Changing Pentatonic Scale in Minor Keys - What Happens?
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2018
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Learn how changing pentatonic scale over minor key progressions can open up your musical options for playing melodic guitar solos.
In this lesson, I show you an alternative to playing the same minor pentatonic scale over a chord progression.
By changing pentatonic scales with the chords, we can connect to those chords more musically and expand our phrasing options.
For backing tracks, diagrams and other supplemental content, visit the lesson page below:
www.fretjam.com/minor-key-pen...
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Just remember chords are scales and there’s only so many potential notes that can be used so they end up sharing many. In a lot of cases the pent works well for this reason, which makes it versatile as fuck. But as the chords change within the key certain notes that don’t necessarily fall within the pent, that do, however fall in the chord being played, can be hit for flavor.
but thats what is so hard about all this and using this approach. You have to remember all these different scales and notes that fit into certain chord changes but not others. I find it more confusing than good a lot of the times..No wonder most people suck at guitar and very few ever get it..
In the old days it was just a book of chords and scales and moving the needle on your record player back to hear what was going on? This now with all these great videos is like been given the answers to an exam and passing it without doing much study? Stick to G Major and E Minor and look at the Circle of Fifths.Learn the Five patterns of the Major Minor and pent scales and the CAGED chords and you can make a career out of that! Know the notes of all chords and scales and notes on the neck. Drill it till you are bored. If it ain't easy it probably ain't worth it!
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Seen this video 5 times!! Learned and visualise something new every time!! I guess it would have taken years of playing on this position only to see what you have summarised in 14 mins. Please make similar video for major scale as chord II is a common chord change in major which is less common in minor.
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Wow, that's so great to read. Out of interest, what was the disgust with musicians/bands at the time? I know it can be frustrating.
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Btw, what he is playing 11:11 is E 7b9 pentatonic in the third mode fingering, The formula is 1, b2, 3, 5 and b7. It's like Phrygian dominant without the 4 and b6.
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Thanks for this! It really helped me finally put together many pieces of the puzzle! I have one question: that pentatonic scale you throw in over the DV, is it actually derived from a D mixolydian? Because at the end A dorian can be seen also as that... I’m completely wrong, or I’m finally starting mastering modes?... thanks!
You are correct. A Dorian is related to D Mixolydian (same notes). So you can see it as either.
You can also play the Dm pent over the FM chord
You use an interesting extended version of what I would call the first position of the A minor pentatonic for these lessons. Your version starts on the ♭7 instead of the root, mixes 3NPS and 2NPS scale fragments, and ends on the 4th instead of the ♭3. It works beautifully, but I’m wondering how you chose these extensions, and how the same approach would be used to extend the other four positions of the minor pentatonic?
Very good lesson!!! I would like to suggest that on bVI°M (Fmaj)you could also go to Dminor pentatonic because is the relative minor of Fmaj for hearing the changes... so on IVmin (Dmin) and bVIM (F) u could go to IV minor pentatonic for both.
Btw thks Fretjam for sharing this interesting information.
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Another brilliant lesson, thanks Mike. Incidentally how do you achieve the sustained, slightly distorted violin tone? All the distortion/overdrive effects pedals I've ever tried have been either too harsh or completely unbalanced between the bass and treble frequencies.
A separate EQ pedal can help. I use a GT-001 processor for recording. The distortions aren't amazing (typical digital limitations) but it offers plenty of tweaking and some decent presets as a starting point. To get a smoother distortion try placing an overdrive before or after it (the cleaner the better). Roll back the distortion and push the overdrive. This should remove a lot of the harshness.
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Do you have reccordings of your lead playing. I would love to hear them. Thanks
So can we say... It's a way of adding up arpeggios related with the chord family.. And pentatonic shapes.. Keeping in mind to focus the correct and accurate tones to actually play the chord with more richness but in a connected way with the minor pentatonic
great job !love the instructions , can you tell me the sound effect on the electric guitar ,need one like that thanks.
It was a while back but I think I was still using the Boss GT-001 on a modified preset (can't remember which one, sorry). It's a really great little box of tricks, albeit a bit dated now (though that does mean you can get it for a very reasonable price).
@@fretjamdotcom I just bought the Boss GT1 I need to play and find that preset . Thanks !!
It can be said you're playing G major pentatonic over the VII chord and D minor over the iv chord. But actually its more simple to say it's all A minor pentatonic with A minor (aeolian) notes added to color the iv and VII chords. It's semantics ie. A minor G major pentatonic
I found when from A minor pentatonik move to chord E major there are arpeggios E major and diminish7??
This is great, thanks for posting! Will you be doing a maj pentatonic video on the same topic? Cheers
Most likely, although you can use the scale changes covered in this lesson in their relative major key positions. So in C major, the chords we'd be looking at changing our pentatonic scale would be Dm, Em and Gmaj/G7, just like the relative Am key. The only difference is we've changed the tonic to the relative major, so Dm becomes ii, Em iii and G7 V. Hope that makes sense!
Ah I thought so, thanks! I appreciate the reply. Just wondering, do you have any videos on how to create an 'outside' kind of sound? I think I have a reasonable understanding of standard diatonic tonality now but I get quite confused when trying to implement stuff relating to diminished and augmented triads/scales in my playing, and those scales seem to really stand out, but I don't really understand how to make it sound good rather than just plain wrong.
Definitely on the list. In fact, next lesson might help you with the whole diminished thing. For augmented, take a look towards the end of my last video on augmented chords. It shows how the symmetry of augmented chords works. You can essentially use these patterns as movable aug arpeggios.
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I did not know there was a harmonic minor pentatonic
I like it
It is like a E7 arpeggio with a b2
And it sounds better than running an Ab 1/2 Whole diminished
Over A minor
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Is that the E dominant or major instead of E minor borrowed chord from parallel major(A) key?
What about using d minor pentatonic over the F major chord since it is the same pentatonic notes?