![]() If however you feel comfortable playing the minor pentatonic scale, and you are now looking to add some variety to your lead playing, then getting to grips with the blues scale is one of the best places to start. That will set you up with a lot of the information you need to start soloing and improvising in a blues context. If you are fairly new to the world of blues lead guitar and you haven’t yet encountered the minor pentatonic scale, I would recommend starting with my article: ‘ A Beginner’s Guide To The Minor Pentatonic Scale‘. In fact, for many guitarists, the blues scale is the first scale that they learn after getting to grips with the minor pentatonic scale. And as such – it has been used to great effect by countless blues and blues rock guitarists. For example, you can play G Major Pentatonic over a C Major chord or E Minor Pentatonic over an A Minor chord.If you want to create effective blues guitar solos, I would strongly recommend learning the blues scale.Īs the name suggests, this is a scale that creates a distinctly ‘bluesy’ sound. By “being outside the key” means that you don't necessarily play chords and scale that match considering notes. The Pentatonic Scale is a flexible scale for improvising and apart from the standard way, which is combining a scale with chords in the same key, you could also be outside the key. ![]() The Pentatonic scales can also be blended into the Pentatonic Hybrid. Variants of the scaleīesides the two standard version of the Pentatonic Scale there are some variants and these are: The relationship is the same as for the Natural Minor and regular Major. The same notes can be found in Minor and Major Pentatonic scales: Relative keys – Minor and Major Pentatonic The scales (without note names and including the Dominant Pentatonic) in all keys can be downloaded as PDF-files. The Minor and Major Pentatonic scales in musical notation are available in the member area.
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