Every player is aware of the minor pentatonic, but not everyone knows how to make the most of it. These examples – in the style of some prolific pentatonic players – will help you master the shape eve ...

Put simply: Major scale: bright, happy Aeolian mode ... Try playing Am-Fmaj7-G7-Am to hear a classic Aeolian chord pattern.

Part of the reason guitarists love to use the minor pentatonic scale is its versatility - often you can use the scale throughout a whole song, provided the key doesn’t change. We’ve played this line ...

The 4th in this case is G, the 4th of the D major scale. The G replaces the 3rd (F#), meaning sus chords are neither major ...

This has a standard root, major 3rd and minor 7th intervallic construction. In addition to these three standard dom7 chord tones, we can add altered 9th and 5th degree scale tones, namely the b9, #9, ...

In short, a chord is formed at each step of this scale, and the chords follow a pattern of (from steps I through VII) major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished. So – as represented by ...

The characteristics of these minor scales mean that triads based on these degrees of the scale make different kinds of chords. These chromatic alterations have been the basis of a whole range of ...

Chord I is built upon the first note of an eight note scale, and chord V upon the fifth ... you’ll see that every major chord has a minor reflection, (shown in the inner circle) which contains all the ...

The fifth': The melody moves up one note to the fifth chord of the scale, the dominant (V) of G major. –'The minor fall': Again, the melody moves up one note here to the sixth chord, the submediant ...