Fix Your Pentatonics - Flipped Groups of Three (3/5) @joshfossgreen

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Tired of those same old lame pentatonic licks? Me too. Shrug off the heavy cloak of burden that is those licks and sit with me beside the warm fireplace of Fix Your Pentatonics.

Fix Your Pentatonics is all about identifying what makes those “lame licks” lame, and what you can do to tweak them to find new levels of musicality from the minor pentatonic scale.

In lesson three we’ll explore “flipping,” which is another way to avoid the sequentiality problem we’ve experienced with our “Problem Licks” without having to change the size of our note groupings.

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