From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs

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The pentatonic scales, part 1: G and C

The pentatonic scales, part 1: G and C

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The pentatonic scales, part 1: G and C

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- We're going to move into some different sort of scales now. We worked on major scales, using all six strings, with access to four frets, four fingers. We talked about the basic, the way a lot of people sing the major scale is ♫ do re mi fa sol la ti do ♫ Right, and, another way to think about that is in numbers. ♫ One, two three four, ♫ One, two, three, four, ♫ Five, six, seven ♫ And then back to one again. So, just a quick little run through, with C again. That's, we'll, there's C, there's your one, and so, in the six string concept, beyond the octave that starts on the E as the third, So, ♫ Three, four, five, six, seven, one ♫ And then on. And so, the next sort of batch of scales that we're going to work on are called pentatonic scales. And the reason they're called that is because there's, it's the pentatonic word means five tones, right? So it starts, starting on the one note, we're in the key of G now, start with G, you know, our G major scale with a open strings, looks like…

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