Hancock-Inspired Pentatonics – mDecks Music
Published: 2025-04-04
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Apply pentatonic substructures to soloing over Herbie Hancock’s Sunrisa, turning scale fragments into practical melodic building blocks.
Learn how to extract and use two-, three- and four-note substructures from pentatonic scales to craft lines over the opening chords of Herbie Hancock’s Sunrisa. The lesson shows how to pick compatible pentatonics (for example C, G, or D minor pentatonic over Ebmaj7/G treated as Lydian) and how to target tensions using chord-scale thinking. Two approaches are demonstrated: mapping full pentatonics to the chord scale, and directly selecting substructures as flexible melodic units. Practice strategies focus on accumulating reliable building blocks you can recall instantly while improvising.
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