Practice How You Want To Solo: 5-Position Pentatonic Cycle Exercise

The way you practice new patterns can directly translate to the way you solo, if you do it right. Don’t just mechanically run scales, create rhythmic cycles out of them to harness of the feeling of creating real phrases. That way when you solo you’ll already be used to playing your patterns in the types of rhythmic cycles that music actually happens in.

This lesson covers how to do this using the 5 standard pentatonic positions, creating a single exercise that you can use to practice all 5 shapes in a rhythm that will give you ideas you can draw upon when you’re soloing.