A lot of guitarists complain that their solos are "too scalic".

This means that you are playing the scale up and down over, for example a blues progression.

I usually say: play vocal melodies, look for how the pentatonic scales follow each chord, apply this concept to soloing. If you use the DIY TAB and write all this down you will start to see how phrasing works.

However, in an electric guitar solo we get a lot of little tricks that sound great and are not found in vocal melodies.

These tricks are what The Blues Legacy deal with, and in this video series Sandy takes this discussion even further, enjoy!

-Guru

In this second video in the series we shall see how to actually apply this.
The tune Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix use the chord progression:
Em – G – Am – Em – Bm – Am – C – G – F – C – D.

By applying a pentatonic scale to each of these chords you will sound much better than if you just play Em pentatonic over the entire progression.

Guru also talks about extra notes you can ad, such as b5 for the minor pentatonic, this would create the Blues Scale. And also, the maj7th which combined with the b5 gives you the Conspirian scale.

For a full explanation of this concept you need to read the guitar conspiracy, to learn how to do this yourself you need to practice all the scales.
Spytunes have taken care of this for you as well by structuring a complete practice routine with all exercises available as video demonstrations and as TAB notation.

The next part of this series will explain how you can by taking this concept ones step further, build all the modes on the guitar.

-Guru

This first video in a series of 4 explain how all open position chords: the E, A, D, G and C can be turned into barred chords. Now referring to them as shapes; E shape, A shape, D shape etc. Similar phenomenon happens in minor; Em – Em shape, Am – Am shape.

Some of you may say; this is the CAGED system, and yes, to an extent it is.
The CAGED system says: you can build your barred chords and scales from the open position chords, but it doesn’t go very in depth of how you actually do it. SpyTunes takes it all the way, so read on!

Turn the chords into pentatonic scales

Once you can play your open position chords (minor and major) as barred chords, the next step is to make them pentatonic scales.

All major barred chords can be turned into major pentatonic scale shapes.
All minor barred chords can be turned into minor pentatonic scale shapes.

You still refer to these scales as shapes, examples would be: Am pentatonic, Em shape, or G pentatonic, D shape.

For the next step in this video series we shall see how you can actually use this system by thinking chord shapes, and then applying each pentatonic scale over each chord.

The song used in part 2 in this how to play guitar series is 'Little Wing', by Jimi Hendrix.

-Guru

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