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Lesson written by Simeon Harris, Textural Guitarist - www.SimeonHarris.co.uk. You know that little pentatonic scale we all know and love with the intervals The regular major scale produces three pentatonic scales from the 2nd, 3rd and 5th degrees C major = C D E F G A B C So we get: D minor pentatonic - D F G A C So the first thing we can do is try using some pentatonics over some regular chords - lets say youve got an A minor chord - the first thing we can do is obviously play the A minor pent over it, but thats a bit boring - why not try the E minor pent? This gives us the intervals E = 5th of A minor Much nicer than A minor pentatonic, because we get more upper intervals (9ths and 11ths etc) The Dmin pentatonic doesn't sound so good, because it has the F in it - b6 in A. This trick works over other types of chords too heres a list and see if you can figure out which pentatonics to use to play over the following jazzy sequence Dm9 / G7b9 / Cmaj7#11 / A7#5 Answer at the end...
G7susb9 = G C D F Ab - usually played - G (in the bass) + Ab C D G Dm9 use Amin pentatonic The pentatonics imply D Dorian, G altered, C Lydian and C altered.
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