Lead and Melody Practice

The pentatonic scales provide a foundation for many of your favorite rock, blues, and pop songs. In this pack, Lance Ruby guides you through these simple scales so that you can play melody and lead guitar. As you learn basic techniques like phrasing, hammer-ons and pull-offs, common minor bends, and more — you’ll be well on your way to unlocking your full musical voice.

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Lead and Melody Practice

About this course

The pentatonic scales provide a foundation for many of your favorite rock, blues, and pop songs. In this pack, Lance Ruby guides you through these simple scales so that you can play melody and lead guitar. As you learn basic techniques like phrasing, hammer-ons and pull-offs, common minor bends, and more — you’ll be well on your way to unlocking your full musical voice.

What you'll learn

  • Create answer phrases by ending on stable notes or bending to stable notes
  • Use different techniques (bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs) to create resolution
  • Combine techniques into complete musical phrases rather than isolated licks
  • Identify common tones between major and minor pentatonic scales
  • Understand the anatomy of a musical phrase (beginning, middle, end)
Release date: 10/20/2021 • 3h 13m runtime
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Sample lessons
Minor Pentatonic: Hammer-On and Pull-Off
Minor Pentatonic: Hammer-On and Pull-Off
Lesson
Minor Pentatonic: Guitar and Voice
Minor Pentatonic: Guitar and Voice
Lesson
Major Pentatonic - Bending and Vibrato
Major Pentatonic - Bending and Vibrato
Lesson

What's included

21 lessons • 20 charts • 10 Jam Tracks

Introduction
Lance kicks off the series.
Minor Pentatonic: What are These Notes
Lance goes over what notes are in the Minor Pentatonic.
Minor Pentatonic: What are These Notes
Practice what you've learned in the previous lesson.
Minor Pentatonic: Hammer-On and Pull-Off
Implement the notes from the previous lesson with some Hammer-On and Pull-Offs.
Minor Pentatonic: Hammer-On and Pull-Off
Practice what you've learned in the previous lesson.
Minor Pentatonic - Bending and Vibrato
Bending and Vibrato creates color and dynamics to your note selection.
Minor Pentatonic - Bending and Vibrato
Practice what you've learned in the previous lesson.

+ 14 more lessons

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Reviews

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Ricgard

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01/19/26

Lead and Melody

Easy to understand ,adding to my music education resoueces

jerry54

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09/21/24

Have become a fan of Lance Ruby. Glad to have found this material!

Fred R.

04/03/24

So simple and helpful

I've been playing seriously for a bit more than a year (started at age 70) and some of the basics were just not clicking. He takes an easy going, well thought out, extremely helpful approach that emphasizes listening and taking your time. My playing changed almost immediately as I started understanding the why of what I was intuitively doing. I highly recommend this for advanced beginners and early intermediates.

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