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Hello, Justin here.

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What we're gonna check out now is a couple of ways

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of using your minor pentatonic scale

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to give a little bit more variation.

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Now, with this sort of scales

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and melodic patterns and stuff

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you are what you eat.

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If you practice playing a scale

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just up and down all the time

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when it comes to improvise

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which is what we're gonna be checking out next,

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with the scale,

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you'll find that you tend to play the scale up and down

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and that's really, really boring.

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So, what I'm gonna try and show you

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is a few ways that you might like to try

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and vary the scale to make it

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a little bit more interesting.

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So, the first thing we're gonna do

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is called a 'melodic pattern'

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and that's if we number the scale

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from like the first note being 1,

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the second note being 2, the third note being 3,

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the fourth note being 4 etc.

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and then we create a little kind of

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a maths number sequence.

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So, the one that we're gonna start off with is

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1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, etc.

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Now, I'm gonna put that little pattern on the web site

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so you can see cause

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those little patterns are very obvious

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when you see them written down.

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So, what I want you to do is check that on the web site

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and then have a little look [br]and play along with this pattern.

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Now, it's kind of a triplet pattern.

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Now, we've talked about triplets before

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which is dividing a beat into three

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cause, you know, there's three numbers

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in a sequence, right?

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1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4

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We're not gonna try and play it with the rhythm like

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1, 2, 3 - 2, 3, 4.

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We want triplets. We want

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1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, 6.

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Each time progressing along

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and keeping the notes

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evenly placed between each other.

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So, let me play it for you through just once

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at a medium speed

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and then we will play through it [br]nice and slowly together.

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So, here we go, just nice and slowly,

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all the way up and all the way back.

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. . .

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If I break just a little bit of that

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you can hear it almost does sound like a lick

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like a little muscial phrase

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that you might use in a solo. If you went

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. . .

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...or something. You can hear it kinda makes it

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melodically a little more interesting.

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So, let's go it through and do that

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really, really nice and slow.

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The easiest way to do this stuff is to read along a tab

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which there is on the web site,

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so maybe you go and have a read at that

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and watch the video along with

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being able to watch that tab.

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So, here we go. Let's assume you can watch

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two things at the same time

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like, I don't know how you wanna do that

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but you can try.

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OK, here we go. Nice close-up with this one.

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So, we've got -

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I'm gonna call out here now the note numbers:

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1, 2, 3 - so we got up three.

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Now we go back one and up three again:

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1, 2, 3 - we go back one, and up three: 1, 2, 3.

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Get back to the last note we've played and up three:

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1, 2, 3. Back to the last note we played and up three.

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Back to the last note we played

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. . .

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Back one, up three.

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. . .

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Back one again, up three.

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. . .

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Back one, up three.

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. . .

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Now we got to the top.

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We're now going down three, up one.

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So down three.

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. . .

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Up one and down three.

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. . .

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Up one, down three.

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. . .

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Up one, down three.

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. . .

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Now, we did that one deliberately slowly

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with a little stop in between each of the groups

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so you could give you a bit of time

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to figure out where the numbers were.

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So, now let's just do it nice and slowly

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but without that little gap.

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So you're playing it as triplets now.

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Here we go: 3, 4-trip-let

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1-trip-let, 2-trip-let, 3-trip-let, 4-trip-let, 5-trip-let,

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6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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You get back: 1-trip-let, 2...

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. . .

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So, that's sequence '1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4'.

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Some people refer to it as the sequence called

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'three in a line'.

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Now, you can apply almost any number game

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that you like to this stuff.

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It's a really, really good way of exploring the scale

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and getting your fingers to do maybe the things

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that they might not naturally do.

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And one of these things is playing the notes that are

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in the same fret but on different strings.

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So, I'm just gonna show you one more cool little exercise.

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It kind of introduces a technique called 'rolling'

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which I'm not gonna go too much into in this lesson

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but there's some information on that

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in the technique area of my web site

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so you might wanna go and check that out as well.

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I'm just gonna really show you the basic movement

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of the pattern in the scale, not the technique.

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So, here we go. What we will do this time is

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we play the first note

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and then we miss one note and play the next one.

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then we go back to the note we missed,

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miss one play the next one,

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back to the note we missed,

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miss one, play the next one,

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back to the note we missed,

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miss one play the next one,

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back to the note we missed,

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play the next one, no, sorry : miss one, play the next one,

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back to the one we missed,

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miss one, play the next one

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. . .

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etc.

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. . .

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And then exactly the opposite down

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. . .

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This is a really, really cool little sequence,

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sometimes called 'playing in fourths'.

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Now, as soon as you start to speed it up a little bit

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. . .

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you can start to hear it sounds kinda hip.

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It doesn't sound -

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. . .

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it's not so 'scaley' any more.

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cause it's a little bit different.

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It's a way that your fingers might not normally move

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when practicing scales,

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so it's a really good way of kinda getting your hand

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to do those little weird things

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and it's a big help when you start

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trying to play some licks and you're improvising.

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So, improvising is where we're at now,

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so, let's have a bit of a look, see at that.