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Whats a Pentatonic Scale?

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave
http://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/lesson27.htm for more detail

It is a scale with 5 notes rather than the usual 7. It is a good one for beginners to work with and is great for soloing over a whole load of stuff!

Thanks do you know where I can find a tab.

loads of tabs here...just google for tabs ...you'll have enough to see you through this bout
of global warming...ignore the bribes also
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/mis ... s_tabs.htm

So as this is the A Minor Pentatonic starting on the 5th fret i can add any of the other patterns to it by leaving this pattern and joining the next on the route note of each patttern? so in effect i can play pattern one and join pattern 2 at the 8th fret together and so on and its all A ? I can then move pattern 1 allong 2 frets and i am playing the B Minor Pentatonic and can join pattern 2 to this at the 10th fret and still be in B and so on? Would this make it possible to play in any key just by moving all the patterns along but still playing the same sequence of patterns?

if you dont use any open strings all things are relative...so if you play
a lick in the key of A at the 7th fret ..then play it in the key of G
..play it at the 5th fret ( since G is 2 frets lower than A ..or a tone or 2 semitones )
if you play it in A# then the 8th fret is the starting point and so on ( for the same sequence of notes played in an identical manner )