Twelve Pentatonic Trials ‘We opened up a discmsion ofthe vated applications ofthe pentaton sale list month by sowing how The sale might fonction na blvt, We notes that Gur tothe sbuence of halen fch as are fund nocmally between sae egret 3 and 4a? 6 the pentatonic docs not posses much in the ma) of {rwvitatonal sharstr_ Ie benign, oreamental gual has mae {f popular in non Water satus for sentries The pentatonic {shard scale to ge in rouble With, and Hs fingerings are most congenia fle fin fay fia fal HEE EE) WOEEG, ERE) BS} “Thee fingerings for he pentatonic Serve rom the ive position seale Toran seused in my Ape 76 column Teena the oncept ofa sale form isnot & moder, patentable innovation Transposubl pattern appear inthe turh-oF¢he-cestury method books of Matteo Carcashi (Spanish) and Willam Foden (Gaomsican), for ceoopc, ond tre proksbly on ld es ena playing isc, The applications and possibiltis of the pentatonic sale are nwa eed. But out space and time ae Limited, so eos Focus on daytorday, praca ues~those in keeping withthe ‘Geman of brad-and-utter “Holiday Inn” asiament Thee are thre base chord types we ned to concern oursles with major wh, minor 7th an dominant 1h. Now oing the ‘Cay chord n'a tet cane we wil pnematcly wif out those petatone sales wellsuited wo ou purposes. Of course, whatever te discover canbe generalized apply oan case ofa major Wh Shor ets sat atthe deep ed of the eck with an F pentatonic scale and wotk our way chromaticaly through a octave. Ths the transposable fingering well be Bering i min ‘thy “Tape record ot havea fiend pay afew bars of Cma)7and spin ae a) out ine using the F pentatonic scale, Does it work? Are the nots what We would comer acceptable chordal tones? {nd Das 3.13), a9 certainly ae, but we fad that the F fatwa! botien at bi, so we set thie male aie and move ‘Now wee in FF pentatonic, plying over Cra? Our tonics ‘what one might al the“YMICA® serion of an outide sound te {he diminished Sth (of) and has ben somewhat oversed and ‘overslorfed. I'you wan ovound outside, hts an side way {o'do Further scale tones, however ace int tcky aad Seapproprate™ dsonances Some continue to GG, ED, B.A, G. Al very inside amd acceptable tones within Cin/?, We can mark thin one a the pentatonic sae based on the fit degre (OR right say the Gt bother us the F other us, a does the 2p Tye Cis okay, but by now ib overwhelmed. Tn daytorday tsage—prety and iside—Go pentatonic is unacceptable “A: Pi ua prt ofthe overtone tein 8 Good sounds aie but Cr grate on our snen, and we move of. ‘Bb: Tis, the minor eho C, eel changes the ch ‘hecho fom astabie “home hae” tthe wmtble dont ‘quality throwing tis one out of bounds ‘naturals okay, but Sgn is an intasivedasonance, and farther problem make this see t00 outside a wel °C Otniny imide Inaddiion 34nd we have te sty 9 (D), and the maliluous 6 oF 13 (2. he DP seule immediately jolts or a {Fi(or Gb) isthe diminished Sth or augmented 11th (very Acepuble), and. is he 3a “The Bb and Eaatral scales we can ule ou, leaving ws with D, {and C avserviceale ae. This means tha we can goo these Position and play over Cina? ll daylong. and in general we cat ‘pend on penttoni sales bad om thes, th, and Sth Gre ff major Tih to give us good, Insidesounding materia, of ot Next month we wil take up pentatonic sas in elation tothe sminor 7th chord. In the meantime practice applying the "ppropeate sae ote majo Reh chords appearing inthis chord than to John Cottrne's "Gant Step" om LF moma Gas com Fat mus om Te Hoard Raber 30 | January 2014 | GUITAR PLAYER VAULTTHE JOHN LENNON SONGWRITING CONTEST i ‘ your original songs Top Judges ¢ Big Prizes * Win $20K ea: ess isc. com Se GUITAR PLAYER VAULT | January 2014 | 31