Hello Cherries! Thank you for your service on this Memorial Day! Centering your improvisation around the tonic while playing through a chord progression is an excellent way to create tension and release. By sustaining or targeting the tonic, you generate dissonance against changing chords, which resolves beautifully when your lines return to stable chord tones. We always tend to follow the changes or play the changes or play through the changes. Some of the best players actually only played one scale through the changes. Playing this way gives a certain rub over the chords that you don’t get when you’re playing all the chord tones from a progression. Check out 3 examples of this in the video. Also, I'm playing an acoustic duo gig with Shannon Conley at The Red Lion on Bleecker St, NYC today from 4-7pm. Love to see ya. Enjoy the video and have a great Memorial weekend.
How To Use MODES to Understand Intervals and Create New Sounds
Hello Cherries! There's a expression that Modes are like Moods 🤔 Every one of them has a different sound and evokes a different emotions 🤨 Some people think that Modes are unimportant in music 😩 One benefit of them is that it's a way to verbally communicate a sound with other musicians 🗣️ When you say this chord has a #4 or #11 "Same thing," they'll know its some kind on Lydian mode sound. It's worth exploring all the modes and sounds. Don't get stuck on one sound and say that's it. Music is an endless discovery. The closer you get to it the farther away you are💡Enjoy the video Everybody and have a great weekend ❤️🎸
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