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Brekelefuw · 03-08-2008, 02:17 PM

If you just play the related major scales when you improvise, it will probably become boring to the listener.
Also, when you get in to more complicated tunes, the chords won't always have a major scale to relate to. Learn all of your scales and which chords they apply to.
Also, playing a major scale over certain chord progressions just doesn't fit as well as playing the scale for the chord given. They composers use those chords for a reason.

03-08-2008, 02:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
Brekelefuw Forte User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,001	Re: Jazz Theory (read if you're a theory guy/gal) If you just play the related major scales when you improvise, it will probably become boring to the listener. Also, when you get in to more complicated tunes, the chords won't always have a major scale to relate to. Learn all of your scales and which chords they apply to. Also, playing a major scale over certain chord progressions just doesn't fit as well as playing the scale for the chord given. They composers use those chords for a reason.