In episode 61 of the guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your

host Desi Cerna and today I'm going to talk about the difference between the

major and the minor pentatonic scale. A lot of

guitar players get confused about the scales two different tonalities and how they

get applied to music. So I'm going to explain it today and I have some demonstrations

based on familiar songs. But before we

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You should be able to click on a link in the podcast show notes. All right. Well, let's dive straight in today. So you're probably familiar with the

minor pentatonic scale. It's typically one of the first scale patterns that you learn on guitar.

Here's A minor pentatonic in the fifth position.

This is what most people learn as penitonic pattern one.

It is the most popular pattern.

You know that there are penitonic notes all over the fret board and as you move position to position and stay in a key and continue to access those same pentatonic notes, but in different octaves, and in different positions,

that you get different patterns,

you get five different patterns.

And if you're serious about, you know,

riffin and jamming on guitar,

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