Chords for Mandolin Lesson - The Pentatonic Arpeggio

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[A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Em] _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Gm] _ [G] _
[C] _ [A] _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [N] _ _ _
_ Hi, Don Julin here, and in this short video we're going to talk about pentatonic scales.
I know sometimes pentatonic scales get a bad rap, but I'm going to hopefully shine a new
light on the use of pentatonic scales in playing through the changes or using the pentatonic
scale as an arpeggio.
So [Bbm] the demonstration has three chords.
It's in the key of G.
It's a [Gb] standard folk type chord progression.
[A] So when the G chord is being [G] played normally, _ _ we all know to play the [D] notes of the chord
[G] as an [Bm] arpeggio.
G, [G] B, D, G, [Gm] B, D, G.
[A] That's hard to make [Gb] melody out of [B] that.
So I add the notes of the G pentatonic [G] scale.
[A] G, [B] A, B, [D] D, [Em] E.
[A] So [B] again, G, A, [E] B, D, [Em] E.
[Gb] And then I add one blue note in because that sounds
a little [Bb] bit, just a little flat or maybe a little vanilla to me.
So I put [Eb] over the G chord, I put the [Bb] minor third or the B flat [A] in.
I [G] end up with this [Bb] sound.
[Em] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [G] Oops, I [Ebm] hit one C [Bb] note on the way down.
I couldn't help myself.
Anyway, so that's [Gm] basically the notes that I use over G.
[D] Then the C chord happens and [A] instead of just [Gm] C, E, [Am] G, [Eb] C, E, G, I do the same [F] thing.
I add the major [C] pentatonic.
[D] C, [Em] D, E, [A] G, [D] A, C, [E] D, E, [F] G, A, C.
[E] And then I add the blue note, the [Eb] E flat.
[F] _ [C] _ [Am] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _
Over the D chord, I do the exact same thing.
[D] Normally it would be D, F sharp, A. _
[Gb] I add [Gb] E.
So D, E, F sharp, [Bm] A, B.
[Gm] _ _ [Bb] D.
Now in the D chord, because it's technically [Gb] a D seventh chord,
the C note also gets [Bm] used in there.
[D] _ _ _
_ So _ _ _ [Gb] what I'm doing is I'm changing scales for each chord.
I memorize the chord progression in the song and [Eb] then change these [Gbm] scales,
which are not really [Eb] scales in the sense that [Bbm] the song is being built out of that [Gb] scale.
They're more arpeggios in that they're a [Bb] group of notes that I use as each chord is [D] going by.
[E] G, _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [B] _ [G] [D] C, [D] _
[E] _ _ [Am] _ [Eb] _ [Am] [Bb] and [Em] D. _
[Bm] _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _
[Bb] And that's what I use to build my licks and my melody out of.
So I've got this little song programmed in Band in the Box
that uses those progressions.
G, C.
[D] I'll holler out the chords the first time through and just play the chords
so you know what's going on.
And then I'll try to solo using these ideas. _
_ _ _ [G] _ G, _ _
[C] C, _ _ [G] G, _ _
[D] _ D, or D [G] seventh, _ G, [C] _ C, _ [G] _ [D] G, D, [G] back to G.
So the G pentatonic with blue note. _
[C] C, _ _ [G] back to G, _ _
[D] D, G, [G] _ _ _ _
[Cm] [C] C, _ _ [G] _ [D] G, D, [G] back to G.
And [Gm] again. _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _
[C] _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [Bm] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [N] _