{"id":8224,"date":"2022-03-08T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T02:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2022-03-08T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:23:16","slug":"sliding-through-the-pentatonic-scales-with-the-ring-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/sliding-through-the-pentatonic-scales-with-the-ring-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliding Through The Pentatonic Scales With The Ring Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fairly common using the &#8220;boxes&#8221; of the pentatonic or blues scale to get stuck in one pattern (which is often box 1 or maybe 2)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But if you can get used to starting with your ring finger, there&#8217;s a cool little slip and slide move that will take you through over 2 octaves of pentatonic scale real estate pretty darn quickly!<\/p>\n<p>Aside from being a good way to play some cool blues\/rock sounds because of the increase in speed, this is just another great way to visualize your fretboard that you may not be that familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>So have fun, and try it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxP88PyZy2U?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fairly common using the &#8220;boxes&#8221; of the pentatonic or blues scale to get stuck in one pattern (which is often box 1 or maybe 2)&#8230; But if you can get used to starting with your ring finger, there&#8217;s a cool little slip and slide move that will take you through over 2 octaves of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}