[Harp-L] Meanwhile Over On the Musician Forums..

[The Iceman]

<<Actually, it looks jazzmen are gone far beyond that. Herbie Hancock explained that he stopped playing 3rd and 7th with Miles, and that it unlock new territories to him __
These jazzmen ...>>

ooh, if you want to talk Miles Davis "theory", I'm your man....Miles wanted to shatter the norm, eliminating changes as much as possible in search of pure music (IMO). He was tired of playing off of chord changes. Too many were woodshedding licks/patterns based on specific chords and their changes. Going "mode" allowed the improviser much more latitude. The 3rd and 7th scale degrees define a specific chord, so by eliminating them, it allowed folk to think outside of the "chord box"...
One of my favorite Miles stories was that if he heard you (as a side man) sitting in your hotel room practicing scales/patterns, etc and then heard you actually play them on stage, you were fired!

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From: Laurent Vigouroux <laurent.vigouroux at xxxxx>
To: The Iceman <icemanle at xxxxx>; Greg at xxxxx <Greg at xxxxx>; harp-l at xxxxx <harp-l at xxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Jan 16, 2019 10:45 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Meanwhile Over On the Musician Forums..

Iceman wrote:
"    those forums are chock full of musicians talking music and theory....harmonica players that do are kinda few and far between, so they focus on a lot of the same ol'....
    btw, when playing a dominant 7th chord, the 5th degree is the note least needed and can easily be omitted. The 3rd degree is kinda important as it will determine if it is major or minor chord. All one needs is that root note down below and a 3rd and minor 7th note above for the basic sound - minimalism at its finest."

Actually, it looks jazzmen are gone far beyond that. Herbie Hancock explained that he stopped playing 3rd and 7th with Miles, and that it unlock new territories to him __
These jazzmen ...