A major jazz hack is to use simple pentatonic scales to play very hip sounds.
Get inspired and play 3 different altered dominants with these pentatonic scale jazz hack’s.
LESSON TRANSCRIPTION CONTENT:
50+ pages full exercises and licks
-pentatonic scale pattern exercises
-licks using pentatonic scales as altered dominant
-all exercises and licks are transposed to all 12 keys
+ all lesson examples are transposed to the Tenor, Alto and Concert keys.
In this tutorial
00:00 Pentatonic Scales – 3 Amazing Ways To Use In Jazz
00:33 Backdoor dominant pentatonic scale
01:10 Pentatonic scale patterns
01:54 Altered dominant
02:23 Combine pentatonic scale with other material
02:55 Different levels of alterations with pentatonic scales
03:14 All in Altered Pentatonic scale
03:40 Pentatonic scale displacement
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