All The Things You Are

[Hyppolyte Bergamotte]

[Basshead]

Nice one mate, interesting approach, could you elaborate where you got the inspiration from to go in that direction with the harmony please?

[Hyppolyte Bergamotte]

Nice one mate, interesting approach, could you elaborate where you got the inspiration from to go in that direction with the harmony please?

-Analyse the harmonyof the tune:essential for the understanding


-Know your chords with all the inversions :


I play the first eight bars of this tune (theme):
Fm/D-Bbm/Db-Eb7/Db-Ab-Db-G7/B-C -C


-Know the principalScales


-Choose inside a scale a MODE who fits with a given chord:you have a HUGE choice

ex for Cmajor seven


scale of G Major :CLydian,begin on any degree of the scale

scale of A melodicminor:C Lydian augmented,begin on any degree of this scale

scale of A harmonicminor:C Ionian augmented, begin on …

scale of E harmonicminor:C Lydian 9+,begin on…

scale of C harmonicmajor : C Ionian b6,begin on ..

scale of E harmonicmajor:C Lydian 5+9+,begin on..

scale of C doubleharmonic major Cmajor b6(Byzantin or Frans Liszt mode),begin..

scale of E doubleharmonic major ; C Ionian 9+5+,begin on..

scale of E NapolitanMinor : C Ionian 9+,begin on..

Scales of C-E-Ab augmented:T 9+ 3 5 5+ 7

Scale of C major pentatonic

Minor pentatonic scales:B min pentat,A min pentat,E min pentat,D min pentat

Other particular scales (3th mode of limited transposition of Messiaen,C pentatonic Hirajoshi,etc)

[Basshead]

Ok cool, check my little version here, Im more into chord tones improv than scales but great info.

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