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Style => Jazz => Topic started by: godsbassman2000 on April 24, 2009, 04:49:29 PM
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Some of you may appreciate these brothers as much as I do!
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that was tight, but i got something that I've been experimenting with. Normally we always manipulate the 3rd, the 5th, and 7th degrees of a scale in every key in one way or another. i've been doing something a lil bit different. I have been manipulating things by lowering the 2nd, raising the 4th, and lowing the 6th degrees. and leaving the 7th degree in it's natural place. This is really useful on "shouts" and riffing on solos just to give a differnet feel to song and music period. really good for wind instruments and lead guitars. bass guitars can do too. i just seen it on bass...WOW awesome. Now , I'm not gonna lie to you. it's gonna sound off because it's not normally done and your ears are not gonna be use to hearing a lot of the minor-isms involved. It's just some theoretical stuff I've been toying with. It's cool to use. I play sax. So, I know a guitarist can make this thing happen.
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My friend Barry Buckley jsut informed me at a Jam Session that my lil theory that I've been playing around with is called a "modal" chord. It's not quite major and not quite minor.
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that's interesting how you put it.
By manipulating the 2nd you're actually exploring the 9th, very common in jazz.
If you mess with the 4th and 6th, however, you're again exploring upper extensions of the chord or still messing with the 5th depending.
The #4 is really a raised 11th or a b5. If you lower the 6, it can sound like a +5 (augmented chord). Of course the natural 6th would translate into a 13th, but bottom line... if it sounds good play it. If it makes sense in your head, great, but sometimes when musicians talk it can get rough cause we're all at different levels.
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Thank you ;D
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Welcome To LGM, susanleky
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Duke Ellington said: If it sounds good, it is good.
The best thing to do when you become bored with the basics is to look at music from a different perspective where it makes sense to you. It should never be boring to you because there is always another way to manipulate music.
I think it helps to have a thorough understanding of the basics before you experiment however. I find too many people experimenting without a clue as to what the original thing was in the first place.