From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
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The major pentatonic scale
From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
The major pentatonic scale
- Okay, so far we've been playing melodies and sounds out of a scale based on the minor pentatonic, but you can also use notes out of the major pentatonic for soloing the blues. It sounds a little bit different, a lot brighter, because it's based on a major scale. If you listen to some B.B. King solos, you'll hear him use a lot of sounds out of the major pentatonic. The formula for a major pentatonic scale is one, two, three, five, and six. Let's look at this in the key of G. We have the one G, A is two, B is three, D is five, and E is six. Here's a 12-bar blues in G using the major pentatonic. (upbeat blues music)
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