The Major Pentatonic Scale
Blues Guitar & Beyond • 7m 49s
The great thing about the Major Pentatonic Scale is that you actually already learned it–it is made up of the same exact positions as the Minor Pentatonic Scale. The patterns of Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales are the same, i.e. the 'boxes' look the same, as you can see in the downloadable Pentatonic Scale Positions PDF. But the important difference is the location of the root note, which will depend on the key you’re playing in.
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