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(We wrote Gb Minor penta, instead or Major Pentatonic, PDF is correct though) Sorry.
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What makes Debussy’s harmony sound so distinctive—and how can you use those same ideas in your own improvisation?
In this lesson, we analyze **La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair), Prélude No. 8 from Debussy’s Préludes, Book I**, and uncover five harmonic concepts that reveal a completely different way of thinking about scales, chords, voicings, and tonality.
The key idea is to stop treating the pentatonic scale as simply a major or minor scale with notes removed. Instead, we’ll use the pentatonic as the SOURCE—and create tonal and modal colors by adding or removing notes around it.
We’ll explore:
• Minor/major pentatonic duality
• Pentatonic superstructures and tonicization
• Pentatonic substructures and tetratonic voicings
• Chromatic mediant modulations
• Lydian ♭7 parallel dominants
• Plagal IV–I movement
• Extended chords, sus chords, and more
You’ll see how Debussy moves through different chords, modes, and tonal centers while preserving a common underlying sonority—and how you can use the same approach for improvisation, composition, and reharmonization.
One particularly useful exercise is to choose a minor pentatonic as your source and then create different harmonic environments around it. Instead of starting with chord symbols and choosing scales afterward, the pentatonic itself informs the melodies, voicings, and harmonic colors you use.
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📄 COMPANION PDF
The PDF for this lesson includes the complete annotated Debussy piece plus exercises for practicing these concepts.
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