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Zakk Wylde's Brewtality: Pentatonics — Connecting the Dots and Climbing the Neck

Posted 01/22/2013 at 4:37pm | by Zakk Wylde

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Entry No. 3 from Zakk Wylde's classic Guitar World column, "Brewtality." Here, Zakk shows you how to connect scales together to climb the neck with pentatonic patterns.

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Brewtality: Linking A Minor Pentatonic Scales

Posted 01/17/2013 at 11:34am | by Zakk Wylde

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Last time, we kicked off this series of Brewtality columns by going over some basic, but essential, stuff and learning how to play the A minor pentatonic scale (A C D E G) all over the neck. We did this by learning the five fretboard patterns shown in FIGURE 1.

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Brewtality: Five Minor-Pentatonic Scale Patterns Every Guitarist Should Know

Posted 01/14/2013 at 12:59pm | by Zakk Wylde

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In this classic entry from his "Brewtality" column, Zakk Wylde shows you some essential minor-pentatonic runs. To kick things off, let’s start with some basics by looking at the minor-pentatonic scale and how it covers the whole neck. To keep things simple, we’ll stay in the key of A minor for now.

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