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Discover the shortcut to playing minor pentatonic scales

by Jermaine Griggs · 25 comments

in Blues music,Scales

About a month ago, I posted a lesson on how to play pentatonic scales. As you learned in that post, this scale is called “pentatonic” because it has 5 notes. “Penta” is an ancient Greek prefix meaning “five.”

We unraveled the numerical names for other scales too. Like… [more]