From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
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Essential jazz scales: The D major 7 bop scale
From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
Essential jazz scales: The D major 7 bop scale
- Let's take a look now at our D major 7 bop scale. This is the one, more than any other scale, where the bop scale is really in its glory. And let's take a quick look at why that is. Here's our D pleasant chord. Let's make it a D major seven chord. (jazz piano) If we're putting the chord tones on the beat, as we solo, people are getting this from it. (jazz piano) You know, it's really pleasant sonority, it sounds like its in sync. With this particular one though, if we are doing the wrong thing and we're putting the wrong notes on the beat, what would those be? Well, they would be the notes that are between the beat in our scale, so that would be (jazz piano) These are the in-sync notes, these are the out of sync notes, if we're putting those on the beat, this is what the listener is getting, (jazz piano) We don't want that. You know, to be honest, Herbie Hancock could probably make something beautiful out of that chord, but again for us mere mortals, that's what the listener is…
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