Lesson ID: A0056
We’ve already covered several licks within the 1st position of the G Minor pentatonic scale. In the lesson videos below, we’ll be moving up the guitar neck to learn some licks built around the 2nd position of the G Minor pentatonic scale. The solo in the beginning of this video is an example of how you can combine each of these minor pentatonic scale licks to create one long guitar solo.
Guitar Lick 1
Guitar Lick 2
Guitar Lick 3
Awesome lick this is starting make sensenow. Right after that slide to the 7th fret, I found it easier for me to do an up pick on the 6th fret instead of a down pick..the next note after that slide. Do you think it would be a bad habit to learn it this way?
If you find it easier and faster to do an Up pick there I’d probably go with that as long as you can figure out how to get your pick back on track to where you don’t get jammed up picking the remainder of the lick. I usually suggest a more traditional flatpicking style like I have written in the tablature where you keep the pick moving throughout the whole lick Down Up Down Up Down Up etc…but there are always exceptions. Tony Rice tended to use his own style of picking where he broke out of the typical D… Read more »