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8031 / 18210 · Workshop 64 — Pentatonic Superimposition: One Five-Note Shape, Many Harmonic Meanings, Modern “Outside” Color, and Improvising Without Sounding Like a Scale Exercise← prev⊞ allnext →

64.1Begin with C major pentatonic

C D E G A

C D E G A

Play it slowly.

Then improvise for a minute using only those five notes.

Over C bass this is familiar:

C = 1 D = 9 E = 3 G = 5 A = 6/13.

So C major pentatonic gives us a very clean:

C6/9 sound.