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Chunking down on Scale Practice

Posted on November 2, 2015 by jazzpanflute

Chunking down into N chunks reduces practice required by a factor of Nx where x is the number of possible chunk flavours Paul Hirsh (@jazzpanflute) Why do we need full-length scales? Or: why do the scales we practise always need to … Continue reading →

Posted in Music Theory, Scale Practice | Tagged augmented scale, Branford Marsalis, Classical theory, Coltrane, Crazy People Music, Love supreme, Michael Brecker, scale practice, short scales, whole-tone scale, Wolverine | Leave a comment

Olivier Messiaen’s seven dwarfs

Posted on October 30, 2014 by jazzpanflute

One of the fun things about playing wholetone panpipes is the way they make short scales – not just the whole tone scale – ridiculously easy. Short scales are my name for a large family of interval arrays that includes … Continue reading →

Posted in Interval Training, Music Theory | Tagged augmented scale, Claude Debussy, diminished scale, modern improvising, Olivier Messiaen, short scales, symmetrical scales, synthetic scales, Wholetone scale | Leave a comment

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