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 I demonstrate how to use

pentatonic lead patterns for playing major scales and modes.

I also discuss how the pentatonic scale relates to the major scale.

This lesson is based on my book fret Theory, volume 2, chapter 7. You're going to. Hi, this is Desi Cerna, author of Freboard theory and fretboard theory volume two.

In this free guitar lesson, I'm going to talk about using major scales and modes within

pentatonic patterns. This includes taking a look at how penitonic patterns

change when you add in major scale notes to create the different modes. In a

previous lesson I talked about how sometimes it's a good idea to narrow your focus

to some key positions and patterns within the pentatonic scale. So rather than trying to cover the whole fretboard. and

in patterns within the pentatonic scale. So rather than trying to cover the whole fret board and touch on every pattern in every position,

you just want to work in some familiar box shapes that you can get good at playing in.

Well, here in this lesson, I'm going to talk about how you can work with those patterns that I called

lead patterns in my previous podcast and I also call

them that in the book. I'm going to show you how you can stick within these familiar

lead pattern boxes and you can just add a few more notes to complete either the major

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