Tutorial: A House Is Not A Home, Part 1 (of 3)

	Tutorial: A House Is Not A Home, Part 1 (of 3) This is a breakdown of the 'A House Is Not A Home' video I previously posted at the following link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXK_Vx-T0wY By way of explaination, I took a completely different approach to playing the head vs. playing the improvised portion of this song. For the first run through of the melody, I used a lot of color notes, or voicings to give the melody a particular kind of sound. In the improvised section, I took a very simple approach- one that introduces the use of 7 note modes. I limit my improvised playing To Just The 7 Notes Of A Few Scales. When you use this method, it is impossible to play a wrong note while improvising. (Really!) All 7 notes sound 'right'. Constructing improvised melodies requires other skills as well, but this is an great way to begin improvising. It builds confidence in playing improvisationally, and there is a lot of instant gratification and fun to this approach. All you need to know are a few basic scales, and then: you can't play any wrong notes! ;-) This also trains the ear to hear relationships between various chords and the scales that best fit them. I'm being a little bit sneaky with this approach. For instance, I say 'Use Bb major to improvise', when in reality it is an A Locrian mode, but the notes are the same as Bb Major Scale, so that's what I call it. At some point in the future, I plan on doing a video on how to improve the quality of improvised melodies, but this is the first step to getting there. I'm also curious <b>...</b>	From:7notemode Views:18262 37ratings
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