Pentatonic Music

We are going to discuss a very alarming misconception amongst guitarists, and come up with a solution to the problem. This problem is a misconception that guitarists seem to have more than any other group of musicians due to the fact that the guitar is a visual instrument. Maybe you have heard somebody say:
"I just use movable shapes and it works"
It's great and all to have an instrument where we can move ideas around visually except when we use the visual aspect in the wrong context. An uninformed context. For some reason guitarists have been infamous for sounding like they were all built in the same factory.
For this reason I decided to take aim to help guitarists by teaching them to play like musicians and composers as opposed to just guitarists. Many have found that this opens up a new sonic territory in their playing and truly takes them to so many different, exciting, and positive territories as an "INSTRUMENTALIST"
That leads me to discuss one of the more common vehicles for rock, blues, and jazz improvisation, and that is the pentatonic scale. Today I would like to discuss a regular 12 bar blues in the key of "A". It seems like most guitarists prefer this key for some reason, so we will use this key. The progression in it's most basic form is 4 bars of A(7,9,13), 2 bars of D(7,9), 2 bars of A(7,9,13), 1 bar of E(7,9), 1 bar of D(7,9), 1 bar of A(7,9,13), and 1 bar of E(7,9) to turnaround back to the tonic.
Now, if I took a poll and asked 100 guitarists which scale they would use to improvise over this scale, I am pretty sure about 90% plus of them would say: A minor pentatonic. This is where we are going to talk about the solution. For A(7,9,13) we would use an A Major Pentatonic Scale. For those of you with any theory background Yes that is the same as an F# minor pentatonic scale.
Over the D(7,9) we could then use the A Minor Pentatonic Scale, and now it actually sounds stunningly good! Over the E(7,9) we would use an E Major Pentatonic Scale. Now, lets take this to the next level. We can play the A Major and A Minor pentatonic scale in the same position, However can you tell me how to play an E Major pentatonic scale within one fret of the first two scales?
Now, what if this discussion is one that you already had "Answers" to? Then let me ask you this: Which Pentatonic Scales would you play over an Amin7b5, and D7#9#5 Chord? Or how does Pat Martino use Pentatonic scales in his guitar architecture?
We will reveal the answers to these questions in our next Ezine articles submission.

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