Jazz Scales - Pentatonic Scale

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This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about the Pentatonic Scale. Technically, a Pentatonic Scale is any scale with 5 notes. However, when people use the term ‘Pentatonic scale’ they are generally referring to the Major Pentatonic Scale.
The Major Pentatonic Scale is a very consonant & pleasant sounding scale. Pentatonics are a good way of avoiding ‘Avoid Notes’ or ‘Unavailable Tensions’. And, just like any other pre-existing scale, you can create modes out of the Major Pentatonic Scale by starting and ending the scale on a different note (i.e. selecting a different root note).
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[@DeanMartin-os8hi]

Thanks you gave lovely insight of how to use the pentatonic scale with each particular chord , and also explaining that is an avoid note you are a good teacher . There are a lot of guys that can play very good , but when it comes to teaching it is a different kettle of fish

[@vaniasetti7753]

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[@saadalhumaid8043]

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[@WalkThatBass]

Thanks, Saad. You're too kind.

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[@NachshoN55555]

Thank you for this great content.

[@saharsofiaabwmaracosta4127]

Great! Thanks for the video. Do you have one explaining the Blues Scales?

[@thomasisrael6332]

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[@PTbodybuilder]

cool video. I may have go to back and watch it a half dozen times haha! interesting explanations.

[@WalkThatBass]

Thanks PT :)

[@MinhPham-ly7yp]

Hi. Is this why McCoy tyner and associates obsessively used pentatonics over modal harmony, esp. quartal harmony? Because it doesn’t have the tritone that strongly implies dominant - tonic cadence?

[@sweeterthananything]

i think there is an error toward the end of the video - you have the F Maj Penta over C Melodic Min as FABDE, shouldn't it be FGACD? the E is definitely not in the C Melodic Minor. either way this is a great explanation, thanks.

[@latin-style]

thanks! good explanation!

[@WalkThatBass]

Thanks, mate.

[@SamyakJainMusician]

how are you making modes of a major pentatonic scales i mean going diatonically the second mode of a c major pentatonic should be D E G A B C PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW DID YOU MADE IT A Bb major

[@jcTorres813]

Hi Samyak Jain, the second mode of C Major Pentatonic is D, E, G, A, C. If you transpose it to start from C as the root (for teaching purposes) then you get C, D, F, G, Bb :)

[@vicithahir5690]

Thanks for the great video!! I have a question: is there any formulaic way to find out that the Bb major pentatonic scale can be used over Dm7b5 in the ii-V-I progression of C melodic minor? Thanks a lot!

[@mikepro500]

I have the same doubt. I think that he used the diatonic mode from b6 degree. Because Bb is the flat sixth of D minor.

[@mikepro500]

Also that Db Maj pent over G7b9 comes from diminished fifth of G7b9 and the F Maj pent over CmMaj7 comes from the Major Fourth of CmMaj7. None of them are stable chord-tones. The pentatonics should come from the first, the third, the fifth and the seventh of each chord.

[@ryanedwardmusic]

The consonance isn't about the 5ths, it's because there are no half steps.

[@WalkThatBass]

Correct, but that's really just two sides of the same coin. Five fifths stacked on top of one another by definition cannot be within a semitone of each other because of the way that we derive notes from frequency ratios. It's just a matter of semantics.