pentatonic

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1. pentatonic - Noun

2. pentatonic - Adjective

Meaning

relating to a pentatonic scale

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Examples

I've tried to make myself comfortable with most of the fretboard as possible. I like pentatonic scales because I've always been a big Tony Iommi fan. I play along with those a lot. I grew up playing a lot of heavy metal; I'm probably better at that than playing Fall Out Boy. Joe Trohman

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player. Steve Vai

Accordingly, John Coltrane's " Giant Steps " (1960), with its 26 chords per 16 bars, can be played using only three pentatonic scales. Source: Internet

It is characterized by melisma, wavy intonation, pitch instabilities within a pentatonic framework, and a declamatory voice. Source: Internet

In the 1970s and 1980s, with jazz-rock fusion guitar playing, jazz guitarists incorporated rock guitar soloing approaches, such as riff -based soloing and usage of pentatonic and blues scale patterns. Source: Internet

Levine points out that the V pentatonic scale works for all three chords of the standard II-V-I jazz progression. Source: Internet

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