Essential Minor Pentatonic Songs & Riffs // Position 1 and BEYOND...

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Here's the first in a series of videos showing you how to play a bunchy of riffs that are derived from a single scale.

Over time, this series will help give context to the scale you either know, or help you decide which are worth learning right now.

All the riffs in this video are based on the Minor Pentatonic scale, which you can learn here

All of these are appropriate for electric guitar. Time stamps from video above in song titles below.

Song 1 Paranoid 1:40 
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Song 2 Heartbreak Hotel (solo) 2:46
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Song 3 Rumble 3:31
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Song 4 Whole Lotta Love 5:03
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Song 5 Jumping Jack Flash 8:02
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Standard tuning TAB link

Honourable mention to Bitch, also by RS 10:26
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Song 6 Fake Tales Of San Fransisco 10:43
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Honourable mention Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, A Certain Romance and also The Riverboat Song
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Song 7 Born Under A Bad Sign 12:30
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Song 8 Guerilla Radio 14:48
Guerilla Radio TAB

Song 9 15:55 Are You Gonna Go My Way
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Song 10 Black Dog 16:58
Black Dog TAB LINK

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