For example, a C Major Scale is made up of C - D - E - F - G - A - B. We count C as 1, D as 2, E as 3 and so on.
All of these notes also appear in the C Natural Minor Scale, so you could also think of it as a cut down Natural Minor Scale if you’d prefer.
So, if you’re already happy with the minor pentatonic and feel no need to broaden your sound with more options or feel like you have enough creative options already, then the rest of this article is not for you!
Mixing Major And Minor Pentatonic
Note that they’re not the same numbers, or scale degrees as the minor pentatonic scale, which means you’ll have gaps in different places to the minor pentatonic.
If you compare that to our C Major Pentatonic scale, you’ll see they’re the same notes, just in a different order. C Major Pentatonic and A Minor Pentatonic are relative scales - the same thing played in a different context.
In practical terms, that means the two scales are interchangeable, so with a bit of music theory knowledge, you can make a Major Pentatonic shape sound like a Minor Pentatonic Shape and vice versa. We’ll talk more about that in a minute.
How To Use The Pentatonic Scale As Major And Minor On The Guitar
The minor pentatonic scale sounds great over songs in a minor key. For example, if the song is in A minor, the A minor pentatonic scale will work really well.
Similarly, any time you’re play over a minor chord, the parallel minor pentatonic scale will work nicely. For example, if the chords progression is Dm - Em - Am, I could match the chords by soloing with a D minor Pentatonic, E Minor Pentatonic and A Minor Pentatonic scale.
That’s the basic use cases, but you can get some other cool effects by playing the minor pentatonic over chords other than straight minor chords, so take this more as a starting point rather than a rule.
Learn How To Mix Modes And Pentatonic Scales For Colorful Guitar Soloing
The first is to take a song in either C Major or A Minor and use both the C Major Pentatonic and A minor Pentatonic to solo over the song.
In effect, you’re really just using one scale, because both scales only have A - C - D - E - G in them, but this is a great way to give you different ways to play the same notes for more creative options.
The left half is the C Major Pentatonic shape and the right half is the A Minor Pentatonic shape. Note that the root notes would be either A or C, depending on whether you’re playing in a song in the key of C Major or A Minor.
Minor Pentatonic Scales
Let’s say you’re doing a solo over a blues in A. You would play the A Minor Pentatonic Scale at times, then move to A Major pentatonic at other times to mix it up.
It takes practice to make it work, as you may hit some clashing notes depending on the chord you’re playing over, but this can really open up your creative options, as you’d now have the notes from A Minor Pentatonic:
In practice, I tend to only use Major Pentatonic for the occasional bit of extra colour rather than considering it a go to scale for every solo, but used in the right way it can really bring an extra dimension to your solos and melodies that really take it to the next level.In this article, were going to combine all 5 essential guitar scales into one combined scale shape. This combined shape will give you a home base when youre playing lead guitar. This shape works great in just about every style of music and gives you a ton of notes to choose from when writing your own guitar licks, solos, or when youre improvising.
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At the bottom of the page, you can download a PDF of all the scale shapes to use as a reference. You can view it on your computer or print it off.
This combined scale shape will include 4 different types of notes. These are the root notes, pentatonic scale notes, major/minor scale notes, and the blue notes. For a more in-depth explanation of the different notes, youll want to read the previous articles on each scale.
For this combined scale, well be working in the key of C major. To start putting this shape together, were going to begin with the C major pentatonic scale. To that, well add the notes that would make this scale a C major scale shape.
Major And Minor Blues Scales
What were left with after adding all these notes is a combined scale shape that gives you all the notes youre allowed to play in the key of C major. Since A minor is the relative minor key, you can use this exact same shape to play in A minor. Just remember that the root notes change from C notes to A notes, which means youll want to accentuate those new root notes a little more.
Technically, if you wanted to build this A minor combined scale shape from the ground up, you would use the minor pentatonic scale and the minor scale. But since they are the relative minor scales we can just move the root notes of the major shape to change the scale shape from C major to A minor.
Heres another view of this combined scale shape. Use the colors to understand how this scale shape is made up and why it works.
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Moving this scale shape to other keys works the same way as the other scales weve talked about. Just move the entire shape so that the root notes land on the root note of the new key you want to play in. If you wanted to play in E major, you would move this entire shape up 4 frets.
This scale shape is incredibly simple to apply. Basically, it gives you all the notes youre allowed to play inside of a key (there are many more, but they are outside of this shape). Its up to you to decide which notes you play and when, but this shape should give you the ground work for infinite riffs and licks.
Remember to really accentuate the root notes of the key youre in. If youre in the key of C major, make sure the C notes really pop out. Also, remember that the blue notes dont occur naturally in the key theyre played in, so use them tastefully to add a different flavor to your licks.
Combining Minor And Major Pentatonic Scales
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Backing tracks Here's a simple 12 bar blues track with click track in the key of C (same one used in the audio examples in the video).
Merged major and minor pentatonic scale patterns As promised in the video, here are some extended major/minor pentatonic patterns that will give you the freedom to move across more of the fretboard. Don't get boxed in!
How To Use Minor And Major Pentatonic Scales In Guitar Playing
Here's how it works: you'll hear standard metronome beat at 60 BPM. Play through the scale pattern, starting on your chosen root (e.g. C) however you wish (don't worry about playing anything elaborate, just play from one note to the next, up and down if you want). I'd use eighth notes to start with. For example, here's me playing minor pentatonic over the track - click to hear.
At random moments, you'll hear a BEEP! That means change from minor to major or vice versa. Again, click to hear an example. The switch doesn't have to be immediate (go easy on yourself!), just make sure you keep time and change as soon as you can after the beep. It's supposed to test your ability to move between the patterns without too much hesitation.
If you're hesitating and taking, say, more than a couple of beats after the beep to change scale, go back and work further on memorising these patterns (with guitar in hand of course).
Mixing Major & Minor Pentatonics
Minor and major pentatonic interchange In the video, we looked at some ways to blend the two scales in a blues context, to ensure that we don't hang on dissonance for too long. After all, when mixing major and minor tonality, as we are with these two scales, there is going to be some dissonance through the chord changes.
Dissonance itself is not a bad thing - we often just need to resolve any dissonant tones to
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