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Miles Davis’s “Solar” Jam Track

1 January 2011

Continuing my experimentation with the Melodic Minor Scale on the guitar. I built a very simple backing track, based on “Solar” by Miles Davis. Writing out the chord sequence, we have… ||Cm/Maj7 | |Gm7 |C7 [...]

12 Bar Blues Jam

31 December 2010

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I thought I’d indulge myself with a good slow 12 bar blues. I had so much fun with it that I thought I’d share it with the rest of the world. So crank your guitar up and see what you can do with this one! The chords for this one are pretty much as you’d expect. ||E7 [...]

Jamming with the Lydian Mode

30 December 2010

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The Lydian mode is based on the 4th degree of the Major scale. This produces a Major scale with a the 4th degree raised a semitone. In other words, if I were to convert a C Major scale to a C Lydian scale, I’d play an F# instead of an F natural. Lets get on with the jam [...]

Harmonic Changes Jam Track

29 December 2010

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Following on from my last Jam track “Melodic Changes“, this time I’m focussing on using the Harmonic Minor as part of a chord progression. So the harmony is as follows… || Cm | | Dm7b5 | G7b9 || The first two bars are Cm so play a C Minor scale (C Aeolian) over them. [...]

Melodic Changes Jam Track

28 December 2010

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I created this jam track to help me to explore the Overtone or Lydian Dominant Scale, which is a mode of the Melodic Minor Scale. The backing track flips between just 2 chords. ||DMaj7 |Bb7#11 || So, over the Dmaj7 I play a DMajor Scale. Over the Bb7#11, I play the Bb Lydian Dominant Scale [...]

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Miles Davis’s “Solar” Jam Track

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