Pentatonic boxes

1. What are the five pentatonic boxes?
2. What are pentatonic boxes?
3. What are the 5 positions of the pentatonic scale?

What are the five pentatonic boxes?

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• G Major Pentatonic – E shape / Position 1.
• G Major Pentatonic – D shape / Position 2.
• G Major Pentatonic – C shape / Position 3.
• G Major Pentatonic – A shape / Position 4.
• G Major Pentatonic – G shape / Position 5.

What are pentatonic boxes?

A little music theory. The word pentatonic comes from Greek, meaning “five tones” — the pentatonic scales have five notes in them. Traditional western scales have seven notes in them. The major pentatonic scale is the same as the major scale minus the fourth and seventh notes.

What are the 5 positions of the pentatonic scale?

As we learned in the minor pentatonic scale lesson, this scale has just 5 tones - 1 (root), b3 (minor 3rd), 4 (perfect 4th), 5 (perfect 5th) and b7 (minor 7th). 1 is our root note, and wherever that note lies is the key of the scale.