Tag Archives: Olivier Messiaen

Inspiration

Posted on September 20, 2015 by jazzpanflute

Hammond organ wizard Cory Henry says he gets his inspiration from Jesus. Does that mean that atheists can’t get inspiration? No doubt, connection with some “higher” power helps a lot of people. But what if even that, for you, is … Continue reading →

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Adding colour to the diminished scale

Posted on May 11, 2015 by jazzpanflute

It is easy to slip into the idea, from studying harmony textbooks, that the only way to form scale-tone chords is to make stacks building upward from each note of the scale, skipping every other note. Then depending on how … Continue reading →

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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 →

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