Hi, this is Chris from the guitar training camp. In this lesson we're going to be taking a look at a specific pentatonic lick and talk about ways that you can use that lick to freshen up your own pentatonic soloing. So for this minor pentatonic lick, what I decided to do was I was working with a student and we were talking about different ways that we can be creative with pentatonic so it doesn't sound like you're always playing everything in writing the row. And by No, this isn't in the pentatonic that your knife right there, but I put it in anyways. And so what I came up with just the idea of string skipping, that's not new. I didn't come up with it, but I'm like, what does it sound like if I go every other string?

Yeah, like here's D minor pentatonic. So I thought what does it sound like if I just go up to strings and backwards? Like, well, that's a pretty cool sound. Sounds to me if you're not used to doing a lot of string skipping To me, it sounded very fresh. So I decided to come up with a guitar lick that kind of, you know, uses that technique. And so let's take a look at it.

So here's that lick played slowly. You'll probably need the guitar tab down below to help you. So I'm doing hammering on the first string. I mean, not the first string but the fifth string and hammer. Oh, it's the first note of the scale. It's the root.

It's going one flat three. I'm doing that as a hammer on that I'm going to the third string And playing CD which is flat seven one, going my vein by then going back to the fourth string and hammering from five to seven, that's the fourth note fourth to the fifth of a D minor 1234. I'm going four, or five. Then on the second string I'm going, I probably should go. But I like the sound of this 90 or this two, because two flat Three, two, I just thought that sounded cooler than going from flat three to four. I just thought it sounded cooler.

And then we're going back to the third string to go from seven to five pull off. And then we're going to go to the fourth string, which is the fifth there that a then we're going to the third string fifth fret. To go back to the fourth string and do a pull off from seven to five, then end on this app here, which is flat three. So if I play it again, one more time. I do notice that if I go slower, I do pick it a little differently. When I'm doing it much faster, I'm doing almost the whole thing legato.

I'm hardly picking it all. But you can, you can do it however you like. I'm not going to dictate or tell you how you're supposed to pick it. But I would suggest doing the hammer ons and pull offs. So I'm going to go ahead and play this lick a couple times and you can play along with me. I'll do it nice and slow.

And then you of course can speed it up as fast as you like. There we go. 1234 I think the more legato you play it it just has a cool smooth sound. So you don't just have to use this I'm considered as D minor position for here this pentatonic. You know, you can take that concept of skipping the pentatonic, skipping strings and doing whatever you like. Like if I want to do a minor position one, I could do it down there.

It just kind of gets you out of the same. It's still the same box pattern, but it sounds different when you skip strings. And I think it's a really cool concept. I think it's a relatively easy way to make your pentatonic sound different if someone if I heard some doing it. Oh, that sounds really cool. What are they doing?

You know, lo and behold it just the same pentatonic box that everyone else uses. I think it's just a cool way to spice up your pentatonic playing. Thanks for taking the time to check out this pentatonic lick and soloing concept. If you liked this lesson and you'd like to see more, make sure you subscribe to our channel.