Alternative Pentatonics
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The minor pentatonic is the most expressive scale on the guitar and the one most players never leave. When it starts sounding like the same five notes in the same shapes, the usual advice is to go and learn the major scale and its modes. That's a big leap, and not one everyone wants to make.
There's a middle option nobody mentions. Keep the five-note format. Change which five notes.
Twenty-eight of them here, filed by chord type — major, major 7, minor, minor 7, dominant — so you always know where a new sound belongs. Those are the chords you meet ninety percent of the time, which means these are usable in the music you already play. The range runs from mildly unfamiliar to genuinely outside. Some are strange. That's the point.
Five notes sits between an arpeggio and a full scale: enough to imply real harmony, few enough that phrasing stays natural. You already know this from the first time you played a minor pentatonic over a blues.
One note for advanced players — don't memorise any of it. Use it to explore, then let it surface on its own while you're playing.
PDF. Instant download.
There's a middle option nobody mentions. Keep the five-note format. Change which five notes.
Twenty-eight of them here, filed by chord type — major, major 7, minor, minor 7, dominant — so you always know where a new sound belongs. Those are the chords you meet ninety percent of the time, which means these are usable in the music you already play. The range runs from mildly unfamiliar to genuinely outside. Some are strange. That's the point.
Five notes sits between an arpeggio and a full scale: enough to imply real harmony, few enough that phrasing stays natural. You already know this from the first time you played a minor pentatonic over a blues.
One note for advanced players — don't memorise any of it. Use it to explore, then let it surface on its own while you're playing.
PDF. Instant download.