Beginning Guitar VI - Scales - The Major Pentatonic

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Beginning Guitar VI - Scales Lesson 5 - The Major Pentatonic Lyle: In the past 4 lessons you've learned 4 very important and useful scales: the major, the minor, the minor pentatonic, and the minor blues scales. Lyle: The next scale for you to learn is the major pentatonic, which is made from the 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 degrees/tones of the major scale: 1 - E major scale and major pentatonic Lyle: The major pentatonic is used in blues, country, and rock styles of music. I like to call it the "country pentatonic" and the minor pentatonic I like to call the "blues pentatonic". The minor pentatonic sounds bluesy and the major pentatonic sounds country to me. Lyle: Here's an easy way to play it: 2 - E major pentatonic open position 1 dan: What is the metal pentatonic :) ? Lyle: The minor pentatonic is used in metal music. Lyle: Doesn't it (the major pentatonic) sound country to you? Lyle: Here's a two octave pattern for E: 3 - E major pentatonic open position 2 BigTX: Yee Haw Brad: I recon it does sound country! Lyle: Here's one of my favorite positions to play this scale. This uses a pattern that starts on a root note from the 5th string: BigTX: Almost looks like a minor pent pattern? Lyle: Yes. The E major pentatonic has a "relative minor" pentatonic, the C# minor pent is the same notes: E maj pent - C# min pent Lyle: Here's a cool extended pattern to try: Lyle: Find a pattern you like out of any of these and play along to this looping jam track: Jam Track in E Lyle: Here's a 4 octave spread for the E major pentatonic: 6 - E major pentatonic - 4 octaves Lyle: The patterns I'm showing you are the most used patterns to become familiar with. Lyle: Try stringing , pardon the pun, together a few of the E major pentatonic patterns together to make a solo, like this: solo example 1 solo example 1 Lyle: If you want to get tricky, try changing the major pentatonic with each chord change. In the jam track there is the E, A, and B chords used. Change or follow each chord with the right major pentatonic like this: solo example 2 solo example 2 Lyle: If you like this sound and soloing technique, I made a series of lessons about this very subject in a Riff Interactive CD-ROM titled Country Guitar for Beginners. Lyle: Try this solo example in a new key of D: solo example 3 in D Jam Track in D Lyle: There's a jam track for you to play with in D. solo example 3 in D Lyle: All these major pentatonic patterns can be moved to different keys. Just locate the root note you need and start your patterns from there. Here's a few examples: 7 - G major pentatonic 8 - A major pentatonic 9 - B major pentatonic BigTX: Why are you changing between the different scales? If the song is in the key of D wouldn't you stick with that scale? Lyle: You can stick with it or change when using the major pentatonics against major chords. This is a soloing technique covered in the CD-ROM titled Country Guitar for Beginners. Lots of cool solos and major pentatonic riffs there for you to learn in the country style. Lyle: The major pentatonic is used in rock and blues too. Here's a simple example of me using the E major pentatonic over a rock ballad jam track in E major: solo example 3 in E rock jam Lyle: Now you have reached the end of this series on scales for beginners. Here's a good study for you to do. These next TABs cover each of the 5 different scales taught in this series. scale study 1 Lyle: See if you can play scale study 1 all the way through. Lyle: Here's a few more scale study TABs for you to learn and practice. These will help you memorize the name, shapes, and sounds of each different scale from these lessons: scale study 2 scale study 3 scale study 4 Lyle: There you go, this should keep most of you busy for awhile! BigTX: Man, how do you keep all the patterns straight in your head. Lyle: Practice. Lyle: And this isn't all the scales or patterns, there's many more!!!! Lyle: Ok, thanks everyone, we should take a break for now.	<< load notation from left
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