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    IN DEEP

    Apr 21, 2020 2 minutes
    by Andy Aledort

    FIVE TO SIX

    A guide to soloing with major pentatonic and hexatonic scales

    is an essential element in learning to solo on the guitar. The seven-tone major scale, also known as the Ionian mode, contains all intervallic degrees within a given octave; in simple numbers, 1 2 3 4 5

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