Chords for How to sing Riffs and Runs Pentatonic Scale

Hello, this is Paul McKay of One Voice Music Academy, _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm gonna talk about riffs and
runs again.
First of all, I want to introduce Riffs and Runs.
It's a program that's available
on _ onevoicemusic.ca. It takes you through step by step a library of riffs and runs,
and the pentatonic scale is included in this program.
All right, so it's available for
download for purchase.
It's right there at onevoicemusic.ca. Now, the pentatonic scale,
this is a big scale because _ all of our artists that we know and love, whether it be Beyonce
or Bruno Mars or _ Neo or Mario or _ what's that guy's name?
Usher, yeah?
A lot of the contemporary
artists do a lot of riffs and runs, and we wonder what they're doing.
They seem so expressive
with it, and they're using their hands.
They're like, _ _ and they're doing all this crazy stuff,
right?
_ Just so you know, these are actually melodies that they are singing, okay?
For the
most part, riffs and runs that are done in contemporary music, when I say melodies that
contemporary vocalists do, generally are on the pentatonic scale or the pentatonic chord structure,
however you'd like to phrase it, okay?
So, what is the pentatonic scale?
_ _ It is so key to
understanding riffs and runs.
You've got to know this pentatonic scale.
You just got to know it.
All right?
So I'm just going to start you off with one of the inversions.
Here it is.
[Bm] _ [F#] _ _
_ [Bm] _ [A] _ There you go.
I went [F] up and down the scale.
Here it is going up.
[Bm] _ _ [F#]
See that?
_ _ _ [B] _ _
And ladies, you can try that an octave higher. _ _ _
_ _ Look at that.
_ _ [Bm]
Okay?
And then going up and [A] coming back down.
[Bm] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [N] Okay? _
_ _ _ _ _ And ladies.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now, depending on how you apply the syncopation, you can cause it to sound a lot more like an
authentic riff that you've heard before.
_ _ _ _ _ And I added a bit of a grace [D#] note at the top there,
okay?
Just for a bit of authenticity.
[N] So that's the first inversion that I will present.
Now,
there are five inversions because it is a chord structure that has five notes, the pentatonic.
All right?
The second inversion, it is actually the minor pentatonic.
And if you know about
blues music and some jazz, but here it is, the minor [Bm] pentatonic.
_ _ _ [B] _ And right away, that sounds
like a riff. _ _ _ _
And we'll try a different vowel. _ _ _ _
_ [N] And ladies, if you want, you can try that an octave
higher.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And that is the second inversion that I will present, okay?
And that is the minor
pentatonic.
The next one is another pentatonic scale that I'm sure you'll recognize.
[D] Here it is.
[F#] _
_ _ [D] All right?
[N] _ _ _
_ _ _ And ladies, go ahead and try this.
All _ _ _ _ right?
And just if you want to descend,
check this out. _ _ _
All right?
I put a little bit of an accent at the top there, okay?
So that is
the third inversion of the pentatonic.
We're just going to move right along.
So this is the fourth
right [F#] here, [D] _ _ _ [E] _ okay?
And this inversion of the pentatonic, I [F#] like to call the cultural inversion
because it sounds a lot like traditional Chinese music.
Check it out. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ All [N] right? _ _
_ _ _ _ Now, that was an interesting riff that I did that I'll explain a little bit later.
But here goes the [F#m] fifth inversion.
Here it is.
[D] _
_ _ _ [F#] All right? _ _
_ _ _ _ And I'm sure gentlemen and [N] ladies, you can both do that octave right there.
Why not try it again? _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ See that?
That's the fifth inversion of the pentatonic scale.
Now, if you really want to
be a freak _ with your riffs and runs, you can actually apply different inversions, okay?
Now, check this out.
Going up and down the fifth inversion of the pentatonic scale,
I'm going to actually tag the second inversion _ after I've done the fifth inversion.
And I'll
just descend, all right, on the second inversion after I've done the fifth inversion.
Now,
check this out.
_ _ _ All _ _ _ right?
Now, I chose three notes, actually, of the second inversion.
And now, just to remind you, the second version sounds like this. _ _ _
_ _ All right?
So putting it together, fifth inversion, second inversion.
So here it is.
Ah.
_ _ _ _ _ You see what I did there?
Ah. _ _ _ _
And let's say I used the ah vowel for the fifth inversion of
the pentatonic.
And then I used the ooh vowel for the second inversion.
Ah. _ _
_ Ooh.
_ See how that works?
Why not try that?
You can combine different inversions to play around and make riffs and
runs.
It's like create your own riffs and runs here, okay?
If you understood what I was talking
about in this video, then you are awesome.
Congratulations.
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