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Re: Playing scales 'mid-scale'

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2011-06-14 15:42

I've always focused on the tonic note, wherever it was located in the scale. I can then hear the scale starting at some other scale degree in relation to tonic and the scale doesn't seem foreign.

This doesn't always work as well when you're actually playing in a mode other than ionic/major or aeolian/minor because the "final" of the mode is now different, but for scale passages and fragments in major/minor, mostly diatonic music it's helpful.

It shouldn't be a difficult thing, though maybe time consuming, to practice at least one or two scales during your warm-up starting on each note of the scale, just to warm you ear up to it.

Karl

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