Desi Serna - Getting Started with the Pentatonic Scale

English | MP4 | Video: 648 x 430 | 29 fps | Audio: 131 Kbps; 48 kHz; 2 Channels | Run Time 119 minutes | 1 GB
The pentatonic scale is one of the most common scales in all of popular music. It’s used to play melodies, riffs, lead guitar solos and bass lines. In the full two-hour Getting Started with the Pentatonic Scale DVD video program you learn the five pentatonic patterns and how to use them, plus scale application, improvisation and technique.

Topics covered include, connecting the patterns and covering the whole fretboard, transposing to different keys, major and minor tonalities, the blues scale, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and alternate picking, guitar theory and how to know what scale to play over chords, and what popular pentatonic songs you should look up and learn.

In this video, Serna presents the five pentatonic patterns and shows how they connect on the guitar neck. There are exercises to develop muscle memory and a list of songs, in which pentatonic scales are used. Serna also shows how to apply pentatonic scales to chord progressions and songs, opening doors to improvisation and composing.