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Guitar Scales 101
Lesson 4: Minor Pentatonic Scales and
Minor Blues Scales
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A Minor Pentatonic Scale Fingering 1
In lesson 2, you got an introduction to major pentatonic scales. Pentatonic scales are five-note
scales. The major pentatonic scales consist of scale degrees 1,2,3,5, and 6 of the major scale.
Minor pentatonic scales are five-note scales that consist of 1, flat (lowered) 3, 4, 5, flat (lowere
7. There is no scale degree 2 or 6. Notice that, as with major, these are the scale steps that arethe half steps.
Anytime you see minor (and hear minor), a lowered 3 is used. Major has a natural 3 and minor
has a lowered 3.
Let’s create an A minor pentatonic scale, starting from an A major scale.
The third of the A major scale in C#. The flat third is C natural.
Here's the A major scale. Listen and play it.
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Here is the A minor pentatonic in the fifth position. The root is on the sixth string played by the
first finger.
Minor pentatonic scales are very useful to beginning improvisers—actually, to all improvisers. T
magic of the minor pentatonic scale is that nearly any series or combinations of notes soundmusically pleasing, and that gives the improviser great flexibility.
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Here is an exercise using the A minor pentatonic in the fifth position.
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A Minor Pentatonic Scale Fingering 1
The special quality of the minor pentatonic scale is that nearly any series or combination of its
notes sound musically pleasing when played against a variety of chords. The pentatonic scale is
helpful for improvising, and soloing in many styles of music, including jazz, blues, and rock. The
pentatonic scale represents a great way to get started improvising, because it is easy to hear a
play. When I use this pentatonic fingering in improvising, I usually do not play from the root on
the sixth string. I think of the root from the fourth string (played with the third finger). How yo
use the minor pentatonic scale is up to you, the main thing is to use the scale musically.
Since we know that the root is on the sixth string, played by the first finger (or the fourth string
played by the third finger), move around the fingerboard and play some more minor pentatonic
scales.
Minor P entatonic Fingering 1
Find G minor pentatonic:
Bb minor pentatonic:
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Note:
To sharp a note, play one fret higher than the original note. To
flat a note, play one fret lower than the original note. When a
note with a sharp is flatted, the note becomes natural. When a
natural note is flatted, the note becomes a flat. When a flat noteis flatted, the note becomes a double-flat.
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