Let’s explore the basic ingredients of that quintessential country piano sound made famous by pianist Floyd Cramer…
major pentatonic scale
The definitive scale-chord pairing in country music is the Major Triad and its parallel Major Pentatonic Scale…
As the name suggests, the Major Pentatonic Scale has five notes and a major quality–and is yet another existence proof that scales are not made up of “half-steps” and “whole-steps”.