You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

improvisation, and more.

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up.

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which you learn about pentatonic scale patterns

and how they're used to play guitar riffs, solos, and baselines.

This lesson is based on my book, Frontboard Theory Chapter 2. You're going to do. Hi, I'm Desi Cerna. Welcome to my podcast on the

Pened. Hi, I'm Desi Cerna. Welcome to my podcast on the Penitonic scale.

In this free guitar lesson, you'll learn what the Penitonic scale is and what it does. You'll learn why guitar players need to learn this scale, how

guitar players should learn this scale, and how to apply the scale to songs and

the guitar fretboard.

A scale is a series of notes played in order by pitch, ascending or descending. Scales are used to play melodies, riffs, lead guitar solos, and bass lines. baselines. There are. There are many different types of scales that musicians can learn, but most of popular music is actually based on just two, the major scale and the pentatonic scale.

Of these two scales, the pentatonic is the easiest to learn and apply.

I recommend that guitar players first focus on mastering the penitonic scale.

Let me give you some examples of what the penitonic scale sounds like.

Here's an example of how a folk acoustic player might use the scale to add melody to some common

chords. You're going to be. Here's how a blues player might use the pentatonic scale.

Here's how a jazz player might use the

here's how a jazz player might use the pentatonic scale. Here's an example that's a little bit country.

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