Comments on: The 5 Pentatonic Scale Shapes You Must Know

By: Klaus Tol

Klaus Tol — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:39:12 +0000

Hi Peter,

I totally agree on that. The blue note is the b5 (flatted fifth).

So now we’ve got:
Minor pentatonic = 1, b3, 4, 5, b7
Blues scale = 1, b3, 4, b5, 5, b7

Best regards,
Klaus

By: Peter Levin

Peter Levin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:03:14 +0000

Why not just play the five Blues positions. You would just be adding the blue note and it sounds so much better. (To me anyway)

By: Zac Sullivan

Zac Sullivan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:29:20 +0000

Not too shabby!

Z
@FretZeroMusic

By: Dean C

Dean C — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:31:33 +0000

Hi klaus, just wanted to compliment you on a great website, im on here all the time, videos and tutorials u do here are fantastic, u have simplicity in your teaching, and I being somewhat of a beginner/intermediate player its taught me alot. If you could do a lesson on triads formations(more complex and some simple) id greatly appreciate it!

By: Kieran

Kieran — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:36:31 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve just discovered your website and am finding it very useful.

I understand how to move it to go into different keys but say you wanted to play in the key of C, would that mean that all the scales would start from the 7th fret of the E string? Im confused how you would play the scales on the earlier frets for a key such as C or D.

By: Nino

Nino — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:06:23 +0000

These posts have been so extremely helpful in bringing me to the next level of my guitar playing. Thank you so much for all the time you put into these lessons, I really appreciate it.

By: Magna

Magna — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:59:05 +0000

Excellent post and video. Really helps out. :)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 05 May 2011 05:54:09 +0000

These patterns are very important. Strange though My 2 guitar teachers, one who is self taught and played for 25 years plays awesome jazz has a great band and shreds to anything, and my other teacher who is in a Hendrix tribute band also plays great. I showed both of my teachers the other four positions. These teachers are great even though… One of them I brought to an open mike he played blues (lead) over the resident guitarist and everybody in the room was very impressed.

By: Klaus Tol

Klaus Tol — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:15:03 +0000

Hey Mark,

Good for you!

Once you can play all the shapes, start playing each shape a half step up, a half step down or 2 half steps down, etc. Try to play them every where on the neck, so you learn to think in shapes and not in frets.
It’s a great exercise and you’ll benefit from it.

Klaus

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:42:17 +0000

I can’t stop playing these scales now! thanks Klaus :D