For example, in bar 3 I’ve deviated from the pentatonic pattern because I’m thinking about how I might embellish a G chord, rather than playing notes from a scale. I’ve chosen the D shape in ...

Unlike chords, scales are played one note at a time. You should be able to see that the C major pentatonic scale uses all the notes from a C chord, plus a couple of extras. Play through the chord ...

The tune uses a five-note pentatonic scale, using C, D, E, G and A. The ups and downs of the tune are shown on screen and reflect the waves, swelling of the sea, and water flowing to and fro.

The APCs are tuned to a Pentatonic scale, with the 8 notes covering 1.5 octaves. [Whisker] added a single potentiometer which controls all 8 of the monostable oscillators at once. Tweaking this ...

and this can be combined with the E minor pentatonic scale (E-G-A-B-D) to create one big hybrid scale. The chromatic tones can be used to link the notes of the E7 chord (E-G#-B-D) and this is a ...

These are normally the third, fifth or seventh notes of the scale. Musicians playing jazz sometimes use pentatonic scales and blues scales to play improvisations. Jazz music can be played by lots ...