The C Major Pentatonic scale uses five notes — root (C), second (D), third (E), fifth (G), and sixth (A) — and is the major-key counterpart to the A Minor Pentatonic. In fact, they share the exact same notes; the difference is which note you treat as home base. Where the Minor Pentatonic has a dark, bluesy sound, the Major Pentatonic is bright and resolved — think country, classic rock, and folk. If you already know the Am Pentatonic patterns, you already know these shapes. The challenge is reorienting your ear and your thinking around C as the root.
Wheat's Guitar Scales
