Major pentatonic scales... no real use?

[Mr. Jelly]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

Yeah, that's huge. With something as stripped down as pentatonics, it's really important to look at what chord tones you're getting over the chord of the moment...you can hear it in people's playing all the time when they disregard that...they weigh every note equally, just because the notes aren't bad don't mean they're great places of rest...

It comes down to a limited thought process where by learning a scale shape or M/m pentatonic scale is a lesson learned and that's the end. To me it's just one way to learn the fret board. There are many ways to do that. But the goal should be to ultimately open up the fret board so that the direction in which you learned it fades away and is replaced by motor skills and a trained ear that is used to make music.