One of the things my brother and I talked about the other day was that one of the next things I ought to do with all of these scale patterns I've been working on of late is sit down with a famous solo that uses the pentatonic scale as its base, and see just how close it comes to sticking with the patterns. Now that I think of it, I might have mentioned this idea in Saturday night's post.
Anyway, one of the things I did tonight was to sit down with a print out of the solo for "Stairway," just to see how close it came. I even went so far as to find a tab of it where the solo is broken down into smaller chunks, just to make the examination process easier.
As I expected, there are a few spots where it branches off into the A natural minor scale, but for the most part, it sticks almost entirely to the patterns of A minor pentatonic.
Other stuff that got done tonight included the Guitar Aerobics lick of the day, and a little bit of just plain old playing on some Counting Crows tunes and some Jason Isbell stuff.
It was a good day that could've probably used a bit more study time, but I still feel good about my progress.
Anyway, one of the things I did tonight was to sit down with a print out of the solo for "Stairway," just to see how close it came. I even went so far as to find a tab of it where the solo is broken down into smaller chunks, just to make the examination process easier.
As I expected, there are a few spots where it branches off into the A natural minor scale, but for the most part, it sticks almost entirely to the patterns of A minor pentatonic.
Other stuff that got done tonight included the Guitar Aerobics lick of the day, and a little bit of just plain old playing on some Counting Crows tunes and some Jason Isbell stuff.
It was a good day that could've probably used a bit more study time, but I still feel good about my progress.
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