This is the last guitar lesson about Am pentatonic scales, maybe in the future I will also make some other videos about how to play the pentatonic scales in tonalities like Em, Gm, Cm and Dm… but if you will think properly, you will understand that the scales have the same structure for every tonality – you just have to move them along the fretboard and in dependence of what position do you have – the same the tonality will be!... 

I think that now is the time for us to start learning the Am blues pentatonic scale. It also can be played in 5 different positions along the whole fretboard, so first of all I would recommend to take a look at the previous guitar lesson of mine where I explained the simple Am pentatonic scale positions. And what is the difference between the simple Am pentatonic scale and the Am blues pentatonic scale? Understanding the difference will help you... 

I may say that this is the second part of my previous guitar lesson in which I explained you how to play the A minor pentatonic scale in 5 different positions. Today we gonna learn how to combine them and play a single long Am pentatonic scale along the whole fretboard. As you already understood, first of all you will have to learn them very carefully one after another the way they are and only then you will be enough ready to start practicing this... 

From my own experience I may say that the first scale which a guitar beginner probably learns is the Am pentatonic scale. It’s a really easy one to play, it’s enough easy to remember, it sounds good and the most principal thing is that playing different guitar solo phrases with the help of the pentatonic scale can make a guitarist sound professional even at the beginning of his career. I may say that these are the main factors why the... 

Today I would like to show you one of the best pentatonic phrases composed by me. To tell you the truth – it’s not so easy to play for a newbie, especially in the fast tempo – but I am also sure that your great desire to become a superhero guitarist will help you a lot. I also advise you to look with attention at the tab at the bottom of this post because it will help you a lot to understand all the details, I mean where to use... 

So here it is, another pentatonic phrase which you can use in your guitar solo! It’s very easy to play because it includes only the notes from the pentatonic itself, no other notes, bends, vibrato or something else. I am sure that after practicing it for about 20 minutes every newbie will be able to play it, just let me remind that the key to a quality playing is to practice everything in a slow tempo. I would also advise you to try to compose... 

This is the first pentatonic phrase I have ever learned, by that time I was so happy that I continued playing it half of the day and only after six hours of practicing I could play in the right tempo. As you already have observed from the video – the faster you will play it, the better it will sound and the more pleasure you and your listeners will get. The slow tempo of this pentatonic phrase sounds boring and is good only for practicing and... 

I remember the days when I listened for the first time the song Thunderstruck by Ac/Dc, several minutes after I was already with guitar in my hands trying to play the main theme. My father (likes classic rock music) also listened to the song and said that for this time I will have to work hard in order to learn to play it, but if I manage to do it he will buy me a new set of strings. So, there was a big interest for me to learn to play the song Thunderstruck... 

I know that newbies like to play lots of guitar tricks which sound and first of all look cool, so – when there is a great opportunity to show themselves they do it without hesitation… but they don’t always achieve the deserved admiration and I can tell you why. Sometimes when a teenager rock band comes to the studio where I work to record a song I see the same mistakes all the time. One of these mistakes is that every guy from the... 

About 14 years ago when I started to play guitar on a better level than just a simple beginner I began to study lots of solos played by different famous guitarists. After several month of playing about 4-6 hours a day I observed that every guitarist whose solos I was learning had some cool solo phrases which he was using in more than just one song. For example I can freely say that Yngwie Malmsteen has some favorite guitar solo phrases which he is...