However you play it, you cannot go wrong. The E Minor Pentatonic Scale The E Minor Blues Scale Pentatonic Scale Fluency: Available on Kindle and Paperback. The major pentatonic scale is made up of five of those notes (1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of the major scale). The blue note in blues scale. This scale is called “pentatonic”, because it contains only 5 (greek penta: 5) different notes. To produce a major blues scale, you simply take the major pentatonic scale and add in a blue note, the b3 of the key. The pentatonic scale – a simple way to start. A Pentatonic Minor Notes: A, C, D, E, G. A Blues Scale Notes: A, C, D, Eb, E, G. Try and remember where the blues notes are in each of the 5 shapes. The Solution below shows the E blues scale, on the piano, treble clef and bass clef.. It may also be the most popular guitar scale because the box pattern is movable and playable all over the neck. For example, adding an Eb note to a standard A pentatonic minor scale will change it into an A blues scale. Pentatonic Scale Fluency available from Amazon. At the beginning of the scale, start with the lowest root note on the open E string and play that note. To play the minor pentatonic scale, start with your first finger on the fifth fret of the sixth string. Play that note, then put your fourth (pinky) finger on the eighth fret of the sixth string, and play that. It works really well with most traditional blues tunes, since blues songs do tend to be comparatively simple in construction. If you are stuck in the pentatonic box then this is the way out of it. The blues scale (or Pentablues) is the pentatonic scale plus one note.This note became known as the “blue note“, and is the flat fifth in the case of the minor pentatonic, or the flat third in the case of the major pentatonic. So, a working fluency with it is something you want to acquire, at worst just to see what your predecessors have been up to. If you are stuck in the pentatonic box then this is the way out of it. There are a lot of ways to play this scale, including minor, major, or adding notes to make it sound bluesy. E Blues Scale Fretboard Diagram. E blues scale. The 1st construction, using the major scale, starts at Lesson 3.. Author: Lee Nichols Creator of www.guitar-chords.or.uk Learn how to play up and down the neck with ease and break out of those box patterns . But the bulk of the notes are still in the pentatonic scale. The blues scale is built upon the minor pentatonic scale but with one additional note thrown in: a ♭5. A minor Pentatonic Scale – 3rd Position (9th Fret) Comparing the major and minor Pentatonic scales, the minor scale just gets first prize as the most versatile, which is why we’ve featured it here and suggest you learn the A Minor Pentatonic scale to begin with. This added note gives the major blues scale its bluesy vibe and separates it melodically from the major pentatonic scale. As I mentioned, if you know your minor pentatonic scale the blues guitar scale shape will be easy because we’re only adding one note in each octave. Master the minor pentatonic scale using the whole fretboard. Master the minor pentatonic scale using the whole fretboard. The pentatonic scale is a five-note musical scale used by guitar players to solo, improvise, create riffs and licks. This note is responsible for giving the blues scale it’s signature “bluesy” sound. We start with the minor pentatonic scale in E (there’s also a major pentatonic scale, which sounds not so “sad”, but for a deep basic Blues we’ll take the minor). Lesson 8 – The E Minor Blues Scales (DVD 3) In This Lesson: In this lesson you’ll learn the one scale that is responsible for about 95% of all the blues licks you hear – the minor pentatonic and minor blues scale. 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