Ron Greene's Music Dials - Banjo

The Basic Improvisation Dial instantly shows you 6 popular scales and 8 rhythm chords / chord arpeggios used to play great sounding solos & accompaniment in each key for all styles. This dial can be used for any instrument including band instruments and shows the notes in each scale, chord or chord arpeggio by note name.

The dial shows the notes for the major scale, major pentatonic scale, relative minor scale, relative minor pentatonic scale, blues scale and minor pentatonic scale. The dial shows the chord name and arpeggio notes for all major and minor chords displayed on a complete circle of 5ths/circle of 4ths in each key.

The Back of the Dial shows how to improvise using scales, how to improvise using chords and chord arpeggios, scale formulas, chord extensions and much more.

The instructional CD for this dial contains both lessons and jam tracks. The lessons teach you the fundamentals of music and how to use the dial. The jam tracks provide you with the opportunity to practice using a wide variety of music styles and tempos in all popular major and minor keys.




Example scales for key of G major / Em relative

Key of G:
Melodic sound:
Blues sound

Key of Em
Minor sound
G major scale (white and grey notes)
G blues scale (white and grey)


E rel. minor scale (white and grey)
or G major pentatonic scale (white notes only)
or G minor pentatonic scale (white notes only)

or E rel. minor pent. scale (white notes only)
Key of G:
I - IV - V - I
I - VIm - IV - V - I
I - bVII - IV - I
I - bIII - bVII - I
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G - C - D - G
G - Em - C - D - G
G - F - C - G
G - Bb - F - G
 Key of Em:
VIm - IIm - IIIm - VIm
VIm - IV - V - VIm
VIm - IIm - bVII - VIm
VIm - IIm - III - VIm
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Em - Am - Bm - Em
Em - C - D - Em
Em - Am - F - Em
Em - Am - B - Em

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