Hello Cherries! Thank you for your service on this Memorial Day! Centering your improvisation around the tonic while playing through a chord progression is an excellent way to create tension and release. By sustaining or targeting the tonic, you generate dissonance against changing chords, which resolves beautifully when your lines return to stable chord tones. We always tend to follow the changes or play the changes or play through the changes. Some of the best players actually only played one scale through the changes. Playing this way gives a certain rub over the chords that you don’t get when you’re playing all the chord tones from a progression. Check out 3 examples of this in the video. Also, I'm playing an acoustic duo gig with Shannon Conley at The Red Lion on Bleecker St, NYC today from 4-7pm. Love to see ya. Enjoy the video and have a great Memorial weekend.
Identifying The Triads Within Each Major Pentatonic Shape
Hello Cherries! Have you ever tried to find the Triads within the Pentatonic Shapes 🤨 Triads are groups of three notes (root, third, and fifth) 🧐 By identifying these triads, you can create more melodic and harmonic lines. In this ⬇️ NEW VIDEO ⬇️ I go through all 5 Major Pentatonic Positions, 1 string set at a time. Within these positions were going to play the Major Pentatonic Scale and find the triad within the string set. I offer a FREE PDF of all the graphs that I created for this video. This exercise opens up the fretboard for improvement better than anything I know 🎸 Enjoy the video and have a great weekend everybody 😊
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