Being creative with 2 scales (or 3) part 2

continuation of part 1. More lessons on www.MattOtten.com

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Music

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• jazz
• guitar
• instructional
• video
• lesson
• improvisation

[ioannisdenton]

mattoten thanks a lot, your lesson was SO helpful, i want to get somehow into jazz (it is difficult) and you made it a little , awesome! thx! you are a very good teacher!

[symodiezel]

Thanx for the reply.

[renixe]

a 5 month old reply, but if i understand your question correctly, you're asking if playing in between the two scales is like playing between two notes in between a scale. the idea is very similar. you are taking some outside notes of the chord that are dissonant but resolving them in a logical way that sounds good to the ear, in a similar way that you can use passing tones that are not in a scale and resolve them to a consonant chord tone on a strong beat.

[petertorro]

sounds goodwhat kind of guitar you use great sound

[0sunyata]

Threrefore, dear OM21Willie, I would suggest you three things:

1. don't read too hastily the OED,

2. consider other sources, as well,

3. don't patronize, especially people who are not native speakers: in doing so, you give your comment a really didactic (cfr. Oxford Concise 2.) overtone.

Respectfully,

A Ph.D. colleague (although not a native speaker of English)

[0sunyata]

Please note that the OED's definition states: "particularly in having a moral instruction as an ulterior motive" (particularly meaning, I assume, "especially" and "not exclusively"). In the Oxford Concise and the Merriam-Webster, the first meaning of the adjective didactic is simply "meant to teach." Therefore, Jazzguts is right in using it.

[0sunyata]

OED:

Didactic adj. "intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive: a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice."

Oxford Concise: 1. meant to instruct; 2. having the manner of an authoritarian teacher."

Merriam-Webster: Didactic 1 a: designed or intended to teach b: intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment (i.e.: didactic poetry.

[symodiezel]

Great lesson, i have a question tho, the transition you use B Mixolydian is between the C Mixolydian and Bb Mixolydian, is it a half way point between or does it work like a half step if you like into the next mode like a half step to the next note?

[johanjazz]

amen!!

[zwierzahk]

A pick & fingers. ;-)