This breakdown masterfully translates Paisley’s lightning-fast intuition into a structured, high-level harmonic system. It is a rare and effective bridge between raw country twang and sophisticated music theory.
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Here’s how Brad Paisley uses a hybrid Dorian scale in “Cluster Pluck”!!!
Added:Here's another super cool Brad Paisley phrase because there's just too many.
Just, you know, I can do this forever.
Uh this is also from the song Cluster Luck. So, I'm going to show you the phrase and we're going to talk about it.
Over A, he plays this phrase here.
>> [music] >> How cool is that, right? So, the main thinking the main thing behind this is A Dorian, right?
>> [music] >> All right. However, there's a couple things there that are super cool. One is chromatic, so >> [music] >> See?
So, from this note to this note, from the perfect fifth to the major sixth, there's a chromatic passing note there.
So, one thing that's cool about chromatic real quick, one of the many ways you can do that is just every time you have a whole step between notes, you can add a passing chromatic passing note to that. So, if you think even though that the minor pentatonic >> [music] >> So, here.
Right?
>> [music] >> And that's just the minor pentatonic with Dorian, you know, anywhere.
All right. Uh >> [music] >> Uh Right?
So, So far, so good. Dorian with a one chromatic note, but then >> [music] >> also the minor third to major third movement. So, you know, it's sort of like if you're going to talk about all these notes together, it's like a Dorian and a major third on top of that. So, And again, this is one of those phrases, man, that you can play over a a standard country chord progression and have fun.
>> [music] [music] >> Like that.
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