Aaron Jaxon shows how to play the bluegrass scale by shifting a minor pentatonic pattern to its second degree. He demonstrates using open strings in G to get that classic bluegrass sound instead of a closed-position fingering.
All right, I want to show you how to play the bluegrass scale, and it goes like this. Okay, so all this is is a blues scale played in a major key and with open strings. So I'd say most of y'all are familiar with like the A minor pentatonic blues scale, and all we're going to do is play that exact scale but from the second note in that, which gives us our relative major, and we're going to do But instead of starting up here in a closed position, we're going to come down here and play it, um, with open strings in G, which just has a very classic bluegrass sound to it.
