The minor pentatonic is the most important scale in blues and rock music. Andy plays most of his larger stretching scales above the 10th fret, so the stretches are easier to cope with. Quartal pentatonics part 1 cool chords from pentatonic minor. Cooler pentatonics and licks adding the major third. They dont really see the point of any scales for that matter. Stewarts 1973 dissertation on a single performance by jazz trumpeter clifford brown. This study encompasses chord construction, usage, scales and rhythm patterns. Pentatonic scale has notes that when played generate a pleasant melody, even if it is just the. The most important of these are both major and minor pentatonic.
Brown, c the decline of the 19thcentury german school of violin playing. A simple worksheet for practicing quarter and eighth notes. Its inevitable that at some point jazz guitarists will want to look for something outside of the standard harmonic repertoire and begin investigating more interesting sounds. Quartation definition of quartation by merriamwebster. A practical guide to the use of pentatonic scales and quartal based chord voicings in jazz piano. This lesson will help you build licks that move smoothly between the two scales, in a blues context but you can use what you learn in any style.
Students write the rhythm, then circle the rhythms in different colors. The fault is very likely all mine since i should have some way of explaining the purpose of scales. Combining minor and major pentatonic scales guitarhabits. A comprehensive and useful approach to developing this.
Intro to the major pentatonic scale the major pentatonic scale consists of scale degrees 1 2 3 5 6. Chord changes are included for c concert, bb and eb instruments. Its a fairly easy scale and it can be used for almost every style of music. The idea of this work is getting a good control of both pentatonic scales at every moment. This means that when you go to improvise, youll have a vast array of options with which to go. If you listen to popular music, youve heard the pentatonic scale.
Using minor and major pentatonic together effectively. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. In this book, well be using the muchloved minor pentatonic scale as the basis for learning and having a quick way to access the modes of the major scale, as well as the basic seventh chord arpeggios. This is similar to how the minor pentatonic scale is constructed from five notes of the natural minor scale, see below table. Lets take a look now at our g minor pentatonic scalesim going to show them and finger them first and then weregoing to do the same kind of very simple just play themup and down and reverse direction from time to time. Advanced pentatonics and quartals live to library introduction jazzedge. In part 2 we will be covering how to create more advanced licks out of pentatonics and quartals to.
Three note per string pentatonics if youve been playing guitar for a while you know about the box and being stuck inside it. The major scale is a 7note scale, made up of a specific combination of half steps and whole steps. They are based off of the kaplan white book and cliffs ap bio and contain figures from a number of different sources, for which i take no credit. A new lydian theory for frank zappas modal music jstor.
The second octave starts with the 2nd finger, so already youve tackled all 4 ffcp options with just these two scales. For those of you that dont know, the box refers to the minorpentatonic shape that is the first scale nearly every guitarist learns. A guitar in standard tuning is mostly tuned in perfect 4ths, e. Tw o ro a d s the most common minor scale, the natural minor scale, follows the pattern. There are a million ways to express your emotions through the minor pentatonic and use it for your soloing.
In this first lesson, well explore using groups of four notes to undo one of the failings of lame pentatonic licks sequential scale movement. The best players in these genres dont exclusively rely on the pentatonic scale, and some of them. The pentatonic scale is perhaps our most versatile collection of notes for improvising and playing melodically. Quartal chords how to use them almost anywhere in music. Solving the puzzle of pentatonic fours guitar world.
Using minor and major pentatonic together effectively minor and major pentatonic work great together in major keys and can say a lot more than if you were to just use one scale. Using major pentatonic scales over a 145 progression this post is a response to some of the questions i received on the last lesson, playing scales through changes using minor pentatonic scales. Quartals and pentatonics pdf alan brown quartals and pentatonics for jazz piano download as pdf file. The pentatonic scale pentatonic scales have only five notes penta means five. Pentatonic march performance and composition share my lesson. Mccoy tyner plays standards transcriptions author domeniclandolf. This guide has all the information from the course and serves as an excellent reference if you would like to print it out or view on a tablet or computer screen. Major pentatonic scale the major pentatonic scale shares five notes. Quartal voicings tertiary harmony was a large part of jazz up until the 1950s and 1960s when a new style emerged. One, flat three, which is the b flat, perfect four,which is the c, perfect five which is the d, the flat seven. Triplet definition is one of three offspring produced in the same pregnancy.
Purchase this individual lesson as a download and get the same content as what members see. Alan brown quartals and pentatonics for jazz piano scribd. The pentatonic foundation course also comes with a pdf guide book. Printable downloadable major pentatonic scale guitar chart. A comprehensive and useful approach to developing this technique, featuring many examples and concepts for practice. Advanced pentatonics and quartals 1 pianowithwillie. Andy laverne has taken his decades of experience as a first call jazz pianist and satisfied a long awaited need by creating this comprehensive compendium of. Ultra guitar method is designed to aid the guitarist ability to improvise freely in almost any type of playing situation. Any pentatonic chord is also a voicing of a quartal stack. The major pentatonic scale key points the major pentatonic scale is constructed from five notes of the major scale. This collection of patterns serves as a resource of practice material to improve your technique with the pentatonic scale in all keys. To summarize, 3nps pentatonics is a fingering system that allows a great degree of sophistication and experimentation, if you are willing to spend some time with it. 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. For this chapter we will be considering minor pentatonic only.
Fix your pentatonics is all about identifying what makes those lame licks lame, and what you can do to tweak them to find new levels of musicality from the minor pentatonic scale. For present purposes, the blues scale consists of the following intervals. Your standard 12 bar blues contains three major chords and yet the main scale we use to play over the blues is the minor pentatonic. In the a section we have created a unified relationship between treble and bass within the quartal construct.
Once you know the five major pentatonic scale shapes, you automatically know the five minor pentatonic scale shapes. In this training session we will be covering how to create more advanced licks out of pentatonics and quartals to use for improvisation. But as you progress, most people learn new scales and forget about the good ol pentatonic. Buy quartals and pentatonics by alan brown ebook online at lulu. Quintal chords, created by 5th intervals, have a similar effect. Early in my career i realized that freedom on the guitar fingerboard resulted in more dynamic and interesting musical presentations.
Using major pentatonic scales over a 145 progression. Ternary piece using quartal harmony in the following example, we have adopted a structure already familiar to us from a previous lesson, the ternary form 1. The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and. Mastering altered pentatonics in mastering altered pentatonics, we are taking the most benign of scales, the pentatonic scale, through the ringer. Awesome blues guitar licks by adding the major third. Rhythm practice for introducing quarter and eighth notes by. To make a major pentatonic scale you use the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th notes of the major scale. As the title of this post implies, quartal chords are really easy to use. Which notetaking method would work best in all three classes. There are several scales referred to as blues scales. Consider all voicings of all chords constructed from a pentatonic scale. In american music theory of the 1960s and 1970s, the era of allen fortes.
Using monster threenotesperstring pentatonic patterns to efficiently traverse the fretboard by joel hoekstra 25 september 2018 learn the technically and melodically rewarding threenotesperstring approach to playing pentatonics in this lesson. Quartals and pentatonics by alan brown paperback lulu. The last scale shape begins with your fourth finger on the 15th fret. So, for example g pentatonic scale would be five notes g, a, b, d, e based on g as tonic note. In the same way that we can build regular tertian diatonic chords by walking up a scale cmaj7, dm7, em7, etc. You will do this by using melody from the scales and harmony from. A minor keys relative major can be played by simply starting on the note that is up 3 frets and a major keys relative minor can be played by simply starting on the note that is down 3 frets. The nook book ebook of the quartals and pentatonics. The accompanying recording has been designed for use in conjunction with the text. In this solo i use the major and minor pentatonic to obtain a solo in the style of rockblues.
Three note per string pentatonics global guitar network. Guitar major pentatonic scale chart printable pdf subject. Pentatonic implies that there are five notes in these scales, and that is correct. Creative keyboards deluxe encyclopedia of piano chords a complete study of chords and how to use them the deluxe encyclopedia of piano chords is a complete and thorough analysis of chords as applied to the piano keyboard. However you start, you always end up with one of just two possible diagonal fingerings. Precision pentatonics is a 10 lick, video instructional download package for guitar players who want to take their technique to the next level using the pentatonic scale. After all, the pentatonic scale is nearly ubiquitous as a cornerstone of modern rock lead playing. Video created by berklee college of music for the course guitar for beginners. Com the 5 patterns of the major pentatonic scale for guitar. How to learn these systems quickly and effectively, in all keys, everywhere on the fretboard. So here we demonstrate how you can use the same first shape of the minor pentatonic scale as major pentatonic if the root is where the pinky goes on.
It brought together researchers from around the world who combine mathematics. Seems that several of you want to know more about using major pentatonic scales over a 145 progression. Intro to the minor pentatonic and blues scales the minor pentatonic scale is among those most frequently used by improvisers, especially when playing certain. This is a method book designed for all instruments.
Learn my techniques for advanced jazz improvisation. Mar 19, 2008 some people think the pentatonic scale is more of a beginner scale. A note on pentatonics by alan lowe my students sometimes have trouble seeing the point of pentatonic scales. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. You might think of it as a major scale with the 4th and 7th. We focus especially on how to use quartals for lefthand chord voicings, use quartals in our solo and how to use a pentatonic scale to improvise over our quartal voicings. However it always has that same dark classic minor pentatonic sound. The share my lesson artsteam has brought together a diverse range of free teaching resources for you to use in your classroom. On the 1st measure we have esus 1 4 5 b7 9 over that chord we can use e mixolydian scale 1. View category in this lesson we will be sequencing the major pentatonic scale in groups of three notes. With this package i want to give you a new perspective of our good old pentatonic scale. An easy f blues using quartal voicings and pentatonics an advanced improvisation using quartals this dvd also comes with music that you can download and print. Sep 11, 2008 an easy f blues using quartal voicings and pentatonics an advanced improvisation using quartals this dvd also comes with music that you can download and print. This means that other notes are arranged on top of the note c.
Heres a list of the scales with their notations in the treble clef. The way to map this on the fretboard is either by using the 2nd note of sf1 as the root note to get a minor pentatonic m on the diagram, or use the 1st note of sf2 as the root note to get a major pentatonic m. In other words, quartal chords a fourth apart in this sequence. John brownell, and professor terry promane for their support in the preparation of this document. Here we have shown the am pentatonic using 3 notes per string. Starting out on all fours now what we want to do is show how you can gain fluency with ffcp with a simple exercise that moves your pentatonic up in a way you might never have tried. Sequencing pentatonics example 5 guitar lesson by richard lundmark in this example, i am moving down the sequence but through several positions, not just the first one. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lessons notation. Now that you have the science of the guitar in your fingers, you will learn a couple of songs. We recently gave cracking the code viewers a cool homework assignment. Its because of the open sound created by the fourth interval.
A comprehensive and useful approach to developing this technique, featuring. Eflat and bflat versions separate versions of the course are available depending on the instrument you play. A sequence, as im sure you know, is a group of notes played together in a specific order. Pentatonic scales pentatonic scales are made up of 5 notes penta 5. Sequencing pentatonics introduction guitar lessons. Quartal chords are often used by zappa as harmonic ac companiments to his. Quartation definition is the alloying with silver of a button rich in gold in order to reduce the gold to such a proportion that the acid used in parting may act as desired. Alan brown quartals and pentatonics for jazz piano. Apr 21, 2015 this answer is excerpted from a longer paper on blues tonality.
Fix your pentatonics four note groups 15 josh fossgreen. The minor pentatonic scale for guitar, positions 1 and 5, to be discussed in our class and all of my courses that will be f. Its an awesome scale and sounds great, no doubt about it. Buy quartals and pentatonics by alan brown paperback online at lulu. Combining the pentatonic scale with wall shapes to play the. Quartal chords can be used as 1chords, as 4chords, as passing chords almost anywhere. The quartal and pentatonic harmony of mccoy tyner free download as pdf file. Each one connects to the next and continues down and up the fretboard. Alan brown quartals and pentatonics for jazz piano free download as pdf file. You will find lot of concepts and ideas to go outside the classic, predictable blues sound of the pentatonic scale and modernize your phrasing and create some interesting and sophisticated sounding lines. Improvisation is a part of contemporary music itself i want to contribute new material that is relevant for guitar players who are not interested in jazz unfortunately most information on this topic is aimed towards playing jazz exclusively. Paul rinzlers article the quartal and pentatonic harmony of mccoy.
These are functionally equavialent to quartals, because collapsing the notes of a quartal stack of five notes into a single octave produces a pentatonic scale. Lets start off by looking at the a pentatonic minor scale up to the 17th fret. We will be in the key of a major so we will be using the major pentatonic scale shape that is based off of the 5th fret of the 6th string starting with your second finger. As you can see we connect to the nearest note or sixteen notes group of the next scale. However, though it can be ambiguous, quartal harmony is. There are notes that simply dont belong with certain chords and.
Sequencing pentatonics introduction guitar lesson by richard lundmark welcome to this tutorial on sequencing pentatonics. The pentatonic scale chose 5 from these notes and created another scale, this is why it is called penta. The precision and rigid structure of tertiary harmony was opened up and replaced by the ambiguity of quartal harmony. Remember that you can find all the major pentatonics by going through. Advanced pentatonics and quartals 2 pianowithwillie. The interval b to f is an augmented 4th tritone and the interval f to a is a diminished 4th major 3rd.