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

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stevie Wonder reliees heavily on the blues scale in many of his solos
and makes frequent use of non-scale notes in his slide ornaments on the
chromatic harmonica, which he uses most of the time.

Can you cite me a Stevie Wonder solo that uses only major scale notes?

Winslow

--- Serguei Volkov <svolkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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