EP157 Minor Pentatonic Patterns moving back 3 frets to become major pentatonic

[James H]

Hello. Great lesson with lots of meat.
Within the lesson, Brian comments that if you move ANY of the minor pentatonic patterns (5 patterns) back 3 frets then it becomes a major pentatonic for that key. Is that right? I thought it was just pattern 2 that you could move back 3 frets based on the lesson “Mixing the Major and Minor Pentatonic”. I’d sure like to get this straight.

Thanks!

Jim H

[scotty117]

Hi Jim, great first post and question.you are right, by moving a pattern down 3 frets it makes it major penatonic. This is true for every pattern. The major penatonic patterns are all identical to the minor but just begin 3 frets down. They are all relative to eachother in the same way. I think in the video you are referring to, Brian just uses that one pattern as an example. You can apply that same concept to all 5 patterns. Hope this helps….scott.

[Bryce-AKguitar]

Yep! I second what Scott said. Doesn’t matter what key or pattern. When you move the pentatonic shapes down 3 frets you are in the major of that key.

-Bryce
Anchorage, Alaska

[strattastic]

You’re on the money there . The point of the lesson “mixing major and minor…” Being you can super impose Maj pat 2 on top of min pat 1 without a lot of gymnastics. Same applies for Maj pat 1 and min pat 5

George

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