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[Robert J]

I've found some really interesting things at this blog/website.

http://davidvaldez.blogspot.com/

It even has links to the Berklee Jazz Harmony 1-4 books on the web

[Joe G]

Interesting source. Thanks for posting!

[Sundog]

Nice site. I found this little tidbit immediately interesting....

Here is a very cool eight note synthetic scale from Slonimsky's book. It is the first four notes of a Major scale and then the first four notes of a Major scale a tritone away.

It looks like this in the key of C:

C-D-E-F-F#-G#-Bb-B-C

You could play it over a Cmaj7 (#5) or a C7 (b13).

It has a lot of forward motion when played in it's ascending form, so it would work over a straight Cmaj7.

[rostasi]

WOW! The Bley/Swallow charts link was a pleasant surprise!

Thanks!

[Joe G]

  rostasi said:

WOW! The Bley/Swallow charts link was a pleasant surprise!

Thanks!

It is a great website. I've been working on a few of their tunes recently.

[Michael Weiss]

  Sundog said:

Nice site. I found this little tidbit immediately interesting....

Here is a very cool eight note synthetic scale from Slonimsky's book. It is the first four notes of a Major scale and then the first four notes of a Major scale a tritone away.

It looks like this in the key of C:

C-D-E-F-F#-G#-Bb-B-C

You could play it over a Cmaj7 (#5) or a C7 (b13).

It has a lot of forward motion when played in it's ascending form, so it would work over a straight Cmaj7.

Barry Harris has been dealing with this scale for years. You wouldn't want to play it over a Cmaj7 because the Bb lands on the beat. Like a regular bebop scale, the idea is that the chord tones, in this case - root, third, b5 and b7 - are hit on the beat. Symmetrically the same for C7 and F#7.

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Thanks for the tip. Excellent site!

[BruceW]

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