In a mess trying to write out minor pentatonic notes
Inspired by this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak_iM6H9rxE
I was able to solo quite nicely over this (AI generated backing track, don't hate me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xsqoiksmJA
I'm keen to understand some music theory, as I want to understand the theory behind what I'm playing. I started out by writing out the scales of the chords;
Bm -> B C# D E F# G A (applied w-h-w-w-h-w-w)
A -> A B C# D E F# G# (applied w-w-h-w-w-w-h)
F#m-> F# G# A B C# D E (applied w-h-w-w-h-w-w)
G -> G A B C D E F# (applied w-w-h-w-w-w-h)
Then I tried to apply the pentatonic formulae(?)
1 2 3 5 6
1 b3 4 5 b7
And landed on,
B C# E F# G# (applying minor formula)
A B C# E F# (applying major formula)
F# G# B C# D# (applying minor formula)
G A B D E (applying major forumula)
now obviously it's incorrect and it's because for the minor pentatonic I've applied the "minoring" twice. Is that correct?
I tried again writing out the major scales for
B -> B C D# E F# G# A#
A -> A B C# D E F# G#
F# -> F# G# A# B C# D# E#
G -> G A B C D E F#
And then applied the same pattern from above for working out minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, minor pentatonic and minor pentatonic respectively, arriving at
Bm -> B D E F# A
A -> A B C# E F#
F# -> F# A B C# E
G -> G A B D E
And that seemed to work out ok, according to google.
Thanks for sticking with me. My TLDR question is; Am I correct in thinking that to work out the minor pentatonic to play over a minor chord, I work out the major scale of the root and then apply the minor pentatonic formula to that?
Cheers all.