Connecting Pentatonic Patterns: The Essential Guide For All Guitarists

Absolutely fantastic book with audio all tabbed love it for all levels not beginners for the solos . Great to learn the fretboard of all pentatonics

I still say I am someone who plays around with a guitar, as I am self taught. The blues scale is a must and worth the time input to be able to play it in five different places on the neck. Stick with it, this book is great in order to get where you want to get. Lots of licks from the scale.

Excellent, though perhaps not for absolute beginners.

Great book, thick and filled to the brim full of good sounding riffs to practice techniques and to string Pentatonic patterns together. Text and diagrams are moderately spaced offering good readability without trying to pad it out. The audio downloads are effective, easily downloaded. I transferred mine to ipad after downloading on my iMac by dragging and dropping into iCloud. I won't be buying another book for months. This is jam packed. Recommended!

Excellent book, only on chapter 2 so far. The solos are very enjoyable. I thought they were slow and basic at first but they are very well constructed. Making me rethink how I improvise and to slow my playing down so its more tuneful. Very thought provoking stuff.

This book is a must for any guitar player, it will get you past any sticking points/stagnant episode and advance you to the next level/levels. Read and follow the instructions and download the free audio (you must download this) and you will progress definitely.

just came today so to soon to say ,but looks promising

This is a very good book full of interesting ideas and licks in all the pentatonic positions. I have been playing for 40 years and have owned literally over a hundred books on guitar playing. This book would be in the top 5 and I would recommend it to anyone who has a basic grasp of the minor pentatonic scale and is either stuck in a rut and is in need of new ideas, or to a beginner to learn some great patterns and licks right from the off.

Cumple a la perfeccion el estudio de las pentatonicas. Con algunos solos para aprender a usarlas. Lo dicho, buen libro.

Tiene un gran número de ejercicios y se puede acceder al audio mediante la plataforma de Hal-Leonard así como descargar los tracks. Me gustó.

Ein kleine Story zu meiner Vorgeschichte - vielleicht findet sich jemand wieder. Ich spiele seit über 10 Jahren Gitarre bzw. habe gespielt, mit längeren Abständen. Leider aber immer nur nach Gehör und wirklich nur das allernötigste an Theorie, das man dafür benötigte. Nicht weil ich zu faul bin, sondern weil ich als Autodidakt nie den richtigen Einstieg gefunden habe. Entweder zu weit fortgeschritten oder zu Basic. Letztes Jahr habe ich nun wieder begonnen zu spielen und dachte mir "ganz oder gar nicht" und habe mich nach Büchern umgesehen. Der Markt ist gewachsen und mittlerweile gibt es richtig gute Bücher, meistens auch von Autodidakt spielenden Gitarristen, die es verstanden haben, Lernende da abzuholen, wo es wirklich schwer verständlich wird. Dieses Buch ist eines davon. Man bekommt ein Buch mit einem Konzept. Für Beginnende ideal, aber nicht leicht und vor allem nicht langweilig, sondern klassisch bluesig / rockig. Etwas, das eigentlich jeder Gitarrist mal gelernt haben sollte, um mitreden zu können. Außerdem macht es Spaß zu spielen. Dazu gibt es aufgenommenes Material für jedes Lick und jedes Solo, damit man sich auch anhören kann, wie etwas klingen sollte. Dieses Konzept hat zum ersten mal nach über 10 Jahren richtig eingeschlagen. Ich bin dabei geblieben und hatte von Anfang an Spaß - das allererste Mal! Das Material reicht für sicher locker ein Jahr oder auch länger, wenn man beherrschen will, was einem im Buch gezeigt wird. Ich habe Chapter 1 fertig, habe fast täglich gespielt und das hat gut 3 Monate gedauert. Das kann man auch schneller machen, wird aber dann nicht wirklich gut klingen. Gut Ding braucht eben Weile! Ganz großes Lob an den Autor, der es damit geschafft hat, schwierige Inhalte in die Praxis zu übertragen und damit auch sinnvoll und unterhaltsam zu lernen. Das Ding ersetzt im Prinzip die Musikschule, wenn man dem Konzept folgt. Zumindest locker das erste Jahr! Uneingeschränkte Kaufempfehlung für wirklich sinnvolle Lektüre.

This book provides a logical approach to expanding the basic minor pentatonic scale. You will learn the five shapes of the minor pentatonic and how to connect them in digestible steps, greatly increasing your fret board knowledge in the process. Each chapter explains a pattern and how it is connected to the previously learned patterns. Then provides numerous licks to help you understand how to incorporate it into your playing. The chapters end with 2 full solos, one for beginner/intermediate players and another for more advance players, to put the knowledge into a larger musical context. The solos also have measure by measure breakdowns explaining how the concepts are applied. Most of the examples are in a blues/rock vein but the material is very translatable to other styles. The patterns are tackled in the form of minor pentatonics but later chapters discuss major pentatonics and how the same patterns can be used in that context. The patterns and solos are presented in standard notation and tablature and are meticulously annotated with fingerings, pick direction, palm mutes etc. Very few guitar books are notated this well and NONE give you tips on how to reproduce the tone you are hearing in the examples. Each lick gives you a notation like (bridge humbucker; medium/light overdrive) and the full solos at the end of the chapter offer additional tone tips such as gain, EQ and effect settings.This is invaluable information for beginning/intermediate players who are struggling with how to reproduce the sound that they hear on other people recordings. This is a great resource to get you proficient at playing major and minor pentatonics. If you want to take it further I suggest Pentatonic Khancepts: Book & CD

I probably have bought 30 or 40 guitar instruction books over the years, and this is definitely one of the best! The licks build on each concept, are short and just fun to play with solid audio examples. I've only scratched the surface with this book and it's already helped solidify some concepts and given me more more tools to use in any key. Looking forward to digging into this one more!