My Girl by the Temptations Guitar Lesson - Master the C Major Pentatonic in all 5 Positions Today!

hey guys this is Mel welcome back to Unleash Your Inner Guitar Hero challenge week number three I'm going to try to just do this one really quick this is just going to be a quick video hopefully we'll see how I do U but I wanted to just go through my method of teaching people the major pentatonic scale we've already talked about the a minor pentatonic scale with a little bit of the blues scale thrown in um there was a a uh song question part of a song in there for that reason the lead Zeppelin song Heartbreaker also talked about the E minor pentatonic scale um there's more to be done even with that but I want to talk quickly about the c major pentatonic scale which the a minor and the pentatonic a monor panatomic scale and the c major panatomic scale are basically the same scale just starting on a different note but let me show you a way a quick way to learn the c major pentatonic scale up the neck which essentially because it's a pentatonic being meaning a five note scale there's five different locations on the neck that we can play this scale but I'm going to show you the five different positions but I'm going to show you all with the same riff so you can hear how the scale the notes are the same but the patterns the fingering pattern actually changes as you go up the neck all right stay tuned for [Music] more all right C major pentatonic five notes five different positions all based in C major based on one riff one song see if you can recognize [Music] it right the migro Riff right so 1950s 1960s Temptation I'm sure you know that song My girl okay and so it starts on the third fret of the a string and based on the C chord all right and it's going to go c d e g a c we're skipping two notes d e skip F so do that again c d e skip f g a skip b c the reason to that we skipping those two notes is if we play the F or the C it's not going to sound great if we play the B note over the C it's not going to sound great [Music] we're focusing mostly on these five notes c d e g a c we're playing that same riff up and down the neck using different patterns now by the way after you get this main riff keep going now if I wanted to go to the next octave I'd have to go to the two two more patterns up or two more positions [Music] up okay but I I'm not expecting get you to do that right now I want you to just get this okay and the next one is this is fingering 2 4 1 4 1 4 we're still starting on the third fret of the a string however now we're doing it with the second finger pinky first finger pinky first finger pinky or third fret fifth fret second fret fifth fret second fret fifth fret c d e g a c and I could go up the next next octave into the next [Music] pattern but you don't have to do that you don't have to do that okay I we you to at least get this much uh from this C to this C at least okay the next one is eighth fret on the low E same note c d e g a c and then I can do the octave easily right here c d e g a c now this is C major okay this was C major as well on the C form C major on the a form C major on the G form we'll get into those later we do the cage method I want to sort of be Vaguely Familiar with that though okay but we're really just focus on on the finger rings for now with the scale fingerings but if I want to do it in a minor it's the same notes it just starts on a instead of [Music] C so the what did what determines whether it's in C major or a minor is two things one the note that it starts on so in this case it starts on C all right and the other thing is whether uh the context of it so if it's in [Music] C it's in the key of C then you're playing C major but if you're playing a minor then you're playing a minor okay it sounds different based on those two contexts major is kind of happier and minor is sort of sad or Melancholy for a lack of a better way of describing it the next one is going to still start in the eighth fret but now it's going to be the second finger so now we've got the fingering of 2 4 1 4 1 4 or eighth fret 10th fret seventh fret 10th fret seventh fret 10th fret and again 2 4 1 4 1 4 and then d e 79 A10 g a c d here so it actually goes beyond the octave there up into the D note here's this the pattern again and the next octave notice that there's this weird thing that happens between the G string and the B string most of the strings are tuned in fourths for example e to a e f g a right if you start the up from the a a b c d e f g starts back over so e f g a a to d a b c d d to g d e f g however between the G and the B is a third g a b and then again between the B and the e is a fourth b c d e okay all right that's why when you're going from let's say the g string 79 and then the B string you go 81 because the B string is a half step lower in relation to the interval between the G string and the B string than all the other strings all the other strings are tuned in fource that's the interval or the distance between the two notes of each of those strings except for the G and the B that are tuned a third apart which is one half step lower so therefore you have to shift your fingerings up take compensate for that lower interval if that makes any sense okay and the next one last but not least is going to start on the 10th fret of the D string and we're going to go 10 12 9 12 10 13 again you see that shift between 912 and 1013 cuz otherwise it would be this and that sounds cool by the way you can make some really cool sounding scales that way that's almost a mixture between uh like C major and C Shar minor kind of thing but but really for our context for what we're trying to do right now right that's what we're doing that's what we're doing uh actually that's what we're doing okay so that's again that micro RI and then we can go to the 15th fret which is a repeat of the c major here okay so we got five positions to play it [Music] in and yes I know that's a higher octave because that's just the way it works out air up of the neck all right so for now that's the c major pentatonic I'll put the forms in the group on school SK o.com and look for that in the group and I will see you on the flip side bye for now

Channel: Mel Williams

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Length: 8min 37sec (517 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 18 2024