If you then play a C major scale, you’d get C D E G A – the C major pentatonic scale. And if you played A C D E G, the result would be the A minor pentatonic scale. So a major pentatonic can be ...

This lick spans four octaves of the A minor pentatonic scale (A C D E G). Bar 1 features the same five-note scale fragment played in three different octaves, and is played with five evenly spaced ...