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MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

most often for soloing in blues-influenced music are minor and major pentatonic. As its name implies, a pentatonic scale consists of five tones, as penta means “five” and tonic means “tone.” I play in a variety of bands that perform the music of the Allman Brothers Band, and I toured with Dickey Betts for

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