If you feel like you're just playing up and down scales when improvising lead guitar, you need to learn to stop and create phrases. This lesson gives you a guide for which notes to stop or "land" on, while using the minor pentatonic scale.

To download the PDF downloadable sheet with the target notes, as well as a 25 minute version of the MP3 jam track to practice these techniques, visit: https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/l...

0:00 - Introduction
01:42 - How I got the idea for this lesson
03:34 - Key of A (playing "in the key")
05:35 - A minor pentatonic scale (pattern 1)
05:57 - 1 chord - first target note
06:28 - 4 chord - first target note
06:41 - 5 chord - first target note
07:32 - First example showing how to target notes
09:40 - 1 chord - second target note
10:07 - 4 chord - second target note
10:37 - 5 chord - second target note
11:15 - Second example showing how to target notes
13:33 - 1 chord - third target note
14:04 - 4 chord - third target note
14:20 - 5 chord - third target note
14:40 - Third example showing how to target notes
16:03 - Conclusion