Lateral Pentatonic Tapping

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Rock

Excerpt: Welcome to this tutorial on Lateral Pentatonic Tapping: Connecting The Boxes. These examples will help you to start thinking in several boxes at the same time when playing two-handed pentatonic stuff. And that does not only apply when playing boxes adjacent to each other, but also even more so when your hands are spread far apart, several boxes apart even. ...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Rock

Excerpt: In this part we will up the level a bit. Previously we were just doing a uniform descending pattern, which in itself is quite tricky. But now we will start to use a segment that is more broken up and does not follow the scale strictly up and down. For these examples I’ve chosen the Dm pentatonic scale instead. We begin with a tapping segment in the fo...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Rock

Excerpt: Finally, in part three, we go through the last remaining boxes on our left hand. Once you’ve have these down, then your real work begins. Now you need to try this in more keys, with different segments, and parts of the scale (or whole patterns as in part 1). Then, also try combining them with descending and ascending scale runs where your hands are cl...

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