If you feel like you’re just playing up and down scales when improvising lead guitar, you need to learn to stop and create phrases. This lesson gives you a guide for which notes to stop or “land” on, while using the minor pentatonic scale.

To download the PDF downloadable sheet with the target notes, as well as a 25 minute version of the MP3 jam track to practice these techniques, visit: https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/land-on-these-notes-when-improvising-lead-guitar-guitar-lesson-ep527/

00:01 – Introduction
01:42 – How I got the idea for this lesson
03:34 – Key of A (playing “in the key”)
05:35 – A minor pentatonic scale (pattern 1)
05:57 – 1 chord – first target note
06:28 – 4 chord – first target note
06:41 – 5 chord – first target note
07:32 – First example showing how to target notes
09:40 – 1 chord – second target note
10:07 – 4 chord – second target note
10:37 – 5 chord – second target note
11:15 – Second example showing how to target notes
13:33 – 1 chord – third target note
14:04 – 4 chord – third target note
14:20 – 5 chord – third target note
14:40 – Third example showing how to target notes
16:03 – Conclusion

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