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Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1

A favorite scale of jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane, is the Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale.
C Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale


During the 60’s, Trane, and other avant-garde musicians like Ornette Coleman, created a unique style of “playing outside” the chord changes. Often, this sound was created by playing a half-step above the tonic mode.
D flat 7 Pentatonic Scale


While it’s easy to play in D flat over the key of C, these masters of tension and release would weave in and out of the tonic as if they were tearing harmony apart and rebuilding it.

This series of patterns is designed to make you comfortable switching between two modes a half-step apart. We’ll start simple and get more complex as we go.

This particular four-note pattern changes modes every two beats. Obviously, you would want to practice this in all keys.
Pentatonic Pattern 1


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Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1

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  1. John MilnerNo Gravatar says:

    August 3rd, 2007 at 3:35 pm (#)

    Great resource. I need to spend more time checking this out.

  2. Graham EnglishNo Gravatar says:

    August 6th, 2007 at 11:52 am (#)

    Glad you like it John! Thanks for commenting.

  3. Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 2 by Graham English says:

    December 10th, 2007 at 3:28 pm (#)

    [...] Pattern 1 seemed easy to you, I guarantee you’ll find this next one more [...]

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