You can play a pentatonic scale by walking your fingers across the neck at any one of these positions, playing 2 notes per string. Each of the five chapters focuses on 1 of the 5 patterns of the caged system. A minor pentatonic all boxes caged shapes box 1 e box 2 d box 3 c box 4 a box 5 g heres a quick rundown on the pentatonic boxes, and how they relate to the caged system. There are a million ways to express your emotions through the minor pentatonic and use it for your soloing. How to build major pentatonic scales guitar masterclass. For a quick summary to this topic, have a look at pentatonic scale.
Minor pentatonic pattern 1 major pentatonic pattern 5 playing this pattern from left to right and up across the strings means you will be playing the e minor pentatonic scale. Its a great scale because its fairly easy to play which makes it a perfect beginner scale for soloing, but it also has the functionality. A minor pentatonic contains scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, and b7. The worksheet uses crotchets, quavers and minim terminology so ideal for a british classroom. So, let us deconstruct this scale and look at the intervals that make up a minor pentatonic scale. The minor pentatonic scale comes directly from our minor scale. The only difference is that the tonic first note of the scale of the minor pentatonic is 3 semitones half steps below the tonic of the major pentatonic. The five notes of the c minor pentatonic scale can provide us with a world. The minor pentatonic expanded scale 2written by david taub now that you are familiar with the minor pentatonic scale in the box position and in an expanded 1 scale, lets learn the minor pentatonic expanded 2 scale. Every guitarist needs to know the minor pentatonic scale. No matter what kind of music youre into, this scale will come in useful. The minor pentatonic scale is one that pretty much everyone should learn, regardless of the style you want to play because its a real foundation for many language styles.
All of the root notes are g because this is the g minor pentatonic scale. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found in musical cultures all over the world. The intervals in minor pentatonic are root or 1, b3rd, 4th, 5th, and b7th. G minor guitar scales work with songs that have a g minor root note and the major scales are for songs that have a major root note. If you are stuck in the pentatonic box then this is the way. We will go first in g, playing the other notes of the c pentatonic this will create a. All the fretboard diagrams below show c minor pentatonic, so the notes built on that root are c e. And also, does the minor pentatonic scale starting with the key of e work only on songs with the keys e d a. Guitar maps allow you to play solos anywhere on the guitar neck. The lesson steps then explain how to construct the scale using the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th minor scale notes. Here you will find scale diagrams for the five patterns of the minor pentatonic scale and. The first 5 degrees of a minor scale are the same for a natural minor, harmonic minor and a melodic minor. The 5 minor pentatonic scale patterns learning to play the.
If you start at the g on the 3rd fret of the low e string youll get a g major pentatonic scale. Pentatonic scales contain five notes, which is how it gets its name penta5, tonic tones. Here are some free pdfs used to supplement my free video lessons. Aug 07, 2015 the minor pentatonic is the most important scale in blues and rock music.
This is the only pentatonic scale pattern that requires a position shift. Download free printable sheet music for the scale with fingering in pdf format. The minor pentatonic scale is the most used scale for soloing and it is used in a wide variety of music styles like pop, rock, country, metal, blues and more. Every pentatonic key can have one of two possible tonalities. You hear this sound all the time in just about every style of music rock, blues, country, jazz, you name it heres a video taking you through some major pentatonic essentials, and i develop these ideas in a. F g b all the fretboard diagrams below show c minor pentatonic, so the notes built on that root are c e.
Oct 29, 2018 after playing the scale in each position, try shifting between positions as you play. This practical guide to using the minor pentatonic. A pentatonic scale, as the name implies, has only five notes. Once you are familiar with the intervallic characteristics of the scale, it should be very easy to play in any key. Lessons scales minor pentatonic scale official official by lessons scales with free online tab player, speed control and loop. For example, the relative minor of c is a minor, and the notes which form c major pentatonic and a minor pentatonic are the same. Show me chords that sound good with a g minor pentatonic scale. This is a composing worksheet where pupils create an 8 beat composition using notes of the g pentatonic scale. So place finger 1 at the 3rd fret and you will play the g minor pentatonic scale because the note on the 3rd fret of the 6th string is the note g. G major e minor pentatonic scale guitar scales the pentatonic scale is a favorite of many guitarists and its easy to see why. Chord progressions for minor pentatonic soloing guitarhabits. The 5 minor pentatonic positions deft digits guitar lessons.
Its always been at the heart of most blues and rock soloing, whilst jazz players like to get all sophisticated by superimposing the scale over various chords for all kinds of interesting. D minor pentatonic has the same notes as f major pentatonic and so. I use it when i teach tabs and when i teach basic improvisation. Everything in this book is presented in the key of a minor so that you can see how it all relates together and so that you can begin to string licks together into larger ideas. Learn the how to play the g major pentatonic scale for piano. The solution below shows the gb minor pentatonic scale, on the piano, bass and treble clef the lesson steps then explain how to construct the scale using the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th minor scale notes for a quick summary to this topic, have a look at pentatonic scale. Note interval a root c minor third d perfect fourth e perfect fifth g minor seventh. The scale formula for the minor pentatonic 1 b3 4 5 b7. This is part of a series of lessons teaching the first few important scales on the guitar. Pentascale or pentatonic scale pentatonic scale pattern. As we already know from the minor pentatonic scale theory lesson, the g minor pentatonic scale has 5 notes which are derived from the minor scale.
Learn how to play up and down the neck with ease and break out of those box patterns. In this case, the sequence will be three ascending notes. Difference between minor and major pentatonic scale boxes. There are both pentatonic major and minor the minor is slightly more often used. From minor pentatonic scale to aeolian mode in our last lesson, we created a minor pentatonic tune through visualauditory associations. The pentatonic scale itself is used widely in genres like rock and roll, blues, and country music. Combining minor and major pentatonic scales guitarhabits. Scale pentatonic minor 1,b3,4,5,b7 fullth pattern root note g guitar tuning. Included is also the a minor pentatonic scale and the a minor blues scale so that students can practice improvisation if they are ready to begin soloing.
How to construct major and minor pentatonic scales. If you are playing in g major, use e minor pentatonic scale also know as g major pentatonic you have probably noticed that the pentatonic scale can be either a major or minor scale. See more ideas about guitar chords, music guitar and guitar lessons. Compared to the a minor pentatonic scale, g minor is a bit rowdier. How to build major pentatonic scales, learn to build and play major pentatonic scales on guitar.
By being outside the key means that you dont necessarily play chords and scale that belongs to the same key. They are usually the first scales beginner guitarists learn to play. The 5 major pentatonic scale shapes positions guitarhabits. Scale diagrams can also be labeled with either letters or scale degrees. In this example we use the a minor pentatonic scale which consists of the notes. The awesome part is that they contain the same note intervals with. The solution below shows the a minor pentatonic scale, on the piano, bass and treble clef.
G major pentatonic scale diagrams g major pentatonic fretboard diagram. The major pentatonic scale has the 5 notes of the major scale. The c minor pentatonic scale can be broken down into boxes that we can play in, and each box is composed of the same notes played in a different order. Learn the major and minor pentatonic scales, their patterns, when to use them, and why theyre the scale shortcut. After pattern 5 the sequence starts again with pattern 1 at the 12th fret for the e minor pentatonic scale. Usually the first scale any guitarist learns when beginning their exploration of the lead side of the instrument is the minor pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale is frequently used in lots of popular music styles. When you reach the second string, youll need to shift your hand up one fret. In this lesson grant mickelson goes over the g minor pentatonic scale, this is a great exercise to increase your speed.
It is now time to learn how to use the minor pentatonic scale, which is a must if you want to learn to play lead guitar and improvise. Now, we will look at the major and minor pentatonic scales, and see. If you dont have a keyboard in home, dont be desperate, we will explain in details how to create this scale. Practice each pattern and memorise the fingering required to play them. The guitar neck diagram shows you the big picture for the g minor pentatonic scale. This is the formula for the minor pentatonic, as well as its notes in the key of g. When you use e minor pentatonic, the e note is the tonal center and your point of resolution. Included is also the a minor pentatonic scale and the a minor blues scale so that students can practice.
This article and interactive web app help you learn all of the pentatonic scale diagrams. The pentatonic scale chose 5 from these notes and created another scale, this is why it is called penta. The same goes for when youre using the scale as g major pentatonic. This scale has its low root played with the first finger on the low e string. A minor pentatonic it is important that if you are going to learn to improvise with this scale that you learn how it sounds. Pentatonic scale lesson music theory for musicians, not. Chart of the a blues scale aka minor blues patterns on. This scale is perhaps less familiar to most guitarists than the minor pentatonic, but it is equally useful. Some people find it easier to think in minor terms, and some find it easier to think in minor and major terms.
To play the g minor pentatonic scale in the third position, begin with your middle finger on the sixth string, eighth fret and play through the pattern as noted. The minor pentatonic scale consists of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th notes of the natural minor scale. In the examples below all the scale shapes are in the key of g, so all the. The minor pentatonic scale is constructed from five notes of the natural minor scale.
The difference between major and minor pentatonic scales. These are not lessons, but supplements to my lessons. E d g b e a pentaton c minor scale box 1 glitarsik. How to construct major and minor pentatonic scales music. Its generally easy under the fingers and makes easy to remember visual shapes, so good for building a framework of the entire neck too. The major pentatonic scale is mostly used in country, folk country rock, blues and jazz.
An example would be playing a g funky minor pentatonic scale over g7. A pentatonic scale is a pattern of 5 notes plus the repeated upper tonic note 5 penta plus 1 tonic for a total of 6 notes. Use these drawings in the tonal and blues contexts. The fretboard is shown with the lowest pitch string at the bottom and the highest pitch string at the top unless youve tuned your instrument differently. Guitar lessonsg minor pentatonic gitaarlessen, bliksem. Use my search bar to find exactly what youre looking for. Pentatonic scales are great place to start for song writing and improvising. If we played these five notes on the low e string, we would end up with the pattern shown below. The only difference is which root notes you choose to target. Guitar tips for beginners plays printing videos technology architecture strum away with these simple guitar tips learning guitar g minor.
The tonalities are called relative major and relative minor. Scale pentatonic major 1,2,3,5,6 fullth pattern root note a guitar tuning. For example, you could play g major pentatonic over a c major chord or e minor pentatonic over an a minor chord, this is called superimposing. In pentatonic scale pattern one as i teach it in my fretboard theory guitar theory program the first note is always the relative. Check out the archive where youll find loads of minor pentatonic lessons. The solution below shows the g minor pentatonic scale, on the piano, bass and treble clef the lesson steps then explain how to construct the scale using the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th minor scale notes for a quick summary to this topic, have a look at pentatonic scale. Here i will demonstrate the g minor pentatonic scale up and down the neck. There are three ways youll want to learn your major pentatonic scale forms.
Note that a minor pentatonic has identical notes with c major pentatonic but in different order. The g minor pentatonic scale can be divided into patterns. Also, the pentatonic scale can be easily turned into the blues scale by adding the blues notes. There are numerous ways of playing a g major pentatonic scale on guitar. If you are stuck in the pentatonic box then this is the way out of it. Master the minor pentatonic scale using the whole fretboard.
The pentatonic scale originates from the diatonic scale 7 notes, and has two fewer notes than its parent scale. So how do i tell if a pentatonic scale is major or minor. So, a pentatonic scale is just a scale made up of five different notes that are repeated in different octaves. This exercise is a pattern of notes that repeats itself as you move up or down a scale. After learning this scale, the minor pentatonic and major scales will be a breeze. For example in the g minor pentatonic scale all g notes are root notes. All you have to do is remove the 2nd and 6th scale degrees from the minor scale. The pentatonic scales are a staple of modern rock, blues and pop music. While this scale can cover a lot of ground when soloing over songs, there are some moments where you. The notes of the a minor pentatonic scale are a, c, d, e, and g. However it always has that same dark classic minor pentatonic sound. The minor pentatonic scale by paul tauterouff the minor pentatonic scale is one of the most commonly scales used in rock, blues, country and jazz music.
You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. Both the pentatonic major scale and minor scale have the same patterns. Understanding the major and the minor blues pentatonic. So we have structured this technique book to have the 10 lesson plan program. As you will learn, these patterns can be transferred to all keys. The root note is the key that the pentatonic scale will be played in. Joey foleygetty images revisits zakk wyldes classic guitar world column, brewtality.
Having read the theory behind the pentatonic scales, you should already be familiar with the basic intervals and use of the major and minor pentatonic scale. Place finger 1 on the 8th fret and you will play the c minor pentatonic scale because the note at the 8th fret of the 6th string is the note c. The basics of the minor pentatonic scale for guitar soundfly. The solution below shows the g minor pentatonic scale, on the piano, bass and treble clef. G minor guitar scale pattern chart patterns scales maps. Last time, we kicked off this series of brewtality columns by going over some basic, but essential, stuff and learning how to play the a minor pentatonic scale a c d e g all over the neck. Something that cannot be said of the two notes of the major scale that are not included in the major pentatonic scale the 4th and 7th. Fill riffs with the 5th position g major pentatonic scale beginner country bluegrass guitar lesson duration. In an a minor scale, the 2nd scale degree is a b and the 6th is an f. However i realised from your videos that this is actually the major pentatonic. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. The scale illustrated on the right is the most common basic box position.
Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. The root notes a in these examples are circled so that you can learn their locations. C d e g a c formula 2 2 3 2 3 now lets look at the complete, 5position diagram of the pentatonic scale. The word pentatonic comes from the greek pente meaning 5 and the latin tonicus meaning tone. In g minor pentatonic however, it has a bit more bite to it than it has in other keys. Pentatonic is just another way of saying five tones or five notes, thats all. Learn to play the g minor pentatonic scale on the guitar. Its build from either the major or natural minor scale. The red dots indicate a root note and the black dots indicate a note in the scale.
Would you like to master the legendary fantasia and fugue in g minor, bwv 542 by j. Once these two notes are removed, youre left with a minor pentatonic scale. Scales you can use in the real world, created by a human guitarist. Watch the minor pentatonic scales online guitar lesson by kenny wessel from shades of jazz we will start with the minor pentatonic scale, often called the blues scale. This lesson allows your students to explore their musical creativity through improvisation by developing ideas for melodic lines using the aeolian mode. Minor pentatonic scale 1 b3 4 5 b7 g minor pentatonic.
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five pitches per octave, in contrast to a heptatonic sevennote scale such as the major and minor scales. The major pentatonic scale is great for playing in any major key, or over a major chord in a song. Check out my free video lessons on my free lessons page. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in. Guitar scale maps connect g minor guitar scales together so you can follow them up and down the guitar neck. For your convenience, i have included a pdf of all the pentatonics. Minor pentatonic the 5 patterns all of the 5 pentatonic scale patterns overlap in the same way with some being easier shapes to play than others. Pentatonic scale has notes that when played generate a pleasant melody, even if it is just the. With its clean, folky sound, the major pentatonic scale is a common scale in folk, blues, country and pop music. How to use the pentatonic scale as major and minor on the. The pentatonic scale can be played in different positions. Get your free instant download of the pdf version of this guide now.
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