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Author: Hey_Pauly
Date: 2020-04-25 05:20
Can anyone point me towards a resource for one octave major and minor pentatonic scale sheets?
Thanks,
Paul
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Author: Ken Lagace
Date: 2020-04-25 06:45
Just leave out the 4th and 7th of the Major Scales. C-D-E-G-A for the C major scale for instance.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2020-04-25 22:08
You ask about minor pentatonic scales. The (maybe) interesting thing is that a "minor" is only an inversion of a "major" - thinking in C, major pentatonic is CDEGA. If you start on A: ACDEG, the same notes are minor (at least to our ears, used as we are to minor diatonic scales with their characteristic flat 3rd). Call it a relative minor? I don't know if there's a theoretical "minor pentatonic" scale. One, maybe the most characteristic, feature of pentatonic scales is that they don't have a leading tone, which largely defines Western major-minor harmony, so there is no "ti-do" relationship and voice-leading is much less important than in Western diatonic scales.
I confess, until I read your question, I didn't know there was such a thing as a minor pentatonic scale.
Karl
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-04-26 02:08
Modern jazz sax and flute players use these all the time as an entry point into improvisation and a way of moving across chord changes more freely. Ramon Ricker (of Eastman) wrote a sax book many consider a standard guide, "Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation." If you want a quick and easy basic introduction, search for Jay Metcaff's "Pentatonic Patterns for Improvisation." If you want to see just how involved pentatonic patterns can be, search for the free book by Ed Peterson, "Pentatonic Scale Studies--Ed Peterson." There is much more to the pentatonic mode than just major and minor. Multi-reed player Yusef Lateef, who had a degree in flute from Manhattan School of Music, was writing and practicing pentatonic patterns back in the 1960s. His scale book "Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns" covers many scale patterns and possibilities. https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/digging_deeper_A_New_Way_to_Practice_Scales.
Also check out Steve Neff's book "Mastering Altered Pentatonics" which is less comprehensive than Ed Peterson's and introduces some of the same material.
Post Edited (2020-04-26 19:23)
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Author: Djudy
Date: 2020-04-29 16:21
Jerry Bergonzi's Inside Improvisation series Vol 2 Les Pentatoniques 2004, Advance Music is great, as is anything by Bergonzi. (in French & German, but probably also in English somewhere else) He also has several very interesting youtube masterclass extracts up, with more simple but efficient practice ideas than you can shake a stick at. I'm a big fan!
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