Creating Solos With The Minor Pentatonic Scale

Creating Solos With The Minor Pentatonic Scale

Learn how to solo and improvise using the shapes of the minor pentatonic scale

COURSE OVERVIEW

Creating Solos With The Minor Pentatonic Scale

Once you feel comfortable with the shapes of the minor pentatonic scale the exciting part begins – soloing with them!

In this course I run through some of the essentials you need to keep in mind when starting to improvise with the scale. 

I also provide an easy to follow framework that you can use in all. shapes of the scale to start crafting your own killer blues licks.

So, if you can play all 5 shapes of the minor pentatonic and want to start using them practically, dive right in and get started!

What you will learn:

PART 1

In this first lesson we will define some of the challenges of soloing in the minor pentatonic and how we will avoid and overcome them throughout this course

PART 2

Here we will define what the tonic note is, where you can find it on the fretboard and how you can use it to create a variety of impactful and coherent blues licks

PART 3

In this lesson we will get specific and look at a variety of licks you can create in the first shape of the minor pentatonic scale

PART 4

Here we will move up the fretboard and into the Albert King Box, where we will look at a further variety of licks you can create with just 5 notes

PART 5

In this lesson we will continue to follow the same framework to create killer blues licks in this underutilised shape of the minor pentatonic scale

PART 6

The fourth pentatonic shape is typically the one guitarists find the most challenging. Don’t worry! In this lesson we will look at ways you can create beautiful blues licks with ease in this scale shape

PART 7

Finally, we will extend this soloing framework to the fifth pentatonic shape, where we will look at a number of ideas you can create in this final shape

PART 8

To finish the course up, we will bring all of these ideas together and look at how they connect together across the fretboard. We will also discuss how to extend these ideas beyond the box shapes covered in this course

What you will find inside this course:

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My story

I have played guitar for over 20 years and have loved blues music for almost just as long.

5 years ago – after getting complacent with my practice and playing – I decided I wanted to push on and develop as a guitarist.

I couldn’t find the detailed, blues focused resources that I wanted to learn from online, so I created the Happy Bluesman.

I have since gone on to work with hundreds of blues guitarists all over the world through the Blues Club and 1-2-1 coaching. 

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Course Includes

  • 8 Lessons