Beginner Guitar - House Of The Rising Sun - A Minor Pentatonic

In this exercise, we use use the song House of the Rising Sun to practice the A minor pentatonic scale in the 5th hand position.

We start on a high A note, and work our way down the scale and resolve one octave lower on an A note.

This particular exercise is good, because we usually start with a “root” note that is low, and the work our way “up” from there, whereas with this exercise, we start with a high note (that happens to be a root note) and working our way down to a lower root note.

So if we learn to count up from 1 like 123456789101112

This would be learning to count down from 12 like 121110987654321

This exercise covers a range of 12 half-steps or a perfect octave.