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I have a question that I have been wanting to ask. Now that I am on this forum, I hope I can get an answer. Since I have got back into playing, and from sites like this I am starting to get better at scales. I have a small pocket type scale book that has I would guess at
least fifteen different scales. Here is my question. Maybe a few of you no matter your skill leval have wondered this to.
Pretty much many guitar players use the Minor Pentatonic all of the time. Then they will use the Major Pentatonic by playing the same fingering by moving the pinky finger down. Such as A Minor Pentatonic starts with 1st finger, then slide down to F# second fret and do the same fingering.Here is the question?
Is using a regular Major or Natural Minor out of the question for playing blues or rock or country????? You actually gain
two more notes in the scale. Or even a standard Blues Scale, which is a Minor Pentatonic adding a flatted 5th note. I am
not talking the Major or Minor Blues as its I believe eight notes.I picked up a book last year that took forever to get called The Nashville Scale System. All it shows are 3 note per string
scales. Its shows many scales but not any Pentatonic scales at all.So the question is, should I only know the Pentatonics ???? Or is it wise to use maybe a Blues scale or Natural Minor.
Doing long runs up the fret board connect easier on the scales with more notes. Any help answering this would be great.
I am not putting down Pentatonics at all. So do I only need to know the two??????Fresnojohns
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