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Music Theory Monday | 15: Why Pentatonic? Part 1 (Patreon)

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2020-12-07 18:42:29
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2022-03-23 18:05:13
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2022-05

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Hi Everyone!

In this lesson, I discuss how cool it is that nearly every mode fits into the CAGED pentatonic scale shapes and how pretty much everything you're going to play can start with the pentatonic scale and get more complex from there. Then I talk about one common situation where you're likely to have to reach way outside the pentatonic scale to find chord tones - a harmonic minor i - V chord progression.

Things that might be fun to upload or discuss on the community forum post:

• You soloing over the i - V progression (here's the jam track) (here's one with dots)

• Your map of the A, D, or C shaped pentatonic scale with the missing mode notes and harmonic minor notes.

• Your questions about modes

• Any story about how cool dogs are

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Monalize

Hi scott is there a begginer lesson on pentatonic scales

Scott Paul Johnson
>>121753270

CAGED Basics I gives you all the basics you need for CAGED Basics II, which helps you learn pentatonic scales. If you want to understand the theory behind pentatonic scales, they are really just major or minor scales with missing notes. Check out Music Theory for Guitar and Music Theory Monday. If you just want to learn the positions, google something like "All 5 pentatonic scales on guitar" https://www.scottpauljohnson.com/where-to-start

Nathan Stevens

These "Why Pentatonic" lessons in combination with the melody lessons are great and really unlocked some things for me, thanks Scott! I know you could go forever talking about this stuff and need to cut it somewhere, but one other thing that makes the pentatonic magical for me- you can play the pentatonic associated with any diatonic note in a key, and that pentatonic fits within the greater key. For example, if the key is C, you can play C major pentatonic, D minor pentatonic, E minor pentatonic, F major pentatonic, etc...really helps me to go with chord changes and target underlying chord tones.

Scott Paul Johnson
>>92722534

YEAH! I did have to stop at some point. I usually try to avoid making TOO big a deal out of the fact that you can technically play a pentatonic scale over every major and minor chord in a natural key. Mainly to combat the idea that soloing is "simply" using the right scale for the right key OR using the right scale for the right chord. In my opinion, it is absolutely paramount to see soloing as "using the key/scale of the song to accent the chord tones of each chord as they go by." The shortcut of using a pentatonic scale for each chord is pretty cool IF you can also accent the specific chord tones AND use notes from the scale of the key. It's all about progress and whats comfortable for you through your guitar journey.