123. IMPROVISATION WITH THE PENTATONIC SCALE

(This post has not been written completely yet)

The simplest way is as we described in the post 102 , of improvisation  of unaccompanied melodies, with the alternation of chord and transition melodic theme.

Here the chords are the root and 5th (e.g. in F major pentatonic F G A C D, it is the F and Dm) and arbitrary sequences of notes between them.

Next we describe more methods with accompanied by chords melodies.

As in lever Harp tuned in C major the directly tunable pentatonic scales is the G major and F major we refresh some information about the F major pentatonic scale

Musical Scale Info: F major pentatonic

Notes of this scale:

F G A C D

Interval structure of this scale:

W W (W+h) W (W+h)  (W: Whole tone, h: half tone)

Scale structure:

1 2 3 5 6

Chords that fit in this scale:

Normal Triads: Dm     F    Other Triads: Csus4     Csus2     Dsus4     Fsus2     Gsus4     Gsus2    4 Notes Chords: Dm7     D7sus4     F6     G7sus4     G7sus2      Csus4\F     Csus4\G    5 and 6 Note Chords: Dm11     F6/9     G9sus4     G9sus2

Scales Equivalent to F major pentatonic :

D minor pentatonic;

Scales wich notes are within F major pentatonic:

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Scales where F major pentatonic is within them:

C major; F major; A#/Bb major; C melodic minor; C ionian; F ionian; A#/Bb ionian; D natural minor; G natural minor; A natural minor; C dorian; D dorian; G dorian; D phrygian; E phrygian; A phrygian;  D#/Eb lydian; F lydian; A#/Bb lydian; C mixolydian; F mixolydian; G mixolydian; D aeolian; G aeolian;  A aeolian; E locrian; A locrian; B locrian; D blues;

Scales 1 note away from F major pentatonic:

C major pentatonic; A#/Bb major pentatonic; G minor pentatonic; A minor pentatonic;

Here is a video where the soloing around any chord X is the pentatonic scale of its root, which equivalent with the arpeggio of the chord X with 6th and added 9th (or 2nd) thus X6add9.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVSzSVYqjbU&t=44s