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Piano improvisation exercise - minor pentatonic

http://bit.do/billsbook Building on my last tutorial about pentatonic improvisation on the piano, in this video I look at the minor pentatonic scale, along with an improvisation exercise you can use it with. These scales are particularly handy for blues and jazz improvisation, as well as other styles such as rock and funk. Pentatonic scales are really useful because of their universality. When improvising, you'll find that regardless of the chord sequence being played, the pentatonic scale of the same key will sound great almost all of the time. Minor pentatonics are used in the same way as major pentatonics, but are constructed a little differently. A major pentatonic is made up of the root, second, major third, fifth and major sixth notes of the scale. A minor pentatonic is slightly different, and is made up of the root, minor third, fourth, fifth and minor seventh. For those who know a little more about music theory, it's useful to know that the notes of a minor pentatonic scale are exactly the same as the notes of the major pentatonic of the relative major key. If you're familiar with your chords, minor pentatonic scales are often easier to figure out than major ones: simply play the minor seventh chord, add in the fourth, and you're playing all the notes of the minor pentatonic scale! The exercise that I demonstrate in this video is based on a simple left hand chord sequence with a jazzy, bluesy feel to it. If you're new to improvisation, make sure that you're really comfortable with the chord sequence before starting to add in a right-hand part. For the improvisation in the right hand, just play around with the notes of the minor pentatonic scale. Try to use some of the improvisation techniques that I've covered in the past to make it a little more interesting. The best way to learn improvisation is to play an exercise repeatedly until you can play it without thinking about it, whilst experimenting and expanding on what you've learnt. It's also really good practice to try transposing the minor pentatonic exercise into different keys. If you're interested in learning more about jazz, blues or pop piano, check out some of my earlier videos. You might also be interested in my book, How to Really Play the Piano, which teaches improvisation through the medium of 12-bar blues.