Modal Playing: Where Do You Place the Notes?

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🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, Pete.
0:00.8	Hey, man.
0:01.2	Where do you place the notes?
0:03.5	Yeah.
0:19.9	I'm Matt Amanous. You're listening to the You'll Hear podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. Coming at you today, sponsored by SoundSlic. SoundSlic is a beautiful transcribing tool. It's an amazing community where you can check out other people's transcriptions. Go to soundslice.com slash transcribe to kick the tires on the transcribing tool. Absolutely free. We use it every day for our transcriptions here on our courses at Open Studio and have for years. It's really one of the foundational tools of our business and our users love it. So check it out for yourself. Absolutely. Soundslice.com. Get to know it. Love it like we do, and you'll be in the shame. Absolutely. So where do you place the notes? This is a question for Alex. We did not answer it. I mean, we're going to do our best here. I'm a little confused. Let's do it again. Let's hear it out. Hey, Peter. Hey, Adam. Hopefully I don't sound like I'm in space anymore. It's Alex, by the way.
1:13.6	You're a pal, supposedly from Colorado, right? Anyway, I had a question about modal playing. There's a ton of stuff on what scales to use, whether it's pentatonic or symmetrical scales or Dorian.
1:29.6	All of that's great.
1:31.1	But what I want to know is where do you place those notes that you have in that melodic
1:38.5	library, right?
1:40.5	Where do you place those notes within the measure?
1:43.9	Gross simplification, comparing it to bebop,
1:47.8	but in bebop, you're told, or it's hot to place your chord tones on strong beats or the quarter note.
1:57.5	Super gross simplification.
2:00.6	Ew, it's so gross.
2:02.6	Because it's, you know, so, you know,
2:07.1	distilling this complex language into something
2:10.2	offensively simple.
2:13.0	And it's not entirely true.
2:15.1	But there's a relationship between the note and where you place it in the bar.
2:19.5	So how do you do that in a modal sense?
2:22.1	Where do you place the notes in relation to the measure or in relation to the two bar, four bar, four bar, or eight bar phrase in a modal context?
2:32.6	Please, please, please give me some questions. I want to get cut off, Alex. Please, please, please.
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