Can someone please give me a charted example of the minor pentatonic scale with modes 1-7? Like you would find in a scale book? I've been searching the net for hours, here too, and just can't find it. Please help, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. 
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Please, Pentatonic Scale with all modes spelled out.
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mebusdriver said:Can someone please give me a charted example of the minor pentatonic scale with modes 1-7? Like you would find in a scale book? I've been searching the net for hours, here too, and just can't find it. Please help, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
I think the reason you can't find it is that it's not a concept much of anybody uses. At least in my experience.
Here's an example of a minor pentatonic scale:
D F G A C D
In terms of steps:
1.5 1 1 1.5 1
What I've heard in my experience-
C - Eb - F - G - Bb - minor pentatonic
Eb - F - G - Bb - C - major pentatonic
F - G - Bb - C - Eb - suspended pentatonic
C - Eb - F - G - Bb - minor pentatonic
Eb - F - G - Bb - C - major pentatonic
F - G - Bb - C - Eb - suspended pentatonic
Aaron said:
Yes indeed, but IMO those are best thought of as just different pentatonic scales. Thinking of them as modes of the minor pentatonic is IMO not a concept that will help anybody much. This is my problem with the whole "modes of the X scale" thing, but that's another thread (or three) ....
Just my $0.02.
My bias is that to understand modes or scales, they should be learned from the same starting point. Thus, in your terms:
Minor pentatonic: D F G A C
Major pentatonic: D E F# A B
Sus pentatonic: D E G A C
Take it from your major scale as a reference if you know your major scale then just drop out the 4th and 7th notes of the scale thus you come up with
Formulae: 1-2-3-5-6
Just another way to look at it but the advice given is sufficient enough
Formulae: 1-2-3-5-6
Just another way to look at it but the advice given is sufficient enough
Richard Lindsey said:
I definitely think that is more helpful way to learn them, too. I was just showing how they were modes. I was going to put them into names of scale degrees, but if figured that was a given, so I'll post them here.
R - b3 - 4 - 5 - b7
R - 2 - 3 - 5 - 6
R - 2 - 4 - 5 - b7
Well, this helps, guess I'll just remember patterns and play them in place. I asked for modes because I was under the impression that all scales were broken into x amount of modes and kind of played in that sort of relationship. I know the major scale back and forth and all the modes in relation so I thought that's the way it was going to come out, guess I've got plenty to learn. Thanks a ton though guys.
