One of the great things about being a guitar player other than a factor, we are also cool is the fact now you can take that relationship between the notes. And you can move it up and play the same scale in different keys. For instance, let us good ahead and think of the nut as on your guitar as an access here.
What we are going to do is we are going to take my first finger and we are going to bar across here. You are not going to have to do this when you actually play the scale. I am just showing this to you as an example how does this works.
So know off a sudden, you went up a half set from an E to an F. And now we are going to start here on the F, go up three frets, (guitar demo). Go to do the next string, go up two frets, (guitar demo). The next string you go up two frets, (guitar demo) carefully. Next string you go up two frets, (guitar demo). You go up three frets, (guitar demo), and three frets, (guitar demo). The way we actually play it would be separately. This is an F minor pentatonic scale, (guitar playing).
Okay, this is a great scale position. Empires that could build on this scale position, fortunes have been made on this scale position. It is a movable scale position. Now, once you have learned this you can play in any key. All you have to do is change your root note, your starting note. So I just played it in the key of F minor. Let us move it up before step, we are starting on a G, do exactly the same things. Start on the root note. Go up three frets, (guitar demo). Next string, (guitar demo), two frets, next string two frets, next string two frets, next string three and then three again, (guitar demo).
All right, now we are going to move up to one of the two most popular keys on the guitar. The key of A, we just moved up from an F. Up off whole step to a G, move up a whole step from G to A, and you have got once again, you are going, (guitar demo).
So once again, just sum up about this position. This is by far the most popular pentatonic position on the guitar because you are basing it off of this access like this, it is a horizontal access across your neck and then you just got the same thing happening in every key, (guitar demo). Then I called this the movable E minor position, even though we do it in different keys because it is base off of, (guitar demo) this E minor shape. What happens when you take an E minor chord and you move it up and you bar chords? You have bar chords in F minor, (guitar demo). Try to invasion this chord when you invasion the scale position. And I know it will really help you in kind of honing on where you are suppose to be on the neck.
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