Pentatonic Scale Plus Two Equals Major Scale
What is pentatonic scale plus two equals major scale? It’s exactly that. If we add two notes to the pentatonic scale we will get a major scale. Not just any notes, we have to add the right ones. Where to…
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Turn Your Minor Pentatonic Scale into Major Pentatonic Scale
If you have learned all the patterns to the minor pentatonic scale, you can turn your minor pentatonic scale into major pentatonic scale patterns by changing your root notes. Check out my minor pentatonic scale patterns here if you have…
Adding These Four Blues Patterns To The One You Know
Adding these four blues patterns to the one you know already will increase your ability to play the blues scale all over the guitar. After playing pattern one (link to my pattern one page) for a while you can now…
Guitar Books from Beginner to Intermediate
These indispensable Guitar Books from Beginner to Intermediate start with two beginner books on introducing note reading basics to the other books with a more complicated reading of eighth note and 16th note reading. If you want to continue on…
Top 10 Guitar Reading Tips
Playing Guitar Top 10+ guitar reading tips. When I first started to take guitar lessons, my teacher started me with a guitar reading book. Now I had the luck of starting on alto saxophone in the 6th-grade school band so…
The Blues Scale
The blues scale or a pentatonic scale with a blues note is the same thing. After learning the pentatonic scale (links to my pentatonic scale page), you may ask “What’s next?” The blues scale is the next step in spicing…
Pattern Five of the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Here is pattern five of the minor pentatonic scale. This last pattern of the pentatonic scale is the last one you need to know to start the patterns all over. After this one you are back to pattern one. …
Pattern Four of the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Here is Pattern four of the minor pentatonic scale. How do you play pattern four of the minor pentatonic scale? Start with your first finger on the twelfth fret, E note. This would be the one on the left side.…
Guitar Notes on the 5th string and the 6th String
So by now you are playing and reading notes on strings one and two, and strings three and four. Adding the last two strings will complete reading the basic notes when reading beginning guitar music. You should be warming up…
Reading Music for the Guitarist
To learn to read music or not? Do guitar players need to read music? In my opinion, reading music for the guitarist, can’t hurt. I will introduce you to reading music for the guitar. I will start with the first…