double harmonic/Hungarian Gypsy minor

[Patrick Brown]

I remember the scale now, a pentatonic,,,might be Mandeian(sp), but don't take that to the bank,,the notes, for sure, were:
g a b d f

[Latif]

Exactly. Have you heard of Prasanna?

Guess I should have asked who. Oops! Will check him out.

Latif

[Jazzyteach65]

That sounds wild!

Why is it wild? I hope you don't mean dangerous, because all of my friends here in the states are telling me not to go back to Pakistan, even though I have family there and have lived there.

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Wild as in very cool. I backpacked through India & Nepal in my pre-kids days and loved it. I didn't go to Pakistan -- my partner wasn't keen on how female travelers are treated there.

[Jazzyteach65]

By the way, jazzyteach, where did you get it from? Don't you have any reference of it?

I don't remember exactly where I got it from, I just remember reading up on the pentatonics derrived from Africa and came across the scale 1 b2, 3 5, 7 somewhere. It was years ago, so I forget.

I just find it so odd that so many cultures (and I've talked about this a lot on this site before) use call and response, theme and variation in there improv, thematic build-up, pentatonic, retrograde ect. I was watching a special on Leonard Bernstein on tv a few days back, where he said (this was 30 years ago) that the music of the future will be synthetic and ecclectic as well as go back to where it all began as being tonal. I found that thought interesting

[Claudi]

Aside that I don't use to take notice of what seers of the future say, maybe western music will have to apply microtones or things like that. What else can we do when electronics have invented every sound and different styles have already been fused?

[Jazzyteach65]

Aside that I don't use to take notice of what seers of the future say, maybe western music will have to apply microtones or things like that. What else can we do when electronics have invented every sound and different styles have already been fused?

haha!