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Guitar Music Theory

Ep91 The Major Scale Contains Six Pentatonic Scales

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

Musictheoryforguitar, Guitar, Guitarscales, Performing Arts, Guitarmusictheory, Music, Guitarlessons, Arts, Guitarchords, Guitartheory

4.6931 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson, I’m going to show you how the major scale contains six different pentatonic scales. Knowing this will help you understand the construction of scales, keys, and how you might want to change pentatonic scales over chords like Jimi Hendrix.

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In episode 91 of the guitar music theory podcast I explain how the major scale

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contains six pentatonic scales. Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your

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host Desi Cerna and today I'm going to explain how the major scale contains six different pentatonic scales.

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Knowing this will help you understand the construction of scales,

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how keys work, and how you might want to change pentatonic scales as you play over courts.

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Maybe this information is just the sort of thing you need to be learning now,

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or maybe your playing needs attention in other areas. If you need

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help determining what you should specifically be working on right now in order to move forward

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with your playing and reach your music goals, go to my website

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guitar music theory.com answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll

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send you free custom video instruction calibrated your current level. I'll put you on the right

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track so you can fill gaps in your playing and reach your music goals. Go to

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guitar music theory.com you can click on the link in the podcast show notes. I'm going to. All right, so today we're going to talk about how the major scale contains six different

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pentatonic scales and I just gave you a little example of the sort of thing you would do with this information.

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I'll talk more about what I played there later, but why don't we dive in?

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And the first thing I'll talk about is my guitar tone.

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I'm using my Kemper profiling amplifier.

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I'm using a profile of a

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1968 Marshall Super lead. I've got just a little bit of

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reverb and a very slight slap back delay on here. A little bit of

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compression before it.

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And it's not completely clean it's set with a little bit of

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