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Major Pentatonic Lead Guitar

For soulful blues improvisation, rock or country playing it is essential that you have a thorough knowledge of both the major and minor pentatonic scales. You need to know when and how to combine these over any chord progression in order to fully express yourself musically in these styles.

In this course we build on the skills developed in the Minor Pentatonic Lead Guitar course and explore in detail the different phrasing techniques used when playing Major pentatonic solos.

We then go on to combine both scales to create an exciting ‘bluesy’ sound, reminiscent of B.B.King and Jimmy Page, and open the door to confident improvisation.

You will gain a solid understanding of the relationships between the two scales and be able to freely move between them and combine them in your lead playing.

Since we build on the techniques in the Minor Pentatonic Lead Guitar course, it is probably better to familiarize yourself with those techniques and ideas before taking this course.
Lesson 1

• In this lesson we will explore which scale to play over a set of chords and how to quickly find that scale on the neck of the guitar.
• We begin with the layout and relationship of the notes on the 5th and 6th strings then go on to learn a quick method for identifying keys using the dots on the fingerboard of the guitar.

Lesson 2

• In this lesson we will continue mapping out the neck, only now we will look at where the bar chords need to be.
• We will then use these chords to locate the major pentatonic scales we will be using for soloing.

Lesson 3

• In the last lesson we looked at the major pentatonic scale in the key of C.
• The pattern we used began at the 8th fret where the bar for the chord was located. We will now include the material from lesson one to quickly find the locations for the scale pattern in different keys along the neck.
• We then go on to look at chords and triads.

Lesson 4

• In this lesson we look at how the pentatonic scale relates to the chord and specifically to the triad notes that go to make up the chord.
• We explore chord and passing notes and illustrate these with sample phrases.

Lesson 5

• We now continue learning some more phrases over the C-major chord and incorporate the use of pedaling.

Lesson 6

• In this lesson we will learn some more essential theory.
• We look at the relationship between relative major and minor scales as well as their chord and passing notes.

Lesson 7

• In this lesson we are going to look at how chords are constructed using a major scale.
• The reason you need to know this is because when you are soloing you will be playing over more than one chord.
• Usually when you take a lead solo it will be over several chords and you need to understand where those chords come from and how they relate to the scale.

Lesson 8

• In the previous lesson we learned how to solo over the chords C and F, which were chords I and IV.
• Now we are going to learn how to solo over a I, IV, V progression, which in this case will be C, F and G.

Lesson 9

• In the previous lesson we looked at a I, IV, V chord progression. Sometimes the progression you will be soloing over will contain other chords besides I, IV and V.
• We now look at soloing over chords I and VI; in this case it will be C-major and the relative minor, A-minor.

Lesson 10

• In this lesson we are going to expand on the pentatonic scale and look at some more notes we can use for soloing.
• We will also look at some more phrasing techniques we can use while soloing.

Lesson 11

• In this lesson we are going to learn to solo using the G-major pentatonic scale.
• We will also learn to play the scale along the neck rather than across the neck.

Lesson 12

• In this lesson we will look in detail at how to make up some nice meaningful phrases in the G-major pentatonic playing along the neck.

Lesson 13-24

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