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64.1Begin with C major pentatonic
C D E G A
Play it slowly.
Then improvise for a minute using only those five notes.
Over C bass this is familiar:
C = 1 D = 9 E = 3 G = 5 A = 6/13.
So C major pentatonic gives us a very clean:
C6/9 sound.