Guitar Lesson – Scales Part 3: Pentatonic Scales
Welcome, friends, back to Guitar-Muse lessons. Today we conquer the beast that is the world-reknowned Pentatonic scale. The better you are with this scale the more worth your weight in gold you will be.
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