Chowy's Hot Licks: Pentatonic Fusion

Hello GMC'ers! Sometimes we use the pentatonic in a quite bluesy way till we get to the point of wondering what else we can do with it. In this example, I'm trying to do exactly that--thinking and creating pentatonic melodies and passages for you to train your imagination using different techniques. I like using hybrid picking, especially in the fast scale-run of this lesson. It's a pretty interesting way of exploring, since it gives the phrasing a more rhythmic feeling, and more freedom to skip strings.

From the B minor pentatonic, we switch to D Lydian. That is when melody section of the exercise occurs, which lets the song "breathe", after everything we played previously. In the end, we change (modulation) to Bb maj7 and play a little lick with tapping in the Bb Lydian scale, including a chromaticism with transition notes belonging to that scale.

Tuning:
* D - G - C - F - A - D
(From thick to thin string)
* One Whole Step Down

Key:
B minor

Chords:
B minor 7 - D 5 - E/Ab - E 5 - Bb maj7

Techniques:
* Pentatonic licks
* Creation Of Melodies
* Hybrid picking
* Tapping
* Legato
* String Skipping
* Bends
* Vibrato

Scales:
* B Minor Pentatonic
* D Lydian Scale
* B Minor Apreggio
* Bb Lydian Scale

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ROCK & ROLL!/ Chowy

B Minor Pentatonic

D Lydian Scale

B Minor Apreggio

Bb Lydian Scale

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