PLAYING OUTSIDE PENTATONICS

This is what the pentatonics sound like.



This is what playing outside the pentatonics sounds like. Eat your heart out Pat Metheney.




Major pentatonic scale written out. Just 1  11  111  V and V1
Minor pentatonic written out  1  m3  1V  V  V11

We might do this for a few weeks. Concentrate on the most melodic sounds in the major and minor chords, that is the pentatonics. For the advanced showoff players, use the pentatonics and play outside then in.

We have SIX SONGS FOR SUNDAY. Learn them all off by heart....... (yeah, right)

The end of a love affair. New.  Watch and listen to Chaka Khan 
How insensitive. New  Listen to Diana Krall on it
Dindi
It Could Happen to You
Summertime
How High the Moon
I can’t get started
A Foggy day
They Can’t Take That Away

We have great singers on Sunday! Hooray! The tunes will sound nice. The girls and the rhythm section will be in at 6.00 on Sunday. Hopefully we can get them to stay on a bit after the workshop starts at 7.00.

John
Ps.
Geoff, you may be interested in this. "Do you want to come to the Hare and Hounds next Tuesday, Terry is playing," I just asked Gillian. "Who is the soloist?" she asked and I told her.
"Oh no," she said "I don't like trumpets, too loud"
Then she added, "But I don't mind Geoff"
Tributes don't get better than that, pal.

Jazz Smugglers in Sussex
The Jazz Smugglers workshop, Sussex

For the moment we are full, until someone drops out. There are about 10 of us each week.

This site is to help the Jazz smugglers workshop group and provide informtaion about the following weeks work. We will be working on widening our range of playing styles as individuals, working together in a band, and practising the more difficult things. You need to be able to read.

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