Hi Otis, McLaughlin, Johnson and McCoy are my favourite pentatonic players. This is a new idea to me too. I intend to get confident with pairs and move up to groups of 3 a la Coltrane, but that's a long way away from now!! I look forward to hearing from you, cheers as always 😁

Coltrane had an approach he called '3-in-1' which I haven't studied in any great detail but what you describe sounds very similar to my understanding of it! Where did you hear that? Cheers

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition I'm not sure but I found this video on it, I wonder how far back this idea goes. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9qcedBqyN-xgZs.html

Cheers dude!

Thanks for taking the time to say so! Cheers

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition currently have all the time in this World … greetings from 🇦🇺, just in case you’re wondering who’s watching your videos , mate 🙏🏽

Fantastic to hear that! What are you working on at the moment with your playing? Cheers

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition I was the prodigal son, 30 years ago went on a tour playing World music, an amalgamation of ethnic, folk and rock music. Women liked me, but couldn’t understand me or my music so ended up in Sydney early nineties… This country is an artistic black hole, the year I’ve arrived , Tommy Emanuel and Frank Gambale have left the country, in order to advance their careers!? After ten years of trying to make a buck or name for myself, finally succumbed to the Man and got myself a day job in entertainment industry as a glorified labourer🤪 Recently bereaved, finally lost my seven day a week gig… was diagnosed with bipolar ten years ago, currently trying to find a reason to live, on a suicide watch 😵‍💫 Started with chord melody approach long time ago, mastering jazz standards and soundtrack music… Neo soul and neo jazz, watching mainly gospel pianist videos. Joe Pass, Lenny Breu and Ted Green that’s the stuff I’ve been researching last six years. Love listening to Coltrane, learned Naima ages ago, Chat Baker, love players that sing…. Greetings

It sounds to me like you've had a fantastic musical journey. What is keeping you in Oz? I believe it's important to nurture your creative needs in order to maintain some balance and mental clarity. I'm sorry to hear about your bereavement, perhaps now is the right time to find your clan and somewhere where you can express yourself musically and continue your journey? I checked out your playing and I have no doubt that there are many people who would be very excited to play with you! Keep in touch, cheers

James, you're a cheeky boy and one pentatonic better than me! Seriously though that'll be a great sound and I aim to dabble with groups of 3 pentatonic centres too. I'm still focusing on pairs for now though, there's a long road ahead! Cheers as always

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You're not the first to mention this, Gene. It is something I'm intending to add to my setup soon, hopefully that will help people out in the future. With regards to that specific ii V I, there are many options. My initial thought would be to use an F minor/B minor pentatonic over the ii and V and back to the major on the I. Another great colour would be Ab minor/B minor over the dominant chord. The world is your Oyster and there really are no wrong notes 🙃 hope that helps! Cheers

Anywhere you would use a tritone substitution! And you can apply this approach to any other superimpositions too. I take minor vamps such as Softly or Impressions as an opportunity to apply all these fun ideas. Give it a go anywhere you're already using pentatonics and your ears will start to open up to the possibilities. Do check out the DVD I mentioned 'In The Funk Zone' and Dave Liebmann's 'Chromatic Approach' book for plenty of application of these ideas. Alternatively just use them as technical and visualisation studies. Thank you for taking the time to comment!

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition I usually use tritone sub as the V going to one, but using melodic minor modes. Will try your idea now! Thanks!