Learning the Major Pentatonics Lesson

- Kristofer Dahl30th November 2007
  Great stuff David!
- The Uncreator30th November 2007
  Great lesson as always!
- Ben N30th November 2007
  great David love your licks I always had a hard
  time to fill the major pentatonic... the minor came more naturaly for me.. your lesson helped a lot!
  thanks
  Ben N
- Wyvernx30th November 2007
  Sweet! I need to work on these!
- Pablo Vazquez30th November 2007
  So good. Another excellent work!!
- Unleash-The-Shred30th November 2007
  Great lesson, by the way just wanted to let you know that the word learning in the title is misspelled.
- eddiecat30th November 2007
  This is another great, great lesson!
  Thank you very much!
  You're a great teacher!
  Cheers Eddie
- Bogdan Radovic30th November 2007
  Great theory lesson David , keep them coming !
- Bedlam30th November 2007
  Very nice, everyone should learn this lesson!
- SLASH911st December 2007
  Great lesson. I've been trying to learn theory for the past few weeks, and this lesson is perfect for that. Keep up the good work
- Juan M. Valero1st December 2007
  Great David !!! as always
  
  See you
- botoxfox1st December 2007
  Cool stuff...
- EGMONT 196313th December 2007
  SALUT DAVID
  JE TE SOUTIENT DANS TA LANGUE NATALE
  
  très bon exercice pour ré-activer mes vieux os
  UDO
  Belgium
  ps : j'ai trouvé le line6 spiderII mardi prochain je vais le chercher .A+
- David Wallimann13th December 2007
  Excellent! Tiens moi au courant et dis moi si l'ampli te plait!
  
  QUOTE (udoo7 @ Dec 13 2007, 05:26 AM)
  SALUT DAVID
  JE TE SOUTIENT DANS TA LANGUE NATALE
  très bon exercice pour ré-activer mes vieux os
  UDO
  Belgium
  ps : j'ai trouvé le line6 spiderII mardi prochain je vais le chercher .A+
- Griller19th December 2007
  I know this has already been addressed but I want to re-itterate it's importance...It would be SO awesome to have the backing tracks loops. You get on a roll or like me...having a breakthrough moment when you can actually keep up or almost keep up with these incredible instructors and the *@#**&# backing track stops....AHHHHHHHH! It's the glue man.....the glue....the rythm and tempo...thanks for letting me vent. This Place is truly top of the line. Thanks to every instructor and person behind the scene.
- Terry And Guitar8th January 2008
  Hi David, your simpler theory lessons on scales such as these have helped me tremendously, so thank you! But i did notice in the video that your doing little bends every once and a while, i would really appreciate it if the bends were labeled on the tabs. THANKS
- David Wallimann8th January 2008
  QUOTE (blakflag @ Jan 7 2008, 10:29 PM)
  Hi David, your simpler theory lessons on scales such as these have helped me tremendously, so thank you! But i did notice in the video that your doing little bends every once and a while, i would really appreciate it if the bends were labeled on the tabs. THANKS
  
  I'll keep that in mind in my next lessons!
  These bends are micro bends and I use them without thinking about it. They're not intentional, but make the lead a little more musical.
  As a matter of fact you'll see a lesson on that subject coming up soon.
  Thanks for noticing!
- Terry And Guitar8th January 2008
  ahh np, i really enjoy listening to them
- Melodicintenions4th April 2008
  amazing work as always keep it up!
- Carlos Carrillo6th May 2008
  amazing!!!
  
  excellent David!!!
- Jessy24th February 2009
  Hi david !!
  There are a little error in your guitar pro file.Position IV.
  Bye
  
  PS : Tu parles français ?!
- David Wallimann24th February 2009
  QUOTE (Jessy @ Feb 24 2009, 11:27 AM)
  Hi david !!
  There are a little error in your guitar pro file.Position IV.
  Bye
  
  PS : Tu parles français ?!
  
  Ah, thanks for spoting this!
  I'll fix it in a bit!
  
  Oui je parles Francais. L'anglais c'est ma 2eme langue.
  J'ai demenage en Amerique y'a 4 ans...
  Tu es Francais toi?
- Jessy25th February 2009
  Salut David,en effet je suis Français.
  Dire que je t'ai déjà écris en anglais (mon pauvre angalis) pour te demander des infos sur le sweeping et sur les positions en triad....J'avais un fichier word à te montrer que j'ai commencé à faire.
  Comment faire pour te le faire parvenir ?
  
  Si je ne me trompe pas tes playbacks sont trop court pour jouer toutes les positions de ce cours. Isn't it ?
  
  Jessy

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- Tags: Major pentatonic scale, Relative minor pentatoinic
Today's lesson will help you memorize the 5 positions of the pentatonic scale. We'll work in A major.

The major pentatonic scale has a relative minor pentatoinic scale, which means that both of these scales share the same notes and positions.
What makes one sound major or minor depends on the chords in the background.

Memorize these positions and try them on the backing track I provided here. Thisa is an excellent exercice to memorize them and be comfortable with them all across the fretboard.

Have fun!