Pentatonic Guitar Lesson 1

The pentatonic scale is one of the most popular scales guitar players learn and use. One of the coolest things of the pentatonic scale is that you can’t really play a bad note. This scale is made up of five notes per octave. This scale is derived form playing only five of the seven notes found in the natural minor scale. If you remove the 2nd and 6th notes of the natural minor scale you will have intervals 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Those are the notes that make up the minor pentatonic scale. In the key of A minor the notes are named A, C, D, E and G for intervals 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7.

So by removing the 2nd and 6th intervals from the Minor Scale you remove the chance of playing a bad note due to the fact that those notes are the characteristic notes of the Minor Scale which are the ones that end up sounding sour if not used correctly. This makes learning how to play lead guitar much easier for beginner students.

What’s great about this pattern is you are actually learning the Minor and Major Pentatonic scales. In Pentatonic Guitar Lesson 1 we show you what we like to call the “Happy Finger Sad Finger” technique. So until next time enjoy you guitar lessons - Rick

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