Re: Combing blues and mixo scales - how is it done?


Rick Del Savio wrote:
Hi. Just to shed a little light, as a Jazz player, on the above
statement that; "nobody in their right mind would think modes if they
saw the chord progression Dm7-G7-Cma7" etc, etc. "just blanket that
entire progression with a C major scale"...Well, again, speaking as a
Jazz player I wouldn't last too long among other Jazz players using all
that C diatonic material over a ii-V-I progression. Maybe in "smooth"
Jazz.

Smooth/basic jazz - more advanced jazz - lot mo shtuff going on -
That's why I mention if it's a sweet tune - but once again the point
was to indicate the use of modes - you don't just switch for every
possible chord whether it's a scale switch or an arpeggio switch -
that's always sounds so mechanical and "scalar".

I've trained myself to think D phyrgian, D aeolian, D dorian (and
more) over Dm7,

Not thinking 3 scales/modes - soungds like your thinking 2 - a Dmin and
an Ab mel min.

and then Ab melodic minor (and all its modes), G
1/2-whole dim. scale, superimposing arpeggiated triads, etc. over G7.

So a C harmonic major mode/Ab mel min/G alt - that's fine - adding
alterations. And you use can use any basic scale like a C major and
alter the tones through bending and hammering. Beginners won't know to
throw in an Ab mel min scale.

And C Lydian and its modes as well as the Major pentatonic scales that
are up a whole-step and up a 5th over the CMa7 chord. So, it can be
done. And done 'in the moment'. To not place tensions b9 #9 b5 #5 #11 on
the V chord, G7 is to deny an essential element of Jazz.

BTW - That's a lot to think of in 2-4 beats - I'd assume that you're
not thinking adding the b9/#9 or b5/#5 in that short time frame -
you're referring to a G alt scale and using your ear

There are a lot of ways to approach the whole thing - and phrasing is
probably more important than scale choice - a guy using a simple scale
or two with great phrasing will sound better than a guy sounding
mechanical playing far out scales and arpeggios - but in the beginning
- you got to keep it simple.

.

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