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Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 9

By on June 26, 2007 in Music Theory, Peak Performance

Table of contents for Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale

  1. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1
  2. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 2
  3. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 3
  4. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 4
  5. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 5
  6. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 6
  7. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 7
  8. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 8
  9. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 9
  10. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 10
  11. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 11
  12. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 12
  13. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 13
  14. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 14

This dominant 7 pentatonic pattern spends a full beat in the original key, modulates to the “outside” key for two full beats, and then returns to the original key for the final beat.
Pentatonic Pattern 9

You can play around with this pattern and find some useful alternatives. Try pushing the pattern back a beat so it starts on beat 2 and notice how it feels different. Or you can pull the pattern forward so it starts on beat 4 of the bar. Obviously, you can do this with all of the previous patterns to experiment and come up with unique and interesting twists.

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Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 9

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