Guitar Control presents instructor Darrin Goodman, aka Uncle D, with another installment on his pentatonic sequence series. In this installment of the series Uncle D teaches three pentatonic box sequences that demonstrate how to play the pattern more horizontally across the fretboard. So be sure to get the free tabs to go along with the video instruction and take your lead playing to a new level tonight!
Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got some more pentatonic sequence and lick ideas for you.
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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.
Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-1
All right, so the first one we’re going to look at here I’ve showed you before, but in a different context. So before we looked at it with the… so you play one, two, three, four, five, six notes. So you play two notes per string and play three strings and then you add one more string as you go along. So like six, five and four and then five, four and three. So what I’m going to show you now is to do it by shifting up into different positions. It’s still going to sound more or less the same, but instead of being stuck in this box it’s going to move you to different places and help you to play more horizontally. So the simplest way to do that for this little exercise is we’re going to start here on the A string, this is all just going to be on the A, D and G strings. So we’re going to start here at the fifth fret I’m going to pick and then do a hammer-on to the seventh fret and I’m going to do that on all three of these strings… So pretty easy just like the other one, but now what we’re going to do is we’re going to shift up to the next position. So we’re going to go from five and seven to 10 and 12, but still on the same strings. So the tenth fret on the A string, here is a G, and then the 12th fret is an A. So if we look at the fifth fret on the D string it’s a G and then an A, so by shifting up we’re going to get that same effect… Now we want to come up and do the same thing 10 to 12. Now we’re going to move up five frets again, so that’s going to put us at the 15th and 17th fret and we’re going to do the same thing, but the only difference now is that when we go to the G string the first note has to be flat a half step; so we’re 15, 17, 15, 17 and now when we go to the G string it’s 14 and 17… So by practicing that and just getting used to that spacing when you’re improvising instead of having to be stuck in the box you could play stuff here… something like that.
Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-2
All right, then the next we’re going to look at is based out of your box pattern number one of the pentatonic and we’re doing it here in E, but it’s movable just like the previous one, they’re movable shapes since we’re not using any open strings. So this is a variation on another one that we did recently, but what I like about this one is that you can just barre your first finger so it makes it a little bit easier to be able to play. So we’re gonna take our first finger we’re gonna barre at the 12th fret just across the first four strings with your third finger. We’re going to start here on the 14th fret and we’re going to pick and pull to 12 and then hammer back on to 14. Then we’re going to go to the G string 12th fret and then back to 14 on the D string. Then we’re going to follow that with the 12th fret of the G string again… Now we’re just going to repeat that same pattern, but now we’re going to start on the G string, so it’ll be 14 pull to 12, hammer to 14 to the 12th fret of the B string, back to the 14th fret of the G string and then back to the 12th fret of the B string again. So now we’re going to go starting on the B string and we have to go to the 15th fret and pull to the 12th fret, hammer back 15 to the 12th fret of the high E string and then back to the 15th fret of the B string. And then here just to kind of end the sequence when you get to the 15th fret of the B string you just roll that finger up to the 15th fret of the high E and pick and pull-off to 12… So there’s all different variations you could do with that, but I like this idea, especially if you’re kind of a beginner this can kind of help you to be able to play something that sounds really satisfying, but make it a little bit easier by being able to just barre your finger.
Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-3
All right and then the last one we’re going to look at has segments of a couple of different things that we’ve done before and this is just another idea of how you can hook them together. So again out of the first pentatonic pattern and we’re in E but, again movable to wherever you want. So we’re going to start off at the top of the scale so I’m going to pick 15 and pull to 12 on the high E string and then on the B string… Then we’re going to go to the G string and we’re going to start on the 12th fret and do a hammer-on to 14. Then we’re going to go back to the B string and hammer 12 to 15, and that’s the sequence… pull, pick, pull, pick, hammer, pick, hammer… Okay now we’re just going to repeat that same sequence through the rest of the scale. So now we’re going to start on the B string and we’re going to pick 15 pull to 12 and then go to the G string 14 pull to 12… Now we’re going to go to the D string and we’re going to start on 12 and hammer to 14 and then do the same on the G string… Okay now we’re going to just continue the pattern so now it’s going to start on the on the G string 14 pull to 12, same thing on the D string and now we’re going to go to the A string 12th fret and hammer to 14 and then to the D string 12 Hammer to 14 and then finally ending with the last sequence starting on the D string 14 pull to 12, A string 14 pull to 12. Now we go to the low E we have to go back to 15 and then back, except now it’s going to be a hammer-on… so we’re gonna go 12 hammer to 15 and back to the A string 12 hammer to 14. I just ended it to kind of resolve the sequence to make it more like a lick; we’re ending on the 12th fret of the G string with some vibrato…
Conclusion
All right, so there you have it, three more pentatonic sequence slash licks, just ideas to get you to be able to make your own licks and make your improvisation more fun and interesting. 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.
