Scale Variation du jour — 10.3.07 — Interesting Pentatonic One

This one is very bluegrassy. If you get good at pentatonic stuff, if you gain command of where you’re headed in using pentatonic scales (there are more than one but the main one is this major one) then you’re pretty cool.
You can do a similar one ascending. The descending I have posted is actually the same as the first measure or so of the Texas fiddle tune “Brilliancy.” Brilliancy has pickup notes…I’ll post the first part of it on here later.
Another similar thing occurs in the chorus of “Hoedown” by Oliver Nelson (I think). Darol Anger teaches this tune in workshops as a jazz impression of a fiddle tune.