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Brian as usual another great lesson!
When you went to the Dminor 7 and did the slide to Aminor pentatonic pattern 2. The slide was from the Dminor pentatonic shape (chord tones) not the notes in A minor pentatonic pattern 1 is that right?
Is that a takeaway that will work with all solos? Meaning can you mix and match chord tones of different chords in the same key with the tonic (root note) pentatonic scale?
Please clarify. Thanks.
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Hi Michael @mghiggs1aol-com,
I see your question is still unanswered, so I’ll give it a try. This progression is in the key of A minor. The chords Am (Am7), Dm (Dm7) and Em (Em7) are all chords within the key. So any note that is within any of these chord will also be in the key. Remember, though, the key is A natural minor, not A minor pentatonic, so there is an additional major 2nd and minor sixth interval within the key. The note on the sixth fret second string, in the Dm7, is the minor 6th of the A minor scale, so it will fit the progression but will be outside the A minor pentatonic. It is sort of a “colour” tone in addition to the A minor pentatonic. Likewise the note on the 9th fret, 4th string in the Em7 chord is the major 2nd in the key of A minor, ie. outside the minor pentatonic but will fit and add colour to the minor pentatonic.
Hope that helps.
John -
Thanks for jumping in on this John. You’re correct. The way I think of it in terms of licks or little “phrases” that I use when communicating. So in this minor key progression, I mentally just stayed in A minor pentatonic world… which is where that slide to Pattern 2 comes from. Even though the chord is switching to D minor 7, I just stayed within the key (in my mind).
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