Get comfortable with the basics

There’s a reason why blues players practice using pentatonic scales so much. There’s a reason rock and metal players practice three note scale patterns. There’s a reason that jazz musicians practice playing over 2-5s so much. They’re the basics of those genres. And in order to play that genre well you’ve got to understand the basics.

Once you’re comfortable with the basics, then expand past them, but make sure that you have the basics down.

They’ll help in whatever else you learn.

And they often overlap.

Pentatonic scales can be used to player over 2-5s in jazz. Playing over 2-5s will help you better understand how to use pentatonics. Knowing three note scale patterns will help you get more comfortable playing scalar runs, which can also be used over 2-5s.

But starting with those basics and understanding those really well will help more with whatever carry over there is.

Getting more comfortable with the basics will only help.

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