How to play The Minor Pentatonic Scale in Music

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play The Minor Pentatonic Scale in Music

Lets take a peak at a simplified relative of the Minor Scale: The Minor Pentatonic Scale Pentatonic Scale.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Taken the lesson on the Minor Scale

Step 1

Remember with ascending notes we have A,A#,B,C,C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G and G#, and with descening notes we have G, Gb,F,E,Eb,D,Db,C,B,Bb,A,Ab.
Step 2

Describe a half step. When we go from one tone to its neighboring tone (like C to C#, or E to F, or G to Gb) that distance is called a half-step.
Step 3

Describe a whole step. When we go from one tone to a tone two spots away (like C to D, or E to F#, or G to A) that distance is called a whole step.
Step 4

The minor pentatonic scale is 1,b3,4,5,and b7 or you could say the root, minor 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, and minor 7th. So the C minor pentatonic scale is C,Eb,F,G, and Bb. Its called pentatonic because the scale contains 5 notes.
Step 5

Continue to the major pentatonic scale to learn, play, and read about more music scales!

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dlcass said

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on 1/18/2009 It would be great if there were a wave file here so people could hear this. I had to sing this in music school in my ear-training test. It's one of the hardest scales to hear. That and the whole-tone scale.