I'm Peter Martin.

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we got today? We're going to talk about five ways to use the pentatonic scale. Now, just five?

Well, come on. Penitonic, you know, pentagram. I got you. We'll wait until they hear our three

best triads. And our one way to use a unison note in any situation.

So, yeah, the pentatonic scale is used a lot. This is something that actually I'm hoping to learn a little bit of something, maybe from you. I don't have a lot to teach on this, but I'm going to give it talk. But I think the first thing I want to know is, like, what do you think of as the pentatonic scale? So I think of it, you know, if we're in the key of C, I think of it starting on C.

So C, D, E, G.A. Yeah, so one, two, three, five, six, basically. Right. And yeah, I guess I always thought about that as a major, as the major pentatonic scale. Okay, cool. But then the inversion of that, like if you start that on A, the same thing.

Yeah, typically when, if someone were just to say penitonic scale, I would go to that,

although it's a minor pentatonic scale for sure. Yeah. No, they're related. They're the same thing.

Yeah, there's a matter for your story. And it's actually great to kind of hear that and understand that no matter what instrument that you play so that you can always like if you learn to play something in terms of a melodic phrase which is where it's at with this is it's always about the horizontal not about the vertical with the with these scales and so when you learn to play a melodic shape or or phrase you want to be able to apply it to different situations.

So the same ones that could work over this for A minor would work generally for C major.

Well, and this brings us to number one, and that is the minor.

I think this is probably, you know, as you think about it, this is definitely the most used

version of the pentatonic scale is on a minor seven chord you know let's say we're an f f minor

seven i almost didn't play the pentatonic scale so we have f a flat b flat c e flat yeah and i mean this is so

close to the blues scale too which, which just has that extra.

But it's really not.

Without that flat five in there, it's a whole different sound.

And I mean, I think the key with this, no matter where you're using this, is like you said, it's not running these.

I mean, that certainly is a sound.

And as pianists, it's easy to run pentatonic scales down

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