Tag Archives: synthetic scales

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

Let’s Build a Wall!

Posted on June 25, 2014 by jazzpanflute

In my young day they didn’t have jazz courses. You had to blunder about picking up tips, trying stuff out and bluffing where necessary. So when I play with the young players here in France what sticks out to my … Continue reading →

Posted in Moves notation, Musicianship | Tagged another brick in the wall, diminished scale, Pink Floyd, short scales, symmetrical scales, synthetic scales, whole-tone scale | 4 Comments

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