a piece and then the next is another great piece I want to work, so I get atarted on that one and then the following week is another great one! We need time to catch up. Take a break, we need to catch up anyway!!
I don’t know about anyone else, but I know I would be more than happy to pay for premium membership with a lesson every 2 weeks. Don’t want you to get burned out!
What we pay for what? 48 lessons a year, from a master like yourself. Takea break and consider one lesson every 2 weeks. This membership is still an extraordinary bargain with 2 weeks per lesson.
One more thing… when a new member signs up there is ALREADY so much good material available. I think its time we members helped you out by getting your site advertised. Facebook and where else?
Lessons like this are why I am a Premium member. Brian teaches you how to play guitar – not just how to play notes on a fretboard. Thanks Brian.
Great lesson…you really make that guitar sing.
Hi Brian. I get it. It did cross my mind as I posted. All good. I think we all appreciate the effort you make to create something original and worthwhile every week.. That’s why we are members! Tks for the response. ( Couldn’t hurt to ask!)
I just want to add that my ability as a guitarist as an avocation has improved considerably since I signed up with your site. I had played years ago but had fallen out as life has a way of getting in the way . If for no other reason than that you have me picking up the guitar and playing more. It can become tedious and uninspiring when it’s all about the mechanics…. you have me playing music. Thank you. The band may be getting back together!
Btw…. all this composition has got to be honing your talents as a song craftsman. Don’t sell yourself short. You have a gift.
good day Brian! i was wandering, what amp do you play through?
Nice feel Brian,just watched this one and looking forward to learning some from you! thanks again, great buck for the wood too!
Great lesson once again Brian!
Regards from Barcelona
Brian, I’m having trouble finding the pentatonic scale lessons — somewhere in the Blues lessons?
I cannot print off all the tabs!
Hi,
Great lesson again. I’m struggling a bit with understanding the timing. For instance: bar 2 adds up to five quarter notes if you just add the notes and rests together. Obviously I’m misunderstanding something, maybe the ‘triplet feel’ bit? Can anybody point me in the right direction, please?
Cheers
Just found this little ditty. What a beautiful lesson. You surprise me each week with the quality of teaching you keep putting out.. Thanks for teaching me guitar!
Hi Brian. I’m enjoying this lesson. I love practicing with the jam track. Is there a way to adjust the speed between 0.5 and 1? I need 0.9.
Thanks.
i just have to say that the way you put together these lessons and the automated TAB (for lack of a better term) is fantastic. Thanks for this great instructional site.
65 yo advanced beginner here 👍🏻