Guitar: A minor pentatonic

Five notes, eight chapters. From the first box at fret 5 to your own solo over a blues.

NoChapterTimeBoxes
1Start here
How to read the pages and how to practice.
1 day__ / 3
2Box 1
The first shape, at fret 5. Twelve notes, two per string.
1 week__ / 21
3Time and picking
Alternate picking and eighth notes. Play with the click, not near it.
1 week__ / 20
4Sequences
Patterns of three and four. The scale stops sounding like a scale.
2 weeks__ / 22
5Make it sing
Hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and vibrato.
2 weeks__ / 21
6First licks
Five short phrases in box 1. Words for your solos.
2 weeks__ / 28
7The five boxes
The same five notes, all over the neck.
4 weeks__ / 16
8Jam
Use it. Solo over a 12-bar blues in A.
Forever__ / 12

Work top to bottom. Do not skip. The Boxes column counts ticked BPM boxes.

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