Getting Started with the Pentatonic Scale Guitar DVD. Learn Patterns, Technique, Songs, Application and Theory.
- Learn the five pentatonic scale patterns
- Create major, minor and blues scale tonalities
- Use hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and alternate picking
- Know how to play over chords and progressions
- Look up and learn popular pentatonic songs
“This video program is intended for intermediate level students who have already progressed past the beginning stages of guitar playing. You can sign up to preview this video for free.
The Pentatonic Scale is one of the most common scales in all of popular music. It’s used to play melodies, riffs, lead guitar solos and bass lines. In this video program you will learn the five pentatonic patterns plus how to use the scales, application, improvisation and technique.
Topics covered include:
- Connecting the patterns and covering the whole fretboard
- Transposing to different keys
- Major, minor tonalities and the so-called “blues scale”
- Hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and alternate picking
- Guitar theory and how to know what scale to play over chords
- What popular pentatonic songs you should look up and learn
Getting Started with the Pentatonic Scale DVD is taught by music theory expert, guitar teacher and publisher Desi Serna and is based on Fretboard Theory Chapter 2. The lesson material is suitable for both acoustic and electric guitar.
This video is also available as a digital download from Amazon Instant Video at: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Pentatonic-Scale/dp/B0038HYCOM “
List Price: $ 24.95
Price: $ 24.95
Excellent information,
I’m pleased with the content of this DVD. From its pentatonic patterns to its songs and every aspect of this valueable information that helps a guitar player to play better. This DVD goes well with Desi Serna’s book: Fretboard Theory. Another “must have” for the serious guitarist.
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|Too easy!,
I’ve been playing for about 10 years now… mostly electric…metal, blues, hard rock, etc. Jamming to power chords and playing blues rhythm riffs had become easy and I wanted to learn how to use the whole neck. I knew a blues scale in the key of Em so I always slid that chord shape up and down the neck to where it fit the key I was playing in, but the only other place I could use that fingering pattern was if I brought it up an octave. My lead work was obviously in a rutt. I’ve always heard the guitar Greats preach about learning the pentatonic scale, but I was kind of intimidated about learning it. I’m kicking myself now for not persuing it years ago.
Today I threw in the first DVD. The patterns were so easy to learn. After mastering them all, covering the whole neck, which took about an hour, I easily learned how to shift the pattern positions to work with different keys.
Needless to say, I threw in a favorite CD, figured out the key they played in and was shocked at how much I’d learned. It was like new phrases and different string bends that I didn’t even know existed just became unlocked.
I didn’t sound like SRV, but I can tell my playing style has already changed.
Looking forward to viewing the rest of Disc 1 as well Disc 2.
6 Stars!!!
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