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[dwells]

ill have a listen and maybe do something if thats ok guys???

 

[dwells]

ok i listened and thats really cool ivan i think some chinese scales would work over it, ill put i lead inbetween bars
very cool once again ivan
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[JeffreyB]

what's a chinese scale? Is that when you weigh yourself after pigging out at the chinese buffet?

 

[ivanmihaljevic]

what's a chinese scale?

It's actually just a Lydian scale with 2nd and 6th steps of the scale left out.
So, a Chinese scale in C would be - C E F# G B C
I don't even consider that one a scale (since it's just a part of the Lydian scale), but rather a CMaj7 arpeggio with the augmented forth F# thrown in.

 

[savannah_sean]

wow, great tune, and great job with your take ivan. I just about have the melody down and i'm trying to get used to the changes. sounds to me like A minor, at first harmonic minor then natural minor...& not easy to solo over!

 

[dwells]

ok

It's actually just a Lydian scale with 2nd and 6th steps of the scale left out.
So, a Chinese scale in C would be - C E F# G B C
I don't even consider that one a scale (since it's just a part of the Lydian scale), but rather a CMaj7 arpeggio with the augmented forth F# thrown in.

thats way to much information ivan i just play i never think about that or even know that i do everything in patterns and colors is that weird?
ye its weird but thats my style
cheers

 

[JeffreyB]

so, you're just flatting the five on the cMaj7 arpeggio....interesting....that's what makes a chinese scale????

I'm more like dwells....i know theory to a certian degree, but throw it out the window when i'm playing. (actually, it's just sub-concious at that level)

just shut up and play, i guess.

 

[ivanmihaljevic]

so, you're just flatting the five on the cMaj7 arpeggio....interesting....that's what makes a chinese scale????

I'm more like dwells....i know theory to a certian degree, but throw it out the window when i'm playing. (actually, it's just sub-concious at that level)

just shut up and play, i guess.

Well, you're not flattening the fifth, because the perfect fifth - G is still there, so you've got a regular CMaj7 arpeggio - C E G B and you have an augmented forth F# added in.
You could call that F# a Gb and say that it's a flat fifth, but every classically trained musician will tell you that it's an augmented fourth because the perfect fifth G is still there. And besides that F# is already a scale note in C Lydian (C D E F# G A B C).

I've studied music theory a lot, so if anyone ever has any theoretical questions, feel free to ask. I might be a little bit off with the English terminology every now and then because I've been studying theory in Croatia, and reading music theory books in Croatian, but a lot of these terms are Italian anyway, and most of the terms that are not Italian translate well from Croatian to English.

 

[JeffreyB]

Ok...that made a lost more sense....I have to dust off my theory book....I haven't looked at things that way in a while.

How's the solo material coming? Are you going to record at all with a live drummer, or do it all with samples?

-jeff