Lead Guitar Practice Summary #4 video (Part 1):
Lead Guitar Practice Summary #4 video (Part 2):
For this week’s lead guitar learning, I practiced minor pentatonic scales. Again, pentatonic scales are a very useful basis of notes to know for soloing (especially in rock music), so these minor scales could be handy for soloing in minor keys. I learned and memorized the minor pentatonic scales in the keys of: E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. To further practice pentatonic scales, I could play them in more octaves, as well as play them faster.
As well, I learned my first lead guitar part for a song: “Girls Like You” by Maroon 5. This guitar line incorporated up and down picking strategies. If a 4/4 bar is counted as 1e+a 2e+a 3e+a 4e+a, the numbers and + signs should be down strokes, and the e’s and a’s should be up strokes. So the rhythm and picking pattern proved to be a challenge. I could further practice this guitar line by speeding it up to the tempo of the actual song.
My resources this week included:
Jill Cooper (Teaching Education) 
Leave a comment