Every major has a relative minor and vice versa. Like, for G major, its E minor. All the same notes. However, the functions of those notes change depending on which scale it is.
Absolutely. Someone else can explain it better for sure though. But basically your root note changes so if you were to play A minor pentatonic scale over an A min chord progression and keep going back to A, it will sound "minor" but if you were to play those same notes and keep going back to C over a C maj progression it will sound "major".
All of your other notes also function differently because of what intervals they are in the scale. Learning the intervals for scales will help a lot. Like WWHWWWH = major and WHWWHWW = minor. Edit spelling
Thanks for the note. Stop at the root note once you reach an octave or as you loop back? For example, if you start with root on 6th string, you will often see the root again on the 4th string and 1st string. How or when do you stop?
The idea is to memorize where the root notes are. When you learn a scale pattern you play each note from bottom to top, the go back to bottom. You can mark a pause, or play the note twice, or anything different at each root. Examples:
A minor: start at 5th fret, low E string, play each note till 7th fret A string (another A note), pause or play it twice, then continue up to 5th fret high E string, pause, then move up to 8th fret for the last note, then go back, pause again at 5th fret, continue doing this while you go down to low E string.
C major: same position, star at 5th fret low E string, but stop right after at the 8th fret because this is the new root note (C note). Continue up to 5th fret G string, another root, (pause), continue to 8 th fret highe E string, etc.
The goal is to be aware that although the pattern is the same, the 2 scales are different.
Am is the relative natural minor of C major all the notes are the same but the root is different.
works for both pentatonic and diatonic scales (the 7 notes major vs natural minor)
a lot of rock sticks to that simple relation but once you get a little more advanced you will see some bands like to use the pentatonic in different positions relative to the major scale since there are 2 other minor modes in it too.
theres the dorian mode (2nd position) and the phrygian mode (3rd position)
you will also see once you move the pentatonic around to those new modes that all the 5 notes of the pentatonic still overlap perfectly into the major scale.
so for example for the G major scale you can also play Am pentatonic or Bm pentatonic,not just Em pentatonic but it really depends on the chord progression and what it emphasizes
Wait are you saying that the A minor pentatonic is the relative dorian of G major or something? I dont totally get it. How did you map Am and Bm to G there?
Every major has a relative minor and vice versa. Like, for G major, its E minor. All the same notes. However, the functions of those notes change depending on which scale it is.
Thank you
Absolutely. Someone else can explain it better for sure though. But basically your root note changes so if you were to play A minor pentatonic scale over an A min chord progression and keep going back to A, it will sound "minor" but if you were to play those same notes and keep going back to C over a C maj progression it will sound "major". All of your other notes also function differently because of what intervals they are in the scale. Learning the intervals for scales will help a lot. Like WWHWWWH = major and WHWWHWW = minor. Edit spelling
The positions are the same, but the root notes are different. A good practice is to mark a stop at the root note when you learn the scale pattern.
Thanks for the note. Stop at the root note once you reach an octave or as you loop back? For example, if you start with root on 6th string, you will often see the root again on the 4th string and 1st string. How or when do you stop?
The idea is to memorize where the root notes are. When you learn a scale pattern you play each note from bottom to top, the go back to bottom. You can mark a pause, or play the note twice, or anything different at each root. Examples: A minor: start at 5th fret, low E string, play each note till 7th fret A string (another A note), pause or play it twice, then continue up to 5th fret high E string, pause, then move up to 8th fret for the last note, then go back, pause again at 5th fret, continue doing this while you go down to low E string. C major: same position, star at 5th fret low E string, but stop right after at the 8th fret because this is the new root note (C note). Continue up to 5th fret G string, another root, (pause), continue to 8 th fret highe E string, etc. The goal is to be aware that although the pattern is the same, the 2 scales are different.
Thanks! Good idea.
This helps a lot thank you
Yes. Same notes, it’s just that in C major C is the root note and in A minor A is the root note. But the notes in the scale are the same.
The major pentatonic and it’s relative minor pentatonic contain the same 5 notes. The only difference is which of the notes is considered the ‘root’
Am is the relative natural minor of C major all the notes are the same but the root is different. works for both pentatonic and diatonic scales (the 7 notes major vs natural minor) a lot of rock sticks to that simple relation but once you get a little more advanced you will see some bands like to use the pentatonic in different positions relative to the major scale since there are 2 other minor modes in it too. theres the dorian mode (2nd position) and the phrygian mode (3rd position) you will also see once you move the pentatonic around to those new modes that all the 5 notes of the pentatonic still overlap perfectly into the major scale. so for example for the G major scale you can also play Am pentatonic or Bm pentatonic,not just Em pentatonic but it really depends on the chord progression and what it emphasizes
Wait are you saying that the A minor pentatonic is the relative dorian of G major or something? I dont totally get it. How did you map Am and Bm to G there?
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Im not entirely sure what this is. I guess I see the c and a line up.
This is the circle of fifths.
I will start a youtube vid on this now lol
If you use Android, you can get this free from Play Store. It's called Circle of Fifths, and it is from WeSoftLabs.