Free Guitar Lesson
C Major Scale

The Pentatonic scale is made up of 5 notes:

The C Major Pentatonic can be used for soloing over progressions in the key of C major. An example would be the progression with the chords:
C major / E minor / F major / G major

Another Progression would be:
C major / F Major / C Major / G major / C Major

Here is a tablature of the scale:

e--------------------------|--------5------------|
B--------------------------|--5--8---------------|
G--------------------5--7--|---------------------|
D--------------5--7--------|---------------------|
A--------5--7--------------|---------------------|
E------8-------------------|---------------------|

Here is a Midi file so you can hear what the C major Pentatonic sounds like.

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