Beyond Music Theory

Being Creative With Pentatonic Scales

Beyond Music Theory

Show Notes

In this episode you will listen to you how I used mostly pentatonic materials to compose a track and I'll take you through the thought process of extracting the information I needed for chords and melodies. During the episode I talk about some concepts that if you are not familiar with them you can read all about by following the links:

- Pentatonic Scales

- Scales Harmonization

- Diatonic Modes

- Suspended Chords

- Chords in Fourths and Fifths

- Polychords

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