Members dave0923 Posted August 6, 2008 Members Posted August 6, 2008 I am a new player and trying to figure out how to simply match up chords with an Am Pentatonic or other scale. I taught myself the 5 blues boxes for Am Pentatonic up and down the neck. Now I want to record some I IV V chord progressions on my new Boss Loop RC-2, so that I can play the scale along with the chords. My other question is, will these same blues boxes work for other scales? If so, same question on matching up the chords. Sorry for the simplicity of my question. Would be most appreciative if somebody can set me straight on this scale and chord relationship Thanks
Members Mr Songwriter Posted August 6, 2008 Members Posted August 6, 2008 It might be easier to think in terms of matching the notes to the chords, a lot of the time you will be emphasising/ landing on notes in the chords, this video might help explain what I mean: [YOUTUBE]ShMxIRO4wAA[/YOUTUBE]
Members dave0923 Posted August 7, 2008 Author Members Posted August 7, 2008 Helpful, thanks, but probably a little ahead of where I am right now. I'll try to grasp what he is emphasizing. Thanks for the reply.
Poparad Posted August 7, 2008 Posted August 7, 2008 I am a new player and trying to figure out how to simply match up chords with an Am Pentatonic or other scale. I taught myself the 5 blues boxes for Am Pentatonic up and down the neck. Now I want to record some I IV V chord progressions on my new Boss Loop RC-2, so that I can play the scale along with the chords. My other question is, will these same blues boxes work for other scales? If so, same question on matching up the chords. Sorry for the simplicity of my question. Would be most appreciative if somebody can set me straight on this scale and chord relationship Thanks All scales can be broken down into the 5 positions like the minor pentatonic can be. Each position will be about 4 frets wide, though you may have to shift up or down a fret on some strings in certain positions (as you have probably already noticed in the minor pentatonic positions). The minor pentatonic is a subset of the natural minor scale. In other words, you start with the natural minor scale, which has 7 notes, and then delete two of those notes, you'll end up with the 5 note minor pentatonic scale. The natural minor scale is the same as the major scale, the only difference is which note you consider the root. So when you learn the 5 positions of the minor scale, you have also learned the 5 positions of the major scale. Chords are build from the major/natural minor scale by starting on a note in the scale, and then taking every other note (like 1-3-5, or 2-4-6), until you have a triad (a three note chord). Since the scale has 7 notes, there are 7 chords that can be made. Memorizing these groups of chords for each scale is how you learn which scale fits a chord progression.
Members Mr Songwriter Posted August 7, 2008 Members Posted August 7, 2008 Helpful, thanks, but probably a little ahead of where I am right now. I'll try to grasp what he is emphasizing. Thanks for the reply. Yes, I was wondering if that video might have been a bit advanced, but the bit that I thought was important was where he was saying things like 'root' 'third' and 'fifth' over the chords (Poparad explains those above) He was playing over an A7/D7/E7 progression and emphasising particular tones from the chords (meaning he's not just playing random licks using the Blues Scale) he also played notes that aren't in the A Blues Scale (e.g. he played a B over the E7 (VI) chord) This diagram shows you the position of the Root, the Third and the Fifth for the major chords: Edit: just to add to the confusion, when he mentions the 3rd, he's actually talking about the minor 3rd, rather than the major 3rd shown in that diagram above (i.e. in the key of A the minor 3rd would be C and the seventh in this context is the flat seventh, i.e. a G) he also points out later in the video that most of the time, Blues guitarists will usually do a 1/4 note bend on that 3rd note.
Members dave0923 Posted August 7, 2008 Author Members Posted August 7, 2008 Thanks, this gets me going in the right direction.
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