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Originally Posted by Kirk Lorange
It's just my opinion, oki270. I just always found that confining myself to 5 notes when there are 12 to play with severely limited the melodic possibilities and by doing so, the scale itself was doing most of the deciding for me. These days I let the chords show me the multitude of melodic paths and I do the deciding, using all 12 notes.
But, as I say, it's just my opinion. Many, if not most, disagree with me.  |
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Originally Posted by oki270
Well, why not..if you can make your head to use only 5 notes, then improvising in pentathonic scale is fair deal improvising, isn't it? Anyway, human brain is much better to think in chromatic scale as far as I know. I find modal approach pretty interesting but haven't done anything yet on it.
The thing is that you always use the same notes - using movable pentathonic, other scales, modes or chord tones but there is a thing that stays unchanged - you MUST know how it will sound before you play it so most important would be "able to play by ear". I think I have a long road to achieve this - I still have a lot of problems to tab something I hear.
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Actually, you guys are doing the same thing, there's no need to argue.
It's just a different approach.
In both ways you know what it's going to sound like, so in both cases it's improvisation. Maybe some will struggle more to make it sound better, but finally, if done ok, it's pretty much the same - same 12 notes used, maybe even same result, but different approaches.
Pentatonic has only 2 notes more than a chord, so it's really close to it. If you hit the chord tones inside it, it will bring the melody
However you turn it, chord tones will make it interesting, that's how I see it.
So, it really doesn't matter what you think, if it suits you, and you end up with good melody.
Peace!
And yeah, I'm a PlaneTalker.