Mind-blowing Pentatonic Scale Trick 🤯
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2022
- Pentatonic Fills for Maj7 chords! 😎 Here it is Em pentatonic over a Cmaj7! 🎸
*1 The Cmaj7 chord and the Em Pentatonic Scale
*2 Chords in the Pentatonic scale
*3 Pentatonic Fill 1
*4 Pentatonic Fill 2
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The diagram you put up was a little confusing. It's easier to visualise if you have the strings "oriented" the same as your guitar is, ie, the highest string on the diagram is the low E, the same way it is when you hold the guitar. I've never seen them oriented with the high E at the top before. I hope I've explained that adequately. ✌️
@@castleanthrax1833 ok. This way of displaying diagrams is what I see everywhere so I think that is the most common. It is also default in the software I use, which is just for designing guitar diagrams.
@@JensLarsen Yeah I guessed it must've been a standard thing, but it just seems counterintuitive to me. Anyway, whatever most people recognize is generally the best. Thanks for your reply. ✌️
sounds like instant Metheney. as a keyboard player I take away that you use the 6 and the 9 as additional colors (but not the 4)
@@realraven2000 You wouldn’t want to play a natural 4th over a CMaj7 anyway, right? It’d clash with the M3. A #4 sounds great though.
that’s crazy you got like 5 chords out of a short scale, thanks for these!
Well... there's 1,507 possible chords within the pentatonic scale. So i wouldn't say 5 is crazy!
@@crieverytim you counted them all🤔??
@@claudiasolomon1123 math...?
@@claudiasolomon1123 The math i did was adding up all possible 3,4 and 5 note combos, but i think that's only in relationship to all 12 tones. So it may be less...
Anyone help me out? I know 5! is 120. And I know there are 4017 possible chords in total...
You have the nicest jazz sound on TikTok. Lesson packs a punch. 👍
Thank you 🙂
This is the first guitar lesson that has shown me anything good at all in 10 years. Very nice lesson.
Thank you very much Chris! Glad it was useful!
Wait. How have I NEVER heard this 🤯
God why haven't I thought to make little passing chords out of pentatonic scales. Thanks alot Jens, there goes the next 3 months of my life exploring these possibilities
Haha! Go for it :)
This is the first time a video said it would be mind blowing and it actually was. I've played guitar for a while now and for some reason I have never thought of using the pentatonic as chords. Thank you!
Thank you! Glad it made a difference 🙂
you are truly one of those people who enrich the world jens
I’ve played for over five decades and I’m now learning these scales . Thank you
it's mind-blowing how great of a instructor you are too
Thank you!
This channel gets right to the point in immediately useful ways. Best jazz guitar channel on UA-cam. There are many great ones, but I find this one easiest to understand.
My man just made the pentatonic sound jazz.
I do my best 🙂
Very handy to know. Nice colourful tones. Thanks.
Glad you like them!
Thanks Jens,
These lessons are short, tasteful and they make playing FUN!
Glad you think so!
Jens this is one of the useful lesson i have seen in the internet. Keep it up man!
Thank you! :)
That seems a favorite for Eric Johnson, too.
So much of learning is spending time with these concepts on your own. This is one reason I really love these short focused lessons. This one really did blow my mind. Thank you.
Glad it was useful 🙂👍
Love this
this style of playing IS mindblowing
Really cool! never thought about it this way
You're a wizard! That was powerful info
Ooh now this is cool 😎 thanks Jens!
Glad you like it!
What I like most about this is - I've never seen anyone else do this before ! It's another way to use materials we already know. That's great ! Thanks Jens :)
Thank you very much!
@@JensLarsen You're welcome. Now I'm wondering why I never worked that out myself ? It's clever.
Good content. You are a very concise communicator. I like that.
Thank you 🙂
Beautiful silky tone, immaculate playing and delicate touch!
Thank you very much 🙂
Interesting. I have been messing around with dropping the 2nd and 6th degree of each of the modal scales to create a pentatonic scale. Now I feel like I know how to use one of them in a practical manner.
If your chord was instead Cm7, the pentatonic scale I'm talking about is Eb, G, A, Bb, D.
Your are a great teacher, thanks for sharing your jazz knowledge and experience. This lesson is very useful to me because I used to play blues with pentatonics, and it is also another way to learn quartal chords coming from them, isn't it?.
Glad you like it! Yes, quartal harmony and pentatonic chords are closely linked 🙂
Amazing! I’m still reeling from your video on Coltrane patterns. Thanks
Glad you like it 🙂
Thank you for your content. I get so much from it. God bless you. 🙏
Glad the videos are useful 🙂
Genuinely impressed
Glad you like it!
Amazing! A concept that I actually can understand. Thanks!
Nice trick! Thank you for sharing it
Glad you like it 🙂
WTF!!! Amazeballs!! Thank you 🙏🏻
Glad you like it 🙂
That is awesome!
Wow... I never knew that. Thank you
Happy to help
You just made so much click for me. Thank you so much
Glad I could help!
Love it! 👍🙏🎸
love this
Tahnk you!
i prefer to think of it as a G maj pentatonic just to keep everything major.. using a D maj pentatonic is also great for a bright #4 sound!
Yes, that is up to you 🙂
right, this is how you get cool sounding 'out' lines. if youre going to play Bmin pent for added lydian, why not play some F#min stuff for sharp 1? etc...
very simple, very useful for my playing. Thx Jens
You're very welcome!
Always with the best tips my man 🤙
Glad you think so!
Great prospectus
Thanks Jens. Very cool trick
Glad you liked it!
You're the genious, man. Thanks.
Glad you like it 🙂
my entire guitar repertoire is based around this idea 😂- still have a long way to go until I clean it and make something really nice from it, but every day is a new opportunity to hone it 😊
You always have really nice and unique ideas. I bought your book on Amazon recently, I really liked it. It is part of my exercise routine. Thank you, sir!!!
Thank you! I am glad you like it 🙂
Wait, he wrote a guitar book?
Great short video tyvm!
Glad you like it 🙂
Wow! 🤯 this is awesome! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
Glad you like it 🙂
I wish I knew this earlier. This is something I took a few years to realize and learn. The side effect of being a self-taught guitarist but not gifted enough :(
This technique can be applied on practically any other chords and scales, making it extremely useful.
So basically 4th pent shape starting on the major 3rd from the dom 7th chord will always work?
@@spindal_1 Jens is talking maj7 chord here. So minor pentatonic on the 3rd of maj7 chord will always work.
@@geogi_bodies my bad… gotcha thanks
Mind blowing
You make it look so easy. How many guitars are collecting dust in attics around the world because videos like these make amazing sounds from a guitar look so intuitive. Then practice for 12 months and still sound terrible, so you find a nice spot in the attic, and promise yourself you’ll get back to practicing next year.
It isn't horribly difficult, so making it look easy is not very hard 🙂
Thanks 🎶
Ohhhhhhhhh 🤯
Neat! Thanks!
I need this guy as a teacher please
That’s handy. Cheers!
Glad you like it 🙂
I still have trauma on that Smoke on the Water shorts. Now I feel like Smoke on the water will appear on every shorts like this. What have you done.
SOTW is really a good jam - F and G chords under the verses ... now we have something else to do with the chords.
thanks to these shorts of all kinds related to guitar- I learn something new almost every day it is a wealth of knowledge and must slate the pentatonic scales but most Greats like Gilmour use the pentatonic scales in variety and awesome creativity and make it work- anyone who slates the pentatonic just hasn't the imagination.. yet. and I mean yet as in you can become creative with enough tools and ingredients then the imagination has was it needs to make it all happen.
most not must
Wonderful.
That's just playing up a 5th. Whats really cool is you can get Phrygian, Dorian, Mixolydian and Lydian.
By superimposing 1 whole step up or 1 whole step down.
I wrote out all the intervals superimposing maj/min pentatonic in all 12 keys.
Locrian is min pent 1.5 step up.
Also can super imposed the altered scale 1.5 steps up.
Maybe you could do an in-depth lesson on this subject. A lot of people are concussed about hidden super imposed pentatonics.
Wow ! what a great idea. Im going to try to incorporate it into the A section of Autumn Leaves
Go for it 🙂
@@JensLarsen ive only been playing jazz guitar for a month so that may be beyond me right now but ill tell you a major accomplishment of mine just now in the middle of the night in NYC...in the previous weekend ive made my first attempts at playing the chord melody of the first part of the A section . Initially things did not go well. But some of my " misses" sounded pretty good in context. Im keeping them because they are fills that ive invented! I guess ive been inspired by many other guitarists , instrumentalists and vocalists on UA-cam that ive listened to lately. The freedom of jazz improvisation is really enjoyable. It's something that you cant do playing a Bach piece . Im not giving up on playing classic rock ( now im a big fan of jimmy Page AND Joe Pass).but im pretty sure I want to learn some more jazz standards. any suggestions.? Thank you for your channel and God bless you 😎🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶🎸
@@daviddemar8749 Blue Bossa and Take The A-train are good options
@@JensLarsen thaks soooooooo much.
smooth🙂
That's neat
Super! Tx 😁
Thanks Lars
You're welcome
Nice
Thanks
That's a nice trick! Thanks Jens
Glad you like it!
@@JensLarsen Could we say those are the chords from the harmonisation of the pentatonic scale?
@@NoFunkGiven You can, but that will not make them work as "normal" chords in a major scale though :)
You are the best
Glad you like it 🙂
I've never thought about using the pentatonic for a different key over a chord, can you explain your thought process behind the Em pentatonic over a Cmaj7?
Think about the notes. E minor pentatonic: EGABD are the M3, 5th, 6th, M7, and 9th of the C Major 7th chord. Therefore all the notes of E minor pentatonic already fit in the CMaj7 chord. The M3, 6th, M7 and 9th are some of the most colorful notes you can play on CMaj7 anyway. Whatever you play is gonna sound great!
@@SalimSivaad Thanks. So would the Am pentatonic work well too with the same reasoning?
@@DanielDurham121 Yes, it would, but not as well. Remember, you’re trying to play lines that outline the harmonic flavor of CMaj7. The two most important notes of that chord are E (the M3) and B (the M7), if you don’t play those two notes, what you’re playing isn’t going to sound as solid over that chord. E minor pentatonic has got them both (EGABD) while A minor pentatonic only has one (ACDEG).
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Hope you find something you can use 🙂
Why use the Em pentatonic to fill the Cmaj7 chord? Great video!
Because it fits the chord really well: Cmaj7: C E G B and Em pentatonic: E G A B D E
Right! I was thinking why not use a major pentatonic rooted on C, but that pentatonic would exclude the maj 7. Can you still use the C maj pent and break away for a second to include the 7?
@@jorgesaucedo5516 Yes C major/Am pentatonic is not as colorful, and trying to throw in the 7th means that you loose the advantage of using pentatonic scales (at least that is what I think)
A little bit goes a long way
When you played the pentatonic scale as chords 🤯
I'm mindblown you're mindblown!
@@crieverytimyou’re mindblown that I didn’t already know this in advance?
@@r0bophonic you thought chords and scales had no relationship? Chords are made from scales bud. Even pentatonic ones.
Seriously? Every note in every scale has relative chords you can play from them
@@crieverytim it sounds like you are farther ahead in your guitar learning journey than some of us here. Nice! How did you learn about the relationship between scales and chords?
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So basically 4th pent shape starting on the major 3rd from the dom 7th chord will always work?
No, that is over-simplified. If you think about it like that you are missing a lot of great stuff.
out of curiosity, how come you do a Em pentatonic scale around a Cmaj7 chord instead of a Cmaj or Am pentatonic? thanks!
I explain that in more detail in this video: ua-cam.com/video/R78USz7oQg8/v-deo.html
🙏🙏
That first chord, is from one of Micheal Franks songs, which one tho’?
There are quite a few songs with maj7 chords 🙂
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Brilliant as always 😂
noice
Can someone explain how e minor pentatonic works over c major 7?
Is there a reason you would play an E minor pentatonic after a C maj7?
There certainly is! I explain it in more detail here: ua-cam.com/video/R78USz7oQg8/v-deo.html
Hi Jens i love your videos... Im wondering is that a fixed good relation between I major chord and iii minor penta? Thanks in advance
What’s a ^fixed good relation?
@@spanqueluv9er as in could I use it as a rule
Yes, you can use that as a rule 🙂👍
The Em pentatonic contains the 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 notes of the C major scale (starting on the 3), so it's full of tasty color tones
I understand some of the chords but the other 3notes I don't. Can someone let me know what are chords are those ? thanks. Great help for a newbie.
You should not think of them as independent chords. That won't make any sense, the whole thing together is still sounding like a Cmaj7 🙂
@@JensLarsen thank you 🙂
Can you do a break down on. Black Bird by Paul McCarty
No, that would be something that fits better on a channel about pop music 🙂
Sweeeeet
Pat Metheny is a master at this
Sounds like Tom Misch
Thank you 🙂
Good stuff 👍👍
Thanks 👍
"My name is giovani giorgio.."
Yes but why would you look at e minor pentatonic in relation to a chord that is neither e nor minor ?
Why not? We super-impose all sorts of things, and Em pentatonic has a lot of notes in common with Cmaj7 (if you check)
It’s mind blowing how similar your voice is to Giorgio moroder.
How to Steely Dan
YE minor pentatonic with C major seventh chord?
Yes! I talk about that here ua-cam.com/video/R78USz7oQg8/v-deo.html
Sounds like John Schofield 👌🎶🎶🎸
Always a good thing! 🍻
Is there something like this with minor chords?
I talk about it here ua-cam.com/video/R78USz7oQg8/v-deo.html
How do you pick Em scale for the CMaj7 chord?
Oh ok i think i see. Cmaj7 = Em/C, is that it?
Yes 🙂
I watched this 3 times and I'm still waiting for the part that "blows my mind"
Yea but what are the 3 note chords? There was no explanation on what the theory was for those
No, because that is not how you want to think about it. I talk about it here ua-cam.com/video/R78USz7oQg8/v-deo.html
@@JensLarsen Thanx for the help 🤟
You sound like Werner Herzog if his voice wasn’t quite as gravelly.