Re: Question about minor scales
Originally Posted by
DavidKOS
It may be that those of us that got our jazz education before the Aebersold method became so popular have another view of jazz.
I studied both approaches as a student. As part of the generation that grew up on Aebersold, I studied with David Baker at Indiana -- he was from that post-bop scene in Indianapolis, 1950s, that included Clifford Brown and Wes Montgomery. Baker had us working on a scale-oriented approach to soloing, often using Aebersold recordings.
That approach didn't really work well for me -- the players who did well with it got into the "change running" approach. I needed something more closely related to the harmonic structure, for confidence. Which is why as a Berklee student in the early 80s, it was a big "aha" experience when I studied guitar with Garrison Fewell. He talked about how the approach of the early, pre-bop guitar players was built around arpeggios, with voice leading. Garrison was magical in his ability to play elegant lines and always land on a chord tone at the point of the next chord change. So I got into working on his approach to improvising, using arpeggios as an organizing factor, with voice-leading to bring you to the next chord. I've had a book in progress for a few years, outlining a practice method based on this approach. Won't be too much longer until it's finished, I hope!
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