Pentatonic khancepts Book Review

If you are looking to breathe new life into your playing this book is for you. The ideas presented here will definitely add melodic content to your solos and give you a big moat of ideas to choose from. You’re not going to get any major or minor scales from this book. What you will get is what every guitar player starts off with and is most comfortable with playing wise is the Minor pentatonic scale. What you should do is combine these ideas with major scales so it will give you a war chest of ammunition when you’re ready to take your guitar solo. This book is great for jazz, fusion & rock players. I mainly use these ideas over jazz standards.

One of my favorite examples is learning to get the C major or C Lydian sound over c major 7th chord. Rules for Major 7th chord: use the 2nd degree D Minor pent, 3rd degree E minor pent, 6th degree A minor pent and the 7th degree B minor pent. Using the 2nd, 3rd and 6th degrees, you end up getting all the notes from the C major scale. By using the 3rd, 6th and 7th you get the C Lydian sound. My preference is to use the 3rd E minor pent, 6th A minor pent 7th B minor Pent over a C major 7th chord which gives me the C Lydian sound. By using all 3 or 4 of these minor pentatonics will give your improvisation a more modern and melodic sound as you weave in and out of each of them. You will be able to see a pattern within a pattern e.g. A minor pent at the 5th position moving to E minor 4th position or A minor 5th position moving to B minor 7th position.

This you tube video will give an idea on how all 3 of these minor pentatonic scales sound individually over C Maj 7. The last segment of the video combines all 3. This will make your improvising very melodic and exotic sounding.

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By Phil La Viola
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