CAGED Basics II | 6 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
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Hi Everyone,
In this lesson, we spend some time moving between the A Shape and G Shape pentatonic scales with a fingering exercise and a tune designed to make you think about your finger choices.
These exercises are designed to give you a manageable playground to practice what many beginning & intermediate guitar players would consider the most under-explained aspect of guitar playing: choosing which fingers to use and why.
I learned things like this while taking classical guitar lessons, but even then I had to infer the logic from the written fingering. This "fix or foreshadow" idea isn't an all-encompassing method, but it is a great start for designing your own ergonomic path through a melody, riff, solo, etc.
Practice Tracks:
30BPM (super slow)
40BPM
52 BPM (original speed)
60BPM
Post your questions, eureka moments, frustrations, practice track progress, etc related to this lesson on the community forum.
CAGED Basics II:
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 11 | Full Circle
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 10 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 09 | D Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 08 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 07 | E Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 06 | Pentatonic Pit Stop (current lesson)
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 05 | G Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 04 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 03 | A Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 02 | C Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 01 | Overview
Comments
This practice is brilliant to help me memorise and get used to the fingering and movement between these shapes. After playing it for a while I record a chord progression on a loop to experiment with the changes. The overlearning stays with me. Thanks Scott - I'm loving the course and improving loads.
David Lynch
2023-08-18 18:12:37 +0000 UTCOh my gosh - ! I see it! How did I mess that up so badly? I'll get that fixed and reupload it.
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-07-18 23:43:02 +0000 UTCThe PDF on this doesn't appear to match either the practice video or the main video. There's an extra section (bars 5-6 I think?) at the top of the second page of practice 1 and 2 that only has a couple notes but isn't represented in any of the play along videos.
Dan McHugh
2023-07-18 03:57:56 +0000 UTC
