The Major Pentatonic provides a great alternative to the standard Major scale, and is common in country, blues, and rock, through to indie and pop. Like the Minor Pentatonic, it features a five ...

The CAGED chord shapes can be a great way of learning the geography of the fretboard. The shapes, both major and minor, occur in every position and key just like the pentatonic boxes. In fact ...

Obviously, if you transpose a scale to a new key, you get a new series of notes, so it’s useful to memorise the gaps between each note (aka ‘intervals’). In the minor pentatonic scale every interval ...

Pentatonic scales are extremely common in a variety of musical cultures, such as traditional Japanese, but because of their simplicity, they’re also used a lot to construct memorable melodies in pop ...

The black keys alone are a Gb major pentatonic scale. The text you quoted does not say C major anywhere. Report comment. Reply. X says: October 25, 2018 at 6:01 am Oh yes. You are right.

Tonality: B major. The two main riffs are presented: A chordal riff of A- G#m-C#m in a distinctive rhythm which is syncopated. An ostinato pattern in fourths based on the E major pentatonic scale ...

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. At the World Science Festival in June, Bobby McFerrin did this ...

To finish, I’m getting back into a shape 5 E major pentatonic to demonstrate how these live in the same territory and how easy it is to switch from one to the other.