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Advanced Pentatonic Drills

For more information from the source site of this video please visit: http://secretguitarteacher.com/ This is a sample lesson from the Secret Guitar Teacher's Gym section of the Secret Guitar Teacher website (see link above). This lesson does assume that you have already learned the pentatonic scale patterns in five positions. It may be possible to follow this session even if you haven't learned these patterns, but if in doubt check out the lesson entitled 'The Secret To Lead Guitar'. Here's the YouTube Link:    • The Secret to Lead Guitar   Comments and questions welcomed. Here's an abridged transcript: We developed these drills to help solve a number of problems that we found students were experiencing. If you know that you have learnt your scale patterns well and drilled them extensively, but still find it difficult to really use the patterns when you are soloing then these drills could be what you are looking for to help make that final break through. These drills make absolutely sure that you are driving the guitar with your PICKING hand, not your FRETTING hand. Let's show you: As in the last Gym session, we'll use the key of G minor to demonstrate, although you can apply this drill to any key and any scale type. Start with the first position and play the first note of the position for one bar in 4/4 time but at 2 notes per beat. This means counting like this 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and....Just the same note played rhythmically like this (shown). Using strict alternate picking. Now play one bar in exactly the same time and rhythm, but this time we play up the first 5 notes of the scale and back like this: (shown). Now link these two together without missing a beat and repeat several times. What you are aiming for is the certainty that you left hand is keep up with the speed of your right. Get this going at a steady tempo then play the bottom end of each of the five positions like this: (shown). Then start at the top end of the fifth position and work your way playing down each position like this: (shown). Once back at the start you can repeat at a faster tempo. Now a great way to practice these drills is together with another guitarist. When you do this, you should always play opposite parts. That means that while one of you plays the single note the other plays the scale run. You can try this against the backing tracks that you can access from the toolbox to the right of the video screen. These tracks are recordings of me playing the drill scale-run first. This means that you can play along with the track playing the single note part first. On the tracks each position is played twice. Here's a demo. (shown). Once you have mastered playing 8-beat feel you can adapt the exercise to 16-beat feel. When you do this you play twice as many notes per bar so the runs sound like this (shown). 1 e and a 2 e and a....Notice you turn the scale round on the ninth note. This does make it quite a bit harder -- that's why we call these advanced exercises! Here's a demo of me playing this along to the slow backing track. (shown). Finally we play the same drill in a 12/8 time signature. We have left this until last because some people find this harder than the 16 beat one. In 12/8 time we divide each of the main beats of a 4/4 bar into three sub-beats. We count that 1 and a 2 and a .... Lots of blues, soul and gospel tunes are in this time so it's important to master. The difficulty comes when you pick it using the alternating up down method that I have been advocating. Because the sub beats are grouped in an odd number -- three -- it means that the main beats fall first on a down stroke then on an upstroke. Some people will find this a bit trickier than others. So be prepared to work a little at this one. Here's a demo of the drill in 12/8 at 60 bpm (shown). Once you have got the knack of these there are backing tracks available for each of the different rhythmic feels. New to these exercises? it will take a while to get up to even the slow speeds Tricky but very powerful exercises. Be patient and persistent. Email us if you feel stuck at any stage. I'm going to leave the gym for a while now, but do let us know if there are any particular types of exercises you would like to see us set up for you -- remember this site is designed for you and we value your feedback at all times. See you later.