McCoy Tyner - McCoy Tyner-Style Pentatonics for Piano Riff Lesson

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This piece is part of our McCoy Tyner Piano Licks Compilation

Pentatonic scales are a key feature of the McCoy Tyner style.
This example is a minor jazz blues tune.
The first three bars are a pure C minor pentatonic scale played in a pattern.
In the fourth bar the phrase is repeated up a half tone.
Repeating phrases up or down a half tone is a very common thing in modal jazz.
Bars 5 and 6 are C minor pentatonic played over Fm (IVm) in blues.
Bar 9 is a Eb minor pentatonic played over Ab7 (VIb7).
Bar 10 is a D minor pentatonic played over G7.
The trick is to play a minor pentatonic from the fifth note of the dominant seven chord.

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Instrument:	Piano (View more Intermediate Piano Music)
Style:	Jazz (View more Jazz Piano Music)
Tags:	mccoy tyner piano licks compilation
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