The collection is comprised of my favorite pentatonic rock licks and phrases in the style of jimi hendrix, eric clapton, jimmy page, angus young, billy gibbons, pat travers, michael schenker, steve lukather and neal schon. It is a warm contrast to the minor pentatonic blues scale and is often used right next to the minor pentatonic to suddenly lift a solo into a happier, major territory. Several typical pentatonic blues licks will be used as a starting point to develop your knowledge of the pentatonic scale. Answers on page 7 a closer look at the major and minor pentatonic scales in the traditional ionian major and aeolian natural minor scales, there exists a tritone augmented 4 th diminished 5 th between the 4 th and 7 th. The major blues scale is some less common than the minor blues scale, and therefore we start. I believe i first saw this concept related to pentatonics in ramon rickers book pentatonic scales for jazz improvisation which i got when it first came out in the mid to late 1970s.
How to form major pentatonic scales on piano one way of forming the pentatonic is to use the following formula after picking the starting note of the scale. In this sick lick, im using a combination of the natural e minor pentatonic. What is the most common fingering for the pentatonic scale. Even if you already use the dorian mode in your playing, using pentatonic shapes to play dorian licks will give you a new approach to use in your solos. The next best way is simply to identify a major scale and. The pentatonic scale free piano lessons for free spirits. The best way to learn them is to choose one scale that appeals to you and spend a considerable amount of time an d energy practicing and thinking of ways in which you can use it. Pentatonic patterns for improvisation sample preparatory exercises below is an example of what i call pentatonic exercise 1 in the key of c major. Pentatonic scales are useful things to know if you want to learn how to improvise on the piano, and especially if youre interested in jazz and blues.
Inspiring new exercises that will open your mind and ears to the expansive world of possibilities found inside the pentatonic scale includes 12 new mp3 playalongs. In this lesson we are going to look at the construction of the pentatonic scale and discuss what gives it such a unique sound. The scales are used often for composing melodies and for improvisation. For right hand fingering of major pentatonic scales having all white notes keys of c, f and g, i first started out with 1,2,3, 1,2,3 1,2,3,4,5, with 1 replacing 5 as the fingering to continue into the 3rd octave, but then i realized that when playing the 4 octave descending major pentatonic it was a bit awkward to cross 4th finger over from. Mccoy tyner mccoy tynerstyle pentatonics for piano riff. Each version uses a different arrangement of duple, triple, major and minor. D minor pentatonic has the same notes as f major pentatonic and so. But the notes contained in pentatonic scales can be considered to be diatonic to a key when the same notes are found in the parent major scale. Mix pentatonic exercises for improvisation all instruments youtube.
For example, c major pentatonic is not considered to be a diatonic scale, but its notes, cdega, are diatonic in the sense that they are found within the full. As with all other guides in these series, we will focus in playing the scales on saxophone, specifically, how to finger the major pentatonic scale on the saxophone. Pentatonic scales sheet music for piano download free in. The guitar major scale is happy upbeat and useful in a variety of styles of music. Download our free pdf versions of each scale with fingering. Dorian mode pentatonic licks a new approach to modal. There are both pentatonic major and minor the minor is slightly more often used. In this book was a chart depicting the 5 pentatonic scale modes started from each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, written in whole notes in ascending. Pianopig is an online platform for piano lessons in hd, covering scales, chords, soloing and more. Charts for c major pentatonic on guitar and piano all scales not normal were excluded from the results, please use the options below to see c major pentatonic again with all the other scales compared to it. The dorian modal scale has a distinctive sound that can add interest to a solo.
The 14 most common and usable guitar scales printable and ready to use 1. Minor pentatonic scale improvisation minor blues tutorial. Com the 5 patterns of the major pentatonic scale for guitar. We will begin by improvising melodies using only the black notes of the piano. Well examine the righthand riffs and licks that make the boogiewoogie style so infectious. Pentatonic scales are the oldest musical scales in the word. Saxophone sheet music, easy piano sheet music, violin music, guitar songs. Easy jazz licks how to use the pentatonic scale jens larsen.
Existing customers automatically get the upgrade delivered free to your email. Blues scale in general it can be used on every chord but above all on min7 th and dominant 7th chord. Despite the age and history of the pentatonic scale, it is used extensively in modern jazz improvisation. These four scales also happen to be symmetrical in their intervallic construction. Pentatonic scales for guitar a pentatonic scale has just 5 notes.
Besides the standard major and minor scales, there are two scales that are more common to playing blues and boogiewoogie. The pentatonic scale, major and minor free piano lessons. Pentatonic scales for improvisation piano tutorial youtube. And it doesnt help piano players find this in another key. The pentatonic scale compendia found in section one list all three hundre d thirty pentatonic scales 2 that contain the note c. Note that a minor pentatonic has identical notes with c major pentatonic but in different order. Printable downloadable major pentatonic scale guitar chart. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Typical pentatonic blues licks welcome to lesson 3 of the pentatonic scale, pentatonic blues licks. Clicking here and on the image below will open a pdf file of the guitar major scale chart that prints nicely. This piece is part of our mccoy tyner piano licks compilation. The 2020 upgrade to the pentatonic package features.
The big difference between the pentatonic and the major and minor scale is that the pentatonic contains no semitones. We will also explore the blues and pentatonic scales. Here are some blues riffs patterns for you to practice. Easy 3finger technique for impressive pentatonic runs on piano thats right, only 3 fingers. If youre playing the piano, the easiest way to discover the pentatonic scale is just to play the black notes. Pentatonic scales are a key feature of the mccoy tyner style. Easy 3finger technique for impressive pentatonic runs on. If you were looking for minor pentatonics, here is the saxophone minor pentatonic scales guide. To start, you should focus on developing simple rhythmic lines, rather than learning complex licks.
There we do have f, ab, bb, c, eb which is the f minor pentatonic scale. A m6 pentatonic is a minor pentatonic scale where the b7 is replaced with a 6th. The pentatonic scale is frequently used in lots of popular music styles. Adding a blue note to the regular pentatonic scale result in the pentatonic blues scale. For this chapter we will be considering minor pentatonic only. Mccoy tyner mccoy tynerstyle pentatonics for piano riff lesson. Lets have a look at c major pentatonic the minor one will come later.
These voicings can work well as chords for the d7alt. My interactive pentatonic scales chart for piano shows fingering diagrams for both pentatonic major and pentatonic minor scales. The major pentatonic scale is a wonderful, simple way to add colour to your blues playing. Label the scale degrees of the major pentatonic scales. The following document outlines some of the more common qenet and variations. The a minor pentatonic comes from the natural minor scale. Ive also included some absolute must know blues licks inspired by albert king, b. Typically these scales are placed into four main categories, anchi hoye. The exercises in this book use the major scale, pentatonic scale, blues scale, and chromatic scale. The pentatonic scale is a major scale excluding the 4th and 7th degrees. Easy soloing guide layout 1 free online guitar lessons. In this exercise we play our major pentatonic scale over the entire range of our instrument up and back down again.
Guitar major pentatonic scale chart printable pdf subject. With the same principle to make voicings for the f minor pentatonic scale we get example 2. The natural minor is the aeolian mode of the relative major scale. In this lesson you will be learning some ways to use the pentatonic scale in a solo.
These are the four most common scales in pop and rock music. The pentatonics are fun 5 note scales that are essential to blues and country music. Major pentatonic licks for guitar fundamental changes. Print and download in pdf or midi pentatonic scales. A c eb g it is worth noticing that this is an inversion of a cm6 chord. Pentatonic scale improvisation pentatonic scale soloing.
The difference between diatonic and pentatonic scales. The scales are shown here below first as sheet music and tabs, and then scale. Special edition open now detailed step by step lessons. Heres a powerful way to play impressive pentatonic piano keyboard licks when soloing in rock, blues, or. The most important of these are both major and minor pentatonic. Piano pentatonic blues scales overview with pictures. Mastery of these materials will come through the form of application and implementation in your. There are a total of 430 finger exercises in this book. Combining the natural e minor pentatonic, flat 5 and. How to superimpose the pentatonic minor scale over chord progressions in a number of different scenarios. For more background on these scales see learning pentatonic scales for guitar and piano scale fingering as well as my piano scale category. Then notate its relative minor scale and its scale degrees. Pentatonic scales trombone lexcerpts sheet music for. Leave us your email below and we will send you a full sample lesson and a pdf download.
The first three bars are a pure c minor pentatonic scale played in a pattern. A set of pentatonic scale exercises to supercharge your. Qenet is the name for the pentatonic scales and modes utilised in ethiopian music. Minor pentatonic scales to introduce a novice guitar player to the world of rock music requires that he learn a series of scales, which we can call the tools of the trade. Just the blues scale can be considered a basis for a particular key blues. A beginners guide to pentatonic scale improvisation. Guitar scales printable charts of the most commonly used. C eb f g bb and the cm6 pentatonic will be c eb f g a. These scales are for obvious reasons perfect when playing blues on the piano. But that doesnt help guitar players or any other instrument. The black keys on your piano are pentatonic and theyre in the key of g flat and its relative minor, e flat minor.
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