Originally Posted by: pizzicatopickerHey guys, speakinf o pentatonics.... Ive been fooling around w/ pent.'s/blues, and ionion scales, modulating out of them into eachother. Simple stuff, I know, but I consider the Pentatonic scale as THE FRAME to the major and blues scales... try switching out of all 3, its easy, and it helps switch things up a bit. I kinda got the idea reading some Stevie Ray Vaughn.........

And to follow on from that, look at the CAGED derived modal shapes and compare them to a standard major scale..... Makes it way easier to see how they differ, and also to move easily between parallel scales...