[Harp-L] re: An alternative view... Melody Makers

[Serguei Volkov <svolkov@xxxxxxxxx>]

In reply to Winslow Yerxa (sorry),

>That's an oversimplification. Pop music often uses minor and blues
>scales, along with the mixolydian and other modes of the major scale.
>Even when pop music is based on the major scale it often uses
>additional notes. Ability to play a major scale does not guarantee
>usability in popular music.

Most of pop does not use additional notes. Stevie Wonder does only
occasionally in his solos. And you can still get them on a Melody Maker
should you need to.

>Only for mainstream music that uses a major scale - much of it doesn't

Most of it does.

Sergei

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