Article Tags: minor pentatonic jam chord progression

Have a new student who started that knows quite a bit. That's fun for me because it give me more diversity as a musician and forces me to 'really know' some more advanced areas. The student has some experience with jazz chords but just knew a bit of minor pentatonic scales. Here's a little progression to use with minor pentatonic that has a jazzy perspective, it's not the typical blues I IV V progression for this scale. The example is in A but change from 5th fret to another to move it.

Chords, play the top 4 notes, D G B E strings:

|: Amsus2  /  /  Amsus2add7 | Asus4  /  /  Asus4add7 :|



Amsus2

- - 7 5 5 8



Amsus2add7

- - 7 5 8 8



Asus4 

- - 7 7 5 5



Asus4add7

- - 7 7 8 5



A Minor Pentatonic

e - 5 - - 8

B - 5 - - 8

G - 5 - 7 -

D - 5 - 7 - 

A - 5 - 7 -

E - 5 - - 8

This is very acoustic friendly and can be strummed in a Zeppelin style. Moving to E has a nice open sound to it.

Added on: 2008 09 07