Play the Minor Pentatonic Scale

Justin teaches us how to play the minor pentatonic scale in this tutorial. This is a useful scale that you will use as long as you play the guitar. Start with your first finger in the fifth fret of the thickest string. Play A, then reach up with your fourth finger in the eight ...more

This how to video explains a bit about the minor pentatonic scale and the chords it gets played over on the electric guitar. This is an easy scale to learn and is the basis for most blues music. Watch this tutorial and you will be playing minor pentatonic scales on the guitar ...more

This how to video shows you the five positions of the minor pentatonic scale and the various common fingerings for each on the guitar. The minor pentatonic scale is often used in blues music. Watch this tutorial and you will be playing the 5 positions of the minor pentatonic s ...more

Because of its portability, the acoustic guitar can be wonderful songwriting device. However, having a pocket symphony in your head–or pocket, as it were–does you little good if your hands aren't on board. Fortunately, YouTube user Sawlon is here to help you train your head an ...more

Pete Sears guides you through minor pentatonic scales for playing the piano or keyboard.

In this how to video, you will learn to use the pentatonic scale and bend notes. First, you must remember that your bend must reach another note in the scale. When bending, you are bring the fret to your finger rather than sliding up to it. You must use your ear to make sure i ...more

Learning all of the patterns of the pentatonic is important, but if you're stuck to just playing them in their box shaped patterns, you can really find yourself getting stale and insecure in your playing. So break out of the box with this video! Learn how to connect your penta ...more

This is an excellent video on to play a minor pentatonic pattern on your acoustic guitar. This video is perfect for beginners as instructor Justin Sandercoe gives you some great tools and tips on making your guitar playing a bit easier. You'll also learn how to create interest ...more

This video lesson will teach you how to use both Major and Minor pentatonic in the same solo. Let’s first review the E minor Pentatonic Scale at the 12th fret.

This video details the A Minor Blues Scale and cycles through a few examples of easy Blues Licks and Chord Progressions. Peter Vogl takes the viewer and/or Guitar Novice through the A Minor Scale, easy up-close camera work allows the individual fingering to be seen easily.

Do you dream of standing on stage in front of millions of fans with a guitar in your hand? You could make this dream come true, if only you could play the guitar! This guitar tutorial series from Robert Renman teaches you the basics of guitar playing along with a few beginner ...more

Rapper Lil' Wayne has admitted he can't read, instead citing that his musical prowress comes naturally to him. While this may work for the musician, most piano players, singers, and sax players can benefit from a lesson in music theory or two. We know that just the term "musi ...more

This tutorial teaches you how to play the harmonic minor scale on the piano, which is important because the scale is featured in many songs. Some things to remember: the seventh note is the leading note, and the first note of the scale is what the scale is named after. Check ...more

What's the difference between a harmonic minor scale and a melodic minor scale? Well, a melodic minor scale is the scale you'll play that acts as the main tune, or melody, of a song, while a harmonic minor scale is the scale you'll play to harmonize or complement the melodic t ...more

Learn how to play a pentatonic guitar scale solo.

Guitar riffs are like any other musical exercise; practicing them can be a terrific means of building manual dexterity and improving your overall playing technique. We can say of riffs, then, that they are not so much about rote repetition as making available to the guitarist ...more

To play a guitar riff is to do more than simply to memorize a short musical phrase. Guitar riffs are like any other musical exercise; practicing them can be a terrific means of building manual dexterity and improving your overall playing technique. We can say of riffs, then, t ...more

Major scales give a song harmony, peace, and coherence, but minor scales (often thought of as their sour cousin) add interest. Which is why even popular pop songs commonly inject key changes to let rip a minor scale that sends the song from boring to Billboard. If you're inte ...more

The violin is one of the most important melodic instruments in history. Learn A Minor scale arpeggios on it in this free video clip series. Play an A minor scale arpeggio on the violin - Part 1 of 15. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.com Play an A minor scale ...more

This video shows a musicians hands as he explains and demonstrates how to play the C minor blues scale. The notes in the scale are: C, E-flat, F, G-flat, G, B-flat, C. He then explains the fingering: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3. He demonstrates different patterns with the left and rig ...more

Have you wanted to be a great violinist? Take some important first steps with these free video clips on playing violin in G melodic minor. Play the G melodic minor scale on the violin - Part 1 of 15. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.com Play the G melodic min ...more

Have you wanted to be a great violinist? Take some important first steps with these free video clips on playing violin in F melodic minor. Play the melodic F minor scale on the violin - Part 1 of 15. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.com Play the melodic F min ...more

Alright, let's be honest, blues guitarists can get stuck in a riff rut and then everyone ends up singing the blues. In this video, Robert Renman shows you how to break out of the mold and bring some life into your licks. Using the A Minor blues scale, Robert shows you how to c ...more

Learn how to play probably the most recognized melodic licks in bluegrass banjo with this tutorial. This lick is based on a Bb pentatonic scale. You can hear this lick in a lot of Ben Eldridge's playing though it may date back farther than the 1950's. Watch this how to video a ...more

In this guitar lesson you will learn how to play scales in thirds for a killer sound and riffs. Demonstrated here with minor pentatonic scale and the major scale.

This lesson soloing. This chord progression has been used to create many, many hits in just about every genre of popular music. During this lesson, we will investigate the D major pentatonic scale. You may still use the D minor pentatonic scale, but the best players can switch ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to play lead guitar. Lead guitar plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, and guitar solos. When learning to play the lead guitar, the first thing that users should do is to start by playing the minor pentatonic scale, which can ...more

This video shows in great detail how to slap the strings of a bass guitar with the thumb or pop the strings with the finger. The various angles of the video make it easy for a viewer to see what it looks like as they slap or pop the guitar, especially the over the shoulder ang ...more

In this video, we learn how to play a basic Blues improvisation on acoustic guitar. The idea of this is to jam and have a good time while you are experimenting with your guitar. Start by playing an intro, then continue on playing the minor pentatonic sounds that you can play. ...more

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This two part series teaches how to improvise playing solos. First we'll review the basic 12 notes of the scale, which we need to know in order to begin working with keys and lead guitar scale patterns. I'll explain how the 12 notes of the scale relate to the guitar fretboard. ...more

This is a simple video explaining the c minor pentatonic blues scale and how to use it with your left hand on a piano/keyboard.

Sure, you can play minor pentatonic over the Blues all day and probably almost get away with it in a live setting. But if you want to play like the greats, you've gotta learn their licks! In this video you will learn two signature Blues licks that almost every player knows, th ...more

The CAGED system is an amazing way of organizing the fretboard to allow you to find any chord on any place of the neck and instantly have a shape to play on, a scale, a triad and even an arpeggio. In this video you learn how to apply the method with minor chords as opposed to ...more

Charles Sedlak shows you how to add a little more flavor and personality to your pentatonic scale, for that electric blues guitar you have sitting at home, collecting dust. Some break out the Pledge, and play along.

Dorian mode is the second mode of the seven modes to learn and is also, in a way, natural minor with a major sixth note of the scale instead of the minor sixth. You can use it over a minor chord progression over the four chord if it's a dominant, among other things. In this vi ...more

There's no getting around it: if you want to get good at playing the ukulele or any other instrument, you'll need to practice. Fortunately, the Internet is awash in free uke lessons, like this one from Ukulele Live, which make the task not only easy but fun. This clip, in part ...more

There's no getting around it: if you want to get good at playing the ukulele or any other instrument, you'll need to practice. Fortunately, the Internet is awash in free uke lessons, like this one from Ukulele Live, which make the task not only easy but fun. This clip, in part ...more

There's no getting around it: if you want to get good at playing the ukulele or any other instrument, you'll need to practice. Fortunately, the Internet is awash in free uke lessons, like this one from Ukulele Live, which make the task not only easy but fun. This clip, in part ...more

(Using an Eb Harmonica) A Brief overview of how to play and use the pentatonic scale in three positions/keys over a typical blues progression.

Minor modes use the same set of key signatures as major modes; whichever signature corresponds to the step pattern of the natural minor scale is considered the key signature for that minor mode. Here, Pete Sears explains how to play minor scales on the piano.

This advanced guitar lesson video demonstrates how to use legato patterns to increase the speed with which you play pentatonic scales. These techniques can be used for any pentatonic scale, and should really help you improve your playing of these important scales on electric g ...more

Watch to learn the theory and technique behind playing a minor scale on guitar. This video is for beginning guitar players.

This how to video clears up why there is a tone and a half in a harmonic minor scale, and goes into detail about leading tones, and what harmonic and melodic scales are used for. These are very important concepts in music theory and piano playing. Watch this how to video and y ...more

Pete Sears discusses pentatonic scales. He will begin by covering the C major pentatonic scale and playing it on the piano.

Improve your technique and picking speed and prepare yourself for lightning fast solos and complicated melody lines by practicing this killin' 16th note Minor Pentatonic Scale exercise.

This lesson is an introduction to the rock/blues scale, or pentatonic, and how to play it in a few different positions on the guitar.

Learn how to play a slow blues lick in the key of E, using the pentatonic scale. Regardless of your preferred style of music, if you want to be great, you'll need your head and hands on the same page. And there's no better way to get your head and hands on the same page than t ...more

In this lesson, we're going to experiment with the melodic minor scale. We will be jamming on a one chord, Bb7 vamp. If you are not familiar with the melodic minor scale, you should practice it because it is useful in so many more situations than just this video. Play F melodi ...more

David Cavage breaks down "Cumberland Gap" on the 5-string banjo so you can you understand and play it easily, while he also lectures on the pentatonic scale and other necessities. This is a 10 part tutorial. For more instructional banjo videos, search WonderHowTo for musicmoo ...more

A Harmonic scale is basically the same as the natural minor but with a chromatically raised seventh degree. Pete Sears shows you how to play it on your piano.

Nate Bosch teach us about the second mode of the major scale called ,,The Dorian Mode". On a C major scale he gonna play the notes found on that scale but starting from the second note of the scale called the second mode of the Dorian mode, playing all the notes starting from ...more

In this video, we learn how to play blues guitar: A major and A minor licks. Start by turning on your metronome and playing various A minor and A major chord licks and phrases. Play in pentatonic as you are doing the different licks so you can hear a difference between how the ...more

This lesson will use the same lick at three different positions on the guitar with each one using a different scale. The first lick will use the Gm Pentatonic Scale. The next lick uses the Cm Pentatonic Scale. The next lick uses the Dm Pentatonic Scale. All of these licks can ...more

Nate Bosch with Piano Lessons demonstrates how to play the phrygian mode on a piano. The phyrgian mode is the third mode of the major scale. Take the C major scale. The phyrgian mode will start on the third note of that scale, which is E, and contain the same notes as the C ma ...more

In this lesson by Jody Worrell we'll learn a lick straight out of the A Minor Blues Scale. It's got some twists and turns in it that make it have a really sophisticated sound.

Do you dream of standing on stage in front of millions of fans with a guitar in your hand? You could make this dream come true, if only you could play the guitar! This guitar tutorial series from Robert Renman teaches you the basics of guitar playing along with a few beginner ...more

Unless you're a music theory buff or taking AP Music Theory in school (forced or otherwise), then the only word in "diatonic circle chord progressions" that makes sense to you is "circle." But the fancy schmancy term is just an elaborate way of saying you're playing chord prog ...more

Develop your technique and learn how to get your lead lines to come through clean and strong using rockin' Minor Pentatonic fingering exercises.