Again, we start with a tricky t ricky stretch, a legato E minor triad. The static A minor backing gives a great opportunity to experiment with other scales, and a really cool thing to try is “pentatonic substitution”. Basically, our home scale is A Dorian (A B C D E F# G). That scale contains the notes of A minor pentatonic (A C D E G). But it also contains two other minor pentatonic scales... E minor pentatonic (E G A B D) and B minor pentatonic (B D E F# A). That means you can use all three of those pentatonic scales, and you’ll still be within the A Dorian tonality. You just create a different “sound world” because of the notes you’re NOT playing. Guthrie used B minor pentatonic (or blues scale) at the start of Lick 15, and he’s using E minor pentatonic pentatonic at the start star t of this lick.
5/4 LICK 18
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(From the 2015 Album 20 ODD-TIME LICKS: 5/4) = 132
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