The Major Pentatonic Scale Box
Patterns on Guitar Fretboard
This is a very helpful page for learning the major pentatonic scale for
guitar. The images below covers all the major
pentatonic scale patterns in all positions on guitar.
(guitar major pentatonic scale five positions) You can easily pass
one position to other and practice all the major
pentatonic scale guitar positions using this page.
The sample scale is given in G and all the red notes
refers to root note.
You can practice these major pentatonic box patterns just
shifting the position (using a different root note).
We recommend you to memorize this box patterns in
string and position pairs like 3th position-root is
on A string, and so on.
1st position guitar major pentatonic scale box pattern in G
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2nd position guitar major pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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3th position guitar major pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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4th position guitar major pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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5th position guitar major pentatonic scale box pattern in G |
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Another good thing for you to practice is to
open
Guitar Intervals page on MyGuitarWorkshop
and try to understand the intervals used
in major pentatonic scale. It also will improve
your ability to find intervals on guitar
fretboard.
And again please remember to practice all these
major pentatonic scale patterns in all keys. Get
your guitar, turn on the radio and find the key
of a song, try major blues scale, minor blues
scale or pentatonic scales over it.
Good luck !!
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