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NoteBoat wrote:The idea that scales can be viewed as 'modal' - that is, having the same tones, but a different tonal center - dates to the mid 16th century. That way of thinking is a logical construct created after the fact - the original idea, that there were seven modes of the major scale, arose after six of those scales had been in use for many hundreds of years. But you can apply that logic to any set of tones, including the pentatonic scale.
The only cultures that I'm aware of that do that in practice are Asian. In China and Japan, you'll find examples of music constructed with pentatonic 'modes'.
321Barf wrote:If you're playing over a D chord or a D Major progression then you are playing D Major pentatonic, even if you are using what you are calling a B minor pentatonic scale. They're the same notes. But the context is D Major so that is what it is. Context matters.
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