Major vs Minor Pentatonic Lesson by Blackbyrd

MINOR VS. MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALES	
An introduction to major pentatonic soloing.

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Most people start out soloing using minor pentatonic scales. 
After a while they get really used to the minor pentatonic 
shapes, which creates problems when they want to incorporate 
major pentatonic sounds. This lesson is intended as a tool 
to break out of the minor pentatonic prison.

Before we start, let me explain the diagrams real quick. 
"-X-" is a scale note, and "-R-" is the root. "-B-" repre-
sents notes that can be bent. Now we're ready to roll.

Figure #1 shows the most used shape of the minor pentatonic 
scale, with the chord-shape that goes along with it, and 
also the most used lick ever, in this case in the key of G.
This lick sounds damn good over damn near everything, be 
it blues, rock, country and/or heavy metal. The reason this 
heavy metal. The reason this lick is so successful is be-
cause both bends are bent to chord notes, and also because 
both bends are a whole step, from C to D (or from the 4th
to the 5th), and from F to G (b7th to the root).
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|-R-|---|---|-X-|   |-R-|---|---|---|   ----------3--------   
|-X-|---|---|-X-|   |-X-|---|---|---|   -------3----6b(8)~-   
|-X-|---|-X-|---|   |-X-|---|---|---|   -5b(7)-------------   
|-X-|---|-R-|---|   |---|---|-R-|---|   -------------------    
|-X-|---|-X-|---|   |---|---|-X-|---|   -------------------   
|-R-|---|---|-X-|   |-R-|---|---|---|   -------------------   
                                                             
Figure #1                                                        
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Please note that most of the story so far is about the lick 
and the use of