Pentatonics

[AlexLee]

Am I right to say that if a song is in Major, you play the Major Penta and if it is in Minor, you play the Minor Penta?

But why do most people learn the Minor Penta only?

My friend told me that the scales are related. So, change a notes here and there then can use the Minor Penta in Major songs.

Can someone expain all these stuff to me?

 

[DoubleBlade]

I take it as "change notes here and there" refers to rearranging the notes of a scale to convert minor scale into a major scale?

If so , Well I don't think what your friend said about by changing the notes here and there , you can convert a minor pentatonic scale into a major scale because every scale has it's own notes for both the major and minor scale.

I guess the reason why most people especially the guitarists use the minor pentatonic scale only is because it sounds "nice"? :lol:

For example :

C Major pentatonic scale : C , D , E , G , A , C

C Minor Pentatonic scale : C , Db , Eb , G , Ab , C ( I hope I'm correct)

By rearranging the notes to convert a C Minor pentatonic scale into a C Major pentatonic scale , I doubt that is possible....

You can play a minor scale in a major song but you need to know which major and minor scales are inter-related to each other in terms of the number of flats/sharps they have.

If the song is in G major (1 sharp) then you can play a E minor scale (1 sharp) in it...

If a song is in D major (2 sharps) then you can play a B minor scale (2 sharps) in it etc

You just need to know which minor scale shares the same number of sharps/flats as the major scale.

 

[Mobius]

Because for guitar scale learning, the Minor penta and major penta have the same forms or shapes, but their difference is their root note. For example if u are playing Eminor penta U are oso playing Gmajor penta, exacept that Eminor penta ur root note is E, and Gmajor penta the root note is G.

 

[tany]

relative major and minor

 

[hifi_killer]

Rarely hear somebody actually using major pentatonics in a song. Minor pentatonics are more commonly used than major ones.

 

[jeremyrozario]

the minor pentatonic is derived from the blues scale, or the other way around

 

[mi2tom]

http://www.ibreathemusic.com/article/178

Try this