Guitar Scales Lesson – The 5 Positions of the Major Pentatonic Scale

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awesome video marty! i’ve known most of the minor pentatonic positions for awhile but i’ve been wanting to be more melodic with my patterns!!

#1 
Written By blok31092 on February 21st, 2012 @ 9:16 am

@BeyondEvil308 lol look at the title of the video.

#2 
Written By blok31092 on February 21st, 2012 @ 9:58 am

Can somebody answer…are these for the major pent or minor pent…when i look online, the notes he is playing matches with the minor pent positions

#3 
Written By BeyondEvil308 on February 21st, 2012 @ 10:41 am

@Fsn9HD oh okay, thank you!

#4 
Written By JipaPwneD on February 21st, 2012 @ 11:17 am

@OmnipotentO The root is the main note of the key you are playing. In this case it’s the A note, and when you are playing the major pentatonics along the neck you should end them with the root the A note.

#5 
Written By Fsn9HD on February 21st, 2012 @ 11:21 am

@JipaPwneD the root is the main tone. in this case of the video the root is the A note. You should end your solos in the root, while you are playing the major pentatonics in the key of A.

#6 
Written By Fsn9HD on February 21st, 2012 @ 12:15 pm

hey marty what do you mean with that ‘root’ ? please answear me :)

#7 
Written By JipaPwneD on February 21st, 2012 @ 1:12 pm

to anyone who knows the answer: what is this root note thing and why is it important that he has to point it out every time?
a simple answer is fine
thanks in advance

#8 
Written By OmnipotentO on February 21st, 2012 @ 1:39 pm

Please con you do Orion by Metallica?

#9 
Written By blabla8762 on February 21st, 2012 @ 2:39 pm

@justreba26 They are in A =)

#10 
Written By Okazarak on February 21st, 2012 @ 2:44 pm

What keys are these in?

#11 
Written By justreba26 on February 21st, 2012 @ 3:18 pm

marty can you please teach us heartbreak station by cinderella?

#12 
Written By rocknroll4ever123454 on February 21st, 2012 @ 3:24 pm

I’m guessing that the roots are what you start and finish on?

#13 
Written By SumDoggyDog on February 21st, 2012 @ 4:16 pm

@zitosonic i dont remember if i said this or not but thanks a lot!

#14 
Written By imrickjamesiii on February 21st, 2012 @ 4:51 pm

Excellent! I Drew it on paper, like drawing 6 lines (strings) and i did up to 17 downward lines (frets) and dotted them out. Thanks, great help. also learning Cmaj scale shapes.

#15 
Written By peteq1972 on February 21st, 2012 @ 5:10 pm

Please do a korn song

#16 
Written By FollowTheLeaders1999 on February 21st, 2012 @ 5:53 pm

@Trinitron2222 yes they are the same, the only difference is which chord you play them over :)

#17 
Written By JamWithJimi on February 21st, 2012 @ 6:44 pm

@iTeamEvaDe what happened to the good old : “so you wanna go out or something?” :D

#18 
Written By RockerCroatia on February 21st, 2012 @ 7:17 pm

is it true to say that the F# minor pentatonic scale share the same pattern than the A major pentatonic scale ? Of course roots are different but positions are the same ?

#19 
Written By Trinitron2222 on February 21st, 2012 @ 8:09 pm

@KJohnston95 i said it as a joke lol

#20 
Written By velvetguitar95 on February 21st, 2012 @ 8:55 pm

@JediArroN All scales follow some pattern of half steps and whole steps which repeat notes at regular intervals without duplicating notes in between. For instance, a scale won’t have the notes A B C B because there’s no A before the second B.

#21 
Written By psykokimera on February 21st, 2012 @ 9:17 pm

@JediArroN 1ya thats how its used
2 no you cant unfortunately. the scale and npotes are perfectly arranged to fit its root, and sound good in solos, etc. you could ask a musc scinetist and hed go on and on about how the scale was found and why its important, all you need to know is, when you get more experincd, YOULL NEED IT! :)

#22 
Written By downwithGEICO on February 21st, 2012 @ 10:04 pm

@downwithGEICO So it’s used in solos and jamming and blues stuff?
Can’t I just make my own scale up
E: 1, 2, 3,
A: 1, 2, 3,
D: 1, 2, 3,
Etc

And call it an Arron scale?
Whats so important about this scale? ^^

#23 
Written By JediArroN on February 21st, 2012 @ 10:58 pm

TEACH US THE FOLLOWING SONGS
Drain You(in the tuning that it is in)
My Wave

#24 
Written By EPICVOLUME101 on February 21st, 2012 @ 11:48 pm

@JediArroN NOOB!
no just kidding
1, it is a pattern of notes centered around 5 notes each with its own pattern(which he’s showing us)
2. each pattern involves 2 notes per string and these sets of notes can be used to solo like for example your bud ws playing some A chord stuff, you would chose 1 or several of the patterns that branch off of the A pent. scale and use the notes in each pattern to jam.
*takes a breath*
ah.. answer your question?

#25 
Written By downwithGEICO on February 22nd, 2012 @ 12:29 am