Pentatonic Minor Scale Thepentatonic minor scaleis probably the most widely-used guitar scale of all. Virtually every guitarist – of every musical style – will have used it in their solos at some point. The pentatonic scale should be one of the first guitar scales a beginner guitarist learns...
songs such as ‘The Suit’ never had guitar. Towards the end ofMetal BoxKeith had stopped playing guitar – he was doing things on a Prophet synthesizer. Jon put a great guitar part on ‘The Suit’ (Metal Box: Rebuild in Dub) that should have...
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the minor tonic was a triad, maybe a minor sixth. This is the harmony Sonny Clark, Wynton Kelly, and Sonny Rollins use for “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise” in the 50’s. After “So What,” tonic minor could also mean minor seven and the associated dorian and pentatonic scales. O...
In 1977 Barbosa-Lima performed Francisco Mignone's Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. As the 1980s began, Barbosa-Lima moved to New York City and took a teaching post at the Manhattan School of Music. Once in New York Barbosa-Lima began to ...
The pentascale of B is the biggie!Getting to the key of B is a big deal, and we have a Transposing Chart that a star goes onto when they have finished with the white note tonic keys. (This helps me keep track, as well as giving them a sense of accomplishment.)If...
Guitar Harmonica Other Questions Piano Related Questions 1. What is your concept of fading songs out at the ends of songs? And how do you do the fades ? I go by what the music tells me to do, and some songs want a slowly fading ending, fading on into the distance, sometimes feeling...
Side Note:There was an interesting comment I saw from the Pentatonic Scale video that pointed out that “This is made more amazing after realizing he’s moving left to right in the traditional low to high pitches in the audience perspective, but contrary to his own. In other words, as he...