Scales - Part 10 (Mixture, Part 2)

In my opinion the scale I showed you yesterday is not helpful. By mixing light and bluesy together in your studies you lose the focus that each scale is inherently different.

Here's how it really works... a song is dark... you choose to use the blues scale as your main note choice... a lick burps out of you from your lick vocabulary that is of a lighter feel and then you wrangle it back into notes of the blues scale... you just had a nice change of color in your solo.

The same works for the other way around...

A song is very major (light and swinging maybe)... you choose to use the major pentatonic scale as your main note choice... you feel like you want to play something really bluesy for a second and a lick burps out of you from your lick vocabulary and then you wrangle it back into notes of the major pentatonic scale... you just had a nice change of color in your solo.

Vocabulary is king. Develop your vocabulary, develop your vocabulary, develop your vocabulary. Once you feel comfortable with what you're playing, study a scale and start playing to appropriate jam tracks and make changes AS YOU IMPROVISE using your lick vocabulary to the scale of choice... a big challenge, but that's what studying scales is all about.