Well I have always called them 'reduced scales' but if you want to be absolutely correct they are called pentatonic from the Greek work penta meaning 5 - as in pentagon.

Please do not gloss over pentatonic scales as an understanding of pentatonic scales will improve your playing out of sight particularly when it comes to 'fill ins', embellishments or ad libs.? Most of the popular music today is built on pentatonic scales.

this scale is exactly the same as the normal scale with 2 notes removed.? Those two notes, in the major scale, are always the 4th and the 7th notes.? So your scale of C, instead of being CDEFGABC, becomes CDEGA for the 5 notes plus the C repeated one octave higher.? We will be discussing these in more depth as we progress and you will come to understand their importance but for now why not use this knowledge to add a bit of a flourish to you Home Sweet Home piece.? As it ends in the chord of C try out a little touch of pentatonic scale like this:

e-------------------------------------|----------------------------------------0---|------

b-------------------------------------|----------------1------1---3---1---3------|---1--

g-------------------------0------0---|----2---0---2------2-----------------------|---0--

d--------0---2---0---2------2-------|--------------------------------------------|---2--

a----3-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---3--

E------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|------

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I will leave you to work out the tempo but obviously you want it to fit in with your three four timing so think about it in sections of 3 notes plus the chord at the end for a 3 note count.? If you can fit this into the space of 2 bars plus the chord at the end you are doing very well.? If not, don't worry about it, just treat it as practice and a bit of fun.? Remember to practice slowly and aim for accuracy rather than speed.? It will speed up naturally.