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Needing Help With Scale Confusion

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Jak Angelescu

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    Hey there guys and dolls! I plan on getting the project finished tomorrow. Haven’t been feeling well lately and got busy like you know. But I moved on to lesson 25 and I figured I’d look up some lick lessons for these positions. I went to this lesson, and the guy showcases that he’s playing it out of the exact same pattern for a D Major pentatonic that Papa shows us in lesson 24. It’s the SAME pattern but played starting on the A instead of an F#. And when this guy does this, the C# becomes a C, and the F# becomes an F. Now I know he says a D7 lick, which I figured would add more of that bluesy vibe. But my question is, is this technically still a D major pentatonic scale? And is there any correlation to how these are the same patterns played in different spots but still in the same key? I took a shot and played the pattern this guy demonstrates over the backing track in lesson 25, and it works, it just sounds a little dark. What are your thoughts? Video is below. Thanks everyone!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bOHVz5U0lU
     

    idssdi

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    It seems more like a d minor pentatonic scale to me.
    Blues can get very weird though. For example if you do after midnight by JJ cale. It’s in D but when you solo over it doing D minor pentatonic works better than D major pentatonic.
    Another good example would be Hey Joe. Which is in G but has an E in it too but still you can use E minor pentatonic it’s just important which notes you decide to play and which you don’t.
     

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    (Will replying work or won’t it? That is the question)
    The pattern that the guy uses is of a Dm pentatonic. However, since he slides from F to F#…it kinda modulates to D major, at least from the perspective of the D chord. So yeah, it could technically pass as a major scale, but only in vibe, not in notes. I’ve sent a PM to Jak with regards to this (since apparently replying is not working for me) and I now realize that I’ve missed this point.
     

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