= To memorize and become accustomed to playing these pentatonic seales play the all keys ollowing lines in ‘These four very common pentatonic lines should be played the full range of your z | ’ — . jms ne <> om ee Here isa different way to construct the same grouping of notes, For example, beyinning with F ‘major or D minor pentatonic: second I will call moving from one note to the next in the scale a step:) So for the D minor pentatonic scale start with D and step up to F step up to G, step up to A. step up to C and 50 on. The same scale written out as follows uses what I'l call skip. That is starting on D, skip up to G skip up t0 C, skip up to F, skip up to A: Examrue 1.8 suri 1Hestatonic seus A triple skip would look like this: Exanrte 1.10 Using skips and steps provides us with a way to construct many pentatonic lines as it gives us a means to hear and analyze these different pentatonic lines To help memorize the different pentatonic seales play the remaining notes in the scale starting on the given note. First go through the memorizing quiz and play che notes descending and then repeat the exercise with the notes ascending. For example; the descending notes would be: Exanrue tas The ascending notes would be: Exanrte a2 Note that from here on I will refer tothe pentatonic scales by their minor name.MEMORIZING QUIZ B EA? F7 87 or &7 Bi? AT £7 BE? 7 D7 cr7 87 Fe? ev EA? 87 A? or7 f7 D-7 onyVP LClareGAT Ue AAC hen anesExawpur 2 Exar 2.6 i Examour 2.8) Here is that same formula starting on the note sF« Here is che entire line written out Notice that it takes five consecutive four-note groupings before the line starts repeating from the original note again, From this one formula we ean derive eight formalas: Forwwis + tsar BU Snr J Sree Fonwia2 B bSnr GT Sa £ Siar Fomuay —CTSur Dd Ster 1 Se Fomwuiag Db Sree A Suir 1 Sean By reversing the direction of the arrows these lines become ascending lines: Forwoias AT Sar 1 Srer Trem Forwus6 BT'S J Sarr A Formuay CL Suir 1 Srer B Fora 8 DT Star Bo otsre CL Sar Here are those eight formulas on C minor o¢ Eb in Notice ag; that there are five four-note groupings belore getting hack to Also, notice that with formulas 1-4 that d he starting note, first note of each four note grouping is the same i they descend by skip. (That is “Ci to G: to E> to -Bh to -F.) With formulas 5 first note of each four note groupi Fe to Boe to E> to G we also the san and they ascend by skip. (That is .C- 0Pannen Exanrte 29 fie . === Ls