***** Overview of Pentatonic Guitar Training ******
To play a guitar solo freely, the following elements and abilities will be required.
▼ absolute pitch
▼ relative pitch
▼ memorization and understanding of various scales
▼ linking them to the guitar fretboard
"Pentatonic Guitar Training" will develop your abilities of those by listening guitar phrases and making answers on the guitar fretboard repeatedly.
This training contains
▼ Minor Pentatonic Scale
▼ Minor Pentatonic Scale + Blue Note
▼ Major Pentatonic scale
▼ Chord Tone (16 types)
▼ Mode (7 types)
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How to use Pentatonic Guitar Training
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For example, if you want to do training in E minor pentatonic scale.
■1■Touch the "m P" button at the top left → Indicator will be lit, and the E minor pentatonic phrase will be played.
■2■ When a playback has finished, touch the guitar fretboard in the correct order you listen.
■3■ If your answer is correct, the star mark is displayed for each sound.
■4■ If you answered a whole step, the next question will be played.
※ If you want to listen the sound again, touch the "replay" button in the upper left.
※ If you wish to play freely, touch again "m P" button, the indicator will be black out.
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How to display Visual Guide
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Visual Guide is possible to display.
● If you want to display the guide of E minor pentatonic.
■ON■ Press the icon "m P", indicator will light up.
■OFF■ Press the button again, indicator will light down.
▼ "note" means note name
▼ "m P" means minor pentatonic scale
▼ "♭ 5" means the Blue Note
▼ "MP" means major pentatonic scale
▼ "chord" means the chord tone
▼ "mode" means the mode
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How to change the root note
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It can be changed individually, the pentatonic scale root, tone code root, the mode root.
● If you want to change the root of minor pentatonic to the G.
■1■ Touch the Options menu in the hardware.
■2■ Select "Penta Root".
■3■ Select "G".
By this operation, the root of Question phrase is also changed.
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How to change the chord Tone
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● If you want to change Chord Tone to the "maj7".
■1■ Touch the Options menu in the hardware.
■2■ Select "Chord Type".
■3■ Select "Rmaj7".
By this operation, Question phrase is also changed to the "maj7".
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How to change the Variation of Mode
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If you want to change mode to the "Ionian".
■1■ Touch the Options menu in the hardware.
■2■ Select "Mode Type".
■3■ Select "Ionian".
By this operation, Question phrase is also changed to the "Ionian".
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Other Menu Options
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If you want to change the speed of "Question Play".
■1■ Touch the Options menu in the hardware.
■2■ Select "Speed".
■3■ Select "First".
※Default is "slow".
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Tips of understanding Pentatonic Scale
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Minor Pentatonic is made up by Natural Minor Scale.
The way to understand that is.
■1■ Turn off all indicators.
■2■ Display the "E Aeolian". Aeolian is natural minor scale.
■3■ Display the "E minor pentatonic".
■4■ Compare these scales.
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Series app Pentatonic Master
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App "Pentatonic master" is already released. This app can display all scales more widely, that max number of fret is 12th.