Major Pentatonic Forms

Now that you understand the forms of the Minor Pentatonic, let's look at the other side of things: The Major Pentatonic.

This is going to be a lot easier than you might think!

This actually goes for all 5 forms of the Minor Pentatonic. By changing where our root note is, we can change the entire thing to a Major Pentatonic with no other alterations needed.

This might be a little confusing to get your head around at first, but in the end you will be glad it works out this way, because it means you don't have to learn another set of forms for the Major Pentatonic. Phew!

Let's look at how all 5 Forms of the Major Pentatonic fit together.

Below, you can also take a look at the Minor Pentatonic, for comparison.

Hopefully now, you understand that each form can be used in a Major or Minor context. This does add an additional wrinkle to your understanding of each form, but I think you will agree learning these new root note positions is a much simpler task than it was to learn the 5 forms in the first place!

Do you find it strange that the forms are identical? CLICK HERE to learn more about relative keys.

Alternatively, CLICK HERE to put this all together and explore Blues Pentatonic Mastery.