Practicing the Guitar - What’s the Best Way?

This question arises (or should arise) for every guitar student. Here’s a few pointers that will help with this basic but fundamental guitar building block

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Here’s the D Relative Minor scale you can use over the backing track.

The chords in the progression are D Minor 7, A Minor 7, and G Minor 7. You can also use the simpler but more ‘Bluesy’ Minor Pentatonic scale.

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Here’s a take I recorded over the C Major Pentatonic Backing Track.

C Major Pentatonic Solo.mp3

It was recorded with a Strat going thru the dirty channel of a Peavey Classic 50w Tube/Valve amp.

Effects-wise a Boss DS1 Distortion set to a medium Dist, and a Boss DD3 Delay was used.

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Guitar Lesson Video - Major Pentatonic Scale

A quick lesson for beginners on major pentatonic scales which teaches about keys and how they work.

It then gives you a jam track to play with in the key of D major.

Major Pentatonic Scale

This scale can lend a nice Country flavor to a track. It’s also rocked up a bit and used by Noel Gallagher from Oasis A LOT! So it can stretch between these two music genres quite easily.

It can be heard quite often in Eric Johnson stuff played in very rapid fashion - Johnson [...]