The Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory

and 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. Today's podcast episode is based on the newly updated chapter 2 of my fretboard theory video series and deals with playing pentatonic scale patterns.

This chapter update is also sold separately as a standalone

course called Pentatonic scale patterns, how to easily master the patterns used to

play music's most iconic guitar riffs and solos.

The audio you hear in today's podcast is a collection of excerpts pulled directly from the video.

If you would like to view the actual video lesson along with its added resources including

pentatonic song lists backing tracks and tabs go to guitar music theory

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Welcome to Front Board Theory Chapter 2,

Pentatonic scale patterns.

The Pentatonic scale is one of the most widely used scales for playing

melodies, riffs, solos, and bass lines. You hear the Penitonic scale used in all

styles of popular guitar music. You're going to You work with a pentatonic scale in many of the fret word theory chapters, including

chapters in volume one and volume two. In this chapter, you focus on how you should initially learn and practice the patterns

in order to prepare yourself to play songs

and to use the scale throughout the rest of the fretboard theory program.

As you learn how to cover the whole fretboard with pentatonic scale patterns,

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