5 Minor Pentatonic Scale Hacks Every Guitar Players Should Know

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-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-The pentatonic scale is every guitar player’s favorite tool. It sounds good in most musical contexts, is super easy to memorize, and holds tons of cool usable licks that are simple to learn. That being said, it can sound quite predictable and sometimes make your solo sound like any others. Today’s lesson will teach you five super simple tricks you can use to make those pentatonic lines sound fresh and exciting!

Hack 1: Combining Positions
This one is very simple but can produce interesting lines that may not sound like your typical pentatonic lick. The idea is to take a few adjacent pentatonic positions and combine them together to create new shapes. Forcing yourself to stick to those newly built shapes will help you come up with new musical lines.

Hack 2: Bending Approach
The idea here is to take a simple pentatonic position, and approach each of its note with a half step bend. This technique will give your lines a cool Jeff Beck sound and make your licks sound more organic and less predictable.

Hack 3: Pentatonic Modes
This hack is one of my all times favorites. The idea here is to extract from full modes all the relative pentatonic scales. In the shown G Dorian example we can use G minor pentatonic, A minor pentatonic and D minor pentatonic.

Hack 4: Outside Pentatonic
This trick will help you add an interesting fusion sound to your phrasing. The idea is to slide in and out of the given pentatonic scale a half step above or below.

Hack 5: Chromatic Pentatonic
This idea consists in adding chromatic passages between each notes within each strings of a standard minor pentatonic position. Think in terms of rhythm when you improvise using this togged a very cool effect.

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Hack 2 sounded soooo Jeff Beck. Simply awesome.

jonw
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One of the BEST guitar instructional videos ever!

michaelgayerjr
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Fantastic lesson - real meat here in under 5 minutes, a real condensation of musical teaching wisdom. That tired old pentatonic getting mouth to mouth resuscitation, and making me feel like the green man with the busting buttons, once more. Thanks for taking the time, David!

stephenbowyer
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Great tips ! i use almost all of them without ever thinking about it!

raphaelblochb
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David. You're videos are brilliant. You take complex ideas and break them down to their basic form so that everyone from beginners to advanced players can build on these simple ideas and concepts. Video production and sound are also of superior quality.

yantom
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Great stuff man..., really great!! Many thanks!!

DeepintheWood_Folk-and-More
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Man, wish I had discovered your channel earlier, its the best! Covers all the important stuff and your licks are more creative and interesting of any teacher I've come across yet :D

JK-lfyf
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Amazing tips! I was very bored playing same scales in the same way. Thanks a lot from Paraguay

gus
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Wonderful! Thanks for this video. Loved the hacks.

digivish
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You are my favorite youtube teacher and player!you inspire me a lot and I appreciate that you give lessons and sharing music for free.you are a legend and a world class musician!

christosnicolaou
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thanks David.For me its your best video and hack two is awesome .

WORF
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These are not hacks David, they are freakin' gold thanks man!

VLC
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so cool David....and as usual extremely useful . Able to use these great ideas immediately.
Your videos really hit the sweet spot for me....so good! !!
Thanks and keep up the great work!!

Mrpro
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. . . so much useful info here. Thank You!!!

billville
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BRILLIANT ! You really make music easy for beginners ! Greetings from Paris - France.

dominiqueneraud
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Great Lesson Dave! Really like the 3rd Hack, using other minor pentatonics to incorporate using Dorian. Sweet stuff!

drockny
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The best lessons learned Dave. love ya

powerbylightfutureisnow
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Awesome video. I specially like Hack 3. I never got that idea before. Genius.

MrShaktirock
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You are a genius David. I like the way you express your music. i'm learning a lot from your videos. Thank you.

josecondez
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Hey David!!! Thanks a lot for sharing all these tips. I really enjoy your channel! Keep on rocking bro!

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