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Pentatonic Tapping - Incorporating Open Strings

Instructor: Richard Lundmark
Topic: Cool Riffs
Style: Rock
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  • Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

    Excerpt: Hi guys! In this lesson we'll take a peek at two tapping sequences in the Emin pentatonic scale, incorporating open strings into the lines. This first example starts out just moving up the high E-string covering all five positions, before turning around. After we turn around we start going diagonally down across the strings, crossing several boxes once ag...

    Media Length: 0:45

  • Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

    Excerpt: In this example, we take a pretty common kind of pentatonic tapping sequence that you can find in solos of everyone from Nuno to Howe. I use this type of moving pentatonic shapes in my own soloing quite a lot. Here however, we incorporate open strings in, substituting "regular" notes in the sequences for open string. Now, this is not a completely uniform se...

    Media Length: 0:42