frustration at its limits

pls teach me how to read a freakin scale tab... heres a link to the one im using... i understand that i need to remember all 5 positions of a particular root note... lets tak e an example for pentatonic major A... where thehell do i start? where do i end? im aware i shud start with an A but iget lost halfway its so frustrating and confusing... so yeah...someone teach me please... using the link, teach me how to read A pentatonic major scale

http://www.guitarists.net/scales/index.php

thanks i wud really really appreciate it

Originally Posted by: jeffhxpls teach me how to read a freakin scale tab... heres a link to the one im using... i understand that i need to remember all 5 positions of a particular root note... lets tak e an example for pentatonic major A... where thehell do i start? where do i end? im aware i shud start with an A but iget lost halfway its so frustrating and confusing... so yeah...someone teach me please... using the link, teach me how to read A pentatonic major scale

http://www.guitarists.net/scales/index.php

thanks i wud really really appreciate it

Ok, using this link, I will teach you how to read the A pentatonic major scale.

A-B-C#-E-F#-A

That's the A major pentatonic scale. Now go back to the link. Click "A" as your root note. Now click "Pentatonic major." Now look at the notes written on the fretboard. Now play them. Let's say starting on the F# on the 6th string (2nd fret). From there go to the A on the sixth string. Now go up to the fifth string for B and C, now the fourth for E - F#, now the third for A. Ok, you just played A major pentatonic.

thanks im beginning to get it now... but i was told that every root note has 5 positions...is that true? basically i can start at any part of theprogression on the fret board...i get it now... i thought i had to always start with the root note...

cheers

so improvosation is just abt jumping arnd in between these positions? and it shud ascend? (from low E to high E)

Originally Posted by: jeffhxthanks im beginning to get it now... but i was told that every root note has 5 positions...is that true? basically i can start at any part of theprogression on the fret board...i get it now... i thought i had to always start with the root note...

cheers

so improvosation is just abt jumping arnd in between these positions? and it shud ascend? (from low E to high E)

The example does not mean it's what should happen every time, no. Do all the guitar solos you hear ascend?

You don't always have to begin on the root note, but you'll usually want to use it to bring a period to the end of your musical sentences. Yes, the root notes all have five positions. Let's call the one I just told you the 1st of these five. Move up, starting on the A this time, above the F#, and play from there. That's position 2. Move to the B. Position three. To the Csharp and you have position four. E is position five and then you're back to one.