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Not the only way to do this, but quite a fun way into it I think
How to HEAR the altered scale
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04-11-2024 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
I invented a scale about 30 years ago and subsequently began exploring Jazz, and discovered much later that it was already a thing called Lydian Dominant. While everyone else was learning and applying MM and thinking of LD as MM's fourth mode and the altered scale as its seventh mode, I developed LD name unknown as a basis and thought of MM and ALT sounds names unknown as modes of LD. All the MM and ALT I've heard, I heard and continue to hear as LD. Part of the fun of being self taught I guess, modes as inversions of scales.
Choosing the "basis or reference" mode from which the others are numbered from... that just makes me wonder why if C major is the fundamental reference, why is it C rather than A, which would have been simpler to make the reference major scale note names ABCDEFG. Or maybe minor is more fundamental than major.
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