In this video we look at applying bop scales to a more modern tune: 500 Miles High by Chick Corea. I call it superimposed or upper structure bop scales. Book covered in this video: www.amazon.com... www.patreon.co...
This is PERFECT for my level, even after studying and playing jazz for 10 years. You also hit on great topics in all of your videos I haven't seen anywhere else. Many thanks!!
Thank you for this great lesson Mikko! Been watching your videos and learning a lot about bebop scales thanks to you, it's really super useful to hear them used/applied in context.
i love 500 miles high by Azymuth - as an ex bassist - i understand 80 per cent of what you said and played ... but for sure fascinating - and another demonstration of how mathematic music is
Maybe a small detail, but what strike me immediately when looking to this Tune's theme, is that the remarkable endings phrase, as it is there also in this context C-aeolian(instead of C melodic minor)is just the very line that Wes Montgomery improvised over a Tune in E-major(it is on youtube written out) I liked it so much that I was for a while contemplating over it. now I see the exact same thing Chick Corea is using...The Tune of Wes Montgomery is called Here''s that Rainy day...Thank you for this Subtile lesson
Funny your altered scale, was what I myself always was wondering because my piano teacher told me to play: over E7 E F-G G# Bb c D D# E as a sort of dogma, so I TRIED ALL OTHER SOLUTIONS TO PUT THAT EXTRA 8TH NOTE LATER i FOUND OUT THE THEORY of bop scales that you could put them on more places, I liked it when you put the chromatic extra tone where you do that or even like another pianist of youtube teaching puts t sometimes like: EF GG#A Bb C D E, I know there are 4 tones chromatic...maybe this sound best started from F or D may be best...because accent on the G# as you said endless possibilitie;s....
Yes of course :) It's very common to start with a scale that has less tension and then add more tension closer to the resolution. Caravan is a great tune to practice this technique. Listen to Wes's solo on Caravan. Rudresh Mahanthappa sometimes talks about using two-octave scales where he combines two different scales over two octaves.
also for real beginners maybe advisable to try connect scales like A melodic minor or locrian #2 over F#m7b5 or both Aminor possible...maybe first without the bebop not and gradually put it to it...
Great presentation! For me that's a new look at the extensions and alternate pentatonics. I'll have to get one of those looper things. Which one are you using?
OK you know I appreciate the video but and you’re playing but you know I really don’t think great players think that they’re playing a phygrean in or Lydian scale you know at the moment they’re playing it you know what I mean I mean if there’s someway you could teach this without putting a name on it that would be so helpful ultimately the music is about sound it’s not about language. I mean you mentioned some scale and it was like not even the pure scale I mean so it was some modified scale I mean what what are we supposed to do with that I’m not gonna memorize that I’m not gonna remember what this modified scale would be I think it when you throw that in it just it really takes away from what I think you mean which is the sound of the scale. How did the great players like Stan Getz West Montgomery Jimmy ponder they were all not literate in music supposedly scales and all that stuff.
you know i’m not there yet but I think learning this stuff, transcribing, and practicing improv over backing tracks will probably get you there. They practiced extensively to express themselves with music, similar to how you learn a language before you can express yourself fluently in it.
