In your book Music Theory for Guitarists, the chapter about Chromatic and other scales, there are diagrams for pentatonic and minor pentatonics that each have five different diagrams. What is the difference in the fingerings within each type..are they just different keys?
No, they connect in one key to cover the entire fretboard. In the diagrams, you'll see some notes are shown with squares instead of circles - the squares are the root tones.
If you look at the top row of diagrams on p.69, the major pentatonics, and relate these to the key of A, you'll see:
figure 1: root on 6th string, 1st finger. The 6th string A is at fret 5 or 17, so you'd play it in those positions.
figure 2: root on 6th string, 2nd finger. You'd be in 4th position or 16th
figure 3: root on 6th string, 4th finger. You'd be in 2nd position or 14th
figure 4: root on 5th string, 1st finger. The 5th string A is open or 12, so you'd be in open or 12th position
figure 5: root on 6th string, 4th finger. You'd be in 9th position.
So, you could connect the patterns like this:
start in open position, play from figure 4
move to 2nd position, play from figure 3
move to 4th position, play from figure 2
move to 5th position, play from figure 1
move to 9th position, play from figure 5
move to 12th position, play from figure 4
move to 14th position, play from figure 3
move to 16th position, play from figure 2
move to 17th position, play from figure 1
You'll see how they connect and overlap.
If you stay in one place, you'll be changing keys. If you play them all 5th position, you'll have
figure 1 = A
figure 2 = Bb
figure 3 = C
figure 4 = D
figure 5 = F
because each pattern has the root in a different place
All the finger diagrams in the book follow the same notation - just look for the squares.
Make sense?
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Not really :( When you say position, are you refering to fret positions?
Have a look at the diagrams :
http://people.freenet.de/greybeard/ScalePatternsAminPenta.htm
Perhaps that will make things a little clearer
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Yes, fret positions. Play through figure 1 at the 5th fret, then through figure 2 at the 4th fret - you'll find they give you the same notes in different fingerings.
The key to learning scales is to use patterns like these as a reference - your real goal is to understand what notes belong in which scale, and know the fingerboard well enough to find them... fingering patterns are just a tool to use while you're gaining that knowledge.
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