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Guitar Effects at Play It Again Sam Here's this month's question of theory.... Dear Edly: I am playing Moonglow on the piano in the Key of G. The first chord is Am7, so the scale is A dorian. The next chord is F7+11. What mode will allow me to figure out the chord scale.? If I understand your book, F in the Key of G is a locrian mode, which would not work here. Edly answers: Great question. In general, I personally prefer to think of scale choices as much as possible as based in the key of the song or phrase (with chord-tones being resolved notes and nonchord-tones being notes of higher tension), rather than thinking in terms of chord scales (where the root of the scale of choice is the same as the current chord). For example, with a chord progression such as Gmaj7, Em7, Am7, D7, I just think of a G major scale, keeping in mind the changing chord-tones, rather than four "chord scales": G Ionian, E Aeolian, A Dorian, and D Mixolydian. Yech. Besides, the way my mind works, at least, the first method describes better, and more succinctly, what's going on musically, than does the second. In your example, starting with the Am7, I think of the G major scale, knowing the chord tones are A, C, E, and G. For the F7#11, I'd just modify the G major scale to take into account the new chord tones, yielding G, A, B, C, D, Eb, F, G. You could call this a G mixolydian flat 6, if you like. In fact, the notes in the F7#11 (F, A, C, Eb, G, B) include all the notes in that scale except the D, which would be a standard extension anyway. Make sense? If not, or if you prefer to think in terms of chord scales, the above scale would be called an F Lydian flat 7 (or Mixolydian #4). Further, you could use this general rule: the Lydian flat 7 chord scale gets the "most likely suspect" award for any dominant 7th chord that resolves in any way other than a fourth up (fifth down).
Stop playing it wrong! Send Edly your music theory questions! What is music theory, anyway? You hear so much about it, but does anybody really know what it is? Edly does! Scales? Chords? Keys? Ear-training? Modes? Toads? If you need help connecting the musical dots or playing musical works, send us your best (or dumbest) questions, and we'll have Edly, one of Earth's leading music theory experts, field the responses. We can't guarantee that all questions will be answered right away, but you do your best with the questions, and we'll do our best in getting you answers. To get your head keyed in the right direction, visit Edly's website "Musical EdVentures" at www.edly.com
Talking
with Pitz Quattrone, Didgeridoo
Builder Pitz Quattrone builds, plays and teaches the didgeridoo, the world's oldest wind instrument. We spoke with Pitz recently about his work. Read all about it at:
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