Pentatonic khancepts Book Review

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Pentatonic khanceptsBook Review

   If you are looking to breathe new life into your playing this book is for you. The ideas presented here will definitely add melodic content to your solos and give you a big moat of ideas to choose from. You’re not going to get any major or minor scales from this book. What you will get is what every guitar player starts off with and is most comfortable with playing wise is the Minor pentatonic scale. What you should do is combine these ideas with major scales so it will give you a war chest of ammunition when you’re ready to take your guitar solo. This book is great for jazz, fusion & rock players. I mainly use these ideas over jazz standards.

   

One of my favorite examples is learning to get the C major or C Lydian sound over c major 7^th chord. Rules for Major  7^th chord: use the 2^nd degree   D Minor pent,  3^rd degree E minor pent, 6^th degree A minor pent and the 7^th degree B minor pent. Using the 2^nd, 3rd and 6^th you get all the notes from the C major scale. By using the 3rd, 6th and 7^th you get the C Lydian sound. My preference is to use the 3^rd E minor pent, 6^th A minor pent 7^th B minor Pent over a C major 7^th chord which gives me the C Lydian sound. By using all 3 or 4 of these minor pentatonics will give your improvisation a more modern and melodic sound as you weave in and out of each of them. You will be able to see a pattern within a pattern e.g. A minor pent at the 5^th position moving to E minor 4th position or A minor 5th position moving to B minor 7^th position.

This you tube video will give an idea on how all 3 of these minor pentatonic scales sound individually over C Maj 7. The last segment of the video combines all 3.  This will make your improvising very melodic and exotic sounding.

  

 There are many more ideas that Steve Khan presents in this book that makes it worth your while to check out. There are ideas for minor, dominant & altered dominant chords. My favorite is the 2 5 1 minor pentatonic licks you can come up with.  This book is definitely a buy and if I had to give a rating it would be 10/10. This is a book for the advancing guitarist that will give him or her number of tricks to pull out of your hat when soloing over standards. In my opinion it will free you up from thinking too much about what type mode or scale you’re going to use. It will give your playing a balance between modes and minor pentatonic ideas. 

By: Phil La Viola 
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