Author: brycon
Date: 2015-11-29 03:50
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A general all-purpose jazzy kind of a scale is C, D, D#, E, G, G#, A, C. There's no official name to it, but it will work in a lot of songs. Practice and memorize it in common keys (or even every key), and then you can improvise, noodle, or do your own song writing.
Essentially, that's a pentatonic scale (C,D,E,G,A) with half-step passing tones.
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The dixieland scale is follow the chord changes.
No. Really.
Look up the scale and chord of each each chord symbol. Then practice the chords one at a time. If the song were just 3 chords: Dm, G7, C, then the chords would be:
Dm: D, F, A, scale of DEFGABCD (yes that is Dorian mode, not natural minor)
G7: G, B, D, F, scale of GABCDEFG (Called mixolydian... it's just a major scale with a flatted 7th, taking the F# down to F)
C: C, E, G, scale of CDEFGABC
The problem with playing these scales over a chord change is that after a few beats, the non-chord tones begin to fall on downbeats. For instance (in eighth-notes with uppercases referring to downbeats): C-d E-f G-a B-c / D-e F-g A-b C-d etc.
Therefore, you need to add a half-step passing tone somewhere. On a major scale, it's usually between scale degree 5 and 6: C-d E-f G-g# A-b / C etc.
But this scale is more at home in the bebop idiom. In fact, New Orleans style jazz (to my ears, at least) is more chordal than scalar; I'm not sure if playing scales over a change would even sound right. Maybe Marlborough Man, who knows much more than me about New Orleans jazz, could weigh in?
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