Accent Shifting on Minor Pentatonic Lesson

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- Bogdan Radovic27th November 2008
  Very useful lesson Joe!!
- Emir Hot27th November 2008
  Very nicely presented, I like these variations
- Muris Varajic27th November 2008
  Cool ideas.
- Nazgul27th November 2008
  Great idea Joe!
- Marcus Siepen27th November 2008
  great lesson Joe, I love pentatonics
- kaznie_NL27th November 2008
  Thnx Joe!
- Ramiro Delforte27th November 2008
  Very nice idea!
  And good melodic patterns
- Joe Kataldo27th November 2008
  Thanks Guys
- Toni Suominen27th November 2008
  Impressive and useful licks Joe!
- Dejan Farkas27th November 2008
  Very nice stuff
- Ivan Milenkovic27th November 2008
  Very interesting patterns Joey, good job
- Hisham Al-Sanea27th November 2008
  helpful Joe.very good lesson mate.
- Gerardo Siere28th November 2008
  Excellent variation, some are very Frank Gamballe like. Nice detail the synth sound at the bottom of the mix.
- fatb0t28th November 2008
  Super tricky, I gotta work on these!
- Nemanja Filipovic28th November 2008
  Backing is a killer one man.Top notch as always.
- Joe Kataldo28th November 2008
  Thanks Mates

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- Tags: Jazz, Accent, Shifting, Minor, Pentatonic, Fusion
Hi guys, Joe here, reading the forum I've seen some requests about more pentatonic fusion licks, so I thought it would be cool to make a lesson on it! Here are some licks I wanna show you, a "device" to create jazz/fusion oriented pentatonic runs, "Accent Shifting".

Accent Shifting on Minor Pentatonic - 105bpm
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The lessons gives you five licks over a nice electro/rock backing track, each one based around a minor pentatonic box, using different accent patterns (check theory focus for more about it) that can be used and transposed in different situation and keys.

Theory Focus
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Accent shifting means moving the natural strong accents that falls on strong beats or in this case on the first sixteenth note, somewhere else in the bar, to create interest and variation. The numeric patter that you see above each lick is the number of the sixteenth notes that represent the accent.

Ex.

2+3 means that we have accent on the 1st sixteenth note, and on the 3rd sixteenth note.

> >
ONE - two + ONE two three

for a total of 5 sixteenth notes.

Techniques Focus
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No special technique here, you simply have to make sure that you are accenting the right notes, alternate picking is the way to go

Pro Tips
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Instead of playing accented notes harder, try to play softer the other non-accented one.

Take care, see you next lesson!

Joe Kataldo

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