Welcome to part two of the advance pentatonic stuff video. It’s been a while since I put out a new video on, but I have a quite few emails requesting to explain what I do in a solo of the part one of advance pentatonic stuff. So I thought of putting something together to do that. I apologize if I hadn’t put a new video on, I've been quite busy in the last few months recording and promoting the new album made of Shiflings Advertising. That’s my new album. If you're into guitar, instrumental music, loves rock, check it out. You’ll find the links in my personal website. So let’s go and check out what I did in that video.
Okay, so you can see that I don’t play anything in the first bar. But the first phrase is a C diminished. It’s right away the C diminished scale. Which is that, and its C diminished half step whole step. And that finish off with a blues phrase with that kind of flat 5 right there. Just pretty typical blues phrase. On the four chords, F7, I actually play a C major pentatonic phrase. It’s that. It does work, on the whole blues, you can play both the C minor pentatonic or a C major pentatonic of course. If we want to be theoretically correct I would have to use instead of that E natural, it have to be E flat because of the F7. Flat 7 or F7. Then I got back to the diminished phrase. Very similar to the one above. And again I finish the phrase off with a blues. With a blues phrase. Notice that A natural there which is the 6th, so it’s that pentatonic with the 6 instead of the flat 7 which is quite slightly different flavor that you can add. That’s the end of the phrase.
This is another slightly different approach to playing the pentatonic and it’s something that both are forward. A lot of people do play it both the minor third. Here it is written as E sharp, you can write it as E flat and write both E flat and E natural. So this is basically the pentatonic where I play. Actually if you want to call it just a C arpeggio where we play both the minor third and the major third. That’s that. That’s the phrase. So just a slightly different sound.
In here, this is something again from the minor scale. It basically builds the phrase trying to highlight, kind of underline the triads that are inside the scale. The first one is A major, its right there. Then there is a C, C7. Well, if we, it’s not triad, C7, but C major triad, then I have a flat 7. And again, then there's A major triad there. And so on.
And then again, I go back into kind of a slide blues bebop. Which is that. Okay, here it is in a kind of jazz beat off. Which is that phrase there.
Then again, I place something that is very, Scott Henderson does this all the time, which is the 6th in a minor thirds. So it’s basically a 6th. That are each 6th is a minor third apart. It’s a very cool sounding, I quite like that.
Then again, some blues phrases, which is that. Just regular blues phrases.
Then again, it’s a phrase from the diminished scale and something that sounds very Michael Brekerish or that kind of very confusion jazz sound.
And again, I try then to play a triad inside that scale. It’s an A major triad there. There’s also a diminished triad, D flat diminished or B flat diminished. And so on.
Then again, I play that bebop phrase that we've seen before, which is this. And blues phrase. Hopefully some double stops or whatever you want to call it.
And again, down and play just the turnaround phrase. Very, very blues turn around phrase. And that’s it, that’s just a long blues phrase there that ends with a G as a turnaround note.
Okay, so I hope that helps understanding what I did in that video. And you can of course download the full subscription. You’ll find the link in the side. If you're on YouTube, it’s in the side of this video or underneath if you are on myplaygti.net website. It will be the full subscription and of course if you're into this type of solo and to some phrasing, you can get on the same website and on my personal website, my book Contemporary Blues Solo. I'm working on the physical book itself as of now, October ’09, the date that I'm recording this video. It is still in the digital download format, so it’s an eBook, which is a book in pdf format and with the all about 40 mp3 of audio examples. So you can check that out probably in the future, I’ll put another video, one of actually publish and printed this book. It’s a physical format.
Thank you very much and see you again soon.
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