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Advanced Pedal Point in A

In this blog, we are taking the ideas of this lesson blog Major Minor Pedal Point in A a huge step further to the next level.
When you click on this URL, it will lead you to a free lesson with more URLs to pages you want to read.

The more you grasp the lessons from these various blogs, the easier following new material will be.
This is a bit advanced, folks!

If you read the above blog and the blogs it links to, then you know what a pedal point is, and what some of the cool things are that you can do with a pedal point.
Taking this all a step further, you could actually play any chord of any A scale against an A bass note to create even more different sounds and textures.

This is what Joe Satriani calls his “Pitch Axis Method”, which is really nothing more than a pedal point combining chords from a large selection of parallel scales over the tonic (the first note of all these parallel scales) as a bass note.

Using the key of A as an example.

The note A can be in 7 major scales

A major
Bb major
C major
D major
E major
F major
G major

By doing this, you’ve got every A mode covered.

A Ionian
A Locrian (the 7th mode of Bb major)
A Aeolian (the 6th mode of C major)
A Mixolydian (the 5th mode of D major)
A Lydian (the 4th mode of E major)
A Phrygian (the 3rd mode of F major)
A Dorian (the 2nd mode of G major)

All the chords in these 7 major scales are:

A Bm C#m D E F#m G#dim
Bb Cm Dm Eb F Gm Adim
C Dm Em F G Am Bdim
D Em F#m G A Bm C#dim
E F#m G#m A B C#m D#dim
F Gm Am Bb C Dm Edim
G Am Bm C D Em F#dim

Putting all these chord options in alphabetical order

A, Am, Adim
Bb
B, Bm, Bim
C, Cm
C#m, C#dim
D, Dm
Eb/D#, D#dim
E, Em, Edim
F
F#m, F#dim
G, Gm
G#m, G#dim

This gives you a ton of really cool, interesting textures you can experiment with.
Create really cool chord progression, combining any of these chords against a repetitive A bass.
The more you play around with this, the more really cool sounding chord progressions you will discover.

Conclusion

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