Root Shuffling
The root jumps to a new pitch periodically during gameplay — the same noteset is reseated on a fresh root, building the ability to summon the noteset by its type from any root. This makes playing in any key trivial.
Pentatonic practice on guitar
Minor Pentatonic
Five notes, no semitones — the essential minor melodic scale
The minor pentatonic is a five-note scale formed by adding the 4 and ♭7 to the minor triad. It is a mode of the major pentatonic and shares its properties, but its sweet sound makes it the most common scale for melodic soloing.
Change root
or everyphrases
Notes
per phrase
Tempo
60bpm
Rhythm
Hand
Frets
up to
Tuning
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Metronome
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What you're practicing
A pentatonic is a five-note scale with no semitones in it — five consecutive steps on the circle of fifths, holding a major and a minor triad, the two most consonant chords. Nothing in it clashes with anything, which is why it is the safest scale for melody and the natural starting point for soloing.
The exercises take it in two directions. By ear: a phrase from the minor or major pentatonic sounds and you play it back, the root moving each round, so the five are learned in every key and not as one box. Over chords: a progression loops, and around each chord's shape its own pentatonic is drawn — the notes that fit that chord, as it sounds.
On the guitar: six strings in standard tuning, the first twelve frets. The 3 exercises above are the loop with the pentatonics decided — the panel still offers every setting, and a link carries yours.