I just learned and memorized the entire A Minor Pentatonic scale. Voodoo Child uses the B Minor Pentatonic. Off to go memorize yet another scale.

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Did you also learn the five modes of the B Minor Pentatonic?

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Dumb newbie guitarist question: wouldn't the pattern be the same for all keys, just playing it starting in a different place (and taking into account the effect of playing it across the B string, if you are)? I don't need a long discussion for an answer, just a simple yes/no, with maybe the notes of the scales in the 2 keys if the pattern is different, and I can figure it out from there.

Thanks for your patience with my question.

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The answer is yes. Every scale pattern you learn can be moved up and down the neck, becoming a part of a new key. A minor moved up two frets becomes B minor.

Voodoo Child is B minor pentatonic? I always thought it was E.

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No memorization required, any scale can be moved to any root note and played the same, just the root changes. but i highly suggest learnin all five minor pent. postitions and the blues scale, which is the minor pent. with a few essential notes, before just runnin, youve learned t crawl, now start walkin

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yeah, pentatonic's should be a scale that every guitarist learn's, even if you never use scales, like me, there handy every now and then

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Please explain more. I am somewhat familiar with modes in regards to other scales, but they confuse the heck out of me.

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You are very right.
I ws think of another thing I was working on Still got to be fluent in this scale for improving over just a rhythm guitar....hope this sounds cool when its done.

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Here, this site explains it better and shows an illustration of them. http://www.theorylessons.com/pent002positions.php

Learn the five modes and you will be very fluent in your lead guitar playing instead of just knowing one mode and moving it up and down the neck. Thats like using the same word in every sentence.....very limited vocabulary and boring and non expressive. learning the other modes expands your guitar playing vocabulary and your playing will be more fluent and expressive.

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Here's where it got confusing to me. When you learned the A Minor pentatonic, you also learned the C Major pentatonic.

Thats five positions of the pentatonic scale. Not modes. Modes are something else entirely mate. There's seven positions to the major scale I suspect the minor scale modes too (natural, harmonic and melodic). If anyone wants to confirm or deny that please clear it up for me.

You're far better off to learn the notes of the scale as well as the position. So you can jump out of position and still be in key. Helps stop it becoming stale, which the pentatonic and blues scales can become very quickly.

Not to stress though, you're on the right path.

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