| “Bluegrass Pentatonic” Licks, Part 1 |
“Bluegrass Pentatonic” Licks, Part 1
While the pentatonic scale, in both its major and minor configurations, can be used for playing certain kinds of bluegrass melodies and solos, a version of the scale with a flatted third substituted for the second in a major pentatonic scale creates a more common “bluegrass” tonality. The “Lester Flatt G-run” is a perfect demonstration of this. In this lesson, Scott takes three standard bluegrass licks that use this tonality, including the G run, and shows you how, by learning to play them over different chords, you can create long lines and variations that will give your soloing and improvising a truer “bluegrass” sound than the pentatonic scale. Scott takes you through the licks for G, C, and D chords in this video.
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