The RIGHT Way to Practice Pentatonics - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

Did you know that you're probably practicing pentatonic scales
the wrong way? Peter Martin shows you an exercise to fix your
fingering.


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What's goin' on everybody? Peter Martin here for 2 Minute Jazz.
Want to talk to you about pentatonics. I've got a brand new
exercise for you over C minor, or E flat major, however you wanna
think about it. And we go through two different levels, three
different rhythms for each one. 


The first thing we're doing, we're starting down here, an octave
below middle C. Too many of you are practicing only in this
[upper] range of the instrument and then you end up soloing only
in these two octaves. We got great stuff down here. Great little
tenor region of the piano we wanna explore. So if you wanna play
it, you gotta practice in there, okay?


So we're going up. And then we're (on four) coming down and
here's our shape, skipping. Lots of use of the four. A lot of you
are just playing with one two three and there's some false
information goin' out here that you only have to use three
fingers. We've got five fingers. If you're not gonna practice
with the fourth and the fifth, they're never gonna get strong and
independent and be able to at least come close to equaling one
two three.


So many situations, what we have to be able to play with strength
and agility with our fourth and fifth finger, so we gotta
practice it. So I've worked that into the fingering here. And
we're just changing up the rhythm.


Level 2A, same thing: goin' up straight. Pentatonic. Now we gotta
new shape. And this is really based upon something a lot of
players use. That's just going up a half step. So it gets your
hand ready for that. And now we're introducing a lot of fifth
finger. A lot of you are gonna wanna go four or three there. But
the idea is we wanna keep that wrist smoothly gliding up and
down.


Pentatonics. Happy practicing!


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