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Pentatonic Hanon Exercises
 ~ PentHan 30-07-19 ~

Pentatonic Hanon 30-07-19 (minor)

Watch the video, trying to memorise the riff.

Download the MS for this Pentatonic Hanon using this link.

Teaching notes

Given the (minor) pentatonic's close connection with the blues, you might as well learn your pentatonic riffs in the three twelve-bar related scales - I, IV, and V.

Here's the MS for the first two versions, in C and D pentatonic minors.

Only the C minor version is fingered. The C minor pentatonic scale is a good one to learn - it feels comfortable under the hand with the three black keys (m3, #4/b5, m7) nicely spaced, and the resulting fingering is a good model to try first - and adapt if necessary - elsewhere.

Because each iteration of the study scrolls through the three twelve-bar I-IV-V 'candidate' scales, you will pass through a total of seven different scales (Cm, Dm, Em, Fm, F#m, Gm, Am) if you play in all four keys, as offered.

Here is the MS for the second set of two starting keys.

There is a 'count-in' to the start of the demo performances. Prepare your position according to the chord symbol at the top right of the frame and try to 'hit the ground running', one hand at a time first.