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PART SIX COMBINING BASIC RHYTHM AND LEAD

Using notes from the A minor pentatonic scale below, in this lesson, we’re going to look at some 12-bar blues rhythms and combine some simple lead lines with the rhythmic patterns that we have learnt over the last few lessons.

First, we should cast our minds back to lesson two and refresh on the second shuffle pattern that we learnt, which you can find in full at Guitar.com.

We’ll be taking this shuffle pattern and adding some simple

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