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Posted by NRVS (from: ) on December 27, 2002 at 08:08:37:

I recently (eventually )started learning my scales. According to most of the ppl I talk to, the first kind to learn is the minor pentatonic patterns.

I've been doing this for a while now, and it's going pretty well. But there are a couple of things bothering me which I would LOVE some clarity on.

Firstly: When playing in a specific key (Dmaj for instance) can one play ANY D scale along with it? or MUST it be the Dmaj (or Dmaj pentatonic) scale? I am wondering this because someone told me that themost important scale to learn is the minor pentatonic. But how can one play the minor pentatonic when the key is Dmaj? Won't there be one false note then?
The way I understand it is that that false note might actually give the solo a cool,out of place (but not false) sound. Am I right?
Or is it a case of changing the chords to adapt to the scale you want to use in the solo (cin this case,changing the D chord to a Dminor. I hope this isn't the case, cos it doesn't make any sense to me).

Secondly: From the literature I have been reading, I noticed that it's possible to 'transpose' a scale pattern from a minor to a major by simply moving the patterns three steps up the fretboard. Is this correct? Does that mean that all major scales have exactly the same 5 patterns except that they are on different locations on the fretboard?

I realise that this is quite a mouthfull, but some help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

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: I recently (eventually )started learning my scales. According to most of the ppl I talk to, the first kind to learn is the minor pentatonic patterns. : I've been doing this for a while now, and it's going pretty well. But there are a couple of things bothering me which I would LOVE some clarity on. : Firstly: When playing in a specific key (Dmaj for instance) can one play ANY D scale along with it? or MUST it be the Dmaj (or Dmaj pentatonic) scale? I am wondering this because someone told me that themost important scale to learn is the minor pentatonic. But how can one play the minor pentatonic when the key is Dmaj? Won't there be one false note then? : The way I understand it is that that false note might actually give the solo a cool,out of place (but not false) sound. Am I right? : Or is it a case of changing the chords to adapt to the scale you want to use in the solo (cin this case,changing the D chord to a Dminor. I hope this isn't the case, cos it doesn't make any sense to me). : Secondly: From the literature I have been reading, I noticed that it's possible to 'transpose' a scale pattern from a minor to a major by simply moving the patterns three steps up the fretboard. Is this correct? Does that mean that all major scales have exactly the same 5 patterns except that they are on different locations on the fretboard? : I realise that this is quite a mouthfull, but some help would be greatly appreciated. : Thanks a lot.

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