[Jon_Mac]

I was just playing around on my guitar and I started playing this. Is it a scale? If it is what one?

|--------------------------------5--7-|
|--------------------------5--7-------|
|--------------------4--7-------------|
|-------------4--7--------------------|
|-------5--7--------------------------|
|-5--7--------------------------------|

[goldrush]

Yes, it's a pentatonic scale (also known as a "box" pattern). The one you have can be used with a blues/rock song in the key of B. There are five (I think) of those box patterns that connect with each other allowing you to play leads and runs the length of the fretboard.

This post has been edited by goldrush: 14 June 2004 - 11:00 PM

[Bobzyk]

I was just playing around on my guitar and I started playing this. Is it a scale? If it is what one?

|--------------------------------5--7-|
|--------------------------5--7-------|
|--------------------4--7-------------|
|-------------4--7--------------------|
|-------5--7--------------------------|
|-5--7--------------------------------|

If you start and end in the right places, you will have 2 pentatonic scales: D major and B minor pentatonic:

D major
|--------------------------------5--7--10|
|--------------------------5--7-----------|
|--------------------4--7-----------------|
|-------------4--7------------------------|
|-------5--7------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|

B minor

|--------------------------------5--7-|
|--------------------------5--7-------|
|--------------------4--7-------------|
|-------------4--7--------------------|
|-------5--7--------------------------|
|----7--------------------------------|

B minor alternate fingering

|-------------------------------- 7--|
|-------------------------- 7--10-----|
|-------------------- 7--9------------|
|------------- 7--9------------------|
|----------7--9------------------------|
|--7--10-------------------------------|

D major alternate fingering


|------------------------------10—---|
|------------------------10-12-------|
|-------------------9—11—------------|
|-------------9--12------------------|
|-------9--12------------------------|
|-10-12------------------------------|

[goldrush]

You got it.

[enharmonic]

any sequence of notes is a scale and can be expressed by using chord notation they just might be really long Csus7b5#9#11 +13

[Jon_Mac]

Oh awesome thanks