Learning Blues Guitar - Common Scales Used In Blues Guitar- Part
2
Learning Blues Guitar - Common Scales Used In Blues Guitar- Part
2
By Craig
Bassett
Learning blues guitar can be frustrating if you don’t know what
guitar scales to use. Because of that, in this blues guitar lesson
we’ll take a look at another really common scale used in blues
soloing. Once you master this guitar scale, you’ll have another
great weapon in your lead guitar arsenal! So, with that in mind,
let’s take a look at it now…
Blues Guitar Scale #2: The Major Pentatonic
Scale
This is one of my favorite sounding guitar scales! To my ears,
it has a very bright, open and happy sound to it. Some of my
students have commented that its sound reminds them of country
guitar. (But let’s not hold that against it! You can also use it to
great effect in blues guitar solos).
The major pentatonic scale is a five note guitar scale that has
this formula…
1 2 3 5 6
This formula tells us what we need to do to the major scale in
order to create the notes of this scale. As an example, we’ll work
out the notes of C major pentatonic scale…
Step 1:
Write down the notes that the C major scale uses. Here are the
notes we get by doing this…
C D E F G A B
Step 2:
Remove the fourth and seventh notes from the C major scale. We
do this because the formula of the major pentatonic scale doesn’t
contain a 4 or a 7. This gives us the following notes…
C D E G A
These are the notes of the C major pentatonic scale. Pretty easy
huh?
You now know the theory behind the major pentatonic scale, so
what’s the next step? Putting it into practice! I believe that
learning theory without actually playing it on your guitar is an
absolute waste of time. We all know guitarists who know a LOT of
theory, but their playing still sucks! Because I don't want this to
happen to you, here are a few suggestions to help you apply this
scale to your guitar…
- Map the notes of the C major pentatonic scale onto a fretboard
diagram.
- Make up some fingerings for it on your guitar. There are no
real rules. As long as you stick to the notes C D E G and A, you
are playing the C major pentatonic scale.
- Make up some licks that use the C major pentatonic
scale.
- Practice soloing over some blues backing tracks using the
scale.
- Work out the licks and solos of your favorite blues guitar
players.
The possibilities are endless! The more ways you apply the major
pentatonic scale to your guitar the better. Be creative, work hard,
and most importantly...have fun!
If you are serious about learning blues
guitar, (and would like to TOTALLY master the major pentatonic
scale over the entire fretboard), then go to:
www.GuitarScaleMastery.com
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