Blues Slide Guitar: Pentatonic Scale

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Brian Billhymer and on behalf of Expert Village today, I'm going to show you how to play blues slide guitar. So now I'd like to talk to you about the blues scale or pentatonic minor scale. This is a five note scale. This diagram might look a little confusing but it's really not that difficult. This thing represents the neck of your guitar. This is the low E string. Your A string, D string, G string, B string and your high E string. So these six lines represent your strings. The blue lines on the note book paper represent your frets. Now I just to save space, I going to draw this assuming that this blue line here is the twelfth fret. I've marked that twelfth fret. So this is your twelfth fret. This five note scale I have it actually drawn out here in three different position. The first position is going to be right here. Okay? And I've done that in black and then I've circled in blue or red those notes of this first position that are shared by this second position and this third position. So first position basically starts on the twelfth fret and goes here. Just like this; in this order. You would play it, without a slide, you would play it (strumming). Just like that. (more strumming)"