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Inside Cabin Camp: Jamming with the Pentatonic

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Let's go inside Cabin Camp, where Penny Lea teaches us how to jam using pentatonic patterns–all over the neck!

Improvisation Pentatonic

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  1. Gary Feldman ·

    I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?

  2. Theresa Nickels ·

    That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.

  3. Bill Threadgill ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  4. MandoMary ·

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

  5. Deb Carrigan ·

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  6. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    Try measure 3 on its own at half tempo, and keep your right hand rolling even when the left hand is behind. The right hand is the metronome.

  7. flatpick_dad ·

    I had that exact problem. Turned out my thumb was anchoring in the wrong spot.

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