September 21, 2006
Playing the Pentatonic Kalimba:
Arpeggios in G Major Tuning

More background about the pentatonic kalimba/pentatonic scale from the Learn How section of this site.

In a few weeks, we'll be coming out with the book "Playing the Pentatonic Kalimba". This book will spend half its pages on the G major pentatonic tuning, and half its pages on the G minor pentatonic tuning. Here is an example riff from the G Major half:

The first measure is an arpeggio about the G major chord, the second measure is about the E minor chord, the third is about an A chord (as there is neither a C nore a C# in this tuning, the A is neither major or minor - it is open to interpretation), and the last measure is about the D chord (again, it is neither major nor minor, but the implication is major).

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