really sorry for my lateness! I have been up and down the country doing various gigs etc and getting in 9am the next day! so I am running on empty a bit.
Q1) "let's take your chord progression Cmaj9#11, Ebmaj9#11...
Instead of using G major and Bb major,
can't I just use C lydian and Eb lydian,
since the notes within the chords belong to those scales? (Root, 3rd, 5th, major7th, 9th (2nd) and #11 (#4))?"
A1) yes that is what you will be using... I was merely pointing out the key that these modes come from, just to get a background behind the modes. In any case, even if you are thinking about G major and playing it over a Cmaj9#11, the chord itself dictates to the ear the mode.... so no matter how hard you try to play G major, over that chord, it will always sound as C lydian...
But to make it sound convincing you need to pick out the strong notes of the chord.
Q2) "how do you choose what chords to play, especially when it comes to extended chords?"
A2) to me extended chords make the scale choice all the more obvious as they give us a lot more harmonic information. With a basic chord it can be a bit more vague as the chord only gives us a limited ammount of interval information.... take a major chord for example - R 3 5.... how many scales have those intervals ? tons! Major, Lydian, Mixolydian, Lydian b7..etc etc.... in this case we might need to look at the entire song chord progression in order to get a clearer picture of the whole harmony and tie our scale choice in with the other chords.
With a more complex chord, like Cmajor9#11 for example.. its much easier... a Cmajor9#11 has the following intervals:
R 3 5 7 9 (Aka 2) #11 (aka #4)
so the only scale that contains these intervals would be lydian - R 2 3 #4 5 6 7.
hope that helps!
nick
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This post has been edited by Nick Kellie: Jun 10 2008, 04:34 PM