EP174 – use of F chord

[dg10blue]

Brian wondered why using the A minor pentatonic (ACDEG) over the F major chord in this lesson seemed to work ok – may be just that all these notes are contained within the F major scale (F G A Bflat C D E F). You could also easily add the F note to increase the possibilities.

[charjo]

Sorry, my original comment was in reference to EP 173. I’ll look at 174 now.
John

[charjo]

@Brian, @dg10blue , Brian mentioned that the key change is like moving up 3 frets from the D chord to the F chord. Isn’t that similar to moving down three frets to get from the A minor pentatonic to the A major pentatonic, so maybe the key change is from A major back up to A minor. Where F min is the sixth chord of A major, F maj is the 6th chord of the key of A minor and the A minor pentatonic should fit beautifully.
John

[charjo]

@Brian, @dg10blue, not sure about my own reasoning. I think the key change is from key of A where D is the major fourth to the key of C where F is the major 4th. Of course the A minor scale contains all the same notes as C major, as they are relative scales, but now I’m not sure why this works. Other theories? @duffy, can you add anything?
John

[Brian]

I know – it’s weird right? Probably a simple explanation that is staring us in the face. When I was improvising over the jam track, I instinctively went to the minor pentatonic scale over that F chord, but then didn’t really know why it worked.

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