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Guitar Mnemonic Pentatonic/Diatonic

Posted by becks

You know pentatonic boxes, and major scales all over the neck. This is a little tip for you

Let say you want to play G Maj diatonic on 12 freth:

• think about G Maj pentatonic
  
• Go back in the circle, and you have a C maj pentatonic, only one note change (B->C)
  
• And finally, go in the next position, you have a D maj pentatonic, only one note change (G->F#)
  
• Now combine and sum G + D + C pentatonic schema and you have 5 + 1 + 1 notes = 7
  The G maj diatonic scale: