GuitarWorld.com revisits Zakk Wylde's classic Guitar World column, "Brewtality."
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Last time, we kicked off this series of Brewtality columns by going over some basic, but essential, stuff and learning
GuitarWorld.com revisits Zakk Wylde's classic Guitar World column, "Brewtality."
Last time, we kicked off this series of Brewtality columns by going over some basic, but essential, stuff and learning how to play the A minor pentatonic scale (A C D E G) all over the neck. We did this by learning the five fretboard patterns shown in FIGURE 1.
Hopefully you’ve gotten all five of these patterns nailed by now because, like I told you last time, together they form the basic framework that we’re gonna be using to create some pentatonic runs and licks over the next few columns.
In fact, in this installment of Brewtality we’re gonna link a few of these scale patterns together so you can start making full use of your guitar’s neck when you’re wailing out a brewtal lead, instead of just using one “box shape” (scale pattern) all the time, which is a common trap that a lot of players fall into.
Before we get into that, though, I have to tell you something I forgot to explain last time, and that is what the hell “pentatonic” means! Pentatonic is just another way of saying “five tones” or “five notes,” that’s all. So, a pentatonic scale is just a scale made up of five different notes that are repeated in different octaves.
If you play through any one of the A minor pentatonic scale patterns we’ve just learned, you’ll hear what I’m talking about. For example, check out FIGURE 2, which is the second A minor pentatonic scale pattern we learned last month.
As you can see and hear, after the first five notes, the scale starts repeating again; the only difference is that the second five notes are an octave higher