Here you will find the list of scales, modes, arpeggios, and triads required to improvise over any type of chord. … More
Tag: Scales
Modal jazz
Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework. Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis’s “Milestones” … More
Nelson Veras clinic on Messian’s mode
Last Friday the amazing Nelson Veras did a very nice clinic at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Nelson, born in Bahia, Brasil, now living … More
Messiaen’s mode
Messiaen’s first mode, also called the whole-tone scale, is divided into six groups of two notes each. The intervals it contains are … More
Lessons from John Basile
minor scales, voicing and interpretation.
The Five Shapes (Major scale)
Simple Shapes/patterns to learn and exercise major scales using the five guitar patterns in C Major pdf here: The Five … More
la Gamme Ethiopienne
The Ethiopian scale consists of 7 different notes. Notice how that when you ascend the scale Bb, Eb, and F … More
A propos de la gamme Blues
Fm Jacques de Lignières Le Blues est le résultat de la rencontre des cultures musicales africaines (approche orale de la … More
Scale Substitutions
Scale substitution is an interesting way to superimpose certain tonalities over certain chords. Remember in the Major Scale Modes page where it is written that you … More
Les gammes pentatoniques
Back to theory… fm Jacques de Lignières Toute gamme de 5 notes est une pentatonique, il en existe un grand … More
