Learn your Chords and Scales

Don Ellis · Regular Member Joined: 15 May 2023 Posts: 41

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Good first book to begin learning all your chords and scales. Originally written for strings it works great for trumpet. Easy to play in any octave you want.

Don Ellis · Regular Member Joined: 15 May 2023 Posts: 41

Learn your scales and chords from the top down, inside out, in all intervals, melodic patterns. Like a language, the better you practice it the better story you can tell with it.

Trumpjerele · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:59 am Post subject:

For some time now, practicing scales means for me to look for the melodies hidden inside the scale.
I run away from mechanical exercises and look for melodies with meaning.
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Mouthpiece: the great Yamaha11b4

Sax tenor: Yamaha YTS 23
Mouthpiece: Otto link tone edge

kehaulani · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:19 am Post subject:

And if that wasn't enough, LOL, while I acknowledge the necessity (and short cutting) of the above, I also used a lot of passing tones that didn't fit the orthodox scale/chord constructions, for interest and something new.
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Don Ellis · Regular Member Joined: 15 May 2023 Posts: 41

Knowing all your scales and chords is like a painter getting his paints together. The language of music requires the basics to be learned well, that way you have more language to use in your conversation on stage.