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03/09/2003 6:01 pm
I have been searching the books and the internet but I cannot find what I need. Please help!!!! ???
A lesson in Guitarone had a diagram with 5 minor pentatonic patterns that spanned the fretboard. I noticed the patterns repeated so I created my own diagram that spanned from the open strings to the 24th fret. That gave me 10 positions to play in. I memorized them and it has really helped my improv. I did the same with the major pentatonic and the major scale. I cannot figure out how to diagram the natural minor scale that way.
03/09/2003 6:12 pm
I just came across this while poking around looking for diagrams:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Windows/guitar21.html
I have no idea if it's worthwhile, but you might want to have a look at it. If you decide to try it out, let us know what you think.
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03/09/2003 6:18 pm
you should also find that you can pretty much us the diagrams you made for the major scale. For instance C major is the notes C D E F G A B C. Now Am is the relative minor of C major. So if you play C major from A to A (instead of C to C) you are playing Am...
Well hopefully that should save you drawing any more diagrams :)
You'll also find you get a whole bunch of different scales if you start from different places in the scale. For example if you play from D to D in the C major scale, this this is a dorian scales... this is playing modes, and there is an article on the main page now about modes, so you should maybe have a read of that as well...
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03/09/2003 7:07 pm
I know that a relative minor scale shares the exact same notes as the corresponding major. In fact I diagrammed the G maj penta. and the E min penta. scales (which are identical) and annotated the root notes in a different color. I have the G major scales diagrammed but I cannot find corresponding E minor patterns. I did find one however, it goes
__5__7_8_
__R__7_8_
4_5__7__
4_5__7__
__5__R__
__5__7_8_
What about if I took the minor pentatonic patterns and added the 2nds and the 6ths? Hey teachers would that work?
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03/09/2003 7:22 pm
That did it. Simple and easy to do. All I did was figure out what notes were missing from the min. penta scales and added them.
03/09/2003 10:31 pm
I could have saved you the effort, they are laid out here:
http://people.freenet.de/greybeard/
There's Amin, Amin pentatonic/blues and GMajor.
Just move the patterns and change key.
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