Blue Sky: Allman Brothers Band

[3nd3r3]

In the Pentatonic Scale Chapter in Fretboard Theory, Blue Sky's intro and solo are suggested to learn. I bought this tab of the song off the internet and found that there were four different guitar's in the song, two of which switch off soloing midway throughout the 4 minute solo. Should I learn both solos (both seem to be based off the pentatonic scale) or a specific one?

I want to try to completely master the pentatonic scale, and learning both solos would take significantly longer.

By the way, great job on the book Desi, my guitar-playing is vastly improving from working on what you recommend in the book.

[DesiSerna]

Yes, there are multiple guitar tracks in the song. I would first focus on the intro, the guitar that starts on E and climbs up the major pentatonic scale. See the guitar tabs below. There's certainly more going on in the song, but if you get a copy of the official tab you should be able to analyze the different guitar parts and identify what falls in the pentatonic patterns. The Allman Brothers Band uses TONS of pentatonic lead guitar solos. Sometimes there's a bit of major scale patterns mixed in too, but still in typical pentatonic boxes. They follow all the scale theory I teach in my guitar book.

Listen to Blue Sky by The Allman Brothers Band

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E Major Pentatonic Scale Patterns 5, 1, 2
|E--------------------------------------|-----------------------------
|B--------------------------------12-14-|-14b(17)--14-----------------
|G--------------------9----11/13--------|---------------13\11--9------
|D-------------9-11---------------------|-----------------------------
|A---7---9/11---------------------------|-----------------------------
|E--------------------------------------|-----------------------------