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How To Solo With Pentatonic Scales
The 5 tone Blues Scale, also known as the Pentatonic Minor Scale, is commonly used by guitarists to solo over chords. It can be created from any Diatonic Major Scale.
Let me show you how easy it is to create a Pentatonic A Minor Scale from a Diatonic A Major Scale...
The tones of the A Major Scale are:
A B C# D E F# G# A
Each degree (letter) of the A Major Scale is numbered like this:
1 = A
2 = B
3 = C#
4 = D
5 = E
6 = F#
7 = G#
8 = A
The Major Scale pattern of whole steps and half-steps is:
Whole, Whole, 1/2, Whole, Whole, Whole, 1/2
A w B w C#1/2 D w E w F#w G# 1/2 A
To create a Minor Pentatonic Scale from a Major Scale, we simply need to remove the 2nd and 6th degree. Now we have 5 degrees...
A C# D E G# A
(The A is counted as one degree)
Next we need to lower the 3rd and 7th degrees by a 1/2 step to get our minor sound...
A C D E G A
The degrees of our newly created Pentatonic A Minor Scale are identified like this...
1 b3 4 5 b7 1
The beauty of a Pentatonic Minor Scale is it's versatility. Whereas the notes of the A Major Scale might conflict with some of the chords that are used to play in the key of A, the notes of the A Minor Pentatonic Scale will not.
In fact, you can use this same pentatonic scale to play over any of the chords in the key of A Minor and C Major too.
Scales are the backbone to understanding chords and being able to improvise over them with your own licks and riffs. If you're serious about playing guitar, you should try to learn as much as you can about them. You can get started right now with these free Blues guitar lessons....
FREE! Three Video Guitar Lessons & 40-page E-book:
How To Solo With Pentatonic Scales
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Free! Three Video Guitar Lessons, plus a 40-page E-book:
How To Solo With Pentatonic Scales
The 5 tone Blues Scale, also known as the Pentatonic Minor Scale, is commonly used by guitarists to solo over chords. It can be created from any Diatonic Major Scale.
Let me show you how easy it is to create a Pentatonic A Minor Scale from a Diatonic A Major Scale...
The tones of the A Major Scale are:
A B C# D E F# G# A
Each degree (letter) of the A Major Scale is numbered like this:
1 = A
2 = B
3 = C#
4 = D
5 = E
6 = F#
7 = G#
8 = A
The Major Scale pattern of whole steps and half-steps is:
Whole, Whole, 1/2, Whole, Whole, Whole, 1/2
A w B w C#1/2 D w E w F#w G# 1/2 A
To create a Minor Pentatonic Scale from a Major Scale, we simply need to remove the 2nd and 6th degree. Now we have 5 degrees...
A C# D E G# A
(The A is counted as one degree)
Next we need to lower the 3rd and 7th degrees by a 1/2 step to get our minor sound...
A C D E G A
The degrees of our newly created Pentatonic A Minor Scale are identified like this...
1 b3 4 5 b7 1
The beauty of a Pentatonic Minor Scale is it's versatility. Whereas the notes of the A Major Scale might conflict with some of the chords that are used to play in the key of A, the notes of the A Minor Pentatonic Scale will not.
In fact, you can use this same pentatonic scale to play over any of the chords in the key of A Minor and C Major too.
Scales are the backbone to understanding chords and being able to improvise over them with your own licks and riffs. If you're serious about playing guitar, you should try to learn as much as you can about them. You can get started right now with these free Blues guitar lessons....
FREE! Three Video Guitar Lessons & 40-page E-book:
How To Solo With Pentatonic Scales
Till Next Time...
Keep practicing!
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