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Major Pentatonic Scales
When playing slide guitar, pentatonic scales can be great for creating riffs, solos, and melodic ideas. If you’re playing in open E tuning, using tabs and scale diagrams can be a good way to memorize major pentatonic scales on your fretboard.
A lot of musical styles will utilize the major pentatonic scale, and incorporating this scale into your playing vocabulary can certainly be beneficial. Whether you’re playing blues, pop, rock, or other styles of music, the scale can be voiced very emotively on slide guitar due to the instrument’s expressive articulations.
Check out the tabs (or scale diagrams) below, which are great for learning the scale in open E tuning. The notes are placed over the actual frets, just like you would visualize them when playing guitar with a slide…
- C Major Pentatonic
- E Major Pentatonic
- G Major Pentatonic
- D Major Pentatonic
- A Major Pentatonic
- Bb Major Pentatonic
- F Major Pentatonic
Minor Pentatonic Scales
Another versatile scale, the minor pentatonic scale is commonly played on slide guitar for many forms of music. A lot of blues, rock, and pop songs make use of this scale melodically, and the slide is great for articulating and phrasing it.
Below are tabs (or scale diagrams) of the minor pentatonic scale for open E tuning slide guitar. Again, the notes are over individual frets, as you would actually play them with the slide…
- A Minor Pentatonic
- E Minor Pentatonic
- D Minor Pentatonic
- B Minor Pentatonic
- C# Minor Pentatonic
- F# Minor Pentatonic
- G Minor Pentatonic
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