Stupid Zakk Wild'ish Licks.. And My Dying Pinky, Pentatonic should be banned :D Options

[Jakub Luptovec]

I myself am more of arpeggio/modal player, but now my band has gave me the role of composing custom solo for ROck you like a huricane by Scorpions. Since the whole song is based on pentatonic, I cant dwelve into modes too much (the background is just E,e,e,G,g,A,a,C,D,d, repeting till the end of time) and so I have to learn some pentatonic shredding licks.

One that appaled me was that syncopated zakk wildish lick with bending

-------10------------10------------10------------10-------|
--13b-----13-10-13b-----13-10-13b-----13-10-13b-----13-10-|
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I have been trying to master for a few months, but after few moments of practicing, my pinky started to hurt like hell, I was unable to play for several hours and that stupid lick is still slow and dirty as... when I begun:)

Anyone has some tips for practicing this kind of stuff?
Btw. any other cool (pentatonic is not cool..) pentatonic licks are welcome as well

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