Re: Donna Lee help
ray
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> Could some of you help me out with Donna Lee? i'm trying to figure out
> which scales would be best over the chord changes,
Ab major, with a little modification here and there! :)
Ray
Bob Agnew
Bebop scales. These are just scales with added cromatic halftones. The
idea is to get the chord tones to fall on the strong beats. I highly
reccommend David Baker's book "How to Play Bebop #1" available from
Aebersold. David actually uses a few bars from "Donna Lee" as an example
using a combination of BeBop scales, Enclosure, Embellishment, and a few
other common Bebop devices.
"Donna Lee" or it's prototype "Indiana" <jofi...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Could some of you help me out with Donna Lee? i'm trying to figure out
> which scales would be best over the chord changes,
>
> TIA
>
Joey Goldstein
Right. That's a good way to get started, essentially noodling with the
Ab major scale and observing the results.
On some chords every note in that scale will sound pretty strong.
On some chords, one, two, or three notes in that scale will be pretty
rough sounding. But that leaves six, five or four notes that will still
be strong. The trick is to identify the weak chord-note relationships
and try to not emphasize those notes on those chords.
But once some moderate skill is achieved with the above you should turn
your attention to the chord tones rather than to any scales. "Playing
over changes", for a novice, is about clearly outlining each chord as it
moves thru the progression. Advanced players have all sorts of other
things going on too but they have *all* learned to outline the chords
earlier in their development.
--
Joey Goldstein
http://www.joeygoldstein.com
joegold AT sympatico DOT ca