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- Check out the above files created to help improve your hearing and improvisation skills.
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- There are three Midi Audio
files on top along with their corresponding Chord Charts in
- Adobe PDF format linked below so that
you can follow along with the progressions.
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- I've created these files
using diatonic chord progressions made exclusively from the notes
- of each
of the named scales using
the M.A.M.I. Musical Scale Atlas to find some interesting
- and different musical relationships.
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- Often, I'll take a subject
scale out of my M.A.M.I. Scale Atlas and use the Matrix Cubes
- to help me
find creative and interesting chord
progressions as well as melodies.
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- Sometimes these diatonic progressions
can be used independently or be
combined
- with other scale progressions to form a complete composition.
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- The idea is to
experiment...as you are limited by your own desire and imagination!
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- from which you can create
new music, or rethink "old standards" for re-harmonization
- as
well as for improvisation.
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- Note that although the first
two scales are analyzed in "for pay" versions of the Atlas
- the
Matrix Approach analysis for Major b5th
Arpeggio can be found in the
- M.A.M.I. Scale Atlas free demo download as
well.
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- One tool that works
well in conjunction with M.A.M.I. is the music software Band-in-a-Box.
- It is a breeze to experiment
with new scales and chord progression ideas by entering them into
- Band-in-a-Box and allowing
the software to generate accompaniment using your form.
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- Almost immediately, you will
be able to tell whether a scale or chords within that scale
- have the
sound and feel that you desire.
M.A.M.I. Scale Atlas and Band-in-a-Box is
- a tremendous combination that
for around $100 will save you time,
increase
- your learning and skill, plus keep those creative juices flowing
forever!
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