Advice on blending minor pentatonic scales

[rockdudemitch]

So basically i love blues and everyone recommends you learn the minor pentatonic scale well im trying but im struggling to mix the first two positions together is there a technique to blending the position currently i am playing them individually including the blue notes and then playing all the notes for the scale on one string and then on the next and so on and so

[barney.]

i think its good what you are doing with one string and just basically finding the best way to move between them on each string.......another thing to try is wider stretch penta stuff


e----------------------------------------------
b---------------------------------------------
g-----------------------------------------------
d-------------------------------------7..ect-----------
a-----------------5----7-----10------------------------
e---5------8------------------------------------------

just try starting on all the A notes possible ..the ones on the G string will need adjusted..the pattern above just repeats its self...it might plat a seed for other ideas..

[Close2u]

firstly, you should definitely check out this lesson
http://justinguitar.com/en/BL-018-LinkingPos1Pos2.php
and view it as part of a whole series of lessons from here:
http://justinguitar.com/en/BL-000-Blues.php
scroll down for Blues Lead Guitar Series

Also

When I was learning the 5 minor pentatonic shapes I learned one pattern and I did not move on to the next pattern until I had really learned and used ... that is, played loads of scale practices ... 3-in-a-line, 4-in-a-line, random change of direction, string skipping etc etc etc ... and learned licks and played them over and over backwards, forwards, broken down and reconstituted .... and improvised over loads of backing tracks too

positions / patterns / boxes are wonderful ways of learning scale shapes at a given location on the neck ... moving vertically across the strings ...

think on though that a scale can also be played horizontally along a string / strings

and when you have a pretty good muscle-memory / visual memory / aural memory etc of each pattern and how they intertwine and connect both lower down and higher up the neck, then you can make all sorts of scale 'runs' combining both vertical (across the strings and horizontal (along the neck) playing

these breakthroughs are on your learning curve somewhere up ahead ... and you're gonna smile from ear to ear when you first start to meet them

[StuartBahn]

For an exercise, try playing shape one (low to high) then sliding into shape two on the hi E-string, then down Shape 2 (hi to low), then slide into shape 3 on the low E-string, etc.

You can then repeat this starting form hi to low in shape 1.

You can also apply the same idea but just to pairs of strings, say low E and A:

------5-7-/-10-8--------------5-7-- etc...
-5-8--------------10-8-\-5-8-------

Apply this to each pair of strings for each shape, and also in the opposite direction. Depending on your speed this could all take quite a bit of time but you will have covered all the ways of sliding from one shape into the next.