I know how much you all like riffs, so I’m hoping you’re gonna like these two as much as I do.

The first riff is basically working off the fourths you find in the pentatonic minor scale. You’re essentially doing mini bars with your fingers… just grabbing two strings at a time though.

Feel free to have fun with this… mix up the order, experiment with hammer-ons and pull offs, and even with the open notes I mentioned. If you look at your Am Pentatonic, you’ll see that E, A, D, G are all in that scale -- so that means that you can use those as open notes as well, even when you’re playing from the fifth fret.

I talk about the fourths and fifths and other intervals a lot more over at Guitar Scale Patterns.

The second riff also uses fourths… this time on the top two strings. Adding a string bend makes it sound really cool.

Enjoy….

If you need a refresher, click here for the pentatonic scale lesson.

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