Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Complete Blues and Pentatonic Scales

So, things went well at the guitar lesson.  My instructor has now given me the complete Blues Scale, as well as the complete Minor Pentatonic Scale.

                           Blues Scale                                 Minor Pentatonic Scale

  I'm really going to practice these scales hard this week.  I received a new Chord(B7) to work on as well, and some homework involving memorization of note positions on the guitar, so I'll have to do that as well, but most of my work will be on these two scales.  I want to be able to move quickly between strings and frets.  I'm really unhappy with how slow I am and how often my finger or pick ends up on the wrong fret/string.  There's no special tool to learn this stuff.  I think you just gotta practice practice practice.

  I found it fascinating to learn more about the origins of Blues and Jazz and how to identify a true Blues song and a hybrid Blues song.  I hope my teacher talks more about this sort of thing. =D

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