Major Pentatonic Scale Lesson

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- Kristofer Dahl5th October 2007
  Great explanations - and if you know the minor pentatnoic scale (usually the first thing a beginner gets to learn scale-wise), be sure to study this lesson. It will make you recycle your licks like never before!
- Muris Varajic5th October 2007
  Great phrasing David,love it!!
- Amarok5th October 2007
  Thanx for another great Lesson, you rock man!
- Ben N5th October 2007
  you got that right my friend!! i had
  aproblem to play on the major scale it just
  did'nt sound good... the minor
  on the other hand came naturaly for me...
  this lesson solve
  all my problems thanks!! i realy needed
  that one!! good job keep it coming
- krudtaa5th October 2007
  really helpful stuff.thanks.
- eddiecat7th October 2007
  Thank you, David!
  This is so helpful. Beautiful!
- Juan M. Valero7th October 2007
  Great lesson !!! and good diagrams
- craig penketh7th October 2007
  excellent lesson good way of learning a scale and turning it into a lick.
- seanM18th October 2007
  Awesome explanation in vid 1!
  Just that helped me out so much, cant wait to try the actual lesson!
- zoom8th October 2007
  Hey David I really love this groove and I'm really enjoying play these licks along to the backing track. Thanks!
- David Wallimann5th February 2008
  Thanks guys for the comments. :-)
- shideru_guitar14th February 2008
  UR LESSONS ROCK!
  THEY JUST DO !
- Carlos Carrillo21st February 2008
  David!!!great lesson!!just what i need...
- Melodicintenions4th April 2008
  Recycleing my Riffs now~!
- Jesse28th July 2008
  No offence, but when I hear the beginning, it should be in a commercial or something:O Sounds good ! Or as for a theme of a semi-comedy serie... !!Nice one!!!
- Daniel Realpe29th December 2009
  this is one very underrated scale. SRV uses it very much and makes it awesome

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  let's unleach the secrets of the major pentatonic scale. A major pentatonic scale has 5 notes (root, maj 2nd, maj 3rd, 5th and maj 6th). The most important thing to understand is that every major scale has a relative minor scale.
After exploring the endless possibilities of the minor pentatonic scale, we'll unleach the secrets of the major pentatonic scale.

A major pentatonic scale has 5 notes (root, maj 2nd, maj 3rd, 5th and maj 6th). The most important thing to understand is that every major scale has a relative minor scale. To understand let's compare a C major scale aith an A moinor scale:

C Major:
C D E F G A B

A minor:
A B C D E F G

Notice that these two scales have the same exact notes. The only differenbce is the starting point of these scales. In othre words, if we use the notes above on a C Majotr chord, the scale is going to sound Major. If we use it over an A minor chord, the scale will sound minor. A note by itself has a meaning depending only on what chord is played behind.

If we apply this concept to a minor pentatonic, we'll see that if we start a minor pentatonic scale on its second note, we play a Major pentatonic.

This lesson is in C Major pentatonic. Study the examples and try to improvise over the backing tracks.

Enjoy!

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