[linux-audio-user] Samba felidae - call for soloists :)

[Florian Schmidt]

On Monday 19 March 2007, Ken Restivo wrote:

> That is a wonderful song! Wish I could write songs like that; most of mine
> only have two chords at most. Yours is much more interesting to listen to.

Thanks for the kind words

> I've had great fun jamming to it too. As soon as I figure out WTF to play
> over the A7 Dsus4 E7 A7 that sounds right to me, I'll send you an ogg
> and/or MIDI file.

Personally i tend to treat the A7 -> Dsus as V - I in D minor. So the most 
obvious scale choices would be D harmonic minor -> D natural minor (but wth 
emphasis on the 4th, the F). Then the E7 -> A7 i treat as V - I in A minor, 
so it's A harmonic minor on the E7, but then the target chord isn't an A 
natural minor sound, but rather again D harmonic minor.. Though in my little 
world of sounds, a harmonic minor scale also always has the flat 3rd of the 
dominant chord as option..

I.e.

A7 Dm7

So the A7 sound is a mix of D harmonic minor and D natural minor for me.. And 
then there's the option of tritone subs. I.e. Eb7 Dm7 and then the most 
consonant sounding scale is Eb F G A Bb C D (dunno the name for it, but it's 
an Eb7#11 sound)

>
> I love that Abmaj7; I tend to use that chord a lot too.
>
> Whomever it was that played a harmonic minor or Hungarian minor scale over
> the D7 did the right thing IMHO. I keep finding myself doing that too and
> AFAICT it seems to work really well.

Yes, you mean the Am7b5 D7 Gm7. Yeah, this is a classic minor turnaround and 
thus the most consonant sound is:

Am7b5: G natural minor
D7: G harmonic minor
Gm7: G natural minor

I suppose advanced players might play G melodic minor on the D7 and then G 
dorian on Gm7 or some other sounds, but i'm not one of them..

> This is a great model for collaboration too. Have you heard of
> http://www.ccmixter.org ? It seems to be populated with a lot of
> DJ/trance/hiphop/house type players/producers, but it's a good place to put
> a track or loop and let others interpret/remix it.
>
> Hmm, maybe the world needs a linuxmixter.org? I'll bet all the code for
> ccmixter is GPL (or, CC "share-alike").

I'll take a look at CCmixter. Not sure about the need for a linuxmixter. 
CCmixter is platform independent i guess..

Flo

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