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THEORY OF THE MONTH

Right then, groovers! In my last Theory Of The Month column, we took a further look at applying pentatonic scales over various chord types. Pentatonic scales give us access to large intervals and can provide a relatively simple opportunity to establish lyricism in our lines. This month we’re looking at ‘voice-leading’, which is applying

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