Dennison Williams here. We'll take a look at the minor pentatonic scale.
So we are going to look at the minor pentatonic scale and basically the major and minor pentatonic scales are the exact same scale. There is only a slight difference and I would explain it in the terms of when you are playing the major pentatonic scale, you are essentially gaining a note and in terms of the minor pentatonic scale, you are not exactly gaining a note, I mean, I am trying to distinguish the differences but there really are none.
So here is the major pentatonic scale. Again, this is all tabbed out at guitarticles.blogspot.com.
The sound of A. For the A minor pentatonic scale, you can take your pinky and you will put it on the fifth fret of the E at your A. That's your first note. As you have written out. Then your index finger will go on the second fret of the A string it's your second note, middle finger, Oh! Sorry, ring finger will go on the fourth fret of the A string, index finger will go on the second fret of the D string. Ring finger will go on the fourth fret of the D string, index finger goes on the second fret of the G string, ring finger goes on the fourth fret of the G string, index finger goes on the second fret of the B string, ring finger goes on the fifth fret of the B string, index finger goes on the second fret of the E string high, that's it. And now if you want to conclude it, you can put your pinky on the fifth fret of the high E string which is your A.
But another way to look at it is, it's really the same scale. The minor pentatonic is the same as the major. And one way of looking at how to make a major pentatonic in minor pentatonic is to play a major pentatonic. So I will do it up here.
And then to move it down three frets, so it's like a whole plus a half step. So what happens is right here your pinky will end up instead. So the bass strumation changes from here to here. So --
And it's the same scale, but it's kind of an audio illusion, that kind of tricks your ears. So together it sounds like this --
So even though it's the same scale, it definitely gives a very distinctive effect. And this stuff is exceptional for playing Blues out of, or Jazz or Rock or Melody , or any other stuff, I mean -- you could really get that stuff off.
So learn the stuff, work on it and if you saw my article on major pentatonic and you basically got this one down already, again get stuffs at guitarticles.blogspot.com. Reason I say is because first had video about how to play a simple E7 Blues chord progression, and that's part1 and part2. I want to teach you how to solo over top of that, or rather how to improvise over top of that using the same scales.
So if you get start on that, I will get that video buzzed out for you. So have a great day.
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