CAGED Basics II | Lesson 06 | Pentatonic Pit Stop (Patreon)

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Hi Everyone,

In this lesson, we spend some time moving between the A Shape and G Shape pentatonic scales with a fingering exercise and a tune designed to make you think about your finger choices.

These exercises are designed to give you a manageable playground to practice what many beginning & intermediate guitar players would consider the most under-explained aspect of guitar playing: choosing which fingers to use and why.

I learned things like this while taking classical guitar lessons, but even then I had to infer the logic from the written fingering. This "fix or foreshadow" idea isn't an all-encompassing method, but it is a great start for designing your own ergonomic path through a melody, riff, solo, etc.

Practice Tracks:
30BPM (super slow)
40BPM
52 BPM (original speed)
60BPM

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CAGED Basics II:
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 11 | Full Circle
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 10 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 09 | D Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 08 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 07 | E Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 06 | Pentatonic Pit Stop (current lesson)
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 05 | G Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 04 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 03 | A Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 02 | C Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 01 | Overview