(Objective 5- Production Of Guide) Blues and Pentatonic Improvisation

This Chapter reflects the fact that experienced improvisers often use more than one scale throughout the course of a solo. This was highlighted in objective one where the transcriptions analysed both used at least 2 scales throughout the course of the solo. This is reflected to the learner in the top page. It gives the learner a means of creating greater colour.  The CD recordings convey the effect of this to the learner. I have also tried to consolidate the learning. The pages that preceded this taught blues improvisation, with grace notes and melodic contour, in isolation. The chapter that preceded this taught pentatonic improvisation. Therefore, this chapter is a natural conclusion of that learning. It hopefully builds on what the learner, by this stage, already knows. The last page shows the example where the learner has to improvise. It can be considered guided improvisation; it prescribes what scales are to be used over what bars. Again, as researching pedagogy shown, limiting posibilities is especially important in a self-development resource.  The previous example on the second page  also directly corresponds with it. This provides the learner with a reference.