Using Minor & Major Pentatonic Together Effectively
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Learn how to combine the minor and major pentatonic scales effectively and play smoothly between the two scales.
Sometimes, one scale is all you need to create the perfect guitar solo. But by marrying major and minor pentatonic, your vocabulary doubles and you can "say" a lot more.
Usually, mixing major and minor scales creates too much dissonance, but in this lesson, I show you how the two scales can really complement each other, as long as you know how to move between them.
I'm sure that, if you haven't already been combining these two scales in your licks, you will after going through the lesson.
You see, minor pentatonic gives us those bluesy b3 and b7 intervals.
Whereas major pentatonic gives us the sweeter 2, 3 and 6 intervals.
If you're unsure what these numbers mean, don't worry! They simply refer to the position of a note in the scale. I'll show you these in the diagrams in the lesson so you know exactly where to put your fingers to get the note you want.
When you combine these major/minor tones, you can express yourself more freely than if you were restricted to one scale. You have more notes to choose from, which can be more difficult at first, but the more you play around with the "merged scale" the more you'll get to know what works.
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