In this week’s Audio Premium content, Toby Pitman continues his series of premium guitar tuts, showing you how to incorporate every CAGED position of the Minor Pentatonic scale into your playing. Tabs and notation, a huge range of audio examples, and a loop to play along with are included.

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The Minor Pentatonic scale is probably the first thing a guitarist learns. It is without doubt (along with its Major counterpart) the most useful and versatile scale you’ll ever learn. It’s the basis for virtually every minor Blues, Rock, Metal, Country, Pop, Soul, and Jazz lick you’ve ever heard played on a guitar. If you could only play one scale for the rest of your life this would be it! And you’d never run out of ideas!!

The problem is most guitar players find it hard to get past the first position of the scale, commonly referred to as the ‘Blues Box’. This position or ‘shape’ (and it’s very important to understand the difference between a scale and a shape) is only one fifth of the story when it comes to the fretboard.

In this tutorial I’ll explain how you can fully understand this simple scale over the whole neck and release it’s full potential. From lead lines to chord fills you’ll see just how powerful this little scale really is!

Here’s the kind of music you’ll be able to create once you harness the knowledge inside:

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Table of Contents

• It’s What You Don’t Play!
• Using With Minor Chords
• The Five Positions
• Position 1 – E Minor Shape
• Position 2 – D Minor Shape
• Position 3 – C Minor Shape
• Position 4 – A Minor Shape
• Position 5 – G Minor Shape
• The Big Picture
• Conclusion

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