Pentatonic riffs in the 3rd shape

Hi There,

In the last blog we looked at some examples of riffs that you can use in the 2nd shape of the minor pentatonic scale.

I’ve now come up with some more riffs that you can use for the 3rd shape.

This time i’ve used the key of Bm (3rd shape will start on the 12th fret 6th string)

Here’s a pic of the 3rd shape:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the riffs have different slurs you can practice with such as bends, slides, hammer on’s and pull-offs

Here’s the first riff:

Here’s an audio clip of me playing it:

RIFF 1 AUDIO CLIP

Here’s the 2nd riff:

 

 

 

 

Here’s an audio clip of me playing it:

RIFF 2 AUDIO CLIP

Here’s the 3rd riff:

With the audio clip below:

RIFF 3 AUDIO CLIP

Here’s the 4th riff:

With the audio clip below:

RIFF 4 AUDIO CLIP

These are just ideas that you can play around with. There are so many things you can do with the pentatonics, it’s important that you practice in different keys with different techniques.

Thanks for reading

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ROCK N ROLL

James