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Country guitar - "I want to play a riff!"
We're not going to be covering fast metal guitar solos here. However, we're going to be learning the same technique as what they (the metal guitarists) do. Welcome to the Pentatonic scale! A pentatonic scale? What's that?E-----------------------5-8-5------------------------------ Just play that scale. Did you notice something different? (The scale is in A) How did the scale sound? Was it hard? If you had noticed, when you play each string, you started with the 5th fret. This is because you started out with the 5th fret on the 6th string. You can start out at any fret on the 6th string, and play with the same "scale shape". Let's say now we play in the key of B (the 7th fret), it would be like this: e-----------------------7-10-7----------------------------- Simple huh? Keep playing this until you memorize the "scale shape". If you have any questions, you can Contact me. Ok, but how does this help in country guitar?This scale is how many (most?) riffs, solos, and licks are made from. Play around with the scale, play some strings, skip others, and you can easily make up your own country guitar riffs! If you feel this is not enough, and want to add a "bluesy" feel to the scale, you can just add one fret after the original scale like this: E-----------------------5-8-5--------------------- It may look complicated, but it isn't! You can skip some "blue notes" on some string. The sky's the limit!
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