Learning Blues Guitar Common Scales Used In Blues Guitar: Part 2
Learning blues guitar can be frustrating if you dont know what guitar scales to use. Because of that, in this blues guitar lesson well take a look at another really common scale used in blues soloing. Once you master this guitar scale, youll have another great weapon in your lead guitar arsenal! So, with that in mind, lets take a look at it now
**Blues Guitar Scale #2: The Major Pentatonic Scale**
This is one of my favorite sounding guitar scales! To my ears, it has a very bright, open and happy sound to it. Some of my students comment that its sound reminds them of country guitar. (But lets not hold that against it! You can also use it to great effect in blues guitar solos).
The major pentatonic scale is a five note guitar scale that has this formula
1 2 3 5 6
This formula tells us what we need to do to the major scale in order to construct this scale. As an example, well work out the notes of C major pentatonic scale
Step 1:
Write down the notes that the C major scale uses. Here are the notes we get by doing this
C D E F G A B
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