Comments on: Ukulele Scales: Minor Pentatonic

By: Wayne Wilson

Wayne Wilson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:21:12 +0000

just wanted to thank you for this great and awesome site!

THANK YOU!!

love it!

By: mark jaffe

mark jaffe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:02:06 +0000

i can’t figure out how to play the C minor pentatonic improvisation scale. Any tips? I don’t know how to play the notes that are connected by the brackets.
Any help would be much appreciated

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:46:52 +0000

John is spot on. I hardly ever use a pick on the uke.

By: J-Hob

J-Hob — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:34:26 +0000

Mike – he’ll be using fingers, of this I am 99.99% certain.

Ukulele players, for the most part, tend not to use picks, Zach Condon of Beirut being an exception. The most common type of pick used with a uke is a felt one.

In general you will have greater versatility of sounds if you play with fingers that you just can’t get with a pick.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:31:19 +0000

being new to the ukulele can you tell me if you are picking with finger or pick,regards mike

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:12:54 +0000

Thanks, Isaac. I’m working on a Ukulele Blues ebook at the moment and tab for this, or something like it, will probably turn up in there.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:39:11 +0000

I liked your improv- any chance of putting the tab for the whole thing? I know I should work it out or come up with my own but lack of skill is preventing me.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:42:34 +0000

maduke: You’re welcome.

Alf: I’m hanging my head in shame.

Jon: The major pentatonic has notes from the major scale and the minor pentatonic has notes from the minor scale. Is was going to write about the minor scale first. But I decided just to go ahead and give the people what they wanted.

By: J-Hob

J-Hob — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:30:58 +0000

I had always wondered what a pentatonic scale was and now I know! I had thought that it might just take some notes from the major scale but I notice that it doesn’t.

Anyway, I’ve already enjoyed twiddling away with little blues riffs tonight. Thanks for sharing, once again you have increased my musical knowledge!

By: Alf

Alf — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:58:51 +0000

Whilst, of course, any ancient Romans stumbling across this corner of the interweb may well know how many notes constitute a pentatonic scale, I suspect an ancient Greek would work it out slightly more quickly, pentatonic being a word derived from Greek rather than Latin roots.

My grasp of the need to get out more is not always equal to my grasp of classical languages, but such is life.