The Difference Between Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales - Music Theory

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As soon as you started playing from the C , I knew you got Sunshine..on a Cloudy day ! And you thoroughly deserve it !!

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[@SoulFaeWorld]

Thank you for the clear and concise explanation

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[@percyhigginbottom7155]

Very well explained. I love the singing !

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[@jayducharme]

Fascinating! I never realized that there was a minor pentatonic.

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[@GeorgeBletchly]

The minor pentatonic is the blues pentatonic: listen to qny blues guitarist: Clqpton; Hendrix; Giilmour ........

[@AccordionandViolinlife]

Aren't the intervals different from A minor and C major pentatonic?

[@randycreasi]

The major pentatonic is like a major scale leaving out the 4th and 7th degrees. The minor pentatonic is like the natural minor scale without the 2nd and 6th degrees. Anywhere you'd step by a semitone goes away and you leap a minor 3rd instead.

[@SalimSivaad]

@@AccordionandViolinlifeThe interval formula is different between the two scales, but because they are relative major/minor scales, they consist of the same notes. The major pentatonic interval formula is Root, Whole tone, Whole tone, 1 1/2 tone, Whole tone, 1 1/2 tone. Therefore C Major pentatonic is: C, D, E, G, A, C. The minor pentatonic scale formula is Root, 1 1/12 tone, Whole tone, Whole tone, 1 1/2 tone, Whole tone. Therefore the A minor pentatonic scale is A, C, D, E, G, A

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[@chrisisbell3080]

If I am not mistaken, taking the black notes you played (C#, D#, F#, G#, A#) down a semitone give C, D, F, G, A, not C, D, E, G, A. Taking F#, G#, A#, C#, D# down a tritone would work, albeit more difficult to explain.

[@AtomizedSound]

Really it’s inverted. Can be 2+3 or vice versa 3+2

[@johann.student]

Since there are two scales that start on a black key and have all the black keys, I think he took the Gb scale, which includes the notes Gb, Ab, Bb, Cb, Db, Eb, F. If we consider Gb=1, Ab=2, Bb=3, Cb=4, Db=5, Eb=6, F=7, he only took 1-2-3-5-6, so the transposition would be C-D-E-G-A, where C=1, D=2, E=3, G=5, A=6. However, if we consider the C# scale, which contains the notes C#, D#, E#, F#, G#, A#, B#, and assign C#=1, D#=2, E#=3, F#=4, G#=5, A#=6, B#=7, then by taking only the black keys, we get 1-2-4-5-6, and the transposition would be C-D-F-G-A, which would be another pentatonic scale. Each of these pentatonic scales has a minor mode starting on 6. I hope the answer is helpful!

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[@Jwellsuhhuh]

CDFGA is just an inversion or “mode” of the F pentatonic scale

[@riverstun]

So I'm guessing there's a whole bunch of modes for pentatonic, not just Aeolian- and Ionian-equivalent. 5 modes, depending on which note is your tonic.

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