Key/Position/Scales Resources?

[Luke]

The major pentatonic scales are a lot of fun:

1st Position & 2nd Position Major Pentatonic Scales

The Major Pentatonic scales are so awesome. Their most obvious use is in Country, Bluegrass, Folk, and Jam Band genres and all their cousins, but I find the Major Pentatonic scale to be equally helpful in R&B, Soul, Pop, and as a different flavor to add to the Blues Scale when playing Blues genres. Here’s the lowdown on the major pentatonic scale harmonica tabs in 1st position. The easiest place to play the scale is in the middle octave: Up: 4 -4 5 6 -6 7 Down: 7 -6 6 5 -4 4 You can also pla…

Here’s more blues scale / arpeggio info than you ever wanted:

Blues Harmonica Soloing - Improvisation Theory 2nd Position

When you’re gonna start improvising over a blues using 2nd position (that’s key of G on a C harmonica) there are a couple of approaches that can help you. One simple way is to just think about playing the blues scale whenever and wherever you want to. These are the harmonica tabs for the 2nd position blues scale: Going up: -2 -3’ 4 -4’ -4 -5 6 Coming back down: 6 -5 -4 -4’ 4 -3’ -2 And you can continue even further down -2’’ -1 -1’ 1 And back up to where you started -1’ -1 -2’’ -2 Very the…