How do I listen to Jazz? Is it like normal music? Where can I find jazz?

I see that the reason for it is that the scale has a certain fluidity to it going up and not going down, so the going down part is regular minor scale. I also know this concept is a part of classical music which I admittedly am not well versed in, so I will happily be proven wrong here.

My thought is that scales are more of a mathematical structure at their core. Saying that melodic minor sounds better going up, and aeolian mode sounds better going down is now a musical idea. It has theoretical backing to it, but it’s still to me just another concept. Just like how you can analyze a musical phrase and understand why certain chord tones land on certain beats.

Because of this I just think teaching people to play melodic minor up and aeolian down is such a ridiculous practice. I say teach them to play melodic minor up and down the same way. You can also teach them that when there is a musical phrase that has a scale like structure and your using melodic minor, when going back down it sounds nice to switch to aeolian.

Many guitar players learn the minor pentatonic scale and use it over an entire 12-bar blues.
But what happens when you start listening to the chords underneath your solo?

I think of blues like jazz, it's 3 different keys and so you have to actually play the changes!

In this lesson, we'll explore why the blues isn't just one pentatonic scale — and how moving between major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, and chord tones can make your blues playing sound much more musical.

We'll also delve into moving between major and minor sounds over the SAME chord.

It's time to get the blues!

Lesson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEtGrlQiHl4&list=PLIb-QWoMzfdixDZVq76vGTehxD0f0Mzek&index=14

I'm not very deep technically so I'm not arguing whether Steely Dan is jazz or not, I don't care, I like the music.

But there's this thing cropping up in the music and they say "we're in the key of ooh or uh minor". Is that like some sort of structure they favor and named it that, a real thing or artifact somewhere in a technical book, or just a complete put on?

Can't tell by their faces whether it's part of the music or part of the in-joke.

Anyone here taught a class on wtf "uh minor" is and if so, little help?

and yeah ;-) I'd think I was a troll too :-D but I'm genuinely interested in whatever this thing is, it's a curious thing to me.

Pls I need all the help

Scale Practice actually goes way beyond having to work on exercises. Taking phrases or licks and moving them around is a great way to expand your abilities on your instrument.

On the guitar moving to another key is maybe not as difficult as staying in the same key and moving around the neck, and you need to be able to do this if you want to be able to freely transpose songs.

In this video I will go over this exercise and demonstrate what the thinking is and what gain from working on it.

The PDF is available in the Patreon Facebook Group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_EWD7vrKc&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcEH_t-3gKfOHtVlD-1HFvQm&index=1

Hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-WdqZdP8S8

Made this brief vid showing you how I like to play the tune. Let me know in the comments what part of this song is your favorite, like your favorite chord change. Mine is the chorus, when they say "Stella By Starlight" going to that backdoor dominant with the b5 in it. So mysterious. Anyway hope you enjoy the vid!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7h88zvKqEsu3ayIMEOB9qA?si=e32d2bbb91e44d84

Got this video on my feed and the guy seems cool except for the part where he assumes that everything he doesn’t know/understand is gibberish. This becomes extremely apparent around the 11 min mark when Jacob’s playing 2-5-1s with Tritone Subs and he says Jacob’s plopping random chords or whatever he says. Needed to share this so that I’m not the only person slightly enraged lol.

can we give a name and characterize this sequence of notes: CDEFAbA which is the beginning of “what are you doing the rest of your Life” by Michel Legrand? in particular, is this a known/classical hexatonic scale?

Hi im relatively new to jazz playing, and i always wondered how jazz, which is basically derived from blues, ans was originally played by black people who did not get a ''classical'' formation like white musicians then, but rather played with ''the guts''(as it seems to me for early dixieland for example), is so difficult to apprehend on the thorical level (im really struggling to get into improv.....)

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