So to start off with, I'm just going to demonstrate to you what a pentatonic scale actually looks
like and sounds like.
So it goes like this, and what I did there was play one note after another in a sequence
or a shape on the guitar, and if I play certain chords over the top of those notes, those
kind of chords, then all the notes will fit together with the chords.
So now let's pull that apart and discover exactly what I did.
Right, now if you could take your little finger and put that on string number six, now by
string number six, I mean the thickest string on your guitar, so we always number the strings
one, two, three, four, five, six, so the thinnest one is always number one, this one is always
number six.
Right, so little finger goes on string six at fret five, and I'm going to refer to that
sometimes as finger number four, so we also have fingers one as your index, two as your
middle, three as your ring finger, and four as your index finger, as your little finger.
Right, so let's start again, little finger, string six, fret five, so if you play that
note for me, then next up if you go to string five and play fret number two with your index
finger, so now you've got those two notes, then go on the same string, so still string
number five, and play fret number four with your third finger, so with your ring finger,
then it's exactly the same again on string four, so fret two and fret four with fingers
one and three there, same again for string three, string two now, it's frets number
two with your index finger, and because we're stretching to fret number five, use your little
finger, so frets two and five there, and then finally, string one, again it's frets
number two and five, so try playing that together with me, so ready, start so little
finger, string six, fret five, here we go, so three, four, so it's that one, and then
string four now, fret two, fret four, and then string three, fret two, string three, fret
four, top string now, and if you've done that correctly, you should find that your little
finger ends up at string one, fret number five, let's try that one more time, ready,
so I'm going to count you in, one, two, three, four, so it's
so just practice getting to grips with those fingers on those strings, so start off with
your little finger on here, so on what's known as the root, I'll explain that in a second,
so string six, fret five, move all the way up the shape, don't have to do it as quickly
as I've just done it, just do it nice and slowly and evenly, then when you get to the
top, come all the way back down again, and then as you get to that bottom note there,
come back up to the root, just like that, and what I want you to do, I've included loads
of drum beats and backing tracks and things like that on the DVD so you can practice along
to it, so take something you like, a drum beat that's nice and slow and gentle that you like,
and practice that pentatonic shape across it and make sure you start in that right place.
