From Diatonic Scales To Music |
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From Diatonic Scales To Music |
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Mar 9 2013, 09:49 AM |
One of the eminent instructors here wrote somewhere "you can't let the scale patterns control your playing; you have to control the scale pattern." I've been spending considerable practice time trying to do that -- rehearsing major and minor scale patterns, bursts of 4, triplets, including working on connections up and down the neck, and then taking time to improvise with these tones. But I am having trouble making all this sound like what I consider good music - or smoothly incorporating it into my improvisation at gigs. Is this a normal part of the learning process? One of those things you just have to give time and patience to to let develop and fall into place? Or are there practice techniques that can help with this? Learning diatonic and modal riffs, for example (like most of us did with pentatonic scales when we started out)? Thanks for your perspectives. I think to some extent it is part of the learning process. When it comes to playing you need to use your ears and forget about your scale patterns etc, but trust your fingers will use them instinctively to play what you want. Sometimes when we are practicing scales unintentionally become the goal rather than the music we actually want to create. Are you practicing over chord sequences? -------------------- My SoundCloud
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