Originally posted by Neil22
ok maybe i have the wrong concept. but is Aminors relative major C major scale or G maj?

See your already getting confused. This is exactly why I say don't think of one scale being the same as another. At first glance it seems like it would be easier to do this and make sense of scales. But it just pushes everything about scales together to where you can't make sense of any of it. The A minor scales relative major is C. I'll tab out the A minor scale, and show you.


|A minor scale|
g:--------------0-2-4-5-
d:--------0-2-3---------
a:--0-2-3---------------
|C major scale|


and if you were playing a solo you could use A minor and c maj, or A minor and G? [/B]

Although these 2 scales are often noted together, they each serve different purposes. If your playing a solo, the easiest way to figure out what scale to use is by looking at the chord your going to be soloing over. If it's an A minor chord, you'll use the A minor scale. If it's C major chord, use C major. It's a h3ll of alot easier to just match the root then to think of what scale has the same notes? or is relative? or whatever way you can twist it to make it 1000 times harder. Once you understand the tonalities of a scale it's easier to choose which one your going to use. A must for improv.

Also can you list out each penatonic key, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and the major i can practice along with it. [/B]

A pentatonic exists in whatever key that pentatonic will fit. Example: the A pentatonic exists in any key that there is an A major chord. Reread the parts of the first post where I wrote out the chordal structure of the major key. And the second post where I wrote the minor key chordal structure. You can see where a certain pentatonic will fit in each key. If you need to write out all 12 roots in both keys, and you can figure out where each pent will fit in at. I'm sorry but I not going to do that one for you.

like if i was practcing A minor one day, and Gmaj along with it. [/B]

No practice all your scales with the same root. Do your A major scale, then your A minor scale, A major pent, A minor pent, and so on. Don't think your playing the B minor pent when your playing the A major scale cause your not. FORGET how certain scales are the same or whatever. If you just stop thinking of how scales are the same, and think of each as 1 individual scale. Everything (patterns. sounds, and how to use them) will eventually make sense.