Introduction to Major Pentatonics Lesson

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- Nemanja Filipovic7th November 2008
  Beautiful melodies David.
- purple hayes7th November 2008
  I'm loving the country feel. It's in my queue for the weekend.
- berko7th November 2008
  Relaxed and beautfiul, thanx very much
- Emir Hot7th November 2008
  Very nice David
- Zsolt Galambos7th November 2008
  This sound a bit southern to me! I love it!
- Nazgul7th November 2008
  Great, David! This will help me alot!
- Jose Mena7th November 2008
  Nice sounds David, living in Tennessee has had an impact in your playing.
- kaznie_NL7th November 2008
  Nice use of the pentatonic scale!
- Muris Varajic7th November 2008
  Simple and well explained,good job David!
- Kuba Szafran7th November 2008
  Great lesson David:)!
- Alejandro Pinero7th November 2008
  great lesson!
  thanks for this one
- Bogdan Radovic7th November 2008
  Very useful lesson ! Thanks David!
- Ivan Milenkovic7th November 2008
  Very soft and cool sounding
- Hisham Al-Sanea7th November 2008
  nice intro- to Major pentatonics David.
  good work
- Gerardo Siere7th November 2008
  Nice lesson.
- Piotr Kaczor7th November 2008
  Sounds so good! I love this lesson!
- Sinisa Cekic8th November 2008
  Great one David, so cool !
- Dejan Farkas8th November 2008
  Very nice lesson
- David Wallimann8th November 2008
  Thanks everyone. I'll try to get an advanced one coming up soon!
- Marcus Siepen10th November 2008
  very cool lesson
- Alex8714th November 2008
  Great lesson David. Reminds me of the style The Eagles use in some of their country/rock songs
  Which is good when you're a fan
- AlexLion22nd November 2008
  Wow, i`m really enjoying idea of using 3 chords in backing tracks, that makes jamming much more fun and of course more useful. And lesson is cool too:) Would be great to use this idea in other lessons.
- igor20th April 2009
  Lesson extensions improvising in (scales derived from melodic minor):
  A Lydian flat 7
  D Lydian flat 7
  E Lydian flat 7
  
  or/and
  A Mixo flat6
  D Mixo flat 6
  E Mixo flat 6
  
  and/or modal workout in the same position:
  over A7 A Mixo
  over D7 A Dorian
  over E7 A Ionian
  It is a great simple progression that helps playing non diatonic scales over it as mentioned above. Let me know if this is useful guys!

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- Tags: Major pentatonics, Lead, Beginners
In today's lesson we'll talk about the Major pentatonic. If you are starting to build your lead chops and have been using the minor pentatonic, this lesson should help you get your playing a little further by enabling you to play in Major keys.

The theory behind this lesson is simple. Every minor key has a relative major key. To illustrate that let's compare a C Major scale with an A minor scale:

C Major:

C-D-E-F-G-A-B

A minor:

A-B-C-D-E-F-G

Notice how both of these scales share the same notes? That's why they are relative scales. Each Major scale has a relative minor scale. That's the same thing for pentatonic scales. Each minor pentatonic has a relative Major pentatonic.

In other words, if you play an A minor pentatonic and start it from the C note, you'll have a C Major pentatonic scale.

This lesson will go over the chords of A7, D7 and E7.
Each time we change chords, we'll play the corresponding pentatonic.

Memorize everything and have fun!

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