Playing minor scales on the guitar is simply a matter of following the pattern shown below. Finding the natural minor scales on a guitar dummies. G major e minor pentatonic scale guitar scales the pentatonic scale is a favorite of many guitarists and its easy to see why. A natural minor scale is taken from the major scale of the same name, but with the third, sixth, and seventh degrees lowered one half step. Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory,scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. Intervals on guitar diagrams and theory jazz guitar lick. What you need to know about intervals guitar world. Fretboard topologies boo to compose, improvise, and explore the instrument. The descending form of the melodic minor scale is the same as natural minor. If you need staff paper, you may print the staff paper12 pdf file. To get the melodic minor scale you would raise both the 6 th and 7 scales degrees up one halfstep. The interval patterns for major and natural minor scales are basically the same pattern starting at. This jazz guitar method is an ebook available as a pdf with standard notation, guitar tabs, diagrams.
Pentatonic scale construction major and minor pentatonic analysis and modes how to study pentatonic scales. Guitar intervals mastery a crash course for beginners. This is the same note that we used before with the major scale. Your first note is indicated by the 1 shown on the first e string. Intervals arent just about movements between single notes. For example the c major scale will have the chords c, dm, em. From that point on the guitar fretboard, the relationships of the intervals are the same. Take for example the c note with the minor second interval. And that means the chord change v i is the smallest scale move you can make in harmony.
Layout across strings the notes either move forward up the neck, or back across. In this clip, i compare the majestic, dark sounds of the minor scale to its major sibling. Dec 15, 2017 an interval on the guitar is only two parts. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In this lesson, you will learn about minor scales, chords and intervals. One of the things that the minor pentatonic scale does not do that well is minor 6 th, half diminished and dominant chords. Lets do an example starting on the 5 th fret of the 4 th string. You could say that everything is drawn from the major scale or relates to it in some way. You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. I tend to relate this stuff back to the intervals derived from the major scale. For instance, the open g in a c chord is not the interval of the note that falls on the second or first fret in the same chord. If youve read the lesson on guitar scale modes, youll already know the shape and intervals of the minor scale. We can make that interval smaller diminished, get it.
The ebook contains the most important scales for beginners, such as major and minor, but shows also more advanced. Next notice how each mode has one or two notes that makes it unique from the major or natural minor scale. For each scale, you can learn a number of different shapes and patterns, depending on the zone of the fretboard youre working on. The ebook contains the most important scales for beginners, such as major and minor, but also shows more advanced. Heres a free guitar scales pdf ebook 22 pages with plenty of scales and arpeggios patterns. Link to guitar pro file of tab for the guitar locrian mode scale. You will also learn how music in minor keys sounds more dissonant than major keys because some of the notes are lowered a. Pdf total guitar the ultimate scale book guilherme. Knowing these intervals allows you to construct any scale. Simply follow the chart which represents your guitar neck. We have highlighted the root notes your starting note for each of the keys in blue for the major scale, and red for the minor scale. Chord diagrams with notes and intervals and major pentatonic pattern essential pattern.
This document was created with prince, a great way of getting web content onto paper. Most theory books state that the melodic minor scale is different when ascending than when descending. For each scale, you can learn many different shapes and patterns all over the fretboard. Predictably, we get a flat 3rd also called a minor 3rd, a key interval in minor chords and scales. Because in its own unique way, the guitar offers us a lot of versatility in a simple format the fretboard which can be navigated in small, incremental pieces called intervals. Little wing intro jimi hendrix tab and chord progression. I have already done several lessons on how to apply the minor pentatonic scale in jazz. Free guitar scales pdf 84 scale and arpeggios chart. So those who understand intervals even in the most basic sense will have a distinct command and control of their guitar. Because the notes of the major scale are separated by different intervals, when you form a chord by starting on any note and skipping every subsequent note you get a pattern of chords, major, minor, minor, major, major, minor and diminished, and this applies to any major scale. The difference between major and minor bass scales studybass. Free guitar scales ebook scale and arpeggio patterns pdf. So those who understand intervals even in the most basic sense will. The natural minor scale comprises the following notes intervals.
Includes the major scale, minor scale, blues scale, modes, and the minor pentatonic scale. A minor pentatonic contains scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, and b7. Although various hemitonic pentatonic scales might be called minor, the term is most. The harmonic minor scale is the natural minor scale with a major 7th m7 interval instead of a minor 7th m7 interval.
Note interval a root c minor third d perfect fourth e perfect fifth g minor seventh. They tuned the mills gamelan so that the intervals between scale steps are. The v chord and the i chord are, therefore, harmonic scale neighbours. Understanding basic music theory open textbooks for hong kong. In this new guide you find more 20 chords you can use with minor pentatonic scale. We have designed these pages so they will print out clearly, so you can take this reference guide with you everywhere you go.
Isbn 18973111 this electronic edition, isbn 18973111, may be copied and distributed without prior written permission of the publisher provided that this edition is not altered in any way, shape, or form, and that it is distributed for free. Link to free printable guitar scales pdf file with all 5 positions of the guitar locrian mode scale. A minor pentatonic it is important that if you are going to learn to improvise with this scale that you learn how it sounds. One of the first steps in learning to read music in a particular clef is memorizing where. It also helps to think of modes as major 3 or minor b3, which depends on the third. All about intervals on fretted instruments guitar ukulele mandolin banjo music theory. The harmonic minor scale is one of the most difficult scales to play because of the large interval between the flat 6th and raised 7th degrees and interval of an augmented second, same as a minor third. Itll make more sense once we look at some examples. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the heptatonic. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. Pdf guitar scales major pentatonic download full pdf book. Knowing the guitar intervals on one string is the first step in understanding them.
I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the scales in all keys. If we build a minor chord on the 1 and move to a major chord on the. Guitar notes learn intervals, scales and chords the easy way. Just as scale degrees 7 and 2 are scale neighbours of the tonic note in melody, so in harmony the v chord is the scale neighbour of the tonic chord. Its very interesting to notice what a difference a fret makes. This pdf method contains 11 guitar lessons with chord studies, tabs. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Learn how to play the minor pentatonic scale effortlessly anywhere on the fretboard kindle edition by nichols, lee. Free printable guitar scales 14 most commonly used scales. This scale is a favorite among shredders like yngwie malmsteen, steve vai, joe satriani, and marty friedman.
See more ideas about guitar lessons, guitar chords and guitar scales. It doesnt matter if we execute it in a descending or ascending way. Altering the intervals with flats or sharps changes them from major and perfect into minor. Major scale patterns also make minor scales and all the modes. The book comes as a pdf file, which can be read on your screen and printed suitable for printing on us letter and a4 sized paper. E d g b e a pentaton c minor scale box 1 glitarsik. When a major interval is lowered a half step, it becomes minor. As the name suggests, a 3nps scale is any scale that contains three notes on each string, and as youll see in this ebook, this. The present thesaurus is a reference book of scales and melodic patterns.
It is formed from the 6th degree of the major scale, so if you took the time to really learn the major scale across the fretboard, you are half way in knowing the minor scale already. Lets do another example, but this time with a different scale. Weve now turned our major scale into a minor scale. If the music is in a minor key, it will be in the relative minor section 4. Here is the interval pattern for the natural minor scale. Introducing pentatonic scales for jazz guitar explores the use of major and minor pentatonic scales. Altering the intervals with flats or sharps changes them from major and perfect into minor, diminished, and augmented. Oct, 2017 in this clip, i compare the majestic, dark sounds of the minor scale to its major sibling. It provides a full accounting of 5, 6, and 7note scales containing intervals no larger than a major third and selected 8note scales, chiefly to account for the bebop scales and the diminished scale. The guitar scales chart book is an instant download, so you can start learning and playing new scales within minutes. Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms. Pentatonic scale in debussys voiles, preludes, book i, no. Link to page dedicated to the guitar locrian mode scale. A list of guitar scales including their formulas, interval patterns, an example in tab, and a table showing each scale in every key for easy reference.
However, the minor scale contains three minor intervals in m3, m6, and m7, whereas the major scale contains m3, m6, and m7. Make sure when you spell the natural minor scale you start on the b note. A chords dictionary to create your progressions in minor pentatonic tonality in all keys. Further down the page youll find four additional natural minor patterns and tabs. In this lesson were going to take a look at the little wing intro and see how jimi hendrix turns basic barre chords into classic rhythm and blues licks. When a perfect interval is raised a half step, it becomes augmented. When a perfect interval is lowered a half step, it becomes diminished. Guitar intervals on the fretboard interval patterns. Half step intervals occur between scale degrees 23 and 78 of the melodic minor scale.
Then after you have your natural minor scale, all you have to do to get the b harmonic minor is raise the 7th scale degree one halfstep. The ultimate guide in understanding guitar intervals. Like the minor 2nd, the minor 3rd gives the scale a specific quality when played with the other intervals. In addition to using the major scale to play melody, guitarists use it to measure intervals, build triads and chords, add chord tones and extensions, chart chord progressions, and determine keys.
A singer accompanied by a guitar picking or strumming chords. The minor pentatonic is probably the scale that a great part of all guitarists learn as a first scale. Bach the parts of the guitar there are three main types of guitars,the steelstring acoustic, the nylon string or classical guitar, and the electric guitar. Compared to major scales and chords, minor scales and chords have different 3rds. Heres a free guitar pdf ebook 22 pages with plenty of scales and arpeggios patterns. Rather its the interval of the c that falls on the fifth string at the. This book of written lessons is an excellent tool and reference manual to develop and enhance your guitar skills. If you dont keep a practice log you want to start one. Pdf guitar scales to chords vol 2 download full pdf book.
Understanding minor scales guitarlessons365 free guitar. Aug 03, 2018 beginners guide to guitar notes, intervals, scales and chords guitar theory on scales, chords and the smaller elements of music, intervals and notes robert callus august 3, 2018 4 comments one thing that used to confuse me when i started learning guitar was the relationship between the notes on the neck. With guitar intervals you just need to know one note on the guitar fretboard. So, let us deconstruct this scale and look at the intervals that make up a minor pentatonic scale. The moment we play this scale we realize that we enter completely into the sonority of the blues. The interval of a whole step occurs between all other scale degrees. Harmonic analysis27 for more about how chords are classified within a key. So chord movements can also be considered in terms of intervals.