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Carl King
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Carl King
GuitarTricks Video Director
Joined: 10/08/07
Posts: 466
04/01/2021 2:38 am

If I'm understanding what you're saying, what you're doing is finding some adjacent scale tones around your 1, 3, and 5.

2 frets above your 5, you have a 6th scale degree.

2 frets above your 1, you have the 2nd scale degree.

3 frets above your 3, you have the 5th scale degree.

So, what you've found is a little major-tonality scale with the scale degrees 1-2-3-5-6. (No 4th, no 7th). That is a Major Pentatonic scale.

-Carl.


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