Jim Oblon drops some blues science, demystifying the practice of alternating between parallel minor and major pentatonics ...

using both major and minor pentatonic scales, as well as some chromatic notes. Figure 1 illustrates the solo: bars 1 and 2 are based on the G minor pentatonic scale (G, Bb, C, D, F) and the G ...

Only the order of tones and semitones is different. Both keys have the same key signature, shown here:. Because they share the same key signature and the same notes, it is common to modulate or ...