See, I told you! 🙂 So how do we work these out? Any ideas? A Quick And Nasty Method If you don’t believe me have a look at the major scale table you filled out in an earlier lesson. This is because there are no G#, D# or A# major scales. I’ve used a darker background because you can’t use the normal method to work these ones out. Why have I used a darker background for the G#, D# and A# minor pentatonics? Please work out the following minor pentatonic scales, print out this webpage, and then fill out the following table… Step 3: Because the musical spelling of the minor pentatonic scale has a b3 and a b7, we need to flatten the 3 and 7 of the A major scale. Step 2: Because the musical spelling of the minor pentatonic scale doesn’t include a 2 or 6, we need to remove these from the A major scale. Step 1: Write out the notes of the A major scale. Let’s work out the notes of the A minor pentatonic scale.
It’s probably a really good idea to go through an example to make it really clear for you… Example: A Minor Pentatonic Scale The musical spelling tells us what we have to do to the major scale in order to create a minor pentatonic scale. At this stage it’s really important to note the following… The last thing we need to know is how to use the musical spelling of the minor pentatonic scale. The musical spelling is pronounced: “One, Flat Three, Four, Five, Flat Seven”.Īll clear so far? Awesome! How To Use The Musical Spelling Of The Minor Pentatonic Scale One of the first questions some students of mine ask about this is “How do you pronounce it?”. Luckily, I can give you it! The minor pentatonic has the following musical spelling… The next bit of information we need is the musical spelling of the minor pentatonic scale. Musical Spelling Of The Minor Pentatonic Scale Some people call this the musical spelling of the major scale.
Notice how at the top there are some numbers. Go back and have a look at the table that you filled in for the major scale. So how do we build a minor pentatonic scale from the major scale? In order to answer that, there’s a few bits of information we need… Scale Degrees Of The Major Scale If you’ve forgotten how the major scale is constructed, then you’ll need to quickly review that before starting with this lesson. In this lesson we’ll explore how the minor pentatonic scale can easily be created from the major scale.
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