Making Music with Marshall
pentatonic scale positions
Posted: 22nd June 2021
Updated: 20th July 2022
The importance of learning your scales as a guitarist is paramount, this will be the foundation for every riff, lick and melody you write. Once you’ve got some of the most common scales down, it’s easy to find yourself noodling in one position and your licks being centred around that box shape, but if you learn each pentatonic scale position, you can open up the fretboard up for more fluid playing and speed. We look at the five positions of the Major and Minor pentatonic scales in the key of A, but keep in mind these positions can be moved to the relative root notes.
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