In episode 70 of the guitar music theory podcast I am your host

Desi Cerna today I'm going to talk about how pentatonic scale patterns actually

get used in music and how this might change the way that you choose

to practice them. This lesson might be just what you need to hear right now or maybe

there's other things that you should be working on right now.

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podcast show notes. All right, we are ready to dive in. So here's the deal. You know that the

pentatonic scale patterns are one of the most widely used scales to play riffs and melodies and solos in popular music and I'm not

going to get into actually learning the pentatonic scale patterns I'm assuming

that you're already familiar with that.

But one of the things that I see students do a lot

is that they make it a daily practice

to go through all of the pentatonic patterns

in their entirety and they go position to position playing, you know, up and down.

I switch to a clean sound, up and down.

Each pattern, I'm an e minor.

I'm an e minor.

I shift up to the next position.

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