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A Minor Pentatonic: Triangle Pattern TAB LessonThis lessons goes with the video a minor pentatonic scale lesson elsewhere on this site. This fairly basic online guitar lessons for electric or acoustic guitar shows the "triangle pattern" in the 8th fret position. It also shows a blue-style lick that uses both position patterns and some bends to make it sound convincing. You'll find this pattern used in many, many classic rock and rock solos. Enjoy. Example 1 Here's the basic A minor pentatonic scale at the 5th fret position, from low A all the way up to the highest note in the pattern. In the video, I go all the way up to the top note and then back down the same way in one long line of notes. This is a good way to practice the notes and a really good warmup exercise at the same time.  Example 2 And here's that so called "triangle pattern" that I refer to. The notes of the pentatonic scale can be grouped into boxes, such as in Example 1, and in triangles or diamonds as in this example. Notice the shape the fingers make as they go through the beginning of this example. It goes from a diamond to a box pattern.  Example 3 Finally, here's a little Blues style lead guitar phrase that uses all the notes in the two examples above. I've thrown in some bends and slides just to make things more interesting. The video shows a number of other patterns that can be used to make some quick lead guitar runs in either blues, rock, rockabilly, country or jazz. A very versatile scale to say the least.  |
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