Originally posted by Neil22
thanks bro, yea i kinda see what your saying. im gonna try out that key everyday thing. my 2nd question if im playing the aminor up and down one day, as well as the gmaj form along with it. could i do that with any minor like c, and also play the same major form .

The first thing I gotta say is DON'T GET YOUR SCALES CONFUSED. Looks like your heading down that direction and that will cause more questions and lead you to miss what is more beneficial. I will get to your question in a second but I'm going to explain something so you know why. Scales like the major and minor are diatonic scales, there primarily use is for song/chord structure. Scales like the pents are used for harmonizing certain chords. When your practicing your scales and then applying them, the most important thing you want to understand about a scale is it's tonality. Even though some scales have the same notes, there tonality is different. Play a A minor scale and then play a C major scale, starting from the root. Now you should be able to tell a difference between them in sound, one sounds minor the other sounds major even though they are made up of the same notes. Since music is about sound this is what you want to understand above all.

So techincally yes you can do that, but your missing that every important point. You don't want to confuse the G major scale with the A minor pent. Think of them as 2 completely different entities because that's what they are.
The G amjor scales works over a (G) major chord, and the A minor pent works over (think only) a A minor chord. The G major scale only has 1 position, from G. Playing the G major scale from a note other than G is a mode. Pents are the same way although there not referred to as modes but positions. Since pents are harmonic scales, and say your playing a A minor pent over a A minor chord. It's is important to know how to start a harmony on a note other than A, why you learn the different positions of pents.

what i mnea is if u play 1st postion in amin and 1st in gmaj, since they sound right...

Yeah they sound right because they have the same notes, but they do sound different. If you start on the root, one sounds major and one sounds minor. I can't emphasize that enough.

if u use the same form can u play that way in any key or does the maj form change with being ina diff key for min.

The minor scale has the same structure as the Major scale except the minor starts with the 6th chord: i iio III iv v VI VII. Apply the same thing that I showed you in the last post about what pents exist within a scale, you should be able to figure out what your asking. The forms are the same.

Hopefully I answered what you were asking.
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