Pentatonic scales

Relative Major And Minor Pentatonic Scales For Guitar - 4 Exercises - Lesson For Beginners

On 2024-12-19

When exploring improvisation over a major 7 chord on guitar, pentatonic scales offer versatile and melodic options.

This approach allows you to expand your phrasing and musical expression over a single chord using the relative major and minor pentatonic scales.

On 2021-09-03

Lesson by Joost Zoeteman

This video lesson is taken from JGL's facebook group "Jazz Guitar Lessons". Guitarist Joost Zoeteman explains how different types of pentatonic scales can be applied to a 2 5 1 chord progression.

6 Types of Minor Scales - Charts and Shapes For Guitar Players

On 2020-12-20

This infographic with guitar shapes show the main 6 minor scales used in jazz as :

Minor pentatonic
Minor blues
Dorian mode
Aeolian mode
Melodic minor
Harmonic minor

How To Play Pentatonic Scales On Giant Steps - Guitar Lesson

How To Play Pentatonic Scales Over Giant Steps

On 2018-01-16

Giant Steps is one of those tunes in jazz that sends a bolt of fear through a lot of young or even experienced jazz musicians.

It certainly does that to me anyway! The fast harmonic rhythm and the seemingly distant relationships between the chords means it is a very daunting challenge.

Pentatonic scales

When exploring improvisation over a major 7 chord on guitar, pentatonic scales offer versatile and melodic options.

This approach allows you to expand your phrasing and musical expression over a single chord using the relative major and minor pentatonic scales.

Giant Steps is one of those tunes in jazz that sends a bolt of fear through a lot of young or even experienced jazz musicians.

It certainly does that to me anyway! The fast harmonic rhythm and the seemingly distant relationships between the chords means it is a very daunting challenge.

However, there is a very cool and simple way of practicing navigating through these changes and it involves using 3 different pentatonic scales.