Learning Pentatonic: Major

If you are done with the Pentatonic Minor Scales, then lets go for the Pentatonic Major! If you haven't studied the pentatonic minor, then its better to go through it before learning Pentatonic Major. Take a look at the lesson Learning Pentatonic: Minor and then come back to this lesson if you haven't already done that. Okay, I presume you know the Minor Scales now? Basically the pentatonic major and pentatonic minor are the same scale depending on which note you consider to be the tonic. Check the diagram below, the blue dots are the minor tonics and the red dots are the major tonic. For example if we play the first shape in the diagram from...

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Learning Pentatonic: Minor

As the guitarist dive into a melodius solo in a song, have you wondered how they do it? Well, its the game of scales and basically the pentatonic scale is used by most rock guitarist! So, today I will be talking about the Pentatonic Minor Scale, will talk about the major in the later lesson. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes ('Penta' means 5, 'tonic' means tones) per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale. The advantage of this scale is that it has small number of notes and thus has a small margin for error when you are playing over a chord progression of the chords that...

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Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner for Perfect Tunings!

The Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner or AP Guitar Tuner is a simple guitar tuner that runs in Windows 95/98/NT/2000. It works by tracing the sound waves that is created when you play a string and displaying the corresponding note on the screen of your laptop or PC. Using proprietary pitch recognition technology, the program can find exact notes in less than 50ms latency. The recognition technology also adapts to the speed of the processor for smooth tracking. The program is easy to use, good looking and best of all it's FREE!!! The requirements for the software are very basic. Minimum Requirements are: Pentium compatible CPU, 200 MHz or greater Windows...

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GUITAR SOFTWARES

A list of Softwares for guitar that are available online: AUDIO PHONICS GUITAR TUNER The Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner or AP Guitar Tuner is a simple guitar tuner that runs in Windows 95/98/NT/2000. A small software for perfect tuni...

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Hi, fellow musicians, my name is... oh wait! For the time being know me as STRINGHEAD! And I am the admin of the blog! Like you, I too love music and I too play the guitar. Let, me tell you something I am not a guitar teacher and neither I have learnt guitar from any teacher, well its books and friends from whom I have learnt. Although I tried my best to explain the stuff from easy to hard, beginners might get some problems in understanding, and sorry I can't help that, you have to find your own way! In short "GUITARESOURCES" (Guitar Resources), is a project which is good for intermediates and above, obviously there are more stuff for beginners but they must first know what they want to learn and search the blog accordingly because most articles here starts with the basic things! Another point...

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