This guitar lesson will show you how to use two simple scales that are the basis for many great sounding guitar solos. A cool thing about the layout of the guitar neck is that it is not necessary to learn a large number of guitar scale fingerings to create guitar solos. In fact, you might be surprised to learn that some of your favorite guitar players only know a small number of scale fingerings—it is their ability to use them creatively that makes their playing sound great.
Today we will learn two simple movablepattern scales on the guitar. These scales are used in rock, pop, blues, country and metal songs. They are very simple to learn. By the end of this lesson you will understand how to use them all over the guitar neck.
The first of our two beginner guitar scales is the minor pentatonic scale. The minor pentatonic scale has a dark, bluesy sound to it. Here is the pattern in the key of A:
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Play through the scale pattern several times so that you become familiar with its sound. If you play an A minor chord each time before you play the scale your ear will really start to hear the sound of the scale.
The major pentatonic scale uses the exact same fingering as the minor pentatonic scale. By positioning the fingering in a slightly different way, we are able to create an entirely different sounding scale that opens up a new range of soloing and improvisational possibilities. It is very important that you have a good grasp of the minor pentatonic scale first before moving on to the major. If you have done your homework on the minor pentatonic, this will be fairly easy for you.
Notice that the A major pentatonic scale uses the exact same fingering as the A minor pentatonic—the only difference is that the major pentatonic is positioned three frets lower on the guitar neck (closer to the headstock.)
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The major pentatonic scale has a brighter sound to it than the minor pentatonic. Play an A major chord before you play the scale to help you hear the sound of the scale.
While both of these scales are considered beginner guitar scales, they are widely used by players of all levels and styles. While simple, the pentatonic scale patterns are very important.
Record yourself playing an Am chord and an Em chord. Play 4 strums (or beats) on each chord, switching back and for at least a minute. You don’t need to create a fancy recording—you can even use your phone to record them.
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Now play back the chords you just recorded and play the A minor pentatonic scale over the chord progression. Can you hear how the notes in the scale sound good over these two chords? Let your fingers get used to the patterns and your ears become familiar with the sound.
Now try creating a melody or guitar solo over the chords. As I said before, do not let the idea that these are beginner guitar scales make you think that the scales are not great sounding!
Now record yourself playing a chord progression using an A major and D major chord like the first progression you did. Now play the A major pentatonic scale over these chords. Do you hear the difference? The major pentatonic is much brighter and “happier” sounding. Different scales create different mood.
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Create a guitar solo using the A major pentatonic scale over the A major and D major chords. You can play the notes in the A major pentatonic scale in any order—experiment and find combinations of notes that you like. When learning guitar scales, the best way to become familiar with them is to start using them right away.
As mentioned before, you can practice away from the guitar by drawing out these patterns over and over again. You can practice learning guitar scales without even having a guitar in your hands.
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A pentatonic scale is a scale that has 5 notes per octave. The minor pentatonic scale is typically the first scale guitarists learn to solo with and is very commonly used to form solos in rock, blues, and other popular styles.
The scale is quick to learn and easy to learn to improvise and phrase with. Once you have mastered the basics of using the scale over a minor chord progression, there is also some more advanced uses based on playing different positions of the scale over a minor chord or moving the scale up or down a fret to get a “playing outside” sort of sound. I might devote lesson to these more advanced uses in the future.
If you would like to practice this scale over a backing track you can use the blues backing tracks or the backing tracks designed for the Aeolian mode or the Dorian mode.
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Once you learn the minor pentatonic scale, it should be relatively easy to learn the blues scale as it is essentially the same with one additional note (a flattened 5th).
As the name suggests, the scale is used heavily in blues but is also used in rock and jazz based styles a lot too. Soloing over the blues using this scale is relatively easy to get the basics of, but you could spend a life time honing the subtle nuances of the style, such as the feel of the bends, the vibratos and the timing of your phrases.
The natural minor scale is very commonly used in rock and popular styles. As well as being used to form solos, the chords formed from the natural minor scale would be the most commonly used chords in popular chord progressions.
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You can read more about this scale in our article on the natural minor scale and you can practice this scale over backing tracks on our backing tracks designed for this scale.
The major scale is heavily used in a number of ways. The chords formed from the major scale are commonly used to form chord progressions, and there is also a lot of theory on how to form harmonies with this scale.
Additionally, this scale is used to form modes which are also commonly used. The natural minor scale mentioned above as well as the Dorian mode and the Mixolydian mode below are all modes of the major scale. You can read more about forming modes from this scale in our article on the modes of the major scale.
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The major scale can be used to form solos over chord progressions that are based on the chords formed from the major scale. The scale is also commonly used to solo over major 7th and major 6th chords in jazz based styles where the scales used may be changing over different chords. You can read more about this scale in our major scale article.
While the natural minor scale is most commonly used in rock and other popular styles to form solos over minor chord progressions, the Dorian mode is more commonly used to play over minor chords in jazz and fusion based styles.
If you would like to practice this scale over a backing track you can use the backing tracks designed for the Dorian mode or alternatively, as the dorian mode is the blusiest sounding mode of the major scale, it will also work over many of our blues backing tracks.
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The Mixolydian mode is the 5th mode of the major scale and is commonly used to improvise over dominant chords in jazz and fusion based styles.
You might also like to take a look at our guitar scales chart for a chart of the main positions of these 6 scales.
When practicing scales on guitar, once you have learned to play a scale position ascending and descending, it’s then useful to start to practice your scales in sequences. This will help ingrain the position of the scale as well as the sound of the scale.
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You should then start to spend time experimenting with the scale, trying to come up with phrases using the notes of the scale that sound good to you.
Then move into experimenting with the scale over backing tracks. As you do this more, this will become more of a spontaneous process. You can find backing tracks to play all of these scales over in our backing tracks section of the site.
Probably the most important piece of music theory relating to scales is how to form chords from a scale that
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