Major pentatonic licks by rock licks guitar pro tabs. Big in 1998, gilbert has waxed a handful of solo albums but oddly theyve. Before there was paul gilbert, there was steve morse. The book, cd, fretboard chart and 5 pattern guides explain how. Like blues licks, country licks use minor and major pentatonic sounds with mixolydian shadings, like the classic openposition runs in figures 5ab, occurring in the key of g. Introduction practice riff 1 riff 2 riff 3 what have we achieved so far. These skills can then be carried forward to future grades, and the creative concepts can be transferred to the other 4 positions of the minor pentatonic scales, and also for the 5 major pentatonic scales.
These minor pentatonic scale exercises are especially useful for anyone studying for their rockschool or rgt grade 34 electric guitar exams. This quick guitar licktionary reference guide will help familiarize you with a wealth of different musical styles. Students have unlimited access to the interactive blues course, which also includes backing tracks, tabs, and study materials. One of the most important pentatonic guitar scales is the pentatonic minor scale. A definitive list of 25 licks spanning the entire bluesrock universe is a contentious thing. That one paul gilbert lick he never teaches youtube. They all tapped into the power of the pentatonic scale to. On the guitar, this scale just lines up so beautifully, its perfect. The collection is comprised of my favorite pentatonic rock licks and phrases in the style of jimi hendrix, eric clapton, jimmy page, angus young, billy gibbons, pat travers, michael schenker, steve lukather and neal schon. Pentatonic scale guitar solo trainer rick mollindo, learn to solo by memorizing 5 simple patterns. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the scales in all keys. Many of gilbert s licks are based on patterns that he moves around the fretboard, as he demonstrates with the climbing a minor pentatonic legato run in figure 11.
Keith wyatt has developed a rich library with hundreds of online blues guitar lessons. Scales and arpeggios a minor c major pentatonic scale. Youll find 50 allpurpose pentatonic licks to be generous indeed. Paul gilbert gives a classic lesson in shred guitar player. Paul gilberts top 5 tips for guitarists musicradar. Pentatonic and modal guitar lick for soloing in the style. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Master the pentatonic scale on the entire fretboard. Designed by analysing many great guitarists from the rock and blues genres, pure pentatonic power was created by taking their most important phrases, patterns, techniques used with the pentatonic and blues. I will be uploading some original guitar licks using guitar pro 6 software.
Learn to play guitar in almost any genre with these essential licks. The ibanez paul gilbert is a pgm series guitar model, a signature model of guitarist paul gilbert. These five minor pentatonic licks in g will help you cover all the positions of the minor pentatonic scale while giving you new musical ideas. Learning all the charts in the app will help you solo like a pro.
Pentatonic power digital course guitarjamz premium. Firstly, james shares a remarkably clear and easy approach for mapping out all five positions of the major pentatonic scale, and all five positions of the minor pentatonic scale, across the. Online blues guitar lessons learn from keith wyatt. Two notes per string, and lined up perfectly along a single fret as well, you cant really ask for a more simple scale pattern. So that was a humbling experience, but overall it felt like such a good sound. I recorded with pro tools, i am using this mbox mini version here at home, and the amp is guitar rig 3, an amazing software plugin that sounds.
Place a pattern guide on the fretboard chart and play the pattern as a solo, in any key all the way up the neck, even past the 12th fret. Play pentatonic legato on guitar like paul gilbert click through to watch this video on while youre stuck at home, make the most of your time by learning a new language, skill, or even train for a remotework job with our new premium online courses. A lot of pauls superfast alternate picking is based around this principal, where he considers the most efficient pick movement from one string to. Please note that you need to have the guitar pro software before you can start using these the tablature provided is our visitors interpretation of this song but remain a property of their respective authors, artists and labels. You create a minor pentatonic scale by applying a 1b345b7 formula to its parallel major scale. Mastering pentatonic scale theory welcome to the learning pentatonic scales page at gmc run by yours truly, the professor.
Please note that you need to have the guitar pro software before you can start using these the tablature provided is our visitors interpretation of this song but remain a property of their. Pentatonic licks 15 pattern 3 for electric guitar solos. Let paul gilbert teach you how to shred blazing pentatonics. On this page you will find the guitar pro tab for the song major pentatonic licks by rock licks, which has been downloaded 5,543 times. How to play powerpiano guitar licks like paul gilbert. A jimmy pageinspired pentatonic lick anyone can play guitar. Figure 5 is an example of a slick, country pedalsteelstyle bending technique gilbert. This is my first lesson, im going to go in depth of how amazing the pentatonic minor and blues scale can be.
Today we check out my personal 5 best pentatonic tricks, i hope they will spice up your pentatonic scale licks from now on. The initial melodic pattern is eight notes long and is repeated with different notes across the. Do you like classic rock and blues, but you think that the pentatonic scale is quite limiting for selfexpression. What ultimately sets these online blues guitar lessons apart from other offerings is the. Theres really no limit to what you can do with the pentatonic scale, and the absolutely coolest thing about it is that as long as youre playing in the right key, you literally cant go wrong with the pentatonic scale. Blues is the first step to get to jazz, gilbert says. This one is in the key of em pentatonic and is in the style of paul gilbert, featuring combined picking and legato and using extended pentatonic shapes. Pentatonic apps ios pentatonic scale minor pentatonic. Rock guitar top 5 licks using the pentatonic blues scale. When it comes to shred, few guitarists can rip like paul gilbert. Nick bowcott is joined by worldrenowned guitarist paul gilbert for a guitar lesson because even veteran players that have toured for decades continue to be amazed at gilberts proficiency and.
Here is the first post which is a one measure a minor pentatonic lick. Easy fast pentatonic licks every guitar players should. Classic pentatonic blues licks in the style of jimi hendrix, eric clapton, stevie ray vaughan and othershow to use blues curls and other soloing tricks for an authentic blues. On the guitar, we can play the same scale in a great variety of fretboard positions. Get tabs and backing tracks for all my lessons here. Integral to this video lesson is the concept of outside picking. Five pentatonic licks in pattern 3 for electric guitar solos in the styles blues, rock and pop with music notes, tab tablature and sound. Ive also included some absolute must know blues licks inspired by albert king, b. Paul gilbert on trying new pentatonic positions musicradar. Guitar instructor paul davidsthe man behind gp favorites are we all tuning our guitars wrong. A plan based on a paul gilbert like skipping pattern. The first improvisation session covered the e minor pentatonic scale in the open position and gave you an idea of what you can achieve as you learn the magic of improvisation. Learn how to imply different modes, altered scales, alternative pentatonics and much more jamie humphries is the author of the acclaimed giants of rock and giants of metal guitar courses. How to play 5 rock licks using the blues pentatonic scale.
Notice how the minor pentatonic formula contains all the notes for a minor 7 chord 1b35b7. How to play pentatonic legato on guitar like paul gilbert. As guitarists we all love our minor pentatonics but when it comes to using the majors many of us are on more uncertain ground. You have to respect the articulation and above all the sense of the pick to the letter in order to pass it quietly. Hello and welcome to my first free lick of the week, taken from my complete lesson extended pentatonic licks. Its in the key of em and is in the style of paul gilbert, featuring combined picking. Guitar lessons paul gilbert pentatonic licks youtube. Pentatonic licks free lick free lesson paul gilbert shred irene ketikidi string skipping ibanez guitar lesson this lick is taken from my lesson extended pentatonic licks. Ive never been one to use forums, but the gt forum is full of great people and helpful information at all levels. Remember to warm up properly, as this will require stretch fingerings on your left hand. Spruce up your pentatonic scales with noterepositioning. In this lesson we check out odd note grouping, arpeggio tapping, stretch. What do the aka pygmies, polish highlanders and french composer claude debussy have in common with eric johnson, bumblefoot and paul gilbert. By amit sharma 06 june 2016 dont play like your cat.
If youre tired of playing stock minor pentatonic runs when you solo over a rock or blues progression, guitar virtuoso paul gilbert has a couple of neat tricks you can use to jazz up your licks. The lick is a bluesy combination of the e mixolydian and blues scales. The scale pattern paul bases his lick on is still the a minor pentatonic. Pentatonic solo part 1 youtube live dispatch from home with craig chee and sarah maisel artistworks 20 watching live now. Language sitemap guitar lick pentatonic blues 1115. Lick 260 paul gilbert 3octave e minor 7th arpeggios. The video contains the performance, the slow version with tab. You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. Paul gilbert teaches you how to be more creative with the pentatonic scale in this video from total guitar magazine. Click on the image to download the guitar pro 7 file thats the end plan of above the clouds, one of the atmospheric tracks on the album. One of the blues licks i just learned i cant believe i didnt know it all this time involves. Mastering pentatonic scale theory 3831 guitar lessons.
Its a fast descending pattern played using a combination of picked and slurred notes. Language sitemap guitars licks pentatonic blues 15. Essential minor pentatonic blues licks in this guitar lesson ill show you step by step how to play three essential minor pentatonic blues licks which you can use to spice up your blues soloswatch to discover. There is no mystery or guess work involved and all the licks, tricks and secrets of the guitar greats are taught in these guitar lessons. Five pentatonic licks in pattern 4 for electric guitar soloing in the styles blues, rock or pop with music notes, tab tablature and sound. Give this crazy legato lick from paul gilbert a shot. The ibanez was introduced in the first limited edition pgm model ever and all guitars were signed by paul gilbert himself. Pentatonic blues lick pattern 3, pattern 4, pattern 5, pattern 1, pattern 2, modal lick aeolian, locrian, ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian a lick is a short musical phrase which forms a useful element for improvising a guitar solo in the style of blues, rock and pop. For this lesson ive put together a classic rockstyle solo using just the major pentatonic scale. Paul gilbert 3 killer licks from still got the blues.
We are now going to start progressing further by giving. This lick will provide a really versatile and greatsounding addition to your rock vocabulary. Its a great scale to start with on guitar, we can use open strings and that makes the scale easy to learn. Guitar lesson paul gilbert style pentatonic by irene. This dvd will explain the pentatonic scale form its basic applications and shape, right up to pentatonic substitution. When played at a slow to mid tempo it would sound at home in a blues or classic rockstyle solo.
This video tutorial will show you how to play powerpiano guitar licks like paul gilbert. About the setup that i used here, the guitar is a les paul standard premium plus, as i said the pickups are gibson burstbuckers the guitar comes with those pickups, so this is the normal setting. For example, apply the formula to an a major scale and youll get an a minor pentatonic scale, which is acdeg. In this tutorial were going to study one of the most fun scales. E minor pentatonic improvisation easy soloing guitar coach. The lessons on this page are geared towards helping you build a strong understanding of each of the various pentatonic scales, how they are built, how they are related and how they relate to chords and arpeggios when.