Learn the Pentatonic Scale for Violin :: Tutorial A minor C major pentatonic

Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

First in a series of pentatonic scale tutorials. I'm pretty lazy when it comes to practising scales so I thought this would be a good way to force myself to do it and to help out those who wanted to learn too. Let's learn the pentatonic scales together!

The scales here are A minor and C major pentatonic. These are basically the same notes which are:

A C D E G for Am pentatonic
C D E G A for C major pentatonic

I have a backing track video for practising these scales here:
youtu.be/Pt2fyByJoxA

You can also download the track from my Bandcamp account for free (although donations are possible, wink wink ;-)
chastewviolinmusic.bandcamp.com

(I'm going to create an album with all keys so this may not be ready immediately)

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