Let's explore the basic ingredients of that quintessential country piano sound made famous by pianist Floyd Cramer... Cramer's ideas are based on the Pentatonic Scale-Chord Pairs for the "big 3" chords--I, IV, V. The driving melodic and harmonic force of each scale-chord relationship is that "the 2" of each scale/chord wants to resolve to "the … Continue reading Country School: Floyd Cramer Licks: The First Lesson
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Country School: Major Pentatonic Scale-Chords
The definitive scale-chord pairing in country music is the Major Triad and its parallel Major Pentatonic Scale...
Major Pentatonic Scale: Theory & Ear Training
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".