Chords for R&B Guitar: Minor 7th Chords and Pentatonic Scales

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Okay in the previous videos we've talked a lot about the minor pentatonics now
I'm actually I gave you a little theory on the [Ab] minor pentatonics whenever I did the previous two videos
But now I'm going to give you the full story on the minors
_ So what we're going to do is we're going to start with the D minor 7 chord
[E] And we're going to build a progression around that it's only going to be three chords.
It's not going to be hard
So the first chord in our progression is going to be a D [D] minor 7
[Dm] _ _ _
Second chord is going to be [Em] a E minor 7 _ _ _ _
[Abm] third chord is going to be [Am] an A minor 7 and _ _
_ The A minor 7 [Ab] is actually rooted on [Gb] the E string the bass notes going to be [Em] the A [A] at the fifth fret _ _
_ _ [Ab] okay, so
Since the progressions built around a D minor 7 we actually have to figure [G] out
What scales we can play over that that will sound good and that are actually theoretically correct for that chord
Okay, whenever you're dealing with your minor 7 chords
It's usually a good idea to use [E] the minor pentatonic scales to solo over them
But the key is actually knowing what scales you can use in any situation
_ sometimes you'll be playing a progression and you'll have let's say a
D minor 7 and sometimes that that a minor [G] pentatonic isn't going to sound good over that so you need to know where to [Eb] go from there, [G] so
What we're going to do is we're going to start with the D minor 7 chord that the
Progression is built around which [D] as we just went through it
[Dm] _ _ Sounds like that
_ [Ab] So with the D minor 7 chord D minor 7 is going to be the second scale degree in the C diatonic scale
so anytime you have a minor 7 chord basically what you're going to do is
That's always going to be the 2 in the diatonic scale
So if you have an E minor 7 is going to be the 2 in the D scale and so on and so forth so
With the D minor 7 there's three different [G] minor pentatonic scales that you can play over top of that that
Theoretically are supposed to sound correct.
So [N] the first scale is the a minor pentatonic scale
Now we've gone through this before in one of my previous videos, but I'll go through it again for you
So I'm gonna play the a minor pentatonic scale the normal way then I'm gonna play it the extended way
so first the
_ the actual normal minor pentatonic a minor pentatonic scale that everybody knows is
Going to be right here.
We're starting at the fifth fret on the [A] E string, which is gonna be your a it's gonna be your root note [Bm] and
We're gonna go all the way across all six strings.
So here we go
[A] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Abm] Okay, now that's the the pretty much standard way now the [Ab] next way that we're gonna do this we're gonna do it [A] the extended way
And for all intents and purposes, I'm probably not gonna play this one back down to the root that we're starting on
But I'm gonna play it all the way up.
So whenever you're playing the extended scale instead of starting down here on the a
What we're gonna do so your hands in the right position is we are going to actually start up
_ Here on the G now, of course G is in
The a minor pentatonic scale.
So we haven't committed any sins or any crimes or any craziness like that.
[Gb] So
I'm gonna play it for you.
Just watch my [G] hands _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Now where we're gonna end we're gonna end right here on [Eb] the 12th fret on the high E [A] string _
[Em] _ _ _ Once again, this is it up to speed _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Okay
Now that gets the the a minor pentatonic scale out of the way the next scale that [Ab] actually sounds good over a D minor
7 chord is
Obviously gonna be the D minor pentatonic scale
Now [Abm] for this one, we're gonna start on the a string at the third fret and follow pretty much the same pattern
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] Okay, and now we're gonna play the D minor pentatonic scale the standard way _
So what we're gonna do is start right here on the fifth fret [Dm] on the a string
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[Ab] Okay, and last but not least we've got [Gb] the e minor pentatonic
Scale that you can play e minor pentatonic is probably one of my least [Em] favorites
It doesn't sound that great over D minor 7, but in theory it's supposed to so
I'm just gonna show you one way to play the e minor pentatonic scale _
[B] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ Okay now using those skills you can basically come up with your own ideas [Ab] like for instance
This is one lick in a using the scale that we just went over _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So once you know, the scale is really easy to come up with your own licks
so I'm gonna play the progression for you and _
[D] Basically, you can kind of play over the progression and figure out what sounds good.
[Dm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
All right, so you get the [F] point
I hope this has been able to help somebody and
Message me if you have any more questions message me if you need the tabs or any other information and I'll see you next time _ _