{"id":8842,"date":"2025-03-03T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8842"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:59:55","slug":"the-pentatonic-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/the-pentatonic-train\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentatonic Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks learn the pentatonic\/blues scales through the &#8220;5 boxes&#8221; that come up time and time again, and they are fantastic patterns&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I find that if I can look at things a little differently and break those patterns apart into one, single pattern that repeats&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then I can quickly get from one box to another really easily and without a whole lot of hoopla or mental gymnastics.<\/p>\n<p>I came up with a subway train analogy in the middle of the video and it really makes sense, you just get off the train when you need to \ud83d\ude42<\/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\/69RlH4FwbsI?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<p>Need licks? Maybe check out 50 Slow Blues Licks By The Box at: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-50-slow-blues-licks-by-the-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-50-slow-blues-licks-by-the-box\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks learn the pentatonic\/blues scales through the &#8220;5 boxes&#8221; that come up time and time again, and they are fantastic patterns&#8230; But I find that if I can look at things a little differently and break those patterns apart into one, single pattern that repeats&#8230; Then I can quickly get from one box to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8843,"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\/8842"}],"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=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}