I would say it's more like not just scale practicing but arpeggio and target note practicing (as in this particular case it always comes to Fmaj7). Anyway I always admire Julian Lage's abilty to turn simple things into pure art.
@@semyaza555Target notes are typically the most characteristic chord tones, so here that’s F, A, C, E (1,3,5,7). If it were a Dominant11 chord, you would want to target the 4th in the upper octave and the flat 7, so target notes would be F,A,C,Eb, Bb (1,3,5,b7,11). Targeting some of those notes means playing them on strong beats or at key moments in a melodic line, especially when changing chords, in order to emphasise the harmonic movement in chord changes. I hope that makes sense.
Julian's def a genius... But Bach didn't have a single random note in his compositions. It's all just perfectly aligned and derived from meticulous motifs, themes and melodies. God of music haha
NO! To play jazz that sounds like you know what you’re doing and not just noodling, you need to be playing chord tones on strong beats a majority of the time, not just random notes from the scale.
This is the _given_. Shedding like he's talking about is so you dont have to play what you practice. He's making the point that you should shed in a way where you train your brain to drive your fingers to exactly what it hears. Theres a _lot_ to unpack from what he just demo'd and what I commented on.
I think the point is that to play scales in what SEEMS like a random order you have to really concentrate on the notes in the scale, and so this exercise helps to reinforce your knowledge of that scale. If you just play a scale in the usual order, it's too easy to do it without concentrating, because the intervals between the notes (tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone for a major scale) are the same for any scale.
There is nothing worse, nor a bigger waste of time!!!, for someone to do this… “Someone mentioned how to mix up scales..proceeds to play it so fast you can’t taken anything from it….except he likes to show off.
You're not supposed to take anything other than "you can play a scale however you want" from it. He's just demonstrating how not boring scale practice has to be. Imagine thinking Julian Lage has an ego.