I have been playing rhythm guitar for a while but recently thought about trying lead.However,i have had conflicting information and become very confused so i have a number of questions so i am sorry if this post goes on.........Lets say if i were to use an A minor pentatonic scale on the 5 fret then move it up a step so its now at the 7 fret does it now become a B minor pentatonic and so on just using the same shape? Next question....if previous question is right and i was playing something in the key of A for examle,using the 1,4,5 routine the chords would be..... A,D,E so do i use a progression for lead as in i have to match the A section to an A chord and then the D saction to the D chord,E section to the E chord?.Next question....If i am playing something in A,knowing the other chords are D,E then can i just play lead using an A minor pentatonic scale starting at first position being 5 fret and then use all other positions for the A minor pentatonic allong the neck and just stay in the A minor pentatonic scale at other positions? in other words....Show me a technique to learn lead guitar please. Sorry if this is very confusing,thanks in advance. :D
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Lets say if i were to use an A minor pentatonic scale on the 5 fret then move it up a step so its now at the 7 fret does it now become a B minor pentatonic and so on just using the same shape?
Yes
Next question....if previous question is right and i was playing something in the key of A for examle,using the 1,4,5 routine the chords would be..... A,D,E so do i use a progression for lead as in i have to match the A section to an A chord and then the D saction to the D chord,E section to the E chord?
No - some work on phrasing is what you need. You do not need to change position to match the chords.
If i am playing something in A,knowing the other chords are D,E then can i just play lead using an A minor pentatonic scale starting at first position being 5 fret and then use all other positions for the A minor pentatonic allong the neck and just stay in the A minor pentatonic scale at other positions?
Yes, although most of us only use two or three of the five patterns.
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Alan Green........Thank you,sense at last!........any other comments from Alan and anyone else greatly appreciated.
Hi henry
Do you have the 5 patterns that Alan mentioned?
Hi Rocket Dog and thanks for replying.I do have the five positions mentioned but if you would like to post a copy then please feel free,i would greatly appreciate it.The reason why i ask you to do this is i am self taught and have used you tube etc for info but i am finding so many contradictions so there is no guarantee the info on the internet is correct so yours may be of help.
Henry, if you click on my web site link on the right and go to "free resources" you will find a pdf link that has the 5 patterns in Gm. You can download this for free. There is also a backing track there that is freely available. You can use that to practice the pentatonic scale in Gm.
Hope that helps.
