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Ascending and Descending Pentatonic Patterns
🕑 Added 2019-03-23 15:39:32 +0000 UTCHello friends,
and welcome back to Swiftlessons for another lead guitar mini tutorial. Yesterday I received a message from a patron asking how to make pentatonic soloing sound more interesting and less like "running scale" over the progression, so in this session I'll break down two less predictable ways of navigating your pentatonic scales. Have any questions for my next mini-tutorial? Post them below for consideration. Now, let's get started!
P.S. Yesterday I visited Patreon and it seems that some big changes are in the works for the platform. These changes will include new tools for me to serve you better, including better navigation and that search bar we've all be begging for.
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Sandra Cloutier
Allo Rob! I just sent a request for Ann Murray's ...Love Song. no space there to eplain why so i'm writing here. Although the chords are easy, I find it hard to get the right picking for it and ther is also a mi of strumming and picking. Any advice on how to change from a strumming to a fingerpinking song? Or a mi of both? That is definitely the hardest part for me. She has a version with her and KD Lang where it's fingerpicking... Thank you!
Sandra Cloutier
Wo!That is fast! But i won' t give up!
Hey Peter, if you’re picking each note then you’ll definitely end the sequence on an upstroke and alternate the pick throughout, I should have been more mindful of my picking. When I do hammers and pulls, I do a double down, which works so long as you drop the pick in a rest stroke. I’ll do a follow up video on these patterns complete with licks soon.
I think that picking patterns are very important with this lesson. Rob demonstrates these patterns of 5 or 6 notes that end on a downstroke. Where I believe that ending on an upstroke allows for smoother transition to the next sequence of notes.
