Buy My Book Here ➡ rickysguitar.com/store The Major pentatonic scale and its relative minor pentatonic scale share identical notes but start from different degrees. This means both scales use the same set of notes but begin on different starting points. I see them as inversions of each other. When playing either scale, emphasizing the root note (tonal centre) is crucial. The Major pentatonic scale creates a more cheerful, happy sound, while the minor pentatonic scale, lends a sombre, sad sound quality to the music. Understanding this enhances your ability to evoke different emotions in your guitar playing. Plus you only ever need to learn 5 box patterns!
The first shape my guitar teacher taught me was the Em Pentatonic shape and obviously you play open notes as well as otherwise you are playing the G major Pentatonic instead. It took me an age to work that out,ditto the A minor and C major Pentatonic too. Seeing it all mapped out makes it so much easier. Also knowing those two shapes first and knowing they all fit together into each other like a jigsaw has allowed me to work out the other shapes too. Good lesson.
Leaving the four out of the pentatonic scale does not interfere with playing a 1, 4, 5 cord procedure… The Pentatonic scale would be your melody- single note lead, the 1, 4, 5 cord procedure is a cordial rhythm. That’s all- don’t confuse the two things.
I understand how you play major or minor with the G pattern by starting with your pointer or pinky finger but you can't apply that to the other shapes or am I missing something.
Nice one Ricky Thanks ,Just noodling around drinking 'Neck Oil' (not the guitar variety 😆)and up comes a Saturday Surprise. Sun's out and the world is good ......Luckily in my bubble at least!
pentatonics began to make sense to me when I realized that they are always made up of 3 sets of notes 3 frets apart (whole tone) and 2 sets of notes 4 frets (whole & a half tone) ignore one of the e strings since they are the same. The minor root is ALWAYS the note closest to the bridge in the middle set of the 3 fret (whole tone) notes. and the note closest to the nut in the 2nd set of 4 fret notes. The major roots are similar in that one is the note closest to the nut in the last set of 3 fret notes and closest to the bridge in the 2nd set of 4 fret notes. when this finally clicked, I quit worrying about shapes and started thinking intervals. As long as I know the root or 3rd of the chord, I know what notes go with it and can more easily improvise over the chord or key.
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The Major pentatonic scale and its relative minor pentatonic scale share identical notes but start from different degrees. This means both scales use the same set of notes but begin on different starting points. I see them as inversions of each other.
When playing either scale, emphasizing the root note (tonal centre) is crucial. The Major pentatonic scale creates a more cheerful, happy sound, while the minor pentatonic scale, lends a sombre, sad sound quality to the music. Understanding this enhances your ability to evoke different emotions in your guitar playing. Plus you only ever need to learn 5 box patterns!
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Great lesson. Thanks Ricky.
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The first shape my guitar teacher taught me was the Em Pentatonic shape and obviously you play open notes as well as otherwise you are playing the G major Pentatonic instead. It took me an age to work that out,ditto the A minor and C major Pentatonic too. Seeing it all mapped out makes it so much easier. Also knowing those two shapes first and knowing they all fit together into each other like a jigsaw has allowed me to work out the other shapes too. Good lesson.
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I would like you to dive deeper in the major pentatonic and how you would play it along with 1, 4 and 5 chords when there is no 4 in the scale.
Leaving the four out of the pentatonic scale does not interfere with playing a 1, 4, 5 cord procedure… The Pentatonic scale would be your melody- single note lead, the 1, 4, 5 cord procedure is a cordial rhythm. That’s all- don’t confuse the two things.
I understand how you play major or minor with the G pattern by starting with your pointer or pinky finger but you can't apply that to the other shapes or am I missing something.
Nice one Ricky Thanks ,Just noodling around drinking 'Neck Oil' (not the guitar variety 😆)and up comes a Saturday Surprise. Sun's out and the world is good ......Luckily in my bubble at least!
pentatonics began to make sense to me when I realized that they are always made up of 3 sets of notes 3 frets apart (whole tone) and 2 sets of notes 4 frets (whole & a half tone) ignore one of the e strings since they are the same. The minor root is ALWAYS the note closest to the bridge in the middle set of the 3 fret (whole tone) notes. and the note closest to the nut in the 2nd set of 4 fret notes. The major roots are similar in that one is the note closest to the nut in the last set of 3 fret notes and closest to the bridge in the 2nd set of 4 fret notes. when this finally clicked, I quit worrying about shapes and started thinking intervals. As long as I know the root or 3rd of the chord, I know what notes go with it and can more easily improvise over the chord or key.
Yeah ! The 4 fret rectangle and 3 fret Square. If not for B string shift the pattern would Look even easier. Seeing it like that helped me soo much
That's the lesson at the end of this video. ua-cam.com/video/EhgOQJNDVNA/v-deo.html
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