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Alejandro Pinero27th April 2008this solo is cool !!
Awesome!!
shellshock191126th April 2008Great lesson. These licks saved Kirk Hammett on Kill Em' All lol, since he had like 2 weeks to make up some decent solos.
caseywa7023rd April 2008such a great lesson. this one is keeping me up at night. thanks David.
Pablo Vazquez22nd April 2008Awesome lesson!!
Bogdan Radovic22nd April 2008Great stuff David!
Daniel Robinson22nd April 2008Excellent as always Dave, The pentatonic scales, i mean what can you say i doubt anyone will ever be able to exhast what can be done with them. There are still more ideas to be found. Thanks for a portion of that
Daniel
David Wallimann22nd April 2008david, what guitar is that?
i know kris has one.
but i dont know what it is :S
lesson rocked
cant do it now as i am tired after doing math for an exam
later :lol
It's a Parker guitar. A Parker Nitefly. Great guitars and very comfortable to play too. :-)
Nemanja Filipovic21st April 2008beautiful lesson man..
shideru_guitar21st April 2008david, what guitar is that?
i know kris has one.
but i dont know what it is :S
lesson rocked
cant do it now as i am tired after doing math for an exam
later :lol
Nick Kellie21st April 2008very nice
Sergio Dorado21st April 2008Useful lesson, and very important every ideas for pentatonics!
Muris Varajic21st April 2008Cool patters David,thanks!
Nick32521st April 2008nice david
Carlos Carrillo21st April 2008;)Awesome! Sweet lesson david!
Dejan Farkas21st April 2008Cool stuff David
Hisham Al-Sanea21st April 2008nice lesson David.
at lights end21st April 2008cool!
OrganisedConfusion21st April 2008All your lessons are great David as even if you don't learn the whole lesson each time, every video lesson I watch I pick up new ideas for licks. Your video quality is excellent and the sound is always spot on. Plus you use Parker guitars so you get a big thumbs up all round
- David Wallimann21st April 2008
Thanks everyone!
The new guitar will be featured shortly. :-)
I'm glad you all like the quality. :-) 
kaznie_NL21st April 2008woops...it's not the new one...sorry
- kaznie_NL21st April 2008
Nice new guitar!! Cool lesson
Jeff21st April 2008Great lesson David. The quality is excellent and I especially like the spoken video and explaination.
I need some help trying to break out of the Pentatonic minor because it seems to be all that I know how to play or at least I always fall back on it when trying to improvise and my playing gets stale rather quickly.
I think this will help using some of these sequences, perhaps leading into a different scale or pattern. Thanks!
Joe Kataldo21st April 2008Cool Lesson I'm working on something similar pentatonic sequences mixed with rhythmic displacement
zoom21st April 2008Another GrEat lesson Dave. I've been playing some of these runs out of some of the recent solo lessons and saying to myself I should practice these in different places. Really just what I need thanks!
Trond Vold21st April 2008You always deliver high quality on all aspects.
Video, text and sound is top notch
Juan M. Valero21st April 2008Excelent lesson mate and I agree with Marcus, the Quality is AWESOME !!!
Darfuria21st April 2008Just a warning - if you practice that first sequence a little too much, it becomes -very- difficult to get out of playing. I found that, at least.
Marcus Lavendell21st April 2008Great lesson Dave! Love the visual quality as well.
Ivan Milenkovic21st April 2008Useful pattern Walli!
Danilo Capezzuto21st April 2008Useful lesson David!
kyldeee21st April 2008Nice lesson David
Capt.Z21st April 2008Awesome! Sweet lesson david!
Paul Coutts21st April 2008nice, some really cool stuff in there
Kristofer Dahl21st April 2008Very useful David - some of these patterns are new to me, thanks!
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If the use of the minor pentatonic would be copyrighted, its owner would be the richest man on Earth... But that's not the case, so we can use it again in this lesson without any fear. :-)
First of all, let me remind you that a minor pentatonic scale is made of 5 notes:
Root
min 3rd
4th
5th
min 7th
In this lesson we will work on a few sequence ideas. It is important that you develop these ideas on all the 5 shapes of the scale. They will come in very handy while improvising as they should be automatically played without putting too much thought to it. They are great when you need to tie two musical ideas together.
Have fun!
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