It’s essential knowledge for every musician to understand The Major Scale and the Chords the scale creates. 

In this post, we’ll learn how scales create chords and how knowing this will aid you in learning songs, figuring out lead parts, and writing your own music. 

The Major Pentatonic is heavily used in Blues, Rock, and Country Music. The Major Pentatonic will be very familiar to those that already know the Minor Pentatonic Scale. The notes and shapes of the two are the same, but the Roots are different.

The different root creates a tonal shift, which accounts for the sound.

Scales, are the basic building blocks of music. Fortunately, most of the music you hear rely on just a few scales.

Even the best know guitarists typically find their voice with one or two of these scales.

The Basic Five Scale are; the Major & Minor Scales, the Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales, and the Blues Scales.

Here, we’ll begin our path to using each of these scales.

Feel like just strumming a few of you favorite songs?.

Here’s a list of the most common Major, Minor, & Seventh chords. You’ll be able to play many famous songs with just a few of these chords.

Have Fun.

The Major Scale is perhaps the most important scale in music. It is used in Chord Construction, and forms the basis of how other scales are created and described.

Learn the Five Patterns of the Minor Pentatonic Scale. Here we use G Minor Pentatonic as an example but the scale patterns are the same in each key.