Chapter 6 major scales and key signatures 111 scale degrees and solfege because there are seven different notes in a major scale, there are seven scale degrees. It is a very useful scale for improvising over major chords because, of the. Be sure to change scales as the chords change and listen for the sound differences between the major and minor, get lost in the fun. The exercises in this book use the major scale, pentatonic scale, blues scale, and chromatic scale. A minor pentatonic contains scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, and b7. Use the g major pentatonic in folk, country and rock in the key of g when you dont want the blues sound.
For a quick summary of this topic, have a look at pentatonic scale. The word pentatonic implies that there are five notes in these scales, and that is correct. In this tutorial instead of using note names ill refer to scale degree numbers 1 7 of the major and minor scales. With the chords of the scale chords project, you can create nice chord progressions easily. So essentially your bass runs are going to be across the chord and will be using more than one scale. Scale compendium, often referred to as the major 326 or minor 330 pentatonic scale 4, play the shapes found in the exercises, but replace the written notes with the notes of your chos en scale. Youll also learn how you can use the same concepts. There are three ways youll want to learn your major.
The pentatonic major scale high spirits flutes, 800. A major pentatonic scale comes from a major scale by removing the 4th and 7th degrees. It tabs out the pentatonic scales in all 12 major and minor keys. One construction takes five consecutive pitches from the circle of fifths.
For your convenience, i have included a pdf of all the pentatonics. The pentatonic scale, major and minor free piano lessons. This lesson will help you build licks that move smoothly between the two scales, in a blues context but you can use what you learn in any style. Permission is granted to copy, distribute andor modify this document under the terms of the gnu free documentation license, version 1. Once learned, the player can immediately start improvising rock guitar. You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link. Its used for improvisation and also to build chord voicings. Language sitemap guitars scales major pentatonic pattern 15 fingerings major pentatonic scale pattern 15 fingerings in a major. The solution below shows the ab major pentatonic scale on the piano, treble clef and bass clef.
Click here for instant access to the 17 page pentatonic scales chart. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled gnu free documentation license. How to construct major and minor pentatonic scales music. At feelyoursound, we created a midi plugin that does exactly that. Illustrated below is the expanded ii minor pentatonic scale. Meter, scales, and key signatures because the white keys running from c to the next c an octave higher form a sequence of notes that have minor 2nds only between ef the 3rd and 4th notes and bc the 7th and 8th notes, musicians call that series of notes a c major scale. A pentatonic scale is any scale that contains 5 notes. Jan 20, 2018 the solo uses mostly the major pentatonic scale, with some blue notes, mostly minor thirds and chord tones rd5th7th the 12 bar form and solo is playedlooped twice for practicing purposes. The lesson steps then explain how to construct the scale using the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th major scale notes. To view the part 2 video, download the tablature, access the onscreen tab viewer, download the mp3 jam track, and the pdf files for this guitar. The pentatonic scale is use primarily used for soloing. Mix major and minor pentatonic scales like bb king tb004. The root notes in this case a, are shown by the black dots, the other notes in the scale are shown by the red dots. This entry was posted in resource and tagged 3 notes per string, arpeggio, chord, download, fingering, maj7, major 7th, minor pentatonic, pdf, pentatonic scale, positions, scale on october 12, 2014 by jens.
Ive written them out in the key of a but they of course work in any key. Any scale that contains 5 notes can be called pentatonic, but when people talk about pentatonic scales they refer to the minor pentatonic scale or the major pentatonic scale. The most important of these are both major and minor pentatonic. Major pentatonic scale pattern 15 for guitars fingerings. If playing in c major use a minor pentatonic also know as c major pentatonic. Compared to the major scale of the same key parallel minor, the aeolian mode has three notes lowered by a half step. If you start at the g on the 3rd fret of the low e string youll get a g major pentatonic scale. Penta stands for five, meaning the pentatonic scale is a fivenote scale.
Tento a dalsie piny najdete na nastenke noty pouzivatela daniel lacho. The interactive app below lets you generate fretboard charts of pentatonic scales in all keys with custom. Tonal variety you gain an unbelievable amount of options to express yourself when you develop the ability to slip in and out of the main scale. Youll remember in the g major scale shape, there are seven notes repeated in multiple octaves. If you are playing in a major key, then use the relative minor pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale is a major scale excluding the 4th and 7th degrees.
The major pentatonic scale may be thought of as a gapped or incomplete major scale. There are two huge reasons that i advocate learning licks that combine major and minor pentatonics. A pentatonic scale is, as the name suggests, a five note scale. The pdf is for members only, so youll need to login to download it. Later on we shall take a look at the minor pentatonic. The pentatonic scale pentatonic scales have only five notes penta means five. If you are playing in a minor key, use that minor pentatonic. Here are some blank music papers in postscript and pdf formats. Try playing minor pentatonic over minor chords and major pentatonic over major chords within the same jam track. Various positions of the major pentatonic scale pattern 15 for guitars with fingerings on the guitar neck. In this lesson, you will learn how jimi hendrix used the major pentatonic scale in little wing. Upsidedown scale studies for improvisation upsidedown.
The best way to learn them is to choose one scale that appeals to you and spend a considerable amount of time an d energy practicing and thinking of ways. This scale will have its root note on the 5th or a string and you can start with your 3rd finger. Print and download in pdf or midi pentatonic scales. This makes it easy to transpose the scale into different keys and will help give you a broader view of the concepts. Pentatonic scale pdf pentatonic scale pdf pentatonic scale pdf download.
Click here for the best pianokeyboard course ive seen on the internet. For this chapter we will be considering minor pentatonic only. This package contains a guitar method available as a pdf with tabs, audio files and theory providing 40 dominant jazz guitar lines for teachers. You might think of it as a major scale with the 4th and 7th removed. Use the e minor pentatonic scale when playing 12 bar blues in either e major or e minor, it works equally well over both. The five notes of the pentatonic scale create five pentatonic forms that connect together like. By cutting out the 4 and 6 from the major scale, we get a more direct major 7th sound. The major pentatonic scale is mostly used in country, folk country rock, blues and jazz. The major pentatonic is the basic scale of the music of china and mongolia. Ab e major degreeyl v vi c a major pentatonic scale i step pattern.
You can always play the minor pentatonic scale when you are playing some blues solos, but in this quick lesson i will share with you a cool method of. The comprehensive scale catalog is an extensive set of scales that can serve to inspire melodies in your flute playing. As you will learn, these patterns can be transferred to all keys. The lack of the major scales 4th and 7th scale tones makes the pentatonic sound wonderfully generic. But did you know that its possible to transform these chords into great sounding melodies and basslines easily.
Many players use them to get out of a rut and expand their music. There are several varieties but here were just looking at the two most common. 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. The most used pentatonic scale is a subset of the major or its relative minor scale. If these diagrams dont make any sense to you, dont worry click here for a a brief introduction to the pentatonic scale.
In summary, there are 5 main patterns across the fretboard which i encourage you to memorize. 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. Now that you are familiar with the minor pentatonic scale in the basic box position and in expanded i form, lets learn the minor pentatonic expanded ii scale. Major and minor pentatonic scales avoid significant harmonic dissonance by adverting this tritone. Now youll want to get these 2 shapes under your fingers right away. A trumpetspecific, embouchurebuilding supplement to craig fraedrichs scale studies for improvisation. Debussy, pentatonicism, and the tonal tradition pdf. Pentatonic scales pdf and instructional video guitar alliance. The minor pentatonic scale for guitar jazz guitar online. Essentially well play the g major scale, but leave out the fourth and seventh note out.
A pentatonic scale is a scale with 5 notes, while the blues scale is a scale with 6 notes, also known as a hexatonic scale. The catalog is meant to be a tool for exploration of. So a major pentatonic scale consists of only the 1 2 3. These are the four most common scales in pop and rock music. In the major pentatonic scale, we simply take two of those notes out of each octave. However, the pentatonic scale has a unique character and is complete in terms of tonality. I i v vi all notes m i oattern 2 dattern 3 pattern 4 e pentatonic major scale i step pattem. The major pentatonic scale next level guitar lessons. The root notes a in these examples are circled so that you can learn their locations. The major pentatonic scale guitar shapes and theory.
So even if you hit a nonchord tone at a lessthanoptimal moment these notes will be relatively forgiving. The major pentatonic scale uses five notes of the major scale the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and. Below is a download link for the pentatonic scale pdf. Mixing major and minor pentatonic scales guitar lessons. The major pentatonic scale d major pentatonic box shape. The pentatonic scale chose 5 from these notes and created another scale, this is why it is called penta. The shapes of the major pentatonic scale are exactly the same as those of the minor pentatonic scale, except the root note is located else where looking at it from the major scale, if you leave out the 4th and the 7th note of the major scale youll also end. This ebook may be freely distributed but not copied or altered in any way. As you can see above, the e minor pentatonic scale its the same as g major pentatonic same notes. Pentatonic scale pdf a pentatonic scale is a 5note scale derived from the major scale. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. There are a total of 430 finger exercises in this book. Jimi hendrix and the major pentatonic scale guitar.
Violin minor scales book 1 and 2 octave husle, cvicenia. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the heptatonic scale, which has seven notes per octave such as the major scale and minor scale pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations. Caged does a great job of associating major chords with pentatonic scale positions, but you. Pentatonic scales can be both major and minor in tonality. The numerical name for a scale degree comes from its position in the order of the scale from low to high. Above is the a major pentatonic scale shown in 5 positions.
Play a major pentatonic scale in the key of g on the saxophone with lessons from a. Major pentatonic scale the major pentatonic scale shares five notes with the major scale. Pentatonic are the real easy ones and diatonic have a few more extra notes added on. The major pentatonic scale consists of scale degrees 1 2 3 5 6.
Pentatonic scale has notes that when played generate a pleasant melody, even if it is just the. Lets take a look at what makes the aeolian mode so unique. Your aim here is to be able to play a run from the bb major pentatonic for instance, into the c major pentatonic when the chord changes to c major. This lesson will help you build licks that move smoothly between the two scales, in a blues context but. They are still used all over the world, for example traditional music, country music, blues and metal. This article and interactive web app help you learn all of the pentatonic scale diagrams.
The scales are used often for composing melodies and for improvisation. The solution below shows the a major pentatonic scale on the piano, treble clef and bass clef. Similar to the major scale patterns, pentatonic scale patterns can be found across the entire guitar fretboard too. Using minor and major pentatonic together effectively minor and major pentatonic work great together in major keys and can say a lot more than if you were to just use one scale. The pentatonic scale compendia found in section one list all three hundre d thirty pentatonic scales 2 that contain the note c. Using minor and major pentatonic together effectively. The solution below shows the ab major pentatonic scale on the piano, treble clef and bass clef the lesson steps then explain how to construct the scale using the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th major scale notes for a quick summary of this topic, have a look at pentatonic scale. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the heptatonic. Different pentatonic scales for guitar altered pentatonics. There will be a lot more stuff to come, so these basic diagrams showing where your fingers should go when you play the major and minor pentatonic scales will be the first of many free resources to come.
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