Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Once you’ve learned the Pentatonic scale shapes and practiced your exercises, it’s time to apply them to actual music. Doing so will help your ear and help you build more interesting and melodic phrases.
The more solos you transcribe and learn, the more those mature lines will come out in your playing. The goal is to be able to eventually add that to your own voice and style of playing.
Here’s a link to the tab for this solo. tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/pink_floyd/wish_you_were_here_tabs_730862
Wish You Were Here is a great beginner solo to learn. It’s based off of a G and Em7 chord. The relative minor or 6th degree of G is E, so E minor pentatonic would be the appropriate solo key.
It goes to an A chord in the 3rd and 4th lines, which could be considered the key of D, but E Pentatonic still works over it.
Practice pattern #1 and #2 in E separately and then combine them together.
E G B D E are the notes in E Pentatonic.
Learning more solos will help you with your phrasing and making music out of scales. It will also help you to improvise.
Once you’ve learned the Pentatonic scale shapes and practiced your exercises, it’s time to apply them to actual music. Doing so will help your ear and help you build more interesting and melodic phrases.
The more solos you transcribe and learn, the more those mature lines will come out in your playing. The goal is to be able to eventually add that to your own voice and style of playing.
Here’s a link to the tab for this solo. tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/pink_floyd/wish_you_were_here_tabs_730862
Wish You Were Here is a great beginner solo to learn. It’s based off of a G and Em7 chord. The relative minor or 6th degree of G is E, so E minor pentatonic would be the appropriate solo key.
It goes to an A chord in the 3rd and 4th lines, which could be considered the key of D, but E Pentatonic still works over it.
Practice pattern #1 and #2 in E separately and then combine them together.
E G B D E are the notes in E Pentatonic.
Learning more solos will help you with your phrasing and making music out of scales. It will also help you to improvise.
