Chords for Robben Ford Scale: Guitar Lesson by Nick Granville

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Hi, Nick Granville here.
I thought I'd cover in the lesson what I [G] call the Robin Ford scale
[Am] I call it so because I hear this in his music a lot and I'm afraid as I wondered what it was
And then I saw his video and he talks about a particular scale that [E] seems to fit his music really well
So for me, I've called that the Robin Ford [Bb] scale
Basically what it is is a way of kind of jazzing up the blues
And basically if you take the minor pentatonic scale, let's carry it say in B-flat
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] Nothing difficult there works [Bbm] really well over sharp nine chords
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_ _ _ _ [G] It's that kind of [Gm] tonality on a dominant chord playing essentially a minor scale
Well, one thing that is weird about that on the blues is if you go from the one chord _
_ To the [Cm] four [G] chord _ _
This note [F] here the seventh.
It's [Ab] kind of _
implying that like a sus [Eb] chord instead of
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which is what that movement [B] is and so Robin Ford corrects that by doing a
_ _ [Gm] By replacing that note instead of having the [G] seventh
_ [Ab] _ [Bb] He had adds the [Eb] sixth
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_ _ [Eb] All right, so now
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[F] We blanket scale to go between the two you get a sound that works across both chords and in [G] a much more _ _
_ Correct way if for lack of a better way of putting it corrects probably not the right word to use in a more kind of
_ melodic way I guess if you want _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ Cool thing with that is the first quarter.
It's a dominant seven like this or [Ab] sharp nine
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Essentially that note is the six so it's making it like a 13th chords _
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_ _ [G] _ _ [F] Spells both chords really nicely so essentially [Gm] you're saying B-flat 13 _
To E-flat 7 or E-flat 9 of some kind of sort right of course you can play that on every position across the neck
So we can play the next one [F] starting here
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[Db] All right and [F] instead of [Ab] the seventh that note
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Gm] _ _ _ So it's a very cool sound I call that the Robin Ford minor pentatonic or the Robin Ford pentatonic in other words
And it works really really [Am] well check it out try it in your music try it with some play along
Thanks, my name is Nick Granville.
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