At one point while everyone was taking solos, the singer motioned for the string players to take a solo also. Pentatonic scales are a key feature of the mccoy tyner style. The pdf is 12 pages long and can be purchased separately here. My friend murray snyder, an accomplished jazz pianist who has also played for the broadway productions of the full monty, grease, and annie see his bio here has given this subject a lot of thought. The minor pentatonic scale is probably the most commonly learned, practiced and used scale by guitarists of all genres. Print and download in pdf or midi pentatonic scales. The minor pentatonic scale for guitar jazz guitar online. If you have any questions or comments then feel free to leave them here or on the video. Various techniques are used such as bends, slides and hammerons. The blues is a form that every improviser must learn and master if they want to become a proficient player. Free minor pentatonic blues scale chart saras music studio. Starting the c major pentatonic scale on the 6th note of the scale produces the a minor pentatonic scale. Pentatonic scales have found their home in the hearts of jazz, blues, and rock. They are still used all over the world, for example traditional music, country music, blues and metal.
Listening to and analyzing jazz recordings is an important part of ones development in jazz. Dorian scales sheet music download free in pdf or midi. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found in musical cultures all over the world. Various positions of the major pentatonic scale pattern 15 for guitars with fingerings on the guitar neck. All accordion 20 bagpipe 8 balalaika 16 banjo 505 bass 1456 bassoon 7426 blank sheet music 16 books 4 bouzouki 2 bugle 1 cello violoncello 8674 charango 27 choir vocal 15647 clarinet 9806 cornet 534 dobro guit. This is where you play two pentatonic scales 12 step apart, moving between the two as you work up your line. For example, the relative minor of c is a minor, and the notes which form c major pentatonic and a minor pentatonic are the same. The minor pentatonic scale consists of the same 5 notes of the major pentatonic. His explanation of the scale in both french and english is enlightening and makes use of detailed examples. Jerry bergonzi pentatonic improvisation masterclass 1 youtube.
A collection of scales for piano starting on the root c. Print and download in pdf or midi 15 easy jazz pieces. Page 1 hi, and welcome to pentatonic scales for guitar a pentatonic scale has just 5 notes. For more advanced students, have them play a 12 or 16bar blues form underneath. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five pitches per octave, in contrast to a heptatonic sevennote scale such as the major and minor scales. Newjazz by oliver prehn lessons in jazz piano improvisation. Eflat and bflat versions separate versions of the course are available depending on the instrument you play. Jazz studies on the pentatonic scale for saxophone by. Pentatonic scales for jazz improvisation the ramon ricker jazz. Mccoy tyner mccoy tynerstyle pentatonics for piano riff. The only difference is that the tonic first note of the scale of the minor pentatonic is 3 semitones half steps below the tonic of. And understanding the way these structures work will. This is from the webseries tome, created by christopher niosi.
You just need a few adjustments to translate your knowledge to the sometimes intimidating genre that is jazz. The minor pentatonic scale is a mode of the major pentatonic scale. Newjazz by oliver prehn jazz piano improvisation lessons. The pentatonic scale, major and minor free piano lessons. Table of contents 1 all of me 2 all the things you are 3 alone together 4 autumn leaves e minor 5 autumn leaves g minor 6 beautiful love. Get your free instant download of the pdf version of this guide now. Once youve got a handle on this material dont hesitate to contact anvil guitar instruction to learn how to augment and adapt these licks with. Granted this is written for guitarists but you still might glean some insight into opportunities for diving into some higher level uses of pentatonics. The first three bars are a pure c minor pentatonic scale played in a pattern. If youre interested in exploring what goes into this beautiful modernist sound, read on. This is a basic super hip minor pentatonic side slipping lick where i move by tritone every bar. This lesson is closely related to the pentatonic improvisation lesson so if you havent watched that tutorial id recommend you check that out first. Three mustknow jazzy pentatonic patterns guitar world. Free piano sheet music pdf, pop, rock, movie soundtrack, musical, christmas, jazz.
Introduction why your guitar solos dont come close to the solos of great blues guitarists so you are starting to play your own blues guitar solos. Jazz alto sax solo sheet music for piano, alto saxophone. How to use the pentatonic scale like mccoy tyner in your. Here is a link to a pdf doc with all sheet music exercises shown in this. Improvising part four pentatonics where to go from here pentatonics will get you started and get you playing pretty decently. And today were going look at 3 creative ways mccoy tyner uses the pentatonic scale on the blues. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the heptatonic scale, which has seven notes per octave such as the major scale and minor scale pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations. Jazz saxophone sheet music download pdf or print free on.
This scale is a mustknow melodic device for guitarists exploring the world of improvised music, be it in the jazz genre or otherwise. Well, jimmy page and eric clapton have gone pretty far with pentatonics, so dont assume this is baby stuff. I didnt get into scale practice things in chapter ii because some patterns are too wide and mechanical for my instrument to play though i heard some of the licks in 70s jazz rock. This piece is part of our mccoy tyner piano licks compilation. This creates a distinctly different sound for the new scale. Pentatonic scale improvisation pentatonic scale soloing jazz piano. Moreover, timba piano could not exist without the technical, textural, conceptual and gestural materials drawn from western classical music. Although playing the five positions up and down as in the pdf above is a. Its simple, but you can ride the pentatonic pony quite a ways. In jazz guitar pentatonics part 2, we will study those pentatonic scales over the. A few years back an unplugged special on mtv featured a performer, his band, and a backup string quartet. This is an alto sax jazz solo that i wrote for an audition.
Free pdf downloads of c major, c harmonic minor, and more. Exploring jazz piano will help players develop their technical jazz skills. Share, download and print free sheet music for piano, guitar, flute and more on the worlds largest community of sheet music creators. Note the contrast to the major case, where any pentatonic so dark as not to include the major third was unusable. This collection of jazz etudes is intended to aid with the development of basic jazz vocabulary and inside playing. We mention in one of our articles on the site a great resource for jazz guitarists, in the mel bay lessons series, jazz pentatonics by bruce saunders. The accompanying cd contains playalong tracks to the exercises as well as compositions by the author. Learn jazz piano improvisation using only the pentatonic scale. If you are not sure how to build your pentatonic scales or what a relative minor is, you can learn all of that in some of my free play sax by ear crash course. So, before we go any further, lets examine those pentatonic scales we are talking about. You can approach it with blues language, bebop, or even modern and outside approaches it all comes together in the blues. Michael gundlach finger exercises for all poprock pianists and keyboarders speedy fingers.
Each student must know what jazz sounds like before heshe can play it. It includes a breakdown of the intervals in a minor pentatonic blues scale, as well as a reminder about the number of halfsteps in each specific interval. The exercises and studies in jazz studies on the pentatonic scale are essential to all. All of me jazz standard sheet music for piano download. An exploration of melody, harmony, and improvisation in the music of stevie wonder by jeffrey l. Lovell a dissertation presented to the school of music and dance and the graduate school of the university of oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy december 2012. Playing a jazz standard with pentatonic scales jens larsen.
This jazz lick is great practice for slipping out of and back into any minor key you are soloing in. Switch out the regular twooctave majorminor scales for a minor pentatonic blues scale. Pdf with all the jazz licks on sheet music pdf above in french. This worksheet can be used intandem with the minor pentatonic blues chart that i posted last month. Well learn a method to improvise jazz by using the pentatonic scale.
Any other jazz tune will require some other approach. This unique approach presents a wealth of pieces to play as well as giving practical analysis of. You can see this in the pattern below, where i move between a and bb pentatonic over the am7 chord throughout the lick. Once you purchase a sheet music, you will be able to download the pdf.
Well explore the pentatonic scale from a jazz improvisation standpoint applying it to number of different. This is also a great way to jazz up a students scale warmups. How to use the pentatonic scale in jazz progressions. Pentatonic scales trumpet pdf the following article is an excerpt from my book, recycling in jazz improvisation which can be downloaded as a pdf in my books section of. Any 5note scale can be called a pentatonic scale, however, when people discuss pentatonics, they generally refer to. The rest of this article contains tips and ideas for helping you plan and execute solid piano fingerings in. In this lesson im going to introduce you to the concept of pentatonic harmony.
Free sheet music pdf for piano download and print sheet music pdf. If you want to get it all together, i suggest reading each of the pages in this. How to improvise jazz using the pentatonic scale from. I remember the first time i walked into my freshman jazz ensemble class at berklee college of music. The last jazz pentatonic pattern well take a look at uses a bit of an advanced technique called side stepping. These scales are often the first step that we take towards improvising. Often drenched in pentatonicism in jazz, this book ranges over cycleoffifths and the ancient arrangement of gagaku music originating in its pentatonic formulation. Im playing this pattern on a bb tenor saxophone so it will sync well on trumpet. This means that it uses the same note as the major pentatonic scale, but the tonic note for the scale is different. This guide has all the information from the course and serves as an excellent reference if you would like to print it out or view on a tablet or computer screen. Hey, if you want that i support you and post more free videos lessons, you have to comment on this my video lesson, in. The next scale were going to learn is the minor pentatonic scale. Print and download in pdf or midi alto sax jazz solo. Check out the tutorial video for this lesson here youtube.
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