Improvisation Exercises & Examples

Example 1 - the notes of the A minor Pentatonic Scale.

Example 2 - the notes of the A minor Pentatonic Scale plus incidental notes.

Example 3 - all the notes from example 2 plus the remaining to notes of the major scale.

Example 4a - all the notes from example 3 with the addition of the major 6th.

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