Pentatonic scales
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Relative Major And Minor Pentatonic Scales - 4 Exercises - Lesson For Beginners
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2024-12-19
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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When exploring improvisation over a Major 7 chord on guitar, pentatonic scales offer versatile and melodic options.
This approach allows you to expand your phrasing and musical expression over a single chord using the relative major and minor pentatonic scales.
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Pentatonic Scales Over 2 5 1
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2021-09-03
- In Teacher Spotlight - Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Lesson by Joost Zoeteman
This video lesson is taken from JGL's facebook group "Jazz Guitar Lessons". Guitarist Joost Zoeteman explains how different types of pentatonic scales can be applied to a 2 5 1 chord progression.
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6 Types of Minor Scales - Charts and Shapes For Guitar Players
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2020-12-20
- In Infographics
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This infographic with guitar shapes show the main 6 minor scales used in jazz as :
- Minor pentatonic
- Minor blues
- Dorian mode
- Aeolian mode
- Melodic minor
- Harmonic minor
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How To Play Pentatonic Scales Over Giant Steps
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2018-01-16
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Giant Steps is one of those tunes in jazz that sends a bolt of fear through a lot of young or even experienced jazz musicians.
It certainly does that to me anyway! The fast harmonic rhythm and the seemingly distant relationships between the chords means it is a very daunting challenge.
However, there is a very cool and simple way of practicing navigating through these changes and it involves using 3 different pentatonic scales.
