major pentatonic scale derived from major (diatonic) scale

[MrKiaiand]

I've got sunsh--

[jeuelcj8]

verystrangeicantunderstand

[johnhguitar]

Go to a private teacher an get instructions....

[irvinekid]

ive got sunshine

[conradkleinespel]

Pentatonic scale with 5 notes? Weird isn't it?

[LUCASFR0]

Weird? Weird is you...

[conradkleinespel]

I meant 6 notes. If he plays the A note twice, why doesn't he play the whole pentatonic scale?

It goes all along the neck, right?

[LUCASFR0]

right, but why he would do that? The objective is only to show the first position of the pentatonic of A (if it starts in A and finishes in A, its the first position), and if he would start to play all the pentatonic scale every time he thought to refers to it, it would be lost time.

The pentatonic have 5 notes, and yes, it goes to the whole neck, but this happens only because you will repeat the scale, but an octave higher

(Hope you could understand it, "ma english too bad")

[bendrix92]

@conradkleinespel he played the pentatonic scale... he just didn't go through the whole neck with it, if he did he would have just been repeating the same notes with octaves over and over. If you can understand some basic theory then you can take this lesson and easily figure out the full pattern all over the neck.