Moving From The Familiar to The Unfamiliar - Alternate View
(13 May 03)
Application Cycle 5
I think I have taken the Cycle 4 thing just about far enough.
Now by a similar but mathematically inverse process we can move through Cycle 5. This time we will change our reference point with each new scale just to show this alternate view.
Let's start with the three note per string form of C Major starting on the root at the 8th fret.
Now apply the Cycle 5 rule to raise the 4th degree 1/2 step. The resultant scale is now the 4th Mode of G major(C Lydian).
Now renumber based on G as the new root and raise the 4th (C) 1/2 step. This would be equivalent to raising the Root of our original C major scale, if we were still using it as a reference.
The resultant scale is the seventh Mode of D major (C# Locrian).
Now renumber based on D as the new root and raise the 4th (G) 1/2 step. This would be equivalent to raising the 5th of our original C major scale, if we were still using it as a reference.
The resultant scale is the third Mode of A major (C# Phrygian).
Now renumber based on A as the new root and raise the 4th (D) 1/2 step.
This would be equivalent to raising the 2nd of our original C major scale, if we were still using it as a reference.
The resultant scale is the sixth Mode of E major (C# Aeolian). I would have liked to continue with accidentals here but a limitation in Powertab caused me to insert the key signature.
I hope I have caused you to look at the learning of patterns in a new and different way, hopefully a more musical one, that better facilitates improvising through key changes.
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