Firstly, if you’re reading this I’d like to say a huge thank you for downloading this lesson. It means a lot to me that you have shown your support by purchasing the lesson as it allows me to spend more of my time producing more guitar instruction material, which is something that I am extremely passionate about. Secondly, I’d like to say a huge thank you to my fans on my facebook fan page, who have given me their valuable feedback on this lesson, which, as a consequence, has helped make the content that I work on even better. I personally very much enjoy interacting with my fans from all over the world and the fact that they can get involved in the material that I put out there is just so cool! Thanks to everyone for your help, it’s very much appreciated!
This lesson is the first in a brand new series of lessons that I am working on called ‘Rick’s Quick but Slick Lick Series’. If you follow me on Youtube, you will no doubt already know about this ongoing series, which so far has been extremely successful. I’m continuing my work with this in the form of this new series of lessons which will feature Licks, Patterns, lines and Sequences that have formed an integral part of my practice routine over the years. I’m very excited to be sharing them with you and hope that they begin to form an integral part of your practice routine and, eventually, playing.
In this lesson I have prepared 50 essential pentatonic Sequences that formed a hugely important part of my development on the guitar. What I have chosen to do, however, is to split this lesson into 2 parts that will consist of 25 sequences in each lesson. Thanks again to my Facebook fans for suggesting this idea, you know who you are!
The main area upon which I focus is the articulation of the sequences rather than just the notes themselves. I have given you a technique ‘blueprint’so to speak, if you wish to use the sequences in this way in your practice routine but I encourage you to try as many different ways of articulating the sequences as you possibly can. Get as creative as you can with them, as I feel that this is one of the most important parts of your development as a guitarist and musician. Try to apply as many techniques to the sequences as you can to come up with different sounds and when you do, make sure you take a note of the ones you like so that you can begin to really integrate them into your sound.
I have included 9 backing tracks in this lesson package so that you can practice the sequences along with some real music and not to just a click. There are 3 backing tracks per key and three different key centres each of the 3 backing tracks at different speeds.
I hope you enjoy this lesson as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you! Practice hard but above all, have fun!
Rick Graham July 2013
50 Pentatonic Sequences Part 1 1-25 Standard tuning Ex1 1
