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Alright, this one is going to be big. We are going through all 5 shapes of the minor pentatonic scale. In doing so we are also going to examine how to connect them so you can solo up and down the entire fretboard while jamming or creating melody and we will touch on how to use the roots to transpose them so you can apply these ideas to all 12 minor keys!

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How to Solo on the Ukulele - All Five Pentatonic Shapes! - Ukulele Tutorial

New Ukulele tutorials every single Wednesday and Saturday, subscribe and learn with us! Today we are going to look at how to jam on the Ukulele, or to be more specific we are going to examine the A minor pentatonic and all of 5 of its shapes. All pentatonic scales no matter what key they are in have five different pentatonic shapes. If you know your fretboard you are able to find the root note and plug in all five of these shapes for any key, which means you can create melody and solo up and down the entire neck of the Ukulele! If you want more help on how to put this into practice with other musicians here is a video on how to jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS9kS24You0 Here is extra help on finding the key, so you know which scale that you need. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJP-8BLqKHs Some tips on how to turn guitar tabs into ukulele tabs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3CScXf2NgU Lastly here is a link for you to learn how to turn all five of your pentatonic shapes into all five shapes of the blue scales to hammer out some wicked blues! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgCIX5aRE3w How to Solo on the Ukulele - All Five Pentatonic Shapes! - Ukulele Tutorial

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Dan Grayson

do got a question...the lick for your version of my girl is basically the a minor but I ton think the song is in A...what gives?

Tyler Austenfeld

Great question. There are certain times and certain chords that you can do to give a song a more blues vibe. So it is fun to experiment sometimes with A minor ideas on A chords, or E minor on E chords to see if you can get a more bluesy vibes, having said that, it will work much better to use the minor scale with more 7 chords. Try and keep it diatonic (meaning major on major, minor on minor) but experiment with the other to vibe it out, and, feel free to do both in the same song, especially with blues!

Jeff Jensen

You know your followers Are advancing when we’re looking up these lessons 😉 Awesome

Tyler Austenfeld

So true! I love going through comments I missed and stumbling on one like this. Totally makes my day, or in this case night. haha