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In this free online guitar tutorial, Berklee College of Music Assistant Professor and Berklee Online course author Joe Musella explains the Pentatonic scale: the quintessential tool for playing classic rock guitar solos.
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About Joe Musella:
Joe Musella is a guitarist and music educator active in the Boston music scene. His rock quartet, the Joe Musella Group, performs internationally. Musella’s recent collaborations include recording with Joe Vitale, the current drummer for Crosby, Stills and Nash, and with their bass player, David Santos. Other guitar work includes playing for theater productions and with the bands Freestyle and the Ginamark Band. As Assistant Professor of Guitar at Berklee, he developed and teaches the popular Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin course, and is developing a course on Eric Clapton. He is also a Berklee alumnus, and studied with Charlie Banacos and Mick Goodrick.
About Joe’s online Classic Rock Guitar course
Learn composition, melodic soloing, chords, and licks in the styles of the classic rock guitar masters: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, The Allman Brothers, Jimmy Page, as well as modern masters Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson.
This course begins with a primer on the blues foundation of rock, covering minor pentatonic scales, 12-bar blues chords and rhythm, classic rock tunes that use the 12-bar form, and licks and scale sequences over the 12-bar blues. Then every week, students will study the selected works of a different classic rock master, including Clapton’s “Crossroads” and “Layla,” Hendrix’s “Wind Cries Mary” and “All Along the Watchtower,” Gilmour’s “Comfortably Numb” and “Money,” Beck’s early blues work and later rock fusion tunes, and Page’s “Good Times Bad Times” and “Kashmir,” to name a few.
Through this analysis, students will learn methods of improvisation, phrasing, scales, chords, rhythms, fretboard mastery, and sound conception that are essential classic rock guitar techniques. The course will also explore modes and their use in rock improvisation.
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pentatonic scales always remind me of stairway to heaven and welcome to the jungle …..
too fast there is no chance to understand it easily
Pentatonic scale has Chinese origin.
My brother did the same! lol
I've listened to these patterns way too much, I muted it, I just like seeing a nice finish on a LP haha.
this isn't Iris. Its standard tuning
wach apik kui
783 people still can't play the guitar 🙁
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Heaven
after every rock guitar solo you have to smash the guitar. where do you teach that lesson?
Is this BDDDDD tuning ?
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hey guys, ive really started getting back into guitar and trying to learn how to solo. my one bane is that i cant get any speed and picking. rate now im practicing my pentatonic scale and alternate picking but i want to know, is that a reliable way to increase speed overall when doing a solo, or only when doing that scale? im just really tired of this stump im in and any help would be appreciated!
@VengeanceNL Yes you can use the basic minor pentatonic scale and also to make it sound more bluesy you can add another note which lies between the 3rd and fourth note (in the first position). So if your playing in the key of A it would be on the 5th string-6th fret and also the 3rd string-8th fret. My advice to you would be to learn about intervals, this then makes it easier to know where to play all over the fret board as you begin feel the gaps between the notes you could play. Gd luck!
thx and god bless.
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i have this guitar :L
Of course alternate picking is the way to go for speed. It should lead you to circle picking where there are no alternate stops – just circles around the string…
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@jankendorf you lucky bastard lol.