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Pentatonic Scale: Exploiting Shapes - Introduction

Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

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Lesson Excerpt: Hey there and thanks for joining me! I'd like to take the idea I discussed in my previous lesson regarding exploiting shapes and apply it to various scales. Let's start with the good old minor pentatonic scale. OK, we can apply the same principle that we applied in the previous seventh arpeggios lesson. This time we are going to find our shape by playing the first four notes of the first position and move the shape an octave higher each time. A...
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