Guitar Songs and Styles For Dummies, Enhanced Edition by Mark Phillips

Author:Mark Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

Figure 3-13: The pentatonic major scale in second and fifth position.

Licks based on the pentatonic major scale

The good news is that, as is true of the pentatonic minor scale, the pentatonic major scale has all the right things going for it: Bending notes lie in good places; you use your index finger on each string of Box I for a solid feel; and the scale is especially suitable for the use of hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides for more expressive possibilities.

The bad news is that, although you’re still in A, the fingering is shifted, so you no longer can count on landing on the usual fingers to end your solo. But this problem isn’t an especially big one. With just a little reorientation (and your ear), you can find good alternative notes in no time.

And here’s a tip: Good notes for ending a pentatonic major solo in A are the second fret of the 3rd string (Box I) and the fifth fret of the 1st string (Box I or II).

Figure 3-14 and the video clip show a four-bar lick to get you starting down that Southern country road. Notice that this lick features bends in both positions (Boxes I and II) and a slide from Box II back down to Box I to bring you home.

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