On Monday 19 March 2007, Ken Restivo wrote: > That is a wonderful song! Wish I could write songs like that; most of mine > only have two chords at most. Yours is much more interesting to listen to. Thanks for the kind words > I've had great fun jamming to it too. As soon as I figure out WTF to play > over the A7 Dsus4 E7 A7 that sounds right to me, I'll send you an ogg > and/or MIDI file. Personally i tend to treat the A7 -> Dsus as V - I in D minor. So the most obvious scale choices would be D harmonic minor -> D natural minor (but wth emphasis on the 4th, the F). Then the E7 -> A7 i treat as V - I in A minor, so it's A harmonic minor on the E7, but then the target chord isn't an A natural minor sound, but rather again D harmonic minor.. Though in my little world of sounds, a harmonic minor scale also always has the flat 3rd of the dominant chord as option.. I.e. A7 Dm7 So the A7 sound is a mix of D harmonic minor and D natural minor for me.. And then there's the option of tritone subs. I.e. Eb7 Dm7 and then the most consonant sounding scale is Eb F G A Bb C D (dunno the name for it, but it's an Eb7#11 sound) > > I love that Abmaj7; I tend to use that chord a lot too. > > Whomever it was that played a harmonic minor or Hungarian minor scale over > the D7 did the right thing IMHO. I keep finding myself doing that too and > AFAICT it seems to work really well. Yes, you mean the Am7b5 D7 Gm7. Yeah, this is a classic minor turnaround and thus the most consonant sound is: Am7b5: G natural minor D7: G harmonic minor Gm7: G natural minor I suppose advanced players might play G melodic minor on the D7 and then G dorian on Gm7 or some other sounds, but i'm not one of them.. > This is a great model for collaboration too. Have you heard of > http://www.ccmixter.org ? It seems to be populated with a lot of > DJ/trance/hiphop/house type players/producers, but it's a good place to put > a track or loop and let others interpret/remix it. > > Hmm, maybe the world needs a linuxmixter.org? I'll bet all the code for > ccmixter is GPL (or, CC "share-alike"). I'll take a look at CCmixter. Not sure about the need for a linuxmixter. CCmixter is platform independent i guess.. Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org
