Re: Alt chords
Bert Ligon ( BLigon@mozart.music.sc.edu )
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 11:42:56 -0500
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>I don't think you can say that Clifford Brown, Bill Evans, Tom Harrell, Red
>Garland, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Cannonball Adderley, Woody Shaw, &
>Tete Montoliu et al are thinking in a particular scale at any point because
>I don't think they are thinking in any particular scale. You can say that
>the notes and intervals correspond to one (or more) scales. You can say they
>probably practiced that scale and may have been influenced by it at that
>point in the song, that the notes they are playing they have chosen because
>they liked the sound of that scale. You can also say that if you do practice
>that scale and allow yourself to be influenced by it you may sound similar,
>if that is your goal.
I have never suggested to know what someone was thinking.
I am very careful about saying what an artist was thinking or not. I have
no more idea what they were thinking or not thinking than anyone else. I
also have no idea what they practiced. However, we can look at what they
did or did not play and try to make some assumptions about what sounded
good or not.
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