subject: Play Great Guitar Solos With Only Five Notes [print this page] Play Great Guitar Solos With Only Five Notes
Sounds insane right? How can people play solos with only five cords?! I'll let you know how! Some guitarists appear to pick up a guitar and start playing great solos without any effort, they hardly raise a sweat; some other unfortunates struggle with their instrument almost all their life without making any noticeable progress.
I guess it just comes down to those that 'have it' can perform it and the people who 'don't get it' are never are able to do it.
WRONG.
Everything comes down to 'those that understand how to do it', can perform it and 'those who don't know how to do it' can't. It's absolutely nothing to do with pure talent or other myths about studying music.
Early on in my guitar playing adventures I was often perplexed by certain individuals who were 'not the brightest crayon on the tree', yet they could play really nice solos about the guitar, whilst I (who was taking music training) could only play several kiddies tunes.
Apparently , a specific 5 note scale may be the secret, which 5 note music scale? The minor pentatonic music scale.
Technically speaking any group of 5 cords might be known as a pentatonic scale but the one which interest us as guitarists may be the minor pentatonic music scale.
Extensive research shows how the notes of the minor pentatonic music scale can be found in almost every culture on earth, this really is a classic universal music scale not to mention explains it's popularity (both on guitar and in music.)
Music of the whole earth:
Here's something to consider; in the past, people worldwide working in isolation (from one another) reached exactly the same (or almost exactly the same) group of cords.
Why five notes? easy, individuals have 5 fingers.
Why do the cords in the music scale vary (slightly) from country to country? Again, that's a simple one, it's because from the size the individual's hand.
Whenever a person in India is making a wooden flute the length between the holes is going to be slightly differ to a flute made in Africa - it makes sense doesn't it? The musical instrument maker would craft their musical instrument to suit the size and shape of their hand, this makes up about some slight variations within the same set of 'universal' notes.
