Now you know your caged system major chords, the next stage it to attach or layer on to them a useful scale. Notice that the notes repeat along the entire width of the fretboard, based on the formula for the scale. One of the best ways to start becoming comfortable with a new scale or pattern is to try and create a few interesting riffs with that scale. You could simply dive into the scale library and start playing scales every spare minute of the day. The pentatonic minor scale is a five 5 note scale penta meaning five like in pentagon, and tonic meaning tone. E minor pentatonic guitar scales guitar scales chart. This lesson gives a brief overview of the major and minor pentatonic scales on the guitar, which are in my opinion the only 2 scales you really. However, the scales we are concerned with here are the most commonly used for guitar, the major and minor. How to play the e major pentatonic scale on guitar. There are three ways youll want to learn your major pentatonic scale forms.
Guitar scales the pentatonic scale is a favorite of many guitarists and its easy to see why. Notice how both an e minor em chord and a g major chord fit into pentatonic pattern 1 in the open position. These patterns are the key to unlocking the power of the pentatonic scale on your guitar. For each scale, you can learn a number of different shapes and patterns, depending on the zone of the fretboard youre working on. In this case the pentatonic pattern is a eminor pentatonic if you start on the e note but a gmajor pentatonic if you start on the g note. Here is the equation of the minor pentatonic, have a look at how it relates to the natural minor scale.
It is the first, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh notes of e natural minor and spells e g a b d e in many ways, this is the most important scale for guitar students to first learn and master, whether they understand it or not, because it is the primary scale used in rock and blues. Show me chords that sound good with an e minor pentatonic scale. Wikipedia has a nice article on these scales including the others here. Often when this scale is used in improvisation, you can use your 3rd finger instead of your 4th on 1st, 2nd, and 6th strings. You understand how caged works and how to practise scales in positions. In this lesson youll learn the one scale that is responsible for about 95% of all the blues licks you hear the minor pentatonic and minor blues scale. The minor pentatonic scale uses the 1a, 3c, 4d, 5e, 7g notes of the. Each of the five chapters focuses on 1 of the 5 patterns of the caged system. You will find in this booklet 25 easy jazz guitar lines with theory using common and rare pentatonic scales. Learn how to play the e minor pentatonic scale on bass guitar with our free tab, sheet music, neck diagrams, and more. There are five 5 positions to learn in a pentatonic scale. Once learned, the player can immediately start improvising rock guitar. Here is a guitar fretboard diagram of the e minor pentatonic scale. The root notes a in these examples are circled so that you can learn their locations.
The minor pentatonic scale is probably the most commonly learned, practiced and used scale by guitarists of all genres. Now lets play the c major scale starting from the third note e. A minor pentatonic scale root note fret position burn up the guitar fretboard with the pentatonic scale. Now, we will look at the major and minor pentatonic scales, and see how the. Major pentatonic scales in open position closed mobile major pentatonic scales forms horizontal. Scale pentatonic minor 1,b3,4,5,b7 fullth pattern root note e guitar tuning. The 6th note of any major scale is the root of the relative minor scale. 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.
Free guitar scales pdf 84 scale and arpeggios chart. The minor pentatonic scale works well over minor chords. In the diagram below the first pentatonic scale pattern is shown together with four more patterns. As the name would suggest, the minor pentatonic scale contains 5 notes. The minor pentatonic scale for guitar jazz guitar online. This printable pdf ebook available for free download. Any one know of any decent songs that would help practicing these practing going up and down scales can be fine, but pretty boring and pretty limited, and probably not a lot of pratical use. Why the minor pentatonic scale is not the best option to use am pentatonic scale box position lets start with questioning the good old minor pentatonic scale. The natural minor is the aeolian mode of the relative major scale. It is similar to the natural minor scale, the alteration is that you need to omit the second and the sixth notes from the minor scale. Play guitar solo in any key with 5 major pentatonic scale.
Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. Language sitemap guitar scale minor pentatonic scale fingering minor pentatonic scale pattern 15 fingering in a minor root. By adding just one note, we transform e minor pentatonic into a funky. A tab example has been provided for each of the new patterns.
Still, this scales importance cannot be underestimated, as it is used in so many genres of music, from rock and blues to country and bluegrass. Soloing with the combined minormajor pentatonic scales all guitar chords. And pretty soon the new notes from scale to scale will. Many intermediate guitarists get stuck playing only this scale over a dominant blues.
How to learn the pentatonic scales with 5 box patterns. The ebook contains the most important scales for beginners, such as major and minor, but shows also more advanced. Pdf total guitar the ultimate scale book guilherme mauricio. So lets check out a e minor pentatonic scale built off ofthe thickest string, we start out and you have open e. The first step is to be able to see the two scales and then put them together, seeing the minor pentatonic and major pentatonic scales at the same time. Get your free instant download of the pdf version of this guide now.
I have a dvd and download called master the major scale which goes into a detailed practical approach to learning to use that. The pentatonic scale can function as both major and minor on the guitar. Healing dynamic rock ballad guitar backing track in. Learn the pentatonic scale guitar secrets, free online. Strum a g minor chord, then play with the notes in the pattern. Inside dramatic ballad guitar backing track jam in d minor sjt374 4. Cages hard rock guitar backing track jam in a minor sjt375 3. The e minor pentatonic scale is a useful and fun guitar scale to know. How to use the pentatonic scale as major and minor on the. The open strings themselves even make up the notes of the e minor pentatonic scale.
This pentatonic pattern is a great one to practice with to develop the pattern that will really make your solos. How to play the minor and major blues scales with solo examples. Dont let the word pentatonic scare you off, it just means a five note scale. Minor pentatonic is, once again, a strippeddown 5note version of the full e minor scale. However, it also works over sequences of chords chord progressions. Take a look at the difference between the first video below featuring the eminor pentatonic and the second video on the page featuring gmajor pentatonic and compare. To help us visualize the scale, there are 5 minor pentatonic scale shapes. Tabs, fingerings, box patterns, licks, pdf and more. Well take a closer look at each of the new patterns below. Clouds atmospheric ballad guitar backing track in b minor sjt376 2. Pentatonic scales for guitar a pentatonic scale has just 5 notes.
The blues scale minor pentatonic and the major pentatonic scales. We can continue this for the other notes of the major scale, but i guess you get the picture. Introduction practice riff 1 riff 2 riff 3 what have we achieved so far. To understand how this works, look at this example. How to play the e major pentatonic scale on guitar youtube. Minor pentatonic chord progressions in the minor pentatonic scale lesson we learned the intervals that make up the scale and that its basically a minor scale that will work over minor chords. Heres a free guitar scales pdf ebook 22 pages with plenty of scales and arpeggios patterns. The 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th note are a half step lower compared to the ionian mode. At at the moment, im being taught the minor pentatonic 5 boxes etc, mainly in the key of e i. Neck diagram with pitches neck diagram with scale degrees. The word pentatonic implies that there are five notes in these scales, and that is correct. For this chapter we will be considering minor pentatonic only. For example, the major scale is a scale you can use over major chords.
This scale is a mustknow melodic device for guitarists exploring the world of improvised music, be it in the jazz genre or otherwise. E d g b e a pentaton c minor scale box 1 glitarsik. By far, the most used and convenient scale to know on the guitar is the minor pentatonic scale. The 12bar and e major pentatonic scales respectively above, left. Pentatonic scales are used throughout the world in manydifferent genres of music and specifically,in rock, its extremely important. 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. Minor pentatonic scale pattern 15 for guitar fingering.
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. Learn how to play the e major pentatonic scale on the guitar for better solos without. The a minor pentatonic scale contains exactly the same notes as the c major pentatonic, were just starting from a different place. How to tell when you can use the e minor pentatonic scale in a way that musically works and. In most cases, as long as the chords used in the progression lie within the same key more on this in a minute. Show me chords that sound good with an e major pentatonic scale. My blues lead guitar series will teach you all about using the minor pentatonic, the blues scale, the major pentatonic, dorian and mixolydian modes. If we are soloing using minor scales, we use minor chords. 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.
Once there, you can also download a pdf copy of the lesson. You can start with e minor pentatonic, but the same notes and patterns can also produce g major pentatonic. The a minor pentatonic comes from the natural minor scale. Scale diagrams can also be labeled with either letters or scale degrees. The minor pentatonic scale is quite possibly the most used and, suffice it to say, overused scale on the guitar. The second group of scale patterns are applied to major scale fingerings. Because this scale is so commonly used it is the perfect scale for you to start with. The first improvisation session covered the e minor pentatonic scale in the open position and gave you an idea of what you can achieve as you learn the magic of improvisation. The key to understanding the minor pentatonic scale. As youll see, if you know all five positions of the pentatonic scale, you can apply this very same principle all over the guitar neck. The scale is made up of five notes per octave, thats why it has the word penta, meaning 5 in greek. You will be learning two types of pentatonic scales, one is the minor pentatonic scale and the other will be the major pentatonic scale.
So, for example, try creating a few guitar riffs using the g minor pentatonic scale in the third position beginning on the 8th fret. After showing you the 5 minor pentatonic scale patterns and 5 major scale patterns it would be remiss of us not to post the 5 major pentatonic positions as wellso here you go straight away, seeing these, its obvious why the minor scales are preferred by most guitarists. Master the caged system for guitar fundamental changes. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. Complete collection download all my guitar backing. Note the use of the odd b2nd f in an otherwise e minor hexatonic line e minor pentatonic with an added 2nd. We are now going to start progressing further by giving. Learn how to use the e minor pentatonic scale for maximum awesome.
As you will learn, these patterns can be transferred to all keys. Various positions of the minor pentatonic scale pattern 15 for guitar with the fingering on the guitar neck. Use your 3rd finger to shift positions on the way up. For a start, the positions and fingering are easier to memorise, plus the minor scale will always be more forgiving. The minor pentatonic scale has the moody, dark and bluesy tone that many blues songs call for. If you start at the g on the 3rd fret of the low e string youll get a g major pentatonic scale. If you worked the pentatonic scale patterns, try playing the pattern below without reading the music.
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