This week's skipping-thirds exercise combines the forward and retrograde patterns into a four-note pattern: forward retrograde.
Pentatonic Scale Patterns |
Pentatonic Scale Patterns: Week Four |
For Week Four, Ethan gives you ideas for playing over the last eight measures of the solo section of David Grisman’s “I6/16,” where it goes to Cm7 and D7 chords. Many of the pentatonic scales you’ve already learned. For example, for Cm7 you can play C minor pentatonic (the same as Eb major pentatonic), G minor pentatonic (the same as Bb major pentatonic), and D minor pentatonic (F major pentatonic). For D7, you can play D minor pentatonic, and for a more unusual sound you can play an Ab major pentatonic scale over D7. Ethan shows you that scale, and how it works over D7, as well as a four-note pattern using the Ab major pentatonic scale.