GuitarBizarre

Look up a circle of 5ths. You'll be able to see that each key has a relative key. That's not the same thing as knowing what to use where though. You should look up how modes work, they're far more comprehensive. Guthrie Govan does a good modes lesson on youtube.

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Dr_Rez

Learn your major and minor pentatonic and blues scale like the back of your hand though before learning modes. Then you will understand what makes each mode different from your basic everyday scale your used to hearing.

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blastingas10

Well I know the Am blues scale like the back of my hand, but my scale book only gives examples of scales in the key of A. And I've been without Internet for a while, I've been posting from my phone. It sucks trying to look up scale charts on a phone.

Dr_Rez

They are the same in every key. All are movable.

You need to know all five scale positions. Are you talking about all of them or just the first?

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blastingas10

I know all 5 positions of the Am blues scale. It was the first scale I learned and is my most used. I know they're all movable but the finger patterns aren't the same for each position, so I don't really know how to move them. I know I could take the Am 5th fret position and move it down a whole step to G, but I would it still be the same fingering? It might hard to understand what I mean by "fingering" and "finger position".

Dr_Rez

Yes the fingering is the exact same. Say you are going to play in Bminor instead, all you do is take every position and shape you know from the Am and move it up the neck 2 frets. The other 4 boxes are the exact same. The only thing that may be tricky is getting used to playing in Eminor since the first position is all barred at the nut.

So little did you know you actually know every minor Keys pentatonic scales already!

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blastingas10

So position one of the Am blues scale starts at the 3rd fret on the G note, I can move that box down a whole step and that is Bm? So then the Bm pentatonic starts at the 5th fret. That seems like a far start for a scale, there's got to be a box before the 5th fret box. It just doesn't seem right that all the notes before the 5th fret would be skipped.

Dr_Rez

No the 1st postition of Am scale is at the fifth fret. Think about it, its an Am scale so the first root note has to be an A.



The one marked R is the root which is the same note as the key you are in. So if you want to play in Bm you go down to the 7th fret because that note of the low E string is a B. I think first you should learn all your notes on the low e and a string before tackling this.

The first position of the scale always starts on the note the scale is named after on the 6th string (fattest).

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blastingas10

I've looked at multiple scale charts and theyve always told me the first note of the Am blues scale is on the 3rd fret (G). I know all my notes on the low E very well. I'm Past that. Yes the root is on the A, but it starts on the G. I'm not saying you're wrong, I understand what you're saying; but my scale book shows it as this:


----------------------------------------------3-5-------
-------------------------------------3-4-5------------
---------------------------2-----4-------------------
------------------2----4-----------------------
---------3---5--------------------------
--3---5----------------------------

The roots being on the 5th of the low E and the 2nd of the G.

GuitarBizarre

Thats not the first position. The first position of the Am pentatonic scale is

----------------------------------------------5-8-------
-------------------------------------5-8-------------
---------------------------5-----7-------------------
------------------5----7-----------------------
---------5---7--------------------------
--5---8----------------------------

If you look at the chart above, you'll see you're playing the shape listed for the SECOND position. Its still an Am scale, but that is NOT the first position, which is WHY the root note is not the first note.

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