Where to go with pentatonic scales? Advice needed

[Richard_close2u]

Hi @Jozsef

By all means learn Pattern 2. And the top half of it blends with Pattern 1 to create an amazingly useful ‘extended’ pentatonic pattern that is used lots.

If you want to extract more goodness from Pattern 1, and you haven’t actually learned and used licks, see if this helps:

First Steps in Blues Improvisation using Minor Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1

Here I offer some tips and some advice for all of the folks just beginning with the minor pentatonic scale and starting to explore a little blues-infused improvisation. Firstly - just take it easy, one simple thing at a time. If you want to get in to improvising focus only on one scale, the one scale that is the easiest to do this with, the minor pentatonic scale. Not the major scale. Not the major pentatonic scale. Just the minor pentatonic for blues lead. And start with only one pattern. Pa…