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    • June 14, 2016 at 12:49 pm #42847
      roger f
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        Question? If I’m say playing my G chord 1st position would be starting 3rd fret 6 string then 6 fret 6 string and so on.How if I was playing, lets say the B barre chord 1st position would start at 7 fret 6 string then 10 fret 6 string and so on .is that the way it works the chord tells you where 1st position starts?

      • June 14, 2016 at 1:41 pm #42849
        scotty117
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          Yes Roger exactly. Find the note on the 6th string that coresponds to the key you want to play in and that is first position of the minor pentatonic scale. To change it to the major pentatonic scale just move it down 3 frets. Same scale shape, just starts 3 frets down, and still same key. Just different scale.

        • June 14, 2016 at 1:54 pm #42851
          roger f
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            right on thank you, does Brian have lessons on triads

          • June 15, 2016 at 4:46 am #42911
            Vojtech
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              Just to be clear, E-pattern barre chord gives you minor pentatonic (because of the location of root in such barre chord)

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