Minor/Major Pentatonic

OK, Say I am playing Gminor pentatonic. ( 3rd fret 6th string). If I want to make that scale major do I drop the root note to 3rd fret 5th string? I have been told this. So this means I can play the Gminor scale while rythm guitar is playing in the key of Gminor or Cmajor. Is this accurate? I hope this isn't confusing.

ahhhhh........no!

Gmajor=Eminor, they both have one #
This is the general rule -- the respective minor of every major scale is three semi tones lower than than it.
Like Cmaj=Amin, Dmaj=Bmin and so on.

[Edited by Slow Diver on 03-04-2003 at 02:19 AM]

G minor goes
---3----------6-----
---3----------6-----
---3-------5--------
---3-------5--------
---3-------5--------
---3----------6-----

G major goes
-----3-----5-----
-----3-----5-----
-2---------5-----
-2---------5-----
-----3-----5-----
-----3-----5-----

I think...

I think what you meant to say was G major = E minor

Here's a can of worms. (humorously)

There's a lot of irony in American music. Notice the overlapping of pents... no leading tone.
Here's the schtyck. Overlapping pents is a matter of leaning. Maj pents sound like country, minor pents sound like blues. All the classic country licks is major pents that add the minor pents. Blues are minor pents that add the major. Odd, ain't it?

Originally posted by chris mood
I think what you meant to say was G major = E minor

Thnks for correcting me.
I just edited my crap.

That would be a Cm pent in G. Overlapping the G min pent
and Cm pent would give you a G7b13 (adding the 3rd from a G maj pent give you the change perfectly). For playing American music, my major scale is an overlapped pent. A major and a minor together. Overlapping pents covers just about every scale possibilities there are. Moving form 2 minor on top of form 1 minor gives you the major pent. Play any of your standard licks. Fuse or overlapp gives endless possibilities. Take a look at this site. Simply and hopefully, explains the logic.

http://members.tripod.com/~griphon2/index-17.html