The pentatonic scales can be heard in music across the world. They have only five notes, but those notes seem to ‘fit’ well in a lot of places.
Learning pentatonic scales will enable you to quickly have something under your fingers that you can play. The blues scale and minor pentatonic scale are similar.
If you want to play pentatonic scales on tenor sax, to get from concert key (piano, guitar, etc) to Bb (the key that tenor and soprano sax are in) you need to go up a whole step.
So concert Bb is C on tenor sax, concert F is G on tenor sax, etc.
From there there,
The major pentatonic scale is the 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
In the key of C (on tenor sax) that would be C, D, E, G, A
Minor pentatonic scale is the 1, b3, 4, 5, b7
In the key of C (on tenor sax) that would be- C, Eb, F, G, Bb
thanx for the pentatonic scales
they do help a lot
Hey Barry, you’re welcome
Thanks for the pentatonic scale, Neal, it helped a lot.
You’re welcome Nickoli, glad you can use it.
It helped a lot… thanks.. But what’s the relationship between pentatonic scale and blues scale
Hello Lamina,
Depends on which type of pentatonic scale you’re talking about.
If you’re talking about the minor pentatonic scale, they are very similar. The blues scale has one more note compared to the minor pentatonic scale, otherwise the same notes.
All the scale and chord relatd to each other…becouse it the same notes but diffrent order…see the chromatic scale for better understanding. ( d, de, r, re, m, f, fe, s, se, l, le, t, d. )
Yes, that’s one way to think about it.