Guitar Control presents instructor Darrin Goodman, aka Uncle D, with another fun & easy horizontal pentatonic sequence lesson. Be sure to get the tabs to go along with the video instruction and you will be implementing this pentatonic sequence concept into your own playing tonight!
Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got some more pentatonic sequence lick ideas for you that are going to help you to get more horizontal across the fretboard.
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So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.
Horizontal Pentatonic Sequence-1
All right, so this first one that we’re going to look at is an idea that we’ve already done based out of the box pattern. This one we’re going to do is going to move through the positions ascending horizontally across the fretboard. So if you’ve seen the previous videos that I’ve done, I did one a while back where I did these pentatonic patterns that all connected together. And instead of being like in a box they were more horizontal across the fretboard.
So we’re going to use the idea from the other lick, but we’re going to put it in with this. So it’s just going to make it a little different because we’re going to be incorporating slides and I think it really makes it sound cool. So we’re going to start off on the seventh fret of the A string with your third finger and the fifth fret with your first finger. All right, so we’re going to pick seven and pull to five and then hammer back to seven. Then we’re going to go to the fifth fret of the D string, back to the seventh fret of the A string and then back to the fifth fret of the D string.
Now we’re going to start the sequence over again on the D string. Now we’re going to start the sequence again on the D string, seven pull to five and hammer back to seven and this time we’re going to slide to nine and pull-off to seven and hammer back to nine…
So it’s all it’s in groups of three and they’re triplets… so that’s the first measure. Now we’re gonna start on the second measure and we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the G string and then back to the ninth fret of the D string and back to seven. Now we’re gonna go nine pull to seven, hammer back to nine and then we’re going to go to the eighth fret on the B string. So I’m just gonna use my second finger because then my third finger is already here on nine on the G string… Now we’re going to go eight on the
B string, nine on the G string, that’s beat three, so like the second measure; one yel-low, two yel-low, three yel-low. Then we’re going to shift our hand position slightly we’re just going to put our first finger where our second finger was on the eighth fret and then our third finger is going to go to the tenth fret and we’re going to pick and pull and then slide to twelve. When we get to twelve we’re gonna pull-off to ten and hammer back to 12. So that’s the first beat of the third measure and then we’re gonna go to the 10th fret on the high E string, back to the 12th fret of the B string, back to the tenth fret on the high E and then hammer to twelve…
Horizontal Pentatonic Sequence-2
Then the last one, I’m only doing two today because these are both kind of longer sequences, this one’s kind of cool because it just moves in positions of the fretboard and we’re just playing on the first two strings. So we’re going to start off… or like the last four notes of a minor pentatonic combining Sequence one. So we’re gonna on the B string and I’m gonna pick eight, pull to five and hammer back to eight and I’m gonna go to the fifth fret on the high E string back to the eighth fret of the B string and then back to the fifth fret. So like one yel-low, two yel-low. Then starting on the third beat we’re gonna go to the eighth fret of the high E and pick that and pull the five back to the eighth fret of the B string back to the fifth fret of the high E and then the B string eight pull to five. So we’re kind of reversing the pattern sort of. So that’s like a cool Lick in itself and I think we did something similar like that a couple of videos ago, but this is going to be a repeating sequence. So that’s the whole pattern… Now what we’re going to do is just move it up and do the same kind of idea. So what we’re going to do to move it up is that this there’s two notes for string five and eight. So we’re going to start on eight and then ten. So we’ve got a step and a half and then a whole step and the same thing on high E string, it’s going to be eight and ten. So I’m going to do that same pattern and I’m going to pick ten, pull to eight, hammer to ten and then go to eight on the high E and then back to the ten and then back on the B string and then back to the high E… Now so that’s the first two beats; one yel-low, two yel-low. Now starting on the third beat pick ten pull to eight, ten on the B string, back to eight on the high E and then ten pull to eight on the B string. So, so far… Okay so now for the next position we’re going to do the same thing and our first note is going to be the second note. So we’re going to shift up to ten and then it’s going to be 10, 12, 10, 12 and we’re going to do the same the same idea. We’re gonna start here on 12 on the B string and we’re going to pick that and pull to ten and hammer back to 12. Then 10 on the high E back to 12 on the B and back to 10 on the high E… that’s the first two beats. Now starting on beat three we have twelve pull to ten to 12 on the B string, then back to 10 on the high E and then 12 pulled to 10 on the B… Okay now we’re going to shift up again for the last time. So we’re going to do the same thing now we’re going to move up we’ll be on 12 on both strings, but now we’re going to go to 15. So we’re back to a step and a half so that’s the important thing to remember out of this is that we’ve got a step and a half a whole step and a whole step and a step and a half. So when we get here this is going to be exactly just like… but up here. So now we’re going to be 15 pull to 12, hammer to 15 to 12 on the high E, back to 15 on the B, back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull to 12 on the high E to 15 on the B string, back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull to 12 on the B string and then finally ending on the B string 15th fret with a full step bend.
Conclusion
Alright, a couple of fun little, longer in length, pentatonic sequences that you can make in licks. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
