Minor Pentatonics: Coltrane Perspectives_Part1

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[davidniekamp]

Nice lesson! From a fellow jazz student

[JohnQuincyPublicShow]

Thanks Richie! What I've been looking for.

[effsixteenblock]

As always, a great video from Ritchie!
One of the great things about using pentatonics in this way is that motifs are really easy to come up with due to their "box" shape.
Thanks Ritchie!

[ricklanders]

This is a great breakdown of the solo - so helpful with the printed music underneath and your identification of the call and response and rest patterns. It's so amazing how Miles is such a genius with the absolute simplest of phrases! It's really uncanny how he does that. Thanks Richie!

[marekfalda]

EXACTLY what I need. I think You just unlocked for me huge part of what I love about Coltrane sound: "the unbleasly blues" I may call it. Huge thanks!

[chromosomegun]

I always play my favorite rock tune next to my typewriter too.

Love your stuff!

[markdeffebach]

Another way to look at the first example is to realize that the minor pentatonic is its relative major pentatonic when started on its second note (the 2nd note being the minor 3rd is the root of the relative major pentatonic scale). The major pentatoni scale is actually the major 69 arpeggio. So for any ii V I, you start with major pentatonic on the b7 over ii, major pentatonic over natural 7 (tritone of V) on to major pentatonic over the I chord.

[Picker]

I was in the middle of practicing, and stumbled onto this video. Great stuff! It'll take awhile to assimilate, but you've got some very useful materials in here.

[TheTwangKings]

That demo at 1:50 is smokin'!! That's what I want to sound like.

[zenmaster]

New to your channel but I love it. Is reading music mandatory to jazz? I’m new to the genre and have played a lot of other styles without reading music. We know where the notes are at on the neck

[Danumurti]

Maj7#11?, Wow I just know this could work.