Blues Guitar With the E Minor Pentatonic Scale

Video Transcript

"Hi, in this lesson we'll learn a really cool, kind of tricky lick in the key of E minor. It's in the twelfth position using the E minor pentatonic scale. Notice how I use my first and third fingers to bar two strings at one time. I'll play the lick two times for you. Listen up, full tempo, three, four. All right, let's break this one down. This lick uses the E minor pentatonic scale, up here in the twelfth position. It's a four note ascending pattern, which always begins with the second note previously played. Let me show you what I mean. First four notes of the E minor pentatonic scale, ascending, are as follows. And you're going to repeat that pattern starting on the second note you previously played, which was here. Follow that pattern again, second note you previously played. Just keep going up the scale. And then you're going to end it with your third finger and two fingers behind it for support on the fifteenth fret, on the second string, bending up one whole step. Let me do the whole thing for you this time at a slower tempo. Two, three, four."