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1yr after having a ๐น keyboard next to my desk listening to the first few chapters of Victor Wooten's Music Lesson, I've developed a WAY closer relationship with musical scales. I confidently hit a note, & can often just FEEL where in the scale it fits. https://t.co/Wr5sY9KgDU
"When there's a note that doesn't work, there's a note on either side of the note that DOES work." NOBODY TELLS YOU THIS. "It's always easy! but we make it hard!". "A minute ago this note didn't work, but now it does. I can *erase* the wrong note by *making music*." Amazing https://t.co/mlhCU45PDU
Just now, listening to Inner Peace by @ClozeeOfficial, from her 2016 Shambhala set, and I'm like fuckyeah and just whack a C. Hmmm yeah, wants to jam up to the D, and that feels like home. So I noodle on down the D minor scale. But this isn't theory: it's Dm, not "Dm"
I had a bit of fluency with this implicit scale feel on the guitar, but being able to see all the notes on the keyboard is making a huge difference, as is having it next to my desk and reach-out-able-to-play-with-one-hand-while-reading vs ๐ธ in corner of room.
Other day was improv'ing on top of Coldplay's Up&Up , which has a funky thing where it's in G but during the chorus it has an F, so went hard on that F during other chords, and fucked around with a Bb. Realized after that's the blue note in Gmaj Blues ๐ต https://t.co/QyRWtHDM1a
@visakanv Something that blew my mind in that video, that seems obvious but I'd never noticed before: The blues scale is a pentatonic scale with one additional note added! (If you're familiar with black keys = pentatonic, here's the E-flat blues scale! ๐) Thanks @JacobCollier โฅ๐ถ https://t.co/mtfIeDbXIC
But I wasn't thinking about a "note" in a "scale", I just knew that that Bb sounded dirty as fuck. It was so raunchy I felt like I was violating a sexual taboo. It felt like I was getting away with a crime. It was so right, and so wrong. Fucking amazing ๐
Anyway, it was all a bit intense, so as the song wrapped up I did a bit of aftercare and gently played the straight B and the F# that usually hangs out with G. Told @SarahAMcManus afterwards it was kind of like ruffling the cat's hair the wrong way, then setting it right. ๐ฝ
I made a lil game version of this: https://t.co/P1lNs4GtzA
Victor Wooten ๐ถ game: "You are here." Difficulty: moderate (maybe advanced?) Put on a song. Strike a note on your instrument. (You can move one semi-tone up or down if it feels totally "wrong".) Then keep hitting only that note and try to feel where you are in the scale. https://t.co/Wr5sY9KgDU