The Minor Pentatonic is like the coolest Scale In The World
Like No Scales can match up to the minor pentatonic, it's just so cool
Major Scale VS Minor Pentatonic (Guitar lesson)
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Now it is a fact that no one likes practicing Scales
But wouldn't it make a difference what songs learning a particular scale would lead you on to be able to play.
And also what sound you can get from a whole bunch of similar scales.
So in this lesson I'm giving you an overview of the 2 most common scales. And these should be the first 2 scales that you learn because you can do so much with them!
This is the Major Scales and the minor pentatonic.
Now from those, there are a lot of scales that are very similar, that have the same notes and maybe add one or two others.
So we'll give you a brief overeveiw of those
But Im going to be teaching YOU how to play those scales on guitar
But first of all we're going to turn to the piano.
Now we're going to turn to the piano because it is colour coded.
We have white keys and black keys
Now you don't ever have to have played any piano in your life to get this concept that I'm about to explain to you now
And this is a concept for all music (and all musicians)
It's not just for guitar, but it 100% applies to guitarists. So guitarists- DO NOT LEAVE - Stick around - This is for YOU!
Now what many of you may not know
Is if we play each white key in turn starting from a certain note
In this case 'C'
We are playing the major scale
All i have to do to do that is run my first finger along
(plays C major scale)
That will be a familiar sound to you
because it sounds quite nursery rhyme esque
It is a major scale and that is fundamental to all western music
Now if we do the same thing but start on a certain black key, in this case Eb
we get a different scale; we get the Minor Pentatonic Scale
(Plays Eb minor pentatonic Scale)
Now that has totally different characteristics
And leads us to be able to play lots of different songs, and a very different feel of lead guitar licks (compared to major scale licks) if thats what you're interested in about this video.
So what songs would this enable us to play
Well the major scale sounds very pleasant. It is quite cheerful.
And song examples include Happy birthday
You don't really get more cheerful a melody than that!
We also have 'Ode to Joy'
And you can learn how to play both of those songs on Guitar by clicking the links in the description
So the major scale is very tuneful. It allows us to have pleasant Melodies
The Minor pentatonic scale sounds a little darker, a little bluesy.
And also kinda playground chant-y.
It's very good riffs. And it's very good for memorable hooks.
For Example;
The introduction of 'Hey Joe' by Jimi Hendrix, uses this minor pentatonic scale
And also another good one as a playground chant idea; 'Another one bites the dust' (by Queen)
And that one uses the same notes as a playground chant
The notes themselves dictate what it's going to sound like
Now we can expand on this a little bit
Because the major scale has exactly the same notes as it's relative minor scale
So e.g. if we're in the key of C Major and we play the C major scale again
If I play those same notes but start on A minor
All I have to do is start on the A note
And i'm playing the A minor scale
Again, I'm demoing this on Piano so we can see the colour coding that is offered to us
And that coding is not just specific to piano because these white keys are the Naturals and the black keys are the sharps and flats
So this is applicable to all musicians.
So if we take a couple of recent song examples
One of my most recent uploads was '7 years' by Lukas Graham, a guitar lesson for that.
And we can play that just using the white notes
For the purposes of this demonstration I played this song in the Key of A minor. Therefore i was only using white keys.
Another song we can put in the key of A Minor and have a pretty, pleasant Melody
White is definitive of the Major or relative minor scale
Is Let Her Go by Passenger
You can see it sounds very pleasant/ melodic; it's a pretty melody
Very different to the examples I could give you for the Minor Pentatonic scale
Blues scale, Dorian mode & the Hybrid Blues scale
All of those have this same framework
They all have the same underlying notes as the Minor Pentatonic Scale
And any songs using those notes will have a darker, bluesy or more thematic sound than songs using the major scale, as a general principal
So without further ado lets look at how to play the Minor Pentatonic and the major Scale on guitar in ANY KEY! Let's get in for a close up now
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