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Lessons with Marty Schwartz · Blues, rock and beginner guitar

Learn the minor pentatonic box with its roots, play your first blues licks in it, then bends, double stops and slides in licks that sound like real solos.

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The lessons, in order

  1. Lesson 1

    A Minor Pentatonic with the Root on the E String and Its Extension

    Marty Schwartz · 2 min

  2. Lesson 2

    Three Easy Blues Licks in the First A Minor Pentatonic Position

    Marty Schwartz · 25 min

  3. Lesson 3

    D Minor Pentatonic Lick: G-String Bend, Alternate Picking and a 13th-Fret Nudge

    Marty Schwartz · 4 min

  4. Lesson 4

    G Minor Pentatonic Lick: Following the B String with G String Bends

    Marty Schwartz · 5 min

  5. Lesson 5

    Blues Lick Vocabulary Part 1: Slides and Whole-Step Bends in A Minor

    14 min

What you will learn

  • The minor pentatonic scale with the root on the low E string
  • Three easy blues licks in the first position
  • Licks with bends, double stops and slides in D, G and A minor

Your teacher

Marty Schwartz

Blues, rock and beginner guitar

One of the best-known guitar teachers on YouTube. Marty teaches more than 30 of our courses: first chords, strumming, blues licks and soloing, with a lot of fun along the way.

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