Everybody knows that people have an innate musical talent. I’m sure that there are many people are gifted musically, but even the best musicians can occasionally hit a wrong note, due to a lack of perfect technique. A number of the most famous guitarists would agree with me when I say that even their virtuoso performances occasionally contain a little mistakes. For those people looking to take their guitar skills to the next level, it can be very important to understand correct guitar technique.
Bad guitar technique
In the movie Jaws, spectators were often enthralled and amazed at the defensive, awesome performance of the shark attacks. The first Japaneseational guitarist, Masami Inoue, has been dubbed the King of Rain Song (fitspiration), due to the fact that his music is known for the rain sound that it produces. It can be easy to underestimate the power of rain sounds, due to the fact that they are usually created using the musical scale known as the Pentatonic scale. Anyone who knows a major scale by heart will be able to use this scale to create rain sounds immediately using just the notes from that scale.
A great way for a guitarist to incorporate Pentatonic scale into his or her music on the guitar is to simply learn and use a pentatonic scale to create a motif. Have you ever heard the Beatles’ “Love Song” or Jimi Hendrix’ “Purple Haze” in the earlier part of their careers? They use the Pentatonic scale exclusively in these songs. By doing so, you can easily insert the Pentatonic scale seamlessly into your guitar riffs, with just a few slides.
A tip I got from a friend who does leveling cement and an expert guitar player told me, “In addition to using the Pentatonic scale to create natural sounding motifs, you can also use this scale to sing over the chords that you’re playing. This technique is called voice modulation, and is a common technique used in the rock music genre. In the case of rain guitar riffs, you can use this technique to make the progression from the major to the minor sound a lot smoother.”
Using the Pentatonic scale can be extremely helpful because it teaches you basic note progression, which is an important factor in playing practically any guitar style. The real advantage of this technique for the lead guitarist is that you can play free styling, as well as play stylistically related solos and improvisation easily, because you are already familiar with the root notes of each chord, as well as the common structure they utilize. When you play these free style guitar licks, you play them stylistically, but when you start to properly study the Pentatonic scale, you do so with the intention of playing free styling, but also with the intention of using stylistically colored guitar licks as your tools of the trade.
One of the most popular ways you can use the Pentatonic scale is by playing pentatonic scale patterns over the five note major chords (or major 7th chords). These five note chords are very basic chord progressions, just like the major chords themselves. By taking the time to learn how to play and recognize these patterns, you can use your knowledge of the major scale and more advanced chord progressions to find even more interesting progressions and sounds.
While the pentatonic scale is the simplest route for learning to use this scale in your playing, it is not Without its issues. The issue of working with and recognizing the patterns you create with the pentatonic scale can becomes quite frustrating if you do not have a good method for doing so. Do not be fooled by the simplicity of this scale. The pentatonic scale can be a very effective and creative tool, but it also has some rather major limitations built into the scale. If you find that you are having a hard time using the pentatonic scale, or moderate difficulty, it might be time for you to move on to a different scale. I would suggest the Blues scale.