From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
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The five positions of the major pentatonic scale
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
The five positions of the major pentatonic scale
- And now for the five positions of the major pentatatonic scale. Now the shapes are the same as the minor pentatonic scale, but you're going to look at a different note as being the root. So, let's check this out in A. Since we're doing A major instead of A minor, the first shape is actually just going to start with your pinky. So, instead of A minor pentatonic scale which started with the index finger, you're going to play the same scale but three frets lower and looking at your pinky now as being the root note A. Okay, so I'm going to play all five shapes that are build off of that, and I'm just going to accent the A note which is the root of the key. Let's go to shape number two now. Shape number three. Shape number four. And shape number five.
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