Techniques From Songs - Minor Pentatonic Riff In Major Song (Phum Viphurit - Long Gone)

This time in Techniques form Songs, we are going to look at minor pentatonic riff in a major song. Our example is Long Gone by Phum Viphurit.

This song is in G major and the main riff sounds like this.

The main riff is basically in G major and it feels like he is playing B minor pentatonic shape in mind. Although I cannot really prove that, it is actually a concept that widely used. We can use minor pentatonic scales of 2nd, 3rd, and 6th degree from the key center to come up a riff for the song. 

In here, we can use A minor pentatonic, B minor pentatonic, and E minor pentatonic to create a rill in this G major song. You can write out all the notes of these minor pentatonic scales, and you will find that all the note are in G major. 

In the video, I will shift to A and E minor Pentatonic scale, and use similar rhythm and fingering to fill in the same progression. 

I will keep the backing loops for a while, try this concept yourself!

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這次Techniques From Songs要討論在大調歌曲中的使用小調五聲音階的循環樂句。我們使用的例子Phum Viphurit的Long Gone。

這首歌是G大調，其主要的循環樂句挺起來大約像這樣。

這個句子的音都在G大調中，但感覺他是想著B小調五聲音階的形狀在演奏的。雖然我無法證實這一點，但這其實是很常見的手法。我們可以用一首歌調性中心的2、3、6級的小調五聲音階來為這首歌想一個樂句。

在這首歌，我們可以使用A小調五聲音階、B小調五聲音階、和E小調五聲音階，來為這首G大調的曲子想一個樂句。假如你寫出這些小調五聲音階的組成音的話，你會發現他們其實都包含在G大調音階內。

在影片中，我會移動到A小調五聲音階與E小調五聲音階，並使用類似的節奏與指法來在一樣的和弦進行中填入樂句。

示範完後，會循環一段和弦進行，請也自己試試這個概念吧！