Chords for Minor Pentatonic Scale Root on "E" String PART 1 - Lead Guitar Practice Routine

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Hey, what's [F] up you guys Marty Schwartz here of Marty music
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anyway in this video this is a four-part series, and this is part one of
Very valuable things to practice to get better at lead guitar and when I say practice
I mean things that you can run
When you're not even you know you're watching TV or paying attention to something else
you can put this in your practice routine do this for like five minutes ten minutes and
When it is time to work on some fundamentals learn a lick learn a famous solo
This practice time and this thing is gonna help you so much
And it's just my own opinion from personal experience
But this first [G] part is gonna be just running the straight-up minor
Pentatonic up and down all four of these videos are gonna be in the key of a so you can put them all together
And I think it will really help you so we'll zoom in and we'll break it down also real quick at the end of this
Video you're gonna see a link for the next thing to practice after this so like I said
These are just little things that you can put in a little practice schedule even if you got 20 minutes
I promise it'll make you better at lead guitar, so let's zoom in and break it down here.
We go alright
So this first thing is just the straight-up minor pentatonic scale
We're doing it in the key of a so all these videos in this four-part series is all the same key
So you can practice it over a jam track in the key of a or like blues and a would be a great thing to
You know practice this over so anyway.
We're finding the root, so it's the a minor pentatonic scale
We're finding the root on the E string so the a note is right here on the fifth fret of the E string and then we go five eight
five seven five
Seven five [F] seven five
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eight five [C] eight
_ And then back down is the opposite eight five eight five seven five seven five seven five eight five
And that's you know the building blocks for lots of solos.
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[Am] _ [N] It's that you know it's everything so what I recommend and even if it's for five minutes
_ _ Practice going up and down without a beginning or an end one note each like this
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[G] And if you time yourself for five minutes [C] doing this it's gonna feel like a long time
And you will really get a lot of improvement out of it, so here we go again
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Even if [D] you're not plugged in or you're having a conversation, and you're just going up and [A] down
[N] Okay, the next you can start with all down picks
If that's if you're a beginner as you progress you want to alternate your picking down up down up down up
And that's just a technical thing that's gonna get you better and better at guitar in general
Become a better musician so alternating your picking start with a down pick then an up [A] pick
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[Em] No beginning [D] or end as you [G] practice
even [Am] for three minutes
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_ [N] Okay, and then another thing as you get better
You can practice it as well in triplets
Which is a rhythmic term which means three notes per count over four counts so one two three one two three one two three one
Two three instead of one and two and three and four and which would be called eighth notes
So triplets sound like this one two three four
triple triple triple triple
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_ Triple triple triple
_ Triple triple triple _ _ _ _ [Em] no beginning or [C] end
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[Am] Just remember what feels like home base
Which is that root right there you can go up and down up and down up and down okay five minutes are up
Let me just you know just make sure I know what sounds like home
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_ _ [A] _ And there are [Eb] other a's or roots in this position.
It would also be
Right there seventh of the D, and then [Am] fifth of the high e
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After you're getting smoother with the ups and downs
Repeat little parts of it and now it actually starts to become musical even though right now this little series is not about
Necessarily creating great music right we're doing more of like when an athlete
Does a day of conditioning and they do a day of fundamentals, and they go a day through you know
another skill blah blah blah blah blah this is kind of more of a of a
Little bit of conditioning with fundamentals muscle memory programming so repeating little ideas.
You could just you know
Go up and down and just repeat an idea like this _ _
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And you'll find if you have to repeat like a group of three or an odd [N] number
You'll find your finger starting to have to roll over on the same fret it'll force
Techniques to be practiced so that's just you know as you get better at running the scale up and down
You're good another thing though is just learning licks and the licks will actually
Come from the scale so as you learn licks if you spend time practicing the scale
The lick will feel more natural when it's time to learn it therefore you'll learn it faster
Play it more efficiently and become more musical become more musical
Faster, and that's you know the goal of things to practice so once again the just straight minor pentatonic
up and down with no ending for five minutes and
You will feel a vast improvement especially if you are the type of person which I'm not
But people ask me for practice routines if you did this five minutes a day along with the other three things
It will be amazing.
I promise I know it.
I know it as a guitar teacher, so anyway.
That's the first thing and
Get to it alright there was you know it's so valuable.
I'm telling you
the minor pentatonic scale
It's kind of the structure for a lot of lead guitar that we all love from rock and blues
So I think it'll really help you even if it's just five minutes at a time so real quick it did right after I'm doing
My spiel here.
You're gonna see a video square.
You can click on to to the next thing to practice in this series
And I think it'll be very valuable, so thanks again for supporting Marty [A] music.
I really appreciate it and
We'll see you in the next video _ _
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