In this video we're going to be taking a look at 10 different guitar licks that I created in major pentatonic scale position number one, let's get into it. All right for lick number one, and really all licks one through 10 I do them all out of the key of C. Right here in position number one, you can do these licks anywhere on the neck. So if this was a like, you could do it down here and a G. So they are movable so you can play them in any of the 12 major pentatonic position ones. I just chose to use C because I like where it is on the neck. And there's no sharps or flats so I think it's a little easier when looking at the music. Alright, so for the first Lake, it goes So what I'm doing here, I'll explain.

I'll go through it slowly here. I'm starting on the second note in the pentatonic, I'm going to three, going five, six. Now if you looked at my proper pentatonic fingering, it would look like this. Where I would use these two fingers. But for playing licks, I prefer to use these two fingers. The stronger the stronger fingers for me.

So I don't mind shifting up just a little bit. Yeah, that's completely normal. I would advise learning the correct fingering. And then when you go to play licks, you can choose what fingers you want to use. So one more time, starting here on two, I'm going to three. I'm going Five, six, and coming up here to one, coming back to six.

And I'm going over here to this D here, which is the second and I'm bending it up a whole step. So what I'm doing is I'm Taking this note here, and I'm pushing the string up, it's called a band. I'm pushing it up toward hip sounds like this. So I'm going to 35616 then taking this to bending it up to three. So that's how I play the lick number one. Alright, number two, I'm going to go first go through and explain exactly what notes I'm using and what I'm doing.

Alright, so first we start off with I'm playing. I'm going to start here with this, this note here is the fifth. I'm going to be playing the route at same time. And then I'm hammering down on the second string 10th fret, which is the the six. So I'm going if you're looking at the the guitar tablature, and you're wondering what is that little teeny note with the line through it, that's got a grace note. Basically, that's happening, that note is happening so fast that it's not worth notating exactly how long it is.

Because I'm basically coming in on beat number one with this going very fast hammer on. So I just put it as a grace note. So I'm going I'm hammering on and taking what this interval here is a fourth. And I'm hammering on the lower string all set higher. Jimi Hendrix made that sound very popular. So you'll see music all the time.

It's just a really cool sound. So that's why I included it. The link itself isn't all that interesting. But this concept here is a great sound that you want to be able to use for your major pentatonic. So I'm, I'm doing the the five and the root here, hammering on six. Coming back to five, playing it twice, then going up to the sixth note, then the route.

And then back to the six. When I say the six, I'm referring to this as the sixth note in the scale 123456. I know it's the 10th fret, but I'm referring, the numbers I'm using are the numbers of how it functions within the scale. So one more time to lick is and that was lick number two. So for lick number three, what I'm doing here is I'm playing triplets. I'm playing for triplets gone.

Triple it, triple it. And if we analyze exactly what I'm doing is I'm playing the fifth note here, this G, and I'm hammering on to a, which is the sixth note. And then underneath my first finger here, because I'm borrowing on the eighth fret here, both of these notes on strings one and two. So I'm hammering down from five to six. And then I'm picking up on C here, which is the root. So I'm picking down hammering, then picking up on the first string.

For that triplet, I only have to pick twice I'm just picking down and up, down. All right, and this is this is that is a hammer on. So it's a quick easy, simple lick. It sounds really good. And you can use that, that concept that that lick In other words, In different I can use down here in position number four. So you can use it all over the neck, not just position number one.

So I thought that was a really cool lick, basically to add to your mental lick library, and that was lick number three. Select number four, I'm going it's kind of like it's very similar to lift number three, but I thought it would be interesting to use a pull off. So what I'm doing here, I'll talk technically, what I'm doing here is I'm taking the second note in the scale and I'm pulling off to the route going from D to C, or two to one. And then I'm doing that pull off. And then I'm picking this G here, which is the fifth so I'm going to 15215 They are triplets again. So I'm going triple, triple, triple.

And that is how to play lick number four. So in LIC, number five, what we're doing here is kind of a cool simple concept. We're just taking two notes in the pentatonic scale, these two notes are available. And these two notes are available also. So if you hold both of them down, you can just slide up to the next available. And technically what we're doing is we're taking the fifth and the route, or G and C, we're sliding up to A and D, which is which a is the sixth and d is the second.

So on my lick I use the eighth notes and a dotted half note, just to keep it simple going on and 234 I just put a little vibrato on there with my whammy bar. This lick is pretty common. You can hear that this lick at the beginning of Jason Mraz, I'm yours. That lick is also used in the beginning guitar solo to use down here in the key of G for Pink Floyd's wish you're here. So one more time is just like this. That was lit number five.

In lick number six, we're taking this same concept and sliding up to the available pentatonic notes in position one, and we're gonna move on to strings two and three. And what we're using here is we're starting on the string Second, we have the second and the fifth note in the pentatonic scale. And we're sliding up a whole step to the third note, and the sixth note, so it looks like so that lick it sounds like and that was lick number six. For lack number seven, what we're doing here It sounds like what I'm doing is the first thing I'm doing is you'll see this little seven grace note at the beginning. So what I'm doing is I'm doing a really quick hammer on to come in on one Like going like four and Dawn. So that Grayson is very quick.

So it doesn't get notated in terms of the length of time. So what I'm doing here is I'm taking the second note in the scale, and the fifth note in the scale. And I'm hammering down on the third string here, on this E here, which is the third. So I'm coming, I'm doing that right on beat number one, I'm going one, and then I'm playing, going back to the two and five here for the end of one, two, going one. And then two, what I'm doing here, I'm just kind of slapping the strings to get kind of a muted sound going, one and two. And then on the end of two, I'm playing those two notes again, the two and the five.

And I'm just putting some vibrato on for a second half of the measure. Rado is when you just kind of what you're doing, just kind of wiggling the strings back and forth. basically doing little mini bends to get some notes. For Bravo to number seven, for LIC, number eight. What I'm doing here is I'm sliding from two up to three. Slide that's what you see, you see a seven, you see a line kind of going up to nine.

That is a slide going on and on See here, which is the the root, so I'm going to use the same finger that I used for the slide. He's the same finger to go from the third note to the fourth note, which I know is in the pentatonic, but I think the licks really cool. So going three, four, then I'm going up here to the second note, which is this D on the 10th fret. So it sounds like that was that was kind of playing it cleanly. What I like to do is I like to lead I like to I like to play those two notes. I like to let this one keep bringing this one here is the why play this one so you can hear both the notes at the same time.

And then when you slide up I like to play both of those at the same time. So it sounds like but if you don't want to do that, then you would not do that you would go your finger slide up. Then this is the fat finger. That is how you play lick number eight For lesson number 10, what I'm doing is I'm playing some 16th notes with go one E and two E and three and four. So that's how you count it. And what we're doing here is we're basically doing a three node pattern that we're working our way back, we're going and we're going to analyze that it goes to one, six, then we're going to go 165.

Then we're going to go 653, then five and then end on the route, which is one. Once again that was lick number nine. Select number 10, what I'm doing is taking four pentatonic notes, just playing them over and over in a group of four using 16th notes on one and two, and three, and four. And I have to be picking them down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. That would be called alternate picking. You could pick them all down if you wanted, but that will get very tiring.

It's much more efficient if you use alternate picking, which is basically you're changing the direction every time you pick the next note. All right, this is a really common pattern and you can do it anywhere on the neck or in any position like this would be position. One down here to position five. I can do it in basically any form sets, any grouping of four pentatonic notes this position one can go up here. So I just thought that was a real common thing to do with the pentatonic. So I thought that would be a fitting lift number 10 I hope you've enjoyed these 10 different guitar licks for pentatonic position number one