RE: Why is the Pentatonic Scale *Everywhere*?
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The 4 chord miracle of pop/rock music in C major is:
A min - A C E
F maj - F A C
C maj - C E G
G maj - G B D
With the pentatonic scale C D E G A, your odds of hitting a note that matches the chord is good, and your odds of being able to correct from a note that is just off... into a matching note and sound like you did it on purpose is also good! Hahaha! As for the Gmaj... it often likes to have "suspended" extra notes that bring it back to another chord anyway...
So yes, the pentatonic is the easiest way to improvise when you don't know exactly what is going on! Hahaha. I don't do much better than that with the occasional 4th note (F) thrown in most of the time... but I usually play alone and don't get to jam with other people much! Hopefully I improve that aspect of my playing with time, loop pedal and friends...
Best way to start is by yourself I guess!
Yeah that's essentially a gift and a curse: hard to go wrong, from both a musical and business perspective, but it also means AI is about 3 months away from taking over the entire industry because everybody is too scared to innovate outside of that...
Maybe the Pentatonic scale has doomed us all!
But yeah, the MINOR pentatonic is even more powerful really, since you can play it even in the major key 12 bar blues (Chord 1, 4 and 5), and it still somehow sounds good even when you have that minor/major 3rd clash. For some reason we just dig it as a species. Just play minor pent over literally everything lol
Well yes! The A-min pentatonic over A blues (A D and E) just works perfectly... and you can always throw in the blues note you mentioned as well!