MAJOR Pentatonic Scale Explained With CAGED System For Guitar

hey up guys welcome to this lesson this lesson today is all about the major pentatonic I'm going to do an autopsy of the major pentatonic and show you how the Caged octaves fit around the major pentatonic scale and I'm also going to relate them to what I call the chord of the moment now don't worry if you don't know any of these terms they'll be in the end screen at the end of this video so make sure you watch all the way to the end there are PDFs going to be included in the description but let me walk you through this major pentatonic right now this will add something beautiful to your playing okay guys let's get into the nitty-gritty of this major pentatonic autopsy what we're going to look at is the scale form you look the chords that it goes over then what we're going to do is we want to build the major pentatonic scale shape using the caged octaves this is a really useful way of understanding it because the caged octaves will have the same emotional property over the chord of the moment if you don't know what the chord of the moment is I will put a link to that video in the endcard of this video the first thing we need to notice is the major pentatonic it is the pentatonic and the way we want to think about that pentatonic is that it is a five note scale Penta means five tonic means terms it's a very simple scale and as such it doesn't sound too complex it's about matching the scale with the chord and the first chord we're going to look at is the ear cord this air cord can be either called one cod4 or cord five in the key so that means this scale is applicable in three different keys now that's a very very straight vanilla sounding cord image it just sounds bright and cheerful and the major pentatonic is gonna sound just like the major chord it's gonna sound simple to the next chord we get is the ear major seven now I want you to remember this guy's the way that the notes Harmon in a diatonic key the major 7 chord only happens on court 1 or cord for the next chord is the a7 we can put the major pentatonic on the top of an a7 chord now the a7 core can happen as chord 1 4 or 5 in a dominant blues but if we're thinking of it being diatonic then it would happen on chord 5 those are the chords that we can play this scale over the top off this is kind of a chord scale relationship that we want to get to know so now it is time to build the major pentatonic using the Caged octaves because this is an Egypt scale because the root note falls on the E string I'm going to apply the e shape octaves to the e string as you can see there there's the e shaped octave then there is the distribution of the root notes now remember that role of the root nner is to sound resolved it's to take you back home if you are improvising creating so this is where your phrase is finished this is where they want to go to this is how they want to resolve the next shape up is the G shaped octave now the e shape and the G shape share the E string and what you can see here on the thick and the thin East ringer alike is that this root and the second the second notes of the scale the distribution of those is the same on both a strings because the thini string mirrors the thick E string however if you look at that second there you can see the G shaped octave pattern as it happens there now that's second it's a really nice color to add to your chords if you've seen my compound intervals lesson then you'll know that ii can also be thought of as a 9th if you haven't seen that video i will include that in the endcard also make sure you watch to the end the next octave we're going to add is the ear shaped octave because we're moving along the strings systematically we've dispensed with the e string we're moving on to the a string now the issue here has an important function this is the third and this is the note that makes the scale major it's a major third remember the third defines where the record is major or minor the next octave we're going to add is the c-shaped octave now that's C shaped octave that is on the ear string as well the C and the ear ship share the ear string as you go along systematically now this is the fifth this is nearly home but not quite if you want to resolve going from the fifth to the root sounds superb Lehrer solved because that is almost like something called a cadence it's worth noting that by now we have already got the root of the third and the fifth present in here so we essentially are already able to spell out the major triad underneath the last note to add is the D shaped octave and if we add that note what that does is that drops that wonderful sounding six now sixth are a sweet sound so if you think about it we have the root the third and the fifth that is our triad and we add that second and that sixth we have two nice sounding notes that is the major pentatonic in a nutshell but what I want to do is I want to add something else to this to just make this just a little bit more special and this is by adding the flat third and what essentially this does is this turns this major pentatonic into a major blues scale what you can see is to turn this major pentatonic into a major blues scale what we need to do is add that flat and third now because the major pentatonic is so beautifully resolved and lacking in tension it might feel like you need to put some tension in there this flat third in this instance doesn't belong but it makes a wonderful approach now you can slide from the flat third up to the third or bend up to it I think it's a really important move to have to your major pentatonic and it can help you to bridge between major pentatonic scales and minor pentatonic scales when you are playing them in a hybrid manner but that's subject for another video notice in the blue rectangle I felt it was important to include this little small extension at the top we can do so much with that little bit there it's so mean about for making up little phrases and beautiful licks so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna jump over onto the guitar I'm gonna play the chord at the moment I'm gonna play the major pentatonic on top of each chord at the moment and add a little bit of this flat third flavor and don't worry guys because I'm going to include this as a PDF in the description below so this chord the chord at the moment that you can hear this is an a major chord and these are the root girls if I play through the scale you can hear that any of those notes for the sound resolved that's where the phrase ends the next door is the G shaped octave now the thing is you can hear that that nerves wants to resolve either up or down [Music] you [Music] all resolving up [Music] we can even add that little extension we have the major third here this is part of the cord so it actually blends in there is in the octave ship so if I wanted to use that idea with the flat third sliding into it bending to it bend down a slide and here in this little extension that I gave you [Music] the next note is going to be this fifth [Music] and that's the c-shaped octave you can hear that that one wants to resolve down to the root and the last note we get is the six and there is it the D shape doctor that to me always seems to want to pull towards the fifth [Music] worth noting that the major pentatonic is also this chestnut if you recognize that comment below so the card at the moment that we have here is the a major 7 chord I always think that this chord sounds romantic it's a little jazzy now for play the scale over the top you'll be able to hear the chord and the scale relationship [Music] here's just the root note using an e shaped octave [Music] now the second on top of this actually what this does is it turns the chord of the Merman from a major seventh this second now becomes a ninth and that sounds sweet so listen to this [Music] the chord of the moment is a major 9 the next note is the third this disappears a little in the chord it doesn't really stick out that much like the ninth did here this second which is flipping over and becoming a ninth because as the compound interval instead so the next note is that fifth now that sounds beautifully bright on top of that major seventh chord can you hear how resolved it is when I go from the fifth to the root from the flat third and then the resolved the phrase the last note is this six because we have the seventh this six sounds like a thirteen it is a thirteenth now if you listen to that note if you let it sit on top of the chord and feel what it is saying emotionally you'll get more of an idea of its usage [Music] that notes wants to resolve either open or down there's the root or down [Music] and this code of the moment that we have now is the a7 this can be called one called four or chord five in a dominant blues or chord five in the diatonic so the root note on top we know that's gonna sound resolved the second this becomes a nine and this is turning the whole chord into an a nine chord [Music] the third it blends away because it's part of the cord v stands nice and proud the sakes this is using the D shaped octave now because the seventh is present the chord of the moment is a 13th this is an 8 13 now when I play that new that turns the whole fold of the movement comedy into a 13th card and then I release it by changing the nose [Music] if you've got some value from this lesson make sure you hit that like if you do not want to miss out on golden nuggets of guitar information make sure you keep a clarification bell so you don't miss any of my upcoming guitar lessons this video here on the major scale ties in with the minor scale and do you know what I'll put that video just here you might as well watch that and then you'll be even better equipped to play guitar gum click [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Ricky Comiskey

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Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 19 2020