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An essential scale for all guitarists
The MusicRadar Team, Tue 15 Jan 2008, 4:15 pm UTC
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This beginners' video tutorial teaches you about minor chords, and moves onto the minor pentatonic scale.
Just in case you have been living in a cave on Mars, with your fingers in your ears and your eyes shut, the minor pentatonic is the most important scale in guitar music. If you don't know it, you must learn it right now.
The scale, along with the rest of the tab for this tutorial, is in the 'see all pictures' section of the picture box. You can see it being played in the video.
The minor pentatonic scale has a dark and moody sound, and you can use it pretty much every time you see a set of chords that start with a minor chord of the same letter name (E minor pentatonic with an E minor chord).
A minor chord will usually have a small 'm' after the letter name, for example, E minor is written Em. Like the scale, minor chords have a dark and moody sound. Play a minor chord and compare it to a major chord (any chord with just a letter name, eg, 'G' or 'A'). You will notice that major chords sound bright and happy while minor chords have a darker quality. If you don't hear it straight away, try strumming two or more of each chord together.
Click here for full-sized tab.
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Great example of a slow lead break using the minor pentatonic scale. Very clearly explained and illustrated. Nice one!
I have no problem viewing the tabs, great little solo, how about a longer version, I like solo's this slow to start me off.
My old guitar teacher there back in the hey day
Can't see the tab using internet explorer 7
for some reason if I open in a new window the images show otherwise they dont!
i got the tabs to open up by right clicking on the 'see all pics' and opening them up in a new tab on mozilla
Nope,,I can't open the TABs either, just tried. I've even downloaded the Firefox,,,nothing. Must be a problem on the Website!
Thanks very much tab display now works.
Any news on fixing the tab display on tutorials. Its strange they used to work ok.
Any news on fixing the tab display on tutorials. Its strange they used to work ok.
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Pentatonic
Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:54 pm UTC