Pentatonic Scales Illustrated on the Piano

As I’m sure you know, there’s many kinds of scales. For example, there’s major scales that proceed from the root up to the octave note in a whole-half-whole-half pattern. There are minor scales that use a different set of whole steps and half steps plus a step and a half, like between there and there is a step and a half. There’s chromatic scales, of course, that run up the entire scale and use nothing but half steps. There’s whole tone scales that use nothing but whole tones. That’s a whole tone scale.

“Penta”, of course, means five and so a Pentatonic Scale has five notes in it and those notes are always the root, second, third, fifth, and sixth notes of any major scale. Memorize that quickly. It’s real easy. Root, second, third, fifth, and sixth. That’s all there is to a Pentatonic Scale.

Does it sound a little oriental? It should because a lot of oriental music is based on that Pentatonic Scale. The easiest way to play Pentatonic Scale, by the way, is to just play all the black keys. If you push down your pedal, by the way, you can’t make a mistake. There is nothing wrong if you play just nothing but black keys.

You make real pleasant sounds with Pentatonic Scales and that’s all there is to it. Thanks for being with me. I’ll see you again soon. Here is a Wikipedia article on pentatonic scales: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

And here is the YouTube video on pentatonic scales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWYBZWMiuE&feature=youtu.be

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