Natural Minor Scale Guitar
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A guitar lesson showing you how to play the 5 positions of the Natural Minor Scale - also known as the aeolian mode which is a minor mode built from the 6th degree of the diatonic major scale. Natural Minor Scale Positions This lesson will help you unbox the natural minor scale across the entire fretboard. We'll do this in exactly the same way we do in the other scale lessons - by using natural minor scale positions built around its 7 scale degrees. So, to start with, we need to lay out the intervals of natural minor across the low E string to give us our 'position points'. Natural Minor Guitar.
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Technique. Contact/Privacy.The Natural Minor Guitar ScaleThe Natural Minor Guitar scale has inspired some of the most amazingly successful and long lived songs on this planet. Here are some of them. Yesterday by the Beatles.
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I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder. When you wish upon a star - DisneyImpressive list to say the least.So this is one scale that you might consider worth your time. If this is your style and it resonates with you.If you feel inspired, get out your metronome and take these patterns one at a time and start slow. Build up your speed on them one at a time.
Keep going on them until you are dreaming them.Listen to other people that are playing them well and do that just before you go to bed. This is how the brain works. It works in the background, you don't have to work hard, it will do the work for you. You can't really give it to much of a deadline on creating something amazing but eventually, if you expect it to, it will come in a flash.
And when it does record it.I've included on this page links to a couple of files that will come in handy to make this one your own.The Guitar Pro file will help you get this scale to be natural to you.
Minor Pentatonic Scale (5 Positions) Posted on September 15, 2018 by AGTThe minor pentatonic scale is a highly popular scale due to its versatility and playability. A staple in blues music, this scale brings moodiness and tension that creates that familiar blues sound, particularly when played over major/dominant chords.In this lesson, we’re going to break down the minor pentatonic.
We’ll take a look at how it’s built, each of the five positions, and how to go about practicing the scale. Building the Minor Pentatonic from the Natural Minor ScaleAs the name implies, a pentatonic scale is a scale made up of five (penta) notes (tonic).
It is derived from the. Natural Minor ScaleThe natural minor scale is a 7 note scale made up of the following intervals. In the minor scale, the 2nd and 6th intervals are dissonant tones that need resolution. Because these notes are absent from the minor pentatonic, it makes it easier to use this scale for soloing.Even better, the minor pentatonic works well over both major and minor chord progressions. Applying the Minor Pentatonic Scale to the FretboardThe notes/intervals for the minor pentatonic scale can be found all over the fretboard. The diagram below shows all the notes in the G minor pentatonic from frets 3 through 15.Taken as a whole, it may seem a bit overwhelming to try to learn all of these notes.
But, we can break these notes down into smaller patterns that make the task much easier to accomplish.Once you learn these scale shapes for one minor key you know them for all minor keys because the patterns are the same for all minor keys. The only difference is the tonic, or root note of the scale which the pattern is based around. More on that in a bit.5 Minor Pentatonic Scale ShapesThe pentatonic scale can broken up in to five small patterns that connect up and down the fretboard. Each position of the scale overlaps with the position above and below it on the fretboard.
After the 5th position, the patterns just repeat, starting with the 1st position.Below we go over each position of the minor pentatonic scale. For each position I have a diagram outlining the intervals of the scale, the root note pattern, and suggested fingering pattern for playing the scale in that position.It’s important to note the use of intervals instead of notes in these diagrams. The reason for this is because the scale pattern is note agnostic. In other words, you can start the pattern using any note on the guitar as the root note and the pattern will remain the same. Playing the ScalesSince the pentatonic doesn’t included the 2nd and 6th intervals of the minor scale, you end up with a two-note per string pattern for each position. Because of this, pentatonic scales (both major and minor) are played using the 1st (index), 3rd (ring), and 4th (pinky) fingers in either a 1-3 or 1-4 pattern.Some shapes can be played using a 2-4 pattern as well.
However, the reason for the recommended fingering patterns is because you’ll most frequently see the scales played this way in guitar solos. But it’s not a bad idea to practice both fingerings.When practicing each scale position, you should always start with the root note and play across and back until you end up back on the root. This serves two purposes:. It familiarizes you with the root note positions of each scale pattern.
This is important in order to understand the key you’re playing in. It helps develop your ear. By playing this way you’ll begin to hear the relation of each interval to the root note.Position 1.
Similar to the first position, the fifth position contains three root notes. They are found on the 6th, 3rd and 1st strings. Connecting the scale shapesIf you study the diagrams above closely, you may notice a relationship between each position and the position that precedes it.
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Each scale shape shares notes with the position before and after it. After position 5, the patterns repeat with position 5 connecting back to position 1.In the diagram below, you can see the shared notes between each position.