To me all of music theory, and all you need to know to jam is this: know what a note will sound/feel like before you play it...which is much easier said than done.
So I agree with what the previos people have said about scales "versus" chord tones. You need to know what note of the scale you are playing in order to know what it will sound/feel like, and, you need to know what chord tones you will/won't play to know what it will sound/feel like. like if you didnt know what the next note will sound like that you may as well just play randomly and you will get the same results.
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Originally Posted by Dewy
This should also be the begining of everyone's "scale" knowledge... and we should all learn to expand the box both up and down, as well as other boxes to play with.
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I agree with this too. The first time i jammed i used the E minor pent with the root on the 12th fret like the picture. And all i could figure out about what my next note will sound like is pitch. Which allowed me to have fun but not play very well. So here's the diagram i came up with that worked very well for me. In terms of the feel of a note is dependent on what note of the scale it is. For example the first pentatonic minor diagram made the distinction between the roots and the rest of the notes, but the rest of the notes were all lumped together. the root has the most distinctive feel to it, but the 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th notes of the scale all each have a distinct and reconizable feel to them. So i gave them each their own color. (for every scale diagram that i made i kept the same colors consistent for each harmony like b3 is always light blue and dark blue is always the 3rd harmony if you guys want i can attach the others). So the more i played i started noticing what feel the guitar made when i played the red dots, then i started noticing what feel i got when i played the light blue dots and so on. Now I'm moving on to my diagrams for chord tones with marginal success.