Pentatonic Substitution like a BOSS!
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
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In this video we'll be taking a deep dive into superimposing the minor pentatonic scale over three different chord types (m7, Maj7, Dom7). This is a great way to freshen up your playing, add some new colours and start to tackle the 'changes'.
In summary we'll have these choices:
m7 Option 1 = starting on root (1 b3 4 5 b7)
Option 2 = starting on 5th (5 b7 1 9 11)
Option 3 = starting on major 2nd (9 11 5 13 1)
Maj7 Option 1 = starting on major 6th (6 1 2 3 5 6)
Option 2 = starting on major 3rd (3 5 13 7 9)
Option 3 = starting on major 7th (7 9 3 #11 13)
Dom7 Option 1 = start on major 6th (6 1 2 3 5 6)
Option 2 = start on root (1 b3 4 5 b7)
Option 3 = start on minor 3rd (#9 b5 #5 b7 b9)
(You can also use the other two options we used for the m7 chord).
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Content:
0:00 Intro
0:53 The Basic Concept
2:15 Options over a m7 Chord
5:17 Options over a Maj7 Chord
8:34 Making Music pt. 1 - 'Up a 3rd' Trick
11:05 Making Music pt. 2 - Mixing 'Up a 3rd' and Lydian Pentatonic
13:40 Making Music pt. 3 - Combining m7 and Maj7 chords
16:39 Altered Pentatonic over Dominant 7(#5)
18:23 Tackling a ii-V-I with the minor pentatonic
20:13 Final thoughts
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Easily the best explanation of pentatonics I’ve seen online. You are a gifted instructor!
Thanks Michael! 🙌🏼🙏🏼🎸
I agree. Great simple and clear video!
Now these are the kind of lessons that I like. For those of us that have some knowledge of scales these lessons are great “secret code breakers”. I don’t understand why you don’t have more subscribers. This is VERY useful stuff. THANK YOU!
Glad it was helpful - I'm working on it! 💪🏼 Cheers!
You are the coolest! So relaxed in your comprehensive teaching which makes it effortless to learn! 🙏
Wow, thank you Gerard! 💪🏼🎸
Beautiful! Thank you.
Cheers Michael! 🙏🏼
That was GREAT!
Thanks David! 🙌🏼🙏🏼🎸
Very useful stuff. Brings to mind the times I've tried to play along with a song without knowing its key. If you just start guessing and playing minor pentatonic runs, some of them will sound good even though you're not actually playing in the right key. You've just given me a systematic explanation of why that happens. Some of the substitutions included here I've never heard of, and I've been playing for quite a few years.
Fantastic - great to hear it's given some help and new info! 🙌🏼
Excellent stuff as always!
Thank you! 🙏🏼🎸🎸
WoW ! A lot to digest ! Thanks
I know - I tried to keep it small - honest! 😅😅
Great job Steve. Thanks for sharing
You bet! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Really cool concept.
Cheers Tom! 👍🏼🙌🏼
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Opens up a lot! Thanks and your tone is killer with that 335!
Thank you kindly! 🎸🙏🏼
Great creative lesson!
Thank you! 😃
Damn That’s some amazing practical theory. And it sounds cool over the Latin Groove
Thanks a lot! 🙌🏼🎸
Very cool ideas sounds really good
@ngeljayvier thanks - glad you enjoyed the vid! 🎸
Very interesting. This makes a lot of sense. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Those pentatonics are definitely an amazing tool to create phrases in a modal jazz context!
Thanks! Yeah they're very versatile! 💪🏻🎸
Great lesson!
Thanks! 😃🎸🙌🏼
brilliant stuff, as always! I really like the content of your channel. I’m familiar with parts of this, but it really will take a while for me to work this in, so that it becomes second nature. Thanks a lot for your effort!
Cheers Cal! 🙏🏼
Thanks!
Amazing - cheers Matthias! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Amazing, I've heard some of these concepts, but how to understand them, never!! Thanks so much, looking forward to more!!
Love it! Glad to have helped! 💪🏻
You are such a good teacher!
@debjeetbasu7116 thanks for the kind words! 🙏🏼
Thank you Steve! I've just discovered you on YT and I was super impressed on how clearly you explain complex music issues and how to go about them... I was a teacher myself (another subject, though) and I can recognize a good one straight away and, let me tell you, you're one one at the top!
Hey thanks Mario - that means a lot 😊
Brilliant, I feel like this has completely given me a new perspective on the guitar. Thank you so much Steve. Bloody star
@chrisrobertmellors5566 that's so frikkin' awesome Chris! Glad to have helped!
a new sound of the pentatonic to my ears
Jazzy .
Hope you enjoy! Cheers 🎸
Very Nice! Thank You!
Welcome! 🙏🏼
I havent felt this excited about learning something in so long. I cant wait to apply all this. I have been learning to play through changes after unknowingly superimposing the root pentatonic over the whole progression. But this has opened up so many doors on how different scales and modes could possibly be super imposed on each other. Thank you for this absolute gem of a video
That's genuinely brilliant to hear Hisham! Really glad to have inspired you 🙌🏼
Wow! That's a terrific load of concepts which I've used to good effect straight away 🤩🤩🤩
That's fantastic David - great to hear!
Way cool Steve!
Thanks Tom! 🙌🏼🙏🏼🎸
Just came into my feed - and watched. Channel is new to me, but SUBBED immediately as this was excellent. One of the best theory tutorials for a newbie. Brilliant stuff!
Cheers Nigel - welcome aboard! 🎸🙌🏼
Steve - ive been playing for many years and havent seen this presented so clearly and usefully. Good job Sir, keep up the good work! 👍😁🎸Jim
Many thanks Jim! Glad you enjoyed it 🎸🙌🏼
And the scales fell from my eyes. Very nice lesson Steve
Thanks Tim! 🙌🏼
Great super useful lesson
Thank you! 😃
Wonderful video, your content is just awesome 👍🎸 best to you!!
Thank you very much! 🙌🏼🎸🙏🏼
Best lesson ever nice n easy to digest thank you
You're very welcome Tom!
Hey Steve, your feel for time is awesome and you just groove! 🤘🤘🤘
Woowee! Many thanks Tobi - very generous! 🎸🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸
@@SteveAllsworth Just found your channel. Great lessons and information presented in an easy to understand format. Maybe some lessons on playing rhythmically would be an idea for a lesson (single note lead lines as in this lesson, not rhythm guitar)
@@peterkelly8357 thanks a lot - yeah I've been mulling this over for a while, I'm sure I'll do something on it in future!
This is the bomb
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That’s great! 😁
Great pentatonic lesson. Even though i’m aware of all of this, your production, playing and delivery of the content is just brilliant. And you managed to do it all without talking about parent keys, how the pentatonics are derived, modal harmony etc. Useful if you like this stuff (I love it) but immediately useable and practical applications. Kudos to you!!! 👏👏👏
Thanks very much Andrew! Yeah I'm very mindful that it's easy to get lost in the theory 😅 Appreciate the comment 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I was so taken by the glorious tone of this guitar that I didn't hear the first part of this lesson!! 😅SO thankful I subscribed, Steve. Great stuff for miles! Especially the "Tackling a ii-V-I with the minor pentatonic" part. Okay that was some insight I've always wanted to know about those really hip outside tones over the altered V. You are my hero!!! ♥
Fantastic stuff - very glad to have helped (even if the intro was a bit distracting) 😅😅
Super erklärt. Danke.
Pleasure! 🎸🙏🏼
Absolute gold! In nearly 40 years of playing guitar, I've never seen pentatonics explained better. Thanks Steve!
Wow, thanks! 🙌🏼🎸🙏🏼
Absolutely one of THE BEST guitar lessons I've ever had the algorithm serve up to me! Not just all the new Pentatonic tricks, but a way to get a 2 5 1 solo under my fingers? outstanding! Thanks, Liked and subbed.
@MindsEyeVisualGuitarMethods hey thanks so much - that means a lot, and welcome aboard!
That lesson was fantastic. Thank you!
Glad you liked it - cheers! 🙌🏼🎸
@@SteveAllsworth The D minor examples are either straight D minor soloing or D dorian. Same with the Cmaj7, it's either c major scale or C Lydian. Yeah?
@@Franky-zc3xx I guess you could think of it like that - I tend to think of those option 2 examples as adding extra 'colour' notes which aren't present in the standard minor pent or major pent (but are from the natural minor/major scale as you mention). To my ears they do sound quite a bit different to straight minor or major scales however :)
Excellent post Steve. Just what I've been looking for. I was watching "Add Soul to Your Piano Chords by Changing One Note" which suggests reharmonising simple melodies by using the 7th of a Maj7add9 as the melody with the 3rd as the root. I've just done this with the intro to Oranges and Lemons and have been thinking hard about how to approach soloing over the changes. Pat Metheny is right that there is just something about pentatonics that the human ear loves. Many thanks!
Great observation - thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! 🎸
I've studied these concepts before, but not in context of progressions. Great lesson, thank you! 👍👍👍
You're very welcome! 🙌🏼
I think this is one of the finest, most insightful explanation/demonstrations I have seen in quite some time. Proof I suppose that math is indeed art. Again, brilliant work Steve. Cheers!
Thanks Alan - very kind words 😅🙌🏼
Totally agree with you Alan. This is a fantastic insight, indeed!!
very very nice video man
Thanks very much! 🎸🙏🏼
Very nice❤
Thanks! 🙏🏼
分かりやすい、いいね
Glad you liked it! Cheers 🎸
Super cool!! i also enjoyed your vdo of how to play like Scott Henderson
That's great - glad you enjoyed them! 🙌🏼
Great vid Steve! Great explanation.
Cheers Frank! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🎸
@@SteveAllsworth Just a quick comment. When learning these types of sub scales and modes, the most challenging part about learning them is "when do I apply these?" Playing them against a static chord (or two) is fine for practice. But in a live situation, you typically have a bass player and another guitarist or keyboard player. If they don't understand the "feel" you want to convey, all this stuff tends to fall apart. I once wanted to try a lydian dominant jam with some friends (decent players btw), but the bass player played more mixolydian, bluesy stuff, and it clashed with what I wanted to play... esp that 4th that he played and the #4 that I played. Any suggestions?
@@frankgreco bass players always ruin it! 😂 Joking aside, the 4th should only be considered a passing tone so as long as your bassist doesn't stray from guide tones (1 3 7) and maybe 5ths you should be ok! Big keys extended chords can also kill it.... It can also work as a 'key centre' approach, so e g. Em pentatonic happily floats over all chords from C major etc...
Obvious and simple topic, but very cool and precise explanation. Precious examples. Best wishes!
Many thanks! 🙌🏼🎸
Ace, some lovely examples. I think I asked for this video in a comment somewhere else so thanks, great service! 😅
Thanks - I aim to please! 😂💪🏻
nice job , i learned all this 20 years ago and nothing is ever under my fingers i play the same as I did when I was 19 and im 64
Thanks Rick - I hope some of this is sticking! I'm planning on a 'how to practice' video at some point which might help. All the best
Ive seen Frank Gambale teach this but this is even better.
High praise indeed! Thanks 🙌🏼
Brilliant video Steve!
Feel like I’m back in your classroom!
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Yes Nathan! Glad you like it! Though far less swearing I'm sure 😂😂😂
@@SteveAllsworth The only part I was missing!🤣🤣
@@nathancannon3219 I might do a special membership tier for that 😂
I'd like to see more discussion about the plectrum technique being used. Is there another video that discusses this?
I haven't done one - at least not yet...
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Cheers Ernie! 🏆
I think Scott Henderson uses a lot of these tricks.
That box is full of tricks 📦
Great lesson.
Totally! Thanks for the kind words 😄
@@SteveAllsworth just noticed you have a video about Scott Henderson haha
Loving your stuff Steve, can you possibly rock it up a bit in a fusion style?
Cheers Joshua - you're right, there's a distinct lack of distortion on my channel! It's in the pipeline! 🎸🤘🏻
This is great. A real eye-opener. Thank you so much. I have a query, though, about the text, relating to Option 3, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I read it as (9 11 5 13 1)
In summary we'll have these choices:
m7 Option 1 = starting on root (1 b3 4 5 b7)
Option 2 = starting on 5th (5 b7 1 9 11)
Option 3 = starting on major 2nd (9 11 5 b7 13)
Only just discovered your channel. Wishing you all the best. So pleased to have subscribed
That's a typo! 😱 Well spotted - all corrected now. Fortunately it's fine in the video as I can't change that now 😂 So yes, option 3 is (9 11 5 13 1). Thanks for the feedback Peter - glad you're enjoying the channel!
What a brilliant video.
Do you have a book available on your concepts?
Thank you - I'm working on it!
Hip!!!
Cheers! 🙌🏼
Steve amazing resource, thanks! So useful, pro quality and clear. A minor doubt, on the
Dom7 Option 1 = start on major 6th (6 1 2 3 5 6), I think the notes are actually (6 1 2 4 5 6), meaning e.g. Bm penta over D7, has a G not a F#. Is my assumption correct?
One more thing, what about, still DOm7, starting from the 4th (=Gm)? It gives you only sharp alteration, but less "too much of everything like a superlocrian" like using the one on the minor 3rd (=Fm)? Sorry to ask, was just experimenting while watching the video (which means you REALLY inspired me!).
Great questions, and glad to have inspired! Starting on the 6th is basically the same as playing the major pentatonic, Bm Pent is B D E F# A B (DMajP is D E F# A B D). You could indeed play from the 4th, and although it's less 'altered', for me it's not quite as strong as it doesn't hit the major 3rd (#9 in the altered pent) so you'd probably want to do the old blues trick of bending up out of the m3rd - hope that helps! 🙏🏼
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Great explanation! I was just wondering what would happen if I were to superimpose on chord degrees I’m not supposed to to?
Well technically you could play any minor pentatonic over any degree of any chord - it's just some will sound much better than others! Some will be really 'out there' - but give it a try!
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What about playing the minor pentatonic off the 4th for a min7 type chord? It introduces a 6b... Too spicy?
Ufff yeah maybe a bit spicy! 😂 The maj6 tends to work better over a m7 for me, but technically yes, you're just adding the b6 note from natural minor - Ritchie Blackmore used to do this all the time!
Great lesson, Steve! Question: when playing (for ex.) the Em pentatonic over Cmaj7, are you thinking Em or C? When playing any given scale, I try to always be aware of the root, third and fifth of that scale. But thinking of a different root, third and fifth than those of the scale one is playing seems like a somewhat of a cognitive challenge. How do you deal with it? Thanks.
@wonder6789 Thanks! I definitely think in relation to C here - the Em pent shape is just to get you 'in' quickly to a well-known shape, but I'd think of this as an extended C69 sound and try to be aware of the intervals related to C. Thinking of it purely as an Em scale with its own 1 b3 5 would make my brain hurt!! 🤯
@@SteveAllsworth Many thanks!
Many thanks for this video. Regarding the use of the lydian pentatonic over a maj7 chord, it fits when the maj7 is the one created on the fourth degree of the major scale. For instance in C major I may use the E lydian pentatonic over Fmaj7. Is it right?
Thanks for the question Alessio - I think you mean Em pentatonic over Fmaj7 (this is a lydian sound, but the Lydian pentatonic is a different scale). Technically you can use this down a semitone trick on any maj7 chord, not just the IV as you say - but your example would sound great! Cheers 🎸
@@SteveAllsworth Yes I meant Em pentatonic over Fmaj7. Many thanks. Playing the minor pentatonic built on the 3rd degree of Maj7 chord is excellent advice, it sounds very very good, and reminds me some ideas from the super arpeggio of Larry Carlton. I really like your channel
@@alessiograziani6355 yeah that's a good one for sure! Thanks - big Larry fan here 🎸🙌🏼
I was studying this. Then you showed up. And I have to say..I like that you are a feeling jazz man! Which is what I want!! Cause I listened to other concepts and I was about to say fuck this jazz shit!! Sounding flat and dead.. While I am a soul musician
No worries, glad you enjoyed it my friend 🙏🏼🎸
Awsome video. Please. What is the kind of sound you use as a backing track ? Some kind of string / keys ? Can't find thoose kind of patch in my banks...
Cosmic Strings (ES2) 🙌🏼
@@SteveAllsworth Thank you ! :)
Thanks!
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Welcome! 🙏🏼