Ear Fusion Guitar Lessons - How To Play By Ear
Pentatonic scales
Pentatonic scales are real simple. Penta- is a Latin
prefix for 5 as you may know. This simply means a scale with only 5
notes. Different pentatonic scales give songs unique feels. All you
do is take either the major or minor scale in any key and take out
two of the notes. For example, to play the traditional minor
pentatonic scale you would take out the 2nd and 5th
notes of any minor scale. Sticking with the key of A minor, the 2nd
note would be B and the 5th note would be E. Play the A
minor scale without these two notes in each octave and you have an A
minor pentatonic scale. You can take out any two notes of any scale
to make it pentatonic; this is just a traditional pentatonic blues
scale that is popular in some blues playing.
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