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64.41Pentatonic superimposition and “avoid notes”
This system gives a better way to think about so-called avoid notes.
Instead of:
“C major scale contains F but avoid F on Cmaj7.”
you might choose:
D major pentatonic over C
which naturally gives F♯ instead.
The vocabulary itself encodes the color you want.