Joe Chawki: Passing Tones Pentatonics

Joe Chawki

A concept I generally talk about with students. When you're phrasing in a bluesy sort of setting...you can throw almost any note in as a passing tone, as long as it resolves well, you'll generally be A-ok. There's a few things going on here if you wanted to know. Generally all I'm doing here is A minor Pentatonic, A Mixolydian, A7 and Amin7 arpeggios, a diminished arpeggio or two, a touch of melodic minor, chromatics to connect all the dots, and you sort of have a concept than can be milked and played with endlessly.

In a nutshell, to recap, I would call this "throwing anything at your pentatonics and making it work"
Passing Tones Pentatonics