Palm muting, scales and arpeggios. Easy to learn but you must dedicate time, since the precision of every note is very important!

When I started to write this lesson I found that I didn't like the sound of the pick attack. So... I recorded the lesson without the pick. My right index finger does the work: with the fingernail I play the downstrokes and with the fingertip I play the upstrokes.

Carlos Carrillo here and this is my first lesson. I recorded a clean solo where we will work on aspects like rhythm, scale uses, and different techniques as legato, alternate picking, Vibrato, Slides harmonics and arpeggios in A.

This is a style that can be found in artists of Jazz and Blues. For example: BB King & Diana Krall.

Playing a minor pentatonic over a dominant 7 chord is a great way to add a bluesy feel to an improvisation. The tension heard when playing a minor third over the major third of the track is what makes blues so interesting.

Achieve beautiful Lydian / Maj7 sounds using just the pentatonic scale!

R&B soul track featuring improvisation in A Pentatonic Major.

A is a very popular guitar key with the 3 main chords A D E - which are easy to play, and all feature the open strings. This gives the key a very full sound on the guitar. There's more songs out there in A than you can shake a stick!

Today's lesson will help you memorize the 5 positions of the pentatonic scale. This scale has a relative minor pentatoinic scale, which means that both of these scales share the same notes and positions.What makes one sound major or minor depends on the chords in the background.