Five Guitar Licks in Five Shapes - Master your pentatonic shapes on the fretboard!

We need to be able to play up and down the guitar fretboard with ease. One way to get good at that is to memorize all five of the pentatonic shapes. But that's enough. We want to have cool things to play in each shape when we get up there on the guitar fretboard. So having some classic licks in each shape is essential to mastering the guitar fretboard for rock, blues, and country guitar. In this video you'll learn one lick for each of the five pentatonic shapes.

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[mrdavis]

Hi blue,
Just got your solo book 1, what i like the most you explain ideas using shapes or patterns, Definitely that's the way I learn, I am looking forward to learning book 1 at my own pace,
Thanks again blue for your help,
Howard 😊

[TheBlackStrat]

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[mrdavis]

Hi blue,
Does your book 1 have five licks for each five pentatonic shapes?
loving the way you teach,
All the best,
Howard UK

[josealbaposse]

Bravo Blue!!! Great lesson, I ‘ll try to perform these new shapes in licks, thanks!

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[pkbrown]

Good stuff here, and love the jam track that goes with it. 🤠

[btbb]

Thank You! Very practical yet powerful videos as per the usual.

I used to practice the pentatonic positions and worked on becoming familiar with root/blue notes and the nice bending/tension points by improvising along with Roy Buchanan (e.g., Soul Dressing, Five String Blues, Sweet Dreams, etc.). Then I did the same to practice/experiment with navigating between and through the positions. Likewise for practicing dropping in the additional notes that belong to the natural scale.

[peteb]

Some great licks there, especially for that 5th position which I have always avoided - Why? - it sounds great. Thank you.