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LICKS & TIPS


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PENTATONICS TIPS PART 2:


Get those fretting fingers warmed up! Hayden Hewitt offers some useful ways to spice up your licks using unusual intervals…and some tasteful right-hand tapping.


In last month’s column we looked at extending the bog standard pentatonic scale in order to add a more interesting flavour to our pentatonic runs. This month we’re going to build on that by playing a cool wide stretch tapping lick, plus we’ll look at new ways to create new lead patterns that aren’t tried to traditional scale shapes.


Look at the chart outlining all the notes of the E minor pentatonic scale covering the entire neck of the guitar. Ex1: This tapping lick is based on a twelve note pattern using the B and top E strings. This lick takes our standard pentatonic scale pattern and adds two notes from below that pattern: D on the 10th fret of the high E string and A on the B string. Ex 2: Once you have that down it’s time to start tapping! Seeing as this lick uses two strings this is the perfect occasion to utilise more than one finger for the actual tapping (if you want to, of course). We’re going to tap the notes from above our standard pentatonic box. The A note on the high E string and the E note on the B. I tap the A with my ring finger and the E with my second finger. This may well feel a little odd at first but before you know it you won’t want to do it any other way as it gives you far more in the way of economy of motion and that leads to more smoothness and, of course, more speed!


Ex 3: Finally for this month I thought it would be cool to take a quick look at constructing long runs using the idea of extended pentatonic groups rather than a familiar scale pattern. As you can see in the tab (and video) I take the initial left hand lick and simply move it down an octave for each group of two strings. Played correctly I think it really lends an interesting spice to a run blending in repetition and fluidity to create something just that little bit different. Be careful with the stretch on the low strings though, it can be a killer!


Next month we’ll give our hands just a little bit of a rest and take our last – for now – look at what else we can do simply playing around a pentatonic box, only we’ll start introducing other scales in there. Have fun! PM


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